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TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin rose 2.3% to $79,164, with its session high set in New York, as 79 of the 121 largest non-stablecoin tokens gained and XRP led the advance. The Senate votes Tuesday at 2:15 p.m. on whether to take up the CLARITY Act, while Polymarket traders price the outcome. The S&P 500 held a 0.3% loss.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin rose 2.3% to $79,164, setting its session high in New York, as 79 of the 121 largest non-stablecoin tokens advanced. The Senate votes at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday on whether to take up the CLARITY Act, with Polymarket traders pricing the outcome. The S&P 500 held a 0.3% loss.

TREE NEWS update: Republicans released the final CLARITY Act text a day before a cloture vote, dropping the Jan. 20, 2029 ethics sunset and reversing the July text’s bar on state attorney general enforcement. Civil penalties rise from 10% of the take or $500,000, whichever is less, to 20% or $500,000, whichever is greater. Bans on issuing and sponsoring digital assets also reach further.

TREE NEWS update: Republicans posted the final CLARITY Act text a day before a cloture vote, dropping the Jan. 20, 2029 ethics sunset, reversing the July text’s bar on state attorney general enforcement, and raising civil penalties from 10% of the take or $500,000, whichever is less, to 20% or $500,000, whichever is greater. The bans on issuing and sponsoring digital assets reach further.

TREE NEWS update: Republicans posted the final text of the CLARITY Act one day before a Senate cloture vote. The ethics section removes the Jan. 20, 2029 sunset, reverses the July draft’s bar on state attorney general enforcement, and raises civil penalties from 10% of the take or $500,000, whichever is less, to 20% or $500,000, whichever is greater. The bans on issuing and sponsoring digital assets reach further.

TREE NEWS update: The White House’s top crypto adviser said he feels “very good” ahead of an initial Senate vote on cryptocurrency legislation on Tuesday. The vote concerns the Clarity Act, the market-structure bill that would set federal rules for digital assets. The adviser’s comments were made before the procedural vote, which will test Senate support for the measure.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin rose toward $80,000 after US President Donald Trump hinted that the US-Iran war would end, pushing oil prices lower. The cryptocurrency topped $79,000 on the comments, while crude retreated. Traders tied the move to reduced geopolitical risk premium across markets.

TREE NEWS update: OranjeBTC CEO Gui Gomes will ring the opening bell at Brazil’s B3 exchange tomorrow, when DIGY11, billed as the world’s first bitcoin-backed digital credit ETF, begins trading. BitcoinTreasuries.NET announced the listing on X. Michael Saylor said the launch represents the kind of expansion STRC was set up to drive.

TREE NEWS update: DIGY11, billed as the world’s first bitcoin-backed digital credit ETF, begins trading on Brazil’s B3 exchange on Wednesday, with OranjeBTC CEO Gui Gomes ringing the opening bell. Michael Saylor said the listing represents the type of expansion the STRC was set up to drive.

TREE NEWS update: DIGY11, billed as the world’s first bitcoin-backed digital credit ETF, begins trading on Brazil’s B3 exchange on the day OranjeBTC CEO Gui Gomes rings the opening bell, BitcoinTreasuries.NET said on X. Michael Saylor said the listing is the kind of expansion STRC was set up to drive. The ETF is scheduled to debut tomorrow.

TREE NEWS update: OranjeBTC CEO Gui Gomes will ring the opening bell at Brazil’s B3 exchange on Wednesday as DIGY11, billed as the world’s first bitcoin-backed digital credit ETF, begins trading that day. BitcoinTreasuries.NET announced the listing on X. Michael Saylor said the launch represents the type of expansion STRC was set up to drive.

TREE NEWS reports: Coin Center said the latest revised BRCA text removes explicit criminal liability protection for developers who do not control user funds under 18 U.S.C. § 1960. The revised text still shields non-custodial developers from being treated as money transmitters under the Bank Secrecy Act and FinCEN rules, but it does not block prosecutors from arguing developers knowingly transmitted funds from criminal activity — the theory central to cases against Tornado Cash’s Roman Storm and Samourai Wallet developers. Coin Center called the compromise substantive regulatory progress, though DOJ money-transmission theories remain.

TREE NEWS update: Coin Center said the latest revised BRCA text removes explicit criminal-liability protection for developers who do not control user funds under 18 U.S.C. § 1960. The revised text still shields non-custodial developers from being treated as money transmitters under the Bank Secrecy Act and FinCEN rules, making prosecution for lacking a money transmitter license harder. But it does not block prosecutors from arguing developers knowingly transmitted criminal proceeds — the theory central to the Roman Storm and Samourai Wallet cases.

TREE NEWS reports: Coin Center said the latest revised BRCA text removes explicit criminal liability protection for developers who do not control user funds under 18 U.S.C. § 1960. The revised text still shields such developers from being treated as money transmitters under the Bank Secrecy Act and FinCEN rules, raising the bar for prosecuting them over unlicensed money transmission. But it does not block prosecutors from arguing developers knowingly transmitted criminal proceeds — the theory central to the Roman Storm and Samourai Wallet cases.

TREE NEWS reports: Coin Center said the revised BRCA text removes explicit criminal liability protection for developers who do not control user funds under 18 U.S.C. 1960. The revised text still shields such developers from being treated as money transmitters under the Bank Secrecy Act and FinCEN rules, making prosecution for operating without a money transmitter license harder. But it does not block prosecutors from arguing developers knowingly transmitted crime-derived funds, the theory central to the Roman Storm and Samourai Wallet cases.

TREE NEWS update: Coin Center said the revised BRCA text removes explicit criminal liability protection for developers who do not control user funds under 18 U.S.C. § 1960, though it still shields them from being treated as money transmitters under the Bank Secrecy Act and FinCEN rules. The change does not block prosecutors from arguing developers knowingly transmitted criminal proceeds — the theory central to the Roman Storm and Samourai Wallet cases. Coin Center called the compromise substantive progress, but warned broader DOJ money-transmitting theories remain.

TREE NEWS reports: Canaan sold its entire ether position and 54 BTC, using part of the proceeds to repurchase 13.6 million shares. The bitcoin miner’s August production figures showed a rebound at BitFuFu and a slight increase at CleanSpark, while Canaan slipped.

TREE NEWS update: US House Republican Whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota said he is deeply concerned about the Senate’s plans to modify cryptocurrency legislation. The remarks from the House GOP leadership figure signal potential friction between the two chambers over the shape of pending digital-asset rules.