Bitcoin is catching its breath after last week's strong rally, with BTC down roughly 1% since Friday and more than 2% over the past 24 hours as it retreats from the $84,000 level, according to CoinDesk. Investors are weighing the pullback against a heavy macro calendar after last week's hawkish Federal Reserve rate hike lifted the benchmark target rate to 4%, with attention turning to jobless claims, housing and durable-goods updates as markets assess the policy path following recent rate decisions from the Bank of Japan and Bank of England.

Crypto:

• Sept. 28 – Solana opens the activation window for its major Alpenglow consensus upgrade, replacing TowerBFT with the Votor protocol to cut voting transaction overhead across the network.

Macro:

• Sept. 29, 9:00 a.m. ET – U.S. S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index YoY for July, est. 2.2% (prev. 2.1%)

• Sept. 30, 8:30 a.m. ET – U.S. Q2 GDP growth rate final estimate QoQ, est. 1.5% (prev. 2.1%)

• Sept. 30, 8:30 a.m. ET – U.S. Core PCE Price Index MoM for August, est. 0.3% (prev. 0.2%)

• Oct. 1, 8:30 a.m. ET – U.S. initial jobless claims for the week ended Sept. 26, est. 199K (prev. 197K)

• Oct. 1, 10:00 a.m. ET – U.S. ISM Manufacturing PMI for September, est. 54.8 (prev. 54.6)

• Oct. 2, 8:30 a.m. ET – U.S. nonfarm payrolls for September, est. 84K (prev. 162K)

• Oct. 2, 8:30 a.m. ET – U.S. average hourly earnings MoM for September, est. 0.3% (prev. 0.3%)

Governance votes:

• Sept. 28 – World Liberty Financial's preliminary vote on its Governance Engagement Incentive Program closes, proposing an Oct. 1 launch that uses token rewards to promote community voter participation.

• Oct. 1 – Decentraland's security response vote closes; the proposal calls for an immediate investigation into the theft of more than 1,000 Decentraland Names and a temporary freeze of affected accounts, smart-contract activity and secondary transfers to prevent further movement.