US Federal Reserve hawkish pressure triggers market pullback; tokenization and institutional expansion continue
📰 Crypto Evening News | 2026-09-24 21:00

🔥 Major Events
1. Fed’s Williams says another rate hike this year is a reasonable expectation — New York Fed Chair Williams said U.S. inflation has been above the 2% target for five consecutive years, with energy prices and AI investment boosting demand…
2. Oracle cites force majeure provisions to seek exemption for data center project — According to Bloomberg, Oracle issued a force majeure notice to the developer of a data center project in New Mexico…
3. Duelbits multi-chain hot wallet suspected private key leak; about $4.2 million outflow — Scam Sniffer monitoring suggests Duelbits’ hot wallets on Ethereum, BSC, and Tron networks appeared…
4. MemTensor AI memory module hit by supply-chain poisoning attack — SlowMist issued a warning, saying MemTensor’s AI long-term memory toolkit was targeted via a supply-chain attack…
5. Saudi Arabia sells nearly 100 million barrels of crude oil to Asian buyers and assumes shipping risk — According to informed traders, since mid-last week Saudi Arabia has sold nearly 100 million barrels of crude oil to Asian buyers, with delivery concentrated in October and November…
6. Wall Street assesses U.S. election risks; AI trading becomes a focus — Wall Street strategists noted polling and prediction markets show the Democrats may regain control of at least one chamber of Congress; if this happens…

📊 Market Data
1. Market bets on the Fed raising rates four more times through June next year; Bitcoin dips below $83,000 in the short term — CME FedWatch data shows the market is pricing in four cumulative rate hikes by the Fed to June 2027, to 4.75%-5%…
2. Liquidations across all markets total $617 million in the past 24 hours; longs dominate — Coinglass data shows liquidations across all markets in the past 24 hours totaled $617 million, including $546 million in long liquidations…
3. Major coins pull back from highs; open interest clearly shrinks — TradingBeats monitoring indicates BTC saw two rounds of declines after yesterday’s high…
4. Hyperliquid Strategies adds 1.444 million HYP in one week — EmberCN monitoring shows Nasdaq-listed HYPE finance company Hyperliquid…
5. U.S. stock index futures slide across the board; long-term Treasury yields hit new highs — Ahead of the open, futures on the three major U.S. stock indexes fell across the board; Nasdaq 100 index futures were down 1.07%…
6. Initial jobless claims in the U.S. last week: 197,000, below expectations — The U.S. had initial jobless claims of 197,000 for the week ending September 19, below the expected 201,000…
7. Tom Lee says crypto-sector stocks leading the charge is a signal to kick off a bull market — BitMine chairman Tom Lee said crypto-sector stocks have led gains in the third quarter, viewed as a bull-market trigger…
8. A new address withdraws assets worth over $9.9 million from a CEX — According to lookonchain monitoring, a newly created wallet address 0xC374 withdrew about 814,000 UN from Binance about an hour ago…
9. Halfxia Investment’s Li Bei: AI capital expenditures may top out by mid-next year — Li Bei, founder of Halfxia Investment, said overseas AI capex could peak around mid-next year in quarter-on-quarter terms; Q2 ARR growth has already slowed significantly…

🏛️ Regulatory Policy
1. European Banking Authority urges bringing crypto lending under MiCA framework — The EBA called for crypto lending to be included in the MiCA regulatory framework, including scenarios that facilitate clients’ access to DeFi lending protocols…

💡 Project Updates
1. Ondo partners with BlackRock to launch tokenized smart investment portfolios — Ondo Finance launched Ondo Intelligent Portfolios…
2. Stablecoin infrastructure firm HIFI completes $37 million Series A — Stablecoin infrastructure firm HIFI completed a $37 million Series A, led by Left Lane Capital…
3. RockawayX injects $150 million to build an on-chain yield market — Digital asset investment institution RockawayX will invest $150 million to support the on-ramp of real-world yield assets through its Catapult program…
4. Binance to list HYPE across multiple services such as Earn and Convert — Binance announced it will add HYPE to Simple Earn, Buy… over the course of September 24.

📊 Market Snapshot: BTC $83,561 (-2.23%), funding rate 0.0011%; ETH $2,647.71 (-2.69%), funding rate 0.0068%
📍 Daily Buy/Sell Levels: $BTC daily sell $86,585 | daily buy $82,788 / $ETH daily sell $2,769.59 | daily buy $2,615.47 / BNB daily sell $792.86 | daily buy $749.77

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