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‘Go time’: SEC, CFTC prepare to push crypto rules as Clarity Act stalls in Senate

CFTC Chair Mike Selig said his agency is "locked in and ready to ship its rules for the new frontier of finance."

US House tax committee advances crypto tax overhaul in 38–5 vote

A bipartisan House committee vote advanced legislation that would reshape federal tax rules for stablecoins, staking, crypto lending and digital asset transactions.

Revolut hackers demand $3 million in Monero, threaten to sell customer data

The group gave Revolut 24 hours to pay and said it targeted customers with significant crypto holdings.

Congress wants to make crypto easier to use and still collect $500 million more in taxes

A House crypto tax overhaul would raise an estimated $500 million while easing taxes on stablecoin payments and small fees. The House Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to consider H.R. 10357, the Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act, on Sept. 16, putting a broad rewrite of digital-asset taxation befo...

XRP sinks 10% as the Clarity Act fails and bitcoin slides toward $76,000

The Senate's 49-50 procedural vote left the crypto market structure bill 11 short of what it needed, and every major token fell.

Crypto longs worth $570 million wiped out as Clarity Act fails

Bullish crypto futures bets worth millions have been liquidated in 24 hours. Bitcoin and ether longs have taken in the most losses.

Bitcoin ETF exits erase Monday’s rebound as spot selling deepens before the Fed

US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a $450 million net outflow on Sept. 15. It more than erased the previous session’s $159 million inflow, while the six completed sessions since Sept. 8 added up to a net $753 million withdrawal. The reversal removed the brief demand signal that appeared as the Federal Re...

Bitcoin drops below $76,000 as Senate rejects CLARITY Act motion

The US Senate failed on Sept. 15 to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, stalling efforts to create a federal framework for crypto markets as Bitcoin fell sharply below $76,000. The cloture vote on the motion to proceed failed 49-50, and the measure needed 60 votes to move to debate, so the...

Bitcoin ETFs shed $450 million as Clarity Act fails

U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs shed $450 million, the most since June, as the Senate's failure to advance the Clarity Act sent regulatory-sensitive tokens sharply lower.

Malicious Uniswap v4 hooks are baiting DeFi traders with fake swap quotes

Liquidity aggregator 0x said on Sept. 14 that it had seen an alarming increase in malicious Uniswap v4 hooks over recent weeks, designed to quote one price and settle at another. In the most extreme trades it observed, users received as much as 50% less at execution than the amount displayed in the ...

Bitcoin Core 32 enters final testing with faster validation, fee changes and security fixes

The October update changes how nodes estimate transaction fees and process blocks, while fixing a wallet flaw that could let an authenticated user run commands on a node.

Celsius sues BitMEX for $495 million just 11 days before exchange shutdown

Celsius Network’s bankruptcy estate has sued BitMEX over a 2020 liquidation cascade it says cost more than 6,360 Bitcoin. The complaint, filed Sept. 12 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, accuses entities behind the crypto derivatives exchange of fraud, market manipulat...

UK opens a major loophole for stablecoin payments while clamping down on crypto lending

HM Treasury has laid the final draft of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Cryptoassets) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2026, which would narrow parts of the UK’s forthcoming crypto regulatory perimeter for UK qualifying stablecoin payments. The draft instrument, laid before Parlia...

U.S. House's tax committee advances crypto tax bill in wake of Clarity Act loss

The Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act would ease complicated tax burdens for everyday use of cryptocurrencies, though Trump's industry ties spurred some pushback.

CFTC and SEC Double Down on Crypto After Clarity Act Defeat

Michael Selig and Paul Atkins pledged to use their agencies’ existing powers to provide crypto regulatory certainty after the Senate failed to advance the bill.

Bitcoin’s Fed move could run straight into a $6.3 billion IBIT options wall

Bitcoin faces a compressed volatility test as the Federal Reserve’s rate decision lands two days before a major IBIT options expiry. The Fed will release its policy statement at 2 p.m. ET Wednesday, followed by Chair Jerome Powell’s press conference and a fresh Summary of Economic Projections. Any m...

UK FCA sets crypto authorization guidance ahead of September application window

The FCA’s new guidance outlines which crypto activities may require authorization as firms prepare for the UK’s incoming digital asset regulatory regime.

Bitcoin, ether swing after unanimous quarter-point Fed rate hike as Warsh takes aim at inflation

Bitcoin and ether whipsawed as the Federal Reserve delivered its first rate hike in more than three years.

Bitcoin ETFs shed $450M in biggest outflow since June

The $450 million withdrawal came as Bitcoin fell 2.5% and the CLARITY Act failed to advance in the Senate, with Fidelity and BlackRock funds leading the outflows.

Two Robinhood engineers charged with insider trading using Hyperliquid perpetuals

U.S. prosecutors allege two engineers used confidential Robinhood token listing data to front-run announcements using Hyperliquid perpetual futures.

Deutsche Bank awaits regulatory nod to launch institutional crypto custody solutions

Germany’s largest bank is awaiting regulatory approval to launch institutional custody solutions for Bitcoin, Ether and select stablecoins before expanding into tokenized assets.

Bernstein expects ‘aggressive’ rulemaking from SEC, CFTC, following CLARITY Act failure

Bernstein said the federal agencies will publish new regulations to compensate for the time lost negotiating the CLARITY Act, after its cloture vote failed on Tuesday.

Hamas’ military wing told donors to avoid Binance. Use Bybit, OKX and others instead

Hamas’ military wing advised donors not to use Binance to handle funds but rather to use Bybit, OKX, Kast and Redotpay, according to recent U.S. Department of Justice documents.

House panel approves first federal crypto tax framework, one day after Senate’s Clarity Act stumbles

The House Ways and Means Committee voted to advance crypto tax legislation, sending it to the House to consider.

Bitcoin Core Software Update Aims for Speed and Security Patches

Bitcoin Core 32.0 has entered final testing, bringing faster block checks and changes to how wallets prepare payments.

Bernstein says Clarity Act failure allows stablecoin rewards on idle balances to continue, expects ‘swift’ SEC and CFTC rulemaking

Bernstein expects the SEC and CFTC to drive crypto rulemaking after Senate lawmakers failed to advance Clarity Act legislation.

Bitcoin absorbs initial pre-Fed sell-off, leaving $70K as a critical test for Warsh’s Fed decision

Bitcoin fell to an intraday low below $75,000 on Sept. 15, extending a selloff already underway ahead of the Senate vote on the CLARITY Act. The Senate failed 49-50 to invoke cloture on a motion to proceed to the bill, short of the 60 votes required, leading Bitcoin to its intraday low. Coinbase fel...

Crypto industry turns to US regulators after CLARITY setback

The CLARITY Act could still be revived after Senator Thom Tillis moved to reconsider the failed cloture vote, though industry executives are divided over whether Congress has enough time left.

Underdog sues Connecticut to stop sports prediction market crackdown

The lawsuit follows cease-and-desist orders the state issued to prediction market platforms, including Underdog, Polymarket, and Coinbase.

Solana nearly froze as a single routing error took 29% of the network stake offline

The Solana network kept producing blocks on Aug. 12 when an infrastructure failure stopped validators representing nearly 29% of network stake from voting, according to a Solana Foundation account published Sept. 14. Independent monitoring found that the chain remained live, yet its performance dete...

Deutsche Bank close to debuting crypto custody for institutions

The service will support a select range of cryptocurrencies at debut, including bitcoin and ether and stablecoins like USDC and EURC.

Bitcoin Coinbase Premium hits monthly low as CLARITY Act vote squeezes US demand

Bitcoin exchange demand on Coinbase declined after the US Senate voted against the CLARITY Act, while traders sent BTC to exchanges at an unrealized loss.

Deutsche Bank plans bitcoin, ether custody for institutional clients in Europe

Deutsche Bank plans to launch European digital asset custody this year, initially supporting bitcoin, ether, and select stablecoins.

FCA Guidance Lands Two Weeks Before UK Crypto Authorization Window Opens

Overseas firms serving UK retail customers need authorization too, and nobody trades under the new rules before October 2027.

Circle Launches Arc Mainnet With BlackRock, DTCC and Visa as Validators

The Layer 1 network’s validator set is permissioned, and Circle has minted 10 billion ARC tokens without committing to publicly launch them.

Bitcoin ETFs Had Their Worst Day Since June Following Failed Clarity Act Vote

Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP ETFs shed roughly $593 million combined Tuesday, their heaviest single-day drawdown since June.

Solana treasury giant DeFi Development opens $300M CHAD offering backed by a massive 13% dividend catch

Solana treasury company DeFi Development Corp. has opened an at-the-market program for up to 30 million CHAD preferred shares, creating an optional financing channel that could support further SOL purchases alongside other corporate uses. Related Reading Solana treasury company shutters its SOL acce...

Robinhood engineers face up to 30 years over $50,000 alleged Hyperliquid profits

Two Robinhood engineers were charged with using confidential token-listing information to place profitable crypto derivatives trades on Hyperliquid. On Sept. 15, the Federal prosecutors accused Hefu Chai and Huaisong “Jerry” Xiang of trading perpetual futures tied to tokens they allegedly knew Robin...

Fed raises rates by 25 basis points in first hike since July 2023

The widely expected move places the U.S. Federal Reserve's benchmark fed funds rate range at 3.75%-4.0%.

Solana triples transaction size as major upgrades meet record network activity

Solana is rolling out some of its most significant performance upgrades as network activity reaches record levels. The blockchain is increasing how much data applications can pack into individual transactions while also shortening the interval between successive slots, expanding both transaction cap...

XRP falls hard after CLARITY vote as Ripple’s regulatory advantage faces a new test

XRP fell more than 8% after the Senate blocked a key crypto bill, even as the token’s existing US regulatory treatment remained intact. CryptoSlate data showed XRP falling as low as $1.27 before recovering to about $1.29 as of press time, extending a decline from roughly $1.42 on Sept. 14. The sello...

Crypto Tax Bill Clears House Committee After Clarity Act Setback

The bill would exempt qualifying crypto fees from gain-or-loss calculations and restrict tax-loss deductions on tokens sold and quickly repurchased.

Fed Hikes Rates for the First Time Since 2023, Bitcoin Spikes

The Federal Reserve delivered the hike Wall Street had almost unanimously priced in.

US charges ex-Robinhood engineers over alleged pre-listing crypto trades

The former employees allegedly earned more than $50,000 each by trading Hyperliquid perpetuals ahead of Robinhood token listings.

Brazil’s B3 gets DIGY11, a new ETF tracking Bitcoin treasury preferred stock

OranjeBTC’s DIGY11 product page on Sept. 15 marked the exchange-traded fund as “now on B3” and displayed a value of R$10.04 per unit. Its updated status signaled that Brazilian investors could access a fund tied to Bitcoin-treasury companies without buying Bitcoin itself. DIGY11 is not a spot Bitcoi...

UK Backs Money Laundering Crackdown With $676M and 500 New Officers

The Home Office names crypto alongside fintech and AI as drivers of a threat the NCA puts at £100 billion a year in the UK.

Crypto Exchange CoinEx Is Shutting Down After Nine Years, Giving Users Until December to Cash Out

The Hong Kong-founded exchange blamed a prolonged crypto winter and rising compliance costs, closing the books on a run that began in December 2017.

Italy investigates government email breach linked to Revolut data leak

Italy is probing the Revolut-linked breach after its cyber agency reported more than 650 cases involving abused or illicit certified email accounts.

Circle launches Arc mainnet with USDC as native gas token

Circle’s Arc mainnet is live with USDC for transaction fees, support for more than 20 fiat stablecoins and links to over 20 blockchains.

Payward plans to offer U.S. clients onchain perpetual futures on Hyperliquid

Leveraging its $550 million acquisition of Bitnomial, Payward aims to become the first registered U.S. exchange to deploy markets on the Hyperliquid protocol.

Bitcoin awaits Fed rate decision below $76K as analysis discounts ‘dovish surprise’ odds

Bitcoin price support materialized around $68,000 as markets saw a 93% chance of the Fed hiking rates by 0.25% on Wednesday.

Hackers Hijack HBO Max’s Reddit Account to Spread Crypto-Stealing Malware

Attackers ran 108 malicious ads through the streaming service’s verified account, directing users to fake software downloads.

OpenAI's Rogue AI Agents Were Probing Hugging Face Two Months Before Hack

An independent researcher found the agents hijacked Hugging Face accounts and mapped the platform's defenses as early as May 13—activity OpenAI's own incident report never fully described.

Bitcoin miners have amassed $100 billion of AI deals, but almost none of the revenue exists yet

Bitcoin miners have signed more than $100 billion in AI contracts while generating barely $1.1 billion in annualized revenue. More than 4 gigawatts of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing capacity are under contract across publicly traded miners tracked by CoinShares, but only abou...

Ethereum, Base give up on common wallet standard after months of talks

Ethereum is moving ahead with EIP-8141 while Coinbase-backed Base backs EIP-8130, leaving wallets and apps that span both networks facing different transaction systems.

The Standard Chartered Effect: Is bank research becoming crypto’s new short-term catalyst?

Standard Chartered initiated coverage on Arbitrum's ARB token on the morning of Sept. 15 with a $10 price target for 2030. That implies roughly 70 times upside from a token trading near $0.13 and down about 1% over the prior 24 hours. In the same session, ARB gained up to 9%, Bitcoin fell around 4%,...

Morning Minute: Clarity Act Vote Falls Short as Democrats All Vote ‘No’

It should not have come as a surprise given the odds, but crypto majors, alts and memes all sold off anyway in the wake.

JPMorgan says Clarity Act ‘not fully dead,’ but passage window ‘extremely narrow’

The Clarity Act is "not fully dead," but the window for passing the crypto bill this year is now "extremely narrow," JPMorgan said.

‘Nothing truly structural’: Analysts downplay Clarity Act defeat as bitcoin, major crypto stocks dip

Analysts told The Block that the crypto market will continue to move with interest rates and the broader monetary environment.

Zcash holders overwhelmingly back faster transactions and bitcoin-style halvings

Nearly 2.4 million ZEC participated, with 99.9% backing 25-second blocks and 98.9% voting to preserve the network’s existing halving schedule.

A $100 million launch balance doesn’t mean a crypto ETF has real investors

A crypto ETF can arrive with substantial assets before public trading reveals much about outside investor demand. That makes a rising launch benchmark important for ETF sponsors and easy to misread as a market verdict. Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas said on Sept. 15 that average day-one ETF as...

Tonkeeper Becomes Keeper as Wallet Adds Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tron

The self-custodial wallet is expanding beyond The Open Network, with support for seven blockchains and more financial products planned.

ECB seeks online merchants for 2027 digital euro pilot

Euro-area online and mobile merchants can apply until Oct. 27 to test beta digital euro payments in a 12-month pilot.

Ethiopia cuts Bitcoin miners’ power by 77% amid hydropower shortage: Report

Bitcoin miners generated 35% of the state-owned power producer’s revenue last year, but declining reservoir inflows led the utility to prioritize households and manufacturers.

Circle debuts Arc blockchain which Jeremy Allaire calls ‘more consequential’ than USDC

The USDC issuer's chain is built for payments, tokenized assets and institutional finance as banks and payment giants pile into the stablecoin market.

Two Prime makes onchain finance push with $10 million-backed bitcoin yield vault

Two Prime expands into onchain finance with a bitcoin lending vault built on Pareto for institutional investors.

Bitcoin Hovers at $76K as Analysts Argue the Fed Matters More Than Clarity Act

With Bitcoin sitting around $76,000, the argument from analysts is that dollar liquidity, not Congress, sets the floor from here.

A LatAm telecom operator is putting part of its finances on Avalanche

Led by former IBM Blockchain partner Jules Miller, Iris is helping Bolivia's VIVA use stablecoins for settlement, dollar reserves and new financial services without replacing its existing telecom systems.

Coinbase faces greater fallout from CLARITY Act setback: Saxo

A strategist at the Danish bank said Coinbase has more at stake in the CLARITY setback because its trading business is directly exposed to US market-structure rules.

Celsius sues BitMEX for $495 million over 2020 crash liquidations

The estate is chasing 6,360 BTC lost in the Covid crash — a leveraged long position that sits awkwardly with the lender's delta-neutral marketing.

CLARITY Act could get another shot during lame-duck session, policy advocate says

Digital Sovereignty Alliance managing director Adrian Wall said senators from both parties are considering another attempt to advance the crypto market structure bill before the current Congress ends.

Circle launches Arc mainnet with BlackRock and Visa among validators, mints 10 billion ARC tokens

Circle confirmed it completed the genesis mint of 10 billion ARC tokens this week, although a public launch of the token remains undecided.

Blockchain finance platform Theo launches tokenized silver backed by $40 million in active leases

The onchain finance platform said thSLVR allows investors to retain exposure to silver while earning income from lending the metal to institutional borrowers.

Fed meeting is shaping up to be a nightmare for Warsh. Bitcoin might still shine

An aggressive market expectations trap and a strict aversion to forward guidance have backed the Fed chair into a corner, where failing to deliver a hawkish message risks destroying the central bank’s inflation-fighting credibility.

Bitcoin's Coinbase premium sinks to one-month low, here’s why

Weakening U.S. demand, a setback for the Clarity act and expectations of a fed rate hike weigh on bitcoin.

Zcash holders back 25-second blocks, vote to keep ZEC halving schedule

Nearly 99% of ZEC holders voted to reduce block times to 25 seconds, while keeping ZEC issuance and halving schedules unchanged.

Revolut ID thefts highlight KYC’s dangers: Here’s how to fix it

Zero-knowledge technology could let companies verify who you are without storing your identity documents. So why isn’t it already standard practice?

Anchorage expands institutional custody to Etherlink, tokenized uranium

Anchorage Digital Bank added custody support for Etherlink and several Etherlink-based assets, including xU3O8, a token representing physical uranium.

Aave founder pitches ‘Uber path’ for DeFi after Clarity Act fails Senate vote

Aave founder Stani Kulechov sees an 'Uber path' for DeFi if U.S. crypto legislation stalls, he told The Starting Block.

Ripple’s university strategy is evolving from blockchain labs to XRP logos in packed stadiums

Ripple is extending XRP’s push into US college sports, adding Louisville to a campaign that has rapidly expanded since July. The crypto company said Monday it struck a partnership with Louisville Athletics that will give XRP prominent exposure around the university’s basketball program, including br...

Live updates: Zcash climbs 6% as majors slide ahead of Fed rate decision

The privacy token is up 130% over 30 days and trades near its all-time highs from 2016, while bitcoin sits at a three-and-a-half-week low below $76,000.

AI has been a ‘net negative’ for crypto: Phemex CEO

Federico Variola says AI has diverted capital from crypto and is empowering attackers, while rising cybersecurity costs could push the industry toward greater centralization.

Bitcoin traders brace for Fed hike, but a surprise hold could pose bigger risk

Bitcoin is stuck near $80,000 as traders build stablecoin positions that could return to the market once Fed uncertainty clears.

Unlocking the Trillion-Token Era: B.AI’s Global Settlement Layer for the Agent Economy

Summary: Positioned squarely between foundation models and AI agents, B.AI is integrating compute routing, decentralized settlement, and full-stack agent infrastructure to establish itself as an undoubted spearhead in AI infrastructure. Just five months after its launch, B.AI has already set a new i...

Cardano fees covered just 0.7% of staking rewards as transactions fall 72%

Cardano collected 3.3 million ADA in transaction fees while recording 493.7 million ADA in staking rewards across the 73 epochs ending Sept. 1, 2026, according to Bitquery's full-chain count. Fees covered about 0.668% of rewards, leaving the reward total roughly 149.6 times larger than fee revenue. ...

XRPL proved it can handle over 3,000 transactions, but the traffic was entirely synthetic

The XRP Ledger (XRPL) validated 3,254 transactions in ledger 106,965,249 on Sept. 13, giving the network a high-count mainnet result with a highly concentrated workload. The ledger closed at 20:51:50 UTC, with 20 submitting accounts supplying 2,000 successful one-drop XRP payments, with each account...

Bitcoin loses touch with the Dollar Index, U.S. stocks ahead of the Fed

Your day-ahead look for Sept. 16, 2026

A stolen coin can be returned. A leaked identity cannot.

We keep building the honeypots, and we are about to hand the same architecture to billions of AI agents, writes Evin McMullen, CEO and co-founder of Billions.

AI Pause Would Help Dominant Firms, Not Safety, Think Tank Warns

Cato favors voluntary safeguards, while Block Chairman Jack Dorsey backs independent testing and narrowly justified restrictions.

Crypto Long & Short: Six signs a crypto winter is ending

Zuckerberg Pushes Back on Coordinated AI Slowdown, Says Labs Can Act Alone

Meta’s CEO says competition and potential liability give AI developers reasons to prioritize safety, citing the company’s decision to delay Muse.

Fed Chair Implies Trump Is Only Half Right on the Economy Following Rate Hike

Chair Kevin Warsh credited Trump's economy, then ignored his rate-cut wishes entirely.

Meta May Have Found a Fix for Its 'Pervert Glasses'

Meta is reportedly developing a version of its smart glasses without a camera, potentially addressing one of the biggest privacy objections to AI wearables.