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Bitmine is expected to generate about $334 million in annual revenue at current yields by staking more than 5.06 million ETH it holds, Cointelegraph reported. That would cover about 85% of its total ETH holdings of 5.95 million. The company bought an additional 27,180 ETH last week, bringing its total holdings, including crypto and cash, to about $15.8 billion.

U.S. Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s office is opposing a cryptocurrency ethics agreement, arguing the authority granted to state attorneys general is effectively illusory, Punchbowl reporter Brendan Pedersen said. The office said only the Department of Justice can bring actual enforcement actions, and no lawsuit can be filed if White House ethics officials approve cryptocurrency-related activities.

An anonymous solo Bitcoin miner successfully mined a block at height 966351 through Braiins Solo and received a reward of 3.147 BTC, worth about $245,000, Bitcoin News reported. It was the first time in about 40 days that an individual miner had mined a Bitcoin block, since Aug. 3.

Indian Gaming Association Chair David Bean criticized Clarity, saying its passage would pose the biggest threat to Native American tribal self-governance in decades. Bean said the bill had been revised to exclude prediction markets from the decentralized finance (DeFi) exemption, but argued the change alone had not resolved tribal concerns. Native American tribal groups had previously argued prediction markets such as Kalshi were siphoning revenue from tribal casinos.

South Korean exchange Upbit announced a temporary suspension of ZEC deposits and withdrawals starting from the time of the notice, citing maintenance on the Zcash wallet system.

Prediction market traders are assigning the highest odds in weeks to passage of the CLARITY Act as the U.S. Senate prepares for an initial procedural vote to bring the bill to the floor, according to CoinDesk. CoinDesk reported Polymarket traders see a 30% chance the CLARITY Act will pass this year, up sharply from 12% in early September and the highest level since early August. On Kalshi, the probability that the bill will pass before Oct. 1, 2027 rose as high as 64% from 26% on Sept. 10 and was holding at 53%.

John Medel, head of policy at Injective Labs, said the U.S. CLARITY framework could help give lasting institutional footing to cryptocurrency policies advanced by regulators, Cointelegraph reported. Medel said U.S. regulatory agencies have recently pursued broad and ambitious policies, and CLARITY offers a chance to give those changes staying power.

President Donald Trump and World Liberty Financial co-founders moved more than 20 billion WLFI to a new vesting contract, the Washington Sun reported. The tokens cannot currently be sold and are locked up for two years before being released gradually over the following three years. WLFI denied interpretations that the transfer was intended to prepare for a sale.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said the company’s stock token service is a security backed 100% by actual shares, not a synthetic asset or debt security. Armstrong said the token can be redeemed for the underlying stock and supports dividends, with voting rights set to be added later. He emphasized that the product could give global investors and institutions access to the more than $70 trillion U.S. stock market.

Argentina’s federal tax authority, ARCA, has required crypto platforms and payment service providers to report user information every month, according to Crypto Briefing. The required disclosures include users’ taxpayer identification numbers, virtual asset balances and transaction records. Individuals will be subject to reporting if their monthly transaction volume or holdings reach 50 million pesos, while corporate entities will be covered at 30 million pesos or more.

The National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic (NBKR) has signed a memorandum of understanding with blockchain security firm CertiK for a long-term strategic partnership, BlockBeats reported. The two sides will cooperate on security for the digital som, the country’s central bank digital currency, as well as digital asset regulation and cybersecurity. They also plan to provide training on anti-money laundering, digital asset custody, security standards, and licensing.

Pro-crypto Republican U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis stressed there is no better opportunity than now to pass the Clarity Act. Meanwhile, the U.S. Senate is set to hold its first procedural floor vote for debate on the bill at 6:15 p.m. UTC on Sept. 15.

Miles Jennings, a16z Crypto’s head of policy and general counsel, urged the U.S. Senate to take up the CLARITY Act, warning that basic regulatory safeguards remain inadequate nearly four years after the FTX collapse. Jennings said rules covering customer asset segregation, qualified custody, disclosures and conflict-of-interest limits are still lacking, and warned that the next crisis could be bigger if lawmakers fail to act now as the digital-asset market has already expanded into mainstream finance.

Total stablecoin supply fell by $414 million from Sept. 7 to 13, according to on-chain analytics firm Lookonchain. Over the same period, DEX spot trading volume rose 7.95%, while perpetual futures volume fell 7.78%.

Swiss Bitcoin Pay, a Swiss Bitcoin payment processor, has temporarily suspended its servers after a suspected hack, Crypto Briefing reported. No cases have been reported of customer funds or private keys being exposed to risk, while the company has yet to issue an official statement on the scale of the breach, the types of data that may have been leaked, or the number of affected users.

JPMorgan upgraded IREN, a Bitcoin miner shifting its business toward AI infrastructure, by two notches to overweight from underweight and raised its price target to $65 from $46. JPMorgan evaluated the move positively, saying IREN is using its existing infrastructure for its AI computing business and that factors including its partnership with Nvidia are favorable.

JPMorgan downgraded Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings (MARA) to underweight from overweight and cut its price target to $11 from $13. In a report, the bank said MARA is pursuing a large-scale data center buildout with U.S. private equity firm Starwood Capital, but some mining facilities may be poorly suited for conversion into AI and high-performance computing data centers, a strategy JPMorgan said could dilute value creation. The report also said some mining sites have relatively limited power capacity, making them unsuitable for data center conversion. MARA fell more than 3% on the news and was recently trading at $11.80, down 1.79%.

Eighteen U.S. state attorneys general, including New York Attorney General Letitia James, have sent a letter to Congress urging lawmakers to vote against CLARITY, The Block reported. James argued the current bill could embolden fraudsters and strip state attorneys general of their authority to protect investors. CLARITY is set to face a key procedural vote on Sept. 15.

Etherscan, Ethereum’s blockchain explorer, has launched a dedicated explorer for Robinhood Chain, allowing users to view on-chain data including transactions, addresses, tokens and smart contracts, Cointelegraph reported.

Crypto-related stocks in the U.S. equity market were broadly higher, with Bullish (BLSH) up more than 9%, Coinbase (COIN) up more than 7%, Circle (CRCL) up more than 4%, and Strategy (MSTR) up around 3%.

MetaMask has strengthened security features aimed at preventing crypto scam losses, Decrypt reported. The wallet now warns users when it detects investment and romance scams, lookalike wallet addresses, and first-time transfer addresses, with the protections applied to both its mobile app and browser extension. It has also introduced a feature first on the browser extension that automatically reverses a transaction if the executed result differs from the preview shown beforehand.

Jiang Zhuoer, founder of mining pool BTC.top and a blockchain entrepreneur with Chinese roots, said the odds are low that the U.S. Clarity Act will clear a procedural vote on Sept. 15, according to a post on X. Jiang said Polymarket's estimated odds of passage rose to 28% from 14% after Republicans accepted about 80% of provisions that Democrats had objected to in the latest bill, but added the actual level of compromise remained around 60%. Jiang said Democrats' demands were not sufficiently reflected on key issues including ethics provisions and enforcement authority. In particular, Jiang said Democrats had sought to apply the ethics clause not only to federal officials and spouses, but also to children and related entities, while the latest bill limits its scope to officials and spouses.

Grayscale Investments has launched Grayscale Model Portfolios for financial advisers, according to a Globe Newswire press release. The offering combines multiple digital-asset exchange-traded products into a single strategy and provides asset selection, weighting, diversification, and rebalancing options. The initial lineup includes four strategies: Digital Asset Core Plus, Digital Asset Leaders, Digital Asset Next Gen, and Digital Asset Infrastructure. Among them, Digital Asset Core Plus focuses on Bitcoin and Ethereum, while also including Solana and Chainlink.

European crypto asset manager CoinShares said first-half revenue fell and the company swung to a net loss, although net inflows continued. Total revenue for the first half was $51.4 million, down 35.7% from a year earlier. Operating loss came to $5.1 million, while net loss totaled $23.9 million. Net inflows stood at $27.6 million.

The three major U.S. stock indices opened lower today. - S&P 500: -0.70% - Nasdaq: -1.71% - Dow Jones: -0.34%