🔐 END-OF-DAY MARKET REPORT — SEPTEMBER 16, 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 TOP NEWS OF THE DAY The Fed raised rates 25 bp to 3.75%-4.00%, unanimously, its first hike since July 2023. Projections showed 16 of 18 officials see another hike. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh said inflation needs to return to target faster. Energy prices, tariffs remain pressures. Brent stayed above 105 $. Treasury yields stayed above 5%; markets were volatile. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ₿ BITCOIN $BTC remains below 76,000 $ after the CLARITY Act failed in the Senate 49-50. Bitcoin fell about 4% on Sept. 15 around 75,800-76,000 $. Bitcoin ETFs saw 450.4M $ net outflows on Sept. 15, the highest since June 24. Ethereum ETFs saw 142.3M $ outflows; XRP ETFs had no net flow change. Combined outflows reached ~593M $. The CLARITY Act's failure renewed uncertainty. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔷 ETHEREUM & ALTCOINS ETH fell about 5% to around 2,400 $. XRP dropped about 9% to 1.28 $. Major altcoins also faced selling pressure. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 KEY CRYPTO NEWS The CLARITY Act failed 49-50. Markets may focus on SEC and CFTC processes. Coinbase announced lower fees and new unified fee tiers. Binance will delist BREV/USDC, COOKIE/USDC, LA/USDC and QNT/USDC on Sept. 18. On Sept. 17, the SEC will hold a roundtable on 24-hour U.S. stock trading. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔓 TOKEN UNLOCKS — SEPTEMBER 17 ZKsync ( $ZK ) September 17, 2026 ~173.08M ZK — ~1.49M $ 1.67% of circulating supply Recipients: Foundation, ecosystem, team/advisors, investors Selling pressure: MEDIUM 🟡 Cliff unlock with investor and insider allocations. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔭 OUTLOOK AND UPCOMING EVENTS The Fed's hike puts liquidity at the center of crypto markets. The CLARITY Act's failure keeps regulatory pressure in focus. The Sept. 17 ZKsync unlock will be monitored. The SEC meeting matters for crypto-finance integration. With 16 officials signaling another hike, inflation data will be crucial.