🔈🔈 CRYPTO MARKET NEWS UPDATE – SEPTEMBER 22, 2026

đŸ’„ BTC is trading around $85,600 as fresh blockchain launches, security developments and major crypto infrastructure updates headline today’s market.

💎 Top News Today:
✔ Circle’s Bitcoin-backed cirBTC goes live on Arc — Circle has launched cirBTC on its Arc network, bringing Bitcoin-backed collateral into on-chain lending and DeFi markets.
✔ $91B in fake DEX trades uncovered on Base — Bitquery reports that one wallet generated around $91 billion in artificial DEX volume on Base during August, highlighting a major wash-trading operation.
✔ Bots dominate Optimism DEX activity — New blockchain research found bots accounted for roughly 86% of DEX trading activity on Optimism since July, with human trading representing less than $3M per day.
✔ Moscow Exchange launches crypto perpetual futures — Russia’s largest exchange is launching ruble-settled perpetual futures linked to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP and TRON for qualified investors.
✔ Injective Meridian upgrade vote closes today — INJ stakers are voting on an upgrade covering regulated RWA issuance, unified tokenized perpetual markets and improvements to market and oracle infrastructure.
✔ Binance adds new spot trading pairs — Binance announced ARB/US and ENA/USD1 spot pairs for September 22, alongside new trading-bot services and a fee campaign.