U.S. House Passes Three Major Digital-Asset Bills During Crypto Week
The U.S. House passed the CLARITY Act, the GENIUS Act and the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act on July 17 during the week House leaders had formally branded 'Crypto Week.' Together, the votes marked one of the most concentrated federal legislative pushes involving digital-asset market structure, stablecoins and central-bank digital currency policy.
On July 17, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives passed three major digital-asset bills during a week that House leaders had publicly labeled 'Crypto Week.' The House approved the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, known as the CLARITY Act; the GENIUS Act governing payment stablecoins; and the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act. The three votes placed market structure, stablecoin regulation and limits on a U.S. central-bank digital currency into the same concentrated legislative sequence.
For Bitcoin, the most direct component was the CLARITY Act. The bill proposed a federal market-structure framework governing digital-asset intermediaries and the division of regulatory authority over digital commodities and securities. Bitcoin was not the sole subject of the legislation, but rules governing exchanges, brokers and spot digital-asset markets had obvious consequences for how Bitcoin could be traded and intermediated in the United States. The GENIUS Act addressed stablecoins rather than Bitcoin itself, while the anti-CBDC bill reflected the broader debate over private digital assets, state-issued digital money and financial surveillance.
The significance of July 17 lay in the legislative concentration rather than in treating the three bills as identical. After years in which U.S. digital-asset policy had been driven largely through enforcement, agency interpretation, and litigation, the House was attempting to place multiple parts of the digital-asset system into statute. The next day the GENIUS Act moved to a separate legal stage when it was signed into law.