Table of Contents

Tuesday, September 15: The CLARITY Act Fails

Wednesday, 16 September

Thursday, 17 September

Friday, 18 September

The Weekend: Sep 19-20

The Cross

What it means

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Bitcoin's Week. A Failed Senate Vote, a Fed Hike, and a Rally That Shrugged Off Both

By India Crypto Research|2 mins read

Last Updated on: Sep 21, 2026|Published On: Sep 21, 2026

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Key Takeaways

Bitcoin fell to $75,620 on Tuesday as the CLARITY Act failed 49-50 in the Senate, and the Fed delivered its first rate hike since 2023 the next day.
Despite both setbacks, bitcoin rallied hard on Friday, up 5.81% to $80,882, on a broad market-wide recovery.
A golden cross (50-day average crossing above the 200-day) formed sometime this week, though different analysts date it slightly differently.
The week's true floor was $75,025 (Tuesday's intraday low); $82,614 remains the key resistance level ahead.

Part of a series

Crypto Market Updates

Bitcoin's Week. A Mixed CPI Report, Four Days of ETF Outflows, and a Vote Nobody Can Call

1. Tuesday-Wednesday, 8-9 September
2. Thursday, 10 September: The worst day of the week for ETFs
3. Friday 11 September: balanced CPI data grew confidence for both hawks and doves
4. Monday, 14 September
5. The vote that hangs over everything

XRP's Week. A Fall Under $1.34, a Zero-Flow Day, and the Only ETF Category That Never Went Negative

1. Tuesday to Thursday, 8 to 10 September
2. Friday, 11 September: price recovers, flows go flat
3. 12 to 13 September
4. The real story: XRP’s ETFs never went red.
5. Wall Street is beginning to use XRP ETFs as collateral
6. What it means

BNB's Week. A $752 Open, a Drop Under $710, and a Real-World-Asset Crown Taken From Solana

1. Tuesday to Thursday, 8 to 10 September
2. Friday, 11 September: The CPI spike works in BNB's favor as well
3. The weekend: 12 to 13 September
4. The Real Story: BNB Chain Blows Past Solana for Real-World Assets
5. Still no BNB ETF, but the filings keep moving.
6. What it means

Market Update: BNB’s $700 Battle, What’s Behind the Pullback?

1. BNB Had Its Own Big Week Too. Here's What Actually Happened
2. The rally into midweek
3. The pullback
4. Today, 1 September
5. What actually drove the rally
6. How it compares to bitcoin's week

Solana Market Update: Governance Vote Rewrites Inflation and Token Economics

1. Solana Just Rewrote Its Own Economics. Here's the Full Story
2. The rally into the vote
3. Friday's governance vote
4. The weekend and into today
5. Why this matters more than a normal price swing

Market Update: Ethereum’s $2,500 Wall, ETF Inflows Keep Climbing

1. Ethereum, Near-Record ETF Inflows, Staking kept climbing through the month, a Wall at $2,500, and a Close Near $2,419
2. ETF inflows never went negative in the last week
3. Staking kept climbing through the month
4. What's still working underneath the chop

Market Update: TRX Holds Steady as Nasdaq Treasury Keeps Buying

1. A Nasdaq Treasury Keeps Buying While the Price Barely Moves
2. The week in price
3. The real story: a Nasdaq company that keeps buying TRX
4. A staked TRX ETF is still waiting on the SEC
5. Why any of this matters for TRX specifically

Solana's Week. A Trip to $98.65, an ETF Market Measured in Millions Not Hundreds of Millions, and an Upgrade Still Waiting to Go Live

1. Between Tuesday and Wednesday, 8 and 9 September:
2. Thursday, 10 September: a multi-week low
3. Friday, 11 September: the CPI spike lifts SOL back above $100
4. Monday 14 September
5. A network upgrade that isn't activated yet.
6. Defining moments

Bitcoin Mining and Number of Bitcoins Mined Till Today

1. 1. What Is Bitcoin Mining?
2. 2. Why Bitcoin Mining Matters
3. 3. How does the Bitcoin Mining Process Work
4. 4. The Evolution of Bitcoin Mining
5. 5. How Bitcoin Miners Earn Money
6. 6. Bitcoin Halving and the 21 million Supply
7. 7. The Future of Bitcoin Mining
8. Conclusion

Ethereum's Week. A $2,654 Spike, Two ETF Outflow Days Instead of Four, and a Quarter That's Up 60%

1. CPI for Friday, September 11
2. Monday, 14 September
3. Institutional staking as an infrastructure service
4. What this means

Bitcoin's Week. A Fed Governor, a Jobs Report, and $730 Million in One Day

1. Monday to Wednesday, 31 August to 2 September
2. Thursday, 3 September: Waller talks, bitcoin flies
3. Friday, 4 September: the jobs report undoes it
4. The weekend: 5 to 7 September
5. The ETF money, day by day
6. What it means

Ethereum’s Week: Whales Are Buying, Retail Is Selling, and $2,544 Won’t Budge

1. Monday to Thursday, 31 August to 3 September
2. Friday, 4 September: a fresh high, then the jobs report
3. The weekend: 5 to 7 September
4. Whales Buying, Retail Selling
5. ETF demand cooled off sharply
6. Behind the scenes: Vitalik on Ethereum's cryptographic future
7. What it means

Solana’s Week: A Death Cross, $348M in RWA Flows, and a Choppy Climb to $105

1. Monday to Thursday, 31 August to 3 September
2. Friday, 4 September: the jobs report cools things down
3. Monday, 7 September
4. ETF flows swung both ways
5. Solana still leads on real-world assets.
6. A death cross is now in place.
7. What it means

Solana's Week. A Fall Under $96, a 17% Faster Network, and an ETF Streak That Wouldn't Break

1. September 16: The Fed Hikes; SOL Remains Strong
2. September 17: Positive Close on Quiet Network Upgrade
3. September 18: Investor Favor Continues; Major Speed Upgrade Activated
4. The recent improvements to the network and what is ahead
5. What's happening

Ethereum's Week. A Drop Under $2,400, a Glamsterdam Milestone, and a Missed Shot at $2,672

1. Tuesday, September 15: ether follows bitcoin lower
2. Wednesday, September 16: FED raises rates, Ether tests Glamsterdam
3. Thursday, September 17: further Ether outflows
4. Sept. 18: Rally arrives, flows turn positive
5. The remainder of the week, Sept. 19-20:
6. What the recent test run means
7. What it Means

XRP's Week. A 9.8% Crash, Ripple's Legal Team Speaks Up, and a Ledger Upgrade Racing Toward Activation

1. September 15: The Crash, and What's at Stake for XRP
2. September 16: bottom before the rate hike
3. September 17: sideways price action and the approach of the Ledger update
4. What the Batch V1.1 update does and the reason for a partial rebuild
5. What it Means

BNB's Week. A Dip to $704, a $768 Peak, and a Correction on a Previous Claim

1. Thurs. 17 September: continued climb
2. Fri. 18 September: Week's high
3. 19-20 Sept. Weekend
4. Revising BNB's ETF section of last week's report
5. What it means

Current Article

Bitcoin's Week. A Failed Senate Vote, a Fed Hike, and a Rally That Shrugged Off Both

1. Tuesday, September 15: The CLARITY Act Fails
2. Wednesday, 16 September
3. Thursday, 17 September
4. Friday, 18 September
5. The Weekend: Sep 19-20
6. The Cross
7. What it means

Regulation’s Week- ICR Crypto Regulation Updates

1. India: Enforcement Over Legislation
2. United States: Regulators Move Without Congress
3. European Union: MiCA Is Live, But Already Changing
4. Steady and Predictable: Dubai
5. What This Means for the Reader

Bitcoin Treasuries Week: Trump's MSTR Stake, Strategy and Strive Both Buy, and BTC Breaks $84,000

1. Top 3 Latest News on BTC Treasuries
2. Top 5 Bitcoin Holding Companies
3. Top 5 Bitcoin ETFs
4. Top 5 Government Bitcoin Holdings
5. Top 5 Ethereum Treasury Companies
6. Most Important Digital Credit Instruments
7. Summing Up

Between a failed Senate vote and an interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve, the last week was a challenging one for the legislature, but not for bitcoin. Let's take a look.

Tuesday, September 15: The CLARITY Act Fails

At 2:15 p.m. E.T. on Tuesday, the Senate held a vote to end debate and move forward with consideration of the CLARITY Act. Without cloture, or the end of debate, the act cannot move forward. The vote failed 49-50. 60 votes were needed for cloture. No Democrat voted yes, and one, Chris Coons, didn't vote at all. The opposition itself was bipartisan: Republican Senators Susan Collins, Josh Hawley and Jerry Moran also voted against the act, joining the Democrats who opposed it. Bitcoin tumbled to $75,620 after the news, and more than $450 million was withdrawn from bitcoin ETFs.

Wednesday, 16 September

The FOMC raised the fed funds rate by 25 basis points to the 3.75% to 4.00% range, its first hike since 2023, with the vote unanimous at 12 to 0. After the rate hike, Chair Warsh told the media that members of the FOMC were not certain that inflation was moving back to the 2% target. Bitcoin price rose 0.76% to trade at $76,191 as Bitcoin ETFs combined to trade -$295.9 million.

Thursday, 17 September

Bitcoin was up 0.33% to trade at $76,440 for the day. Bitcoin ETFs combined to trade $159.5 million, the first positive flow since Tuesday's selling began.

Friday, 18 September

Bitcoin had its biggest trading day of the week on Friday, gaining 5.81% and closing at $80,882. CoinGlass reported that $470 million of trades were liquidated in the prior 24 hours. On the same day, the SEC issued a separate order allowing tokenised US stocks to trade on public blockchains, an olive branch of sorts that set a positive tone for Bitcoin and other ETFs even as the CLARITY Act failure and the Fed hike stayed in the headlines. The Fidelity bitcoin ETF (FBTC) had a strong positive flow of $310.7 million.

Price line, daily, Sep 15-18 2026

The Weekend: Sep 19-20

Bitcoin retained its value over the weekend. It closed at $81,253 on Saturday, a 0.46% increase. On Sunday, it closed at $81,303, a slight increase from the previous day. Because of the previous week's dip, Bitcoin's September value is positive at about 3.5%. Likewise, Bitcoin is about 39% positive since its June close. Based on these values, Bitcoin is forecasted to close positive for the third quarter, a positive for the first quarterly close in about a year.

Net Flows, Bitcoin SPOT ETF, Sep 15-18, 2026

The Cross

Early September brought the first occurrence since November 2025 of the 50-day moving average crossing the 200-day moving average in Bitcoin, a pattern often referred to as a "golden cross." This will be confirmed this week. Due to the narrowing gap between the two moving averages through the first part of the month, most agreed this was an event traders would be watching to confirm an uptrend for Bitcoin rather than an event predicting an upcoming change.

What it means

$75,025 was the low on Tuesday, and the closest price to the downside the rest of the week. $82,614 is the resistance level chartists are watching next. Some see a potential path to $100,000 from here if that level breaks on a daily close. Other chart resistance is noted at $83,000 to $86,000, flagged by Glassnode, where a greater concentration of BTC was traded. Bitcoin ETFs now comprise approximately 6.29% of the total BTC supply, up from a smaller share earlier this year. Bitcoin ETFs are seen to move in and out of BTC positions, which can impact the price of BTC, sometimes substantially. This was evident this week.

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