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Ethereum [$ETH] collapsed to a low of $2356 following the failure of the CLARITY Act in the US Senate. This drop, however, turned short-lived as the market responded positively after the Fed rate hike. As a result, Ethereum reclaimed $2.4k and touched $2444. With $ETH rebounding from a $2.3k slip, high net worth investors, especially whales, have started to accumulate. Ethereum whales continue to accumulate With $2.4k proving to be a strong support level, whales are buying the recent slip. AMBCrypto earlier reported that whales purchased $100 million worth of $ETH as the altcoin signaled a rebound. This accumulation spree…

Borrowers across the US have gained access to the crypto-backed mortgage offering introduced by Coinbase and Better Mortgage. The product pairs a standard conforming mortgage with a separate loan secured by pledged Bitcoin. Better originates and services both loans. In the meantime, Coinbase provides the infrastructure for holding the crypto collateral. Bitcoin as a down payment Borrowers pledge Bitcoin instead of putting up the entire down payment in cash. The arrangement does not involve margin calls triggered by normal market movements. For example, a borrower buying a $500,000 home could pledge $250,000 in Bitcoin to support a $100,000 down payment.…

Privacy as Crypto’s ‘Last Frontier’ On the afternoon of Aug.3, the privacy coin Zcash ($ZEC) jumped nearly 5% after gaining more than $20 during a six-hour rally. Market data shows the surge saw $ZEC recover from just over $470 recorded at 4:10 a.m. EST to a session high just short of $494 by mid-morning. Reclaiming the $490 threshold helped lift $ZEC’s market capitalization back above $8 billion and consolidate its status as the most valuable privacy coin. Data also shows the coin has risen nearly 8% since the beginning of the month, making it one of the market’s front-runners in…

The CLARITY Act could get another chance in Congress during the post-election lame-duck session despite failing to advance in the Senate this week, according to Digital Sovereignty Alliance managing director Adrian Wall. Wall said Wednesday that he has spoken directly with senators from both parties who are considering another attempt to advance the crypto market structure legislation before the current Congress ends. “There is an appetite to put this forward even during the lame duck period of Congress,” Wall said during Cointelegraph’s Chain Reaction show on X. “Is it easy? No. It’s going to be very complicated. It’s a long…

Arbitrum has launched a new feature allowing users to send and receive encrypted stablecoin payments through Stabletrust Pay. This development, shared by the CryptoTwitter commentator @arbitrum, underscores a commitment to enhancing user privacy on the platform. As decentralized finance continues to evolve, this feature positions Arbitrum as a player focused on privacy-centric solutions. What Happened The introduction of encrypted payment capabilities on Arbitrum One marks a significant step in enhancing user privacy. Users can now take advantage of Stabletrust Pay, allowing for secure transactions in stablecoins. This feature arrives amid a broader trend in the crypto market, where privacy solutions…

OpenAssets, a capital markets infrastructure provider focused on tokenization, has made its tokenization infrastructure available through AWS Marketplace. The new listing allows banks, asset managers, exchanges, and other institutions to deploy the OpenAssets operating system in their own Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments. The company says this approach lets institutions keep tokenization operations within infrastructure they already manage. Issuance, settlement, compliance, and asset servicing can all run inside the institution’s AWS account, without relying on a separate third-party platform. OpenAssets provides infrastructure for issuing and managing tokenized assets throughout their lifecycle. The system also includes compliance and transfer-agent tools, as…

Bitcoin ($BTC) is no longer a target for corporate treasuries as current buyers sit on unrealized losses, new research shows. Key points: Bitcoin corporate treasuries added just 5,900 $BTC over three months, a fraction of 2025 acquisition rates. Previous buyers remained in unrealized losses on their holdings, with their aggregate cost basis at $80,500. Analysis shows fresh investor capital inflows stalling this week. $BTC price action refuses to let Bitcoin treasuries break even Onchain analytics platform Glassnode reveals that in 2026, listed companies bought around 5,900 $BTC — less than 7% of their purchases in July 2025 alone. During that…

BlackRock is increasingly positioning itself as one of the largest Ethereum holding firms as recent data shows that it is rapidly expanding its Ethereum holdings. Recent data from Arkham Intelligence shows that the BlackRock spot Ethereum ETFs have bought over $1.5 billion worth of Ethereum over the past 20 days. BlackRock leads Ethereum ETFs Notably, the data shows that BlackRock has purchased about $1.27 billion worth of Ethereum through its ETHA fund following multiple days of consistent inflows. Meanwhile, its newer ETHB fund also recorded inflows of about $296.5 million worth of $ETH during the same period, signaling sustained demand…

Strategy, the Bitcoin treasury company formerly known as MicroStrategy, raised $2.0065 billion by selling common shares from Aug. 17 through Aug. 23 and bought no Bitcoin. The transaction left its $1.59 billion USD Cash balance at the center of a wider capital-allocation contest. The company sold 18,261,118 shares of MSTR, its common stock, then used $136.4 million to repurchase 1,431,212 shares of STRC, a variable-rate preferred stock. It transferred another $300 million to its separately designated USD Reserve. The remainder, $1.5701 billion, went into USD Cash, according to Strategy’s Aug. 24 filing. Strategy reported ending balances of $5.10 billion in…

The U.S. Senate blocked the advancement of the CLARITY Act with a 49–50 vote on September 15. The $XRP token posted a 7.95% decline over the past 24 hours, dropping to $1.29. The 2023 federal court ruling established that programmatic sales of $XRP on exchanges do not constitute securities. Ripple Chief Legal Officer Stuart Alderoty stated that the token’s legal foundations remain solid following the legislative deadlock of the CLARITY Act in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, September 15. The procedural vote required a 60-vote threshold to proceed to formal floor debate in the upper chamber. The final tally concluded…