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Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong stated that The Wall Street Journal is writing a report blaming the failure of the CLARITY Act on Coinbase and himself. He mentioned that the newspaper has repeatedly taken an adversarial stance towards CLARITY in related reports and echoed the views of banking lobby groups.Armstrong stated that in January of this year, he opposed a draft that was about to be submitted for committee vote due to significant issues in areas such as DeFi, tokenization, CFTC authority, and stablecoin rewards, which could harm the crypto industry, and that support was scattered and difficult to pass. Afterward, multiple parties modified the draft, and about four months later, the version submitted to the committee had addressed the aforementioned four issues. He expressed that the final draft submitted to the Senate is good and he strongly supports it, and will continue to advocate for clear rules that treat crypto fairly.

U.S. President Trump stated that the United States has reached an agreement with Denmark and Greenland to gain "permanent control" over Greenland's security affairs and related needs. This agreement does not require the United States to incur costs and addresses the long-standing U.S. concerns about Greenland's strategic security.

Tom Lee, Chairman of the Ethereum treasury company Bitmine, stated in an interview that even if the CLARITY Act fails to pass, the cryptocurrency market may continue to rise, as market demand is more important than any single piece of legislation. The CLARITY Act was originally intended to establish a clearer regulatory framework for the cryptocurrency industry and to give the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) more defined regulatory responsibilities.Even if the bill fails, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and CFTC will continue to serve as the primary federal regulatory agencies for the cryptocurrency industry. Tom Lee also cited the prediction markets and sports markets as examples, noting that these areas continue to grow despite regulatory uncertainties.

The U.S. cryptocurrency market structure bill CLARITY did not receive the required 60 votes in a procedural vote in the Senate, with a result of 49 to 50. The bill is not yet dead, as Republican lawmakers retain the option to reconsider the motion, but there are significant disagreements between the two parties on the ethical provisions related to Trump’s digital assets, and the legislative window continues to narrow.

CZ reposted a summary from the founder of Compound regarding the failure of the CLARITY Act to pass the Senate procedural vote on platform X and stated that if there is one positive aspect, it is that stablecoins can still continue to provide yields.CZ mentioned that there will always be setbacks in the process of moving forward, but technological advancements will continue to progress.

Overseas cryptocurrency KOL Brady Dale posted on X, stating that there are three responsible for the failure of the "CLARITY Act": first is Trump, due to his launch of the TRUMP token; second is Tim Scott, who insisted on having the Senate waste time drafting its own version, depleting the legislative momentum that remained after the passage of the "GENIUS Act"; third is Cynthia Lummis. Brady Dale mentioned that he believed last fall that the bill would be difficult to advance, and after Cynthia Lummis announced her retirement, the bill became completely hopeless.He believes that the Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Paul Atkins, will still alleviate the related impacts to some extent, but the movements of that day were not surprising, as the goal was merely to redirect the cryptocurrency political action committee Fairshake towards October.

The founder of Compound, Robert Leshner, stated that the Clarity Act failed to pass today, making everyone a loser, as partisan games overshadowed common sense.He noted that the boundary between tokens and securities has not become clearer, entrepreneurs will still tend to build and finance overseas, investors will not gain more information or protection, developers have no additional safeguards for decentralized systems, banks remain constrained by stablecoins that can pay rewards, and government employees have no ethical barriers in the crypto space.Leshner expressed that he mainly feels regret for those in the industry and for the bipartisan supporters of the bill in the House and Senate, believing that the shine of American leadership has slightly dimmed.

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren delivered a speech in the Senate lasting over 10 minutes, calling for a vote against the CLARITY Act. She stated that Trump and his family profited $1.4 billion from the crypto business in 2025 alone, exceeding the revenue of any publicly listed crypto company in the U.S. last year, and that buyers of his crypto projects lost billions of dollars, with meme coin buyers losing nearly $4 billion.The Senate failed to pass the procedural vote with a result of 49-50, falling short by 11 votes of the 60 needed to begin debate, with no Democrats voting to advance it. Warren claimed that the bill would exacerbate Trump's corruption and criticized the ethical terms negotiated by the Republicans with the White House as a "tiny fig leaf," stating that it would not prevent Trump from continuing to profit from crypto.Warren also stated that the bill would create a huge loophole in nearly a century of securities law, allowing non-crypto companies to put assets on-chain to evade investor protections, and enabling banks to use customer deposits for crypto lending, trading derivatives, operating nodes, and selling related software.

According to Cointelegraph, Tether's stablecoin USDT was involved in a failed oil deal in Venezuela, resulting in a loss of approximately $230 million for Polish state-owned energy giant Orlen.The transaction took place at the end of 2023, when Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA began requiring payments in USDT to evade U.S. financial sanctions. In November 2023, Samer Awad, a former executive of Orlen's trading subsidiary Orlen Trading Switzerland, led the procurement of 6 million barrels of Venezuelan crude oil from PDVSA. On December 4, Orlen transferred a $230 million advance payment to Dubai seller Hannon International Middle East, which exchanged USDT through multiple cryptocurrency brokers and intermediaries. However, most of the funds went missing during the transfers, and Orlen only received about $29 million worth of crude oil before terminating the contract.The flow of funds shows that Hannon exchanged $400,000 in commission for $80 million in USDT and transferred $135 million to Horizon Global, claiming to have only received $85 million in USDT. In January 2024, Hannon employees delivered two USB drives containing $60 million and $50 million in USDT to brokers in Caracas. In January 2025, the Warsaw regional prosecutor's office announced an investigation into the related oil contracts, involving losses of approximately $378 million.

According to The Wall Street Journal, informed sources said that the database used by the Federal Reserve to monitor banks experienced a failure last month that lasted more than a day. This failure involved the Federal Reserve's National Information Center, which is used to provide bank-related data to regulators.It is reported that the National Information Center database experienced a failure lasting over 24 hours around August 5. Senator Elizabeth Warren stated in a letter that this database failure raised concerns about how staff cuts at the Federal Reserve might affect system maintenance and bank regulatory work.

On September 14, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun stated: Spreading various threatening narratives, engaging in confrontation and malicious competition will only disrupt the global governance process of artificial intelligence and does not align with the interests of any party.Recently, leaders from several AI companies have called for a slowdown in the development of artificial intelligence and believe that China's advantages in the field of artificial intelligence may pose national security risks.

CoinShares Research Director James Butterfill stated that Bitcoin is currently facing an "unusual combination"—short-term bearish and medium-term bullish factors are present at the same time.In the short term, the U.S. core CPI rose 0.3% month-on-month in August, higher than market expectations. Butterfill said, "The CPI data is marginally negative, increasing the probability of monetary policy tightening, which may limit Bitcoin's immediate upside potential." CME FedWatch data showed that market bets on the Federal Reserve's next rate hike reached as high as 85%.In the medium term, he pointed out that the U.S. Treasury's expanded bond buyback program has failed to effectively lower long-term yields. If this situation continues, it may force authorities to implement larger intervention measures, raising concerns about currency depreciation, which would instead benefit Bitcoin and gold valuations. CoinShares believes that Bitcoin's short-term upside may be limited to below $80,000.

According to Forbes, Patrick Witt, the executive director of the Digital Asset Advisory Committee of President Trump, told Semafor that the window of opportunity for the Clarity Act is closing, and if the procedural vote next week fails, "no one can say when the bill will have another chance."Witt stated that a failed motion vote will not yield the desired results for anyone and called for bipartisan support for the bill: "Join this bill, and let's continue the conversation." The bill is scheduled for a procedural vote on September 15.

According to CoinDesk, Bitcoin formed a golden cross earlier this week (the 50-day moving average crossing above the 200-day moving average), but subsequently did not experience a sustained increase, instead retreating from around $80,000 to about $77,000. It is noteworthy that most of the recent rise occurred before the golden cross—Bitcoin had previously risen from $62,000 to $82,000.The article points out that similar situations have historically repeated multiple times: after the golden cross in 2021, BTC fell from $52,000 to $40,000; after the golden cross in February 2023, it retreated from $23,000 to $20,000; after the golden cross in October 2024, it slid from $70,000 to $67,000; and after the golden cross in May 2025, it corrected from $110,000 to $100,000. Analysts believe that while the golden cross is seen as a long-term bullish signal, it may essentially be a lagging indicator, as a significant portion of the gains often have already been realized by the time the signal appears.

According to Akchabar, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan, Ulan Niyazbekov, stated that since 2026, the country's internal affairs agency has initiated 90 criminal investigations related to cryptocurrency, involving cases of online fraud, theft of funds, money laundering, and the transfer of criminal proceeds.Niyazbekov revealed that during a 2025 investigation into a transnational online fraud gang, police discovered a TRON wallet holding over 3 million dollars in digital assets on a suspect's device and used blockchain analysis tools to trace the related funds.

The head of government affairs at Paradigm stated that the external view that the Clarity Act is almost hopeless to pass is not credible. The related pessimistic rhetoric mostly comes from anonymous staff members who did not participate in the core negotiations (intending to guide public opinion), or from legislators using the media to voice their demands, pressuring the White House and Senate leadership to meet their own requests.Major banks plan to invest heavily in lobbying and advertising next week; if the bill is doomed to fail, the banks would not invest such resources. The time window is indeed tight: the Senate reconvenes on Monday, and the House will recess on Friday in five days. However, the bill is far from dead. Those who assert that the bill has no chance are either seeking attention or trying to create a predetermined narrative of "bill failure."

According to Polish Radio, the Polish House of Representatives failed to overturn President Karol Nawrocki's veto of the cryptocurrency market regulation bill. In the vote, 241 of the 442 attending members supported overturning the veto, 198 opposed it, and 3 abstained, falling 25 votes short of the required 266. This is the third time Karol Nawrocki has vetoed the bill. The bill proposes that the Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) be responsible for regulating the cryptocurrency market. The president believes the bill is overly regulatory and could force Polish businesses to relocate. Prime Minister Donald Tusk called for support of the bill before the vote and mentioned the investigation into the defunct Zondacrypto exchange.

Starknet lending protocol Vesu announced that an oracle incident occurred on September 4. A malfunctioning upstream Pragma price source led to the abnormal liquidation of 47 positions and $3 million in collateral across multiple Vesu liquidity pools between 04:08 and 04:10 UTC. The price source self-corrected within two minutes and has not been affected since.Pragma has collaborated with relevant parties to deploy a fix for the root cause, and Vesu expects liquidity pool curators to lift the suspension of the pools in the coming hours. Vesu stated that its contracts are operating as designed, the protocol has no vulnerabilities, and no fixes need to be deployed; the issue was due to incorrect input prices. Vesu is working with Pragma, StarkWare, Starknet Foundation, and liquidity pool curators to recover the funds taken through these liquidations. Affected users should keep their Earn positions open to avoid losing refund eligibility; if liquidated during the incident, please submit a support ticket on Discord. A complete technical report will be released soon.