TREE NEWS update: Senator Cynthia Lummis said Democrats demanded that annual crypto fundraising limits be cut to $50 million from $75 million and a $200 million lifetime cap be added to the CLARITY crypto market structure bill. She said the changes were agreed and written into the bill, yet Democrats still voted against the rule aimed at protecting retail investors.
Lummis: Democrats Backed Crypto Fundraising Caps in CLARITY Act, Then Voted No
Lummis's account turns a failed vote into a procedural trust problem: the dispute is less about the substance of the caps than about whether negotiated language can be relied on once it is written into a bill. That matters for the CLARITY process itself, since market-structure legislation depends on bipartisan buy-in, and for crypto issuers weighing how fundraising limits might eventually be set. The open question is whether this recounting changes the negotiating dynamic or is simply post-vote positioning, and whether the underlying cap levels resurface in any revised text.
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