BTC holding firm around $76,600 after the Fed hiked rates 25bps to 3.75-4.00% — the first increase in three years 📈 Despite roughly $345M in crypto liquidations, price action stayed remarkably resilient. The SEC new Innovation Exemption is a game-changer for tokenized stocks, letting permissioned chains trade NMS equities on-chain, and UNI caught a 20% surge as Uniswap v4 pools become the go-to compliance layer. Circle Arc mainnet also went live with BlackRock and Visa as validators, hitting 7.76M transactions on day one 🔥 Meanwhile the CLARITY Act fell short in the Senate 49-50, but regulators vowed to keep pushing crypto rules with or without legislation. Interesting times when regulation moves faster than legislation itself 🤝