The Senate refused to end debate on the CLARITY Act on September 15, 2026, with 49 senators voting yes and 50 voting no, eleven short of the sixty needed. Two days later, the SEC…
XRP (CRYPTO:XRP) serves three key functions. It facilitates payment settlements between currencies, acts as collateral for positions at prime brokers, and more recently, it covers expenses for software agents. The latter function was introduced…
XRP (CRYPTO:XRP) holders spent this year anticipating the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, a bill intended to write XRP’s commodity status into federal law rather than leaving it subject to regulatory changes. The bill…
The CLARITY Act failed to advance in the Senate, leaving XRP (CRYPTO:XRP) without the broader federal crypto framework many investors expected. Now, the SEC and CFTC say they can move ahead with new crypto…
The U.S. Senate voted 49-50 against advancing the CLARITY Act on September 15, falling eleven votes short of the 60 needed to end debate. The defeat leaves crypto’s market-structure rules in the hands of…
XRP (CRYPTO: XRP), Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), and Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) fell after the Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act with a 49-50 vote against cloture, but investors had different reasons to care. XRP…
Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN | COIN Price Prediction) and Circle (NYSE:CRCL) both fell sharply after the September 15 Senate cloture vote failed to advance the CLARITY Act, while Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) barely moved. The split was striking…
Ethereum (CRYPTO:ETH) is a blockchain built to run programs, which is why people point to it when they say crypto can do more than move money. Developers deploy code to it, users call that…
Ethereum (CRYPTO:ETH) had the smallest reaction of the four major cryptocurrencies when the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time in three years. While Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC), Solana (CRYPTO:SOL) and XRP (CRYPTO:XRP) moved…
Goldman Sachs told clients on the morning of September 15, 2026, that it expected the Federal Reserve to raise rates the next day but did not expect another hike to be its baseline. Less…
Michael Saylor believes Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) lending is coming to mainstream banking with or without new legislation from Congress. The MicroStrategy chairman’s comments come as Deutsche Bank reportedly positions itself to offer Bitcoin-backed lending once…
The CLARITY Act needed 60 votes to advance in the Senate on Tuesday and got 50. A day later, the two regulators who’d been waiting on that bill said they’re done waiting. SEC Chair…
Tom Lee went on television September 15 and called one of the biggest rallies of our lifetime for the final stretch of 2026. Less than 24 hours later, the Federal Reserve raised rates and…
On September 15, the U.S. Senate blocked the cloture motion to advance the CLARITY Act bill, failing by 49-50 votes. In the hours and days that followed, some of the industry’s biggest names, including…
The Senate’s September 15 rejection of the CLARITY Act looked like a major setback for crypto, especially after two years of lobbying and enormous industry spending on the market-structure bill. Yet just one day…