Bitcoin price surged toward $82,000 as STRCâs Bitcoin buying cleared $1 billion in daily trading volume. S. crypto bill cleared a key Senate hurdle and Bitcoinâlinked credit products logged fresh milestones.
Bitcoin price traded near $81,400 with intraday highs around $82,000, up more than 3% over the past 24 hours on more than $1 billion in spot trading volume. The Senate Banking Committee advanced the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act on a 15â9 vote, with Sens. Ruben Gallego of Arizona and Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland joining all 13 Republicans.
R. 3633, seeks a federal framework for digital asset trading, stablecoins and intermediaries, splitting oversight between the SEC and CFTC and setting registration, disclosure and compliance rules for exchanges, brokers and custodians. Chair Tim Scott described the markup as a turning point after years in which crypto firms faced a âregulatory gray zoneâ under rules built for earlier markets, and framed the bill as a way to keep innovation inside the United States while tightening controls on criminal use of digital assets.
Sen. Cynthia Lummis, who leads the committeeâs digital assets panel, called the Clarity Act the hardest bill of her career and âa case of first impressionâ for fitting new softwareâbased assets into existing financial law. Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren led the opposition and argued that the bill weakens securities protections, preempts state antiâfraud rules and lets banks build large crypto exposures, which she linked to preâ2008 risk patterns.
She said the framework âdeclares open seasonâ on consumers and labeled it âindustryâwrittenâ and ânot ready,â while allies raised ethics and nationalâsecurity concerns tied to President Donald Trumpâs crypto businesses, mixers and stablecoins. âs STRC preferred stock continued to scale up its Bitcoin accumulation program. 5%, with proceeds capture rate near 80%, at the time of writing.
The marketed structure targets 26 times the current daily Bitcoin supply, underscoring how ATM issuance has turned STRC into one of the largest corporate Bitcoin buyers on record. Striveâs SATA preferred stock advanced its own experiment in yield design. 88% through daily compounding.
1% Bitcoin Yield for the first quarter of 2026. It was a strong day for bitcoin price Bitfinex analysts wrote to Bitcoin Magazine saying the once dominant funding rate has lost signal power, so they are turning attention to options positioning as Bitcoin price pushes around the 80,000 zone. The analysts added that ETF demand and openâmarket accumulation now drive the move instead of STRCâlinked buying, with longâhorizon âconviction buyersâ holding close to four million BTC in the strongest twoâquarter increase in this cohort since the COVIDâ19 crash, which pulls more bitcoin out of circulating supply and could help the bitcoin price go up.
