🔐 END-OF-DAY MARKET REPORT — SEPTEMBER 17, 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 TOP NEWS OF THE DAY The Fed raised rates 25 bp to 3.75%-4.00%, its first hike since 2023. The dot plot showed most officials expect another hike before year-end, while Chair Warsh avoided clear guidance. The CLARITY Act’s 49-50 Senate rejection continues to weigh on crypto, effectively shelving the bill for 2026. U.S. jobless claims and the BoE decision are due today. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ₿ BITCOIN $BTC trades around 76,360 $ (Sept. 17, 09:50 ET, CoinDesk). After ranging from 75,100-76,465 $ following the Fed decision, BTC held 75,000 $ support despite hawkish policy. 75,000 $ is key support; 77,000-78,000 $ is the first recovery test, while 71,500-73,600 $ becomes relevant if support fails. ETF outflows remain a pressure factor. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔷 ETHEREUM & ALTCOINS ETH is around 2,400 $, XRP 1.29 $. Total crypto market cap is ~2.6T $, with BTC at 1.53T $. Zcash gained 6% before the Fed decision. Regulation-linked altcoins remain under pressure. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 KEY CRYPTO NEWS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔓 TOKEN UNLOCKS Aster ( $ASTER ) — September 17 ~37.75M $ — 2.02% of circulating supply Selling pressure: 🟡 Team unlocks were delayed to Sept. 17, 2027; today’s unlock is outside that delay. Spark (SPK) — September 17 ~5.38M $ — 9.04% of circulating supply Selling pressure: 🔴 High relative to float, creating dilution risk. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔭 OUTLOOK AND UPCOMING EVENTS Markets will focus on the potential year-end hike and incoming data. Jobless claims and the BoE decision may provide fresh signals. BTC holding 75,000 $ is critical, but 77,000-78,000 $ must be reclaimed for improvement. ETF outflows keep downside risk alive. ASTER and SPK unlocks may add volatility. The 10-year Treasury yield near 5% remains a key macro indicator.