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- Analysts said the <a href="https://xpertsstudio.com/crisis-at-a-cryptocurrency-exchange-developers-opened-positions-before-token-listings/” title=”Crisis at a Cryptocurrency Exchange—Developers Opened Positions Before Token Listings”>cryptocurrency market’s medium- to long-term direction will depend more on the interest-rate backdrop than on regulation, even after the CLARITY Act stalled.
- Market participants see the vote not as a fatal negative surprise but as a delay to the regulatory timetable, and say the current cycle is being driven not by narrative but by interest rates.
- Key things to watch are the Fed’s rate hikes, flows into spot ETF products, and any regulatory path that can proceed without 60 Senate votes. They added that whether Bitcoin reclaims $78,189 could signal easing regulatory uncertainty.
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The cryptocurrency market tumbled after the CLARITY Act failed to advance in the U.S. Senate, but analysts say the market’s medium- to long-term direction will be shaped more by interest rates than by regulation.
The Block reported on September 16 that Justin d’Anethan, head of research at Arktic Digital, said it was clearly disappointing that the CLARITY Act did not clear the Senate, but that the outcome was not a structural problem. He added that both current price levels and previous record highs were established before the CLARITY Act existed.
D’Anethan said interest rates and the monetary-policy backdrop matter more than regulatory clarity in determining the market’s direction. He also said institutional investors are treating the vote less as a fatal blow than as a delay in the regulatory timeline.
Rachel Lucas, a crypto analyst at BTC Markets, echoed that view, saying legislation was never the market’s core constraint and that the current cycle is being driven by rates rather than narrative.
Lucas said investors should now watch whether expected Federal Reserve rate hikes mark the start of a longer tightening path, whether inflows into spot exchange-traded funds expand again, and whether a regulatory path emerges that can move forward without 60 votes in the Senate.
She added that Bitcoin reclaiming its September 15 opening price of $78,189 could be the first sign that the discount tied to regulatory uncertainty is beginning to fade.
The market swung sharply immediately after the CLARITY Act vote failed. Bitcoin fell 2.85% over 24 hours to $75,756, while Ether dropped 4.5%, XRP slid 9.2% and Solana lost 5.4%.
Losses in crypto-related stocks were steeper. Coinbase fell more than 10%, Circle dropped 11.4%, and Strategy and BitMine declined 5.4% and 8.4%, respectively.
Lucas said capital is not leaving the market but is instead concentrating in specific assets. A fourth-quarter recovery does not necessarily require Congress, she added. What matters is that the interest-rate backdrop does not deteriorate further.
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Source: en.bloomingbit.io