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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde personally intervened to block Binance from securing a crypto exchange license in Greece, a move that would have given the world's largest crypto exchange a foothold for EU-wide regulated operations.

According to unconfirmed reports, Hougan described the Senate's failure to advance the CLARITY Act as a temporary obstacle, not a final defeat. The framing matters: a "speed bump" implies the road ahead is still open, just slower.

Coinbase has filed to list more than 50 single-stock perpetual futures contracts in the United States, a move that would give American traders access to a derivatives product type that has largely existed offshore.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed a new rulemaking targeting crypto asset transactions, a procedural move that signals the agency is pressing forward with formal regulatory requirements for the digital asset space even as congressional crypto legislation remains stalled.

JPMorgan is making a bold conditional call: bitcoin could attract stronger demand than gold, but only if the hedging activity tied to spot bitcoin ETFs begins to ease.

Ducat Protocol has announced an integration with the TRON network, giving users of its Bitcoin-backed dollar token a path to settle in TRC-20 USDT and access a dedicated stablecoin liquidity pool.

BlackRock has reportedly deposited 54,096 ETH and 2,015 BTC to Coinbase Prime in a transfer being linked to the asset manager's crypto ETF operations, according to Crypto Briefing. The scale of the movement has drawn immediate attention from on-chain watchers tracking institutional flows.

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.

S. spot Bitcoin ETFs suffered their worst single session since June on Tuesday, recording $450.