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After 42 days, the longest government shutdown in U.S. history is over — and crypto is instantly back at the top of Washington’s agenda. Within hours of the reopening, Congress resumed work on major market structure bills, the Senate Agriculture Committee re-released its crypto spot market draft, and confirmation hearings were announced for Mike Selig — Trump’s pro-innovation pick for CFTC Chair. The message from D.C. is loud and clear: crypto is no longer a side topic — it’s economic infrastructure.  📧 Email: cryptorobothelp@gmail.com  💰 Affiliate Links  Sofi Checking & Savings – Get $25 free ➝ https://www.sofi.com/invite/money?gcp=16a53d0f-b4b2-441d-9100-cfb506305260&isAliasGcp=false  Sofi Investing – Free $25 in stock ➝ https://www.sofi.com/invite/invest?gcp=ab31edd8-701e-4109-9225-51b41e35d246&isAliasGcp=false  Coinbase Exchange – Earn up to $300 BTC ➝ https://coinbase.com/join/YPUQLCY?src=referral-link  Tracking Tools – CoinGecko | CoinMarketCap  Trading Tools – Get $15 off TradingView ➝ https://www.tradingview.com/pricing/?share_your_love=cryptonextsteps  #CryptoNews #Bitcoin #Ethereum #CryptoRegulation #GovernmentShutdown #SEC #CFTC #IRS #ETFs #WashingtonDC #CryptoRobot #Blockchain #Altcoins #OnchainEconomy

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00:00All right. Welcome back to the deep dive. We are jumping straight in today. We've got a huge stack

00:05of sources here detailing, well, a pretty critical moment in U.S. finance regulation. We're talking

00:10about what happened right after the longest government shutdown in history finally ended.

00:15So let's just set the scene a bit. After 42 really brutal days, the federal government is back. It's

00:21fully online. This all happened when, you know, a bipartisan group managed to push through a

00:26three-month funding bill. President Trump signed it just before 10 p.m. ET. And while that does set

00:32up another funding cliff in January 2026, we're not really focused on the politics today. Our mission

00:38is to look at the regulatory domino effect because that shutdown, it froze everything. Crypto rules,

00:42ETF approvals, all of it. Now that Washington's back, the sources are basically screaming that

00:47crypto just shot to the very top of the agenda. And that speed is the real story here. I mean,

00:52that's the aha moment. The shutdown didn't kill the momentum for policy. It just, you know,

00:57damned it all up. Think of it like a dam that just burst. Congress, the regulators, they aren't

01:03just picking up where they left off. No, they are moving at a phenomenal pace to catch up.

01:07So this delay has turned into a rush. It's pushing us into what our sources are calling a

01:12hyper-accelerated 2026 regulatory push. Everything the industry's been waiting for, it's all happening at

01:19once. Right. And the first place we see that is with the big agencies, the SEC and the CFTC.

01:24For those 42 days, they were basically running on skeleton crews, right? Oh, absolutely.

01:28Staff furloughs meant that everything just stopped. Yeah. ETF approvals, new listings for exchanges,

01:33enforcement reviews. It was genuine regulatory paralysis. So now that they're fully staffed again,

01:39what does that mean, practically speaker? It means the queue is finally moving and moving fast.

01:44We should see immediate progress on more ETFs. And not just Bitcoin ETFs, but maybe others.

01:50Potentially, yes. And we'll also see movement on tokenized securities filings, things that need a

01:55regulatory sign-off. And this is important. Enforcement is resuming under what could be new

02:00crypto-friendly leadership in some of these key seats. So our sources are pretty optimistic. They

02:07think this could all lead to significant U.S. regulatory clarity as early as Q1-2026.

02:12Okay. Q1-2026. That sounds incredibly fast for Washington. I mean, we're talking about a city

02:18known for slowing things down, not speeding them up. What could possibly derail that timeline?

02:24It's a fair question. Bureaucracy is always the enemy. The big risk is that funding bill. It only

02:29lasts three months. So if lawmakers decide to use that January 2026 cliff for leverage,

02:34things could grind to a halt again. But the consensus in our sources is that the pressure to

02:38regulate crypto both from inside the country and globally, it now outweighs the desire for another

02:42shutdown. The issue's just gotten too big. They can't ignore it. That makes this next detail we

02:47found even more interesting, the market's ingenuity during that freeze. Apparently,

02:52some ETF issuers actually found a procedural workaround. They launched products without

02:57explicit SEC approval during the shutdown. It's a fantastic story. A real case of innovation

03:03versus bureaucracy. See, the SEC has this concept called deemed approval. If an issuer files a

03:11registration and the SEC doesn't explicitly reject it or ask for an extension by a deadline... It can

03:17become effective automatically. Exactly. And during the shutdown, there was nobody there to file the

03:21rejections or the extensions. So the lack of a no effectively became a yes. Precisely. It created

03:27this temporary, very specific loophole where inaction meant approval. It just shows that innovation doesn't

03:33wait for Washington to get his act together. Okay. So while the regulators were turning the lights back

03:36on, Congress was already moving. The same week the shutdown ended, they were back to work on major

03:41market structure legislation. And this is where we go from, you know, day-to-day operations to long-term

03:47structural fixes. The big question is still, who regulates the crypto spot market? The Senate

03:54Agriculture Committee has already put out a draft bill, a detailed one. It defines the CFTC's role over

03:59crypto spot markets, which is a huge step. Because it starts to draw the line between the CFTC

04:04for commodities and the SEC for securities. It's the foundation for everything else. All future

04:11clarity will be built on that distinction. And speaking of the CFTC, there's also movement

04:15on leadership. A confirmation hearing is now set for Mike Selig, Trump's nominee for CFTC chair.

04:21What's the read on him? Well, Selig is a well-known attorney in the space. He's been very vocal

04:26about being pro-innovation, pro-crypto. So his confirmation would signal a very clear strategic

04:31direction. You'd have clear legislation defining the CFTC's role paired with a leader who actually

04:37wants to foster growth. That's a powerful combination. So if they keep this pace, you're

04:41saying we might finally get that comprehensive crypto bill that everyone's been talking about

04:44since, what, 2017? That's what the sources are pointing to. The political stars are finally

04:49aligning. I mean, the industry has been in a gray zone for years using laws from the last century.

04:54But now when election is over, there's clear bipartisan agreement on the need for the U.S.

04:59to be competitive. The odds of getting a real nationwide market structure law are higher

05:05than they've ever been. It's a shift from regulation by lawsuit to regulation by law.

05:10Okay, let's shift gears from market structure to something that hits every single user. Taxes

05:14and banking. The IRS and the OCC are back in business too. And that might be even more important

05:20for the average person. Absolutely. Let's start with taxes, which is, let's be honest,

05:24the biggest headache for most people. The IRS is now resuming its public feedback analysis for

05:29new crypto tax rules, the ones tied to the Genius Act. That was completely stalled for six weeks.

05:35Okay, let's unpack that. The Genius Act. Why is that IRS feedback so critical?

05:40The Genius Act is all about modernizing tax reporting. For crypto, it's the law that's pushing

05:45the IRS to create clear rules for DeFi. It's supposed to reshape how you report income from

05:51staking, from NFTs, and from maximal extractable value, or MEV.

05:57Right. Hold on. Let's define MEV because that's a nightmare from a tax perspective.

06:01It is. So MEV is basically the profit that block producers or validators can make

06:06by strategically ordering transactions in a block. It's a very sophisticated way to make money from

06:11transaction flow. And taxing it is hard because it's opaque and earned by all these different

06:16decentralized actors. Exactly. It's almost impossible to apply traditional tax reporting

06:20to it. The Genius Act is supposed to finally bring some clarity there.

06:23That really highlights the complexity. And on the banking side, you mentioned the OCC.

06:28Right. The office, the controller of the currency. They're the main regulator for national banks.

06:32They're restarting their work on stablecoin custody guidance, on bank charters for crypto companies.

06:37The OCC is the gateway. They're how traditional finance can safely interact with crypto.

06:42When they stop, everything stops. So if you connect the dots with the IRS and OCC back online,

06:492026 isn't just about market structure. It's about clarity for actual users.

06:54Precisely. It could be the year that U.S. crypto taxes finally become, you know, understandable.

06:59That would lower the barrier for so many users and businesses. And at the same time,

07:03it could finally open the floodgates for traditional banks to get involved.

07:07Let's zoom out a bit. The politics of this. The shutdown only ended because Democrats and

07:12Republicans came together. And that bipartisan unity is the secret weapon here. Usually,

07:17Washington is pure gridlock. But crypto regulation is one of the few places where that same coalition

07:23is actually working together. On stablecoins. Market structure.

07:27Exactly. They agree on empowering the CFTC. It signals that crypto is no longer a fringe political fight.

07:32It's becoming a bipartisan infrastructure issue.

07:35And a lot of that pressure is coming from overseas, isn't it? The U.S. was paralyzed while

07:39everyone else was moving forward.

07:41They absolutely were. Europe has MICA. You have hubs in Asia like Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan.

07:47They all surged ahead. MICA, for instance. That's the EU's comprehensive crypto framework.

07:52It provides legal certainty across 27 countries.

07:56So while the U.S. was arguing over basic definitions.

07:59Europe already had clear rules. The pressure is huge because capital flows to certainty.

08:04So what does this tell us about the mindset in Washington now? Have they moved past

08:08seeing crypto as just a speculative asset?

08:11That's the single biggest takeaway from our sources. Yes. They're not seeing it as a speculative

08:16toy anymore. They see it as critical economic infrastructure. This isn't about whether Bitcoin's

08:22price goes up. It's about global leadership. If the U.S. falls behind on tokenized securities or on Web3

08:28digital identity or especially on stablecoin payment systems.

08:32It threatens the dollar.

08:33Threatens the dollar's dominance and the competitiveness of U.S. markets. The urgency is finally real.

08:38OK, so let's tie it all back to the market. What's the immediate reaction from investors now that this

08:43government overhang is gone?

08:44It's a major bullish signal. Just removing that uncertainty is huge. Investors are now pricing in

08:50faster ETF approvals, new exchange registrations, clarity on stablecoins. That kind of certainty is rocket

08:56fuel for institutional adoption. And are there specific sectors you think will benefit the most in the

09:02near term? We expect this to fuel a rally in the first half of 2026, and it's going to favor the platforms

09:08that are ready for compliance. So major U.S. exchanges, the big stablecoin issuers, institutional DeFi

09:13platforms, and crucially, the payment-focused layer one, think SUI, Solana, BASE, Avalanche. They need clear

09:21rules before big enterprise use cases can really take off. Which brings us to a final provocative

09:27thought for you to think about. We mentioned earlier how some NTF issuers used that procedural

09:31workaround, that deemed approval loophole, to get products out during the shutdown. If that worked,

09:37if they successfully exploited a gap in the bureaucracy, does that make the need for explicit

09:41regulatory sign-offs less relevant in the future? Is innovation just getting too fast for the old way

09:46of doing things, something to mull over? The government is definitely open again. And Washington

09:50is coming back to crypto with full force. And if you found this deep dive valuable, please take a

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