The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to review a series of digital asset tax bills on September 16, moving crypto tax legislation closer to a full House vote. According to PANews, the review will focus on two issues: when miners and stakers should pay tax on newly created tokens, and whether stock wash-sale rules should apply to digital assets. The two main bills are the Mining and Staking Tax Clarity Act, H.R. 9175, and the Applying Existing Tax Rules to Digital Assets Act, H.R. 9172. The first bill would allow miners and stakers to defer tax until the tokens are sold, rather than paying immediately when they receive new tokens. The second would extend wash-sale and constructive sale rules to actively traded digital assets, closing a tax loophole that crypto traders have used for years.

August CPI landed in line on headline at 3.4% but hot on core at 0.3% — the number that put a September hike near certainty, sending the 2-year yield up 6bps to 4.61% while the 10-year held flat at 4.95%. The curve flattening is the market's verdict: a Fed seen as responding adequately, not one behind the curve. Real average hourly earnings fell 0.3% year-over-year as wages grew 3.1% against 3.4% inflation — households are already shifting to discount stores. Diesel hit $6 per gallon for the first time. Bitcoin fell to $76,700 then rebounded to $77,320. Binance's Bitcoin reserves crossed 693,000 BTC — 30% of all major exchange holdings. The CLARITY Act procedural vote is September 15. The FOMC decides September 16.Two-Year Yield Jumps to 4.61% as Traders Price a Near-Certain Hike, 10-Year Stays FlatClarity Act Faces Procedural Vote on September 15, Trump Crypto Adviser SaysWhite House digital assets advisory council executive director Patrick Witt told Semafor the window of opportunity for the CLARITY Act is closing — if next week's procedural cloture vote fails, no one can say when the bill gets another chance. The vote is scheduled for September 15, the day before the FOMC decision. The bill still needs 60 votes to advance, requiring at least 10 Senate Democrats beyond the Republican base. The government ethics provision — restricting senior officials from profiting from crypto while in office — remains the primary sticking point, with a bipartisan revised proposal sitting unanswered at the White House. For XRP specifically, market-structure legislation carries more weight than for most assets given how much of its trajectory has been shaped by regulatory classification questions — it jumped 5% when the bill cleared the Senate Banking Committee in May.U.S. Wage Growth Trails Inflation As Consumer Prices Rise 3.4% In AugustAverage hourly earnings rose 3.1% year-over-year against 3.4% CPI — leaving real average hourly earnings down 0.1% from July and 0.3% from a year earlier. Navy Federal Credit Union chief economist Heather Long: "A substantial number of Americans are worse off because incomes are not keeping pace with price increases." Gasoline prices rose 3.9% in August and diesel reached $6 per gallon Friday for the first time, driven by fuel supply disruptions tied to the Iran and Ukraine conflicts. Households are already adapting: Navy Federal's internal data shows members shifting spending toward Costco, Aldi and discount warehouses. The consumer squeeze is the transmission mechanism that makes the Fed's decision genuinely painful in either direction — a hike compounds the real wage decline, a hold validates the inflation that is causing it.Binance Bitcoin Reserves Reach 693,000 BTC, Roughly 30% of Major Exchange HoldingsBinance's Bitcoin reserves surpassed 693,000 BTC — an increase of approximately 77,000 BTC since late April — accounting for roughly 30% of the ~2.3M BTC held across major trading platforms combined. The concentration ratio mirrors Binance's $15.7B in August inflows that captured 75% of all centralized exchange flows — capital returning to crypto is routing to depth and liquidity rather than distributing across venues. 693,000 BTC represents roughly 3.5% of Bitcoin's total circulating supply sitting on a single platform, a figure that reflects both genuine user preference for Binance's liquidity and the flight-to-quality dynamic that has characterized the sector through months of volatility.Gold Nears $4,347 As CPI Print Tests $3,950 Head-And-Shoulders TargetGold traded near $4,347 on Friday, sitting on the neckline of a daily head-and-shoulders pattern that projects to $3,950 if confirmed — a potential further 9% decline from current levels. Thursday's PPI came in at 5.4% YoY versus 5.3% expected, and the 10-year hit 4.95% — both adding to the opportunity cost pressure that has pulled gold from its $5,600 January record to current levels. The technical setup arrives at a moment when the PBOC is buying its most gold since 2023 and central banks globally are accelerating domestic reserve storage — structural demand that has historically made gold head-and-shoulders patterns less reliable than in other assets, since sovereign buyers are price-insensitive in ways that retail technical traders are not.                

USDC Treasury minted about 111 million USDC on the Ethereum blockchain at 9:25 PM Beijing time, according to Whale Alert. According to ChainCatcher, the mint was detected on-chain and no further details were provided.

According to CNBC, U.S. homebuilders are turning to robotics and automation to ease labor shortages, but the biggest productivity gains so far are coming from targeted tools such as layout systems, error-prevention machines and factory-based construction rather than humanoid robots on job sites. The National Association of Home Builders said the United States is short roughly 1.2 million homes, nearly 300,000 construction jobs were open at the end of 2025, and the industry needs to attract about 740,000 workers a year to keep up with growth, retirements and departures. NAHB chief economist Robert Dietz said residential construction productivity has risen only about 16% since 1993, while labor shortages cost homebuilders about $11 billion a year and add roughly two months to average construction timelines. Industry experts said construction remains difficult to automate because every site changes daily and projects vary in design, soil conditions, subcontractors and materials. Dusty Robotics founder Tessa Lau said the company’s FieldPrinter prints digital plans directly onto floors to help multiple trades work from the same layout, while Dusty says one operator can lay out about 10,000 to 15,000 square feet a day, up to 10 times faster than traditional methods. Skanska reported a 75% reduction in rework and a 35% reduction in its layout schedule after using Dusty’s multi-trade system. Aaron Love, president and CEO of Oh Snap Layout, said combining robotic layout with prefabricated wall panels and other off-site methods cut shell construction from about 21 days to 11 to 12 days. The article said Japan has become a leader in residential construction robotics, with developers building 80% of a home by robots inside factories before final assembly on site. Kawasaki Robotics said industrial robots at one factory lifted production from 55 to 65 housing units a day while reducing operators by 20, and Sekisui Heim estimates the investment will pay for itself in about three years. Patrick Murphy, chief investment officer of Coastal Construction and managing director of Renco USA, said factory-built components can reduce schedules by roughly 30% to 40%, but he does not expect skilled construction workers to disappear.

Xi Jinping met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Chinese president’s first post-Covid visit to India, according to Bloomberg. The world’s two most populous nations are seeking further progress in stabilizing ties that have been strained by border tensions.

Binance's Bitcoin reserves have surpassed 693,000 BTC, an increase of approximately 77,000 BTC since late April.That accounts for roughly 30% of the total Bitcoin reserves held across major trading platforms, implying a combined figure near 2.3 million BTC across the venues measured.

Bitcoin open interest fell by about 13,600 BTC over the past 24 hours while the price remained largely unchanged. According to ChainCatcher, analyst Axel Adler Jr. said the decline suggests the market is actively deleveraging. He added that lower open interest without a sharp price drop may reduce the risk of concentrated liquidations and a chain reaction of forced selling among highly leveraged positions.

According to CNBC, U.S. consumer prices rose 3.4% in August from a year earlier, while average hourly earnings increased 3.1% over the same period, leaving real average hourly earnings down 0.1% from July and 0.3% from a year earlier. Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union, said a substantial number of Americans are worse off because incomes are not keeping pace with price increases, and she said inflation is erasing wage gains as energy costs climb. Long said gasoline prices rose 3.9% in August and diesel reached $6 per gallon on Friday for the first time amid fuel supply disruptions tied to wars in Iran and Ukraine. She added that households are shifting spending toward warehouses and discount stores, with Navy Federal's internal data showing more members shopping at Costco, Aldi and similar retailers.

OpenAI is opening up the underlying agent framework that powers its flagship programming assistant Codex to all developers, marking the formal productization of the company's accumulated agent engineering experience.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong pointed out that Bitcoin reaching $400,000 by 2030 is still a reasonable target, and he personally believes that the bottom of this cycle may have already appeared.

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From a macro perspective, AI exports are experiencing rapid growth. In the first half of 2026, China's AI-related product exports accounted for 22.7% of total exports, contributing 8.6 percentage points to overall export growth. AI exports have become a significant industry trend.

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Jinse Finance launches its daily cryptocurrency and blockchain news bulletin, "Jinse at 8 AM," issue 3179, providing you with the latest and fastest news on the digital currency and blockchain industry.

Ethereum is betting that once the gas barrier disappears, more people will actually start using Ethereum.

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