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Bitcoin Falls Below $76,000 as Traders Cut CLARITY Act Odds Hours Before Senate Vote

Bitcoin Falls Below $76,000 as Traders Cut CLARITY Act Odds Hours Before Senate Vote

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%.

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Bitcoin Falls Below $76,000 as Traders Cut CLARITY Act Odds Hours Before Senate Vote

Bitcoin Falls Below $76,000 as Traders Cut CLARITY Act Odds Hours Before Senate Vote

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%.
XRP Leads a Broad Crypto Bid on the Eve of a Senate Vote and a Fed Decision

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%.
Bitcoin Gives Back Its Overnight Gain As Brent Tops $100

Bitcoin Gives Back Its Overnight Gain As Brent Tops $100

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.
Bitcoin Holds $77,000 After Weak Hiring Print

Bitcoin Holds $77,000 After Weak Hiring Print

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%.
Arbitrum Jumps 25% on Robinhood Chain Fees as Bitcoin Holds $78,000

Arbitrum Jumps 25% on Robinhood Chain Fees as Bitcoin Holds $78,000

ARB led the 108 largest non-stablecoin tokens after chain fees on Robinhood's network doubled in a day, taking the Arbitrum DAO's contractual 10% cut to roughly $192,000 a day. Bitcoin fell 0.7% while Japanese and U.S. government bond yields rose and gold dropped 1.9%.
Traders Make a September Rate Increase the Favorite as Bitcoin Holds $78,000

Traders Make a September Rate Increase the Favorite as Bitcoin Holds $78,000

Polymarket prices a quarter-point hike at 55.5% after Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole speech, against 28% on Friday afternoon. Bitcoin is down 0.7% on the day and 24.5% higher since the start of August, while 88 of the 125 largest non-stablecoin tokens fell.
CME Launches Crypto Index That Excludes Bitcoin and Ether

CME Launches Crypto Index That Excludes Bitcoin and Ether

The 10-asset emerging benchmark is free-float market-cap weighted, with real-time pricing and London, New York and Asia-Pacific settlement variants.
Bitwise Solana ETF Is First to Cross $1 Billion

Bitwise Solana ETF Is First to Cross $1 Billion

Glassnode reported $138 million of Solana ETF inflows over 10 days, while BSOL captured nearly four-fifths of cumulative flows among six products tracked by Farside.
Bitcoin Stalls a Cent Below $80,000 as Altcoins Give Back Weekend Gains

Bitcoin Stalls a Cent Below $80,000 as Altcoins Give Back Weekend Gains

Bitcoin touched $79,999.99 on Coinbase before easing, its highest level since May, while 80 of the 123 largest non-stablecoin tokens fell on the day. Total crypto market value declined even as bitcoin rose.
Bitcoin Posts Biggest Week Since 2024 as Trump Pushes Senate on CLARITY Act

Bitcoin Posts Biggest Week Since 2024 as Trump Pushes Senate on CLARITY Act

Bitcoin gained 22.6% over seven days, its largest advance over any seven-day window since November 2024, after the president told crypto executives at the White House that Congress needs to pass market structure legislation.