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The bill aims to promote regulatory clarity, fraud detection, and agency transparency around tokens and marketplace hazards but does so by centralizing authority, expanding definitions, and deploying AI and studies in ways that could raise costs, delay action, risk privacy and accuracy, and shift enforcement burdens.
Tech companies, startups, developers, and financial firms get clearer rules and centralized oversight—an explicit 'token' definition plus Commerce-led guidance and studies reduce regulatory uncertainty for blockchain projects.
Consumers, retailers, and the public could see faster detection of hazardous or recalled products and reduced fraud as CPSC AI monitoring, Commerce studies, and FTC reporting improve identification of risks in product and token markets.
Consumers, businesses, and stakeholders gain more transparency and a formal voice—public comment requirements and mandated agency reports encourage stakeholder input and help build agency capacity to address token-related fraud.
Startups, small businesses, token projects, and investors could face significant new compliance costs and legal uncertainty because a broad 'token' definition and any follow-on regulation may sweep in many digital items.
Shifting authority and new study/reporting requirements could slow enforcement, divert agency resources, and concentrate responsibility at an agency (Commerce) with less consumer-safety enforcement experience, reducing effective oversight in the near term.
Using AI to monitor marketplaces risks false positives and negatives (misidentifying safe items as hazardous or missing real dangers) and raises privacy/surveillance concerns for sellers and platforms.
Based on analysis of 8 sections of legislative text.
Requires federal agencies to use and study digital tools to protect consumers: the Consumer Product Safety Commission must run an AI pilot to help detect hazards and recalled products; the Secretary of Commerce must study how blockchain and tokens can prevent fraud and other deceptive practices; and the Federal Trade Commission must report on its token-related enforcement actions and recommend any legislative or resource needs. Each agency must consult experts and publish findings within set deadlines after enactment.
Introduced March 3, 2025 by Darren Michael Soto · Last progress July 15, 2025