The post US Lawmakers Demand Ethics Safeguards for Market Structure Bill: Report appeared com. Democratic leaders on key committees considering crypto market structure legislation are reportedly drawing a line in the sand over elected officials profiting off the industry. A number of Democratic lawmakers in the US Senate are reportedly pushing for conflict-of-interest guardrails in a crypto market structure bill under consideration. According to a Thursday report which would affect how US regulatory agencies and the government handles digital assets. The lawmakers reportedly pushed for provisions prohibiting public officials, including US President Donald Trump, from profiting from any connections to crypto companies. “It is a red line,” Gallego told Punchbowl on the ethics guardrails. “They need to get it right, or they’re not going to have enough votes to pass this.” The market structure bill, which passed the US House of Representatives as the CLARITY Act, has been under consideration in the Senate since July. Amid debate over provisions such as addressing potential conflicts of interest and decentralized finance, the bill also faced delays from a 43-day government shutdown in October and November. Related: Stand With Crypto puts market structure at top of 2026 agenda Drafts of the Responsible Financial Innovation Act made public by the Senate Banking Committee and Senate Agriculture Committee showed that the bill could give the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) more authority in regulating digital assets. However, some experts have speculated that the 2026 midterm elections could draw support from the bill, especially among Democrats. RFIA’s top supporter to leave Senate in 2027 Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis, one of the market structure bill’s earlier supporters and the lawmaker leading the charge for the legislation on the Senate Banking Committee, announced in December that she would not run.