Rate Hikes and Tokenized Stocks Stir the Market
📰 Crypto Morning News | 2026-09-18 09:00

🔥 Major Developments
1. If the Fed hikes rates again in October—or prompts the White House to scrutinize the situation — Nick Timiraos says relations were temporarily eased after Trump recently spoke with Fed Chair Waller. However, a senior government official said…
2. Nostra suffers oracle-attack losses of about $3.5 million — An oracle attack on Nostra saw the manipulated NSTR oracle price enable a single account to borrow roughly $3.5 million in assets…
3. Trump says he is considering expanding military action against Iran — In an interview with Axios, Trump said he is nearing a major decision point in the war involving Iran…
4. The U.S. approves Iranian officials to travel to New York for the UNGA — The State Department confirmed it has approved senior officials such as Iran’s president and foreign minister to attend a high-level UN General Assembly meeting in New York…

📊 Market Data
1. Expectations for another Fed rate hike this year heat up — CME FedWatch shows that among the remaining two FOMC meetings this year, the probability that the October meeting keeps rates unchanged is 49.1%…
2. U.S. stocks rebound; chip stocks and crypto treasury stocks surge broadly — U.S. markets closed Thursday with the Dow up 0.6%, the S&P 500 up 1.1%, and the Nasdaq up 1.69%. Chip stocks led the gains…
3. Coin stocks tied to SEC new rules continue rising — Spurred by the U.S. SEC’s new policy on innovation and exempted tokenized-stock offerings, UNI saw an 18% gain over 24 hours…
4. Liquidations across the entire network total $99.0495 million in the past 12 hours — CoinGlass data shows total liquidations of $99.0495 million across the entire network over the past 12 hours…
5. Multiple newly created wallets withdraw over $46 million ZEC — Lookonchain monitoring indicates that as the ZEC price rises, multiple newly created wallets have continuously withdrawn ZEC from exchanges over the past two days…
6. Short positions in ZEC deepen losses after breaking $1,500 — According to Euyin monitoring, ZEC continues its rally this morning and broke through $1,500; the largest short position holder is Garrett Jin…
7. Artificial Inu market cap surpasses $360 million — GMGN data shows that Robinhood-chain meme coin Artificial Inu’s market cap surpassed…
8. Goldman maintains its year-end 2027 gold forecast — Goldman says that despite the Fed hiking yesterday, it still keeps its forecast for gold at $5,400 per ounce by the end of 2027…

🏛️ Regulatory Policy
1. The U.S. sanctions Iranian crypto exchange BitBank — The U.S. Treasury announced sanctions against BitBank, a crypto exchange controlled by Iranian financier Babak Zanjani…
2. SEC commissioner flags risks of 24/7 U.S. stock trading — SEC commissioner Hester M. Peirce said extended trading hours for U.S. stocks are being set at 23…
3. AMC CEO praises SEC tokenized-stock principles — AMC CEO Adam Aron said he appreciates SEC Chair Paul Atkins…

💡 Project Updates
1. Uniswap founder interprets where permissioned v4 pools fit — Hayden Adams said that regular, permissionless Uniswap is not included in this sandbox and did not need to apply for a waiver in the first place…
2. Under NEAR’s narrative shift, price briefly breaks $3.1 — HTX market data shows NEAR briefly broke above $3.1 and is currently at $3.1074…
3. Backpack token BP breaks $0.53 — HTX market data shows Backpack platform token BP broke above $0.53, up more than 18.4% in 24 hours…
4. After going live on genius.fun, GSTOCK’s market cap breaks $10 million — Genius Terminal launched a token-issuance platform, genius.fun, on BNB Chain…
5. Anthropic releases three AI development measurement metrics — Anthropic released three metrics to track AI development, covering the proportion of AI involvement in R&D, AI agents…

📊 Market Overview: BTC $76,554 (+0.33%), funding rate 0.0067%; ETH $2,447.39 (+1.20%), funding rate 0.0038%
📍 Daily buy/sell points: $BTC daily sell point $77,032 | daily buy point $75,857 / $ETH daily sell point $2,482.70 | daily buy point $2,411.25 / BNB daily sell point $745.58 | daily buy point $726.72

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