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According to data from Dropstab, the major token unlocks scheduled for this week (Sept. 28–Oct. 4) are as follows: - FF: 247 million tokens ($32.42 million), representing 10.58% of circulating supply, at 12:00 a.m. UTC on Sept. 29 - EIGEN: 36.82 million tokens ($10.17 million), representing 3.97% of circulating supply, at 8:00 a.m. UTC on Oct. 1 - Q: 241 million tokens ($7.66 million), representing 5.38% of circulating supply, at 12:00 a.m. UTC on Oct. 2 - BTW: 101 million tokens ($124 million), representing 3.62% of circulating supply, at 6:00 a.m. UTC on Oct. 2 - ENA: 94.19 million tokens ($25.60 million), representing 0.93% of circulating supply, at 8:00 a.m. UTC on Oct. 2

CoinMarketCap’s Altcoin Season Index stood at 64. The index is calculated by comparing the price performance of Bitcoin with that of the top 100 coins by market capitalization, excluding stablecoins and wrapped coins. If 75% of the top 100 coins outperform Bitcoin over the past 90 days, the market is considered to be in altcoin season; the opposite is considered Bitcoin season. A reading closer to 100 indicates stronger altcoin season conditions.

Cross-chain decentralized exchange THORChain (RUNE) has drawn industry criticism after refusing a request to block addresses linked to funds stolen in last weekend’s hack of crypto exchange Bitget, Cointelegraph reported. Bitget disclosed the hack on Sept. 25 and initially reported about $351.6 million in stolen cryptocurrency, later revising the figure to $387.5 million. According to the outlet, Bitget asked THORChain to block addresses tied to the hacked funds, but THORChain declined, citing decentralization principles. The report said the crypto community remains divided between those who argue decentralized protocols should preserve censorship resistance and those who say the movement of illicit funds should not be left unchecked.

The key global macro events for the fifth week of September are as follows, in UTC: - Sept. 28, 1:15 p.m. UTC: Speech by FOMC Governor Bowman - Sept. 29, 2:00 p.m. UTC: August JOLTS job openings and labor turnover report - Sept. 30, 12:15 p.m. UTC: U.S. September ADP nonfarm employment change - Sept. 30, 12:30 p.m. UTC: U.S. August core personal consumption expenditures - Oct. 2, 12:30 p.m. UTC: U.S. September nonfarm payrolls, unemployment rate, and initial jobless claims

Spot CVD 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 at each price level. The background becomes brighter when the price stays within a specific range for an extended period or makes a large move. Brighter zones may act as support or resistance. - The lower CVD indicator reflects buy and sell orders by capital size. The line for each color rises as buy orders increase. The yellow line represents orders between $100 and $1,000, while the brown line is based on large orders between $1 million and $10 million.

CoinMarketCap’s in-house crypto Fear and Greed Index came in at 72, indicating the market remained in the greed zone. The index signals extreme fear as it approaches zero and extreme optimism as it approaches 100. CoinMarketCap calculates the gauge based on price moves among the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, market volatility, derivatives-market indicators including the put/call ratio, the stablecoin supply ratio (SSR), and CoinMarketCap’s own search data.

QNT has fallen by 4.08% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, QNT is trading at $287.05.

Mike McGlone, a senior Bloomberg analyst, said digital assets have underperformed the Nasdaq index on a risk-adjusted basis over the past decade and described them as a failed asset from a portfolio and risk-management perspective. According to a Bloomberg report, the MarketVector Digital Assets 100 Index, or MVDA, has shown about three times the volatility of the Nasdaq-100 Index, or NDX, since 2017, but its relative returns have remained largely flat. While higher volatility can generally be offset by portfolio diversification through a negative correlation with stocks, digital assets have maintained a positive correlation with equities and therefore have offered little practical benefit for risk management, the report said. The MVDA index, which has a roughly 67% weighting in Bitcoin, has not outperformed the Nasdaq since crypto entered the regulatory fold with the launch of CBOE and CME Bitcoin futures in 2017. McGlone added that major bullish catalysts, including approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs and the Donald Trump administration’s pro-crypto policy stance, have already been mostly priced in, making it difficult for digital assets to generate uniquely strong excess returns over traditional assets going forward.

Dozens of so-called fractional-price tokens priced at less than one won each are trading on South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges, SBS Biz reported. According to the industry on Sept. 28, 39 listed tokens across South Korea’s four major crypto exchanges — Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone and Digitalx — were priced below one won as of 7:10 a.m. UTC on Sept. 24, excluding duplicates. By exchange, South Korean exchanges Bithumb and Coinone each had 26 such tokens, the most among the platforms, while Upbit and Korbit each supported trading in eight. Some had remained below one won for years since listing on domestic exchanges, while others fell under that threshold after losing more than 99% of their value. In the stock market, delisting rules for so-called penny stocks trading below 1,000 won and for companies failing to meet market capitalization requirements were tightened in July to speed the removal of troubled firms. South Korean crypto exchanges also use self-regulatory standards to monitor virtual assets that fall short of market capitalization or trading value thresholds before ending trading support, but unlike the stock market, per-token prices are not part of the monitoring criteria in the crypto market, which appears to have allowed many sub-won tokens to remain listed.

A single actor appears to have siphoned about $18.43 million through the issuance of 53 meme coins on Robinhood Chain in what The Block described as a large-scale chain of rug pulls. According to onchain analyst Wazz, the group exploited a 99% anti-sniping fee exemption feature on the Pons V2 launchpad. When a token creator granted fee-exempt status to a specific cluster of wallets, those wallets used bundled transactions within one second of launch to capture more than 80% of the supply, then immediately sold the tokens to pull funds back out. Wazz said the group repeated the method across more than 50 meme coins, using proceeds withdrawn from earlier tokens to fund initial purchases of later ones. Most of the siphoned funds are in ETH and cannot be frozen, while some were laundered into stablecoins such as DAI through cross-chain bridges.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin outlined a sweeping architectural overhaul in a blog post aimed at turning Ethereum into a cryptographic world computer by 2030, combining blockchain infrastructure with modern cryptography. Buterin said the "Hegota" upgrade set for next year would be the last fork under the current model, after which the protocol redesign would shift toward advanced technologies including recursive STARKs, automated formal verification and quantum-resistant cryptography. Under the plan, nodes would no longer need to re-execute all data directly, instead relying on PeerDAS data sampling and ZK-SNARK proof verification to maximize both processing speed and privacy. By 2030, when the overhaul is expected to be complete, Ethereum’s block production, or slot, time is projected to be shortened to four to eight seconds, while finality is expected to reach eight to 32 seconds. Buterin added parallel processing and off-chain signature aggregation under EIP-8288 would help position decentralized networks as hybrid infrastructure that improves their own performance and scalability, rather than simply raising costs.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed Assembly Bill 2409, which bans public officials from issuing or promoting crypto assets. The move makes California the first U.S. state to legally prohibit politicians from engaging in memecoin-linked activities. The bill strictly bars public officials from using their positions to create their own tokens or promote them for profit. It was introduced to address ethical lapses in politics and prevent investor harm, and passed with unanimous bipartisan support in both the state Senate, 40-0, and the state Assembly, 78-0.

BTW has fallen by 4.23% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, BTW is trading at $1.13.

BTW has risen by 5.89% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, BTW is trading at $1.12.

BTW has fallen by 4.31% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, BTW is trading at $1.06.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $85,000. BTC is trading at $85,010.01 on the Binance USDT market.

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The U.S. and China have agreed to reduce tariffs on $30 billion worth of goods each and begin regular talks on AI, Cointelegraph reported. The two countries also plan to set up a hotline to respond to AI-related incidents.

Payward, Kraken’s parent company, has spent billions of dollars on acquisitions and investments over the past two years as it pushes a strategy to move beyond an exchange and integrate trading, banking, asset management, and institutional services into a single financial infrastructure platform, CoinDesk reported. The company is expanding across four business pillars: the Kraken exchange, banking, asset management, and its B2B infrastructure unit, Payward Services. To enter the U.S. derivatives market, Payward acquired NinjaTrader for $1.5 billion, and this year it bought Bitnomial, which owns a derivatives exchange and clearinghouse, for $550 million. In Europe, the company is also pursuing a bank acquisition. Payward is also strengthening partnerships with financial institutions in tokenization. Nasdaq invested $100 million in Payward and expanded cooperation on stock tokens and market surveillance technology, according to CoinDesk. The two sides are targeting the second quarter of 2027 for the launch of stock tokens. The London Stock Exchange is also reviewing a stock-token business with Payward.

Crypto influencer and former FTX community partner Benson Sun said the current Bitcoin market cycle may show a gradual bullish trend with successive record highs, rather than the kind of sharp surge and clear peak seen in 2013 and 2017. Sun said Bitcoin’s main buyers have shifted since 2021 from retail investors to institutions such as listed companies, spot ETFs, and corporations. As those institutions mainly buy spot holdings and some use delta-neutral strategies, Sun said traditional indicators such as funding rates and the MVRV Z-Score may not rise to extreme levels even at this cycle’s peak. Sun added the top in this cycle is more likely to emerge when additional institutional inflows begin to weaken, rather than when retail investor sentiment overheats.

Bloomberg senior analyst Mike McGlone said Bitcoin’s relative investment appeal could weaken if the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield rises to around 5% while stock market valuations remain elevated. McGlone’s analysis focused on how the rate and Bitcoin price backdrop has changed sharply since 2021. Unlike 2021, when the U.S. 10-year yield was around 0.5% and Bitcoin was under $10,000, both the benchmark yield and Bitcoin’s price are now about 10 times higher, suggesting investment flows could move in the opposite direction from that period. McGlone added that a comparison of the year-end ratio between U.S. stock market capitalization and public debt since 2001 shows the ratio fell to about 1.2 times in 2018 and 2022, when Bitcoin dropped about 70%. The ratio now stands at about 2.1 times. He said a gradual decline in stocks could become a factor that pressures both Bitcoin and interest rates at the same time. If stock prices and Treasury yields remain high instead, Bitcoin could lose relative appeal as a speculative asset as it competes with many other cryptocurrencies while offering neither cash flow nor interest income.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $84,000. BTC is trading at $83,990 on the Binance USDT market.

A Bitget hacker moved about $83 million worth of stolen XRP to another wallet, CoinDesk reported. Roughly 54 million XRP has now left the original five wallets.

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng, better known as CZ, said on the 'When Shift Happens' podcast that his social media posts do not have enough influence to move prices across the broader cryptocurrency market. CZ said he has maintained a bullish view on Bitcoin for a long time, and because he posts five to 10 times a day, messages published just ahead of positive market news may simply be coincidental. He added that if he had known market-moving information in advance, he would not have posted about it, stressing that any overlap between his posts and subsequent market gains was only a matter of timing.

U.S. spot Solana ETFs recorded about $80 million to $87 million in net inflows on Sept. 25, the largest daily total on record, Crypto Briefing reported. The figure was more than double the previous high of $33.5 million, while weekly net inflows reached about $181 million.