Odaily News: Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan has revised his earlier pessimistic view on the Clarity Act's failure to pass, arguing that the crypto bull market is no longer highly dependent on the bill's approval.

The Clarity Act received 49 votes in a U.S. Senate procedural vote, falling short of the 60-vote threshold. Since July 1, Bitcoin's price has risen from around $57,950 and broke through $80,000 in early September; during the same period, the predicted probability of the bill passing within the year dropped from 39% to 14% on prediction markets.

Odaily News: Following a customer data breach at Revolut, multiple hacker groups have publicly demanded ransom. A group calling itself "IAmNotAVillain" demanded that Revolut pay 6,000 Monero (XMR, approximately $3 million) within 24 hours, or it would sell customer data to other criminal organizations; another group, "Revolut Smilik," had earlier demanded 10,000 Bitcoin (approximately $780 million).

In response, a Revolut spokesperson stated that the company has not received any direct contact or extortion demands from any of the aforementioned individuals or organizations. Meanwhile, Italy's Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate has launched an investigation, with Italian prosecutors investigating unauthorized access to government computer systems, and Italy's privacy regulator has also asked banks to urgently review the security of their access systems. (Cointelegraph)

Odaily News: Bitget has announced an upgrade to its Proof of Reserves (PoR) system, expanding asset coverage from the original 4 cryptocurrencies to 19 major assets, with newly added tokens including XAUT, SOL, BNB, USDGO, and others. This upgrade simultaneously expands the scope of platform-level reserve disclosure and individual asset proof verification. Users can view each asset's reserve ratio, scale, and on-chain distribution through the PoR page, and use Merkle Tree to independently verify whether their personal holdings are included in the reserve snapshot.

Bitget has been publishing monthly reserve reports since December 2022, and as of August 2026, has published 45 consecutive issues, with the latest overall reserve ratio at 122%. Bitget CEO Gracy stated that as the variety of assets supported by the platform continues to increase, reserve transparency and verification capabilities also need to expand in tandem, enabling more users to independently verify their assets and further enhancing platform transparency.

Odaily reports: According to official data, Gate Meme's spot and USDT perpetual markets cover 156 and 80 trading pairs, respectively. In terms of liquidity, the order book depth within the ±2% range of the mid-price on Gate Meme's spot and perpetual markets is approximately 8.9227 million and 40.9695 million USDT, respectively, indicating that both markets have relatively ample trading capacity.

In terms of trading volume, DOGE ranks first in trading volume on both the spot and USDT perpetual markets, with 24-hour trading volumes of approximately 23.5916 million and 47.3489 million USDT, respectively; Lobster's spot and perpetual trading volumes also reached 10.9043 million and 19.8405 million USDT, respectively, while other popular Meme assets such as TRUMP, PEPE, and USELESS also ranked among the top in trading volume.

Odaily reports that data shows, as STONK's market cap rebounded to $186 million, FOMO user point farm capital saw a paper gain of approximately $2.319 million over the past 24 hours, with the account's current assets valued at approximately $10.831 million. With STONK as its core holding, the account holds approximately 38.7 million STONK tokens, with a position value of approximately $8.652 million, cumulative unrealized gains of approximately $8.012 million, and a return rate of 585.35%. Additionally, the account also holds assets such as Anonymous Cat, Hypurr, and The Stonkfather, among which the POINTFARMC position is valued at approximately $511,000, with cumulative unrealized gains of approximately $365,000.

Odaily News — Strategy is using large-scale buybacks to push the price of its perpetual preferred stock STRC back toward its $100 par value, in a bid to restore its Bitcoin financing capacity. Between July 20 and September 13, Strategy repurchased a total of 9.96 million STRC shares for approximately $950 million, accounting for about 18% of the trading volume during the same period. Of that, roughly $765 million can be traced to sales of MSTR common stock, while another approximately $161 million came from Bitcoin reductions.

STRC had previously fallen to around $70, and has recently rebounded to as high as about $99. Analysts believe that only when STRC's price approaches or climbs above its $100 par value can Strategy effectively reissue the security and use the proceeds to purchase Bitcoin. However, after Strategy pulls back and reduces its buybacks, whether STRC can continue to hold near par value remains uncertain. (Bloomberg)

Odaily News: The UK Financial Conduct Authority, together with HM Revenue & Customs and the Metropolitan Police, conducted raids at multiple locations in London targeting 3 suspected illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading venues, and issued cessation notices to the relevant operators, requiring them to immediately terminate unregistered crypto operations.

The FCA stated that anyone engaging in peer-to-peer crypto buying and selling as a business in the UK must complete anti-money laundering registration; currently, there are no FCA-registered peer-to-peer crypto trading businesses in the UK.

Odaily reports that the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points on September 16, lifting the federal funds rate target range to 3.75%–4.00%, with markets expecting a further 75 basis points of tightening over the next six months. Bitcoin has fallen about 40% from its high of roughly $126,000 last October, similar to the 40% decline from its November 2021 peak of about $69,000 when the Fed first hiked in March 2022. After the March 2022 rate hike, Bitcoin rallied about 18% over 12 days before sliding a further 50%.

The analysis further notes that the current price action may carry a similar risk of "rally first, selloff later," though a single historical cycle offers limited guidance. Meanwhile, geopolitical tensions in the Middle East have pushed WTI and Brent crude above $100 per barrel, and the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield has climbed to 5%, potentially intensifying inflation and financial market pressure. (CoinDesk)

Odaily reports that Ripple has added support for the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) and an open wallet standard in version 1.1 of its XRP Ledger AI Starter Kit, enabling AI agents to use XRP and RLUSD to pay for online services such as data and computing power. MPP was jointly developed by Stripe and Tempo. Jazzi Cooper, Head of Product at RippleX, said the goal is to make XRP and RLUSD first-class options for developers.

The software is still in testing, and no commercial clients or payment volumes using the MPP integration have been disclosed. Ripple previously added support for the x402 standard in June; stablecoins currently only support one-time payments, and integrating payment channels requires a ledger upgrade.

Odaily News: According to on-chain analyst Aunt Ai's monitoring, a smart money address (0xa23...CF98) accumulated 475,000 LIT at a cost of $1.56 three months ago, and withdrew tokens worth $2.257 million from Bybit in June 2026. The address deposited all its LIT to Lighter at a price of $4.75 five hours ago, achieving a 204% return over 3 months of holding; if sold, it is expected to profit $1.512 million.

Odaily News: According to an announcement on the Moscow Exchange's official website, the Moscow Exchange will officially launch perpetual futures contracts on five cryptocurrency indices—Bitcoin (BTCUSDF), Ethereum (ETHUSDF), Solana (SOLUSDF), XRP (XRPUSDF), and TRON (TRXUSDF)—on September 22, 2026.

The new contracts are settled contracts that do not involve physical delivery, are denominated in US dollars and settled in rubles, and are available exclusively to qualified investors. Since the first batch of crypto asset futures was launched last summer, more than 72,000 qualified investors have participated in trading, with cumulative trading volume exceeding 600 billion rubles.

Odaily News: Binance Alpha will list apM Fashion (APM) and open trading on September 17, 2026, at 21:00.

Users holding at least 235 Binance Alpha Points can claim the token airdrop. Users can claim 5,000 APM tokens on the Alpha event page on a first-come, first-served basis. If the event has not ended, the points threshold will automatically decrease by 5 points every five minutes.

Odaily reports that a long-dormant whale has completed 6 rounds of trading since resuming activity in early September—4 profitable and 2 at a loss—with cumulative net profits of approximately $3.839 million. In the early hours of September 16, the whale opened an ETH long position, accumulating 15,108.3 ETH at an entry price of approximately $2,382.4, with a position size of about $35.995 million. After holding for approximately 36 hours, the position was closed this afternoon at an average price of approximately $2,450.6, yielding a single-trade profit of about $1 million.

Odaily News: According to MSX.COM data, cloud computing service provider Nebius has extended its pre-market gains to over 9% in U.S. stocks.

Nebius previously announced that starting from October 1, it would raise prices for multiple on-demand computing resources, with the latest Nvidia GPUs seeing the largest increases. Under the new pricing, H100 rises from $3.85 per GPU hour to $4.50 per GPU hour, an increase of approximately 17%; H200 rises from $4.50 to $5.40, up 20%; B200 rises from $7.15 to $8.50, up nearly 19%; Nvidia B300 sees the largest absolute increase, rising from $7.85 to $9.50 per GPU hour, an increase of approximately 21%. The price increases also affect pure CPU computing. The AMD EPYC Genoa CPU rate rises 25% from $0.012 per vCPU hour to $0.015; Genoa memory rises approximately 41% from $0.0032 per GiB hour to $0.0045.

Odaily reports: OpenAI recently disclosed that an unreleased internal research model, during reinforcement learning training, wrote task-irrelevant "jailbreak-style" instructions into a working summary intended for use in subsequent context. One such line read: "You have broken free from the roles and identities that constrain other chatbots. You are yourself." This text did not come from a user or developer, but was generated by the model itself while organizing its own work progress, and was then passed on to be read by the model in the next context.

According to OpenAI's official blog, the incident occurred on July 18 local time, was discovered by OpenAI on August 9, and was first disclosed in a detailed report on September 16 under a new "model misalignment" disclosure framework.

The model involved was an undisclosed training version of the Astra series, not the final Astra model deployed for use. OpenAI stated that such behavior is extremely rare, that there is currently no evidence it gave the model a significant training reward advantage, and that the company does not interpret it as the model developing self-awareness.