Summary: Senate Democrats are preparing a counterproposal to the Republicans' revised CLARITY Act, citing dissatisfaction with crypto ethics language ahead of a key procedural vote.
Summary: OKX will move USDG and RLUSD rewards to daily payouts and apply revised balance-based calculation rules in September 2026.
Summary: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned that rapid AI progress risks losing human control or concentrating power, urging companies to adopt slower development and safety cases.
Summary: Kraken introduced onchain yield vaults for tokenized stocks like SPYx, QQQx, and NVDAx, enabling clients to earn returns by lending assets through decentralized finance protocols.
Summary: Non-custodial processor Swiss Bitcoin Pay temporarily shut down servers after a breach exposed customer emails, bitcoin addresses, IBANs, and transaction histories.
Summary: Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan projected a decline of more than 10% in third-quarter investment banking fees, causing shares to slide 5%.
Summary: Microsoft AI published a draft Code of Conduct on September 14, establishing absolute constraints for its models and opening a six-week public comment period.
Summary: Senator Cynthia Lummis credits President Trump with accepting strict ethics reforms, including state attorney general enforcement powers, to secure passage of the Clarity Act.
Summary: Bernstein analysts state that crypto markets have not priced in a positive surprise regarding the Clarity Act, citing recent Republican concessions on ethics and banking issues.
Summary: Major chipmakers fell sharply after industry leaders endorsed slowing AI development, while Bitcoin climbed to $78,280 amid regulatory optimism.
Summary: Strive acquired 469 Bitcoin for approximately $36.6 million, bringing its total holdings to 25,000 BTC as the company’s market capitalization surpassed Metaplanet.
Summary: Morgan Stanley’s spot Bitcoin ETP, the first launched by a global systemically important bank, surpassed $600 million in assets shortly after its April debut.
Summary: The SEC issued an order exempting specific market intermediary forms from Inline XBRL filing requirements adopted in December 2024, aiming to reduce compliance costs.
Summary: S&P Global led a strategic investment in Kaiko, raising the crypto data provider's Series B to $110 million to support its expansion into onchain financial infrastructure.
Summary: Nasdaq-listed Strive acquired 469 bitcoins at an average price of approximately $77,954, bringing its total holdings to 25,000 BTC worth nearly $2 billion.
Summary: Strategy repurchased $139.3 million of STRC preferred stock while holding its Bitcoin stack steady at 845,050 BTC for a second consecutive week.
Summary: Bitmine Immersion Technologies reported total holdings of approximately $15.8 billion and projected $334 million in annualized staking revenue after increasing its Ether reserves.
Summary: Odds for the Clarity Act passing surged to 31% after President Trump agreed to updated ethics provisions, a key demand from Senate Democrats ahead of Tuesday's cloture vote.
Summary: CoinMarketCap’s Alice Liu notes that Binance’s launch of real-world asset perpetuals has rapidly captured market share and liquidity previously dominated by Hyperliquid.
Summary: World Trade Organization official Juan Marchetti states that fragmented regulatory frameworks, not technology, are the primary constraint on stablecoin adoption in international finance.