Consensus 2026 opens in Miami on Tuesday with a packed schedule of cryptocurrency policy and regulation discussions running through the week. The program culminates on Thursday with an eight-hour Policy Summit focused on decentralized finance, stablecoins, banking access, election spending and state-level oversight in the U.S.
Highlights
- Thursday's Consensus 2026 Policy Summit in Miami centers on DeFi regulation, IRS digital asset policies, and fintech regulatory responses.
- Speakers from Tether, Bridge, Moonpay, Aleo, and Binance discuss stablecoin regulation, Clarity Act negotiations, banking licenses, tokenization, and federal versus state oversight.
- Sessions also cover crypto industry involvement in 2026 U.S. midterm elections, campaign spending, and the regulatory status of prediction markets.
Policy Summit turns to DeFi, stablecoins and U.S. elections
Thursday's Policy Summit is centered on regulatory questions that continue to shape the digital asset sector. Sessions are scheduled on how decentralized finance can be regulated after repeated hacks, how the IRS may evolve its approach to digital assets, and how fintech firms are assessing the regulatory landscape.The summit also devotes significant time to stablecoins, with speakers from Tether, Bridge, Moonpay, Aleo and Binance set to discuss current proposals and possible next steps. Additional panels are due to examine banking licenses for crypto companies, White House negotiations tied to stablecoin yield in the Clarity Act, tokenization, and the relationship between federal and state oversight in the U.S.
The later sessions widen the focus to politics and markets. Speakers are expected to address crypto industry engagement in the 2026 midterm elections, campaign spending by crypto companies and the legal debate over whether prediction market contracts should be treated as federally regulated swaps or as gambling products.
Our earlier report on the U.S. Senate’s Clarity Act compromise detailed how lawmakers moved to restrict stablecoin issuers from paying yield or interest simply for holding payment stablecoins, aiming to prevent these tokens from competing with bank deposits. The text still allows incentives tied to bona fide transactions or activities, drawing a line between permitted rewards and bank-like deposit yields. The provisions were shaped through negotiations led by Senators Thom Tillis and Angela Alsobrooks as part of broader crypto market-structure talks.
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