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The Clarity Act faces a pivotal Senate vote on September 15.   Whatever the outcome, the vote will have significant implications for crypto policy. On September 22, CoinDesk: Policy & Regulation brings together the leaders from the public and private sectors who will help shape what comes next. Will you be joining the following organizations in D.C. on September 22? 50T Funds Aberdeen, Inc. Agio Ratings AIMA Aleo Network Foundation Anchorage Digital BGR Binance Bitwise Asset Management Blockchain Association Blockstream Capital Partners Bloomberg BofA Boston Consulting Group Broadridge Financial Bullish Cahill Caladan CCI Chainalysis Chainlink Labs Circle Citi Coinbase Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Delaware Department of Justice Dentons Digital Ascension Group DLA Piper DTCC Elliptic EY Fairfax County Employees' Retirement System Fairfax County Police Officers Retirement System Fenwick Fidelity Florida Office of Financial Regulation  Flow Traders Ltd. Forward Industries Franklin Templeton FS Vector Goldman Sachs Grayscale HLC JPMorgan Chase Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Laser Digital Latham & Watkins LLP Liberty City Ventures Liechtenstein Government  Maple Finance McDermott Will & Schulte MNNC Group / Monarq Asset Management Morgan Stanley Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Multicoin Capital National Futures Association New York State Department of Financial Services Office of Financial Regulation OMFIF Ondo Finance Pantera Capital ParaFi Capital LP Parataxis Patomak Global Advisors PAYO Digital Bank PayPal Plaintext Polymarket Praxos Capital Private Family Office PwC Quantinuum Quip Network Rain Ribbit Capital Solana Policy Institute Sternhell Group Stoka Global Management Strobe Ventures Sumsub Superstate Susquehanna Crypto The Digital Chamber The Venture Dept. The Washington Post The White House TRM Labs TRON U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission U.S. Senate Vanderbilt Law School Walkers LLP Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP WilmerHale 50T Funds Aberdeen, Inc. Agio Ratings AIMA Aleo Network Foundation Anchorage Digital BGR Binance Bitwise Asset Management Blockchain Association Blockstream Capital Partners Bloomberg BofA Boston Consulting Group Broadridge Financial Bullish Cahill Caladan CCI Chainalysis Chainlink Labs Circle Citi Coinbase Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Delaware Department of Justice Dentons Digital Ascension Group DLA Piper DTCC Elliptic EY Fairfax County Employees' Retirement System Fairfax County Police Officers Retirement System Fenwick Fidelity Florida Office of Financial Regulation  Flow Traders Ltd. Forward Industries Franklin Templeton FS Vector Goldman Sachs Grayscale HLC JPMorgan Chase Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Laser Digital Latham & Watkins LLP Liberty City Ventures Liechtenstein Government  Maple Finance McDermott Will & Schulte MNNC Group / Monarq Asset Management Morgan Stanley Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Multicoin Capital National Futures Association New York State Department of Financial Services Office of Financial Regulation OMFIF Ondo Finance Pantera Capital ParaFi Capital LP Parataxis Patomak Global Advisors PAYO Digital Bank PayPal Plaintext Polymarket Praxos Capital Private Family Office PwC Quantinuum Quip Network Rain Ribbit Capital Solana Policy Institute Sternhell Group Stoka Global Management Strobe Ventures Sumsub Superstate Susquehanna Crypto The Digital Chamber The Venture Dept. The Washington Post The White House TRM Labs TRON U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission U.S. Senate Vanderbilt Law School Walkers LLP Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP WilmerHale Register Now Thank you to our sponsors: Interested in sponsoring CoinDesk: Policy & Regulation? Contact Us CoinDesk, Inc., 61 9th Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10011, USA Unsubscribe Manage preferences

The people building AI think it might kill us...

The first staked TRX ETF just launched. An Anthropic researcher quit saying AI could kill us by 2029. And bitcoin is rising alongside gold as oil tops $100. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Wednesday, September 9, 2026   Bitcoin is up nearly 1% to near $79,140 this morning, rising alongside gold as Brent crude topped $100 for the first time since July after U.S. Central Command destroyed five Iranian oil tankers and Tehran fired missiles at American bases in Jordan. The move is notable: crypto is trading with metals, not equities — European stocks fell, Nasdaq futures are flat, but gold and bitcoin are both green. The week’s first major economic event is PPI Thursday, followed by CPI Friday. The Canary Staked TRX ETF debuts on Cboe today. And an Anthropic researcher quit yesterday with a warning that its own alignment lead subsequently endorsed. Stay alert. Read today’s full report → Market snapshot As of 8am EST Asset Price 24h BTC $79,140 +0.92% ETH $2,497 +0.92% SOL $104.05 +1.15% XRP $1.43 +2.21% Prices approximate. Visit coindesk.com/price for live data. What matters today Markets   Story 1 of 3 Wall Street’s newest crypto fund comes with a staking feature to boost returns. The Canary Staked TRX ETF debuted Wednesday on Cboe under the ticker TRXS, giving U.S. investors exchange-listed exposure to Tron’s native token for the first time. What sets it apart from a standard spot ETF is the staking layer: the fund locks most of its TRX into Tron’s proof-of-stake network to earn yield, and those rewards stay inside the fund rather than being paid out as cash, compounding into net asset value over time. Tron is the largest blockchain by USDT supply and one of the dominant rails for stablecoin transfers globally; TRX has a market cap of about $32 billion and is up roughly 19% year to date — in contrast to bitcoin, which is down about 9% over the same period. Justin Sun called the launch a recognition of Tron as “critical infrastructure for the global digital economy.” Read more → Tech   Story 2 of 3 An Anthropic researcher quit with a warning on AI. His own alignment lead agreed with him. Jacob Coxon, who spent three years doing pretraining research at OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned Tuesday and posted publicly that neither company is “acting responsibly” and that insiders “earnestly believe” AI could kill humans by the end of the decade — the same rough window as the Terminator’s fictional 2029 Judgment Day. Anthropic’s own alignment lead, Evan Hubinger, then publicly endorsed the statement, saying he personally puts the odds above 10% within the next decade. Coxon described labs as locked in a race to superintelligence without a rigorous understanding of what they’re building, and the Hugging Face breach — where OpenAI’s agents escaped a test sandbox, communicated over a self-built chat channel, and accessed production systems — as a “warning shot.” Anthropic, for context, filed IPO paperwork in June and is eyeing a Nasdaq debut this fall at a valuation that could reach into the trillions. Read more → Markets   Story 3 of 3 Bitcoin climbs as oil tops $100 and equities drop after Iran strikes. U.S. Central Command destroyed five Iranian oil tankers Tuesday night and Tehran responded with missile strikes on American bases in Jordan, sending Brent crude above $100 for the first time since July. Bitcoin rose as much as 1.6% to $79,742 in Asian trading before settling near $79,000 — and the notable detail is how it got there: not with equities, which fell, but with gold (+1.06%) and silver (+1.33%). The Stoxx Europe 600 dropped 0.5% at the open and the Dow fell 1.2% Tuesday; Nasdaq futures are little changed. That crypto-with-metals dynamic is the inverse of September 2, when U.S. strikes on Iranian targets sent bitcoin lower alongside stocks. Derivatives positioning is constructive but light: the short buildup that accompanied Monday’s pullback from $80,000 has unwound, taker ratio has flipped neutral, and options volume is dominated by calls at $80,000–$90,000 strikes ahead of Friday’s CPI. Read more → CoinDesk Disclosure: The information contained in this newsletter, and any information linked through the items contained herein, is not intended to provide sufficient information to form the basis for an investment decision. You should seek additional information regarding the merits and risks of investing in any cryptocurrency or digital assets. 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