WEEKLY BRIEF Sep 13–Sep 20, 2026

Headlines
• FOMC Meeting: Markets await Federal Funds Rate decision and new economic projections on Sep 16
• Clarity Act fails to pass procedural hurdle in the Senate after missing the required 60 votes
• DOJ charges Robinhood employees with commodities fraud for insider trading on Hyperliquid
• S&P Global announces agreement to acquire blockchain security firm OpenZeppelin
• Hyperliquid launches manual borrows, reporting $269M in assets already borrowed
• Pixelmon shuts down game development and lays off team after raising $85M between 2022-2024
• Fin.com emerges from stealth with $20M seed round to build global stablecoin infrastructure
• Polymarket: Odds for a Tesla-SpaceX merger by the end of next year reach over 73%
• Kamino names Michael Weisz CEO as the protocol expands into the US market

Weekly ETF Flows
• BTC: +$6.1M net inflows
• ETH: -$140.9M net outflows
• SOL: +$13.1M net inflows
• HYP: +$3.1M net inflows

Exchange Listings
• Robinhood: $INDEXCO, $INDEX (assets added)
• Coinbase: $BLUECHIP (roadmap, spot), $RITUAL (roadmap)
• Upbit: $PYUSD (spot), $JPYC (spot)
• Bithumb: $AVA (spot)
• Hyperliquid: $KSTR, $SNXX, $DRAM, $CVX, $EWY (HIP-3)

Regulatory
• SEC approves temporary, conditional exemption to allow limited onchain trading of tokenized stocks
• DOJ reports millions in Iranian oil proceeds were laundered via Binance
• Binance curbs commodity perps to 24/5 hours to align with traditional finance market hours

Market Flows
• Strategy USD reserves and cash holdings decreased by $140M to $6,398M