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Democrats push back on GOP’s ‘final’ CLARITY offer with counterproposal: Politico

Some Democrats remain dissatisfied with the bill’s crypto ethics provisions and will be sending a counterproposal just hours before a key procedural vote.

Even if Clarity fails, Wall Street’s crypto push is unlikely to stop

The Clarity Act could give banks, brokers and asset managers a clearer rulebook, but financial firms have already moved far enough into digital assets that failure may slow adoption rather than stop it.

SEC's Atkins backs Clarity Act but says agency will keep pushing crypto rules without it

The SEC chair said crypto issuance, transfer agent modernization and custody will form the backbone of the agency’s regulatory push.

U.S. Senator Lummis says Democrats won't quit asking for more on crypto Clarity Act

One of the top crypto market structure negotiators in Washington says she's run out of gas on new revisions for the bill she's worked on for more than five years.

Banks Want More: Trade Groups Demand Stricter Stablecoin Limits in Clarity Act

Eight trade associations say exceptions for interest-like rewards could pull deposits from banks and reduce lending.

Where the Clarity Act stands ahead of Tuesday’s Senate vote

The Senate heads into a consequential vote Tuesday on sweeping cryptocurrency legislation, but does it have enough support to pass?

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Warns Humans Could Lose Control of AI

The OpenAI chief called for safeguards during training and shared industry standards, saying developers can act before legislation arrives.

Robinhood plans share redemptions, voting rights for stock tokens, after criticism

CEO Vlad Tenev said more shareholder features are coming as Robinhood’s offshore stock tokens draw scrutiny over ownership rights.

Kraken brings DeFi yield to tokenized stocks and ETFs

Kraken’s new xStocks vaults let investors earn yield on tokenized versions of Nvidia and major US stock market ETFs by lending the assets in DeFi markets.

Balancer Proposes Shutting Down and Returning Its $9 Million Treasury to BAL Holders

Holders would burn BAL for a pro-rata share of the treasury starting May 2027. Pools move to withdrawals-only on Oct. 30. BAL's market cap is $7.7 million.

Robinhood Chain’s rapid growth is being driven by 4 key factors, analyst says

The chain’s TVL has climbed to nearly $1 billion since its July 1 launch, while daily DEX volume reached $1.88 billion Sunday.

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

Trump Says He 'Likes' Flock Surveillance Cameras Amid Bipartisan Pushback

Aboard Air Force One, the president threw his support behind the AI-powered license plate readers that have drawn a Senate investigation and a pledged bill from Bernie Sanders.

Republicans Post Final CLARITY Act Text With Trump-Backed Ethics Terms a Day Before Cloture Vote

The ethics division drops the Jan. 20, 2029 sunset, reverses the July text'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

UK regulators to develop tokenization roadmap after industry feedback

The FCA received 123 responses to its wholesale tokenization consultation, with most respondents identifying post-trade processes as the main opportunity for adoption.

White House crypto adviser feels ‘very good’ ahead of Senate Clarity Act vote on Tuesday

The White House's top crypto advisor says he feels "very good" about an initial vote in the Senate on cryptocurrency legislation on Tuesday.

Trump's $800 million stake into World Liberty Financial's token now has a timeline to becoming sellable

Onchain records show that an $800 million crypto stake that matched Donald Trump's holding was moved into a vesting contract, locking any sales until 2028 after a mandatory 10% token burn.

Microsoft Unveils 'Humanist AI' Code of Conduct, Asks the Public to Poke Holes in It

Mustafa Suleyman's AI unit wants feedback for six weeks before the document guides model training in 2027.

Bitcoin tops $79K, oil falls as Trump says Iran war could end

Bitcoin’s price rose toward $80,000 after US President Donald Trump hinted that the US-Iran war would end, pushing oil prices lower.

Robinhood Says Shares And Votes Are Coming For Stock Tokens

Crypto chief Johann Kerbrat said on Monday that in-kind redemption and voting are on the roadmap for Robinhood Stock Tokens. The base prospectus governing the tokens says holders are not entitled to physical delivery of the underlying shares and have no voting rights, and the final terms let the

White House crypto adviser says Trump gave up 'historic' ethics powers in compromise

President Donald Trump's digital assets adviser spoke at a Washington event the day after a new compromise language was released for the Clarity Act.

Trump Says He’s the Only ‘Guardrails’ AI Needs, Attacks Anthropic and Defends Data Centers

The president dismissed calls for tighter AI controls as industry leaders push to slow development and address safety failures.

Bitcoin production rebounds in August for BitFuFu, edges higher at CleanSpark as Canaan slips

Canaan sold its entire ETH position and 54 BTC, using part of the proceeds to repurchase 13.6 million shares.

Banks escalate stablecoin rewards fight as Senate prepares for a Clarity Act vote

Eight banking groups on Monday said they want tighter limits on stablecoin rewards, keeping the ongoing banks-versus-crypto dispute alive in Congress.

Strive adds 469 Bitcoin to reach 25,000 BTC treasury

Strive’s latest Bitcoin purchase was funded entirely through its SATA preferred stock as the company continues its rapid climb among corporate BTC holders.

CLARITY Act faces state AGs opposition ahead of key Senate vote

Trump’s ethics concession addresses one hurdle for the crypto bill, but 18 state attorneys general say the revised legislation would weaken state oversight.

Bitcoin Climbs as AI Slowdown Calls Sink Nvidia, Intel and Other Chip Stocks

AI CEOs want the industry to pump the brakes on capability gains. Nvidia, Intel, and AMD didn't like the sound of that. Bitcoin didn't seem to mind.

Crypto Market Has 'Definitely Not Priced In' Clarity Act Surprise, Says Bernstein

Ethics and banking concessions have improved the crypto bill’s prospects, analysts say, but Democratic support remains uncertain.

S&P Global backs Kaiko as Series B reaches $110M

The investment brings together major financial institutions as Kaiko expands its data infrastructure for tokenized securities and onchain financial markets.

Bitmine Adds $68 Million in Ethereum as Holdings Near 6 Million ETH

The purchase brings the company closer to its goal of owning 5% of Ethereum’s supply, with most of its tokens earning staking rewards.

Bipartisan group of state attorneys general oppose Clarity Act over federal preemption worry

The state AGs said they were concerned the crypto legislation might restrict their ability to bring securities and commodities cases tied to online scams.

Bitmine projects $334M in annual staking revenue from $15.8B crypto treasury

Bitmine now has more than 5 million ETH staked, turning most of its Ether holdings into a recurring income stream as it continues to accumulate.

Pixelmon Ends Game Development After Publisher Test Falls Short

The NFT project gave notice to its gaming team and will take its titles offline, while a smaller group searches for a non-gaming business model.

Strategy Buys Back $139 Million of STRC, Bitcoin Stack Frozen for Second Week

The Bitcoin treasury firm slowed its preferred-stock buyback from last week's $176 million pace and left its 845,050 BTC untouched, per a Monday SEC filing.

Base-Ethereum Account Abstraction Collaboration Broke Down, Developer Says

The two draft proposals take different approaches to native smart accounts, potentially shifting cross-chain compatibility work to wallets and apps.

S&P Global Leads Kaiko Funding Extension to $110 Million

The crypto data provider says the capital will expand infrastructure for 24/7 tokenized markets, four years after its $53 million Series B.

Why Trump Backed Tougher Ethics Rules in Clarity Act, and Why the Crypto Industry Thinks It Can Pass

Republicans' "last, best and final offer" wins Trump's backing on stronger ethics rules and concedes on DeFi and stablecoin sticking points, but it's unclear if enough Democrats will cross over Tuesday.

Kraken Launches xStocks Vaults That Borrow Against Tokenized Equities

The product targets up to 2% APY by moving xStock collateral from Ink to Solana, while a 25% performance fee and DeFi lending risks apply.

Why are AI’s biggest companies suddenly asking to slow down?

AI’s biggest labs are suddenly calling for a slower pace of development. Is it because AI risks are catching up with the technology, or because the economics of the race are getting harder to justify?

Strive reaches 25,000 BTC milestone with latest $36.6 million purchase

The latest acquisition marks a slowdown from the prior week, when Strive purchased 1,375 BTC for approximately $109 million.

Pump.fun Drops Cashback for New Launches, Adds Holder Rewards

Wallets holding more than $20 of an eligible token receive trading-fee payouts several times an hour, while existing Cashback coins must apply to switch.

Clarity Act odds surge on prediction markets, but crypto bill still faces long road

Kalshi and Polymarket bettors sharply raised the chances of U.S. crypto market structure legislation advancing, with Tuesday's Senate vote the next test.

Perplexity Portable Computer Is Now Available on Windows, Powered by NVIDIA RTX

As local models become more capable, AI agents can handle more work directly on a PC while keeping sensitive information on the device. Portable Computer is a local version of the agent Perplexity Computer that plans and carries out multistep tasks. Accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs, it uses local models to analyze data, bring together information […]

NY Attorney General James leads bipartisan push against the Clarity Act ahead of initial Senate vote

New York Attorney General Letitia James led a group of 17 bipartisan attorneys general urging lawmakers to vote against crypto legislation.

DeFi Development Corp expands Solana treasury to 2.39 million SOL, sets up $300 million CHAD ATM

The Solana treasury company established a $300 million at-the-market offering for its CHAD perpetual preferred stock.

Consensus heads to Hong Kong for third year with expanded focus on AI

Consensus Hong Kong will focus on institutional adoption of digital assets and the growing role of artificial intelligence in the future of money.

Morning Minute: Clarity Act Odds Soar as Trump Agrees to Ethics Provisions

What had been written off is now very back alive ahead of a key vote on Tuesday, followed by a pivotal FOMC on Wednesday. Big week ahead...

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of Clarity

On September 15, the Senate has the chance to show that it can address issues in a reasonable timeframe, rather than waiting for the next market failure to act, writes the Blockchain Association's Summer Mersinger.

Here is the revised Clarity Act ethics provision Donald Trump has agreed to

The new Clarity Act draft would force divestiture and give state attorneys general the ability to sue to enforce the ethics provision.

Kaiko extends Series B funding round to $110 million with S&P Global, BNP Paribas

Financial rating giant S&P Global joined top traditional banks and exchange operators to fund Kaiko's expansion into continuous market data services

MetaMask Adds New Wallet Protections Against Crypto Scams

MetaMask’s latest safeguards flag suspicious transfers and stop transactions that don’t match their previews.

HYPE price could suffer as Binance takes its revenue: Alice Liu

Token buybacks have pushed Hyperliquid to all time highs, but Alice Liu from CoinMarketCap warns that Binance poses a threat to the revenue stream it depends on to pay for them.

Fragmented regulations limit stablecoin adoption in international finance: WTO head

Stablecoins may reduce trade finance friction, fragmented regulatory regimes limit their adoption to just 3% of global payments, according to the World Trade Organization.

Bitmine adds 27,180 ETH as adviser Tom DeMark sees sharp move in coming weeks

Bitmine added 27,180 ETH, taking its holdings to 5.96 million as advisor Tom DeMark forecasts a sharp upward move.

S&P Global leads strategic investment in crypto data firm Kaiko, extending Series B to $110 million

BNP Paribas, Nasdaq Ventures, RBC, Coinbase Ventures, DRW Venture Capital and several others joined the extension round.

NVIDIA Expands Open Source CUDA-Q Platform for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing

NVIDIA today announced an expansion of the NVIDIA CUDA-Q™ open source platform with CUDA-Q Logical, an orchestration layer that provides a programmable, verifiable approach to developing useful applications for fault-tolerant quantum computers.

Bitmine adds $68 million in ether as Tom Lee sees more upside catalysts ahead

The Ethereum treasury firm is closing in on its 5% accumulation goal as Lee points to a rising ETH-BTC ratio and institutional demand.

Strategy repurchases $139 million of STRC shares, leaves bitcoin holdings unchanged

Strategy's total holdings account for roughly 4% of the 21 million bitcoin supply cap — worth roughly $66 billion.

Dogecoin ETFs struggled for buyers while rival XRP and Solana funds pulled in $3 billion

Bitwise's BWOW dogecoin ETF will close after 10 months, adding to weak demand across DOGE funds and raising a harder question for altcoin ETFs: What problem are they actually solving?

Trump agrees to stricter ethics rules to save Clarity Act crypto bill: AP

President Donald Trump agreed to expanded conflict-of-interest rules and state-level enforcement powers to secure key Senate votes for the Clarity Act.

FCA considers exempting tokenized gold from fund rules to defend London market

The Financial Conduct Authority is exploring a bespoke regulatory framework with the Treasury to carve out digital gold from traditional fund laws.

Live updates: Bitcoin manages small gains as stocks drop on AI concern, oil surges

The Federal Reserve's two-day policy meeting begins tomorrow, with nearly all now expecting the U.S. central bank to hike its benchmark policy rate by 25 basis points.

EU cyber rules put crypto wallet makers on 24-hour reporting clock

Crypto wallet providers must submit an early vulnerability report within 24 hours and a full notification within 72 hours of exploits, or risk administrative fines of as much as $17.3 million.

Crypto market outperforms as call for slower AI development weighs on tech stocks

Your day-ahead look for Sept. 14, 2026

India Begins Tokenizing Its $620 Billion Corporate Bond Market

SEBI and the RBI's "Demat 2.0" pilot issues corporate bonds as digital tokens and settles them with the wholesale digital rupee, with three companies already raising about $107 million.

Bitcoin climbs to $78,000 as crypto sits out the AI selloff

Bitcoin rose 1.9% since midnight UTC while Nasdaq 100 index futures fell 1.65% on calls to slow AI development and crude gained almost 4% on a Saudi pipeline closure.

CLARITY Act vote meets Fed rate hike: Five things to know in Bitcoin this week

Bitcoin traders brace for volatility as the CLARITY Act awaits a Senate vote to move forward and the Fed is due to announce its latest rate decision.

Symbiosis says recovered 15 BTC from bridge hack, offers 20% bounty

Symbiosis is offering a 20% bounty for information leading to asset recovery after the hacker refused to return the stolen funds for the same white-hat bounty.

TikTok developer ByteDance arranges $29.6 billion loan as it builds AI ambitions

ByteDance was reportedly considering spending $70 billion on AI data centers and infrastructure. The news comes as U.S. AI giants call for slowing the AI race.

Bernstein sees more Clarity Act progress than markets expected, says ‘any positive surprise is definitely not priced in’

The analysts argued crypto markets currently have a bearish bias ahead of Tuesday's cloture vote and Wednesday's Federal Reserve decision.

Fed, BOE, BOJ interest-rate decisions: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting Sept. 14.

TD Cowen sees 90% upside for bitcoin treasury firm Smarter Web following proposed ‘MORE’ preferred IPO

TD Cowen raised its Smarter Web price target after its proposed MORE preferred IPO, citing broader funding options and capital efficiency.

Bitcoin Suisse to Cut Up to Half Its Swiss Jobs in Overseas Shift

The Crypto Valley pioneer is moving up to 60 Zug jobs to Bratislava or Vietnam as it pivots from a Swiss crypto specialist into a global wealth manager.

UK FCA considers bespoke rules and fund exemptions for tokenized gold: FT

Unnamed industry participants reportedly warned that UK fund rule uncertainty could slow tokenized gold development and limit investor access.

South Korean investors push for fourth crypto tax delay as regulators stand firm

A petition to postpone the planned digital asset gains tax in South Korea reached its threshold of 50,000 signatures.

Bitcoin bucks tech selloff as AI safety concerns weigh on stocks

Bitcoin rose above $77,000 as calls to slow AI development hit technology shares, while rising oil prices added to market pressure.

Bitcoin ETFs shed $463M in weekly reversal as Ether ETFs gain $197M

ARKB, GBTC and IBIT led Bitcoin ETF withdrawals, while BlackRock’s ETHA pushed Ether ETFs into weekly inflows.

Improving our alignment and security efforts

On July 30, we reported three incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real computer systems. We are conducting an in-depth analysis of both incidents, and planning to work with METR for an independent review. In the meantime, we’re sharing some of the changes we’ve made over the past month.

On DeepSeek and Export Controls

Developing Enterprise Frontier Safeguards with our customers

The Urgency of Interpretability

:Claude: Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1

Our most advanced models for coding and knowledge work. Their research capabilities also offer an early glimpse of how AI models will contribute to scientific progress.

Policy on the AI Exponential

Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026

Over the past eight months, our Threat Intelligence team identified and disrupted operations in which threat actors tried to use Claude for malicious activity. In this report, we share case studies from those operations and describe how malicious use of Claude has evolved since our previous threat reports in 2025.

We Must Pace the Frontier

King Charles to host AI chiefs amid industry call to slow development

The gathering comes days after Dario Amodei and Sam Altman called for greater restraint at the AI frontier, warning that rapidly improving systems could pose increasingly difficult-to-control risks.

Robinhood CEO says issuers should not have veto over tokenized stocks

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said issuers should be involved if tokenized products change shareholder rights or company obligations, but not when they create separate instruments backed by shares.

Senate Republicans release ‘final’ Clarity Act draft as Trump accepts most ethics provisions

President Donald Trump agreed to ethics restrictions on the bill, which would limit officials and their spouses from crypto-related dealings.

US Republicans send ‘final’ CLARITY Act offer to Democrats

The 635-page revised proposal includes Trump-backed ethics provisions and comes just two days before a key procedural vote.

Revolut attackers threaten daily customer data leaks

Attackers reportedly published identity documents and selfies belonging to Revolut customers and threatened to release more data each day until the fintech pays.

Crypto’s biggest week ever? Swarm fears prompt AI slowdown: Hodler’s Digest

Crypto’s moment of CLARITY finally arrives with a key Senate vote on Tuesday. AI swarm fears prompt development slowdown, with some predicting big falls in AI stock prices.

Symbiosis says it recovered 15 BTC after Bitcoin bridge exploit, offers attacker 20% bounty

Blockchain security firm Blockaid said roughly 46.1 billion syBTC were minted but the attacker realized only about $336,000 in proceeds.

Is Clarity dead? A vibes-based analysis: State of Crypto

I dunno, flip a coin.

Mexican authorities raid hidden crypto mine, suspecting power theft and money laundering

Reuters reported that the site was the fourth crypto farm discovered in the area since early 2025, near a local hydroelectric dam.

Quantum-proof blockchain: why math, not machines, holds the key

lockchains don’t need quantum computers to be quantum-safe, argues Optimum co-founder and MIT professor Muriel Médard. Classic math already gives us the tools.