- Bitcoin rose to $77,821.09 today, lifting total crypto market cap up 1.3%.
- Senate CLARITY Act faces cloture vote as Democrats prepare counterproposal.
- Blockstream refuses ransom, wants remaining 598.5 BTC returned by hacker.
The global crypto market cap rose 1.3% to $2.75 trillion over the past 24 hours. Bitcoin traded at $77,821.09, up 1.1% on the day. Ethereum changed hands at $2,501.90, up 0.8% in 24 hours but roughly flat on the week at 0.3%.
BNB rose 0.3% to $721.15, down 2.8% weekly. XRP jumped 5.4% to $1.42, up 1.4% over the week. Solana gained 1.9% to $101.49, down 2.3% over seven days. Zcash surged 7.8% to $1,142.71.
Trending Searches
Pons led trending searches, up 19.9% to $0.6189. Anonymous Cat followed, up 19.2% to $0.1028, and Zcash rose 6.4% to $1,143.37. Among top gainers, Zclassic surged 63.1% to $1.9126, while TokenOS AI and Infinity Ground both climbed 103.6%, to $0.01805 and $0.1401 respectively.
CLARITY Act Faces Senate Test
The Senate scheduled a cloture vote on the CLARITY Act for Tuesday at 2:15 PM ET, requiring 60 votes to advance to full floor debate. Senate Democrats met in Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s office and are preparing a counterproposal, despite Republicans calling their latest revision a “last, best, and final offer.”
Senator Mark Warner said Democrats “engaging in good faith” are sending a counterproposal, with some members still unsatisfied by the bill’s crypto ethics provisions.
Senator Cynthia Lummis said the current text already reflects 114 individual concessions to Democrats and expressed uncertainty about whether Tuesday’s vote will secure the needed 60 votes.
SEC Chair Paul Atkins urged Congress to advance the bill but said the agency’s crypto agenda, including its three-pillar “Project Crypto” framework, will continue regardless of the outcome.
Liquid Network Ransom Standoff Continues
Blockstream reiterated it will not pay a ransom to recover the roughly 598.5 BTC still held by the Liquid Network attacker, worth approximately $47.3 million, calling the refusal to return assets a criminal act rather than responsible disclosure.
The company said it will pursue law enforcement, exchanges, and on-chain forensics teams to trace the funds and the parties responsible if they are not returned voluntarily.
Corporate Treasury Moves
KULR sold its final 764 Bitcoin between August 20 and September 11 at an average price of approximately $76,633, netting about $58.6 million and bringing its holdings to zero, completing its exit from the Bitcoin reserve and mining strategy.
Strategy did not add Bitcoin last week and its dollar reserves fell $140 million to $6.4 billion, though it repurchased $139 million in STRC preferred shares. Strive added 469 Bitcoin for $36.6 million at an average cost of $77,954, funded entirely through SATA issuance, bringing its total holdings to 25,000 BTC.
Bitmine added 27,180 ETH over the past week, bringing holdings to roughly 5.9564 million ETH, with combined crypto, cash, and securities assets totaling $15.8 billion. Canaan Inc. disclosed it sold its entire 3,952 ETH holding at an average price near $2,400 and 54 BTC at roughly $79,000, using part of the proceeds to repurchase shares.
Institutional and Regulatory Developments
The U.S. House Financial Services Committee is scheduled to consider the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve bill, H.R. 8957, on September 16, which would formally establish a reserve within the Treasury Department.
U.S. prosecutors in the Southern District of New York sought forfeiture of approximately $61 million in cryptocurrency tied to black market Iranian oil sales. Anthropic launched a Claude product for financial advisors, integrating with Charles Schwab, BlackRock, Addepar, and Orion.
Related: Lummis Says Trump Accepts Ethics Curbs to Help Seal CLARITY Act Deal
Security Findings
DEX aggregator 0x reported that after analyzing 84,163 Uniswap v4 Hooks across six chains, only 19.4% were classified as safe, while 54.2% showed malicious behavior and 26.4% were suspected malicious, with some trades settling at prices up to 50% below the quote.
Revolut-linked hackers began publicly releasing customer data, including passport images and Bitcoin transaction records, threatening further leaks unless paid.
Whale Activity
Abraxas Capital held over $980 million in short positions on Hyperliquid, including 168,549 ETH worth $423.7 million and 2,771 BTC worth $214 million. Two wallets dormant for over a year deposited a combined 14,700 ETH, worth $36.94 million, into OKX over nine hours.
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