Wall Street's last stand: the CLARITY Act yield fight is really about who keeps the economics of your stablecoin balance
The U.S. Senate has roughly one working week left before the August recess to pass the CLARITY Act — and the loudest fight isn't about market structure at all. It's about one clause: whether platforms can pay rewards on stablecoin balances. JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon says the banks 'will not accept it'; Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon broke ranks on July 23 to endorse the bill. Behind the lobbying is a Treasury-cited estimate of up to $6 trillion in deposits that could migrate to digital dollars. Analysis of what the stablecoin yield battle actually decides — who captures the economics of idle balances — and why the practical merchant move is the same under every outcome: accept USDC/USDT non-custodially, settled to a wallet you control.