XRP surges 5% as Senate committee advances CLARITY Act — but the real bull run waits on Congress!

XRP jumped above $1.50 and posted a 5% gain in 24 hours after the Senate Banking Committee advanced the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act in a 15-9 vote, outpacing bitcoin and ether, which both added under 3% on the week. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse called the committee vote "the moment" the industry had been waiting for, arguing digital assets deserve "the same rules and protections as every other asset class."

The outsized reaction reflects how directly XRP's trajectory has been shaped by U.S. regulatory uncertainty. The SEC's 2020 lawsuit against Ripple triggered years of exchange suspensions and institutional hesitation; a 2023 court ruling helped clear secondary-market trading, but large allocators have always wanted federal legislation that a future regulator can't simply reinterpret. The CLARITY Act would provide exactly that — a defined framework for custody, trading, market…