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The high-stakes legislative battle over the future of cryptocurrency regulation in the United States has reached a critical inflection point.

Senator Cynthia Lummis has issued a stark warning to Congress: act now, or risk a multi-year regulatory freeze.

“This is our last chance to pass the Clarity Act until at least 2030,” Senator Lummis stressed on X (formerly Twitter). “We can’t afford to surrender America’s financial future.”

A major push

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently urged the Senate Banking Committee to immediately hold a markup and send the legislation to the President’s desk. Bessent emphasized that Congress has spent half a decade trying to establish a framework to onshore the future of finance, noting that “Senate time is precious, and now is the time to act.”

Bessent’s plea has received the backing of Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. This indicates that the bitter legislative standoff holding up the bill may finally be resolved.

“We agree. Thank you @SecScottBessent for saying it,” Armstrong posted in response to the Treasury Secretary. “It’s time to pass the Clarity Act. Grateful for all the bipartisan work among Senators and staff over the past several months to make this a strong bill.”

White House warnings pay off

As reported by U.Today, top White House crypto advisor Patrick Witt recently issued a severe warning to those attempting to block the bill over regulatory concessions like stablecoin rewards.

Witt cautioned that obstructing the current bipartisan compromise could leave the entire digital asset sector vulnerable to a much harsher regulatory crackdown if a future administration were to take a hostile stance against decentralized finance (DeFi), developer protections, and the classification of digital commodities.

Cryptocurrency analysis company MakroVision has shared its latest assessment of Bitcoin’s technical outlook. According to the company’s analysis, $BTC has reached a high-liquidity zone concentrated around the $73,000 level, bringing back the attempt to break above its current sideways movement.

This development is said to signal the beginning of a more critical and exciting period for the market in the short term.

MakroVision pointed out that the $73,000 to $75,000 range is a key resistance zone for Bitcoin. This level is not only a strong technical barrier but also crucial for price movements due to its high liquidity. According to the analysis, a strong and clear breakout above this zone could significantly turn the short-term outlook positive and pave the way for the price to move to higher levels.

On the other hand, in downward scenarios, the $69,000 level was noted as a significant short-term support point. If this level is lost, the $64,000 to $61,000 range emerges as a stronger and more critical support zone. It is particularly considered that in the event of a failed breakout attempt, the price could be drawn back to this broad support band.

Looking at the overall market structure, it was noted that Bitcoin is still trading within a wide horizontal band, but is approaching the upper limit of this band again. The fact that the current upward move is occurring towards the liquidity zone indicates that the market is approaching a decision point. According to the analysis, if an upward breakout occurs this time, the recovery could gain momentum. However, in the event of a possible rejection, Bitcoin is expected to continue its current horizontal movement for some time.

*This is not investment advice.

In a tweet shared with the Shiba Inu community, $SHIB-focused X handle Shibizens highlights the legacy of Ryoshi, Shiba Inu’s pseudonymous founder, and the tenets that shaped $SHIB from its inception.

The tweet takes a look back at Ryoshi’s original Woofpaper, which emphasized spontaneity, decentralization and community-driven development, while urging the Shiba Inu community to reflect on this history.

The Shibizens X handle draws its inspiration from this particular chapter in Shiba Inu’s past. The real knowledge it says this brings is that true strength lies in holding through storms and contributing during calm.

“The real knowledge? True strength lies in holding through storms and contributing during calm,” Shibizen wrote in a tweet.

For many in the $SHIB community, this speaks to the cycles Shiba Inu has gone through since its inception, from significant price increases (increase in millions of percent) to extended quiet phases, contributed to by investor sentiment and broader crypto market conditions.

As reported, Shiba Inu rose millions of percent shortly after its launch to reach an all time high of $0.000088 in October 2021. Since then, Shiba Inu has stayed in a quiet consolidation phase, which has weighed on its price. At current prices, Shiba Inu is down more than 93% from its ATH.

Market catalysts awaited

At the time of writing, $SHIB was unchanged in the last 24 hours, up 0.76% in the last 24 hours to $0.000005897 as the broader crypto market awaits a catalyst.

One key catalyst on Friday will be the U.S. consumer price index (CPI) data, which is expected to show a jump in headline inflation. The U.S. consumer price index, which was up 0.3% in February, is expected to show an increase of 0.9% when the latest monthly print is released. Similarly, headline annual inflation, which stood at 2.4% year-over-year in February, is forecast to jump to 3.3% for March.

On Thursday, the personal consumption expenditures price index, which is regarded as the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, saw a monthly rise of 0.4% in February, in line with expectations and increasing 2.8% year-on-year.

Worldcoin ($WLD), one of the projects attracting attention in the cryptocurrency market, has received an important update regarding its token economy. According to a statement from the World Community, a significant reduction in the token unlock speed is planned.

The announcement states that as of April 10, 2026, the total supply of $WLD is 10 billion, of which 4.9 billion (49%) have been unlocked and approximately 3.3 billion tokens are in circulation. At the project’s launch on July 24, 2023, 500 million $WLD were unlocked from the World Community allocation. The remaining 9.5 billion tokens are being gradually released through a daily linear mechanism, with the goal of completing this process 15 years after the launch.

According to the new regulation, an automatic slowdown in token unlocking speed will be implemented starting July 24, 2026. As part of this, the daily unlocking amount for community tokens will be reduced by 50%, from 3.2 million to 1.6 million. For investor and team tokens, the daily unlocking will decrease by 32%, from 1.9 million to 1.3 million.

Taking all categories into account, the total daily number of lock-openings will decrease by approximately 43%, from 5.1 million $WLD to 2.9 million $WLD.

*This is not investment advice.