
US Sanctions Iranian Exchange BitBank Over Hundreds of Millions in Bitcoin to IRGC
OFAC designated BitBank, developer Pishtaz Simorgh and three Zanjani associates under Operation Economic Outcast on September 17.
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OFAC designated BitBank, developer Pishtaz Simorgh and three Zanjani associates under Operation Economic Outcast on September 17.

ARMA clears the House Financial Services Committee 28-21, sending the first federal Bitcoin reserve bill to the full chamber with a 20-year lockup.

Iran's central bank dropped the repatriation rule for exporters. Cross-border trade now settles in Tether and Bitcoin through domestic crypto exchanges.

The US Senate rejected the CLARITY Act cloture vote 49-50, far short of 60 needed. Bitcoin fell 5%, Coinbase and Circle down nearly 10%.

Senate Republicans published the final CLARITY Act text with 126 Democratic changes and a Trump-backed ethics deal, ahead of Tuesday's 60-vote cloture hurdle.

White hats returned 3,400 BTC to Liquid's federation. 598.5 BTC remain in their custody with no approved bounty disclosed.

Poland's parliament fell 25 votes short of overriding President Nawrocki's third crypto veto, leaving it the only EU state without MiCA rules.

The SEC approved a Nasdaq Texas rule change defining digital commodities and allowing crypto ETPs to hold up to 15% of NAV in non-qualifying digital assets.

Sberbank plans to accept Ethereum and USDT as loan collateral alongside Bitcoin as Russia's new digital currency law takes effect September 1.

Michael Saylor's company buys 4,603 BTC for $369.7 million at an average of $80,318, lifting total holdings to 845,050 bitcoin.

Bitcoin broke above $80,000 for the first time since May 2026, driven by $1.9B in weekly ETF inflows and over $4B in short liquidations.

Bitcoin tops $77,000: about +24% in a week, its best since 2023, driven by a US Treasury buyback, a short squeeze and a return of ETF inflows.
CFTC Chair Selig told the Innovation Advisory Committee the agency will draft crypto market structure rules if Congress fails to pass the CLARITY Act.

Trump urged Congress to pass a 'fair version' of the CLARITY Act: the CFTC is working to bring Hyperliquid onshore. HYPE jumped, record day for listed HYPE holder.

The SEC proposed Regulation Crypto Assets with two fundraising exemptions and a safe harbor for crypto assets, opening a 60-day public comment period.

AI is taking energy away from Bitcoin mining: public miners' hashrate is down 13.4% and difficulty is off 19.9% from its peak. But the incentive system rebalances: the network is stronger than before, mining is not in danger.

MSCI has opened a consultation that could exclude Strategy and Metaplanet from its global indexes as 'non-operating companies'. The May 2026 simulation flags them for deletion from the ACWI IMI; Strategy says 'Bitcoin doesn't need MSCI'.

The SEC will meet on August 14 to propose Regulation Crypto, its first formal rulemaking for digital asset offerings, giving crypto startups a structured capital-raising path after the Senate stalled the CLARITY Act.

The US Senate released the revised CLARITY Act text (635 pages, 126 changes) with Trump ethics provisions. Polymarket odds collapse to 16% as Democrats deliver a counterproposal.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed Russia's first organic crypto law: a unified framework for exchanges, brokers and mining supervised by the central bank, trading from September 1, payments banned, retail capped at 300,000 rubles annually.
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