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In the early hours of September 16, Beijing time, the U.S. Senate delivered its result on a procedural vote regarding the “Clarity Act” for the digital assets market. The bill failed to clear the 60-vote threshold, so it cannot move on to the next stage of formal consideration. The highly anticipated crypto regulatory legislation—one that the industry had pinned great hopes on—has, for now, been stalled.

One point needs to be clarified: this time, the bill was not directly rejected. Instead, it failed at the procedural step required to advance. The bill remains on the congressional calendar, and in theory there is still a possibility of being brought back for reconsideration. However, given the pace of congressional proceedings, the likelihood of it being enacted again within 2026 has become extremely low.

What problem the bill was originally meant to address

The bill is widely seen as a landmark piece of legislation in the crypto industry. Its core goal is to clarify regulatory authority and responsibilities: to define the jurisdictional boundaries between the SEC and the CFTC; to lay out a federal-level compliance path for crypto exchanges and stablecoin projects; and to put an end to the long-standing situation where “regulation relies on enforcement actions and the rules are unclear.”

For a long time, the biggest pain point for the crypto industry has been vague and ambiguous rules. Institutional capital wants to enter the market but lacks a unified legal benchmark. Ordinary investors also face the risk of platform blowups and having no clear path to seek redress. Industry stakeholders from multiple sides have spent significant effort lobbying and negotiating, hoping that this bill could end the regulatory gray area.

Why it ultimately failed to clear the threshold

The bill was stalled due to irreconcilable disagreements between the two parties.

On the Democratic side, the view is that the existing version does not provide sufficient strength on consumer protection, anti-money laundering, and risk controls. They worry that the bill would give the industry overly relaxed space, sowing hidden financial risk vulnerabilities. Some Republican lawmakers, meanwhile, are concerned that expanding regulatory authority would raise compliance costs for businesses and dampen the innovative momentum of digital asset development.

Even though the legislative team revised the provisions multiple times and added patches such as interest-constraint measures for public officials, the core conflict still could not be bridged. In the end, the vote margin was clearly insufficient, and it failed to meet the Senate’s hard requirements to advance the bill.

$ZEC Trump publicly stated that he will respect any interest rate decision made by the Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh tomorrow at the FOMC meeting. However, he added a half-joking remark: if Warsh chooses to cut rates, he would “respect him even more.”
Nearly everyone in the market is betting that rate hikes are already a foregone conclusion. Therefore, the real focus has shifted from “whether there will be a rate hike” to Warsh’s policy remarks after the meeting: over the rest of this year, how many more times could the Federal Reserve still raise rates? Will he overall be more dovish or more hawkish? These are the key signals that will determine the direction of the markets afterward!

🚨 The Fed rate hike—is it already a done deal?

Now, the market’s answer is already very close:

YES.

The latest market pricing shows the probability of the Fed hiking rates by 25BP today has reached over 90%.

If it happens, the target range for the Federal Funds rate will move from:

3.50%–3.75%

to:

3.75%–4.00%

But I think what Crypto truly needs to focus on today is no longer:

“Will the Fed hike or not?”

Because when an event is already priced in by more than 90%,

what usually creates volatility is—

something unexpected.

There are three possible scenarios:

🟡 Scenario 1: Hike 25BP, but Warsh is more dovish

If the Fed tells the market:

“This is just a policy adjustment; it doesn’t mean a new sequence of consecutive hikes has started.”

Then you could see a very interesting move:

The risk assets could actually rise after the hike is implemented.

Reason is simple:

Everyone already knew they were going to hike.

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🔴 Scenario 2: Hike 25BP + clearly signals more hikes ahead

This could be the real source of pressure.

Because the market won’t just be trading a single 25BP move anymore;

it becomes:

NEW HIKING CYCLE?

The U.S. dollar, Treasury yields, and global liquidity will all be repriced.

That’s the real stress test for $BTC, $ETH, and $BNB.

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🟢 Scenario 3: An unexpected no-hike

The probability is low, but precisely because it’s low,

if it happens, the market reaction could be the biggest.

The dollar could drop quickly,

and risk assets could see intense volatility.

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So tonight,

I won’t just be watching the news headline:

“FED +25BP”

What I’m really watching are a few words from Warsh’s press conference:

ONE-OFF?

Or:

MORE HIKES AHEAD?

Because for Crypto,

one already Price In 25BP may not be the most terrifying part.

What matters most is:

Today is it just a single rate hike,

or the start of a new hiking cycle?

If the market ultimately finds that—

“It’s only this one time.”

Then tonight’s biggest surprise might not be the hike.

Instead, it could be:

After the hike, BTC still can’t drop.

👇 What do you think about tonight’s Fed?

Hike and stop once 🟢 / Keep hiking 🔴

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Circle’s Arc mainnet goes live.

This chain is a bit different.

It’s not simply about recreating another Layer 1. Instead, it directly sets its sights on institutional settlement, stablecoin payments, tokenized assets, and an always-on financial market.

More importantly, the first batch of validators includes traditional financial institutions such as BlackRock, DTCC, Visa, Mastercard, and ICE.

The list of 11 institutions that Circle previously released.

I think the real change worth studying here is this:
In the past, traditional finance was using blockchain.

Now, traditional finance is starting to participate in running blockchain.
These two are completely different concepts.

If in the future stocks, funds, payments, and settlement gradually move onto the chain, then blockchain may no longer be just the infrastructure of Crypto.

It may slowly become financial infrastructure itself.

With Arc going live today, I’d rather treat it as a signal:
Wall Street is moving from “researching Crypto” to “building Crypto”.

Will the Federal Reserve raise rates as expected this week? Wall Street is debating: will it end the U.S. stock bull market?

After an unexpectedly strong U.S. CPI report came out last Friday, traders generally expect the Federal Reserve to begin raising rates at this week’s policy meeting—marking the first rate hike in more than three years.

Historically, previous rounds of rate hikes have offered a reference point for today’s market. Based on past experience (though history of course can’t guarantee the future), U.S. stocks may first weaken, then rebound.

Among the six tightening cycles since 1994, during the first four months after the rate-hike cycle began, the S&P 500’s average return was negative.

This suggests that once the “rate-hike shoe” drops, U.S. stocks may look lackluster through the beginning of next year.

As of the close last Friday, the benchmark U.S. equity index, the S&P 500, is up nearly 12% year to date. Strong corporate earnings and a fairly resilient economy have provided solid support for bulls in the stock market.

If you extend the time horizon, the S&P 500’s performance tends to improve gradually: in the 12 months after the start of a rate-hiking cycle, the index’s average return is close to 7%, with a median return of about 11%. (Using median-based statistics helps remove distortions from extreme outliers—for example, the index surged more than 40% after hikes began in March 1997.)

If the Federal Reserve implements a rate hike this Wednesday, it will be the first hike since July 2023—when the Fed raised rates to a range of 5.25% to 5.50%.

Currently, the federal funds rate in the U.S. is at 3.50% to 3.75%. According to the CME Group’s FedWatch tool, futures traders currently assign an 86% probability to a 25-basis-point hike this week.

One positive factor for the market is that mega-scale cloud service providers are still driving growth in excess returns through large-scale AI spending. The S&P 500 component stocks’ forecast for earnings growth in 2027 is expected to reach double digits. If the outlook for AI spending remains unchanged, it may be enough to offset any cooling in optimistic sentiment caused by the rate hikes.

Another bright spot for equities is that although inflation remains sticky, it appears to be slowing. The inflation rate has fallen from a May peak of 4.2%. This should allow the Federal Reserve to take a more gradual approach, and the data shows that the pace of rate hikes is crucial for stock performance—slower pacing gives investors more time to absorb policy changes!
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$XAU Let’s review tonight’s proposed vote result for the “Clear Bill.” In the end, 49 votes were in favor, 50 against—out of 99 total voters.
Clearly, this outcome is not simply because it didn’t reach 60 votes. Ultimately, it ended in temporary failure. Evidently, the threshold for pushing the bill is still quite high, making it a tough challenge.
Currently, there are 53 seats for the Republican Party in the Senate, 45 for the Democrats, and 2 for independents. This means that if the Republicans fully back it, they could at least secure 53 support votes.
But the real outcome directly contradicts that. Not only did the Democrats oppose it, but the Republicans also were not fully united in support—4 Republicans voted against.
Now look at the chart. Before the vote results came out, the broader market had already started a sharp pullback, indicating that the main funds likely weren’t optimistic, or had already anticipated the result in advance. Right now, it’s best not to rush in early to buy the dip or short. Wait until tomorrow’s rate-hike results are released, and then enter based on the K-line trend—it’ll be better!

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