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The legislation assumes that all crypto activity must pass through financial intermediaries licensed by the US government, warns Gnosis co-founder.The regulatory provisions outlined in the US Digital Asset Market Structure Clarity Act, otherwise known as the CLARITY Act, threaten to give large financial institutions control over crypto, according to Dr.
Friederike Ernst, co-founder of the Gnosis blockchain protocol.assume that activity must pass through centralized intermediaries, which risks consolidating crypto rails in the hands of a few entrenched players, Ernst told Cointelegraph.“Blockchain’s real breakthrough was not just a new financial infrastructure. It was the ability for users themselves to become owners of the networks they rely on," she said. Ernst added: “If activity is pushed back through institutional intermediaries, users risk becoming customers renting access to financial technology once again rather than stakeholders in it. The challenge is ensuring regulatory clarity does not unintentionally undermine that ownership model.” Despite the bill’s shortcomings, the CLARITY Act does clarify regulatory jurisdiction over crypto between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission , as well as protects peer-to-peer transactions and self-custody, Ernst said. However, the failure of the market structure bill to adequately protect open, permissionless blockchain rails and decentralized finance protocols risks bringing all the same points of failure of the legacy financial system to crypto, Ernst said.The highly anticipated CLARITY Act remains stalled in Congress over disagreement between the crypto industry and the banking industry over theCLARITY bill will pass by April However, if the bill does not pass by April 2026, the odds of it becoming law in 2026 are “extremely low,” according to Alex Thorn, head of firmwide research at investment firm Galaxy. “It's very possible that rewards are not the 'final' hurdle but instead just the current hill the bill is dying on,” ThornCointelegraph is committed to independent, transparent journalism. This news article is produced in accordance with Cointelegraph’s Editorial Policy and aims to provide accurate and timely information. Readers are encouraged to verify information independently. Read our Editorial Policy
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