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U.S. President Donald Trump said the war with Iran is nearing a major turning point and a decision is needed on whether to resume large-scale military operations to end the conflict, according to Axios.

Bloomberg Senior ETF Analyst Eric Balchunas said spot Bitcoin ETFs’ assets under management are likely to grow to around three times the size of gold ETFs over the long term. Speaking on Bitcoin Magazine TV, Balchunas said younger investors are expected to accumulate more wealth over time and increasingly adopt Bitcoin as a store of value. According to CoinMarketCap, BTC was trading at $76,599.92, up 1.12%.

Coinbase said it has partnered with banking infrastructure firm Stablecore to help U.S. regional and community banks, as well as credit unions, offer digital asset services through their existing banking platforms. The two companies expect the partnership to enable more than 3,000 banks and credit unions to provide digital asset trading, custody and stablecoin payment services. Brian Armstrong, Coinbase CEO, said, "미래에는 모든 은행이 디지털 자산을 활용할 것이다. 이같은 추세를 가속화할 시간이다".

Circle has deployed $649 million worth of USDC and $7 million worth of EURC on its Arc mainnet, Crypto Briefing reported. USDC is used to pay gas fees on the Arc mainnet. Circle had also completed the issuance of 10 billion ARC tokens alongside the Arc mainnet launch, but said a public token launch and specific use cases have not yet been decided.

Crypto market sentiment has cooled to near-neutral levels after the Clarity Act failed to advance in the Senate and the Federal Reserve raised interest rates, according to on-chain analytics platform Santiment. Santiment said extreme FOMO spread across the crypto market on Sept. 14, when traders increased positions on expectations the Clarity Act would pass in a market-friendly direction, rapidly fueling bullish sentiment. Santiment added that regardless of the eventual outcome, the optimism and overheated mood dominating the market were themselves a warning sign. After the Senate failed to move the Clarity Act forward on Sept. 15, investors who bought amid the FOMO were hit by declines, Santiment said. The platform added that another risk-off factor emerged on Sept. 16 when the Fed raised its benchmark rate. Following those events, market sentiment is now close to neutral, with a healthier environment for taking on additional risk than earlier this week, Santiment said. It added that much of the excessive optimism and heat has faded, fear is starting to reappear, and the market needs close monitoring.

Franklin Templeton Digital Assets, the digital asset arm of global asset manager and spot Bitcoin ETF issuer Franklin Templeton, said on its official X account, "TradFi and DeFi are now simply finance."

Securitize’s market capitalization of tokenized real-world assets on the Avalanche blockchain has jumped to $770 million, up 628.4% from the previous tally, Crypto Briefing reported. The increase made Securitize the largest issuer of tokenized assets on Avalanche, with roughly half of the blockchain’s overall RWA market cap. Avalanche’s total RWA market has also grown to around $1.7 billion, near a record high. Securitize previously listed on the New York Stock Exchange through a $400 million SPAC merger and has tokenized $295 million worth of its shares via Solana and Avalanche.

Bart Smith, CEO of Avalanche Treasury Company, a Nasdaq-listed company pursuing a strategic accumulation of AVAX, said AI agents could create a shortage of blockchain transaction capacity, or blockspace, once they begin entering financial markets in earnest, The Block reported. Smith said that even if AI agent activity reaches only the low end of current expectations as AI enters financial markets, the related activity would take place on blockchains. Smith added that blockspace would not be sufficient and is no longer unlimited. Smith also said technical differences among Layer 1 blockchains such as Avalanche (AVAX), Solana (SOL) and Ethereum (ETH) in throughput, scalability and fees would become more important. By mid-2027, Smith expects traditional financial markets to shift to a five-day, 24-hour trading system, while existing financial infrastructure may struggle to handle that change, making new infrastructure necessary.

Securitize shares rose more than 24% after the U.S. SEC approved a temporary conditional exemption, described as an innovation exemption, allowing limited trading of tokenized U.S. stocks in on-chain environments. SECZ was recently trading at $9.36, up 20.41%.

ZetaChain has put forward a governance proposal to migrate its ZETA token and private AI app Anuma to the Solana ecosystem, according to an official blog post. If approved, ZETA would migrate one-for-one into an SPL-based token on Solana, with total supply unchanged. ZetaChain said the move would let Anuma and its private memory layer scale by using Solana’s fast transaction throughput, low fees, and ecosystem infrastructure including DEXs and stablecoins. After the migration, ZetaChain plans to open the private AI application layer so other AI apps and agents can also use it. The governance vote for ZETA holders runs for 72 hours from Sept. 17 to Sept. 20.

The value of on-chain tokenized traditional assets excluding stablecoins had surpassed $35 billion as of Sept. 7, roughly tripling from a year earlier, crypto market analysis channel Unfolded reported, citing real-world asset tokenization data platform RWA.xyz. Unfolded added that U.S. Treasury bonds have led growth in the tokenized traditional asset market and that the pace of expansion accelerated after mid-2025.

NYLI Management, an asset manager under New York Life, is tokenizing HYB, its U.S. corporate bond investment strategy fund, on Avalanche, according to a Centrifuge announcement. The product was tokenized through Centrifuge’s institutional fund infrastructure for real-world assets. Avalanche said NYLI’s tokenized fund expands the range of institutional assets moving on-chain beyond the U.S. Treasury and short-duration bond strategies that have led the tokenization market.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission said on Sept. 17 it will ease regulatory requirements for passive software providers that meet certain conditions, allowing them to support futures and derivatives trading without registering as introducing brokers, or IBs. The CFTC’s Market Participants Division said it will not recommend enforcement action solely because a firm offering software that connects users with registered futures commission merchants, introducing brokers, or exchanges is not registered as an IB or as an associated person of an IB. The exemption does not apply if a software provider directly intervenes in individual orders or exercises discretion in trading, including by providing buy or sell signals. The measure expands similar relief the agency granted in March to self-custodial crypto wallet provider Phantom to a broader range of similar software firms. Eleanor Terrett, host of the U.S. podcast "Crypto in America," said the move shows the CFTC is providing regulatory clarity for the crypto market.

Abra said it expanded its partnership with Fireblocks so newly issued Strategy Tokens can be automatically transferred into a custody system operated by an institution regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services, according to Crypto Briefing. The move is intended to bring Strategy Tokens, a new type of digital asset product, into a compliant custody framework. Strategy Tokens are smart contract-wrapped synthetic assets designed to execute predefined trading strategies aimed at generating returns on behalf of holders.

The U.S. crypto industry now faces a prolonged lack of regulatory clarity after a Senate cloture vote on the CLARITY Act, a cryptocurrency regulation bill, failed on Sept. 15, according to CoinDesk. CoinDesk said the bill’s collapse has fueled industry concerns that capital, talent and technological innovation could flow from the U.S. crypto market to overseas markets with clearer regulatory environments. The outlet added that rulemaking by the U.S. SEC and the CFTC could help, but the two agencies’ regulatory jurisdiction also remains unclear. Legislation is still important to protect consumers and preserve the long-term competitiveness of the U.S. industry, CoinDesk said.

Crypto asset manager Grayscale said cryptocurrency regulation is still advancing despite the failure of a Senate cloture vote on the CLARITY Act on Sept. 15, a setback that blocked the bill from moving forward. Grayscale said the U.S. SEC on Sept. 17 announced conditional approval for on-chain trading of tokenized stocks, signaling that a crypto regulatory framework is being built in real time. Grayscale added that the industry needs a clear regulatory framework and said regulatory clarity can still be achieved even without the bill.

After the U.S. SEC approved a temporary conditional exemption, described as an innovation exemption, allowing limited trading of tokenized U.S. stocks in an on-chain environment, SEC Chairman Paul Atkins said U.S. capital markets are moving toward broader 24-hour trading and tokenization could help make round-the-clock stock trading possible. Atkins added tokenization could enable "real-time inventory management" across the securities industry, improving trading efficiency, reducing settlement failures, and potentially mitigating risks tied to malicious naked short selling. Atkins said the ultimate goal is to eliminate those short-selling threats entirely and asked SEC staff to review measures needed to balance a market-growth-friendly environment with safeguards against harmful market behavior.

Layer-1 blockchain Injective announced via its official X account on Sept. 17 that it has launched the INJ token on the Solana network as part of its multichain asset expansion. At the same time, Solana-based INJ was listed on Sunrise, a trading platform connected to Backpack, a decentralized exchange in the Solana ecosystem. Injective said the move will allow Solana users to trade INJ directly and provide liquidity without crosschain bridging. According to CoinMarketCap, INJ was trading at $5.67, up 5.42%, at the time of writing.

Rick Edelman, founder of the Digital Assets Council of Financial Professionals, said in an appearance on Bitcoin Magazine TV on Sept. 17 that Bitcoin could reach $500,000 by 2030. Edelman said his forecast was actually lower than many others and added that if it proves wrong, BTC would more likely rise above $500,000 or reach that level before 2030. He also said buying Bitcoin now is comparable to buying Amazon stock in 1999, when investors were still debating whether to invest, adding that Bitcoin is likely to follow a similar trajectory. Edelman had also presented a $500,000 Bitcoin price target in interviews with CoinDesk and other outlets in March.

Whale Alert reported that 268,000,000 USDC has been transferred from Coinbase Institutional to Coinbase. The transaction is valued at about $268 million.

U.S. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce said the agency’s approval of a temporary conditional exemption, described as an innovation exemption, to allow limited trading of tokenized U.S. stocks in on-chain environments is an experimental, transitional regulatory framework for on-chain equity trading. Peirce said regulators are not assuming entities using the measure will necessarily be exchanges or dealers. Instead, the aim is to observe who actually uses the framework and how it operates before deciding the future regulatory direction.

WLD issuer World, formerly Worldcoin, announced on Sept. 17 via its official blog that it plans to launch World Money, a financial app integrating features including stablecoins, investing, deposits, virtual accounts and global payments. The service is set to roll out gradually across about 150 countries. World said the app was designed to let users handle everyday financial activities in a single app, including receiving salaries, holding assets, earning rewards, investing, making payments and sending digital assets globally. Users will be able to fund, hold and use digital assets through World Money, keep balances in U.S. dollar- and supported local currency-based stablecoins, and send or receive funds across borders for free using digital assets. Mini apps including Kalshi, Credit and MORPHO will also be available, World said. According to CoinMarketCap, WLD was trading at $0.3817, up 4.94%.

The U.S. SEC approved a temporary conditional exemption, described as an innovation exemption, on Sept. 17 to allow limited trading of tokenized U.S. stocks in on-chain environments, and Robinhood Crypto General Manager Johann Kerbrat said smart regulation can accelerate innovation. Kerbrat said the SEC’s innovation exemption makes him excited about what the company can build next. Kerbrat added the exemption also signals tokenized products are ready for a broader rollout in the U.S. market and said the move will help establish and develop a tokenized securities market with sufficient liquidity in the United States.

Bitcoin’s Bull Score Index, a gauge of bullish and bearish momentum, has fallen below 40 and entered bearish territory, AMB Crypto reported. The outlet said the indicator slipped to a bearish level as the U.S. Federal Reserve decided on its first benchmark rate hike since 2023. It added that while market participants had largely expected the increase, the possibility of additional rate hikes this year and whether quantitative tightening, or QT, resumes have emerged as new variables. If inflation and oil prices remain elevated, tighter liquidity could add selling pressure on BTC and altcoins, according to the report. AMB Crypto said that could leave BTC vulnerable to further selling pressure in the coming weeks and suggests the crypto market may not have formed a bottom yet.

Zcash (ZEC) continued its upward move and rose past $1.4K, according to CoinNess market monitoring. On Binance’s ZEC/USDT trading pair, ZEC was up 13.4% at $1,418.81.