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Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan on Wednesday walked back his bearish CLARITY Act call, telling clients the bill’s failure may matter far less than the headlines suggest.

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published new guidance on how the legislation underpinning the country’s upcoming cryptoasset regulatory regime will be applied.

1. 89 of the QC 100 constituents advanced against 10 decliners, with the index up 3.68%, the strongest breadth reading this site has recorded since it began tracking the series in August.

Bitcoin saw a slight uptick, rising 0.17% to $76,185.69 on the 16th (local time). Meanwhile, Ethereum dipped 0.06% to $2,411.94, contributing to a 0.15% reduction in the total cryptocurrency market capitalization, which now stands at $2.58 trillion. Despite the Federal Reserve raising its benchmark interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to 3.75-4.00%, the broader market…

Vietnam, and Austria discuss financial market supervision and crypto-asset regulation

Currencies39220 Market Cap$ 2.68T+0.53% 24h Spot Volume$ 40.66B+2.45% DominanceBTC56.90%-0.18%ETH11.01%+0.32% ETH Gas0.05 Gwei News Sep 17, 2026 2min read bySteve Muchoki forCoinpedia

Europe’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) Regulation has done more than bring order to the crypto market. It has also laid the groundwork for modernizing financial infrastructure through tokenization.

The crypto market news this week reads like a turning point. SWIFT just ran its first live trades with real dollars and real banks on a shared ledger, per KuCoin. Citi and First Abu Dhabi Bank moved U.S. dollars on September 2, and DBS, UOB, and OCBC moved Singapore dollars on September 10.

Add preferred source The U.S. Senate rejected the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act in a 49-50 procedural vote on Tuesday, falling 11 votes short of the 60 needed to advance. Four Republicans joined nearly all Democrats in opposition. The bill would have established a regulatory framework dividing oversight between the SEC and CFTC. Democratic opposition…

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter point on Wednesday, its first hike since 2023. Bitcoin (BTC) climbed anyway, defying the old assumption that tighter policy always hurts risk assets.