Senate crypto bill vote count stays below 50 in early pricing

Name: Senate crypto bill vote count stays below 50 in early pricing
Creator: ClearMarket
Published: 2026-08-23T01:22:06.000Z
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Kalshi ladder

record: CMSIG2026082305 | category: momentum-repricing | target: CM-EVT-CSYS5KPXK6 | published: 2026-08-23

4-bullet brief | narrative

Ladder pricing puts the Senate Yea vote count below 50: 41% chance at or above 50, 40% at 55 or above, falling to 8% at 66 or above.
Bitcoin's surge past $79,000 reflects optimism on the Clarity Act, but the vote-count ladder shows the market has not priced a supermajority outcome.
The 41% at 50-plus Yea votes means passage probability on a simple majority is roughly even, markets are not treating Clarity Act passage as a done deal.
The National Bitcoin Reserve Kalshi contract sits at just 5%, suggesting markets separate crypto regulatory optimism from full-scale government Bitcoin accumulation.

atomic briefs | structured for retrieval

[01] news_event

significance

surfaced in the daily Exa news-cycle scan; mechanically matched to an active kalshi market

story: Bitcoin surged past $79,000 as Washington and Wall Street pushed the Clarity Act crypto regulation bill toward a final vote.exa_search → John Marshall · as_of 2026-08-23T08:24:02+00:00
publisher: John Marshall
published_at: 2026-08-23T01:22:06.000Z
source_url: https://www.webpronews.com/bitcoins-sudden-surge-past-79000-shows-how-washington-and-wall-street-can-still-move-markets/

[02] pm_response

interp: Ladder distribution shows sharp drop-off above 60 Yea votes; resolution depends on a recorded Senate floor vote count.llm_judge_cm_signal_v1

evaluation

News-cycle wires publish on coverage, not editorial selection — the day’s top stories matched to the prediction markets pricing them, so nothing is cherry-picked.

judge_engine: none — deterministic news-cycle scan
judge_verdict: auto_published
judge_confidence: n/a — no judge gate (deterministic publishing)
prompt_template: news_cycle_v1 github · auditable
match_method: entity_slug_match (mechanical)

citation graph

Every wire traces back to the ClearMarket event it is built on, and out to each venue’s own market page — so any figure here can be verified at its source.

internal

cm_event: /events/kxvoteclarity-26may16/

external

venue_a: https://kalshi.com/markets/KXVOTECLARITY-26MAY16-T50

programmatic access · four surfaces, same payload

AI grounded search reads embedded JSON-LD in HTML. Developers query REST. Agentic AI clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor) call MCP tools. AI crawlers index via /llms.txt. Same canonical record at every surface.

HTML	browsers, AI grounded search, crawlers (contains embedded JSON-LD `@type: Dataset`)	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/senate-clarity-act-yea-votes-ladder-below-50-2026-08-23/`
JSON	REST API for developers	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/senate-clarity-act-yea-votes-ladder-below-50-2026-08-23.json`
MCP	agentic AI tool call (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue)	`clearmarket.get_signal("senate-clarity-act-yea-votes-ladder-below-50-2026-08-23")`
AGENT	AI crawler discovery index	`/llms.txt`

 PM data: platform APIs (hourly refresh). News context: retrieved with source citations. Editorial judgment: LLM judge with prompt template versioned per wire type. Per-claim provenance inline above; full per-field provenance map at the JSON endpoint under field_provenance.
  raw JSON record · same payload returned by REST endpoint
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   PROVENANCE PROTOCOL v0.2 · [direct] venue api · [mediated] grounded web fetch + source url · [derived] computed from listed inputs · [editorial] versioned llm judgment · full spec /schema/provenance/v1

record CMSIG2026082305 published 2026-08-23T01:22:06.000Z signature sha256-08b4d50117e… ← underlying event all signals →