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BitMine Immersion and SharpLink have rebounded sharply, with their shares rising to $26 and $9.35, respectively. According to NS3.AI, the companies hold 5,956,378 ETH and 868,699 ETH, while Ethereum's improving fundamentals and technical indicators could support further gains.
The article said a move to $3,000 would value their holdings at $17.8 billion and $2.6 billion, respectively, based on its projections.

Solana lowered its target slot time from 300 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds on September 18, marking its third speed increase since August. According to Odaily, the network’s overall throughput did not rise because the compute and data capacity per slot were reduced proportionally. The change is the third stage of the SIMD-0525 four-phase plan, with slot time having fallen from 400 milliseconds at genesis to 350 milliseconds, 300 milliseconds, and now 250 milliseconds. The final step to 200 milliseconds does not yet have a mainnet activation date and depends on validators keeping skip rates stable.

Michael Saylor, founder and executive chairman of Strategy, posted another Bitcoin Tracker update with the caption, "A little more orange." According to ChainCatcher, Strategy has typically disclosed changes in its Bitcoin holdings the day after such posts.

LaiBit mining pool founder Jiang Zhuoer said ZEC fell to $1,445 after Garrett Jin previously shorted ZEC and drew market skepticism over whether he was deliberately creating a counterparty to attract retail longs. According to ChainCatcher, Jiang said Jin’s disclosure of a large spot position removed that target, while his roughly 200,000 ZEC holdings, about 1% of total supply, could become potential selling pressure.
Jiang said this suggests the current ZEC rally may be close to ending. He added that, in trading a token he described as being controlled by major holders, he would be at an information disadvantage versus counterparties and would not participate in the trade.

On Sep 20, 2026, 19:37 PM(UTC). According to Binance Market Data, BNB has crossed the 770 USDT benchmark and is now trading at 770 USDT, with a narrowed 0.87% increase in 24 hours.

Spanish National Guard and National Police have dismantled two crypto-related crime cases and identified or detained 48 people, according to CriptoNoticias. According to ChainCatcher, one Ponzi scheme left 113 investors with losses of about 327,000 euros, while another network used phishing and fake rental ads to carry out fraud and converted the proceeds into crypto assets to evade tracking, causing losses of more than 430,000 euros.

Standard Chartered digital assets research head Geoff Kendrick said ARB is expected to reach $10 by the end of 2030, using a reference price of $0.14. He also set annual targets of $0.5 in 2026, $1.5 in 2027, $3.5 in 2028, and $6.5 in 2029.
According to Odaily, Arbitrum's monthly revenue is expected to reach $5 million in September, more than five times higher than before Robinhood Chain launched. Robinhood Chain launched its mainnet on July 1 on the Arbitrum platform for tokenized assets and decentralized finance applications, and 10% of protocol net revenue is returned to the Arbitrum ecosystem under the Expansion Program, with 8% going to the ArbitrumDAO treasury and 2% supporting the Arbitrum Developer Guild.
ARB is an ERC-20 governance token used to vote on ArbitrumDAO proposals and does not represent on-chain asset ownership or provide direct access to Arbitrum revenue. Standard Chartered said slower tokenization, competing blockchains, and ARB's lack of direct value capture are the main risks to its forecast.

Arthur Hayes posted on X that ENA will rise to $0.50. According to Odaily, the statement was made on the X platform.

Strategy CEO Phong Le said the company does not aim to be only a Bitcoin holding company, but to become the JPMorgan of the Bitcoin sector by creating products, building markets, and providing liquidity for the digital asset economy. According to ChainCatcher, he said the company is targeting an economy that could eventually serve 8 billion people.
Le said Strategy's digital credit ecosystem is currently about $15 billion in size. He added that yield and tokenized products built by DeFi protocols on top of STRC are more important than products launched by Strategy itself.
He also discussed why the company chose share buybacks instead of raising the STRC dividend, and said it has been thinking about its digital credit business after a period of pressure. On Bitcoin strategy, Le said Strategy is pursuing a dual approach of long-term accumulation and flexibility, treating Bitcoin as an item on the balance sheet that is close to cash.
Le also addressed MSCI index-related questions, saying the company is opposing exclusion on principle. He added that AI tools have been embedded across Strategy's software and Bitcoin businesses.

Two addresses linked to Hyperliquid ecosystem builder NMTD placed AVAX ladder sell orders at the same minute on the morning of September 20, according to TradingBeats monitoring. According to BlockBeats On-chain Detection, the addresses still had about $13.866 million in pending orders at the time of reporting.
AVAX on Hyperliquid was trading at about $9.55, up roughly 11.6% over the past 24 hours. It briefly reached $10.82 earlier in the morning before pulling back, leaving the price about 11.8% below that high.
Order history suggests the strategy was to build short positions in stages after AVAX moved above $10. The two addresses, 0xf517 and 0xb1ec, placed orders about 17 seconds apart, starting at $10.20 and $10.15 respectively, with 100 laddered sell orders each.
From February to May, AVAX traded mostly between $8.5 and $10.5, with 117 of 120 daily candles closing inside that range. The $10.5 area repeatedly acted as resistance.
The report said the short entries matched earlier rebound highs in AVAX history. Within that range, 20 large addresses built positions with an average entry price concentrated around $100,000, totaling about $5.396 million and accounting for 23.4% of Hyperliquid market positions. Long positions made up about $1.734 million, while short positions totaled about $3.662 million, equal to 7.5% and 15.9% of open interest, respectively.
As AVAX continued to rise, lower-priced sell orders were gradually filled. NMTD's two addresses had cumulatively opened about $289,500 in short positions on the day, with part of 0xf517 already covered. Together, they held about $240,400 in AVAX shorts, with an unrealized profit of about $24,500. Their average entry prices were about $10.50 and $10.54.
The remaining short plan extends to higher levels, including about $5.081 million between $10.83 and $15, and about $8.785 million between $10.84 and $17. The public labels for 0xf517 are thankjeff.eth and HyBridge: Deployer. The report said 0xb1ec has verified on-chain transfers with the address, but its ownership has not been confirmed.

On Sep 20, 2026, 15:04 PM(UTC). According to Binance Market Data, Ethereum has crossed the 2,600 USDT benchmark and is now trading at 2,600.070068 USDT, with a narrowed narrowed 1.59% decrease in 24 hours.

RippleX engineering lead Ayo Akinyele said commercial projects, including asset managers, are preparing to use the XRP Ledger Batch V1.1 feature. According to Odaily, the feature can bundle up to eight transactions into a single operation and uses an all-or-nothing model for delivery-versus-payment settlement, while also allowing exchanges, wallets, and markets to combine service fees and customer payments.
Of the 35 validator nodes being tracked, 30 now support the proposal, above the 28 votes needed to enter the activation countdown. The countdown began at 14:06:41 UTC on September 15, and if support stays at or above 80% during the 14-day window, activation is expected after the same time on September 29.
Batch V1.0 was withdrawn in February after a critical signature verification vulnerability was found. It was never activated and did not result in any fund losses, and the fixed version was released with xrpld 3.3.0 on August 6.

The floor price of zkSNARKs, a ZEC ecosystem NFT project, fell to 0.95 ZEC, or about $1,400, down roughly 38% from its earlier auction settlement price of 1.5 ZEC. According to Odaily, on-chain investigator ZachXBT previously questioned the project’s lack of practical use and ecosystem development after it raised more than $17 million.
The latest auction received 16,971 bids, and all 8,000 NFTs were allocated. Total trading volume reached 25,305 ZEC.

The Bank of Russia has proposed a 1% capital cap on covered crypto and foreign digital instrument exposure, measured against a bank's own funds or a banking group's consolidated capital. According to NS3.AI, non-liable client custody positions would be excluded from the two ratios but assigned a 50% risk weight, while own-account exposure and liable custody positions would receive a 1,250% risk weight.
The draft is scheduled for publication in the fourth quarter of 2026, with the requirements taking effect 10 days later.

Bitcoin could trigger $1.29 billion in cumulative short liquidations on major centralized exchanges if it breaks above $84,356. According to ChainCatcher, Coinglass data also shows that if BTC falls below $76,969, cumulative long liquidations on major CEXs would reach $852 million.

According to Wallstreetcn, U.S. President Donald Trump said in a phone interview with Fox News reporter Youngster on September 20 that the U.S. Iran issue is in a "decision phase" and that "very major things" will happen "soon."

On Sep 20, 2026, 16:29 PM(UTC). According to Binance Market Data, BNB has crossed the 760 USDT benchmark and is now trading at 760.030029 USDT, with a narrowed narrowed 0.99% decrease in 24 hours.

A hacker previously behind attacks on Fetch.ai and NuNet used a SingularityNET vulnerability to mint 260 million AGIX and 53.838 million WMTX without authorization on the Ethereum network. According to Odaily, the attacker currently holds crypto assets worth about $16.77 million, including 198.3 million AGIX, 649 ETH, and 33.538 million WMTX.

In February, a company handling debit card transactions for Polymarket's U.S. betting platform reported that fraudsters were flooding the app and trying to steal at least $10 million. According to ChainCatcher, users linked stolen debit cards to Polymarket U.S. accounts, placed bets, and attempted to withdraw funds to clean cards or accounts they controlled.
The processor at one point rejected more than 80% of deposits as fraudulent, far above the industry standard of about 1%. Polymarket employees raised concerns to Chief Executive Shayne Coplan, and people familiar with the matter said the compliance team was shocked by Coplan's response: keep growing and pay any fine if regulators find out.

The FBI, Japan's National Police Agency and other international authorities warned that the North Korea-linked hacking group WaterPlum, also known as Contagious Interview, posed as companies in the AI, crypto and NFT sectors from December 2025 to July 2026 to offer fake jobs and attack IT developers worldwide. According to Odaily, the group contacted job seekers through social media and recruitment platforms, lured them into downloading malicious files under the guise of technical interviews or coding tests, infected more than 30,000 devices in over 100 countries and regions, stole data from more than 7,000 crypto wallets, and moved at least $10.71 million into wallets under the attackers' control.

Doctor Profit said on X that Bitcoin has broken above its 50-week moving average, which is near $78,700. According to Odaily, he said a weekly close above that level would be a confirmation signal for the start of a new bull market.
He said the current move resembles the structure seen in 2022 and 2023, when Bitcoin was blocked for several weeks, went through a bear trap, and then reclaimed the 50-week moving average. He added that Bitcoin has fallen below and then regained the 50-week moving average seven times in history, with five of those cases leading to bull markets and two false breakouts in 2011 and 2020. Bitcoin is still trading in the $71,000 to $82,000 range, and a move above $82,500 to $83,000 would provide stronger confirmation, he said. He added that he will continue holding spot positions and is targeting $88,000 after the remaining resistance is broken.

According to Wallstreetcn, U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the White House from Camp David in Maryland on the evening of September 19 U.S. Eastern Time, shortening his planned weekend trip by one day, with the exact reason unclear. Axios and other media reported the early return, while a CNN program said Trump had reviewed and assessed options for strikes against Yemen's Houthi forces at Camp David.

On Sep 20, 2026, 12:03 PM(UTC). According to Binance Market Data, BNB has crossed the 750 USDT benchmark and is now trading at 752.080017 USDT, with a narrowed narrowed 2.04% decrease in 24 hours.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said privacy is only truly dead if people give up on it, adding that he will not abandon privacy and will instead increase his efforts. According to ChainCatcher, he made the remarks in response to Paradigm CTO Georgios Konstantopoulos' question about what room remains for privacy development.
Buterin previously updated Ethereum's roadmap in August, with quantum security, privacy protection, and native rollups listed as future priorities.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and his wife's trust donated a total of 438,000 company shares on September 17. According to Sina Finance, SEC filings released on September 18 showed that 292,000 shares went to the Huang family foundation and 146,000 shares went to a donor-advised fund.
Nvidia shares rose 1.34% on September 18 to $222.27, giving the company a market value of $5.4 trillion. According to Sina Finance, the donated shares were worth about $97.35 million based on that price.
The filings also showed that about 160,200 Nvidia shares held by five executives, including Huang, were withheld by the company on September 16 at $212.17 per share to cover taxes. According to Sina Finance, Huang was involved in 45,728 shares, worth about $9.7 million.
The other four executives were Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress, General Counsel Timothy S. Teter, Executive Vice President of Operations Debora Shoquist, and Chief Accounting Officer Scott Gawel. Kress also separately sold 34,918 Nvidia shares on September 17 at prices between $217.42 and $219.865 per share, for proceeds of about $7.65 million, under a 10b5-1 trading plan set on June 16 this year.

Uniswap led decentralized finance total value locked gains in the tokenized stocks sector, with its V4 and V3 versions adding a combined $82.8 million. According to ChainCatcher, the increase was reported by Cointelegraph.

A 2021 firmware flaw in Coldcard hardware wallets left some recovery seeds with insufficient randomness, and attackers have moved about 1,600 to 1,800 BTC from affected wallets since July 30, across thousands of addresses. According to Odaily, the stolen bitcoin is valued at more than $100 million.
Coldcard maker Coinkite said it must assume someone used AI to review its public firmware, while noting that the bug had existed for about five years and that AI involvement in the attacks has not been confirmed.
Shielded Labs researcher Taylor Hornby used a Claude Opus 4.8 audit agent to find a vulnerability in the Zcash Orchard shielded pool circuit that began in 2022. In testing, he was able to generate unlimited fake ZEC without detection, and developers fixed the issue within days; no theft was confirmed.
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis said the daily number of on-chain writes carrying malware instructions and command-and-control information rose from about 2.06 to 11.1, an increase of 440%.

SlowMist co-founder Yu Xuan said on X that users should pay more attention to cases in which the delivery app ComeCome used a similar method to steal crypto assets than to the FomoPeek app case on iPhone. According to Odaily, some seemingly normal apps may infect users after being used, and the issue has occurred on iPhone. Yu Xuan advised users to update to the latest iOS version promptly and said iPad and Mac may also be affected.

On Sep 20, 2026, 02:57 AM(UTC). According to Binance Market Data, BNB has dropped below 750 USDT and is now trading at 747.929993 USDT, with a narrowed 1.83% decrease in 24 hours.

Solana network on-chain transaction activity reached a record high of 5.218 billion transactions in August, according to Blockworks data. According to BlockBeats On-chain Detection, the figure marked the highest monthly level recorded for the network.

Kalshi has filed a rule change request with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and an application with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to seek approval for perpetual contracts tied to U.S. individual stocks. According to PANews, the proposed contracts would have no preset expiration date and would use periodic funding rates between long and short positions to keep prices aligned with the underlying stock.
Kalshi said the contracts would be treated as securities futures products and cleared through Kalshi Klear, its CFTC-registered clearinghouse.

A trader first bought GSTOCK two days ago and added to the position during a rapid 20-minute price rise, spending a total of $261,000 to accumulate 12.31 million tokens at an average price of $0.02117. According to Odaily, the address is now up $51,000 and ranks among the top four GSTOCK holders.

A Costa Rican court sentenced two men to 12 years in prison each for money laundering in a case tied to the 2018 kidnapping and killing of U.S. businessman William Sean Creighton Kopko. According to ChainCatcher, the victim's family paid a ransom of about 148 bitcoin at the time, which was valued at about $1 million.
The court found that the defendants received part of the ransom and deposited it into wallets they controlled to conceal the origin of the assets.

Fetch.ai's Ethereum contract is under a continuing attack, according to Blockaid monitoring. According to Foresight News, the losses are about $2.01 million, including about $1.56 million in FET stolen from the token conversion contract and about $452,000 in NTX maliciously minted.
Blockaid said the attacker used a valid conversion authorization signature in the conversionIn function of TokenConversionManagerV3 to drain the remaining FET held by the converter. The same wallet later minted a large amount of NTX from the NuNet deployer account.

Evernorth has signed a note purchase agreement with NH Investment & Securities to issue 4% convertible preferred PIK notes due 2031. According to Odaily, the transaction is contingent on Evernorth completing its business combination with Armada Acquisition Corp. II, Pathfinder Digital Assets, and Ripple Labs, which is expected in the fourth quarter. The combined entity plans to list on Nasdaq under the ticker XRPN, subject to exchange approval. Evernorth is an XRP treasury company.

Anthropic said it has chosen Accenture as its first embedded evaluator to help slow the pace of AI development, following a proposal from CEO Dario Amodei. Amodei published a three-step proposal on Sept. 12 calling for slower AI development so safeguards can be put in place amid warnings about the potential for catastrophic harm from rapid, unchecked progress. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk responded positively to the proposal, while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argued that such regulation was not necessary. Amodei said AI has been advancing faster because of its growing ability to build the next generation of AI, describing the process as recursive self-improvement and warning that, if left unchecked, it could outrun human ability to understand and control these systems.
Anthropic said the first step in Amodei’s proposal is to use independent evaluators with employee-like access, a commitment the company had already made. According to Cointelegraph, Anthropic announced on Friday that it is moving toward that goal by partnering with Accenture and its AI business Faculty to evaluate and red-team models, conduct alignment assessments, and test model safeguards. The company said details of how the arrangement will work are still being developed because embedded evaluation is a new approach. Anthropic and Accenture each expect to invest at least $1 billion in the project over the next five years. Anthropic also said there is no existing system for funding independent evaluation, so long-term support should come from pooled or government sources, but it will fund Accenture’s work directly because of the urgency of the effort. The partnership is non-exclusive, and Anthropic expects to announce additional evaluators in the coming weeks. Accenture said its Faculty unit has experience testing and evaluating models for leading AI labs and building complex AI systems designed to be safe and ethical by design. Julie Sweet, chair and CEO of Accenture, said embedded evaluation is an emerging area and that the company looks forward to helping accelerate its development as part of the safety landscape going forward.

A drone attack hit the Moscow refinery as Russia's parliamentary election entered its final day of voting. According to Sina Finance, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said multiple drones struck the refinery area on Sunday, damaging one facility and causing no casualties.
Russia's Defense Ministry said air defenses shot down 1,110 Ukrainian drones across 19 regions of Russia and Crimea. According to Sina Finance, it was the largest single-night drone attack reported by Russia so far this year, surpassing the 822 drones recorded in August.
The Moscow refinery is owned by Russian oil producer Gazprom Neft and is about 25 kilometers from the Kremlin. According to Sina Finance, the refinery has a daily processing capacity of about 245,000 barrels and is one of the main fuel suppliers in the Moscow region.

A proposal posted on ZetaHub would convert ZETA into a Solana native SPL token on a 1:1 basis while keeping the existing ticker. According to ChainCatcher, no migration will take place until ZETA holders complete a vote.
The proposal also plans to introduce the privacy-focused multimodal AI application Anuma, which reportedly has 300,000 users and supports unified memory across models. It has also launched a beta feature for real-life social discovery. Voting is set to begin on September 17 and will last 72 hours.

On Sep 20, 2026, 16:08 PM(UTC). According to Binance Market Data, Bitcoin has crossed the 81,000 USDT benchmark and is now trading at 81,000 USDT, with a narrowed narrowed 0.79% decrease in 24 hours.

An attack cluster transferred about $1.54 million in FET from Fetch AI's token converter on Ethereum. According to ChainCatcher, the same cluster also received about $452,000 in newly minted NTX from a Nunet Global deployer, bringing the confirmed total involved to about $2.01 million.