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Bitcoin reclaimed $80,000 after rising more than 5% on Friday morning, while Solana and Hyperliquid each gained about 10%. According to NS3.AI, the Clarity Act hit a roadblock in the Senate. Hyperliquid also set a record above $90 after launching manual borrowing for HYPE- and BTC-backed stablecoin loans.

On Sep 18, 2026, 11:41 AM(UTC). According to Binance Market Data, BNB has dropped below 750 USDT and is now trading at 749.840027 USDT, with a narrowed narrowed 3.98% increase in 24 hours.

Bitcoin rebounded above $80,000 on Sept. 18 before weak U.S. economic data were released. According to NS3.AI, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded net inflows of USD 159.5 million on Sept. 17.
The available data do not resolve whether the move was driven more by fresh demand or short covering.

According to Wallstreetcn, the Pentagon told Congress that U.S. spending on Iran-related operations has reached $43.6 billion so far, including about $11.2 billion for incremental operation costs, about $28.1 billion to replenish expended munitions, and about $4.3 billion to replace lost equipment.

Nvidia has committed $2 billion to Brookfield Asset Management's global artificial intelligence infrastructure fund, according to Bloomberg, citing investor documents that revealed the size of a previously disclosed investment. The chipmaker is an anchor investor in the Brookfield Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Fund alongside the Kuwait Investment Authority, Brookfield said last year. The fund focuses on the AI buildout, backing factories, dedicated behind-the-meter power solutions and compute infrastructure.
Brookfield has become a key provider of private capital for the AI buildout. It is raising $10 billion for the AI infrastructure fund as part of a broader plan to raise around $50 billion for its infrastructure group over the next two years, with AI featuring in every strategy, Bloomberg has reported. Brookfield is also part of an Nvidia consortium committing to finance AI computing deals totaling more than $500 billion.
The firm plans to double its fee-bearing capital to $1.3 trillion by 2031, with infrastructure accounting for about 16% of the total, according to a presentation at its annual investor day on Thursday. Chief Executive Officer Connor Teskey said that while the bar for new acquisitions is "extremely high," Brookfield will explore areas that enhance its current strategies, such as credit — particularly asset-backed finance — as well as certain components of private equity and fund distribution.

XRP spot ETFs recorded a $5.15 million outflow on Thursday, while exchange reserves fell to a seven-year low near 1.7 billion XRP. According to NS3.AI, XRP ETFs remained up $9.60 million for the week and could post a 10th consecutive week of net inflows.
A weekly outflow above $9.60 million on Friday would end the streak.

Nostra was hit by an oracle attack after a manipulated NSTR oracle price allowed a single account to borrow about $3.5 million in ETH, STRK, USDC, USDT, WBTC and DAI on Nostra's Starknet money market using NSTR as collateral. According to Odaily, the attacker has since bridged about $1.92 million in stolen funds, including 234.57 ETH and 1.3 million DAI, to Ethereum.

The Bank of Japan raised interest rates to a 31-year high on Friday and signaled its readiness to keep pushing up borrowing costs, joining other major central banks in fighting persistent inflation driven by soaring oil costs, according to Reuters. At its two-day meeting, the BOJ lifted its policy rate to 1.25% from 1% by a 7-2 vote, with dovish board members Toichiro Asada and Ayano Sato dissenting. But the widely expected move failed to prop up the yen, which fell to 156.91 per dollar as investors focused on the lack of explicitly hawkish guidance and the two dissenters who argued for patience.
"The rate hike itself was in line with market expectations, but the two dissenting votes came as a modest surprise," said Hirofumi Suzuki, chief FX strategist at SMBC in Tokyo, adding that the outcome tempered expectations for further hikes and conveyed a dovish impression. The BOJ said that while the economy is tracking its baseline forecast, underlying inflation risks deviating from its 2% target, noting wholesale inflation remains elevated and business-to-business price pressures have begun spilling into consumer prices. Markets are focused on Governor Kazuo Ueda's news conference for clues on the pace of future hikes.
The first hike in three months brings the rate within the BOJ's estimated 1.1% to 2.5% neutral range, marking another step away from decades of ultra-low rates that made the yen a cheap global funding currency. Still, the BOJ lags peers, with its rate below the European Central Bank's 2.5% and the Fed's 3.75%-4.00% range. Analysts polled by Reuters expect rates to reach 1.5% by end-March and 1.75% in the second quarter of 2027. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently voiced strong support for "decisive" steps to combat yen weakness in a meeting with Ueda, while urging Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government to avoid ramping up fiscal stimulus. Many BOJ officials, including Ueda, remain vague on the speed and degree of future tightening.

A trader address starting with 0xaeaa bought into Bitcoin's move above $80,000 and opened a long position on 450 BTC, according to Lookonchain monitoring. According to Foresight News, the position is currently showing an unrealized profit of $276,000.

Polymarket has hired Zora co-founder Jacob Horne to rebuild its onchain trading product. According to NS3.AI, chief executive Shayne Coplan announced the move Thursday.
Horne will work directly with Coplan on product development.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said tokenization could reduce costs across market infrastructure, including issuance, trading, transfer, settlement, and ownership records, while improving transparency and liquidity. According to ChainCatcher, the SEC approved a temporary, conditional Innovation Exemption that allows tokenized NMS stocks to trade in limited fashion on certain on-chain venues called tokenized securities trading venues.
Eligible TSVs may conduct approved trading through automated market makers and liquidity pools, but they must meet requirements for public disclosure, trading transparency, coordinated circuit breakers, recordkeeping, and technical safeguards. The venues are also subject to limits on the number of stock symbols and trading volume.
The SEC said the move is intended to observe how on-chain trading venues and market participants operate and to provide data for future long-term regulatory rules.

World, formerly Worldcoin, has launched its self-custody financial app, World Money, in more than 150 countries. According to PANews, the app integrates stablecoin payments, trading, yield, and virtual account features.
Users can hold eight currencies in the app and make cross-border transfers. Stripe provides a new U.S. on-ramp, allowing Apple Pay funds to be converted into stablecoins within minutes.
World said users who complete World ID verification can receive higher rewards in eligible Earn programs. The availability of specific features and assets depends on the jurisdiction. The project is developed by Tools for Humanity and was co-founded by Alex Blania and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

On Sep 18, 2026, 16:19 PM(UTC). According to Binance Market Data, Ethereum has crossed the 2,600 USDT benchmark and is now trading at 2,600.439941 USDT, with a narrowed 5.29% increase in 24 hours.

Analyst Darkfost said on X that Bitcoin has entered a cost-basis battleground between $71,300 and $79,800, a setup similar to one seen near the end of the 2023 bear market. According to Odaily, Darkfost said Bitcoin remains above the $71,300 active supply cost basis, which reflects the average cost of BTC in actual circulation and may act as support, while the $79,800 invested capital cost basis has acted as resistance after multiple rejections.

Injective announced that INJ has launched on Solana through Sunrise, with Raydium and StonkFun as the first partner platforms. According to Foresight News, the initial INJ liquidity pool is now live on Raydium, while StonkFun supports INJ as a base pairing asset and allows creators to issue tokens paired with INJ, including markets related to tokenized stocks.
Injective said it plans to add more Solana ecosystem integrations over the next few weeks and months, expanding INJ use cases in trading, wallets, and lending.

Berkshire Hathaway said Friday that Warren Buffett will step down as chairman and become chairman emeritus, effective immediately.He had already stepped down as CEO earlier this year, handing the role to longtime lieutenant Greg Abel."Father Time always wins. He has, however, been generous with me," Buffett, 96, wrote in a letter to shareholders.His son Howard Buffett, a Berkshire director since 1993, becomes chairman. Buffett remains on the board and will "continue to offer his valued judgment and perspective," the company said.The Most Quoted Bitcoin Critic Has Formally Stepped BackBuffett called Bitcoin "probably rat poison squared" in 2018 and said in 2022 he would not buy all the Bitcoin in the world for $25.Those remarks have been cited in crypto coverage for years, and his position gave Bitcoin scepticism its most credentialed voice in US investing.The succession does not change Berkshire's holdings. The company owns no crypto, and nothing in Friday's announcement suggests that is under review. Buffett also remains a director.What changes is visibility. Howard Buffett has not publicly stated a position on cryptocurrencies, which removes the annual shareholder meeting as a venue for high-profile criticism — those meetings became a gathering point for investors seeking insight into the broader business landscape, and Bitcoin questions were a recurring feature.Berkshire Has Been Deploying Cash, Not Hoarding ItThe financial position matters more than the personnel change for anyone reading through to markets.In August, Berkshire said it began reducing its enormous cash stockpile in the second quarter, investing billions in stocks including Alphabet and repurchasing billions of its own shares.Quarterly operating profit rose 16% to $12.98 billion, topping forecasts, while net income more than doubled to $25.67 billion including unrealised gains and losses on stocks Berkshire still owns.A company that spent years accumulating cash as a signal of valuation discipline is now spending it. That is a more substantive market read than who holds the chairman title.The Succession Was Announced 16 Months AgoBuffett first said he would step away in May 2025, surprising shareholders and analysts despite his age.After decades at the helm he had become synonymous with the company, making the succession one of the most closely watched in corporate America.The sequencing has been deliberate — CEO first to Abel, then chairman to Howard Buffett, with Warren retaining a board seat. That structure separates operational control from the guardianship of what Berkshire describes as its culture."The culture Warren built and the values he championed will remain at the heart of Berkshire, and Howard will be their guardian," Abel said.What He BuiltBuffett constructed Berkshire into a conglomerate worth approximately $1.03 trillion, spanning Geico car insurance, the BNSF railroad, Berkshire Hathaway Energy, Dairy Queen, Fruit of the Loom and Squishmallows.His influence extended beyond it. CEOs across corporate America used him as a sounding board on acquisitions, succession and market turmoil, and his emphasis on long-term thinking, disciplined capital allocation and straightforward management shaped generations of investors.Those principles are the reason his Bitcoin criticism carried weight. The objection was never technological — it was that an asset producing no cash flow cannot be valued by the method he spent six decades applying.That argument does not weaken because he has changed titles, and it is not clear anyone in crypto should treat the succession as a win.The Market ContextBitcoin traded around $78,000 Friday, recovering from $75,972 overnight in a third consecutive day of gains, with every major higher and none of the 40 most liquid coins down over the period.The move followed the Fed's first rate hike since 2023, a dot plot pointing to just one more increase in 2026, and the SEC's innovation exemption for tokenized securities venues announced two days after the Clarity Act failed its Senate cloture vote.WTI crude fell more than 5% to below $96 and the 10-year Treasury yield eased to 4.96%, snapping an eight-day rising streak.

Trader Bonk Guy said USELESS is showing very strong momentum and has formed a large cup-and-handle pattern over the past year. According to Odaily, he said the last similar setup he saw was BONK in late 2023, which rose more than 1,600% in the weeks after breaking out. Bonk Guy added that USELESS is his highest-conviction meme coin and said it could become the first meme coin in this cycle to reach a market value above $10 billion.

S&P Global today announced an agreement to acquire blockchain security company OpenZeppelin. According to Foresight News, the deal is intended to strengthen S&P Global's capabilities in risk assessment and ecosystem development for digital assets, as well as its ability to create on-chain security assessments and benchmarks.
OpenZeppelin will continue to operate as an independent business unit under the OpenZeppelin name. OpenZeppelin CEO Demian Brener will remain in charge of the business and report to Yann Le Pallec, president of S&P Global Ratings.

Stellar activated Protocol 28 after a scheduled mainnet vote, with the network reaching a record sustained throughput of more than 211 transactions per second. According to NS3.AI, Token Terminal ranks Stellar third among blockchains by real-world asset market capitalization at about $3.3 billion.
The real-world asset value on Stellar increased by $149.4 million over the past 30 days. The update highlights continued activity on the network following the protocol change and the recent rise in RWA value.

Bitcoin broke above $80,000 on Friday, lifting shares of crypto-linked stocks. According to NS3.AI, Bitcoin recently traded at $80,587 Friday morning.

BitMine Immersion shares traded 7.85% higher at $25.77 on Friday, while Ethereum rose 4.62% over the past 24 hours. According to NS3.AI, Eightco Holdings reported approximately $380 million in total assets. Eightco also disclosed a $90 million indirect investment in OpenAI.

Evernorth, an XRP treasury management company, raised $30 million through convertible debt from South Korean institutional investor NH Investment & Securities. According to ChainCatcher, the financing depends on Evernorth’s successful merger with a SPAC and will be used to buy XRP spot before its Nasdaq listing.
After the merger is completed, the company plans to list on Nasdaq under the ticker XRPN.

Altcoins broadly strengthened, with UNI briefly rising above $9.4 and trading at $9.2, up more than 35% on the day. According to Odaily, NEAR climbed above $3.59 and was trading at $3.57, up more than 26% on the day.

On Sep 18, 2026, 13:51 PM(UTC). According to Binance Market Data, BNB has crossed the 760 USDT benchmark and is now trading at 760.5 USDT, with a narrowed 4.72% increase in 24 hours.

Starknet has launched privacy prediction market trading, with support from OffMarket, allowing users to open positions without publicly linking accounts. According to Foresight News, the feature is now running on mainnet.
StarknetEco posted the update on X, while noting that it is not affiliated with Starknet’s official team. Starknet’s official account reposted the message. OffMarket is an independent third-party project and is not affiliated with the Starknet team.

According to CNBC, several stocks posted notable premarket moves. Netflix declined more than 3% after Wells Fargo downgraded the stock to underweight, with analysts citing worrying engagement trends and weaker content expected in the second half of 2026 that they said would lead to lower margin expansion in 2027 and 2028. Xenon Pharmaceuticals sank 25% after the company said it was pausing enrollment of new patients in its clinical studies for major and bipolar depression treatments; the pause, expected to be temporary, followed the discovery of neuropsychiatric side effects. Steel Dynamics and Nucor both fell more than 1.5% after issuing third-quarter earnings guidance that came in weaker than analysts' consensus polled by FactSet; Nucor said earnings will increase in its steel mills and steel products segments while decreasing in raw materials. Macom Technology Solutions rose 3% after BMO Capital Markets upgraded the stock to outperform, with analysts noting its valuation had become attractive following a more than 35% decline from its 2026 highs even as fundamentals in its data center, industrial and defense businesses remained strong. Crypto-exposed shares rose after bitcoin climbed 2% to cross $78,000 again, with Robinhood up 2.5% and treasury company Strategy up 3%.

The Ethereum Foundation transferred about $2.45 million worth of ETH to an unlabeled Gnosis Safe multisig wallet, according to Arkham monitoring. According to ChainCatcher, it is not yet clear whether the wallet is controlled by the foundation.
The Ethereum Foundation address still holds about $235.46 million in ETH and $23 million in USDC.

Ava Labs President Charley Cooper said the New York Stock Exchange has spent the past year testing Avalanche technology and working with Ava Labs to explore how it could integrate with the exchange's existing systems. According to Odaily, Cooper said the two sides have built a close working relationship, but NYSE has not confirmed whether it will ultimately choose Avalanche as the blockchain for its tokenized securities platform. NYSE announced in January that it was developing a platform for tokenized U.S. stock and ETF trading and on-chain settlement.

BlockBeats reported on September 18 that a trader opened a 10x leveraged long position on 5.14 million NEAR two weeks ago, with the position valued at $18.95 million. According to BlockBeats On-chain Detection, the trader's unrealized profit has now reached $8.9 million.

According to the announcement from Binance, the exchange will support the Stargate Finance (STG) token merge to LayerZero (ZRO) and will carry out a series of related changes across spot trading, futures, margin, loans, Simple Earn, Binance Pay, Convert, Low-Value Assets, and Buy & Sell Crypto. Binance said all STG tokens will be swapped to ZRO at a ratio of 1 STG = 0.08634 ZRO. The exchange also stated that trading on existing ZRO spot trading pairs will not be affected. For spot markets, Binance will remove all existing STG spot trading pairs, including STG/USDT, at 2026-10-06 03:00 (UTC), and all pending STG spot orders will be canceled at that time. Binance Spot Copy Trading will remove the same spot trading pairs at 2026-10-05 03:00 (UTC), and Trading Bots services for the affected spot pair will also be removed where applicable. Deposits and withdrawals of STG tokens will be suspended at 2026-10-06 03:30 (UTC), after which STG deposits and withdrawals will no longer be supported. Binance said it will handle the technical requirements for users involved in the event.
In derivatives and margin-related products, Binance Futures will stop allowing new positions for the STGUSDT contract starting from 2026-09-24 08:30 (UTC) and will close all positions and conduct automatic settlement at 2026-09-24 09:00 (UTC). Binance Margin will suspend Cross Margin and Isolated Margin borrowings on STG at 2026-09-19 06:00 (UTC) and will remove STG from Cross and Isolated Margin at 2026-09-24 10:00 (UTC). Binance Loans (Flexible Rates) and VIP Loan will close all outstanding STG loan positions at 2026-09-28 03:00 (UTC). Binance Simple Earn will stop supporting STG Simple Earn Flexible Products from 2026-09-30 07:00 (UTC), with remaining positions and accrued rewards automatically redeemed to users’ Spot Accounts. Binance Pay will remove STG from supported cryptocurrencies at 2026-09-29 07:00 (UTC), while Binance Convert will remove STG and associated pairs at 2026-10-06 02:00 (UTC). Convert Low-Value Assets will remove STG at 2026-10-05 02:00 (UTC), and Buy & Sell Crypto will remove STG and associated pairs at 2026-10-06 02:00 (UTC).

Tesla Inc.’s Model Y costs less than $23,000 in Tokyo after Japan subsidies, according to Bloomberg.
The price makes Tesla’s most popular electric car cheaper in Tokyo than anywhere else in the world.

Strategy CEO Phong Le said the company will continue buying Bitcoin as MSTR rose 11% on Friday. According to NS3.AI, Le said Strategy holds 840,050 Bitcoin and remains the world's largest Bitcoin holder. He added that the company remains open to selling small amounts when it makes sense.

Chainlink announced that payments provider Bottomline has launched Global Pay Connect, an on-chain payment connectivity platform supported by Chainlink and aimed at more than 600 banks. According to Foresight News, Chainlink CCIP connects Bottomline's payment infrastructure to blockchain networks, while CRE coordinates end-to-end on-chain and off-chain payment flows.
The companies said financial institutions can access on-chain payment rails through their existing Swift network and payment messaging standards without rebuilding systems or integrating separately for each network. Bottomline is one of Swift's top three service providers and processes more than $16 trillion in payments annually.

UNI continued to strengthen on September 18, rising on the back of favorable SEC developments and strong on-chain activity tied to Robinhood. According to BlockBeats On-chain Detection, two newly created addresses withdrew a combined 1.07 million UNI from a centralized exchange, or CEX, over the past 24 hours.

NEAR briefly rose more than 26% and broke above $3.45 after the NEAR@3.33 incentive plan triggered the move. According to PANews, confidential mode lockups exceeded $70 million, and $3.30 became a key profit-taking level.

Yahoo Finance has ended its prediction market partnership with Polymarket, which was reached in November last year. According to Foresight News, Polymarket data had been displayed exclusively on Yahoo Finance for probabilities tied to economic, government, and market forecasts, but the section was taken offline in April this year.
Yahoo said Polymarket remains an advertising partner and that similar cooperation is still possible. Polymarket declined to comment.

Dragonfly Managing Partner Haseeb Qureshi said the Zcash community has positioned the project as a crypto version of Bitcoin and does not want to add more features to the protocol. According to ChainCatcher, he said Zcash still needs to complete Tachyon, quantum resistance, and broader formal verification to defend against AI network attacks, making protocol freeze unsuitable for the next one to two years.
Qureshi said the development fund was necessary when private funding for Zcash development was limited, and under current rules it is set to expire in 2028. He added that as ZEC has risen sharply, the fund has grown by an order of magnitude, and once it exceeds $100 million, it will inevitably become institutionalized and face the risk of politicized grant allocation.
He argued that the fund should remain in place for now to finish the remaining technical work before protocol freeze, but said this round should be the last development fund. After Zcash reaches the conditions for freeze, the fund should be phased out rather than used to seek new grant programs, with future development funding coming voluntarily from holders and ecosystem supporters, similar to Bitcoin.
On governance, Qureshi said he does not support full token-holder voting, arguing that a store-of-value asset needs predictable policy and that pure token governance is too volatile. He said limited holder participation is acceptable and that committee governance, despite its flaws, may be the more workable option. He also disclosed that Dragonfly holds ZEC and that he is an investor in ZODL, though ZODL will not directly benefit from the development fund.

Bitcoin is more than halfway through its historically weakest month, and September's usual selloff has stayed contained despite a barrage of policy and macroeconomic headwinds.After rallying 25% in August to around $81,000, expectations were that it would surrender much of those gains. September has delivered an average loss of roughly 3% since 2013.Instead Bitcoin is down 1.5% this month. With under two weeks remaining it is up about 32% for the quarter, on course for its first positive quarterly close since the third quarter of 2025.It trades at $78,000, roughly back to where it sat before Wednesday's Fed rate hike.The Absence of a Reaction Is the Data PointTwo events this week would normally have moved price meaningfully.The Clarity Act failed to secure the 60 votes needed to advance in the Senate, attracting just 49. Bitcoin briefly fell below $74,887 Tuesday before stabilising quickly.The Fed then raised rates 25 basis points to 3.75%-4.00%, its first increase since July 2023."What stands out to me is that Bitcoin has hardly budged at all in response to two objectively bad pieces of news," said Mitchell Askew, head of Blockware Intelligence at Blockware. "A 25-basis-point hike and the CLARITY Act failing to pass are both headlines that, in a different market environment, would have sent price meaningfully lower. Instead, we got basically nothing."Seller Exhaustion Is the Proposed ExplanationAskew reads the non-reaction as a supply signal rather than a demand one."Anybody who was going to sell bitcoin based on events like these has already sold. They no longer have coins to sell. That is an incredibly positive sign for the medium to long term, and it is exactly what you tend to see in the later stages of a bottoming process."The positioning data is consistent with that. Santiment showed BTC-denominated open contracts falling 13.5% between September 3 and 11 against a 5% price decline, leaving positioning roughly 20% below pre-rally levels. K33 Research found open interest across futures and perpetuals below its yearly average.There is a competing reading worth noting. Thin positioning also means fewer buyers, and a market that does not fall on bad news may simply lack participants in both directions. Talos recorded Bitcoin buying conviction at 3%, down from 10%, with a 28% net tilt into stablecoins ahead of the Fed.Exhausted sellers and absent buyers produce the same chart. They imply different things about what happens next. Four Headwinds Arrived at OnceThe pressure was not limited to policy.WTI crude climbed above $106 Tuesday, a five-month high, as Middle East tensions persisted. Saudi Arabia's closure of the East-West pipeline that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz left production at 6.238 million barrels per day, the lowest since 1990.The Dollar Index topped 100, its highest in over a month. Sustained dollar strength tightens financial conditions and typically weighs on risk assets.The Bank of Japan lifted its benchmark to a 31-year high, raising the cost of the yen carry trade that funds positions in dollar assets.Sygnum Argues Rising Yields Are Not Automatically BearishFabian Dori, chief investment officer at Sygnum Bank, offered the mechanism behind the resilience."It's not a one-way street. You see yields rising, and at the same time Bitcoin and gold outperforming. If rising rates are an indication of debasement risk and sovereign counterparty risk, then for store of value assets that is actually a positive driver."The correlation data supports the asymmetry. Bitcoin's 90-day correlation with the 10-year Treasury yield sits at −0.17 against gold's −0.41, meaning gold responds more than twice as strongly to the same rate move.Dori also pushed back on the standard framing for what comes next. Markets price three further quarter-point increases by April 2027, taking the funds rate to 4.50%-4.75%."I do not fully agree that rates need to fall in order for digital assets to outperform," he said.The SEC Moved the Day After Congress FailedThe regulatory picture improved within 48 hours of the Senate vote.The SEC unveiled its long-awaited innovation exemption for tokenized securities venues Thursday, allowing qualifying platforms to facilitate onchain trading of stocks under specified conditions.Chairman Paul Atkins had said the agency would act regardless of whether the legislation passed, taking decisive action within its statutory authority.LMAX Group markets strategist Joel Kruger framed what that leaves. "The failure to advance the legislation delays a statutory framework, but it does not prevent the SEC and CFTC from continuing to provide guidance under existing authority, leaving an important regulatory pathway open."The durability gap remains. Rules made under existing authority can be unmade by a subsequent administration, which is the problem legislation was meant to solve.Kruger Sees Asymmetry in What FollowsThe argument for upside rests on how little it would take."If the market has been this resilient when the news flow has been challenging, even a modest improvement in macro, geopolitical or regulatory conditions could provide the catalyst for the next major leg higher," Kruger said.That is the same asymmetry he identified before the Fed decision, when he saw greater potential for an outsized move higher if the central bank failed to deliver the tightening markets had priced.The dot plot arguably supplied a version of it. The median points to one more hike in 2026 — 50 basis points total — below the 75 Bank of America and RBC forecast and the roughly 87.5 markets had priced.Next Week's Seasonality Is the Near-Term ConcernBitcoin has historically fallen an average of 2.5% in the year's 38th week, recording gains on just four occasions, per Coinglass.That is the one piece of the setup that offers bulls no comfort.The counterweight is the quarter that follows. Bitcoin has averaged a 77% gain in the fourth quarter, according to CoinDesk data.Both figures are averages across small samples, and neither is a forecast. The seasonal case for weakness next week is the same class of evidence as the seasonal case for strength in October — which is to say, weak evidence pointing in opposite directions.Above price, Glassnode data shows nearly 8% of supply was acquired between $80,000 and $82,000, with the US spot ETF cohort's average cost basis in the same band and the 50-week moving average at $81,081.

On Sep 18, 2026, 13:51 PM(UTC). According to Binance Market Data, Bitcoin has crossed the 80,000 USDT benchmark and is now trading at 80,192.609375 USDT, with a narrowed 4.94% increase in 24 hours.

A HYPE whale withdrew 55,800 HYPE from a CEX on September 18, according to TradingBeats monitoring. According to BlockBeats On-chain Detection, the wallet has accumulated 107,940 HYPE over the past nine days.
The report said the latest withdrawal was worth about $4.65 million, while the wallet’s total holdings were valued at about $9.11 million.