The CLARITY Act Fallout Dominates Digital Assets Thoughts of the Week

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  Unsurprisingly, digital asset insiders were focused on the CLARITY Act this week. Not completely, however. Read on to find some interesting takes on several other topics. The CLARITY Act “The nation’s banks continue to support creating a strong, durable regulatory framework for digital assets… Read More

 

 




Nansen Sees Bitcoin at $90,000

Bitcoin has caught a bid, trading around $86,000 after jumping over 6% today. Analysts at Nansen expect Bitcoin to move even higher in the coming days. According to Nicolai Sondergaard, Senior Research Analyst at Nansen, there is room for another leg higher as under-positioned traders… Read More

Ex- PayPal and Intuit CEO Introduces Evergreen.ai for Personal Finance and Money Management

Former PayPal and Intuit chief executive Bill Harris has rolled out Evergreen.ai, a consumer-facing application that uses artificial intelligence to deliver financial planning guidance built around a user’s actual accounts, goals, and tax situation. The product is now in public beta and is being positioned… Read More

Kalshi Rejects Wash Trading Allegations as Ether Perp Volume-to-OI Ratio Hits 174x

Kalshi, the CFTC-regulated prediction-market platform, is facing public accusations that its crypto perpetual-futures activity is inflated. The claims originated with Beni, a former quant and co-founder of Stealth Neolab, who published a detailed thread on X after a heated exchange with Kalshi’s crypto product lead…. Read More

What? No CLARITY? Bitcoin Rockets Higher, Crypto Adjacent Firms Join Rally

Bitcoin bulls are celebrating today as the world’s most popular crypto moves higher. Currently, $BTC is up by over 5%, topping $85,000 for the first time since last January. Last week, the CLARITY Act, crypto market infrastructure legislation, failed in the Senate on a cloture… Read More

Data and Security Breaches in France Lead to Surge in Fake Crypto Support Calls : Analysis

French data breaches have coincided with a noticeable increase in phone-based cryptocurrency fraud, according to entrepreneur Owen Simonin, better known as Hasheur. The founder and chief executive of the French platform Meria says he has received multiple reports in recent days of callers posing as… Read More

$433M Bitcoin ETF Surge from Friday Leaves Funds with Slim $6.2M Weekly Inflow

US spot bitcoin exchange-traded products (ETPs) closed the week of September 14–18, 2026, barely in positive territory after a late surge in demand. Data compiled by SoSoValue showed that investors allocated $433 million to these listed bitcoin funds on Friday, September 18, 2026. That single session… Read More

UK Fintech Sprive Completes Funding Round for Mortgage Overpayment App

UK mortgage overpayment app Sprive has completed a £5.5 million funding round as it seeks to help more homeowners cut interest costs and finish their loans sooner. The London company described itself as the United Kingdom’s independent mortgage overpayment app. The round was led by… Read More

Standard Chartered Begins Arbitrum (ARB) Coverage, Forecasts $10 Target on Rising Revenue

Standard Chartered (LON: STAN) has opened formal research coverage of Arbitrum with a long-dated bullish call on its ARB token. In a note issued on 15 September 2026, the bank said ARB could reach $10 by the end of 2030. The token was then trading… Read More

Latvian Fintech Platforms Draw 800,000 investors, €13bn in Investments

Eight Latvian-regulated Fintech platforms have facilitated more than €13 billion in investments and serve more than 800,000 foreign investors, with German investors accounting for about 30% of demand, Latvia’s investment agency said. The figures were disclosed during a Latvian trade mission to Berlin, where fintech… Read More

Ant International Says Merchants Using AI for Payment Integration Quadrupled

The number of merchants using artificial intelligence to integrate payment services with Ant International has quadrupled over the past year, as the fintech company expands AI into payments, foreign exchange, treasury, and credit operations. Ant International said it expects 95% of merchants to be able… Read More



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    Vietnam, Austria Focus on Crypto Oversight Ties Ahead of 2026 Licenses

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    Vietnam and Austria are deepening practical cooperation on financial-market supervision, with digital assets at the center of the conversation. On September 15 in Vienna, Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Finance Nguyen Duc Chi met Mariana Kühnel, the newly appointed executive director of Austria’s Financial Market Authority… Read More

    Grab’s $1.49B Purchase Tops Last Week’s Fintech Raises and Acquisitions

    Grab nabs majority Atome share for $1.49B The consumer finance play helps Grab access Atome’s lending and BNPL presence in Southeast Asia. Kaiko extends $110M Series B Kaiko provides data services for on-chain finance. The extension was led by S&P Global and included participation from… Read More

    BitMEX Co-founder Arthur Hayes Calls the CLARITY Act Irrelevant as Bitcoin (BTC) Price Reclaims $81,000 After Fed Hike

    Arthur Hayes, the BitMEX co-founder who now leads Flop Labs and serves as chief investment officer at Maelstrom, used Bitcoin’s rebound above $81,000 to argue that Washington’s latest market-structure bill was never the real catalyst. In his telling, crypto did not need the Digital Asset… Read More

    Grayscale Schedules 3-for-1 Split for Zcash ETF to Lower Share Price

    Grayscale Investments has announced plans for a three-for-one forward share split of its Zcash exchange-traded fund, a move intended to lower the trading price of each share while leaving the overall value of any investor’s position unchanged. The product, which trades on NYSE Arca under… Read More

    Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan Says CLARITY Act Setback Unlikely to End Bitcoin and Crypto Bull Run

    Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan now argues that the Senate’s failure to advance the CLARITY Act is unlikely to halt the cryptocurrency rally that began in early July. In a September 16 memo, he recast the legislative setback as a temporary obstacle rather than… Read More

    Robinhood Chain Fees Plunge Nearly 100% while Transactions Hold Near All-Time Highs

    Robinhood Chain’s fee boom has unwound far faster than its traffic. After a memecoin-led spike made the young Ethereum layer-2 one of the costliest networks to use, daily gas revenue has collapsed while transaction counts and trading flows have stayed close to their recent peaks…. Read More

    BSP-led ASEAN+3 Talks Focus on Cross-Border Payments, Regional Crisis Financing

    Philippine and regional financial authorities are looking to strengthen cross-border payment cooperation and regional emergency financing as ASEAN+3 economies work to improve their resilience to future financial shocks. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), the Philippines’ Department of Finance, Japan’s Ministry of Finance, and the… Read More

    Kalshi Files with SEC and CFTC to List US Single-Stock Perpetual Futures

    KalshiEX has asked US regulators for permission to list perpetual futures tied to individual American stocks, placing the prediction-markets firm in the same race as Coinbase to bring a crypto-style derivative into traditional equities. On September 18, 2026, KalshiEX filed a proposed rule change with… Read More

    Poland’s State Energy Group Orlen Lost Hundreds of Millions on Failed Stablecoin USDT Oil Trade

    Poland’s state-controlled energy group Orlen is facing one of its costliest trading setbacks after a late-2023 attempt to secure cheap Venezuelan crude unraveled. The arrangement, handled through its Swiss trading arm, Orlen Trading Switzerland, was meant to lock in about six million barrels of heavy… Read More

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