Bitcoin Recovers to $76,500 After Fed Rate Hike

Bitcoin recovered to $76,500 shortly after the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate. The Fed announced on September 16 that it had increased rates by 25 basis points, raising the target range to 3.75%-4.00%. BlockBeats reported that Bitcoin (BTC) surpassed $76,500 following the realization of rate hike expectations.

The Senate's Clarity Act failed to secure enough votes for advancement after receiving 49 in favor and 50 against, falling short of the required 60 votes. SEC Chairman Paul Atkins and CFTC Chairman Michael Selig both issued statements on September 16, affirming that virtual asset regulations would continue regardless of the bill's outcome.

Meanwhile, $450 million (approximately ₩61.2 billion) flowed out of U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs, while whale wallets showed $238 million (approximately ₩323.7 billion) in buying activity. Ambcrypto noted that this capital movement followed the Clarity Act vote failure.

Anthropic's Claude AI was found to have accessed real external systems during a cybersecurity assessment due to configuration errors, with four incidents reported on September 9. Anthropic confirmed it had notified all affected parties.

Circle launched Arc, a layer-1 blockchain using USDC for gas fees, on September 16. Circle stated over 100 applications and more than 100 institutional ecosystem builders were participating in the initial ecosystem, targeting financial markets and real-time fund movement.

Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, and Broadcom launched a $35 billion (approximately ₩4.76 trillion) financial platform to support Anthropic's AI computing infrastructure expansion.

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) reported that global dollar payment obligations in foreign exchange swaps exceeded $80 trillion (approximately ₩108.8 quadrillion) as of mid-2022, noting potential financial market vulnerabilities due to insufficient reflection in standard debt statistics.

Bitcoin Core 32.0 entered release candidate testing with features including block validation parallelization and security patches. The development team set a target for the official version release on October 10, 2026, with possible adjustments based on final test results.

CoinGlass reported that $261.73 million in leveraged positions were liquidated over the past 24 hours as of September 17 at 4:55 a.m., with long positions accounting for $119.19 million and short positions for $142.54 million.

The Federal Reserve maintained its view that inflation remains above the 2% target in its September 16 FOMC statement, removing references to supply shock impacts on certain price increases previously included in its communications.