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Greeks.live researcher Adam said on X that BTC rose $10,000 in four days while implied volatility remained at 35%. According to Odaily, Adam made the comment in a post on X.

Binance Wallet announced on X that Binance Alpha's third wave of Cysic (CYS) airdrop rewards is now available. Users with at least 250 Binance Alpha Points can claim 180 CYS tokens on a first-come, first-served basis. If the reward pool is not fully distributed, the score threshold will automatically decrease by 5 points every 5 minutes. Claiming the airdrop will consume 15 Binance Alpha Points. Users must confirm their claim on the Alpha Events page within 24 hours, or the claim will be considered abandoned.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said blockchain was originally a core tool that was open, neutral, and secure, but it was not scalable and had no privacy protection mechanism. According to ChainCatcher, he made the remarks in a keynote speech at the 12th Blockchain Global Summit.
Buterin said zero-knowledge proofs have changed that situation by enabling private transactions and scalable verification, and they have moved from planning into actual EIPs on Ethereum's roadmap. He also said fully homomorphic encryption is beginning to be applied, while indistinguishable obfuscation could also be used on-chain in the future.
Beyond privacy, Buterin said parallel block construction and proofs could make extreme scalability possible. He added that industry thinking has shifted from digital assets to digital assets plus information, from a purely on-chain model to a full pipeline involving users, transaction mempools, and the blockchain, and from asking who can send what to who can see what.
Buterin said blockchain has gradually evolved from a simple ledger into a cryptography-based secure computing network. He also said that as AI develops, providing cryptographic rules to AI for automated formal verification could greatly improve verification efficiency and allow blockchains to support more use cases.

According to the announcement from Binance, the company will migrate users’ crypto assets from Funding Accounts to Spot Accounts starting from 2026-09-29 to January 2027, with detailed dates to be shared later. The change is intended to simplify the user account structure and improve asset management. At the end of the migration period, Funding Accounts will be renamed Stocks Account and will be used only for stock and stock-options trading settlement. From 2026-09-29, Funding Accounts will no longer support on-chain deposits, while deposits and withdrawals for other crypto tokens will be supported through Spot Accounts. Binance said users will be able to use the six settlement assets, USD, USDC, USDT, USD1, U, and BNB, for stocks and stock-options trading through the renamed Stocks Account. A One-Click Migration button will be added to Funding Accounts so users can proactively move crypto assets to Spot Accounts, while assets not migrated manually will be moved automatically in batches from January 2027. Binance said no manual action will be required for automatic migration and aggregate asset balances will not be affected.
For Binance Alpha 2.0, stablecoins used for Alpha token purchases and sales on limit orders will be debited from and credited to users’ Alpha Accounts starting from 2026-09-29, and rebates under the Limit Order Liquidity Providers Program will also be credited to Alpha Accounts. For Binance Card and Gift Card, assets received from 2026-09-29 will be credited to Spot Accounts. For Pay, assets received from Binance Pay will also be credited to Spot Accounts from 2026-09-29. Binance said assets in Stocks Accounts will not be deducted for payment, while Funding Accounts will still be able to serve as a payment source temporarily before being removed. Existing recurring send plans that rely only on Funding Accounts will stop executing once Funding Accounts are removed as a payment source. In Convert, existing open Limit Orders with assets frozen in Funding Accounts will remain frozen and settle to Spot Accounts after 2026-09-29, expired Limit Orders will settle to Spot Accounts, and new Limit Orders created on or after 2026-09-29 will freeze and settle only into Spot Accounts. Recurring Orders will settle to Spot or Earn Accounts from 2026-09-29, and failed refunds will return to Spot Accounts. Binance also said API users should update account references from Funding to Spot Accounts, and P2P advertisers will continue using Funding Accounts as the default source until December 2026, when a new P2P Account will be introduced for advertisers.

On Sep 23, 2026, 07:13 AM(UTC). According to Binance Market Data, BNB has crossed the 790 USDT benchmark and is now trading at 790.099976 USDT, with a narrowed 0.34% increase in 24 hours.

21Shares launched Europe’s first physically backed ETP tracking Zcash on Tuesday on Euronext Paris and Euronext Amsterdam, giving investors ZEC exposure through brokerage accounts without directly holding crypto. According to ChainCatcher, the firm also introduced a physically backed ETP tracking ETHFI, the governance and utility token of Ether.fi, a decentralized finance protocol that offers staking and other crypto financial services.
Both products carry an annual management fee of 2.5%, which is higher than most European Bitcoin and Ethereum investment products. The Zcash ETP launch followed Grayscale’s U.S. listing of a Zcash ETF on NYSE Arca under the ticker ZCSH.
Zcash has recently gained momentum, briefly topping $1,500 and rising nearly 1,100% over the past year, as interest in it as a Bitcoin alternative increased. Grayscale research head Zach Pandl said Zcash may benefit from a late-mover advantage that could help it overcome Bitcoin’s entrenched network effects.
Interest in Zcash has also extended to mining. Fortitude Digital Mining told Cointelegraph that it mined about 28% of the network’s ZEC in the first half of 2026 and said its Zcash strategy is based on the network’s proof-of-work model, supply cap, and privacy features.

According to the announcement from Binance, Binance Earn is launching a promotion for Simple Earn PLUME Flexible Products that includes a daily BNB giveaway for users who hold PLUME Flexible Products from 2026-09-23 00:00 (UTC) to 2026-10-22 23:59 (UTC). The total reward pool is 70 BNB, with daily rewards of 2.33333333 BNB. BNB APR Boost Giveaway rewards will be automatically distributed to eligible users’ Spot Accounts daily from 2026-09-24 10:00 (UTC), and the final rewards will be distributed by 2026-10-23 10:00 (UTC). Binance said users can check distribution records in their Spot Accounts. The announcement states that these BNB rewards are additional to the Real-Time APR from PLUME Flexible Products. It also says users can subscribe these BNB rewards to BNB Simple Earn Products. PLUME can be bought on the Buy Crypto page using payment methods including Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay, Google Pay, account balances, and SWIFT Bank Transfer for corporate users, or users can deposit PLUME to their Binance account. To participate, users can go to Simple Earn, search for PLUME, select FLEXIBLE, and subscribe to PLUME Simple Earn Flexible Products. The announcement describes Plume as an institutional open finance platform that brings institutional assets into open, programmable, globally accessible markets. It says Plume Vaults provides compliant, non-custodial access to assets from Apollo, WisdomTree, Hamilton Lane, and other firms, and notes backing from Apollo Global Management, Galaxy Digital, and Brevan Howard, along with SEC transfer-agent registration via Kimber Transfer Agency LLC and a license from the Bermuda Monetary Authority.

Regulators need to prepare markets for "mass tokenization" while tailoring current markets for new technology such as blockchain and artificial intelligence, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Michael Selig said, according to The Block. "With developments like tokenization, on-chain finance, and 24/7 trading, the next decade will likely bring more change to financial markets than the previous several decades combined," Selig said Tuesday during a US Treasury market conference at the New York Fed. He said the US will continue to lead, adding that across the Trump administration officials have already laid the groundwork by embracing innovation, encouraging competition, right-sizing regulation and maintaining the trust that has made US markets the global gold standard.
Over the past year, the CFTC has issued guidance and sought public comments on 24/7 trading for energy derivatives markets, reflecting its growing interest in round-the-clock markets. In February, it expanded its list of eligible collateral to include stablecoins issued by national trust banks, and Selig said the agency will look for more ways to encourage responsible stablecoin adoption among market participants, exchanges and clearinghouses.
Meanwhile, the CFTC's sister agency, the Securities and Exchange Commission, released its long-anticipated "innovation exemption" last week to make room for on-chain trading of tokenized stock. Both agencies are pressing ahead after a broader bill to regulate the crypto industry stalled in the Senate.

European central banks have recommended changing MiCA’s reserve rules for stablecoins issued by electronic-money institutions. According to NS3.AI, the proposal would replace the compulsory share of bank deposits with reserve percentages held in assets maturing within one and five working days.
Under current EU rules, at least 30% of reserves must be kept in commercial-bank deposits for stablecoins issued by electronic-money institutions. The requirement increases to 60% for significant tokens.

Strategy CEO Phong Le said the company underestimated how much borrowed money would flow into STRC, its $9.3 billion preferred stock that lost a quarter of its value this summer. According to BeInCrypto, Le said investors borrowed against Bitcoin at about 6% to buy STRC for its 12% yield, and forced selling pushed the stock below $100. Strategy began buybacks in late July and now holds about $5.1 billion in reserves.

Bitcoin is becoming the institutional crypto trade while everything around it looks increasingly like retail territory, according to Benzinga, citing an exclusive interview with CoinMarketCap. The platform's latest data shows institutions piling into spot Bitcoin ETFs as retail attention spreads across meme coins, AI tokens and tokenized stocks, creating a widening divide in how different investors access crypto. "Institutions are buying Bitcoin through ETFs. Retail is trading everything else through a phone," Alice Liu, head of research at CoinMarketCap, told Benzinga. US spot Bitcoin ETF assets under management climbed from about $79 billion to $102 billion over the month through September 10, a roughly $23 billion increase, and Bitcoin's dominance held near 59% — close to the top of its 12-month range — suggesting institutional exposure is concentrating around the largest digital asset rather than spreading across the market.
Retail activity tells a different story, Liu said. CoinMarketCap's trending data recently placed a two-day-old meme token ahead of Solana, while AI projects, memecoins and tokenized equities kept drawing attention. As of September 10, memecoins represented about $28.8 billion in market value and $3.5 billion in daily volume, AI and big-data tokens $18.5 billion and $2.9 billion, and tokenized stocks just $2.3 billion in market value but roughly $2 billion in daily volume — turning over almost their entire market cap each day, versus about 12% for memes and 16% for AI tokens, pointing to retail traders increasingly focused on how and when they can trade, not just what.
Bitcoin's institutionalization has not eliminated speculation but may be creating a two-track market, with ETF flows offering larger investors a regulated route while retail moves between memes, AI tokens, tokenized stocks and leveraged products around the clock. Yet broad participation has not translated into a full altcoin rotation: CoinMarketCap's Altcoin Season Index stood at 37, well below the 75 threshold for an altcoin season, and funding rates had fallen by more than half over the preceding month even as open interest climbed 20% to $468 billion. The split matters because "crypto" is increasingly two trades — institutional capital building exposure through Bitcoin, retail driving the faster-moving experiments elsewhere — with the next catalyst likely being whether that retail activity broadens into a sustained altcoin rotation or flows back toward Bitcoin.

Bitcoin traded at $86,423 on Tuesday, up from below $76,000 a week ago, as Tom Lee and iTrustCapital CEO Kevin Maloney said the worst may be behind investors. According to BeInCrypto, Maloney said the crypto winter is over, while Lee argued the Fed cannot get more hawkish after a 0.25-point rate hike and a failed CLARITY Act vote. Maloney said a weekly close above $85,000 would leave Bitcoin in a good position.

NEAR Protocol announced that the NEAR token has been deployed to Hyperliquid's spot market, allowing users to trade the NEAR/USDC pair on the platform. According to Foresight News, the project said NEAR will take several more days to appear in Hyperliquid's Strict List on the platform interface, following Hyperliquid's process.

ZEC rose above $1,600 and set a new recent all-time high, according to Coinglass data. According to ChainCatcher, liquidations over the past 4 hours reached $13.4 million, ranking first across the market, with short positions accounting for $12.9 million.

On Sep 23, 2026, 12:04 PM(UTC). According to Binance Market Data, BNB has dropped below 780 USDT and is now trading at 779.039978 USDT, with a narrowed 1.00% decrease in 24 hours.

According to the announcement from Binance, Binance Margin now supports ARB/U and ENA/USD1 trading pairs on Cross Margin. The update expands the set of margin trading options available on the platform and adds two pairs to the Cross Margin offering. The announcement identifies ARB/U and ENA/USD1 as newly supported trading pairs, with the change focused specifically on Cross Margin rather than other trading products. No additional operational details were provided in the main announcement beyond the availability of these pairs.
The announcement also notes that newly listed trading pairs tend to be volatile, but it does not provide further trading guidance in the main body. It states that users can refer to Margin Data for the most updated marginable assets and for more information on specific limits, collateral ratio, and rates. The notice does not include any other product changes, launch timelines, or related service updates. It is presented as a general announcement about margin trading support, with the core update centered on the addition of ARB/U and ENA/USD1 to Cross Margin.

Cardano officially joined the x402 payment standard on September 21, enabling applications and autonomous AI agents to pay for online services directly in ADA. ADA rose about 4% over the past 24 hours to a four-month high, according to BeInCrypto data. Cardano Foundation engineers built the client, server and facilitator components after the specification merged into the official x402 repository around September 9, and the facilitator has already processed a transaction on Cardano’s pre-production testing network.

Bitcoin treasury company Strategy (formerly known as MicroStrategy) sold 6,948 BTC between May and August at an average price of $62,150, then repurchased 5,553 BTC at an average of $80,207. According to NS3.AI, the roundtrip cost the company $100.2 million in foregone gains, and 1,363 of the sold coins remained unreplaced.
Executive chairman Michael Saylor and CEO Phong Le defended the sales as part of a two-way strategy. SEC filings said the proceeds were used to fund dividends.

A whale bought 373,700 HYPE worth $36 million today. According to Odaily, the whale has bought a total of 4.7 million HYPE worth $400 million over the past month.

According to a public financial disclosure filing, U.S. President Donald Trump bought up to $50,000 of SpaceX shares in July and sold up to $15,000 of shares. The filing, signed by Trump on September 8, said he bought SpaceX shares worth between $15,001 and $50,000 on July 10 and sold shares worth between $1,001 and $15,000 on July 17.
The latest trades created a new financial link between Trump and Elon Musk's rocket company, while his administration was making decisions that could affect the company's outlook. SpaceX priced its June 12 IPO, which set a U.S. record, at a valuation of $1.77 trillion. Reports had previously said Trump bought SpaceX shares in June.
Between July 10 and July 17, SpaceX shares fell 15%. White House spokesperson Davis Ingle had previously said the president's portfolio is independently managed by a third-party financial institution and mirrors the composition of "recognized indexes, such as the Charles Schwab 1000 Index."
The SpaceX share purchases and sales were part of more than 1,000 trades Trump made in July. The U.S. Office of Government Ethics, which collects ethics disclosure information for U.S. officials, posted the forms on its website on Tuesday.

XRP spot ETFs recorded total net inflows of $20.02 million in a single day, according to SoSoValue data. According to ChainCatcher, Bitwise XRP ETF led the group with $19.16 million in daily net inflows, bringing its cumulative net inflows to $637 million.
Franklin XRP ETF followed with $862,200 in daily net inflows and cumulative net inflows of $485 million. As of press time, XRP spot ETFs held net assets of $1.731 billion, with an XRP net asset ratio of 1.75% and cumulative net inflows of $1.73 billion.

According to the announcement from Binance, the exchange will close UAH deposits and withdrawals via Fiat Trade UAH and delist the USDT/UAH Spot trading pair. UAH deposits and withdrawals via Fiat Trade UAH will no longer be supported after 2026-09-28 09:00 (UTC+2), and the USDT/UAH Spot trading pair will be delisted on 2026-09-28 09:00 (UTC+2). All open orders on the USDT/UAH Spot trading pair will be automatically removed after trading ceases. Users are advised to manage their UAH balances and open orders before the stated deadlines. The announcement also says that all remaining eligible UAH balances will be automatically converted to USDT by 2026-09-30 18:00 (UTC+2), using a fixed conversion rate of 1 USDT = 46.5 UAH. No action is required from users who want their eligible UAH balances converted automatically.

QiDao Protocol's stablecoin miMATIC on Polygon is depegging and is currently trading at about $0.86, around 14% below its $1 peg. According to Foresight News, Blockaid monitoring shows the depeg is still ongoing.

CryptoQuant analysts said onchain signals have confirmed Bitcoin's next bull market and described the path from $86,000 as largely clear. According to NS3.AI, the firm expects profit-taking to emerge near $90,000 and sees no return to bear-market conditions.
US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds also recorded $1.7 billion in net inflows during the first two days of the week, according to the report.

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has released its mutual evaluation report on Turkey based on an on-site visit in November 2025. According to Foresight News, the report says Turkey has established a relatively complete regulatory framework for virtual asset service providers (VASPs), but the framework was still in the implementation phase at the time of assessment.
The report said Turkey applies risk-based supervision to financial institutions and VASPs, and the number of anti-money laundering compliance inspections has increased significantly. It added that financial institutions and VASPs generally understand money laundering risks and anti-money laundering obligations, but important gaps remain in implementation, including only partially effective identification and monitoring of politically exposed persons and insufficient suspicious transaction reporting.
Based on the overall assessment, Turkey has been placed under enhanced follow-up procedures and must complete key remediation recommendations within three years. These include strengthening the identification of terrorist financing risks and prioritizing anti-money laundering efforts related to drug trafficking and illegal gambling.

A U.S. official familiar with the matter said U.S. President Donald Trump told advisers he would like to arrange a meeting with Iranian officials traveling to New York for the United Nations General Assembly if the conditions are right. According to Sina Finance, the official said no schedule has been finalized, and it is unclear whether Iran is willing to take part in the talks.
The official said there are internal questions about whether the proposed meeting, expected to take place on the sidelines of the General Assembly, could help the Trump administration find a way out of the U.S.-Iran war. The official also said it is unclear whether the Iranian officials attending the New York meetings have authorization from Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who is seen as Iran's ultimate decision-maker.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian are among the members of the reduced delegation traveling to the United States for the General Assembly. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz both signaled that the president is open to meeting with Iran.
Rubio said on Tuesday that no meeting has been arranged, but the U.S. would welcome such talks, especially if they could produce positive results and ultimately achieve the core goal that Iran must never have nuclear weapons. Waltz said on Wednesday that Trump has always been willing to engage in dialogue.

Russia will push to establish a transparent and legal cryptocurrency market, Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Chebeskov said. According to ChainCatcher, the country has about 20 million crypto users, with residents' related investments totaling about 3.7 trillion rubles and average daily trading volume of about 50 billion rubles.

Aave v4 deposits have surpassed $1 billion, according to Token Terminal monitoring. According to ChainCatcher, the protocol’s deposits doubled over the past month, while active loans currently stand at $300 million.

Solana decentralized exchange protocol Raydium said it will invest its initial $1 million treasury funds into USDv and support USDv trading pairs across its market and Launchpad ecosystem. According to ChainCatcher, Solomon chose Raydium as the primary venue for USDv liquidity and will deploy core USDv liquidity on the platform.
USDv is Solomon's fully reserved stablecoin on Solana, backed by short-term U.S. Treasury exposure. The partnership is intended to let Raydium use Solomon's platform to direct related yield to liquidity providers, trader rewards, and incentives for new markets. User participation in rewards requires a one-time opt-in and does not involve staking, wrapping, or locking, with the arrangement set to move forward alongside USDv's launch on September 23.

On Sep 23, 2026, 04:23 AM(UTC). According to Binance Market Data, Bitcoin has crossed the 87,000 USDT benchmark and is now trading at 87,000 USDT, with a narrowed 1.69% increase in 24 hours.

XRPL validators have placed BatchV1_1 on a conditional path to activate at 14:06:41 UTC on Sept. 29. According to NS3.AI, 30 of 35 trusted validators supported the amendment on Sept. 22.
Support must stay above 80% for two weeks for activation to move forward. Older nodes and clients may fail after activation.

Hong Kong Monetary Authority Chief Executive Eddie Yue said Hong Kong's stock, foreign exchange, and bond markets are mature, while digital finance is rising rapidly. According to PANews, Yue made the remarks in a speech at the Treasury Markets Summit.
Yue said the Central Moneymarkets Unit, or CMU, will launch new services by the end of this year. He said the services will provide on-chain 24-hour real-time settlement and support the digital Hong Kong dollar and central bank digital currencies. He added that the platform will also study accepting tokenized deposits and regulated stablecoins for settlement.

ETH could trigger $1.157 billion in cumulative short liquidations on major centralized exchanges if it breaks above $2,891. According to ChainCatcher, if ETH falls below $2,621, cumulative long liquidations on major centralized exchanges could reach $1.146 billion.

The Clarity Act failed to clear a Senate cloture vote, leaving regulators and lawmakers racing to fill the crypto oversight gap between the SEC and CFTC. According to BeInCrypto, Democrats objected to the bill’s ethics language, while Republicans revised the text hours before the vote to add state attorneys general to enforcement and keep federal enforcement inside the DOJ. The Trump family drew $1.4 billion in crypto profits last year, and Fairshake opened a $30 million campaign against Sherrod Brown.

Solana's Alpenglow upgrade has entered the public testnet, where developers will test reducing transaction finality from about 13 seconds to 0.15 seconds, or 150 milliseconds. According to ChainCatcher, the upgrade will replace Solana's current TowerBFT consensus system with Votor, allowing validators to confirm blocks through one or two rounds of direct voting while the way users send funds remains unchanged.
The first testnet migration requires Agave 4.3 and does not yet support Firedancer or Frankendancer. The planned mainnet update on September 28 remains tentative and is not a confirmed launch date for Alpenglow.

Bitcoin is up about 13% since the Federal Reserve raised rates on September 16, with Wall Street funds doing most of the buying. according to BeInCrypto, the rebound came as the bad news was already priced in, higher rates stopped scaring buyers and the chart showed room to rise.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $2.31 billion across September 17, 18, 21 and 22, while Bitcoin (BTC) gained 5.9% on September 18 and 6.7% on September 21. The move pushed BTC out of an inverse head and shoulders pattern, with resistance at $86,935 and a measured target of $117,247.

XRP Ledger's PermissionDelegationV1_1 upgrade has entered a 14-day activation countdown after 29 of the network's 35 trusted validators backed it. According to NS3.AI, the upgrade could go live on Oct. 5 at 11:18 UTC if support remains at or above 80%.

Foresight News posted on X (formerly Twitter). Vitalik Buterin discussed privacy protection and how blockchain systems verify computation. He said traditional validation requires nodes to independently execute transactions and compare results, which allows verification but duplicates work and limits the amount of computation a network can handle.
Buterin described an alternative in which the party performing the computation generates a cryptographic proof after completing the work, and other participants verify that proof to confirm the computation followed the rules. He said proof systems such as SNARKs and STARKs can make verification more efficient than re-executing complex computations. When these systems also have zero-knowledge properties, they can confirm that a result is valid while hiding input information that does not need to be disclosed.
He said there are two related but different goals: reducing repeated computation and protecting privacy. Using proofs to scale a system does not automatically make transactions private, and privacy still requires application and protocol design.
Buterin also mentioned fully homomorphic encryption, or FHE, which allows a computing party to process encrypted data without first decrypting it. He said the technology offers a way to let others perform computation without handing over the original data.
He added that these tools expand the design space for applications by giving developers more flexibility over where computation happens, how results are verified, and who can see specific information.

Lookonchain monitored two newly created addresses buying UNI. According to ChainCatcher, one address purchased 269,500 UNI, while another bought 138,400 UNI.

Pyth has become an external distributor of Nasdaq Basic, Nasdaq's proprietary real-time U.S. stock quote and trade product. According to Foresight News, customers of the Pyth data market can now buy licenses directly from Nasdaq to access Nasdaq Basic data through Pyth.
Any customer that wants to use Pyth as its Nasdaq Basic data provider must obtain Nasdaq's written approval before using Nasdaq basic market data. Nasdaq Basic covers all securities listed on U.S. exchanges, regardless of where they are listed.
The product also provides Nasdaq official open and close prices, which are reference prices derived from Nasdaq's opening, closing, and IPO or trading halt cross points. Many institutions use these prices to assess the value of positions at the start and end of the trading day.