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Blockchains
Circle Launches Arc Mainnet With BlackRock, DTCC and Visa Producing Blocks
The Layer 1 charges gas in USDC and runs proof-of-authority across a permissioned set of 11 institutions plus Circle. More than 100 applications are live at launch, with Aave, Morpho and Uniswap anchoring DeFi. Circle minted 10 billion ARC tokens this week without committing to a public launch.

Regulation & Politics
Senate Blocks CLARITY Act 49-50 With No Democratic Votes to Proceed
Cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633 fell 11 votes short of the 60 it needed. All 49 votes to proceed came from Republicans. Collins, Hawley, Moran and Tillis voted no, and Tillis voted no to preserve the right to move to reconsider, which he did a minute after the result was announced. Polymarket cut the odds of the bill becoming law this year to 6.5% from 29.5% on Monday.

DeFi
0x Says Uniswap v4 Hooks Were A Mistake, Hayden Adams Says "Skill Issue"
The DEX aggregator found 54.2% of the 84,163 hooks it analyzed were malicious. Uniswap's founder and Paradigm's Dan Robinson said the failure is in 0x's routing.

Hacks
MEV Bot Front-Runs $7.8 Million rsETH Exploit on Ethereum
Yoink sent 2,882.37 rsETH to one address after its transaction beat the original attack into the same Ethereum block.

People
Kamino Names Michael Weisz CEO for US and Institutional Expansion
The Solana lending protocol has $1.35 billion in TVL and $1.02 billion in active loans, according to DefiLlama.

Markets
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%.

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.
Podcast
Will crypto get clarity? Senate votes today
The Senate is set to vote on a procedural motion to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, the major crypto market structure bill, on Tuesday, September 15 — a critical step toward a full floor vote, requiring at least seven non-Republican votes to clear the 60-vote threshold. Camila Russo talks with Summer Mersinger (Blockchain Association) and Kevin Wysocki (Anchorage Digital) live as the vote unfolds, breaking down what's in the bill, what's still being negotiated, and what it would mean for the industry if it passes.

Markets
Standard Chartered Sets $10 Arbitrum Target on Robinhood and Tokenization Growth
Geoff Kendrick's note calls Arbitrum "the blockchain for TradFi" and puts the token at roughly 70 times its current price by the end of the decade. The forecast rests on the 10% cut Arbitrum takes from chains built on its stack — a line that Robinhood Chain created in July and that has fallen 93% from its peak in the past 10 days.

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.





