JPMorgan Chase warned that the crypto industry's long-awaited Clarity Act faces a narrowing path to passage as midterm-election politics and disagreements over stablecoin yields create new obstacles. The biggest sticking point remains whether stablecoin issuers can offer yield-like products.

The dwindling congressional calendar may spur a legislative competition for the crypto market structure bill to win Senate floor time against other priorities.

The Clarity Act still faces several legislative hurdles, and disputes over stablecoin yield have emerged as a key sticking point, the bank said.