“Pledged to keep working to give the cryptocurrency and digital-asset industry the regulatory and tax certainty it needs to succeed.”
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Adversarial re-check: every load-bearing fact in the prior rating was independently re-verified against primary sources, and none was invented or misquoted. VERIFIED FOR: (1) Curtis cosponsored S.J.Res.3 (Cruz), the CRA resolution disapproving the IRS 'Gross Proceeds Reporting by Brokers That Regularly Provide Services Effectuating Digital Asset Sales' (DeFi broker) rule, on 01/28/2025 - confirmed in the official GPO bill-status record, where he is the 7th of 14 cosponsors. (2) He voted Yea on its passage, 70-27, on 03/04/2025 (Senate roll call 119-1 #102) - confirmed on senate.gov. (3) The companion H.J.Res.25 became Public Law 119-5, approved 04/10/2025, nullifying that tax-reporting rule - confirmed on govinfo. That is real, enacted TAX certainty for digital assets that Curtis helped deliver. (4) He voted Yea on final passage of S.1582, the GENIUS Act payment-stablecoin framework, 68-30 on 06/17/2025 (roll call 119-1 #318) - confirmed on senate.gov - and the bill became Public Law 119-27 on 07/18/2025 (a fact the prior rating omitted, which if anything strengthens rather than weakens the score). (5) He is a cosponsor of the Fair Access to Banking Act, whose text and his own press release expressly name cryptocurrency among the industries protected from debanking - press release live and fetched. VERIFIED AGAINST: the promise is not complete. The core market-structure certainty the industry sought is still unfinished - H.R.3633, the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act, passed the House 294-134 on 07/17/2025 but was only ordered reported by Senate Banking on 05/14/2026 and placed on the Senate calendar (Cal. No. 423) on 06/01/2026, with no floor vote as of 07/21/2026. Curtis also did not LEAD: he is not a Senate Banking member (confirmed against the committee's own membership roster), he did not cosponsor the GENIUS Act (confirmed against the S.1582 cosponsor list - only Lummis, Scott, Sullivan, Moreno and Ricketts did), and a search of his own Senate site surfaces exactly one crypto-mentioning release, the debanking bill. NONPARTISAN CHECK: a Democratic senator with an identical record - two supporting votes on crypto bills that became law, one cosponsorship of an enacted CRA resolution, one cosponsorship of a broader banking bill that lists crypto, no sponsored digital-asset bill, no committee seat, no leadership - would draw the same label. CHAMPIONED is not earned (cosponsoring another member's resolution is not leading or driving the effort), and ATTEMPTED understates it (two of the efforts actually became law). PARTIAL (+0.5) - kept some but not all of it - is the correct label. Confidence nudged from 0.70 to 0.72 because all affirmative facts are now primary-source confirmed; it is not higher because the negative claim that he engaged in no other digital-asset legislation could not be exhaustively enumerated (congress.gov member pages returned 403 and the Congress API was rate-limited), so it rests on his own site's search results plus his non-membership on Banking.
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