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TREE NEWS update: Gemini co-founder Tyler Winklevoss said no Democratic senator voted in favor of the Clarity Act in a key US Senate vote, writing on X that “there is a lesson in that.” The final tally was 49 in favor to 50 against, with one senator not voting — well short of the 60-vote threshold needed to advance the bill, with a few Republicans also opposing.

TREE NEWS update: Cloudflare has made its “block AI training” setting available to all customers, letting sites refuse use of their content for AI model training while keeping search indexing intact. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Anthropic, Meta and OpenAI were certified as “responsible” crawler operators, required to offer training and AI-summary opt-outs and disclose URL-level indexing. Cloudflare said about 17% of sites already block some form of training, while fewer than 1% block search crawlers.

TREE NEWS update: A Lido governance forum proposal would authorize a conditional LDO centralized-exchange market-making program, drawing up to $1.5 million in recallable LDO inventory (capped at 7.5 million LDO) from the DAO treasury plus up to 480,000 USDC for fixed service fees and costs over up to 12 months. The authorization expires if unused within two years and would only be triggered if the Lido Growth Committee deems CEX liquidity insufficient. LDO’s 90-day average daily volume is about $34 million, down from $43.8 million and roughly $95.4 million in the prior and year-earlier periods.

TREE NEWS reports: Ether dropped below $2,400, trading at $2,399.99 per token, down 1.01% over the past 24 hours as of September 16. The move puts ETH just under the round-number level in intraday trading.

TREE NEWS update: US prosecutors have charged two former Robinhood engineers with trading Hyperliquid perpetuals ahead of Robinhood token listings, allegedly earning more than $50,000 each. The case concerns pre-listing crypto trades made using knowledge of the platform’s upcoming token additions.

TREE NEWS update: DeepSeek machine learning engineer Liu Shengyu published a viral essay on September 14 after delivering the main attention operator for DeepSeek V4.1. Liu, a Peking University Turing Class member who joined DeepSeek in April 2025, wrote that AI will match or surpass his hand-written operator work within six months to a year, forcing him to retrain as an AI agent operator rather than face unemployment. The essay topped Zhihu’s trending list.

TREE NEWS update: Solana lending protocol Kamino has appointed Yieldstreet co-founder Michael Weisz as CEO and set up headquarters in New York to push US market and institutional expansion. Weisz previously served over 500,000 individual investors at Yieldstreet and deployed more than $6 billion alongside institutions including Goldman Sachs, Carlyle, KKR, Ares, Fortress and StepStone. Kamino says it is Solana’s largest credit protocol, with over $650 billion in cumulative transaction volume and more than $20 billion in cumulative loans issued.

TREE NEWS update: Galaxy Space (Yinhe Hangtian) completed its first low-Earth-orbit satellite internet trial verification in Vientiane, Laos, at 23:14 Beijing time on September 15, 2026. The demonstration extends testing and application of China’s LEO broadband satellite internet in Southeast Asia. The company said it will deepen cooperation with Laos on satellite capabilities and services and expand technical and business exchanges with more overseas countries and regions.

TREE NEWS reports: US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $450 million in net outflows, the largest single-day withdrawal since June, as Bitcoin fell 2.5%. Fidelity and BlackRock funds led the redemptions. The move came as the CLARITY Act failed to advance in the Senate.

TREE NEWS update: China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has discovered a double neutron star system with the shortest orbital period and the lowest mass yet found. The detection was announced by Xinhua. No further details on the system’s orbital parameters or component masses were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: Analysts said the defeat of the Clarity Act is not a structural blow to crypto, as bitcoin and major crypto-linked stocks slipped. They told The Block the market will keep taking its direction from interest rates and the broader monetary environment. The Clarity Act is the crypto market-structure bill that failed to advance.

TREE NEWS update: The CLARITY Act retains a procedural path forward after Senator Thom Tillis moved to reconsider the failed cloture vote, leaving the crypto industry looking to US regulators. Industry executives are divided on whether Congress has enough time left to advance the bill. The vote’s failure marks a setback for the legislation’s supporters.

TREE NEWS update: The US Senate failed to advance the Clarity Act in a procedural cloture vote on September 15, with 49 in favor and 50 against. Senator John Kennedy said the defeat was not surprising but does not mean the bill is dead, suggesting work may wait until the lame-duck session. Senator Ted Cruz blamed Democrats, saying they were playing politics and pushing crypto jobs overseas.

TREE NEWS update: The US Senate rejected a procedural motion to advance the CLARITY Act in a 49-50 vote at 02:15 Beijing time on September 16, falling 11 votes short of the 60-vote threshold needed to end debate. No Democratic senator voted in favor, while Republicans Susan Collins, Josh Hawley, Jerry Moran and Thom Tillis voted against. Bitcoin briefly fell below $75,000 to $74,955.5 and Ether dropped below $2,400 to $2,358.1.

TREE NEWS update: The US Senate rejected a procedural motion on the CLARITY Act by 50 votes to 49, ten short of the 60-vote threshold, leaving cryptocurrency market regulation legislation stalled. Bitcoin fell sharply on the news. The vote came the same day the US Treasury auctioned $13 billion of 20-year bonds at a record-high 5.420% yield.

TREE NEWS reports: Nearly every major bank now expects the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates for the first time in three years. Markets have largely priced in the move, though the political fallout could extend beyond a single hike, with implications for Bitcoin, bonds and Trump.

TREE NEWS update: A procedural vote to advance the Clarity Act, landmark digital asset legislation, failed in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. The defeat leaves the crypto industry’s biggest regulatory push stalled. The failed motion means the bill will not move forward in the chamber as drafted.

TREE NEWS reports: Wintermute (0xecb…2b00) began taking profit on its short positions after the CLARITY Act failed to advance, cutting its short exposure from $102.1 million to $55.54 million, with unrealized gains rising from $928,000 to $2.28 million. Its ETH short fell from 15,330 ETH (about $38.47 million) to 7,810 ETH (about $18.72 million). Wintermute’s cumulative profit stands at $179.89 million.

TREE NEWS reports: A Bank for International Settlements study found that widely used crypto metrics can obscure underlying economic activity, with measurement challenges spanning Bitcoin, Ethereum and stablecoins. The paper identifies a major gap in onchain transfer estimates, suggesting commonly cited figures may misstate real activity across the three markets.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase-backed advocacy group Stand With Crypto will publish senators’ votes on its scorecards as it mobilizes crypto voters for November’s midterm elections. The group is warning of electoral payback for lawmakers after the Clarity Act failed to advance.