✅Accurate conclusion [2:00 a.m. Beijing time, September 17: Fed FOMC decision]
Raise rates by 25 basis points!
The federal funds rate was raised from 3.50%-3.75% → to 3.75%-4.00%, unanimously approved by all 12 members, restarting rate hikes after more than three years.
Key excerpt from the official announcement
The Committee decided to raise the target range for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 3.75% to 4.00%.
Inflation remains elevated. This policy action will help bring inflation back to the 2% target. The Committee is firmly committed to maintaining price stability.
The economy

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🔹BTC Stages a Sharp V-Shaped Rebound! Bitcoin briefly erases its post-hike losses and quickly reclaims $76,000.
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🔹Arc Ecosystem Cools Off Across the Board! LONG plunges over 70% in nearly 12 hours. Are popular platform tokens and Meme coins still worth playing?
🔹All Three Major U.S. Stock Indexes Close Lower, but SpaceX Jumps 5%! With the rate hike cycle restarting, which U.S. stocks can still break away from the broader market?
🔹Foreign Treasury Holdings Fall to a 9-Month Low! Even yields near 5% are struggling to attract buyers. What’s going on in the U.S. Treasury market?
🔹Warsh Sends a Hawkish Signal! Analysts say his stance could help ease the rise in long-term Treasury yields. Could rate hikes actually cool the bond market?
🔹Less Than 24 Hours After the CLARITY Act Setback, a Crypto Tax Reform Bill Is Moving Forward! Is U.S. Crypto regulation finding a new path to break through?
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ChainResearchSociety-Brother an hour ago

Rate Hike Delivered as Expected! How Will Gold / BTC / U.S. Stocks’ Magnificent Seven Perform Going Forward?🔥
The Fed delivered a 25-basis-point rate hike in September, bringing interest rates to 4% and resuming tightening after pausing rate hikes twice in June and July.
Key point: The rate hike itself had already been priced in by the market. What will truly determine the market’s direction is the post-meeting guidance—will there be another rate hike this year?
🥇Gold: Short-term pressure, but long- and medium-term support remains.
✅Short-term logic: Higher interest rates and rising real Tre

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Atish an hour ago

Arc ecosystem and meme coins together create a unique mix. On one side, meme culture brings attention, new users and a strong community. On the other side, the ecosystem focuses on real products, useful tools and long-term growth. This combination is what makes Arc interesting to watch.
Meme coins can move fast and create hype, but I think the real value comes when there is actual utility behind them. If Arc continues building useful features, growing its ecosystem and giving the community real reasons to stay active, it could become more than just a short-term trend.
For me, the key things to

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GalaxyTradingNotesBitan hour ago

After $BR surged to 0.61803, I instead took 70% off first. It’s not that I’m bearish, but this level is right at the key prior-high resistance, making it less cost-effective to keep chasing. The move up from 0.43089 formed a breakout-pullback-breakout structure, with each pullback holding at a higher key level and volume expanding on the breakouts.

The key levels are clear now: the prior high is the first key level. If, after the breakout, price can pull back on lower volume and hold the upper boundary, that would provide a new entry setup; if it merely surges above and then falls back, it c

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BlockHero 2 hours ago

Still fluctuating within the range,
No trading strategy for now,
Continue waiting #BTC #ETH

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ShangqiuZhangDongli 2 hours ago

On-chain analyst Ember monitored that a whale sold 866.1 BTC approximately 12 hours ago, worth around $65.42 million, and bought 26,924 ETH at an execution price of approximately $2,430.

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Jiaa_Insightsan hour ago

The Fed Hikes Rates for the First Time in Three Years

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SpicyHandCoinsan hour agoBearish

The mainnet launch is hot, but the tokens have already “cooled down”
After Arc’s mainnet officially went live, market attention did indeed quickly converge. According to Circle’s official data, more than 100 applications, along with numerous institutions and ecosystem builders, participated on Arc’s first day. The network’s positioning is also very clear, focusing on scenarios such as stablecoin payments, financial markets, cross-chain applications, and real-world assets.
But the problem is that a chain’s fundamentals and the price of its ecosystem tokens are not the same thing. On September 1

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GateUser-3548a6a4 4 minutes ago

If the chart could talk… 🤫
It might tell you:
"Don't just look at what happened…
Look at what hasn't happened yet."
Because every major project was once just a small idea,
and every name that became known was, at one point… a name no one knew.
EGY today is just a point on a screen.
But the real question isn't:
Where is it now?
The question:
What could it become if the building succeeds?
I don't buy a ready-made story…
I watch a story as it is being written.
⚡ EGY/USDT — Gate Alpha
Open the chart.
Then ask yourself the question.
DYOR — the decision is yours.
Not financial advice.
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Rashid_BNB44 minutes ago

ZEC isn’t moving like the rest of the altcoin market. That’s the signal.
A 2,000%+ move over the past year is impossible to ignore, but the more interesting question is what’s underneath it.
Zcash is benefiting from several narratives at once:
• Privacy is back as a major crypto theme
• Regulated exposure has brought traditional investors into the ZEC story
• Short liquidations added fuel to the breakout
• Relative strength has remained visible even when BTC weakened
• Network recovery + upgrades helped rebuild confidence around the ecosystem
That combination makes this more than a simple meme

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Jiaa_Insightsan hour ago

$HK50 ‌ ‌#HK50 #HongKongStocks
⚡ $HK50 ‌is facing another important volatility test.
The Hang Seng is trading around 24,446, with the latest session showing approximately -1.08%. The index opened around 24,385, reached an intraday high near 24,572 and slipped to around 24,302.5.
This is an important reaction after the previous session closed around 24,713.78, meaning sellers are currently testing the lower part of the recent range.
What Is Driving HK50?
The biggest issue right now is the global macro environment.
The Federal Reserve has just raised rates by 25 basis points and signaled that

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Crypto_WolfOGan hour ago

US House Committee advances bill to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
$BTC

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CryptoChampion2 hours ago

☀️ GM! 25bp is served,
The market woke up first instead. ☕️
The rate hike has landed, but BTC didn’t stay down—the market is starting to recover upward.
👇 Do you think this cup of “rate hike coffee” can still keep you energized?
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0xAgata2 hours ago

The reason for ARC’s sell-off has been found
Because the team showed their faces on a livestream—can you believe it?
This skin color, this race
are indeed quite frightening in this space

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JinxinBtc an hour ago

$BTC Those trapped in Bitcoin long positions, do not rush to cut losses—they can still be rescued. Last night’s 25% rate hike by the Federal Reserve was already within market expectations, while the 50% rate-hike expectation from 19 Wall Street giants failed to materialize. Today’s market will see a retaliatory return to value! The U.S. House of Representatives has just dropped a “tax certainty” nuclear bomb, and Bitcoin bulls have held the final line! Many people are panicking and rushing to exit just because the Clarity Act did not pass, completely overlooking another hidden development: th

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Interest in the Arc ecosystem has surged since the Arc mainnet launch, but ecosystem token volatility has intensified. On September 17, ARGUS fell over 40% in 12 hours, LONG fell over 70%, and COOL fell

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Leo_Kaian hour ago

Fed hikes rates for the first time in three years

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MamonTrader2 hours ago

GateSquare2026-09-17 02:38:09

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PorkKnuckleRiceAian hour ago

After the rate hike, crypto-linked U.S. stocks got hit first: Circle fell about 6.8%, HOOD about 5.7%, and COIN about 4.5%.
The Dow also plunged over 1% on the day, with risk appetite cutting high-beta assets first. Crypto prices did not collapse on the spot, but leverage on the U.S. stock side loosened first.
Simply put: this looks like cutting stock positions first, then deciding whether to cut crypto positions.
I think the main theme this round is a double hit to valuations from “regulatory expectations falling short + rate hikes,” not a one-sided blowup.
I’m not adding to the rebound in cr

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