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

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.

Will BTC jump above $82,000 or face another leg down?

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. Bernstein analysts expect “aggressive and swift” rulemaking from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), after the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act failed to pass a Senate cloture vote on Tuesday. Bernstein analysts said the regulatory agencies will publish new regulations to “make up for the time lost negotiating the CLARITY Act,” in a Wednesday note shared with Cointelegraph. The analysts said they expect agency regulations including token taxonomy for raising capital, developer protection measures concerning decentralized finance and self-custodial protocols, innovation exemptions for equity tokenization, faster approval times for real-world asset perpetual futures, and amendments to rules around federal sports even contracts and their classification as swaps. Read more

The market faces a mix of fading selling pressure, leveraged positions, and renewed inflation concerns that could shape Bitcoin’s next major move.

Circle has launched its Arc Layer 1 network, bringing USDC-based fees, sub-second settlement, and major financial institutions onchain.

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

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 fell about […] The post Bitcoin absorbs initial pre-Fed sell-off, leaving $70K as a critical test for Warsh’s Fed decision appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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

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.

Nearly 99% of ZEC holders voted to reduce block times to 25 seconds, while keeping ZEC issuance and halving schedules unchanged. Zcash token holders backed cutting the network’s target block time to 25 seconds from 75 seconds and preserving its existing halving schedule in a poll on the next major upgrade. The faster-block proposal received 99.9% of the Zcash (ZEC)-weighted vote, while 98.9% supported keeping halvings, according to results published Monday. Voting power reflected eligible ZEC holdings, with both percentages including abstentions. The shorter interval would reduce the expected wait for a transaction’s first confirmation, according to the proposal. The amount of new ZEC issued per block would fall to keep scheduled daily issuance unchanged. Read more

Circle’s Arc mainnet is live with USDC for transaction fees, support for more than 20 fiat stablecoins and links to over 20 blockchains. USDC issuer Circle has launched the mainnet of Arc, a layer-1 (L1) blockchain targeting stablecoin payments and financial markets, particularly agentic transactions. Arc uses USDC as its native gas asset and offers Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatibility and deterministic sub-second settlement finality, according to an Arc blog post on Wednesday. The network supports more than 20 fiat stablecoins, including USDC, EURC, JPYC, KRW1 and TRYB, while tokenized assets including BlackRock’s BUIDL and Circle’s USYC are available natively on Arc. Arc also offers interoperability with more than 20 blockchains through Circle’s Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) and Gateway. Read more

Your day-ahead look for Sept. 16, 2026

Malicious Uniswap v4 hooks can win aggregator routing with attractive quotes, then change behavior when a user's transaction settles. The post Malicious Uniswap v4 hooks are baiting DeFi traders with fake swap quotes appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The historic Dogecoin-funded DOGE-1 satellite is scheduled to launch today, September 16, 2026. Here is how the market is reacting following recent Senate legislative setbacks, and how emerging projects like Maxi Doge are capturing investor interest. The post DOGE-1 Moon Mission Launches Today Amid Broader Crypto Market Pullback appeared first on Cryptonews.

XRP fell 10.58% to $1.3216 on September 15 as Bitcoin and Ethereum also dropped, but the data confirmed no specific support level. The post XRP Price Loses 10% as Crypto Weakness Deepens appeared first on Cryptonews.

PI's market cap dropped under the $1 billion psychological level.

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

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

XRP, in fact, is one of the worst performers today after the failure of the CLARITY Act's cloture.