I simply signed the landmark laws handed in the present day by Home Republicans to strengthen American crypto innovation.
The CLARITY Act, GENIUS Act, and Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act ship on President Trump’s imaginative and prescient to make crypto a core pillar of the U.S. financial system and guarantee… pic.twitter.com/rnJgq3KaV2
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) July 17, 2025
US legislators handed a collection of payments final week geared toward concentrating on cryptocurrencies– the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act, the GENIUS Act, and the CLARITY Act. I defined the GENIUS Act in one other publish. Some consider that the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act and the CLARITY Act are the safeguards that can make sure the USD is rarely digitized.
The CLARITY Act determines who will regulate digital belongings and what’s thought-about an asset vs a safety. The CFTC was tasked with overseeing digital commodities, whereas the SEC will oversee restricted digital belongings whose worth is intrinsically linked to blockchain know-how. A token bought beneath an funding contract could or might not be a safety.
The Act defines “funding contract asset” as a token that’s recorded on blockchain, is bought or supposed to be bought pursuant to an funding contract, and could be solely possessed and transferred peer-to-peer with out an middleman. Mature tokens on decentralized networks (e.g., Bitcoin or Ethereum), as soon as they meet these circumstances, usually are not categorized as securities even when their preliminary sale certified as an funding contract. Mainly, this act states that the token itself shouldn’t be mechanically thought-about a safety merely by the preliminary contract. This may increasingly stop the SEC from weaponizing securities in opposition to innovation, however it additionally ensures that the federal government is enabled to supervise digital transactions.
Now, the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act is exact as named. The Act prohibits the Federal Reserve from issuing a CBDC DIRECTLY TO INDIVIDUALS. H.R. 1919 ensures that unelected bureaucrats can by no means unilaterally challenge a CBDC or weaponize a digital greenback to erode our freedoms. The invoice would prohibit the Federal Reserve from growing or issuing a CBDC without explicit authorization from Congress.”
The wording is essential right here. Congress nonetheless has the power to authorize the creation of a CBDC. I said on the final World Financial Convention that the central financial institution would NOT be the one to usher in digital forex. The true risk is the personal banks that US intelligence has already weaponized. The personal banks, the Financial institution for Worldwide Settlements (BIS), and the worldwide elite have been pushing to achieve management over the financial system.
The push for digital currencies is coming from the BIS and business banks who wish to eradicate all paper forex to allow them to implement damaging rates of interest and stop financial institution runs. The Fed was not pushing for CBDCs because the Fed was by no means supposed to be the direct banker of the folks. They knew it will destroy the present construction. However the stress got here from worldwide banking elites and the BIS who’re attempting to pressure a one-world digital system.
I appeared within the film “CBDC, the Finish of Cash,” warning that it will have been unconstitutional for the Federal Reserve to create a CBDC. My sources had confirmed that the Fed wouldn’t make a CBDC. That is vital, because it chalks one up for the folks, retaining our freedom.
This new laws prevents the Federal Reserve from making a CBDC, however the US Fed was by no means pushing for this measure. CBDC shouldn’t be an American thought. The Fed truly resisted the idea, and Trump has been in opposition to the creation as properly. However the BIS and the European banking elites are those pushing this agenda as a result of sovereign debt disaster. The thought is to lure capital to regulate the inevitable collapse by changing to a digital system. The day could come when the Fed is pressured to conform, as we stay in a worldwide financial system, and the BIS, IMF, and Davos elite are actively working to finish banking as we now have recognized it.
