
Crypto industry reacts after Clarity Act fails Senate vote
The Clarity Act fell short of 60 votes in the Senate. CoinDesk rounds up how crypto and banking leaders, including Matter Labs, are reading the outcome.

Published Mar 17, 2026 · Cointelegraph
Cari Network picks ZKsync's Prividium to power tokenized deposits for US regional banks — enabling 24/7 settlement while keeping deposits on balance sheet.
Cari Network, a permissioned blockchain network led by former US Comptroller of the Currency Gene Ludwig, has chosen Matter Labs' Prividium — built on ZKsync and anchored to Ethereum — to power a tokenized deposit network for US regional and mid-sized banks, with five institutions already involved in design and testing: Huntington Bancshares, First Horizon, M&T Bank, KeyCorp, and Old National Bancorp. The platform enables banks to issue and settle deposits around the clock while keeping them on balance sheet as regulated liabilities, with transaction data separated from personally identifiable information and full auditability for examiners — positioning tokenized deposits as a bank-governed complement to stablecoins.

The Clarity Act fell short of 60 votes in the Senate. CoinDesk rounds up how crypto and banking leaders, including Matter Labs, are reading the outcome.

Matter Labs open-sources Prividium's permissioning engine so institutions can run a permissioned chain in their own environment — Bundesbank tests it first.