Senate Yea votes on crypto bill priced well below 50

Name: Senate Yea votes on crypto bill priced well below 50
Creator: ClearMarket
Published: 2026-09-15T19:01:42.078Z
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Kalshi ladder

record: CMSIG2026091503 | category: momentum-repricing | target: CM-EVT-CSYS5KPXK6 | published: 2026-09-15

4-bullet brief | narrative

The Kalshi ladder on Senate Yea votes prices 50 votes at just 10% and every higher strike at 8% or below, fully consistent with the 49-50 failure.
The 49-50 procedural vote confirms the ladder's distribution: the market was pricing a sub-50 outcome as the modal scenario before the vote.
The Polymarket contract on the Clarity Act becoming law by 2026 sits at 5%, suggesting markets see little chance of a reattempt clearing both chambers this year.
The Kalshi contract resolves on the recorded Senate vote count; the Polymarket signing-into-law contract resolves via UMA oracle and requires full legislative passage.

atomic briefs | structured for retrieval

[01] news_event

significance

surfaced in the daily Exa news-cycle scan; mechanically matched to an active kalshi market

story: The Clarity Act, crypto's flagship market-structure bill, failed a 60-vote Senate procedural threshold on a 49-50 vote, dealing a major blow to the industry.exa_search → CoinDesk · as_of 2026-09-16T13:02:46+00:00
publisher: CoinDesk
published_at: 2026-09-15T19:01:42.078Z
source_url: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/09/15/crypto-clarity-act-flames-out-in-failed-u-s-senate-vote

[02] pm_response

interp: The Kalshi ladder had already priced a sub-50 Yea outcome as most likely; the 49-50 result confirms the market read ahead of the vote.llm_judge_cm_signal_v1

evaluation

News-cycle wires publish on coverage, not editorial selection — the day’s top stories matched to the prediction markets pricing them, so nothing is cherry-picked.

judge_engine: none — deterministic news-cycle scan
judge_verdict: auto_published
judge_confidence: n/a — no judge gate (deterministic publishing)
prompt_template: news_cycle_v1 github · auditable
match_method: entity_slug_match (mechanical)

citation graph

Every wire traces back to the ClearMarket event it is built on, and out to each venue’s own market page — so any figure here can be verified at its source.

internal

cm_event: /events/kxvoteclarity-26may16/

external

venue_a: https://kalshi.com/markets/KXVOTECLARITY-26MAY16-T50

programmatic access · four surfaces, same payload

AI grounded search reads embedded JSON-LD in HTML. Developers query REST. Agentic AI clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor) call MCP tools. AI crawlers index via /llms.txt. Same canonical record at every surface.

HTML	browsers, AI grounded search, crawlers (contains embedded JSON-LD `@type: Dataset`)	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/crypto-bill-senate-yea-votes-kalshi-below-50-2026-09-15/`
JSON	REST API for developers	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/crypto-bill-senate-yea-votes-kalshi-below-50-2026-09-15.json`
MCP	agentic AI tool call (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue)	`clearmarket.get_signal("crypto-bill-senate-yea-votes-kalshi-below-50-2026-09-15")`
AGENT	AI crawler discovery index	`/llms.txt`

 PM data: platform APIs (hourly refresh). News context: retrieved with source citations. Editorial judgment: LLM judge with prompt template versioned per wire type. Per-claim provenance inline above; full per-field provenance map at the JSON endpoint under field_provenance.
  raw JSON record · same payload returned by REST endpoint
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    "The 49-50 procedural vote confirms the ladder's distribution: the market was pricing a sub-50 outcome as the modal scenario before the vote.",
    "The Polymarket contract on the Clarity Act becoming law by 2026 sits at 5%, suggesting markets see little chance of a reattempt clearing both chambers this year.",
    "The Kalshi contract resolves on the recorded Senate vote count; the Polymarket signing-into-law contract resolves via UMA oracle and requires full legislative passage."
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   PROVENANCE PROTOCOL v0.2 · [direct] venue api · [mediated] grounded web fetch + source url · [derived] computed from listed inputs · [editorial] versioned llm judgment · full spec /schema/provenance/v1

record CMSIG2026091503 published 2026-09-15T19:01:42.078Z signature sha256-6fa49b467ca… ← underlying event all signals →