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US Senate Weighs Adding Sports-Betting Language to CLARITY Act as Prediction-Market Debate Grows
Summary
- The US Senate is considering adding sports betting provisions to the CLARITY Act, a crypto market-structure bill.
- Some senators are discussing language that would preserve regulatory authority for states and tribal governments over sports betting.
- The US is facing a regulatory debate over whether sports event contracts on prediction-market platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket are financial products or gambling.
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The US Senate is considering adding sports-betting provisions to the CLARITY Act, a digital-asset market structure bill.
The Block reported on August 4 that, as the Senate pushes ahead with the bill this week, some lawmakers are discussing language that would preserve the regulatory authority of states and tribal governments over sports betting.
At a Senate roundtable, Democratic Senator Tina Smith proposed including the provision in either the CLARITY Act or the Farm Bill. Republican Senator John Boozman, meanwhile, opposes linking prediction-market rules to crypto legislation.
The discussion comes as regulators in the US continue to debate whether sports-event contracts offered by prediction-market platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket are legal financial products or gambling.
Suehyeon Lee
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