Fact-check: “The Clarity act is dead in the water or XRP is dead”
Verdict: Misleading (72% confidence)
The CLARITY Act is not dead — it passed the House 294-134, cleared the Senate Banking Committee 15-9 in May 2026, and Senate Majority Leader Thune has indicated a September vote is planned, though Polymarket gives it only about 14% odds of passing in 2026. XRP is also not dead by any standard measure: it's trading around $1.03 as of August 8, 2026, holds a $114 billion market cap, and Ripple's payments platform has processed over $100 billion in volume across 90+ markets. The claim sets up a fa…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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