Crypto Market Bill Faces Yet Another Delay as U.S. Senate Postpones Markup to Late January

The momentum that had been building regarding the US crypto market bill has now stalled once again. The Senate lawmakers have decided to postpone their bill markup schedules from this Thursday to the last part of January.

Senators Postpone Vote on Crypto Market Bill

According to a report from Eleanor Terrett, the US Senate has deferred a markup meeting to consider the new proposal. This has been arranged to happen in the last week of January. The postponement had been confirmed by the Chairman of the Agriculture Committee in the United States Senate, Senator John Boozman.

“We have made meaningful progress and had constructive discussions as we work toward this goal. To finalize the remaining details and ensure the broad support this legislation requires, additional time is needed before moving to markup. The committee will mark up this legislation during the last week of January,” he said.

The move means that the agriculture committee markup would not be held on the same date as the Senate Banking Committee scheduled. Theirs is still set to happen.

According to observers, this indicates that lawmakers fear that if the crypto market bill moves too quickly before the Democratic lawmakers’ backing becomes solid, it may fail when it hits the Senate floor.

The Banking Committee retains its jurisdiction over the security-related aspects of crypto regulations. However, both committees need to come to a consensus before the bill proceeds.

Key to this, however, is that a total of at least 60 votes will be required for the final passage, an element that will see the Democrats support the bill if they are to be able to pass it. The Republicans currently have only a slender majority over their rivals.

As reported by the journalists covering the developments in Capitol Hill, this extra time would be utilized for focusing on some of the major issues that pertain to stablecoin regulation and tokenization. The issue was one of the major points of contention in the initial versions of the crypto market bill.

Past Delays Causing the Delayed Passage of the Act

This is not the first occasion when the development of the process for the passage of the bill has come to a standstill. The mark-ups that had been planned towards the end of November 2025 had to be rescheduled due to certain discrepancies between the parliamentarians as well as the regulatory authority.

It has been suggested by TD Cowen analysts that there are political realities that would slow down the passage of the bill

Latest Democratic proposals have added to the confusion in the negotiations. This is in regard to stablecoin yield restrictions and measures for the prevention of illicit finance. Although the Democrats have accepted the progress in the crypto market bill that has been made, it can be seen that the consensus is far from being certain.

With the markup rescheduled for late January, traders are now preparing for the potential of having the markup postponed for yet another month in February in case of lack of convergence in the discussion.