The U.S. House of Representatives late Wednesday cleared a key procedural hurdle for cryptocurrency legislation, voting 217–212 to adopt House Resolution 580 after an unprecedented 9-hour-45-minute roll-call ─ the longest in chamber history. The rule opens floor debate on three digital-asset bills as well as the fiscal 2026 defense appropriations measure, ending a two-day standoff that had frozen activity in what Republican leaders dubbed "Crypto Week."

Passage of the rule revives the GENIUS Act, a Senate-approved bill that would create the first federal regulatory framework for U.S. dollar-backed stablecoins; the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, which seeks to split oversight of cryptocurrencies between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act, aimed at barring the Federal Reserve from issuing a retail central-bank digital currency. A first attempt to advance the package failed 196–223 on 15 July when 210 Democrats and 13 Republicans broke ranks.

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