8/2/26 (Short) - 🚨 TOM LEE: CLARITY ACT UNLOCKS TRILLIONS! 🚨 "BANKS NEED THIS BILL" & XRP UTILITY EXPLODES!

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SPEAKER_01 0:00

Massive update for American crypto investors. Coinbase just went live on national television to let the world know a Senate floor vote on the Clarity Act could be coming as soon as this Wednesday. And during today's episode, we're going to be breaking down how the bipartisan negotiations that have been happening in Washington, DC finally have real momentum behind the scenes. And why is this massive for the XRP community? Because XRP was always built to be the banker's coin. And with definitive regulation coming into the crypto space, the last legal barrier has officially fallen. Banks that are sitting on the sidelines can now enter these digital assets at large. And with liquidity, adoption, and real world utility all coming into the XRP ledger, this could be the perfect storm to watch this token explode. Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Good Evening Crypto, your favorite crypto news related channel. If you enjoy this content, smash that like button and subscribe as you're gonna get an update every single day, 5 30 p.m. Eastern time. And we're gonna waste no time diving straight into the content we have prepared for today. But I would encourage all of our listeners to stick around until the end of the episode, as we're gonna describe the process to get the Clarity Act across the finish line and ultimately how this will benefit the XRP token. But to kick off today's show, before we get into the product and the status of where the Clarity Act is sitting today in Washington, DC, I wanted to give you guys a brand new update out of Tom Lee, where he is predicting the bottom of the crypto market, it is already in.

SPEAKER_00 1:20

Here's the clip. What people expect because they're saying, hey, the Fed could be hawkish, so crypto should be down. Um, oil prices are high, crypto should be down. And of course, AI's trade is still healthy, but crypto is actually rising. I think that is a sign of a couple things happening. One is that I think the crypto market probably has bottomed. The price ratio of Ethereum to Bitcoin has been going up, even though the Clarity Act looks like it's really being stalled. You know, that the odds of passage this year have dropped to in the 30% range.

SPEAKER_01 1:54

Can I one more time ask why the Clarity Act needs to be passed?

SPEAKER_00 1:57

What does it what does it do? Yeah, the Clarity Act creates a national body to govern crypto in the US. So a singular entity, which will be the CFTC. It's a big deal because if you're, as you know, the the big banks and the asset managers are tokenizing assets and want to build stable coin rails, if they have to be subject to state regulations or local regulators, it is gonna give a lot of people cold. But are they for it or they're against it? Uh it's many of the asset managers are for it. Charles Schwab, Franklin Tempt, digital because and so you just heard it directly from Tom Lee, guys.

SPEAKER_01 2:30

Not only is he predicting that the bottom is in for the crypto market, but he said that the Clarity Act is so important because it sends a signal to the traditional banks you can now go all in on crypto. And I think this is why we're seeing so much support out of these traditional firms, whether it be JP Morgan, BlackRock, Fidelity, Charles Schwab, Franklin Templeton, Goldman Sachs, or Grayscale, over $30 trillion worth of asset managers has come out publicly and supported the State of the Clarity Act. But we're gonna take it even one step further. Getting into the breaking news that all of you are here for during today's episode. Earlier today, we had the Coinbase CPO go live on national television and let the world know he's anticipating we get a Clarity Act vote this Wednesday or this Thursday. Here's the clip.

SPEAKER_03 3:09

We have a new digital asset technology uh that's been adopted by a quarter of the American adults and is now being widely integrated into the financial system. We need to make sure law enforcement has the tools it needs to be able to go after bad actors if they try to use digital assets, and we need investor protections and consumer protections, and that's what the Clarity Act does. It's actually one of the biggest bipartisan pieces of legislation that came out of the House last year. It's been in the Senate for about a year. There's been negotiations going on between a group of Democrats and Republicans. They're going to take the bill to the floor. We're not quite there to have an agreement, like you said, but we're very close. We're very hopeful that the vote that will occur maybe Wednesday, maybe Thursday, will yield um the votes necessary to take that first big procedural step and hopefully get that bill passed because it's long overdue.

SPEAKER_01 3:59

So you just heard it right there, guys. This Wednesday or Thursday, we could have an official Senate vote on the Clarity Act. And if that gets you excited, smash that like button and let me know underneath the video. Do you believe that this bill will pass? Well, we're gonna take it even one step further, getting into another update out of Coinbase. As Coinbase head of institutional strategy said he is relentlessly optimistic that the Clarity Act will pass in the summer of 2026. Here's the clip.

SPEAKER_02 4:30

I am relentlessly optimistic. I know we're getting down to the wire. I know that politicians and bankers and opponents are sending sort of rage-bating tweets to try to rile everyone up. I understand all of this. I'm relentlessly optimistic for three reasons. One, as I mentioned, uh the smartest people I know, the most ethical people I know, are working tirelessly on this. And they're optimistic. And so I you know, I trust the experts in that way. And they're on the ground, they're talking to the right people. We're right. The messaging is the correct one. Uh, we are on the side of the correct innovative path. And eventually uh we do the right thing as a country. Uh and then finally, I'm reminded that the Genius Act, although people remember it as kind of passing through easily, in reality, it was hard fought until the bitter end. So I am optimistic that what we're seeing in these last couple of days, all the sort of you know, silly hyperbolic tweets and the misinformation, I'm optimistic that are the that those are the sort of desperate final throws of an opposition that realizes uh it's against history.

SPEAKER_01 5:42

And so I totally agree with what was said in that clip. Not only the fact that the banks are the ones who will benefit from the clarity at getting across the finish line, and that the people who are supporting this bill, they're on the correct side of history. But the even more important detail is what happened last summer with the Genius Act. And I've tried to reiterate this on the channel as often as possible. It was only 12 months ago when Genius didn't look like it was going to make it through the Senate, make it through the House. And little did we know there was a three-week reversal period where Congress changed their tone, signed the bill, and got this on President Trump's desk. My assumption has always been that we are witnessing something very similar here with the Clarity Act. They're pretending as if it doesn't benefit the banks. Some of the largest lobbying groups in America have been actively lobbying against this bill, but in the final stretch in just the last couple of days, we've seen all the major companies that we've been waiting for come out and support this bill. And I read them earlier: BlackRock, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs. And the timing is almost perfect here as the Senate has just five days to pass the Clarity Act before Congress leaves for the summer recess. And this is where I want to get into a really interesting conversation about what could happen to the crypto markets if we do get the Clarity Act before the end of the week. But if you're enjoying this content, guys, and you're bullish on XRP, smash that like button and leave some of your thoughts underneath the video. Here's what Tom Lee had to say about where the Clarity Act sits today and what's about to happen to the crypto space if this thing gets across the finish line. Here it is.

SPEAKER_00 7:02

Uh well, I think you're describing a bear market. Uh in bear markets, people don't talk about stocks. You know, uh when them when Apple was down, no one talked about Apple, right? So we know price drives sentiment and crypto's been in a drawdown, but you'd expect at the bottom to people to be bearish. Uh in fact, that's exactly what makes a bottom is you know, it's a deal you d-leverage people and then you uh reset expectations. Crypto has so many catalysts. I mean, since the end of June, Ethereum has outperformed memory stocks by 72 percentage points. I mean, that's pretty huge. Um, you know, people have lost 40% in memory and they made almost 30% in Ethereum. Um, and now the Clarity Act is on the, as they say, in the one-yard line, that will open up the floodgates because the Clarity Act is gonna provide a single agency to have oversight of the entire crypto economy. Um, that doesn't exist today. It's all it's state regulated and there's fragmentated, fragmented regulation. Japan and other countries are already taking a similar version of Clarity Act, Russia just passed one. So the US obviously has to catch up. This is gonna create uh institutional adoption of crypto. That's a bigger market than anything that's existed in crypto before. So I think it's you know, if someone's been in crypto a long time, they've been in the hobby phase. I call it Ethereum 1.0 because it was meme coins and NFTs. This future market is stable coins, payment rails. You know, Robinhood wants to tokenize everything. And by the way, they could have built on any blockchain. They built Robinhood Chain on Ethereum, they launched it. It's already a breakaway success. More than a billion dollars of volume daily on Robinhood Chain, and it's generating Robinhood might make a billion a year from this chain that they just launched. It is a massive, massive hit for them. So I think every Wall Street firm is watching what Robinhood did and realize there's a lot of money to be made tokenizing assets onto Ethereum.

SPEAKER_01 9:18

And BlackRock is one of these companies that I believe is gonna take center stage after the Clarity Act is signed into law. Now, twofold. Number one, I believe they're gonna be launching an XRP ETF at some point in time. But number two, I also believe that they're in the process of tokenizing all stocks and bonds that they custody, and we may end up seeing them select the XRP ledger. But I wanted to wrap up today's episode. And although I believe the Clarity Act is going to get across the finish line, my belief is also that XRP is going to succeed regardless. And if for some reason Clarity doesn't make it through the Senate and end up on President Trump's desk, I would still be very optimistic about the back end of this year for the XRP community. But I'm going to be operating under the assumption that Clarity does get across the finish line for the next portion of today's show. And nobody is ready for what could come next when you're thinking about XRP, because it looks like XRP is repeating the same trend line that we saw back in 2017. Now, last time this happened, XRP rallied more than 60,000% in only 240 days, but the current roadmap is a little bit different. So what this person is predicting, phase one, we're gonna go from $1.10 down to 97 cents, and then we're gonna go all the way back up to $1.80. Phase two will kick in when XRP goes from $1.80 to $270 and eventually to $3.20. Now, where it gets exciting is when we start to break our all-time high. And when XRP goes from $320 to $6.50 and eventually to $13, according to this analyst, this would be one of the most exciting times for XRP investors. Now keep in mind, this particular analyst has called every major rally and the FPX fell off in 2025, which is what led Bitcoin to go from 126 down to $60,000. What he's seeing here is the exact inverse. As bullish momentum continues to come into this market, thousands of traders are starting to recognize the opportunity that exists with XRP. And this is what I'm excited for, guys. When the institutional adoption kicks in, when these blockchains and these companies start integrating real world products, I think that is when XRP is ready to outperform. And I think this will be the time when all the XRP haters and the contrarians they come into our community and they acknowledge that digital assets are not only here to stay, but the XRP token stands alone. If you enjoyed this content, smash that like button, subscribe to the channel, and we'll see you all in the next one. So if you're looking to implement the same strategies that we do here on Good Evening Crypto, I would encourage all of our listeners to click on the iTrust Capital link below and sign up to take advantage of tax-free crypto gains. Now, that's not the best part. By leveraging the iTrust link below, you're gonna get a hundred dollar free signup bonus to start funding your iTrust Capital account. This is gonna give our listeners access to crypto assets in a Roth IRA product, allowing them to compound those gains tax free until they're 59 years old and held these funds for five years. So a really unique advantage. So if you're excited about the future of digital assets, I would encourage everybody to sign up for iTrust Capital so you can take advantage of those compounding gains tax free.