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US spot funds finished Sept. 25 with about $1.02 billion in net inflows for the year, reversing a $1.96 billion deficit before the streak.

Ondo rose more than 20% after putting three BlackRock-designed portfolios onchain. Litecoin added 18% with no announcement behind it. Bitcoin and ether traded lower while 51 of 60 large-cap tokens screened on Kraken sat above their 00:00 UTC open. The 10-year Treasury par yield closed Wednesday at 5.11%, and Polymarket now prices an October rate increase at 68%.

Total crypto market value fell 2.27% to $2.96 trillion. XRP dropped 5.8%, Dogecoin 8.3% and Hedera 9.9%, and Uniswap gave back the entire spike it took on Tuesday's CME listing. Perpetual funding at OKX turned negative on both the bitcoin and ether swaps. U.S. equities and gold closed lower alongside.

Chainalysis measured $593.8 billion in regional activity, up 9.8%, even as the global crypto economy contracted 1.6% during the same period.

The two contracts would take the exchange's single-token crypto lineup to eleven, seven of them added this year.

Bitcoin traded as high as $86,355 on Coinbase, its best level since Jan. 29, in a leg that started in the 8 a.m. UTC hour and extended through the U.S. open. West Texas Intermediate crude fell 8.1% and the Nasdaq Composite rose 1.6%. Perpetual funding sits near zero and the bitcoin and ether swaps trade below index. Of the 125 largest non-stablecoin tokens, 106 are higher.

Polymarket priced the odds of the bill becoming law this year at 12.5% on Tuesday morning, down from 29.5% on Monday afternoon, ahead of a cloture vote scheduled for 2:15 p.m. Ninety-five of the 124 largest non-stablecoin tokens fell as the Federal Reserve opened a two-day meeting with a quarter-point increase priced at 86.5%.

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%.

Bitcoin reached $79,701.36 overnight and had round-tripped the move by midday in New York, leaving it flat over 24 hours. Ninety-three of the 123 largest non-stablecoin tokens are lower. Zcash holds a 56.3% weekly gain after DCG exchanged 85,705 ZEC for about $100 million of Grayscale's ETF, a swap disclosed in an 8-K filed Tuesday. U.S. spot bitcoin funds recorded their first outflow since Sept. 1.

ADP reported 38,000 private jobs added in August, down from 44,000 in July, and traders raised the odds of a September Federal Reserve increase anyway. Eighty-four of the 125 largest non-stablecoin tokens fell, gold rose 0.84% and the Nasdaq 100 dropped 1.29%.