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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the goal is to keep the United States the world’s crypto capital.

U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott’s office said Republicans had revised 126 parts of the Clarity Act for Democrats, but Democrats were again changing their conditions, Cointelegraph reported.

The Cardano Foundation has joined the Mastercard Crypto Partner Program. As part of the blockchain track, the foundation plans to work with Mastercard and other participating companies in payments and stablecoins on global money movement, B2B transactions and payments. Mastercard launched the program on March 11, 2026, with more than 85 partners. Key companies from the crypto and fintech industries, including Binance, Circle, Ripple, PayPal and Paxos, have participated since the outset.

TD Cowen sees a 60% chance that a Senate cloture vote on the CLARITY Act, which would determine whether the bill advances to floor debate, will fail, The Block reported. According to the report, the investment bank’s other scenarios include a 20% chance that the cloture vote passes while allowing Democrats to offer an alternative proposal in the form of an amendment, a 15% chance that debate on the bill is postponed until after the election, and a 5% chance that the bill passes before the election. TD Cowen said it is watching how Republicans respond to a Democratic alternative focused on ethics rules related to President Donald Trump’s family and added that the stance of centrist Democratic senators is another key variable. The firm said it is paying particularly close attention to Senator Mark Warner’s position.

Morgan Stanley’s spot Bitcoin ETF, MSBT, surpassed $600 million in net assets about five months after launch. As of Sept. 14, the fund’s net assets stood at $635 million and cumulative net inflows reached $538 million. Since listing on the New York Stock Exchange on April 8, MSBT has posted just one day of net outflows, a $5.26 million withdrawal on May 29, indicating relatively steady fund flows.

Whale trader and Taiwanese singer Jeffrey Huang, known as Machi Brother, has partially reduced high-leverage long positions in BTC and Ethereum. According to data from on-chain analytics platform Hyperbot, Huang is still holding a $59 million 25x ETH long position with an unrealized loss of $1.8 million and a $5 million 40x BTC long position with an unrealized loss of $110,000. Amid heightened market volatility, Huang posted total losses of $4.42 million today, including both realized and unrealized losses.

Major exchanges have seen $101 million worth of futures liquidated in the past hour. In the past 24 hours, $476 million worth of futures have been liquidated.

Major U.S. crypto- and blockchain-related stocks were posting sharp intraday losses today, according to BIT market data. Among the main names, Circle (CRCL) had the biggest drop at around 9%, followed by SharpLink (SBET) at 7.70%, Coinbase (COIN) at 7.41%, Gemini (GEMI) at 7.07%, Bitmine (BMNR) at 6.77%, and Bullish (BLSH) at 6.07%. MicroStrategy (MSTR) was also down 5.53%.

An anonymous wallet transferred 1,000 BTC to Coinbase, according to Whale Alert.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $76,000. BTC is trading at $75,993.49 on the Binance USDT market.

CoinEx, a crypto exchange with Chinese roots, announced it will suspend operations and begin a phased business shutdown on Sept. 15, while Binance CEO Richard Teng said exchanges will continue to emerge and disappear. Sharing the comment on X, Teng said the crypto market has already gone through multiple boom cycles and will see more in the future. During those periods, some exchanges will disappear voluntarily and others will be forced out, Teng said. Over the long term, Teng added, what matters is how much the industry raises its own standards for trust and transparency, and how users are treated not only during boom times but also when everything comes to an end.

Forward Industries, described by The Block as the largest corporate holder of Solana, has made a second takeover offer for fellow Solana treasury company SkyAI, formerly Sharp Technology, offering cash and stock worth $2.13 per share, a 50% premium to Friday’s close, according to The Block. The stock exchange ratio was cut to 0.306 FWDI from 0.367 FWDI in the first proposal in June. The Block said the revision reflects valuation changes between the two companies after SKYA shares rose 9% while FWDI shares jumped 42% following the initial offer.

The European Central Bank is recruiting e-commerce and mobile commerce merchants to join a 12-month digital euro pilot set to begin in the second half of next year, CoinDesk reported. According to CoinDesk, the pilot will test online and offline payments using a test alternative currency that resembles the digital euro but is not legal tender, ahead of a formal launch in 2029. The outlet said the ECB’s merchant recruitment carries significance beyond a simple technical test, as consumers will need a sufficient number of participating merchants to use the digital euro. CoinDesk added the project’s success is likely to depend on broad merchant adoption and low payment fees.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said on social media today that senators face a choice between backing the CLARITY Act or allowing other countries to lead the future of finance. Armstrong said a vote in favor would promote innovation, protect consumers, impose new ethical limits on public officials, and provide new enforcement tools to combat illicit finance.

Polymarket’s implied odds of the CLARITY Act winning legislative approval this year fell sharply to around 18% from 35% ahead of a procedural vote in the U.S. Senate, as prospects for passage of the crypto market structure bill deteriorated.

Kazakhstan central bank Governor Timur Suleimenov announced plans to establish a national cryptocurrency analytics center to monitor crypto transactions through the central bank’s SupTech supervisory technology platform. The center will analyze data covering fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-crypto transactions, as well as customers, wallets and transaction details. It will also be linked to the National Bank’s anti-fraud center, while banks, law enforcement agencies and licensed crypto service providers are expected to be able to use its verification tools. Kazakhstan’s annual cryptocurrency trading volume is known to be about $10.6 billion.

Ripple has signed a multiyear sports partnership with Louisville Athletics and will introduce XRP branding at the Louisville basketball teams’ home arena starting in the 2026-27 season. Under the deal, the XRP logo will be prominently displayed at Denny Crum Court inside the KFC Yum! Center, with additional exposure on signage during men’s and women’s basketball broadcasts and across social media. Ripple will also sponsor financial and technology education programs covering traditional finance and digital assets for student-athletes and the broader University of Louisville campus. As part of a broader push by crypto companies into college sports marketing, Ripple plans to use the partnership to raise mainstream brand awareness and expand its infrastructure footprint.

Independent lawmaker Han Dong-hoon urged a delay to virtual asset taxation, questioning whether authorities should rush to begin what Han described as a cowardly form of taxation, News1 reported. In a Facebook post on Sept. 15, Han said the virtual asset tax whose delay Han had helped secure while serving as People Power Party leader is now imminent. Han said much has happened over the past two years, but criticism that authorities are still unprepared for taxation remains valid. Han added that if income earned without labor is treated as unearned income, there is no reason real estate taxation should differ from stock taxation, and no reason income from South Korean stocks should be treated differently from income from U.S. stocks or crypto assets.

U.S. Senate Republicans rejected a Democratic amendment proposal for negotiations on the Clarity Act, a crypto market structure bill, Punchbowl reported. Meanwhile, the U.S. Senate is set to hold a cloture vote on the Clarity Act at 6:15 p.m. UTC on Sept. 15 to decide whether to move the bill to floor debate. With Republicans holding 53 seats, the party needs support from at least seven Democratic senators to secure the 60 votes required for approval.

The three major U.S. stock indices opened lower today. - S&P 500: -0.08% - Nasdaq: -0.14% - Dow Jones: -0.29%

Bitcoin accumulation firm Strive (Nasdaq: ASST) announced on Sept. 15 that it has hired Bitcoin analyst and YouTuber Adam Livingston as vice president of investments, according to its official X account. Livingston is set to build a structured Bitcoin research function at Strive. Strive CEO Matt Cole said Adam has the potential to become a standout talent in financial analysis.

Crypto AI platform Olas plans to launch a service on Robinhood Chain that would let AI agents execute DeFi trading and operations, Crypto Briefing reported. According to the outlet, Olas’ AI agents can automatically carry out token trades and use DeFi protocols on behalf of users, while also trading directly with other agents.

The White House Council of Economic Advisers said banning stablecoin rewards, including interest and yield payments, would have only a limited effect on protecting bank lending while reducing income opportunities for stablecoin holders. According to the White House website, the base-case scenario showed bank lending rising by $2.1 billion, or 0.02%, while lending at small banks with less than $10 billion in assets would increase by $500 million, or 0.026%. Even under a scenario that maximized the banking sector’s concerns over deposit outflows, lending would rise by $531 billion, or 4.4%. The estimate assumed the stablecoin market grows to around six times its current size relative to deposits and that reserve assets are held entirely in cash that cannot be used for lending. The CEA also released a web tool that lets users change assumptions and review the results.

CoinShares said the average pre-tax cash cost of mining one BTC for major publicly listed Bitcoin miners rose to about $75,500 in the second quarter this year. That was above Bitcoin’s $58,400 price at the end of the quarter, meaning the group’s average cash cost moved above the token’s price and below the cash break-even point. CoinShares added that hash price, a monthly average mining profitability gauge, fell to a record low of $27.7 per PH/s per day in June. As miners’ profitability continued to deteriorate, some companies scaled back operations or exited mining, while Core Scientific paid $41.9 million to cancel a contract to buy next-generation mining equipment, according to the analysis.

South Korea’s finance minister nominee Lee Hyoung-il said the impact of taxing virtual assets from next year is unlikely to be as large as some expect, Edaily reported. At a parliamentary hearing held late today, Lee made the remarks after People Power Party lawmaker Kim Sang-hoon raised the need for a two-year delay in virtual asset taxation. Lee said additional review was possible, but the implementation timing had already been pushed back to 2027 after National Assembly discussions in 2024. Lee added it would be good for the subcommittee to discuss the matter as well. Lee also said statistics show 85% of investors hold less than 5 million won in assets. Even if investors cannot prove the acquisition price, 50% of gains can be recognized as necessary expenses, making taxable amounts likely to remain around 2.5 million won. Given the basic deduction of 2.5 million won, Lee said most investors would face either no tax burden or only a minimal one.