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TREE NEWS reports: BitMine (BMNR) shares fell as much as 10.08% intraday and were trading at $23.19. The decline marks a sharp single-session drop for the crypto-linked equity.

TREE NEWS update: The US Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act in a procedural vote, leaving the crypto oversight bill’s future uncertain. The vote’s failure comes after months of negotiations over crypto oversight and ethics provisions. No new timeline for the legislation was given.

TREE NEWS update: The US Senate vote on the Clarity Act has failed to clear a procedural hurdle, with voting still underway. Bitcoin briefly fell from above $77,000 to below $76,000, extending its decline to 4.3%.

TREE NEWS reports: Circle (CRCL) shares fell 10.23% intraday on September 16, trading at $87.39. The move marks a sharp single-session decline for the stablecoin issuer’s stock. No reason for the drop was given in the market data cited.

TREE NEWS update: Ethena founder Guy Young said the Ethena Pay app is expected to start opening in the US, UK and Europe within weeks, with card partners often setting the pace of the rollout. Young added that the US is not among his priority markets for the app.

TREE NEWS reports: A Bank of England policy maker said digital dollars could expand access to the US currency while turning stablecoin issuers into larger buyers of US government debt. The remarks tie stablecoin growth to both greater dollar dominance and increased demand for Treasuries.

TREE NEWS update: The U.S. Department of Justice charged two former Robinhood engineers with front-running the brokerage’s crypto listing announcements, prosecutors said. Between 2025 and 2026, the two took positions in tokens on Hyperliquid ahead of Robinhood’s public listing announcements.

TREE NEWS update: Two Robinhood employees have been charged with fraud after allegedly trading Hyperliquid perpetual futures ahead of the company’s announced token listings, earning more than $50,000 each. The pair are accused of using non-public information about upcoming listings to take positions on the decentralized derivatives venue before the announcements moved prices.

TREE NEWS update: Wyoming Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis said the Clarity Act is at a ‘now or never’ moment, stating the final text concedes more than 120 Democratic demands, including sweeping new ethics rules. The Senate holds a make-or-break cloture vote on the bill Tuesday afternoon.

TREE NEWS update: Binance has added 11 US-listed exchange-traded funds to its wealth management offering, expanding its traditional finance products. The ETFs focus on US Treasurys and investment-grade bonds. The crypto exchange said the move broadens the range of TradFi instruments available to its users.

TREE NEWS update: US prosecutors are seeking the forfeiture of about $61 million in cryptocurrency linked to an alleged Iranian oil scheme, saying two Chinese companies used Binance accounts to launder oil proceeds that benefited Iran’s government and military. The action names the two companies as the alleged operators of the accounts.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin dropped 3% to $76,000 as market expectations for the US CLARITY Act to pass this year cooled. The decline reflects fading confidence that the crypto market-structure bill will clear Congress within the current session.

TREE NEWS update: Thatch raised $108 million at a valuation of $1 billion, the company said. The round values the firm at $1 billion. No further details on investors or the use of proceeds were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: The U.S. House will mark up a proposal this week that would overhaul federal tax treatment of digital assets, including a long-sought ‘de minimis’ tax break for crypto. The measure still requires approval from Congress before it can become law. No vote date or final text has been confirmed.

TREE NEWS reports: An MEV bot identified as Yoink front-ran an exploit on Ethereum, diverting 2,882.37 rsETH worth roughly $7.8 million to a single address after its transaction beat the original attack into the same block. The bot captured the funds by paying to land ahead of the attacker in the block ordering.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin fell to $75,600, its lowest level since September, as global bond yields hit multidecade highs and pressured risk assets. The decline came amid market nerves ahead of the US Senate’s CLARITY Act vote. Surging bond yields weighed broadly on risk markets as traders awaited the crypto regulatory vote.

TREE NEWS update: Solana lending protocol Kamino has named Michael Weisz as CEO to lead its US and institutional expansion. The protocol holds $1.35 billion in total value locked and $1.02 billion in active loans. The appointment signals Kamino’s push into institutional lending markets on Solana.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin fell below $76,000 on Tuesday as Polymarket traders cut the odds of the CLARITY Act becoming law this year to 12.5%, down from 29.5% on Monday afternoon, hours before a Senate cloture vote scheduled for 2:15 p.m. Ninety-five of the 124 largest non-stablecoin tokens declined as the Federal Reserve opened a two-day meeting.

TREE NEWS reports: Listed bitcoin miners’ weighted average pre-tax cash cost of production was about $75,500 per coin in Q2 2026, above the roughly $58,400 BTC price at quarter-end, pushing the sector below cash break-even. Hash price fell to a record low of $27.7 per PH/s per day in June. All-in costs varied widely, from about $76,529 at ABTC to $353,168 at CIFR, and several miners have shut down hashrate or shifted to AI and high-performance computing.

TREE NEWS update: CoinEx will close its exchange on its ninth anniversary, with withdrawals ending Dec. 22. Arkham attributes $422.7 million across 3.2 million addresses to CoinEx, while the exchange’s reserve page shows no current audit rows.