CRYPTOSTORY 543· AUGUST 5, 2026

Crypto will be fine if the Senate misses its Clarity window, Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says

Congress heads into a month-long recess next week, compressing the remaining time for Clarity, a piece of digital-asset legislation being debated in the Senate, to roughly three days. Matt Hougan, the chief investment officer at Bitwise…

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