CLARITY ACT Faces Vote Stalling XRP, HBAR & XLM Growth

Fire Hustle's latest YouTube video focuses on the so‑called Clarity Act, described as the legislation that would formally classify tokens like XRP, Hedera’s HBAR, and Stellar’s XLM as “digital commodities” in federal law, putting them in the same category as bitcoin and effectively taking SEC enforcement risk off the table.

The bill has cleared committee 15–9 and is now on the Senate calendar, meaning it’s done with drafting and waiting for a floor vote.

According to Fire Hustle, most coverage has reduced the remaining hurdle to a simple arithmetic problem: Republicans, said to hold 53 seats in the current Senate, need seven Democrats to reach the 60‑vote threshold for passage. “That’s the famous number you’ve probably heard of,” the host notes.

But the committee vote that produced the 15–9 tally included two Democratic “yes” votes — Reuben Gallego of Arizona and Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland — that the host says are being wrongly counted as locked in.

Both senators, according to the video, stated their support was conditional and that their final floor votes were not guaranteed. “They voted yes to keep the bill moving,” the host says, arguing that the real task could be winning over as many as nine Democrats, not five.

That distinction matters because several senators, including Cynthia Lummis and Bernie Moreno, have reportedly warned that if this narrow legislative window is missed, the next realistic chance comes after the November elections.

A new Congress could mean fresh negotiations, competing drafts, and delays “in years instead of weeks.” Research cited from Galaxy puts the odds of the framework becoming law around 2026 at roughly 75%, with an optimistic signing window in early August — but still a 25% chance of slippage toward 2027.

The YouTube video paints the remaining dispute as less about crypto policy and more about political optics. “The actual crypto rules themselves…already have agreement on both sides,” Fire Hustle claims.

The deadlock, instead, centers on a Democratic push for a strict ethics provision that would prevent senior government officials, including the president, from personally profiting from the crypto industry while overseeing its regulation.

Senator Chris Van Hollen is named as having tried to add such an ethics rule in committee, reportedly failing by just two votes.

The White House has signaled it will not accept a bill seen as targeting the president’s personal finances.

The implied trade: if Republicans concede on some version of the ethics language, Democrats release the needed votes.

In the background, ETF and tokenization infrastructure is already taking shape. XRP funds are seeing steady inflows even in a soft market, a Canary HBAR product is trading on Nasdaq, and XLM reacted strongly to a DTCC-related announcement.

Once federal law clearly designates these tokens as commodities, the rationale for blocking more ETFs would weaken just as Wall Street’s tokenization rails prepare for live trades, potentially as early as July.

A handful of Senate votes, tied up in an ethics fight “about one man’s wallet” could determine whether regulatory clarity on XRP, HBAR, and XLM arrives this summer or not until the next cycle.

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