TREE NEWS update: US Senator Cynthia Lummis said Democrats had demanded audited financial statements from crypto projects raising more than $25 million from the public, a requirement written into the CLARITY Act — yet Democrats ultimately voted against advancing the bill. The Senate held a procedural vote on September 15 to move the CLARITY Act forward, which failed.
Lummis: CLARITY Act Required Audits for Crypto Projects Raising Over $25M
The audit threshold itself is the notable detail: it would have imported traditional disclosure discipline into token fundraising above a defined size, a substantive concession rather than a purely partisan marker. That Democrats still blocked advancement suggests the fight was never about audit standards alone, leaving the bill's underlying market-structure questions unresolved. Whether the audit provision resurfaces as a standalone compromise, or gets folded into a later vehicle, is the open question for projects weighing public raises.
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