ME News, September 15 (UTC+8): A quick roundup of content from Deutsche Bank’s Qidian Metaverse Fast News Flash:

· US stocks performance: The three major indexes closed slightly lower. The Dow fell 0.29% to 52,421.20 points; the S&P 500 dropped 0.48% to 7,619.98 points; and the Nasdaq fell 0.56% to 26,186.41 points. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index plunged by more than 5%. Shares related to the storage sector tumbled, with SK Hynix down more than 7%. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury broke above 5%, and the VIX “fear index” surged nearly 8%. Ahead of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision, the market chose to take a cautious risk-off stance. Major changes in AI IPO projects, the spike in US Treasury yields, and the sharp selloff in the semiconductor sector were the three key drag factors.

·Strategy Bitcoin holdings show an unrealized gain of $2.2 billion: According to Arkham monitoring, Strategy currently holds 845,050 BTC with an average buy price of $75,412. The current BTC price is 3.5% higher than its purchase average, with an unrealized gain of $2.2 billion. The company did not buy Bitcoin last week and repurchased $139.3 million worth of STRC.

·U.S. House to review strategic Bitcoin reserve bill: The U.S. House Financial Services Committee has scheduled a review of H.R. 8957 (the 2026 U.S. Reserve Modernization Act) for 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time on September 16, bringing legislation on strategic Bitcoin reserves into the committee voting stage.

·Bitcoin tops $79,000: On September 15, Bitcoin rose to the $79,000 level, with an intraday gain of 0.55%. Bitcoin futures open interest reached 676,820 BTC, valued at $52.64 billion.

·SEC Chair supports the Clarity bill but says the SEC will move forward with or without it: SEC Chair Paul Atkins urged Congress to advance the Clarity bill at an event hosted by the Solana Policy Research Institute, saying that regardless of the bill’s fate, the SEC’s crypto agenda will continue to move forward. The Senate is scheduled to hold a final debate and vote on the bill Tuesday afternoon Eastern Time.

·Russia’s central bank lists cryptocurrencies as financial market risk: In its (2027 and 2028–2029 Russia’s key financial market development directions) review, Russia’s central bank classifies cryptocurrencies as a risk to financial markets, citing concern that more and more Russians are using digital assets such as stablecoins to replace their domestic currency.

·Tokenized securities market platform tZERO completes new round of financing: tZERO announced the completion of a new round of financing led by Marc Cohodes and Max Cohodes, with participation from Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Bill Fleckenstein, Dinari, and others. This round of funding will support the company in continuing to expand its tokenized finance market infrastructure business.

·AI network technology company Cornelis completes $205 million funding: Cornelis announced it has completed $205 million in financing led by IAG Capital Partners, competing with Nvidia through an open architecture.

·Grayscale launches a model investment portfolio without Bitcoin: Grayscale, as a financial adviser, launched the Digital Assets Next Gen model investment portfolio, which does not include Bitcoin. The portfolio holds seven funds, with ETH at 42.34%, XRP at 26.11%, and Solana at 21.09%.

·Other news: CoinEx announced it will cease operations and begin orderly liquidation, with withdrawal channels open until December 22; 31% of the total supply of PONS tokens has been destroyed; Binance announced that, starting September 16, it will implement a 24/5 trading mode for commodity-type TradFi perpetual contracts; spot gold broke through the $4,300 level. (Source: Desun)