CFTC Chairman: If Congress continues to shelve the Clarity Act, it will push for a regulatory framework for the crypto market

Comparatively speaking, Michael Selig, chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), said that if the Clarity Act continues to stagnate due to Democratic obstruction, the CFTC will use its existing authority to begin establishing a crypto asset market supervision system and require staff to quickly advance formal rule proposals. Selig has asked staff to look into incorporating the digital asset market structure into CFTC rules, and existing CFTC registrars and currently unregistered crypto exchanges may be included in the scope of regulation.

Rules tailored to digital assets may allow leveraged and margin trading. The net inflow of Bitcoin ETF was $606 million, a single-day high since May 1; the net inflow of the Ethereum ETF was $219 million, a new high since September 2025. Over the past 24 hours, the amount of short liquidations in the crypto market has surpassed $1.2 billion, and is close to $5 billion in the past two days.