Senate Yea votes on crypto structure bill seen below 50

Name: Senate Yea votes on crypto structure bill seen below 50
Creator: ClearMarket
Published: 2026-08-12T09:06:47.420Z
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Kalshi ladder

record: CMSIG2026081207 | category: momentum-repricing | target: CM-EVT-CSYS5KPXK6 | published: 2026-08-12

4-bullet brief | narrative

Kalshi ladder implies fewer than 50 Senate Yea votes on a crypto market structure bill: 42% above 50 votes, only 33% above 55 votes.
The September delay is consistent with sub-majority pricing, markets do not see a clear path to 60 votes needed for cloture, let alone a simple majority.
Companion Polymarket contract CM-EVT-ZXN47LV744 prices 21% on the CLARITY Act being signed into law by 2026, confirming the broader market skepticism about full passage this year.
Resolves based on the official Senate vote tally; the procedural September 15 vote may itself fail, making even reaching a final count uncertain.

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: The Senate pushed the CLARITY Act procedural vote to September 15, delaying a landmark crypto market structure bill past the August recess.exa_search → TradingKey · as_of 2026-08-13T09:07:47+00:00
publisher: TradingKey
published_at: 2026-08-12T09:06:47.420Z
source_url: https://www.tradingkey.com/analysis/cryptocurrencies/btc/262095914-crypto-clarity-act-coinbase-bitcoin-btc-strategy-mstr-sec-cftc-tradingkey

[02] pm_response

interp: Kalshi ladder distribution; the spread from 42% above 50 votes down to 7% above 64 votes shows the market sees passage as an uphill battle even after the procedural scheduling breakthrough.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-yea-votes-on-crypto-bill-kalshi-ladder-below-50-2026-08-12/`
JSON	REST API for developers	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/senate-yea-votes-on-crypto-bill-kalshi-ladder-below-50-2026-08-12.json`
MCP	agentic AI tool call (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue)	`clearmarket.get_signal("senate-yea-votes-on-crypto-bill-kalshi-ladder-below-50-2026-08-12")`
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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    "Companion Polymarket contract CM-EVT-ZXN47LV744 prices 21% on the CLARITY Act being signed into law by 2026, confirming the broader market skepticism about full passage this year.",
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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 CMSIG2026081207 published 2026-08-12T09:06:47.420Z signature sha256-9e5a8095116… ← underlying event all signals →