Worth pausing on who this is: a 79-year-old asset manager with ~$1.5T AUM that's been running a tokenized money market fund on public chains since 2021.

The CLARITY fight was never crypto vs TradFi. It's firms that compete on product vs firms that lobby for a moat.

1/ Everyone’s arguing about ETFs, deposits, and who gets to pay yield.
Meanwhile the DeFi provisions in the CLARITY Act are quietly the most important part of the bill, and almost nobody is talking about what they actually do.

A nerd’s 🧵 on the text, not the headlines:

10/ But the core trade is simple.
Today: rules nobody can state, enforced retroactively, against whoever is easiest to reach.

CLARITY: rules you can read, tests you can meet, a regulator whose jurisdiction is written down.

11/ Builders don’t need the government to like them.

They need to know what the law is before they break it, not after.

That’s the whole ask.

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A historic moment for crypto.

Kraken Financial has been granted a Federal Reserve master account, making us the first digital asset bank with direct access to the U.S. payments system.

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