The U.S. Senate Banking Committee is expected to consider a digital asset market structure bill in the second week of January, a bill whose progress has been delayed by Democratic concerns about decentralized finance and the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Cody Carbone, CEO of the digital asset advocacy group The Digital Chamber, said the Senate will hold at least one reading of the market structure legislation in the second week of January. The bill, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives in July, is expected to grant the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) more power to regulate digital assets. Early drafts of the Senate bill indicated that the CFTC and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would cooperate more on cryptocurrency regulation.