XRP Breaks 4-Month Resistance as Senate Schedules CLARITY Act Markup!

XRP punched through a price ceiling that had rejected it four times since February, rallying more than 6% on Sunday before pulling back 1.6% to sit just below $1.45 on Monday. The catalyst is squarely regulatory: the Senate Banking Committee has scheduled a markup session for the CLARITY Act on Thursday, May 14 — the most significant crypto market-structure legislation currently moving through Congress.

Polymarket currently prices the bill passing in 2026 at 62%, a meaningful probability for a piece of legislation that would establish clearer jurisdictional lines between the SEC and CFTC over digital assets. XRP is particularly sensitive to regulatory clarity given its history with the SEC, which makes the token a natural proxy trade for any legislative progress.

The four-time rejection at this level makes the break technically significant. Whether it holds depends on whether the…