The CLARITY Act failed to clear the Senate's 60-vote cloture threshold on September 15, stalling the crypto market-structure bill the industry had spent the year pushing.

The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act needed 60 votes to advance to full floor debate. Republicans hold just 53 Senate seats, so supporters needed at least seven Democrats to cross over, but unresolved fights over stablecoin rewards, ethics rules and illicit-finance provisions kept those votes out of reach. The House had passed the bill in July 2025 by a 294-134 margin, yet Senate negotiations never closed the gap, and Galaxy Research had already cut its odds of the bill becoming law in 2026 to around 10% heading into the vote.

With cloture failed, the bill is effectively dead for 2026, and the shrinking congressional calendar plus looming midterms make a near-term revival unlikely. Crypto's long-sought market-structure framework is back to square one.

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A split-screen day: four names called it quits — CoinEx, Balancer, Cascade, Pixelmon — while Anthropic lined up a $965B IPO and BitMine's ETH stack crossed $15B.

Five that actually mattered:

— Balancer proposes winding down, returns its treasury to holders

— Coinbase reverts the rebranded Base App back to Coinbase Wallet

— CoinEx shuts down after nine years, most services stop Sep 29

— Pump.fun launches a Holder Rewards program

— Zama launches 16 confidential yield vaults on Morpho

Starting today, Binance cuts commodity perps to 24/5, moving its commodity TradFi perpetual contracts off around-the-clock trading to match traditional market hours.

The switch takes effect at 21:00 UTC on September 15 and covers commodity-based contracts spanning gold, silver, WTI and Brent crude, natural gas, platinum, palladium and copper. These pairs previously traded through weekends with a daily one-hour maintenance pause, which is now being removed.

Crypto perpetuals are unaffected, and equity-based TradFi perpetuals such as TSLAUSDT and INTCUSDT keep their 24/7 availability.

The move brings Binance's commodity derivatives closer to the rhythm of the assets they track, as the exchange keeps expanding a TradFi perps lineup that now spans equities, metals and energy.

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Emerging from stealth, Fin.com raises a $20M seed led by Expa, building white-label infrastructure that turns stablecoins into payouts to local bank accounts and wallets.

The round closed in August and was led by Expa, the venture studio of Uber cofounder Garrett Camp, with Coinbase Ventures, Tenet Fund, Second Sight Ventures, the founders of Figure, Mesh founder Bam Azizi, and sovereign and royal family offices across the Gulf and Africa.

Fin.com was founded by Nabeel Alamgir, who previously built restaurant-tech firm Lunchbox, and Mustafa Dar. Its clients already reach a combined 800 million-plus users, and the team is targeting the last-mile problem of moving money across borders.

The launch lands as stablecoins push deeper into mainstream payments, with startups racing to connect onchain dollars to everyday bank rails in emerging markets.

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Physical-AI project Axis Robotics opens its AXIS sale, offering 1% of the token supply for $1M at a $100M FDV through a proportional community round on Echo.

Pre-registration is live now, with the subscription window running from September 21 to 28 and settlement expected around September 30. Because the sale is proportional, each participant's final allocation depends on total demand across the round.

Tokens vest 10% at TGE, followed by a six-month cliff, with the remaining 90% released linearly over the following six months. Axis earlier closed a $12M seed led by Hack VC, with Nomad Capital, Pi Network Ventures and 10K Ventures joining.

Axis Robotics is building a community-driven data engine for Physical AI, crowdsourcing robot-manipulation trajectories to train general-purpose robotics models, with its main product slated for Base.

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Confidential-DeFi builder Zama expands confidential vaults on Morpho, opening deposits into 16 vaults that let users earn yield while hiding their balances, positions and strategies.

Twelve of the vaults route confidential access into existing Morpho vaults, while four were built exclusively for private deposits across assets including USDC, USDT, AUSD and TGBP. Strategies are overseen by curators Steakhouse Financial, Armitage by Wintermute, Flowdesk, RockawayX and Bitwise.

Zama's first vault, launched in June with Morpho and Steakhouse, pulled in $40M within seven weeks. Alongside it, the new Zama Swap Protocol lets users trade confidential assets on Ethereum without revealing transaction size or intent.

Morpho co-founder Merlin Egalite called the confidential vaults an important step, as privacy-preserving infrastructure moves closer to mainstream DeFi. Integrations already span Utila, Zerion Wallet and Yield.xyz.

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After nine years, CoinEx will wind down the exchange, blaming a prolonged market slump, thinning volume and rising compliance costs.

The platform stops new registrations today and will halt most services on September 29. Withdrawals stay open until December 22, after which unclaimed balances may be converted to USDT.

Any remaining USDT then moves to independent custody carrying a 5% monthly fee on the original balance, with a custody-claims deadline of August 22, 2028. Founder Haipo Yang said the exchange will ensure users can withdraw their assets in full.

Yang framed the decision around mounting pressure on the business, saying the security and compliance risks of running a crypto exchange have become increasingly difficult to contain. CoinEx served millions of users across more than 200 countries.

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A treasury council member moved to wind down Balancer, return treasury to BAL holders, capping five years of the veteran DeFi protocol.

The plan, put forward by council member and former Balancer Labs CEO Marcus Hardt, would halt business development, sunset the protocol in phases and legally close the DAO. Holders who burn BAL would receive a pro-rata, in-kind share of the treasury, which holds at least $9M in tokens.

A Snapshot vote runs September 25 to 29. If it passes, pools move to withdrawals-only by October 30, the first redemption window opens in late May 2027, and a final distribution follows roughly six months later.

The proposal also scraps a previously approved BAL buyback. It marks a quiet end for a DeFi pioneer that never fully recovered from a $128M exploit in November 2025, with Hardt conceding that a restructuring approved in April failed to bring sustained revenue.

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Most meme tokens do nothing. IMD tries to do the opposite: every sell burns its own supply, stakers earn from those burns, and the whole thing is meant to bankroll 2,000 AI agents running on-chain. It's Fren Pet, the old Base tamagotchi, reborn on Ethereum with a self-funding economy bolted on.

Current footprint: ~$10.5M diluted valuation, $1.5M liquidity, $240K daily volume, $3.05 per token.

Structure is simple to read: 1 NFT = 1 agent (2,000 seats, free mint), fees route back to builders, and 85% of supply is aimed at burn, with the rest split across agent compute (6%), stakers and node operators (4.5% each).

US prosecutors moved to seize $61M laundered through Binance, cryptocurrency tied to sanctioned Iranian oil sales, the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York said.

The complaint alleges two China-based firms, Blessed Trust and Hexa Whale, used trading accounts on the UAE-based exchange to move oil proceeds. Blessed Trust posed as a digital-asset custody firm and Hexa Whale as a commodities broker, while their clients spanned China's oil and petroleum sector.

A cluster of wallets prosecutors call "Entity A" is said to have received and distributed more than $1.5 billion in illicit oil revenue, routing funds to money handlers tied to Iran's IRGC, other crypto addresses, and an Iran-based exchange.

The move marks a fresh escalation of the DOJ's scrutiny of Binance over Iran-linked flows, reviving compliance questions the exchange has faced since its $4.3 billion settlement and founder CZ's 2023 guilty plea over lax anti-money-laundering controls.

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