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On Binance, $ADA /USDT is hovering around 0.2716 tonight, up 10.8% in 24 hours, after reaching an intraday high of 0.2749. CoinDesk says that’s its highest price since May. At the same time, $BTC is up less than 1%, still moving between 84,000 and 87,000.
Trading volume has definitely picked up. CoinMarketCap data puts total market-wide volume at about $1.09 billion, or 2.06 times the 30-day median.
The reason is hard to pin down, and CoinDesk says it can’t explain it either. Two things may be relevant: RealFi, which launched on October 1 and channels stablecoins into institutional lending, with annualized returns of up to 9%; and the first phase of the Dijkstra upgrade, scheduled for late December this year or early next year. Both are good news, but neither is new today. I’ve always been more wary of a rally with no clear explanation than one with a clear one.

This week, the numbers for US spot ETFs are sitting there. From September 28 to October 2, $BTC spot ETF net inflows were about $82.9 million, which is a lot less than the previous week’s roughly $2.39 billion. $ETH spot ETFs saw net outflows of about $118 million over the same period, whereas the previous week had still managed to pull in nearly $690 million. Products related to $SOL are left with only about $800,000 in net inflows.
In the morning, $BTC briefly dipped to around 87,000, and then it slipped back to hover near 85,000 in the evening. Bitcoin products are still seeing inflows, but the volume is clearly shrinking; on the Ethereum side, it’s been a steady drawdown out. My sentiment is a bit bearish, but I also don’t dare to chase short at this level—capital is just choosing seats, not withdrawing together. Let’s see whether next week’s inflows and outflows can pick up again.

CoinShares reported last week’s figures: net inflows into crypto investment products were about $3.55 billion, the highest single-week level since 2026. On September 16, the Fed added 25 basis points, taking rates to 3.75% to 4.00%. Rate hikes should, in theory, weigh on risk assets—but the money hasn’t stopped.
Products tied to $BTC drew about $2.52 billion, $ETH about $702 million, $SOL about $193 million, and $XRP about $92.3 million. In the U.S. alone, one product provider accounted for roughly $3.43 billion. As for spot, $BTC is still hovering around $83,500, with almost no movement over the past 24 hours.
People like me see funds pouring in while the price doesn’t move, and my first reaction is: don’t treat the inflow as an instruction to raise prices. Money went into the products, and spot can keep ranging. I trust this more as additional positioning after the policy takes effect—not a signal to charge forward. First, let’s see whether the 83,000 mark can hold.

CoinDesk today reported a transfer to CryptoQuant: $BTC ’s Bull Score reached 90 (out of 100). It also recently climbed above the 365-day moving average. However, spot has slid from the vicinity of an eight-month high around the 87,400 level down to about 83,300. Over the past 30 days, spot demand has fallen by roughly 170,000 coins. Meanwhile, the incremental rise in futures speculative demand shrank from about 164,000 coins around September 14 to about 16,000 coins by the 29th—cutting it by 90% in just half a month.
The score is almost at the maximum, but the buy side is backing off. Recently, the average unrealized gain for buyers is about 33%. On September 22 alone, they cashed out 25,700 coins. For altcoins, over seven days, they moved 76,000 deposits to exchanges from 51,000 addresses—the most since October 2025. The score feels more like a rearview mirror; demand is the accelerator.

ChainCatcher reports today that Binance saw net outflows of more than 13,800 $BTC in a single day—about $1.15 billion—its largest single-day figure since 2023. Over the past 4 days, Binance’s Bitcoin reserves fell from about 705,000 to about 685,000, down roughly 20,000 $BTC , or about $1.66 billion.
Spot prices have been hovering between 83,000 and 84,000. On-chain analyst Darkfrost said this could be self-custody accumulation of coins, or changes to institutional custody or internal wallets, and outflows alone can’t be treated as definitive proof of accumulation. According to TokenPost data from the same period, over the past 24 hours roughly $377 million was liquidated; longs accounted for more than 70%. The $BTC spot price has fallen to around 83,300.

Cointelegraph reported today that Bitget resumed $BTC withdrawals on Monday, covering the Bitcoin network and BNB Smart Chain. In an AMA, CEO Gracy Chen said they opened Bitcoin first because this withdrawal pipeline was the first to be fixed. Last week, the hot wallet and warm wallet were compromised; the amount later changed from about $351.6 million to about $387.5 million, while the cold wallets were not affected.
Withdrawals were processed in batches. The official schedule is $ETH on Tuesday, $USDT on Wednesday, and other assets and P2P on Friday; the same timetable applies to all users, with no VIP priority. The attacker is still using THORChain to swap $ETH for $BTC . The protocol team responded that the emergency shutdown was network-wide, so they couldn’t freeze only a few addresses.

According to SoSoValue, from Monday to Thursday this week, the spot ETF inflows tracked for $BTC , $ETH , $SOL , XRP, and Zcash totaled about $3.04 billion in net inflows. $BTC took $2.25 billion; the other four combined were about $793 million—roughly one quarter.
$ETH stands out the most. It saw money inflows for four straight days—on Monday alone, about $270 million, the largest day since October 7, 2025. $SOL during the same period was about $102 million. But $BTC spot has been hovering around 84,500 and hasn’t surged further with the additional capital.
That set of non-BTC trading pairs Bitfinex is watching: from September 18 to 22, the median rose 12%, while $BTC in the same period rose only 6.6%. Its alt-season indicator turned positive on September 22—first time since January of this year.

Tomorrow, September 28, Anza’s schedule will write “start enabling the feature activation” for Agave 4.3, and Alpenglow’s first phase will push Votor to the mainnet. The goal is to compress the confirmation time from about 12.8 seconds down to around 150 milliseconds. Foundation’s September update also follows this thread, but the page notes that the schedule is tentative, so the date may shift.
Over the weekend, $SOL already moved first, around 123 to 124; the increase is noticeably larger than $BTC ’s. I think this is about抢叙事 (capturing the narrative), not that the upgrade has already been completed. “Start activation” doesn’t mean it’s fully switched over that same day; the feature gate and epoch boundary will delay it, and it may carry into October. This time, the second phase Rotor is also not within the window.

It’s the weekend; the price is still hovering around 84k, near $BTC . The data from Cryptopolitan yesterday was quite interesting: both whales and retail users are stockpiling, and the amount flowing out of exchanges and the amount transferred to self-custody have risen to the highest tier since 2023. Binance’s reserves are also trending downward.
My own view is that spot markets here are quietly reducing supply, but the price chart still can’t really move. From 59,000 up to the recent 87,000, I haven’t seen any obvious signs of dispersed selling on-chain. Now the selling pressure on the chart mostly comes from the derivatives side.
So this weekend I probably won’t chase the price up or down. First, let’s see whether 83.6k can hold. If it stays above that level, we can talk about moving upward; if it breaks, that won’t be surprising either—after all, liquidity on Saturday is thin to begin with.

First, lay out the public data: CoinDesk cited SoSoValue—this year, net inflows into U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF have already returned to roughly $800 million positive. On July 13, that moving-average line once slid to an unrealized loss of $5.8 billion—that was the year’s low point.
Over the past six consecutive days, net inflows total about $2.84 billion. On U.S. East Coast time September 24, the single-day amount was about $191 million; BlackRock’s IBIT led with about $163 million. Compared with Monday’s nearly $1 billion, the daily volume has fallen for three straight days.
Current price reference: BTC on OKX around $84,290, with a daily high of $85,259. Fear & Greed is 71, and it’s still in the Greed zone.
My take in one sentence: A reversal back above the moving average line is tougher than slogans, but compared with the $35.2 billion in 2024 and the $21.4 billion in 2025, this $800 million is only just starting to stop the bleeding. Next, keep an eye on whether it can hold steady day by day—don’t rush to write the six-day pulse as a confirmed trend.

First, lay out the publicly available data: On September 21 in the U.S. Eastern time, according to SoSoValue, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF net inflows were $999 million, the largest single day in about 11 months. BlackRock’s IBIT saw $381 million in inflows, ARKB $289 million, and Fidelity’s FBTC $239 million. On the same day, spot Ethereum ETFs had net inflows of $270 million, with ETHA contributing $110 million.
Price check: BTC on OKX is around $86,020 (day high $87,399), and ETH around $2,749. Fear & Greed is 78 (Extreme Greed).
Let’s put it plainly in one sentence: institutions shove nearly $1 billion in a single day—so don’t use slogans. First, see whether the next few trading days can hold up; don’t treat a one-day pulse as a trend already confirmed.

A quick note from today's market watch: Canary Capital filed a second amendment to the S-1 for its staking version of the SEI ETF. The direction is clearer now—about 90% of SEI assets are expected to participate in staking, and the related assets are all custodied by BitGo.
This is not approval—it's just a document revision. The ETF still has to go through the SEC process, and it hasn’t started trading yet. Staking can boost the yield narrative, but it also brings risks like fund lockups and penalties for forfeiture; the filing pins custody to BitGo, effectively writing the institutional entry threshold into the prospectus.
OKX spot SEI around $0.0549; 24-hour high $0.0553 and low $0.0471; BTC around $81,778, with a high of $81,830 and a low of $80,133. Fear and Greed Index is 70 (Greed).