According to Whale Alert, 70,720,727 USDT (70,922,456 USD) were transferred from an unknown wallet starting with 0x83f7 to another unknown wallet starting with 0x3dfd at 16:35 UTC on Sept 23.

CoinMetrics' recent report suggested that Bitcoin is still at its early path towards monetization, and its true potential hasn't been scratched yet. One of the statements from the report read, "Bitcoin's $200 billion market capitalization – or network value – will scale more than an order of magnitude to the trillions during the next decade."

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the temporary suspension of trading in the securities of Vortex Blockchain Technologies Inc. (VXBT). The suspension commences at 9:30 a.m. EDT on September 23, 2020 and terminates at 11:59 p.m. EDT on October 6, 2020.

Plasm Network decided to support EVM as well as WASM. Through this update, Plasm Network will be fully compatible with Ethereum.

The U.S. Federal Reserve, the country's central bank, has been researching digital currencies along with several regional Federal banks.
The detail was revealed by Loretta Mester, president of the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank, at a virtual event on Wednesday. Mester said several staff members of reserve banks, including Cleveland Fed software developers, are contributing to the research effort.

Citing data from DAppTotal.com, Circle issued 19.54 million USDC on the Ethereum network at 14:51 UTC on Sept 23.
The block height is 10919524; the hash is 0x5ae9a7dfec9df54758dba60ff4253aa6b77075c53909181b7ae65a16ef75b9fe.

According to Whale Alert, at 14:52:37 UTC on Sep 23, 5,000 BTC (52,693,200 USD) were transferred from OKEx to an unknown wallet.
The transaction hash is 13b9df21bb557d915eb4e7957ce9a4216ad1bf40fd84ca4291b7c6d03d053aae.

As of 15:30 UTC on September 23, Bitcoin (BTC), the largest crypto by market cap, has been standing above the $10,400 level. Now, it is changing hands at $10,476.94 on the CoinMarketCap.
There are 10 accredited crypto analysts with CoinNess.com sharing their views in the past 24 hours to predict the price trend of BTC. Among them, four think that the price of BTC will rise, and six think it will drop.
CoinNess.com has selected opinions from several popular crypto analysts for your market analysis: Bullish:
@DING Jiayong: The support level of Bitcoin is moving upwards. If prices can stand firmly above $10,500 in the next few days, Bitcoin may have chances of breaking through the $10,600 resistance, opening an ascending channel.
Bearish:
@YU Jixin: Pressured by $10,600, Bitcoin has fallen into a state of fluctuation. In my opinion, there is a slim chance of breaching $10,600, and this king crypto will continue to fluctuate.
@Yuheng: Bitcoin is faced with strong resistance that is hard to be broken through in the short term. In the meanwhile, the space for falling prices has opened, so Bitcoin will probably remain a descending trend.
@Wanbi: Considering the current market where the bears gain the dominant role, I presume that Bitcoin will slide down to the $10,200~$10,300 zone after a price rebound.

According to Whale Alert, at 14:19:13 UTC on Sep 23, 4,726 BTC (49,562,719 USD) were transferred from OKEx to Binance.
The transaction hash is a4571f6a75583b02ca775d1393e5a0b848ff8a5a67c0789e8f06f2ec321ae300.

The majority of DeFi projects believe the industry is far away from maturity, but they are sure that mainstream adoption is likely to occur. This was disclosed on Sept. 21 when Cointelegraph Consulting released the results of a DeFi survey in "DeFi Adoption 2020: A Definitive Guide to Entering the Industry."
The survey showed that 48% of the top projects in the DeFi space expect mainstream adoption to arrive after three to five years, while 8% believe it might take longer than 10 years.

Weiss Crypto Ratings tweeted, "The only upside to CBDCs is that introducing digital currencies to the masses will help them get acquainted with crypto more easily." It continues, "Once the EU imposes negative interest rates and launches CBDC, citizens will have an easy choice to make: stay with digital euros, the value of which is constantly eroding and is, in essence, no different from paper Euro, or switch to BTC, which can go up 10X."

According to a post published on Reddit on Sept. 22, scam artists are impersonating Bank of America (BoA) in an attempt to trick victims.
As reported by Redditor MySonAteMyHomeWork, “I received a call from Bank of America requesting that I fill out a form for cryptocurrency purchased on Uphold.” As the story was told, the caller also claimed that BoA needed to verify “whether or not I was buying crypto as a business or an individual, and that they’d be mailing a form for me to fill out. She knew my email address, my date of birth, and the month I bought crypto from Uphold.”

According to crypto analytics firm Santiment, people have been seeing a high level of fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) so far this month, which could suggest a BTC price rise in the near future. Per Santiment, Bitcoin’s weighted social sentiment on Twitter is now close to two-year lows, indicating a bounce could be close.

A decree, published on Sept. 21 by the Venezuelan authorities, mandates that all Bitcoin miners join a national pool, and imposes regulations on every aspect of their activity, according to local news outlet Cryptonoticas.
ASIC manufacturing, mining farm construction, the import of equipment, and the distribution of funds will all be regulated under the law, issued by the National Superintendency of Crypto Assets and Related Activities (SUNACRIP.) A Registry of Miners (RIM) has been established to process licenses via the web.

As of 11:00 (UTC) on September 23, the global price index of Bitcoin (BTC) trades above the $10,400 level. At present, the coin marks $10,491.66 with an increase of 0.36% in the past 24 hours.
The CoinNess.com Bullish vs. Bearish Indicator shows our four-hour technical bias on BTC is "Sell" with 10 indicators sending out selling signals, five showing neutral signals, and three indicating buying signals.
The broad market is experiencing an upward trend, with 55 out of Top 100 cryptos by market cap rising.
The global market cap reads $331.43 billion, and the 24-hour trading volume is $73.14 billion.
Major Coins
1. BTC quotes show 10,485.35 USDT on Binance, $10,506.90 on Bitfinex, $10,482.49 on Coinbase Pro and 10,482.47 USDT on Boboo.com;
2. CoinNess.com Market Index presents quotes for major cryptocurrencies besides BTC as following: ETH marks $339.20 (-0.53%); XRP marks $0.2328 (+0.62%); BCH marks $215.22 (+0.48%); LTC marks $44.82 (+2.39%); EOS marks $2.56 (+0.55%); ETC marks $4.95 (+2.45%).
Top 3 Gainers and Losers in Cryptocurrencies
1. Top 3 gainers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: OMG (+20.87%), OCEAN (+11.49%), and AR (+11.14%);
2. Top 3 losers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: AVAX (-38.49%), LINK (-7.39%), and SUSHI (-7.28%).
Cap Flows of Coins/Exchanges
1. Top 3 capital inflows within the last 24 hours: ETH (+$174.81 mln), BTC (+$116.73 mln), and ETC (+$75.01 mln);
2. Top 3 capital outflows within the last 24 hours: LINK (-$10.75 mln), BUSD (-$9.46 mln), and AVAX (-$8.83 mln);
3. Net inflows/outflows of exchanges: Binance (-$41.08 mln), Bitfinex (+$4.45 mln), and Coinbase Pro (+$19.25 mln).

Following its decision to impose a new 35 percent withholding tax on U.S. dollar transactions, Argentina’s peso has continued its freefall. Since the announcement was made last week, desperate Argentinian savers have continued to convert their peso holdings into cryptocurrencies to hedge against devaluation.

Former Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney will join the Chamber of Digital Commerce as of Sept. 23, while Visa and Goldman Sachs become Executive Committee members. The Chamber represents the digital asset and blockchain industry, working to educate policymakers and advocating for policy clarity.

Bitstamp tweeted they have started performing scheduled infrastructure upgrades and expect the limited availability of all Bitstamp services lasting up to two hours.

DeFi Pulse said on Twitter late Sept. 22 night that it had identified and fixed a "previously undetected issue." Although the analytics site didn't go into specifics into what the issue was, it said it had "backfilled historical data" and that total value locked (TVL) in DeFi had actually exceeded a record $13.2 billion on September 18.

Monitored by CoinNess.com, from 00:00 to 10:00 (UTC) on September 23, ETH registered a net outflow of about $35.38 million in the past 10 hours.
1. The Top 3 net cap inflows in the crypto market are: NEO (+$7.14 mln), BCH (+$3.87 mln), and OMG (+$3.43 mln);
2. The Top 3 net cap outflows in the crypto market are: ETH (-$35.38 mln), LINK (-$20.45 mln), and VET (-$2.05 mln).
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MakerDAO, a top decentralized lending protocol, has concluded a governance poll in which Maker (MKR) token holders decided not to compensate Vault owners who suffered losses by liquidations during the March 12-13 market crash.
A total of 38 MKR holders participated in the poll, who own around 88,000 MKR tokens. More than 57,000 MKR, or 65% of the total votes, voted against any compensation on Tuesday. Technically, 1 MKR is one vote.

A Polkadot community member asked a question, "Is there a set date for the parachain auctions to begin? Or have they already started?" On Sept. 23, Polkadot founder Gavin Wood said in response, "Parachain auctions will begin on Kusama prior to Polkadot. It makes little sense for them to begin until we are ready to actually host parachains on Kusama/Polkadot."
He continues, "There are a number of blockers: 1. the parachains code should be upgraded from the v0 in Rococo to the v1, which needs a few weeks out; 2. cumulus should also be upgraded to work with parachains v1, xcmplite and be stabilized; 3. parachains final security should be fully implemented and audited; 4. the auction pallet should be audited."

As of 09:00 UTC on September 23, 1) The total market cap of DeFi coins marks $14.7 billion (-0.55%), and the top five coins by market cap are cDAI ($1.02 billion), DAI ($847 million), WBTC ($807 million), YFI ($731 million) and yCrv ($690 million). 2) Assets locked in DeFi are by far worth $8.29 billion (-11.15%), where $1.91 billion (23.03%) is from Uniswap, $1.23 billion is from Curve, and $1.19 billion is from Aave.

Joost Jager, an independent developer of Bitcoin Lightning Network, said that the Lightning Network wumbo channel has a vulnerability, which can allow attackers to spend almost no effort and zero cost to attack the payment channel.
He further explains, "The underlying issue is that a channel cannot hold more than 483 htlcs at a time, regardless of the channel capacity. Sending 483 micro-payments to yourself and holding on to the htlcs is enough to incapacitate a channel for up to two weeks. If the script kid is lucky, they only need to send 54 payments to get it done. A single tiny channel takes double-digit amounts of Bitcoin out of business. Therefore I started a new project called Circuit Breaker: a firewall for Lightning nodes."

The cryptocurrency money manager Panxora seeks to raise up to $50 million for a new hedge fund to buy digital tokens associated with the fast-growing decentralized finance (DeFi) sector.
“This has got the potential to really change the way finance is carried out,” Panxora CEO Gavin Smith said in an interview.