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The US Senate votes at approximately 2:15pm ET on September 15, 2026 on a cloture motion to advance H.R.3633, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, which would decide regulatory oversight of tokens such as XRP in the spot market. The procedural vote requires 60 senators to invoke cloture on the moti

Ripple unlocked 1 billion XRP worth approximately $1.38 billion on Sept. 1 through three transactions of 500 million, 400 million, and 100 million XRP. XRP traded near $1.38 when the tokens were released and reached approximately $1.42 five days later. The price stability occurred because Ripple

U.S. spot XRP exchange-traded funds added $5.1 million on Sept. 10, extending their inflow streak even as Bitcoin ETFs recorded their third consecutive day of outflows, losing approximately $282.6 million. The divergence reflects sustained institutional demand for XRP despite the token's recent cons

Bitcoin traders observed signs of a potential market shift as CryptoQuant reported the cryptocurrency moving toward a neutral state with indications of a possible uptrend. The observation comes as Bitcoin's price fluctuates around the $64,000 to $65,000 resistance range, where sellers have

Japan's Nikkei 225 index closed down 8.89 points (0.01%) at 63,484.10 on the trading day, while the TOPIX index fell 21.05 points (0.52%) to 4,037.16, as competing forces of easing concerns over artificial intelligence development slowdown and surging US Treasury yields left both indices

Strive bought 469 Bitcoin between Sept. 8 and Sept. 11 at an average price of $77,954, spending $36.6 million and bringing its total holdings to 25,000 BTC, according to a Form 8-K filed Sept. 14. The purchase was funded entirely through the company's Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Preferred

The Bank of England (BOE) is pursuing a plan to completely halt the sale of 20-year and 30-year government bonds (gilts) from its quantitative tightening (QT) portfolio to calm bond market turmoil and soaring borrowing costs, according to a report on the 15th (local time) by UK daily The

The US Department of Justice is seeking forfeiture of more than $61 million in Tether's USDT stablecoin, alleging the funds originated from black-market sales of sanctioned Iranian oil intended to finance Iran's government and military, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. On Monday, the

South Korea's Joint Response Team for Stock Price Manipulation Eradication raided KOSDAQ-listed drug development company ABL Bio on the 15th over allegations of insider trading related to large-scale technology transfer contracts. Approximately 10 employees are suspected of purchasing Korean

Nineteen interconnected Polymarket accounts won 41 of 42 bets tied to earnings of companies audited by KPMG, blockchain analytics firm Bubblemaps identified. The Wall Street Journal reported the findings on September 11. The accounts collectively earned approximately $22,000 from wagers

Solana raised its maximum transaction size from 1,232 bytes to 4,096 bytes on Tuesday at the start of epoch 1,035 around 1:00 am UTC, according to blockchain data shared by the Solana Foundation. The upgrade allows developers to fit more complex operations into a single transaction, including zero-k

The UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported on the 15th that the unemployment rate for May-July stood at 4.9%, slightly below the market forecast of 5.0%. The figure remained unchanged from the previous quarter but rose 0.2 percentage points compared to the same period last year. The

The United Arab Emirates Central Bank's one-year grace period for businesses to comply with Federal Decree-Law No. 6 of 2025 ends on September 16, placing financial and technology companies under a licensing and enforcement regime that can impose administrative fines of up to AED 1 billion ($272

Apple released Siri AI, a rebuilt virtual assistant powered by Apple Foundation Models developed with Google's Gemini, across iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27. The assistant leverages deep personal context understanding to execute complex multi-step queries and introduces

Korea's Fair Trade Commission stated that proposed ownership restrictions on digital asset exchanges do not conflict with the Fair Trade Act, according to materials submitted to the National Assembly Research Service on the 15th via Democratic Party lawmaker Park Min-gyu's office. The commission

Tesla CEO Elon Musk declined to rule out merging Tesla and SpaceX at the All-In Summit, calling the question of why the companies remain separate a 'great question' and pointing to their 'close collaboration' across multiple areas. Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX (SPCX) stocks edged 0.2% and 0.1% higher

South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) Governor Lee Chan-jin will hold a breakfast meeting with major financial holding company chairmen on the 23rd. The meeting comes immediately after Lee publicly criticized CEO succession procedures at financial holding companies, stating that most

The US Department of Defense estimated Iran war costs at approximately $33.4 billion as of June 29, according to an inspector general report submitted to Congress on local time. The report tracked war expenditures through late June, documenting extensive damage to military assets and facilities

European Central Bank Vice President Boris Vuilleche warned on September 15 (local time) that artificial intelligence-driven stock markets are vulnerable to corrections. Speaking on the ECB podcast 'Euro Matters', Vuilleche cited unprecedented price-to-earnings ratios and forward PER levels as