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According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $84,000. BTC is trading at $83,949.99 on the Binance USDT market.

The Ethereum Foundation will provide $100,000 to support development of a formally verified compiler for the smart contract language Vyper, Crypto Briefing reported. Vyper-based smart contracts currently handle more than $2 billion in total value locked across DeFi protocols including Curve and Yearn.

Nasdaq-listed Lion Group Holdings bought an additional 38,000 HYPE after selling all of its SOL holdings and part of its BTC position, The Wall Street Journal reported. The company now holds 232,900 HYPE worth $20.1 million.

Fables, a decentralized exchange built on Robinhood Chain, said it will hold the token generation event for its native FABLES token on Oct. 20. The project said an initial 75 million FABLES will enter circulation, while the full circulating supply will not be issued at once. Instead, tokens will be minted only as needed for liquidity provision and future scheduled uses. A total of 120 million FABLES has been allocated to the community, with up to 45 million FABLES available as liquidity tokens at the time of the TGE. Prologue holders have been allocated 25 million FABLES, which will be minted when the tokens are claimed. The team allocation totals 80 million FABLES, but none of those tokens will enter the market at launch.

Bitcoin futures open interest has exceeded $50 billion for the first time this year, according to David Lawant, head of research at Anchorage Digital. Lawant said the move reflects stronger market activity, adding that rising spot trading volume and thinner order books point to the early stages of a Bitcoin recovery.

The three major U.S. stock indices opened higher today. - S&P 500: +0.30% - Nasdaq: +0.40% - Dow Jones: +0.20%

Singapore’s cryptocurrency market grew sharply over the year through June, with total transaction volume reaching $284 billion, up 55.4% from a year earlier, Cointelegraph reported, citing Chainalysis. That helped Singapore regain its position as the largest cryptocurrency market in Central, Southern Asia and Oceania. Growth was led by institutional activity, with trading volume on institutional platforms rising 94% to $60 billion. Most of that trading was concentrated among a small number of market makers, OTC firms and institutional brokers.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $85,000. BTC is trading at $85,000.01 on the Binance USDT market.

Financial-focused Layer 1 blockchain Pharos Network (PROS) unveiled its “Agent Native” upgrade at a keynote during Korea Blockchain Week, outlining support for onchain activity by AI agents. The upgrade includes adding gas fee sponsorship to the testnet, natural language-based real-world asset management, and AI tools for developers. According to Pharos, users will be able to use the Pharos Port Agent widget to check real-world asset holdings, returns, and redeemable periods through natural language queries. Pharos also plans to launch proof-of-stake staking in the fourth quarter of 2026, gradually introduce agent accounts and related features in 2027, and build an integrated Agent Native-based system by 2028.

U.S. core personal consumption expenditures prices rose 0.2% in August from a month earlier, below the 0.3% market forecast, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. On an annual basis, the core PCE price index rose 3.0%, also below expectations for a 3.3% increase. The core PCE price index, which excludes volatile energy and food prices, is widely viewed as a key inflation gauge for the Federal Reserve. A stronger-than-expected reading can weaken expectations for Fed rate cuts, while a softer-than-expected figure can be interpreted as a sign of easing inflation and strengthen expectations for rate cuts. Risk assets generally tend to rise when expectations grow for greater liquidity tied to lower interest rates.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $84,000. BTC is trading at $84,100 on the Binance USDT market.

Polymarket has introduced new user-protection measures, including deposit limits and self-exclusion tools, CNN reported. The move comes as calls grow to tighten consumer-protection rules alongside the rapid expansion of prediction markets. Users will now be able to set their own deposit caps that cannot be lifted immediately, a measure aimed at preventing excessive spending and losses. The platform has also added a feature allowing users to place themselves on a self-exclusion list to suspend access for a set period or permanently.

The Cardano Foundation and Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras are pursuing a blockchain project to track supply chains for sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel, Crypto Briefing reported. The goal is to record fuel supply-chain data on-chain to make raw materials and distribution processes easier to trace and to reduce greenwashing.

Weekly altcoin deposit transactions sent to exchanges rose to 78,000 on Sept. 28, up about 160% from roughly 29,800 on Sept. 14 and the highest level since October 2025, Cointelegraph reported. Over the same period, the number of addresses depositing altcoins to exchanges climbed to about 51,600 from around 17,600, nearly tripling and reaching the highest level in the past year. Cointelegraph said token deposits to exchanges are generally interpreted as a sign holders are preparing to sell, which could point to potential selling pressure.

Stand With Crypto, a U.S. cryptocurrency lobbying group with close ties to Coinbase, has released its first list of endorsed Senate candidates, The Block reported. The group said it supports Jon Husted of Ohio, Ashley Hinson of Iowa and Chris Pappas of New Hampshire. It also said that after the Clarity bill failed to pass, its more than 3 million supporters will focus on helping elect candidates who back clearer crypto regulation.

Blockchain compliance startup Scorechain announced the addition of Sui network support to its cryptocurrency intelligence platform. The update allows compliance teams to monitor wallets, trace fund flows, and screen transactions on the Sui network.

Bitcoin has come under only limited pressure even as the U.S. dollar index climbed to its highest level in two months, according to a CoinDesk analysis. The dollar index rose 2.6% since Sept. 9 to 101.69, while BTC recently corrected from about $87,500 to the $83,000-$84,000 range. CoinDesk said the pullback appears relatively limited given the magnitude of the dollar’s rise. Over the past 90 trading days, the daily return correlation between BTC and the dollar index stood at negative 0.41, the lowest level since February 2023, meaning the tendency for the two assets to move in opposite directions has become more pronounced recently.

Asia is leading the global tokenized finance market, and South Korea, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong are around two to three years ahead of other regional markets, Franklin Templeton digital assets executive Chetan Karkhanis said, according to Crypto Briefing. Franklin Templeton has also recently expanded its financial token initiatives across the Asia-Pacific region. In November last year, it launched Hong Kong’s first tokenized money market fund, and with DBS Bank it moved to launch Singapore’s first tokenized money market fund for retail investors.

Whale Alert reported that 222,784,422 USDC has been transferred from USDC Treasury to an unknown wallet. The transaction is valued at about $223 million.

Whale Alert reported that 211 million USDC has been burned at the USDC Treasury.

The combined average daily trading volume of Strategy stock (MSTR) and STRC over the past month was 1.3 times higher than the combined average daily volume of JPMorgan stock and its largest preferred share, JPM-PJ, according to BitcoinTreasuries.

North Korean hackers behind the Bitget breach have begun moving about 2,700 ZEC, worth roughly $3.8 million, to Zcash’s shielded pool Ironwood, ZachXBT said. Earlier, about 18,900 ZEC, valued at roughly $28.3 million, was stolen from a Bitget hot wallet.

USDT-based layer-one blockchain Stable has integrated Visa Direct into its payments infrastructure, enabling direct connections between on-chain stablecoin payments and bank accounts or mobile wallets worldwide, Crypto Briefing reported. With the integration, Stable now links crypto-based payments and traditional finance in both directions. Visa Direct is connected to billions of payment endpoints across more than 195 countries.

Solv Protocol said its BTC+ subscription and redemption mechanism is operating normally amid recent controversy over a single BTC+ redemption. The protocol said the issue arose after one specific transaction was designated for an internal risk management review, adding that all assets related to the disputed BTC+ case remain fully held within the protocol and have not been transferred, burned or disposed of. Solv said the assets are under review under established risk management procedures and the matter will be handled based on verifiable information and evidence. Solv added it plans to cooperate with legal and judicial proceedings if necessary while continuing to ensure BTC+ operates normally and maintaining asset safety and consistent risk management standards. BTC+ is Solv Protocol’s yield-bearing vault that provides interest on Bitcoin deposits.

Pendle has launched a fixed-yield product for Paxos-issued dollar stablecoin USDG on Robinhood Chain, with maturity set for March 2027, Crypto Briefing reported. The product lets users lock in a preset yield instead of taking on a floating rate like traditional lending vaults. Robinhood had previously offered about 7% annual yield on USDG through MORPHO lending vaults, while yield on the Pendle product varies with market conditions.