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An anonymous whale tracked across nine addresses on blockchain analytics platform Arkham sold all 167,855 ETH held over the past five days, according to Lookonchain. The amount was worth $408 million.

Blockchain security firm PeckShield said on X, citing Specter, that Notional Finance’s escrow contract was suspected of being exploited, with an estimated $1.7 million worth of DAI and USDC stolen. The attacker then swapped the funds into 689.2 ETH and deposited the assets into crypto mixing protocol Tornado Cash.

South Korea will allow tokenization of money market funds similar to BlackRock’s BUIDL from February next year, Edaily reported. South Korea’s Financial Services Commission announced the policy direction for tokenized securities at the third meeting of a public-private consultative body on tokenized securities held on Sept. 4 in Seoul’s Yeouido district. Under the plan, the authorities will first allow tokenization of private money market funds for institutional investors, privately placed corporate bonds and unlisted shares when the framework takes effect in February next year, and later expand it in stages to public offering securities and stablecoin-based on-chain settlement.

Uniswap Labs, the developer of decentralized exchange Uniswap (UNI), has purchased PONS, the native token of PONS, a non-custodial token launchpad on Arbitrum (ARB)-based layer-two Robinhood Chain. PONS said on X the purchase is intended to strengthen a long-term partnership between the two sides. The size of the purchase was not disclosed.

Blockchain technology company Beatoz is partnering with payment platform company Danal to commercialize stablecoin-based digital asset payment and settlement services, Dong-A Ilbo reported. The two companies plan joint projects in four key areas: cooperation on building an ecosystem for digital asset issuance, distribution, payments, and settlement; a proof-of-concept linking Danal’s PG system with Beatoz’s CPG; joint research on revenue models and standard interfaces; and the development of a cooperation framework and infrastructure involving financial institutions and merchants.

Coinbase said it plans to seek Commodity Futures Trading Commission approval as the next step toward launching stock perpetual futures trading in the United States after submitting related registration filings to the U.S. SEC. Faryar Shirzad, Coinbase’s chief policy officer, said on X the company took its first step with this week’s SEC filing and will next pursue CFTC product approval. Shirzad added Coinbase hopes to offer stock perpetual futures to U.S. investors in a regulated manner, noting demand has already been established in overseas markets. Shirzad also stressed coordination between the SEC and CFTC is needed for the effort.

Jiang Zhuoer, founder of mining pool BTC.top and a blockchain expert with Chinese roots, said on X that Jiang entered a 100% short position in BTC perpetual futures at $82,050. Jiang said weaker ETF flows had produced a first net outflow, yet BTC still rose to $81,500, the top of its range, and added the current consolidation had lasted only 13 days, which Jiang sees as too short to break through the key resistance zone at $83,000-$84,000. Jiang added Jiang would view a drop to $70,000-$72,000 as a final buying opportunity, look for take-profit levels if BTC trades within the $76,000-$82,000 range, and cut losses at $82,300 if the price moves higher. According to the record Jiang shared, the position is a BTC perpetual futures trade collateralized with ETH and does not use leverage.

A wallet tied to the TRUMP meme coin team has transferred most of the 10 million TRUMP tokens, worth about $23.86 million, that it moved out three days ago to centralized exchanges, EmberCN reported. Of that amount, eight million TRUMP was deposited to Binance and two million TRUMP to OKX. Exchange deposits are typically interpreted as intended for selling.

Blockchain data firm Bitquery found 96,231 "fake address" outputs across 965,135 Bitcoin blocks, CryptoSlate reported. The outputs record text disguised as valid addresses and contain about 3.2 BTC. Because they are recognized as if they were actually spendable, they remain in the unspent transaction output, or UTXO, database and increase storage demands for nodes.

CoinMarketCap’s Altcoin Season Index came in at 37, up four points from yesterday. The index compares the price performance of Bitcoin with that of the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, excluding stablecoins and wrapped coins. If 75% of the top 100 coins have outperformed Bitcoin over the past 90 days, the market is considered to be in altcoin season; the reverse is viewed as Bitcoin season. A reading closer to 100 indicates stronger altcoin-season conditions.

Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas said spot gold ETF GLD and BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF IBIT ranked fourth and sixth, respectively, in U.S. ETF trading volume on Sept. 3, with $4.53 billion and $3.48 billion. Balchunas estimated the two funds’ share of total ETF trading volume was at a record high or close to one. He added on X, "the trading volume of the two ETFs themselves is not unusually large. It is due to generally lighter trading across other ETFs at the end of August."

a16z Crypto said in a report that for blockchains to see broader use in financial markets, they need predictable and stable transaction processing in addition to high throughput. It said aggregate blockchain throughput has risen more than 100-fold over the past five years, but in actual financial markets, what matters more is whether transactions are included on time and processed under pre-defined rules. The firm added that if a specific operator can determine whether a transaction is processed or in what order, information asymmetry or MEV issues can emerge, and it stressed the need to ensure timely transaction inclusion and establish clear rules for processing order.

CoinMarketCap’s in-house Crypto Fear and Greed Index rose seven points from yesterday to 78, remaining in greed territory. The index indicates extreme fear when it is closer to zero and extreme optimism when it is closer to 100. CoinMarketCap calculates the index based on price movements among the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, market volatility, derivatives-market data such as put/call ratios, the stablecoin supply ratio, and CoinMarketCap’s own search data.

The spot CVD chart is an order-book analysis chart for the BTC/USDT spot trading pair. The upper section shows the Volume Heatmap, while the lower section shows cumulative volume delta, or CVD. - The upper Volume Heatmap tracks trading volume by price zone. The background color becomes brighter when the price stays in a specific range for an extended period or makes a large move. Brighter areas may act as support or resistance levels. - The lower CVD indicator shows buy and sell orders by order size. As buy orders increase, the line in the corresponding color moves higher. The yellow line is based on orders between $100 and $1,000, while the brown line reflects large orders between $1 million and $10 million.

According to crypto options exchange Deribit, $2.495 billion in Bitcoin options is set to expire at 8:00 a.m. UTC today. The put-to-call ratio stands at 0.61, and the max pain price, the level where the largest number of option buyers lose their premiums, is $72,000. At the same time, $350 million in Ethereum options is also set to expire. The put-to-call ratio is 0.89, and the max pain price is $2,400.

An address labeled as the Tectonic hacker deposited 2,658.9 ETH, worth about $6.65 million, into crypto mixing protocol Tornado Cash, blockchain security firm PeckShield said on X. Tectonic, a lending protocol in the Cronos (CRO) ecosystem, was hit by a major exploit in August.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $81,000. BTC is trading at $80,964.01 on the Binance USDT market.

ZEC extended gains after breaking above $900, with Grayscale saying the token is rising on Bitcoin-like scarcity and growing demand for digital privacy. Grayscale had previously highlighted ZEC’s strengths as its proof-of-work model, its 21 million supply cap, and its optional privacy features. ZEC was trading at $947.13, up 16.82%, according to CoinMarketCap.

Bitcoin’s sharp upward move has run its course for now and is working through a key resistance cluster in the low-$80,000 range, Jamie Coutts, a crypto market analyst at Real Vision, said on X. Coutts said the area includes previous highs, the cost basis of long-term holders, the cost basis of ETF investors, and the highs from the past six months. The current price action is confirming a market trend reversal, Coutts added.

Decentralized prediction market Polymarket has launched Polymarket Perps, a perpetual futures trading platform tied to cryptocurrencies, commodities and stocks, Crypto Briefing reported. The platform supports nine assets: BTC, ETH, SOL, gold, silver, WTI crude oil, the S&P 500, the Nasdaq 100 and SpaceX stock, with leverage of up to 20x.

Sui has been selected as the blockchain infrastructure for EVE Frontier, a space survival MMO from global game developer CCP Games. EVE Frontier migrated from an Ethereum layer-two environment to the Sui layer-one network, and the company plans to use Sui’s parallel transaction processing, fast finality and sponsored transactions, which let the game developer cover gas fees, to improve user convenience. The EVE token, which supports the game’s on-chain economy, will also run on Sui.

Robinhood Chain’s daily gas fees reached $4.45 million on Sept. 2, up 82-fold from $54,254 on Aug. 22, The Defiant reported, citing DefiLlama data. The figure was higher than the combined gas fees of Ethereum, Solana, and Tron. The rise was attributed to a sharp increase in the network’s base fee amid active memecoin issuance and trading. Robinhood is covering gas fees for swap users on its wallet app through Sept. 29.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $82,000. BTC is trading at $82,009.77 on the Binance USDT market.

The U.S. SEC has approved a rule change allowing Cboe to support options trading on WisdomTree’s spot Bitcoin ETF, BTCW, NewsBTC reported. The approval applies to options tied to the ETF as the underlying asset, not to BTCW itself, allowing investors to use BTCW options for hedging, volatility trading and other investment strategies.

Coinbase announced it will support a migration from Story (IP) to Data (DATA) from Oct. 5 to Oct. 7. The token symbol for Story will also change from IP to DATA.