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The FinancialCmte is pushing for the Senate to advance the CLARITY Act, highlighting its bipartisan support. Chairman @RepFrenchHill stated that the House passed the bill last summer with significant Democratic backing. The upcoming Senate vote on September 15 is crucial for shaping the regulatory framework for digital assets, emphasizing the need for consensus across party lines. Read more here. What Happened The Financial Services GOP has emphasized the importance of passing the CLARITY Act, which aims to provide a streamlined regulatory framework for digital assets. In a tweet, Chairman French Hill noted the House’s previous approval of the Act, which…

In a Sept. 3 developer update, Hyperliquid API Announcements said the onchain derivatives exchange was adding optional wallet allowlists to builder-run perpetual markets. The testnet-only extension, called HIP-3*, would let a market deployer decide which wallets may trade on its venue without imposing the same access policy across Hyperliquid. HIP-3 is Hyperliquid’s framework for perpetual markets deployed by independent builders. The current API reference says a new venue can be designated HIP-3* when it is created, enabling an onchain allowlist and proxied user actions. Hyperliquid described the feature as optional and strictly additive, with existing markets unchanged. The specification is…

Bitcoin’s mid-week price rally that drove it to a monthly peak of $67,000 came to a halt, and the asset dipped below $64,000 earlier today, erasing essentially all the gains it had recorded. Here are the two possible reasons behind this nosedive. ETF Investor Exodus At first, we begin with the spot exchange-traded funds tracking the largest cryptocurrency. They were on a seven-day roll that began last Tuesday and had attracted roughly $1 billion within that timeframe for the first time since April. However, investors changed their minds once again on Thursday, pulling out over $200 million worth of $BTC.…

Ethereum’s decentralized finance (DeFi) activity has now surpassed $250 million, according to a tweet by @haydenzadams. This surge underscores growing interest in Ethereum-based projects as the broader crypto market shows mixed signals. The increased DeFi activity could indicate a shift in trader sentiment, prompting a closer watch on Ethereum’s future developments and price action. Inside the Move The current price of Ethereum remains stable, but the volume figures are absent, suggesting that market interest is not translating into immediate trading activity. The tweet revealing the $250 million DeFi milestone reflects increasing participation in Ethereum’s ecosystem. This uptick comes amid broader…

Cathie Wood is using the latest growth-stock pullback to make a concentrated bet on two very different parts of the innovation trade. ARK Invest bought about $44.5 million of Rocket Lab and $37.4 million of Block, putting roughly $82 million into commercial space and fintech while simultaneously reducing positions in Palantir and AMD. The trades suggest more than opportunistic dip-buying: ARK is shifting capital toward companies with major execution catalysts still ahead. The Rocket Lab purchases totaled 705,102 shares across Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, according to ARK trading disclosures cited by Yahoo Finance. The buying came after RKLB had…

Perpetual-futures volumes still run at a multiple of spot across most major tokens, while funding, positioning and liquidations set the tone intraday, he said Over the past 12 to 18 months, however, attention has moved from infrastructure toward applications and appchains that fit more familiar fintech and venture-capital frameworks, De Maere said. Fundamentals are starting to carry more weight in areas including decentralized finance, perpetual-futures exchanges and decentralized physical infrastructure networks. “Fundamentals set the floor and the shortlist, while flows set the price,” De Maere said. Revenue and usage can determine which tokens survive drawdowns or make it onto allocator…

House Republicans’ decision to cancel the final two weeks of the September session could significantly delay consideration of the CLARITY Act, raising fresh concerns for the U.S. crypto industry. The House will now return to Washington on Sept. 14 for what is expected to be a four-day session before leaving the capital until after the midterm elections, according to Roll Call. The timing could create a major obstacle for the market structure bill. The Senate is scheduled to return from its August recess on Sept. 14 and is expected to hold an initial vote on the CLARITY Act on Sept.…

RWA perpetual futures remained one of the strong trends in the crypto market. For Q3 to date, the cumulative trading volume broke above the $2T milestone. RWA perpetual futures retained their active growth trend in Q3. Based on Cryptorank data, Q3 cumulative trading exceeded $2T, with the quarter still incomplete, up from $1.2T in Q2. Monthly trading volume surpassed $100M in June, while the sector reached peak activity in July. RWA perpetual futures trading kept expanding in Q3 to date, retaining robust daily volumes in September. | Source: DeFi Llama RWA perpetual futures trading started as a relatively niche sector,…

The total crypto market cap has shrunk by 1.18% in the past 24 hours. The Crypto Market Fear and Greed Index sat at a score of 34, signaling fear was still prevalent in the market. AMBCrypto reported that Bitcoin [$BTC] saw its longest streak of spot ETF inflows in nine months. It pointed to increased demand and a potential shift in sentiment, but the streak was broken. SoSoValue, the cryptocurrency research platform that aggregates macro market data, reported -$225.1 million in spot ETF net flows on Thursday, July 23. The escalation in U.S.-Iran tensions and higher Brent crude prices coincided…

LlamaRisk proposed reserve-cap and interest-rate changes for Aave V3 on Sept. 7, responding to utilization, liquidity and borrower data across six deployments. Its Risk Stewards update recommends raising $USDC, $GHO, wstETH and USD₮0 limits while reducing underused syrupUSDC, $USDe and syrupUSDT supply caps. The plan also lifts the $USDe base variable borrow rate by one percentage point on Aave V3 Core, Plasma, Monad, Mantle and Avalanche. LlamaRisk said it intends to implement the package through the Risk Steward process. That language makes this a dated risk-parameter action plan, not evidence that every proposed value was already active when the post…