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CeFi
CoinEx to Close Exchange on Ninth Anniversary
Withdrawals end Dec. 22, while Arkham attributes $422.7 million across 3.2 million addresses to CoinEx and its reserve page shows no current audit rows.

TradFi & Fintech
Bitget Wallet Adds Reality's Tokenized U.S. Stocks Alongside Ondo And xStocks
The self-custodial wallet lists rTokens on Arbitrum and Morph from Sept. 15. Reality is part of the Bitget ecosystem.

Markets
XRP Leads a Broad Crypto Bid on the Eve of a Senate Vote and a Fed Decision
Bitcoin added 2.3% to $79,164 and set its session high in New York rather than overnight, while the S&P 500 held a 0.3% loss. Seventy-nine of the 121 largest non-stablecoin tokens rose. The Senate votes at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday on whether to take up the CLARITY Act, and Polymarket traders price a quarter-point Federal Reserve increase on Wednesday at 85.5%.

Regulation & Politics
Republicans Post Final CLARITY Act Text With Trump-Backed Ethics Terms a Day Before Cloture Vote
The ethics division drops the Jan. 20, 2029 sunset, reverses the July text's bar on state attorney general enforcement, and raises civil penalties from 10% of the take or $500,000, whichever is less, to 20% or $500,000, whichever is greater. The bans on issuing and sponsoring digital assets reach only assets created after the law takes effect, up to 360 days after enactment. No Democrat has endorsed the text.
TradFi & Fintech
Robinhood Says Shares And Votes Are Coming For Stock Tokens
Crypto chief Johann Kerbrat said on Monday that in-kind redemption and voting are on the roadmap for Robinhood Stock Tokens. The base prospectus governing the tokens says holders are not entitled to physical delivery of the underlying shares and have no voting rights, and the final terms let the issuer lend those shares out and waive the votes.

TradFi & Fintech
S&P Global Leads Kaiko Funding Extension to $110 Million
The crypto data provider says the capital will expand infrastructure for 24/7 tokenized markets, four years after its $53 million Series B.

DeFi
Kraken Launches xStocks Vaults That Borrow Against Tokenized Equities
The product targets up to 2% APY by moving xStock collateral from Ink to Solana, while a 25% performance fee and DeFi lending risks apply.

Regulation & Politics
Senate Republicans Post Revised CLARITY Act Text Five Days Before Cloture Vote
The Sept. 10 substitute adds CFTC registration and Bank Secrecy Act obligations for trading protocols that are not decentralized, limits the DeFi title to spot and cash digital commodity transactions, and clarifies what credit unions may do with digital assets. The seven Senate Democrats who have negotiated the bill for a year have not withdrawn the statement of opposition they issued in July.

DeFi
Standard Chartered Says SKY Token Will 5X to $0.325 by 2028
Geoff Kendrick calls Sky "DeFi's federal bank" and forecasts a five-fold rise in the value the protocol passes to token holders by end-2028. The thesis runs on USDS supply growth.

DeFi
Spark Opens Its USDT Savings Vault To OKX Users
The exchange routes USDT deposits into a Spark vault on X Layer, OKX's own Layer 2 network, where the vault holds under $500 and Spark's risk reviewers noted the chain can be upgraded by its operator without delay.



