Gate News message, April 28 — U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis from Wyoming, chair of the Senate Digital Assets Banking Subcommittee, announced at the Bitcoin 2026 conference her plan to advance the CLARITY Act into the Senate review process in May and push for its final passage, establishing a comprehensive regulatory framework for the U.S. crypto market.
Lummis shared her entry into Bitcoin during the 2013-2014 period, purchasing three BTC at $300 per coin. Since entering the Senate, she has become one of the earliest members of Congress to systematically advance crypto legislation. She emphasized that Bitcoin’s design—requiring no trusted third parties and featuring a fixed supply cap of 21 million coins—makes it a “true freedom currency,” and argued that the United States should become the global epicenter for this asset class.
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