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BLOCKCHAIN • CRYPTOCURRENCY • NARRATIVE JOURNALISM
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Two major cryptocurrency bills cleared House committees this week, pushing forward a legislative agenda that Washington's crypto advocates have been lobbying for months, even as a parallel effort in the Senate hit a wall.
The Senate killed the CLARITY Act's path to a floor vote on September 15, 2026, after every Democrat who cast a ballot voted no, leaving the digital-commodity market-structure bill 11 votes short of the 60 needed to advance.
Circle announced the Arc mainnet on September 16, 2026, describing the network as an open Layer 1 built for real-time money movement, financial markets infrastructure and what it calls "agentic economic activity. " Transaction fees on Arc are paid in USDC.
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