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On September 17, 2026, OFAC sanctioned Iranian exchange BitBank and its developer, Pishtaz Simorgh Electronic Trade Company, for moving hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin…
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Glassnode's September 16, 2026 report flags Bitcoin's $71,300 short-term holder cost basis as thinning support, with corporate treasury buying down to about 5,900 BTC in three months from 89,000 BTC in July 2025 alone.
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On September 17, 2026, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued a five-year Innovation Exemption letting licensed venues trade tokenized stocks onchain, two days after…
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On September 17, 2026, Bitcoin (BTC) traded near $76,347 while a wave of shareholder activism hit publicly traded crypto treasury companies. Crypto Briefing reported combined…
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Zcash (ZEC) rose 23% to about $1,369 in the 24 hours to September 17, 2026, after Paradigm's Matt Huang disclosed on X that the firm holds ZEC. The same day, the Fed raised rates…
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The Fed raised rates 12-0 to 3.75%-4.00% on September 16, 2026, and Bitcoin held near $75,600, but spot Bitcoin ETFs still posted a $295.9 million outflow that day, at odds with Wintermute Research's call that the rally reflects capital rotating out of equities.
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The Senate rejected cloture on the CLARITY Act 49 to 50 on September 15, 2026, eleven short of 60. No Democrat voted yes; four Republicans voted no, one of them only to preserve a motion to reconsider.
Ali Raza Memon
CME FedWatch puts September 16 Fed hike odds near 87%. Charles Schwab's Jim Ferraioli and Sygnum's Can-Luca Köymen see a one-off hike as a possible bullish surprise; independent researcher Joseph Edwards expects it to dampen the rally.
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Ethereum's entry queue holds 1.78 million ETH waiting over 30 days to stake while the exit queue sits at zero. Weiss Ratings calls that conviction; Sygnum Bank says much of the backlog is Pectra-driven validator consolidation, not new capital.
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Senate Republicans released revised CLARITY Act text on September 11, four days before the September 15 cloture vote, but the ethics restrictions on officials' crypto income and the stablecoin-rewards dispute between banks and the crypto industry remain unresolved.
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Goldman, Citi, BofA and eighteen others will launch a dollar stablecoin in H1 2027. The membership and timeline are public; the redemption mechanics are not, and that single unpublished detail decides whether this competes with Tether or with correspondent banking.
Ali Raza Memon
August CPI came in hot at 3.4%, but gasoline alone accounted for over a third of the monthly rise and core sits at 2.4%. Bitcoin dipped to $76,040 on the print and then reversed higher alongside gold, which is what a policy-credibility trade looks like rather than a rates trade.
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