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CLARITY Fails 50-49: XRP Drops 9%, Fed Hike Looms & AI Payments Go Live
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The CLARITY Act died one vote short in the Senate, sending XRP down 9% below key technical support — and a Fed rate hike lands tomorrow. Here's what the collapse means for regulatory protection, price structure, and Ripple's AI payments push.
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The Senate killed the CLARITY Act fifty to forty-nine. One vote short.
The market didn't wait for analysis. XRP broke below one dollar thirty-five, a level it had held for five sessions, and dropped to an intraday low of one dollar twenty-seven before partially recovering to one dollar twenty-eight.
The timing makes it worse. The Federal Reserve's rate decision lands at two PM Eastern on September sixteenth, one day after the CLARITY collapse.
Here's where the picture gets more complicated. On the same day the Senate vote failed, Ripple released version one point one of the XRPL AI Starter Kit.
The network data reinforces that gap between fundamentals and sentiment. XRP Ledger active addresses hit an all-time high of eight point five seven million, with six hundred fifty thousand new addresses added this year.
Standard Chartered's twelve dollar sixty target by twenty twenty-eight assumes regulatory clarity, substantial ETF inflows, and no macro disruptions. Right now, all three of those conditions are under pressure simultaneously.
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