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According to Citi in its latest market strategy program on September 23, the U.S. Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act into formal consideration, yet Bitcoin maintained strength. The setback suggests market participants are shifting focus away from single legislative milestones toward regulatory rule implementation. Citi noted that while the failed procedural vote will limit the CFTC's near-term supervisory expansion, the SEC can still advance rule proposals using existing authority. Market

According to BlockBeats, on Sept 23, gold prices declined due to US dollar strength and hawkish Federal Reserve rhetoric intensifying expectations for monetary tightening. The dollar rose to a two-month high, making gold more expensive for investors holding other currencies. Gold remained in a narrow trading range between $4,300 and $4,400, with Fed officials' statements on interest rates and the dollar impact providing key direction for near-term traders.

As of 8:30 p.m. Beijing time on September 23, WTI crude oil futures rose 0.08%, while U.S. natural gas futures climbed 3.07%.

B. Riley Securities reiterated its buy rating on bitcoin treasury company Strategy, raising its price target to $195. The investment bank cited SEC's innovation exemption for tokenized securities as a key recent catalyst.

According to the China Maritime Bureau website on Sept 23, Lianyungang Maritime Safety Administration issued a navigational warning. From Sept 24 to Oct 23, military activities will be conducted in parts of the south Yellow Sea between 5:00 and 18:30 daily, prohibiting vessel entry.

German 2-year government bond yields rose more than 5 basis points today, reaching 3.2581% as eurozone debt securities continued to climb.

According to China Central Television (CCTV), since July, Chinese police have dismantled a transnational ethnic asset liquidation fraud ring operating online schemes targeting elderly residents. The operation resulted in 101 arrests domestically and involved international law enforcement cooperation with Laos, Singapore, and Cambodia, bringing the total to 256 suspects apprehended across four countries. The criminal network created fake national projects and fraudulent apps to solicit victims, w

According to Jin10, on September 23 afternoon, Premier Li Qiang met with Kyrgyzstan's Prime Minister Kassemaliyev in Hangzhou during the Fifth Global Digital Trade Expo. Li stated that China is willing to strengthen strategic alignment with Kyrgyzstan, advance high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, boost bilateral trade and investment, and enhance interconnectivity. China aims to import more quality goods from Kyrgyzstan and encourage Chinese enterprises to invest there, while expanding collabo

According to Greeks.live analyst Adam, Bitcoin rose $10,000 in 4 days, with implied volatility remaining at 35%.

According to Futures Daily, on Sept 23 evening, European stock markets fell sharply while U.S. stock futures followed suit. In the bond market, the yield spread between 2-year and 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds narrowed to approximately 22 basis points, down from nearly 75 basis points in February. U.K. and German government bond yields continued to rise, alongside gains across most European sovereign debt.

According to @SolanaFloor, Solana's weekly volume for tokenized commodities reached $87 million last week, with the network's market share surging to 30% across all chains within seven weeks, up from 5% previously. Raydium facilitated 70% of the total volume in tokenized commodities on the network.

According to Russian outlet Kommersant, Syria's transitional government led by Ahmad Shara is considering cross-border military operations against Hezbollah in neighboring Lebanon, according to two Arab diplomatic sources on September 22. The Damascus-based interim government has long-standing grievances with Hezbollah, accusing the organization of operating underground cells within Syrian territory and conducting weapons smuggling.

According to Motley Fool analyst Trevor Jennewine, Sandisk surged 695% last year to become the S&P 500's best-performing stock. Historical data from the past decade shows that prior-year top performers typically continue gaining strongly, with a median return of 91% in the following year, compared to the S&P 500's median annual return of 18%. However, Jennewine cautions that Sandisk's gains were driven primarily by cyclical NAND flash memory shortages amid AI infrastructure demand, rather than s

According to Citigroup's index, stock analysts turned net-pessimistic on U.S. corporate earnings for the first time in 23 weeks this week, with downgrade calls exceeding upgrade calls for the first time since September 2021. The shift ends the longest earnings upgrade cycle in over five years. Morgan Stanley strategist Michael Wilson warned earlier this week that the S&P 500 could face a decline of up to 7% if valuations continue falling and energy prices rise further, prompting monetary policy

The British pound declined 0.5% against the U.S. dollar to 1.3273 on September 23, marking its lowest level since July 1.

According to ChainCatcher, Forward Industries, a Nasdaq-listed Solana treasury company, announced it will raise $25 million by issuing 3.125 million shares at $8 per share, with completion expected on September 24. The company plans to deploy the net proceeds to purchase additional SOL and increase SOL holdings per fully diluted share.

According to a joint advisory from seven agencies published on September 18, a North Korean cyber group known as WaterPlum or Contagious Interview drained approximately $10.71 million (¥1.7 billion) from over 7,000 cryptocurrency wallets by impersonating recruiters to compromise developers. The operation targeted IT professionals, crypto specialists and blockchain workers across more than 100 countries between December 2025 and July 2026. The group infected at least 30,000 devices during the cam

OpenAI has hired Patreon co-founder and CTO Sam Yam to lead Creator Product, along with former product lead Drew Rowny and engineering lead Shannon Ma. Yam stated the team will build tools together with creators and open early access, while directing attention to next week's OpenAI DevDay. The move signals OpenAI's expansion into creator monetization services.

Qwen released Qwen Intelligence today, launching three mobile agents to expand personal AI services to a broader user base. The Mobile Planner Agent, one of the agents, is designed to plan and orchestrate complex tasks and completed testing on the MobilePA-Bench benchmark. The company simultaneously opened the benchmark suite for developers.

According to Glassnode, Bitcoin's current bear market cycle has deviated from the traditional four-year cycle pattern, with deep corrections becoming less likely. The on-chain analytics firm noted that BTC has only declined approximately 30% from its all-time high, compared to past cycles where corrections exceeded double that level. The previous three cycles showed similar timing for reaching cycle lows, but the current cycle remains several weeks away from that point. Meanwhile, BTC price is c