{"id":93256,"date":"2026-01-18T10:26:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=93256"},"modified":"2026-01-18T10:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:30:20","slug":"coinbase-ceo-denies-white-house-rift-amid-clarity-act-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/coinbase-ceo-denies-white-house-rift-amid-clarity-act-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase CEO Denies White House Rift Amid Clarity Act Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, has refuted claims that the White House is considering withdrawing its support for the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/experts-assess-the-impact-of-the-clarity-act-on-bitcoin-dynamics\">Clarity Act<\/a>, a bill aimed at regulating the US crypto market structure.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In general, love your posts, but this is not accurate. The White House has been super constructive here.<\/p>\n<p>They did ask us to see if we can go figure out a deal with the banks, which we&#8217;re currently working on.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, we&#8217;ve been cooking up some good ideas on how we can help\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t1bK48oRc0\">https:\/\/t.co\/t1bK48oRc0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brian_armstrong\/status\/2012612712044573151?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;[The Trump administration] has been exceptionally constructive here. They asked us to try to reach an agreement with the banks, which we are currently working on,&#8221; he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On January 15, the US Senate Banking Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenatorTimScott\/status\/2011629977217728952\">postponed<\/a> the review of the Clarity Act. Coinbase did not support the latest version of the document due to &#8220;too many issues,&#8221; including restrictions on operations with <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-tokenised-assets\">tokenized<\/a> stocks and exchanges&#8217; rewards to stablecoin holders.<\/p>\n<p>Later, journalist Eleanor Terrett <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EleanorTerrett\/status\/2012344025802490208\">reported<\/a> a conflict between Coinbase and the US administration. According to her, the White House threatened to withdraw its support for the market structure bill if the company did not resume negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Terrett&#8217;s sources claim that administration representatives were &#8220;furious&#8221; about the exchange&#8217;s actions, which they were not informed of in advance, calling the situation a &#8220;shuffle.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a recent post, Armstrong reiterated the Clarity Act&#8217;s goal to &#8220;help local banks.&#8221; The Coinbase executive promised to share updates soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>David Sacks, the White House&#8217;s chief cryptocurrency advisor, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/davidsacks47\/status\/2011650262361129193?s=20\">urged the industry<\/a> to use the delay to &#8220;resolve any remaining disagreements.&#8221; He added that &#8220;the adoption of market structure legislation is closer than ever to completion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Analysts at JPMorgan have <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/jpmorgan-predicts-institutional-surge-in-cryptocurrency-sector\">called<\/a> the bill one of the key drivers of the crypto industry in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, has refuted claims that the White House is considering withdrawing its support for the Clarity Act, a bill aimed at regulating the US crypto market structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Brian Armstrong denies White House conflict over Clarity Act delay.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[138,36,26],"class_list":["post-93256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-coinbase","tag-regulation","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"204","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Brian Armstrong denies White House conflict over Clarity Act delay.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93258,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93256\/revisions\/93258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}