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Yields on the US government's longest-dated bonds climbed to their highest in more than two decades, the latest milestone in an extended selloff driven by inflation and fiscal concerns, according to Bloomberg. The rate on 30-year US Treasuries rose as much as four basis points on Thursday to 5.44%, the highest since 2004, after Brent crude oil prices jumped. It follows a surge this week that left yields across maturities around their highest levels since 2007.
"People are running out of superlatives for the yield on the 30-year bond," said Ed Al-Hussainy, a portfolio manager at Columbia Threadneedle, adding that investors are signaling they need much higher compensation to lock up money for 30 years. Pressure on long-dated bonds has mounted as economic growth, elevated energy prices, inflation and heavier government borrowing prompt investors to demand more for tying up money for decades.
The continued rise in the 30-year yield undercuts the Treasury Department's efforts to bring down long-term borrowing costs. As the selloff intensified, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in mid-August expanded the government's bond buyback program to ease pressure, though it has had little sustained impact on the market.

On Sep 24, 2026, 11:10 AM(UTC). According to Binance Market Data, BNB has crossed the 770 USDT benchmark and is now trading at 770 USDT, with a narrowed narrowed 1.81% decrease in 24 hours.

Bankless Ventures founding partner David Hoffman said the crypto market occasionally sees a single asset absorb funds shifting out of Bitcoin holders. He said ETH saw a similar pattern in 2021, while ZEC is now becoming a new consensus allocation for some Bitcoin funds in 2026.
According to Odaily, Hoffman said ZEC’s market value has risen from about $200 million to about $26 billion, while Bitcoin’s market value remains much larger at about $1.7 trillion. He added that convincing only a small number of Bitcoin holders to allocate a small amount of ZEC could create sustained buying. Hoffman also said NEAR is absorbing relatively weaker smart contract buying in 2026.

According to Jin10, CME FedWatch showed a 30.3% probability that the Federal Reserve will keep rates unchanged at 3.75%-4.00% at its October meeting, and a 69.7% probability of a 25-basis-point rate hike. It also showed a 6.5% probability that rates will remain unchanged at 3.75%-4.00% by December, a 38.7% probability of a cumulative 25-basis-point hike, and a 54.8% probability of a cumulative 50-basis-point hike.

Binance will list Hyperliquid (HYPE) and open spot trading at 11:00 UTC on September 24, 2026, according to a Binance announcement. Three trading pairs will open — HYPE/USDT, HYPE/USDC and HYPE/TRY — with deposits opening about an hour after listing and withdrawals expected to open at 11:00 UTC on September 25, 2026. The listing fee is 0 BNB, and the HYPE smart contract is Hyperliquid (0x0d01dc56dcaaca66ad901c959b4011ec). TRY is a fiat currency, not a digital asset, and the TRY pair is available only to users who also hold a verified Binance TR account. Spot algo orders for these pairs will also be enabled at 11:00 UTC on September 24.
HYPE will carry a Seed Tag, which Binance applies to innovative projects that may show higher volatility and risk than other listed tokens. To gain trading access to Seed Tag tokens, users must pass the corresponding quizzes every 90 days on Binance Spot and/or Margin and accept the Terms of Use, with a risk-warning banner displayed for all such tokens. Trading Bots and Spot Copy Trading will be enabled within 24 hours of the spot listing; users with running Spot Copy Trading portfolios can include the pairs via the Personal Pair Preference section of the settings. Binance cautioned that HYPE is a relatively new token carrying higher-than-normal risk and likely high volatility, urging users to manage risk and do their own research.
Hyperliquid is a performant blockchain built with the vision of a fully on-chain open financial system. The withdrawal time is an estimate, with the actual status shown on the withdrawal page. Trading of the new pairs is subject to eligibility based on residence, and users must complete account verification. Users residing in Canada, Cuba, the Crimea region, Iran, the Netherlands, North Korea, Syria, the United States and its territories (American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands and the US Virgin Islands), and any non-government-controlled areas of Ukraine will not be able to trade the pairs; the list may be updated periodically.

XRP spot ETFs recorded total net inflows of $18.04 million on September 23, U.S. Eastern Time, according to SoSoValue data. According to Odaily, Bitwise XRP ETF (XRP) led the group with $11.54 million in net inflows, bringing its cumulative net inflows to $649 million.
Franklin XRP ETF (XRPZ) followed with $6.50 million in net inflows, and its cumulative net inflows reached $492 million. As of press time, XRP spot ETFs had total net assets of $1.65 billion, a net asset ratio of 1.77%, and cumulative net inflows of $1.748 billion.

Gold drifted lower inside its established $4,300–$4,400 range as a strengthening dollar and hawkish Federal Reserve commentary hardened expectations of further tightening. The dollar's rise to a two-month high makes dollar-priced gold more expensive for foreign buyers — the same currency pressure that has helped push Bitcoin from $87,300 to around $84,600 this week.The Dollar's Two-Month High Is Doing the DamageThe mechanical link is simple: a stronger dollar raises gold's cost for investors holding other currencies, dampening demand at the margin. The dollar's advance is rate-driven — the US two-year yield hit a 4.79% cycle high this week, futures markets price better-than-even odds (>53%) of an October hike, and the BOJ's move to a 31-year-high policy rate has still left USD/JPY near 157.8. Saxo Bank's Ole Hansen said Fed officials' remarks and their effect on rates, yields and the dollar — plus oil price swings — are the main directional cues for short-term gold traders within the $4,300–$4,400 band.Barkin Argues the Threat of Hikes Can Do the WorkRichmond Fed President Barkin said Tuesday that rate hikes and the threat of further increases could dampen businesses' inflation expectations and cool price rises without actually weighing on economic activity — a soft-landing case for staying hawkish. His comments stack onto Governor Barr's remarks the same day that further hikes may be needed to return inflation to 2% in a timely manner. Two hawkish speakers in one day, against WTI near $91 and supply risk from a potential US diesel export ban, keeps the October decision live.Gold's Rangebound Drift Mirrors Crypto's Macro SqueezeGold and Bitcoin are absorbing the same inputs: rising real yields lift the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding assets, and dollar strength compounds it. Bitcoin sits back inside its $83,000–$86,000 long-term holder zone, while gold holds its range — neither breaking down, both capped. The resolution likely comes from data, not speeches: Thursday's jobless claims (consensus 201K), Friday's durable goods and ~$14 billion Deribit options expiry, then the October 2 jobs report and October 14 CPI ahead of the Fed's October meeting. A downside inflation surprise would ease the dollar and lift both; hot data pointing to a confirmed October hike would test gold's $4,300 floor and Bitcoin's $83,000 zone bottom.

LayerZero announced that its cumulative trading volume has reached $300 billion. According to Foresight News, the figure marks the latest milestone reported by the company.

BitMine Chairman Tom Lee said crypto-related stocks led the third quarter and viewed that outperformance as a signal that a bull market is beginning. According to ChainCatcher, he said this cycle differs from earlier ones driven by ICOs, NFTs, meme coins, and stablecoins because it also includes tokenization, AI, and a more favorable regulatory environment, which could broaden the pool of capital involved.
Lee said the market may be approaching a clearer breakout after years of consolidation, with upside potential that could exceed previous cycles. He also said he remains bullish on Ethereum as Wall Street tokenization gains traction and believes ETH has a chance to test its previous high this year.

BlackRock’s iShares ETF disclosed that it increased its holdings in Bitcoin treasury company Strategy by 123,472 shares, worth $19.5 million. According to Odaily, the ETF now holds 1.76 million Strategy shares, valued at $280 million.

Paradigm unstaked 1 million HYPE through four wallets about six hours ago, according to Mlm onchain monitoring. According to BlockBeats On-chain Detection, the tokens were worth about $94 million.
The wallet addresses involved were 0x0a319407fdbe2776400abfcf17eaa706051bb0ad, 0x8b30c22c6610be016d13c4a6cfc23986e911d914, 0x555102344c2ae206d95ad15dea55ebd786f9c32a, and 0x1592f68a5f481f2456f5811f8102bad4f3b8d3fd.

XRP is showing three bullish signals across holder, derivatives, and ETF data. According to NS3.AI, XRP traded near $1.50 and fell about 6.3% over 24 hours.
XRP remained up over 15.6% on the week. CryptoRank data shows XRP has closed October lower in eight of 13 years.

A new address starting with 0xC37 built positions in 814,000 UNI, 12,397 LTC, and 2,382 BNB over the past hour, according to monitoring by @ai_9684xtpa. According to Foresight News, the total value of the holdings was $10.13 million.

Zcash miner Fortitude has amended its credit agreement with parent company Digital Currency Group (DCG), increasing its existing credit line from $26 million to $50 million. According to Foresight News, Fortitude now has about $31 million in available borrowing capacity, including roughly $7 million remaining from its original unused balance, and expects the funds to be issued entirely in ZEC.
After receiving ZEC, Fortitude may sell it in the market and use the proceeds to pay for 9,000 Zcash ASIC miners and capital expenditures for new and acquired data centers and power infrastructure.

ETH rose above 2,700 USDT and was last quoted at 2,700.09 USDT. According to Odaily, its 24-hour decline narrowed to 2.49%.

Polygon said its stablecoin subscription service has gone live on Open Money Stack (OMS). According to Foresight News, users can approve the amount, scope, and billing cycle once, and a non-custodial wallet will automatically deduct payments on schedule without requiring monthly repeated signatures.
Merchants can offer subscriptions, memberships, or account plans inside their apps without directing users to a separate payment flow. Users can revoke authorization, and protocols can set a maximum amount, allowed contracts or actions, billing period, and expiration time.

NEAR is trading at about $4.27, up from roughly $2.36 a week ago, according to TradingBeats monitoring on September 24. According to BlockBeats On-chain Detection, the token has gained about 80.6% over the period and outperformed BTC by roughly 70.6 percentage points.
The rally has lifted the unrealized profits of two whales on Hyperliquid who built large NEAR long positions before the latest surge. Together, they hold about 10.982 million NEAR worth roughly $46.96 million, with combined unrealized gains of about $23.204 million.
Both positions were established before NEAR began accelerating on September 16 and captured most of the move. One address starting with 0x30af holds about 5.1432 million NEAR long contracts, with a position value of about $21.99 million, an average entry price of about $1.9473, and unrealized gains of about $11.977 million, or 1,199%.
That position was built around August 26, when NEAR was still below $2, and the final add-on was completed by September 4. The same address also holds about 1.4871 million INJ long contracts, with unrealized gains of about $3.294 million.
The well-known OG whale mk4 (0x773) holds about 5.8389 million NEAR long contracts, valued at about $24.97 million, with an average entry price of about $2.353 and unrealized gains of about $11.227 million, or 823%. The position was opened on September 6.
The address also holds short positions or hedges in seven other tokens, including BTC, worth about $14.741 million. After offsetting those losses with gains from the NEAR long, the account shows total unrealized gains of about $9.839 million.

The European Banking Authority called for crypto borrowing and lending to be brought under the European Union's MiCA framework. According to NS3.AI, the proposal would also cover crypto firms that facilitate access to decentralized finance lending protocols.
The EBA recommended a cost-benefit analysis of possible legislative changes and outlined potential requirements, including suitability tests, leverage limits, and additional disclosures.

The US dollar index (DXY) touched 101 on September 23 for the first time since July 30, gaining 0.47% on the day. The milestone caps a week in which hawkish Fed commentary, a 4.79% cycle high in two-year yields and better-than-even October hike odds have pressured everything priced in dollars — Bitcoin down to $84,600, gold drifting toward its $4,300 range floor.Rate Differentials Are Powering the Dollar's AdvanceThe move is textbook rate-driven strength. The Fed hiked on September 16 to 3.75%–4.00% with the dot plot signaling one more 2026 increase, and Governor Barr and Richmond Fed President Barkin both leaned hawkish this week. Futures now imply over 53% odds of an October hike, while the two-year yield's push to 4.79% widens the dollar's carry advantage. The yen side amplifies it: even after the BOJ's hike to a 31-year-high policy rate, USD/JPY holds near 157.8, and yen weakness carries significant weight in the DXY basket.A Stronger Dollar Tightens Financial Conditions for CryptoDollar strength operates on Bitcoin through two channels: it raises the effective price of BTC for non-dollar buyers, and it typically accompanies the rising real yields that lift the opportunity cost of non-yielding assets. This week's price action fits the pattern — Bitcoin rejected twice near $87,300 and slipped back inside the $83,000–$86,000 long-term holder zone, while gold pulled back within its $4,300–$4,400 band. Historically, sustained DXY uptrends have coincided with crypto consolidation or drawdown phases; sharp DXY reversals have marked several major crypto bottoms.The 101 Level Is a Checkpoint, Not a CeilingWhether DXY extends depends on the data run into the October Fed meeting: Thursday's jobless claims (consensus 201K), Friday's durable goods (consensus -0.3%), the October 2 jobs report and October 14 CPI. Hot prints that cement an October hike would likely push the index beyond 101 and test Bitcoin's $83,000 floor; soft data would relieve pressure across gold, crypto and equities simultaneously. Friday's ~$14 billion Deribit options expiry adds a crypto-specific wildcard to the same window.

21Shares has listed Europe’s first Zcash exchange-traded product on Euronext Paris and Amsterdam under the ticker ZCASH, with an annual management fee of 2.5%. According to ChainCatcher, the product holds ZEC directly and uses BitGo as custodian.
ZCASH trades in euros in Paris and in U.S. dollars in Amsterdam. The product issued 5,000 units on its first day, with a net asset value of $20.04 per unit and assets under management of about $100,000. Grayscale’s Zcash ETF, ZCSH, has assets of nearly $890 million and is scheduled to complete a 1-for-3 share split on September 30.

Coinglass data shows that if ETH breaks above $2,794, cumulative short liquidation intensity across major centralized exchanges would reach $1.283 billion. According to ChainCatcher, if ETH falls below $2,536, cumulative long liquidation intensity across major centralized exchanges would reach $469 million.

According to the announcement from Binance, deposits and withdrawals of token(s) on the Injective (INJ) network will be suspended starting at approximately 2026-09-24 14:00 (UTC) to support a network upgrade and hard fork. The upgrade and hard fork are scheduled to take place at block height 184,394,000, or approximately at 2026-09-24 15:00 (UTC). Binance said trading of token(s) on the Injective network will not be impacted during the process, and it will handle the technical requirements for all users. The suspension is intended to support the network change and maintain user experience while the upgrade is carried out.
Deposits and withdrawals for token(s) on the Injective network will reopen once the upgraded network is deemed stable. Binance said no further announcement will be posted regarding the reopening. The notice also stated that products and services mentioned in the announcement may not be available in all regions. The announcement did not indicate any change to trading activity on the network, only to deposit and withdrawal services during the upgrade window.

According to the announcement from Binance, the platform will launch an airdrop campaign from 2026-09-25 00:00 (UTC) for eligible users who hold Ripple USD (RLUSD). The campaign will distribute rewards from a grand prize pool of $800,000 in XRP, with XRP paid as weekly rewards to RLUSD holders every Friday. The campaign period runs from 2026-09-25 00:00 (UTC) to 2026-10-23 00:00 (UTC), and rewards will be airdropped directly to eligible users’ Spot Accounts of their Binance master accounts. Binance said the weekly reward amount will be based on qualifying RLUSD balances, with rewards starting to accrue from 2026-09-25 00:00 (UTC). The first distribution is scheduled for 2026-10-02, followed by weekly distributions on 2026-10-09, 2026-10-16, and 2026-10-23. The announcement also states that users must hold RLUSD in supported account categories, including Spot Account, Funding Account, Earn Account in RLUSD Flexible Savings, and Margin Account in RLUSD Cross Margin, Isolated Margin, or Portfolio Margin. Users must maintain at least 0.01 RLUSD in their Earn or Margin Accounts to qualify, and RLUSD acquired through borrowing other stablecoins in Margin will receive a haircut of 60% after liabilities are accounted for.
Binance said the campaign will use hourly balance snapshots to determine each user’s daily qualifying balance, with the lowest RLUSD balance captured during those snapshots on each day used for reward calculations. The weekly rewards will be calculated using the 7-day average of the qualifying balance, the effective APR on the distribution day, and a 7-day period in the formula provided in the announcement. The effective APR will be updated after each weekly distribution. Binance also said there is no individual cap on rewards, and that rewards depend on each user’s qualifying balance relative to the total qualifying balance of all eligible users and other factors. Sub-account balances will be aggregated at the master account level, while broker accounts will receive rewards in virtual sub-accounts. The announcement further states that users must complete account verification and be from an eligible jurisdiction to participate, and that users residing in listed excluded countries or regions will not be able to join the campaign.

The Trump administration is considering an initiative to promote the use of dollar-denominated stablecoins overseas in a bid to reinforce the greenback's status as the world's reserve asset, people familiar with the plans told Bloomberg. Stablecoin projects are among the areas the US government is weighing support for by creating joint ventures with private-sector firms, aiming to maintain the dollar's preeminence and boost demand for US Treasuries, the people said, asking not to be named discussing private information. Stablecoin issuers typically hold the reserves backing their tokens in cash and short-term government debt.
The effort could stretch across multiple federal agencies, including the Treasury Department and the State Department, some of the people said, and the US International Development Finance Corp. could also be involved. The Treasury Department and the White House did not respond to requests for comment, while representatives for the State Department and the DFC declined to comment. The DFC, which partners with private-sector entities to advance US foreign-policy objectives, is overseen by Ben Black, son of Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black.
Stablecoins, digital assets typically tied to traditional currencies, have grown in popularity as financial firms embrace them, and the vast majority in circulation are pegged to the dollar. The Genius Act, signed into law by President Donald Trump last year, established a federal framework requiring issuers to hold reserves including dollars and short-term Treasuries, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said their growth could strengthen the dollar's reserve-currency role. Meanwhile, other economies are building their own digital-payments infrastructure, such as Project mBridge, which uses China's digital yuan, while the European Central Bank presses ahead with a digital euro and this week launched a project linking blockchain markets with the region's existing payments systems.

Britain's biggest banks have completed the world's first interbank transactions using tokenised deposits. According to NS3.AI, Lloyds, NatWest and Barclays carried out two mortgage transactions, while a separate trio of banks including HSBC simulated a person-to-person online marketplace purchase.
The transactions were presented as a test of how tokenised deposits could be used across banks for mortgage payments and retail-style purchases. The article did not provide additional details on timing, transaction size, or settlement mechanics.

US stock analysts have turned net bearish on corporate earnings for the first time in 23 weeks, with a Citigroup index showing estimate cuts now outnumbering upgrades — ending the longest run of positive revisions since September 2021. The shift lands in the same week hawkish Fed commentary and a two-year yield at 4.79% pushed Bitcoin back to $84,600, tying equities and crypto to the same rate-driven story.Estimate Cuts Now Outnumber Upgrades for the First Time in 23 WeeksThe Citigroup earnings revisions index flipped negative as concerns mount that rising inflation and interest rates will erode corporate profit margins. Revisions breadth is a leading sentiment gauge: analysts adjust estimates before results confirm the damage, so a flip after nearly six months of upgrades signals Wall Street is starting to price the September rate hike — and the possibility of another in October — into bottom-up profit forecasts.Morgan Stanley Sees Up to 7% S&P 500 Downside in Its Bear ScenarioMorgan Stanley strategist Michael Wilson warned that the S&P 500 could fall as much as 7% — a conditional scenario, not a base case — if valuations continue their recent decline while further energy price increases force tighter monetary policy. That energy channel is live: WTI trades near $91 after a September high of $106, with a potential US diesel export ban and Saudi output at its lowest since 1990 keeping supply risk elevated. Oil strength this week directly fed the two-year yield's push to a 4.79% cycle high and lifted market-implied October hike odds above 53%.Equity Earnings Risk and Crypto Weakness Share One DriverBoth markets are repricing the same variable: the cost of money. Higher yields compress equity valuations and corporate margins while raising the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding assets like Bitcoin, which slipped from $87,300 to $84,600 this week, back inside the $83,000–$86,000 long-term holder zone. A caveat on the bearish read-through: the AI trade has rebounded, with the semiconductor index up five straight sessions and AMD topping $1 trillion in market value — and FxPro analysis this week framed crypto's pullback as rotation, not exit. Watch Friday's ~$14 billion Deribit options expiry, the October 2 jobs report, and October 14 CPI as the next catalysts for both asset classes.

EigenCloud will unlock about 38.35 million EIGEN tokens at 5:00 AM on October 1 (UTC+8), according to Web3 asset data platform RootData's token unlock data. According to ChainCatcher, the tokens are valued at about $9.07 million.

Old meme coins fell broadly as the crypto market saw a short-term pullback. According to Odaily, MUBARAK dropped more than 19% in 24 hours, BROCCOLI714 fell more than 13%, WIF declined more than 11%, RUMP and PEPE each lost more than 7%, and TST fell more than 6%.
MUBARAK's market value fell to $52.37 million, BROCCOLI714's to $22 million, WIF's to $230 million, RUMP's to $1.477 billion, PEPE's to $1.874 billion, and TST's to $16 million.

Four new addresses accumulated 31,979 ETH after the broader market pulled back last night, according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa). According to BlockBeats On-chain Detection, the addresses withdrew ETH from a centralized exchange between 11:31 p.m. and 11:38 p.m. last night.
The four addresses are suspected to belong to the same whale or entity. They withdrew ETH worth $85.68 million from a centralized exchange at an average price of $2,679.31.

White House crypto council director Patrick Witt said at the Financial Markets Quality conference at Georgetown University that the CLARITY Act failed because Democrats politicized it. He said Democrats did not apply similar government ethics scrutiny to a recent major housing bill, calling that approach hypocritical. According to Foresight News, Witt said President Donald Trump agreed to two unprecedented ethics provisions.
Witt also accused banking lobby groups of influencing the bill's outcome by arguing that stablecoin yields would compete with interest-bearing bank deposits. He said large banks started the issue and it spread to community banks, adding that if the bill truly threatened the community banking system, he expected those banks to return to Capitol Hill and push for its passage.

According to the announcement from Binance, Binance Wallet will launch the COAI Trading Competition on Binance Alpha, with eligible users able to trade ChainOpera AI (COAI) in Binance Wallet (Keyless) or via Binance Alpha to receive token rewards. The competition is open to any user eligible to trade Binance Alpha tokens, and rankings will be based on total COAI purchase volume during the promotion periods. The top 2,000 users by purchase volume will share 324,000 COAI tokens equally, with each user receiving 162 COAI. The first promotion period runs from 2026-09-24 13:00 (UTC) to 2026-10-01 13:00 (UTC), and the second runs from 2026-10-01 13:00 (UTC) to 2026-10-08 13:00 (UTC). Binance said the competition is designed around effective trading volume, which combines actual trading volume with boost multipliers tied to trading timing and user eligibility.
Competition Rules and Boost Multipliers
The announcement said the Early Bird Boost Multiplier will give higher weight to earlier trades during the promotion period, with daily effective trading volume calculated by multiplying actual trading volume by the applicable Early Bird Boost Multiplier. The multiplier schedule starts at 2.0x for the first two trading days of each promotion period, then moves to 1.8x for the next two days, 1.5x for the following day, 1.3x for the next day, and 1.0x for the final day. Binance also introduced the Rising Trader Boost Multiplier for users who, as of three days before the promotion period begins, have won rewards in fewer than 3 previous Binance Wallet Alpha trading competitions. Eligible Rising Traders will receive a 1.2x boost on actual trading volume, subject to a cap. If both boosts apply, effective trading volume will be calculated using both the Early Bird Boost and the remaining Rising Trader Boost Cap. Binance said only cumulative purchases count toward trading volume, selling is excluded, and only trades executed via Binance Wallet (Keyless) or Binance Alpha on Binance Wallet qualify. Token bridging transactions and third-party dApp transactions are excluded. Rewards will be claimable in COAI tokens by eligible users before 2026-10-22 13:00:00 (UTC), and claims must be completed within 14 days after rewards become claimable.

According to the announcement from Binance, the Binance Starter Carnival new edition is now on, offering eligible new users a share of a BTC token voucher reward pool valued at $100,000. The promotion period runs from 2026-09-24 10:00 (UTC) to 2026-10-07 23:59 (UTC). To qualify, users must successfully register for a Binance account and complete identity verification during the promotion period. Users who register through affiliate or referral links or channels are not eligible. The announcement says rewards are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis until the pool is exhausted, and each user can claim a reward once for each completed task. The promotion includes four sequential tasks and a grand prize for completing all tasks. Task 1 requires a fiat or P2P deposit of at least 10 USDT equivalent, Task 2 requires subscribing at least 20 USDT to USDT Flexible Earn for more than 2 days, Task 3 requires a cumulative trading volume of at least 30 USDT equivalent via eligible Spot or Convert pairs, and Task 4 requires a cumulative trading volume of $300 equivalent via eligible Futures trading pairs. The grand prize is available to users who complete all tasks.
Binance said the rewards will be issued as BTC token vouchers and distributed to eligible users’ Rewards Hub after a standard 72-hour risk filter period. All token voucher rewards will expire within 14 days of distribution, and users must claim them before expiration or forfeit them permanently. The announcement also states that the BTC reward valuation uses 85,391 USDT as the BTC/USDT exchange rate as of 2026-09-22 for reward value calculation and distribution, though the actual value may fluctuate with market conditions. For the Spot and Convert tasks, several pairs are excluded, including FDUSD/USDT, USDC/USDT, TUSD/USDT, U/USDT, BUSD/USDT, USDP/USDT, DAI/USDT, GUSD/USDT, EURS/USDT, USDN/USDT, RSV/USDT, U/USDC, USDC/BUSD, BUSD/USDP, USDC/TUSD, DAI/USDC, FDUSDT/USD, DAIT/USD, FDUSD/USDC, DAIFD/USD, AEUR/EUR, BUSDFD/USD, and EUR/EURI. Binance also said sub-account trading volume will not be combined with the master account’s standard trading volume in the final calculation.

An emergency governance proposal in the Cosmos ecosystem protocol Neutron was manipulated by an attacker, who bought NTRN with about 20,199 USDC and staked 31.6 million NTRN about 12 minutes before voting ended. According to ChainCatcher, the proposal ultimately passed with 82% support, after which control of 11 contracts was transferred to the attacker and migrated to malicious code, resulting in the theft of about $4.4 million in assets.
To recover the funds, Cosmos Hub validators coordinated a chain halt that lasted nearly 24 hours and 48 minutes. During the restart process, about 1.23 million ATOM were moved from the attacker’s wallet to a new address, with plans to return them to the original holders later.

Ledger now lets Zcash (ZEC) holders keep private, shielded balances inside its Ledger Wallet desktop app, while transparent balances remain public. According to BeInCrypto, the update means one account can now hold both, but private funds only appear if they sit in Ironwood, Zcash’s new privacy pool launched in July. Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet said the scanning and transaction building happen locally on the user’s machine, and the older Zondax app will be pulled on November 5.

BitMine shares fell more than 4% Wednesday as Ethereum declined. According to NS3.AI, Ethereum traded at $2,661.43 after falling 2.9% over the past 24 hours.
Investors pulled back from higher-risk assets, while broader markets also weakened. The Nasdaq fell 0.94%, and the S&P 500 declined 0.72%.

According to CNBC, President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are expected to meet at the White House on Thursday for talks on trade, artificial intelligence and the Iran war, followed by a military review, a bilateral meeting and a state dinner. Xi arrived Wednesday evening at Maryland's Joint Base Andrews, where Trump greeted him on the tarmac, marking the president's first time traveling to the base to welcome a foreign leader. The leaders are also scheduled to hold an arrival ceremony on the White House State Floor, while Melania Trump and Chinese First Lady Peng Liyuan will attend a separate event. On Friday, the presidents and first ladies are set to hold a private tea at the White House and tour the National Archives before Xi departs. White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said Xi hosted Trump in China for a historic summit this summer and that Trump is now returning the hospitality with a reciprocal visit this week.

HIFI has raised $37 million in Series A funding led by Left Lane Capital to expand its tokenized capital markets infrastructure. According to NS3.AI, the New York company said the capital will support that infrastructure buildout and a broader product suite. HIFI said it processes more than $7 billion in annualized volume across 87 countries.

Bitcoin's famed four-year cycle has not shown up in this bear market, on-chain analytics firm Glassnode said on X. Where the past three cycles each saw drawdowns more than twice as deep as today's roughly 30% retracement from the all-time high, this cycle's decline has stayed shallow — and with price recovering to around $84,600, Glassnode argues a past-style deep correction looks increasingly unlikely.This Cycle's Drawdown Is Less Than Half of Historical Bear MarketsGlassnode's data shows drawdowns in each of the past three cycles exceeded twice the current cycle's roughly 30% pullback — historically, Bitcoin bear markets in 2015, 2018 and 2022 erased between roughly 77% and 85% of value from peak to trough (general market history, not from the Glassnode post). By the four-year calendar template, several weeks would still remain before the cycle low arrives; instead, Bitcoin has already reclaimed the $80,000–$82,000 supply band, the 50-week SMA at $81,081, and pushed as high as $87,300 this week before settling back inside the $83,000–$86,000 long-term holder zone.Structural Changes Explain Why This Cycle Behaves DifferentlyThe shallower drawdown has identifiable mechanics. Spot Bitcoin ETFs provide a persistent institutional bid — Monday's ~$1 billion inflow was the largest since October 2025 — that didn't exist in prior bears. Long-term holder behavior has also shifted: 30-day LTH distribution slowed from -105,900 BTC on August 30 to -21,700 BTC by September 20, meaning the selling pressure that historically deepened corrections is drying up rather than accelerating. The halving's diminishing supply impact and a maturing derivatives market (~$160 billion in perpetual open interest) further weaken the old cycle logic.A Broken Cycle Cuts Both Ways for TradersIf the four-year template no longer governs downside, it likely no longer governs upside timing either — parabolic blow-off tops on a fixed calendar become less reliable too. Glassnode's conclusion is probabilistic, not a guarantee: a macro shock — another Fed hike is priced above 53% for October, and the two-year yield sits at a 4.79% cycle high — could still force a deeper flush. Near-term tests: Friday's ~$14 billion Deribit options expiry, the $83,000 zone floor holding, and whether Bitcoin can clear $87,300 and the ~$89,000 100-week moving average. This is Glassnode's second structural-shift call this week, following Monday's altseason signal flip.

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Mike Selig said the agency will continue developing crypto market structure rules after the Senate rejected the Clarity Act, adding that it is time to act. According to Odaily, Selig said the CFTC’s existing statutory authority gives it room to move forward without waiting for Congress to pass new legislation.
He said the agency will also reassess current rules for algorithmic and smart-agent-driven onchain markets that operate around the clock. The possible measures could include creating a designated contract market category that would allow exchanges to offer crypto leverage trading under CFTC oversight. Selig said the CFTC would not have authority under this framework to regulate spot markets, which would still require legislation.

TRON DAO said Privy is expanding support for the TRON blockchain, giving developers and businesses more tools to build and operate financial applications at scale. According to BeInCrypto, the integration adds wallet management, transaction signing, policy controls, monitoring, and transfer APIs for stablecoin payments, treasury workflows, and other on-chain products.
TRON said the network’s total transfer volume is approaching $30 trillion, while companies including Onafriq and Paystack are already building wallet and treasury use cases with Privy and TRON.