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The CLARITY Act Failed In The Senate. But Coinbase CEO Armstrong Says Crypto Has Another Path Forward.

Brian Armstrong has led Coinbase since co-founding the cryptocurrency exchange in 2012, overseeing its expansion into one of the largest U.S. digital-asset platforms. (Credit: Getty Images)

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is moving on from the crypto industry's biggest legislative setback in years, saying federal regulators offer another route for digital assets after the Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act this week.

"We let politics get in the way, I guess," Armstrong said of the bill in an interview with the Daily Wolf. He now assumes the legislation is dead and believes the industry can instead work through federal regulators, telling Yahoo Finance that "there's another path, luckily, with the regulators, the SEC and the CFTC."

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