Crypto News Today: Bitcoin Holds $76,000 After Fed Hike and CLARITY Act Collapse
The CLARITY Act died in the Senate, the Fed hiked for the first time since 2023, and Zcash ripped anyway. Here is the full crypto market update.
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The CLARITY Act died in the Senate, the Fed hiked for the first time since 2023, and Zcash ripped anyway. Here is the full crypto market update.

Bitcoin held near $75,000 to $76,000 after the Fed's 25-basis-point rate hike, with officials signaling more increases may follow this year.

Bitcoin trades near $76,588 after the CLARITY Act stalled in the Senate and the Fed hiked rates. Key levels, scenarios, and an early-stage BTC L2 play.

Rising Treasury yields are prompting a shift away from risk assets like bitcoin ETFs, impacting market dynamics and investor strategies. BlackRock's IBIT sees $144M in net outflows as bitcoin ETFs drop.

Validators on Solana are charging traders up to ,000 a month for early access to pending transaction data — and a new investigation says the practice runs

Bitcoin didn't flinch much. The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points, pushing its target range to 3.75%–4.

Gold's 'structural' demand could challenge crypto ahead of the FOMC.
On September 18 at around 05:01 UTC, Solana moves from 300 to 250 milliseconds per slot at the boundary into epoch 1037. Epochs get shorter, rewards arrive more often, and a signed transaction stays valid for only about 38 seconds.

Conner Brown, Executive Director at the Bitcoin Policy Institute, welcomed the House Financial Services Committee's advancement of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Bill on Wednesday. ‘Strategic National Asset' Brown described the passage as a “genuinely historic step” for Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) policy as it marked the first federal committee approval of legislation authorizing a secure storage facility for the U.S. government's BTC holdings.

Client estimates already disagree, while daily key rotation could weaken the public traces used to detect concentrated risk.

XRP whales moved early as 85 new millionaire wallets appeared before the dramatic August breakout.
XRP was trading around $1.30 on Thursday after a volatile week that saw leveraged traders repeatedly forced out as the Federal Reserve returned to rate hikes after two major shocks hit the market at once. XRP rebounded 1.2% on September 16 to close near $1.30, after swinging between an intraday low of about $1.25 and a high above $1.31. It has since stabilised around $1.30, but remains about 10% lower over seven days. The Fed raised rates by 25 basis points to 3.75%–4% on Wednesday, its first increase since 2023, while saying inflation remains elevated. The Senate's failure to advance the CLARITY Act added a second shock.

Failed cloture delayed a statutory framework while existing XRP access remained intact and post-vote fund demand stayed unmeasured.

Bitcoin held steady after the Fed's rate increase, but projections for another hike and no cuts in 2027 could pressure crypto.

Bitcoin is down over the past week after traders had bet that the central bank would hike interest rates.