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Eleven percent across two sessions puts $BTC at its highest level since early June.
The move coincides with a joint effort by President Donald Trump and crypto industry executives to advance the Clarity Act, which participants are treating as a closing-window legislative push.
Trump's direct alignment with crypto industry figures brings executive-branch weight into what is being described as a last-ditch effort to get the bill over the finish line.
The Clarity Act has not yet cleared, and the coordination between the White House and industry represents an unusual convergence of political and commercial pressure at the same moment.
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