Bitcoin Price Rises 4% As CFTC Moves To Bypass Clarity Act

Bitcoin Price Rises 4% as CFTC Moves to Bypass Clarity Act

Bitcoin (BTC) price Surges by 4.10% to $81,258.52, outperforming the broader market’s 3.69% gain, primarily driven by renewed institutional demand via spot ETFs and a cascading short squeeze.

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $159.45 million in net inflows on September 18, led by BlackRock’s IBIT with $183.66 million.

This reversed a multi-day outflow trend and coincided with positive regulatory signals, including the SEC’s “Innovation Waiver” for tokenized securities trading and the CFTC sending a crypto framework to the White House.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is bypassing stalled congressional legislation to establish a federal crypto framework independently.

By filing “Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions and Markets” with the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the CFTC is utilizing its existing authority to potentially designate crypto exchanges as Derivatives Clearing Organizations (DCMs) under purpose-fit rules.

This executive branch action mitigates the immediate regulatory vacuum left by the Senate’s failure to pass the Clarity Act.

For investors, this signals that market structure rules are incoming regardless of legislative gridlock, which could provide the legal certainty needed for institutional capital deployment while simultaneously increasing compliance costs for unregulated offshore venues.