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Bitcoin is regaining relative strength against U.S. stocks, according to on-chain analytics firm Glassnode. Glassnode said the share of trading days in June when BTC’s daily return outperformed the S&P 500 fell to around 20%, the lowest level in the past six years. That figure has recently climbed back above 50%, while the stock market has moved sideways, suggesting Bitcoin is drawing asset-specific buying rather than rising in tandem with risk assets more broadly.

The Congressional Research Service said Congress could use legislation to more clearly define the scope of permitted bank activities involving Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin.com reported. CRS said federal regulators’ approach to banks’ crypto-related business has shifted with agency leadership and policy direction, and Congress can decide by law whether specific activities should be allowed or restricted.

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson said LIT had been overcorrected after Robinhood recently announced it would offer crypto perpetual futures to U.S. users through Bitstamp rather than Lighter, Cointelegraph reported. Ben-Sasson said the token could reach $10 this year. According to CoinMarketCap, LIT was trading at $3.88, down 3.21%.

European crypto trading platform 21bitcoin has launched an interest payment service for euro balances, Bitcoin Magazine reported. The platform pays an annual interest rate of 1.21% on euro balances and also offers an option to receive interest in Bitcoin without conversion fees. The rate is variable, German withholding tax applies, and there is no minimum deposit requirement or lock-up period for withdrawals.

Crypto analyst Rekt Capital said Bitcoin closed its September monthly candle above $82,500 and is likely to retest the $82,500 area this month. If BTC confirms support at that level, the next uptrend could continue, although the retest process may bring high volatility and a temporary break below support, as in past cases.

Crypto analyst Doctor Profit said on X that excessive leverage in the altcoin market and a surge in trading volume prompted the analyst to close most open positions and prepare for a possible correction. Doctor Profit added that the analyst entered a short position on BTC at $86,200 and set additional short orders in the $86,500-$89,500 range, while maintaining a downside target of $79,000.

An attacker address tied to the $3.8 million hack of NEAR-based cross-chain intent protocol Near Intents showed signs of interacting with an address linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group, PeckShield reported. The attacker was found to have transferred the stolen funds to KuCoin before bridging them into Bitcoin, while the address also had a record of interacting with a wallet labeled as tied to Lazarus Group that begins with 0x098B7.

ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood said Kevin Warsh taking office as chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve would be a major positive for Bitcoin and that Wood still sees BTC reaching $1 million, according to The Bitcoin Historian.

The Litecoin Foundation has signed a memorandum of understanding with Graywick Digital to bring LTC to the Canton Network, CoinDesk reported. The two sides plan to pursue an integration that would allow Litecoin to be used as cLTC on the Canton Network.

The U.S. Treasury will allow states to submit conditional certificates to meet the initial application deadline even if state-level stablecoin rules are not yet fully in place, CryptoSlate reported. That means states that still need additional legislation or regulatory changes can still begin the certification process, although actual review will start only after complete application materials are submitted. A conditional filing does not count as the start of the 30-day review and decision period. The rule took effect on Sept. 30, according to CryptoSlate, but applications will not be accepted until the information-collection approval process under the Paperwork Reduction Act is completed.

Justin Sun, founder of Tron (TRX), said Nasdaq-listed Tron (ticker: TRON), a company accumulating TRX, has bought the token for 252 consecutive days, bringing its holdings to 716 million TRX, or about $238 million.

The Hyperliquid Policy Center urged European regulators to classify perpetual futures contracts as derivatives subject to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II, arguing regulation should be determined by a product’s characteristics rather than the underlying blockchain technology, according to CoinGape.

A U.S. court has dismissed a class action over the ME token against Magic Eden operator Euclid Labs and co-founder Zhuoxun Yin. The court said the wallet terms of service signed by users contained a valid class action waiver, stripping federal court jurisdiction over the case under the Class Action Fairness Act, and added it also lacked personal jurisdiction over Yin. The ruling applies only at the pleading stage. Plaintiffs had previously argued that the Magic Eden platform advertised the ME token as including cross-chain and buyback features, but later turned into a gambling platform, sending the token down more than 98%.

World Liberty Financial said on X it will launch a 1.25 million USD1 ($1.25 million) WLFI staking reward pool following a community vote. The initial 1.25 million USD1 will be deposited into the reward pool on Oct. 2 and distributed over 180 days. Users must stake WLFI for at least 180 days and participate directly in governance voting at least once every 90 days.

The Drift Foundation has begun claim and redemption procedures for DFX recovery tokens for victims of a security incident in April, according to Crypto Briefing. Losses from the hack were estimated at about $295.4 million. Victims can claim 1 DFX for each 1 USDT in verified losses, based on oracle prices at the time of the incident. DFX is a transferable token issued under Solana’s SPL standard and is separate from DRIFT, the protocol’s existing governance token. The claim deadline is Jan. 1, 2028, after which any unclaimed DFX will be burned.

European Union consumer authorities have launched an investigation into in-game paid currency sales practices, while excluding alternative payment methods such as cryptocurrency that use cryptographic technology, Decrypt reported. The authorities are investigating 10 game companies, including Activision Blizzard, Riot Games, Supercell and Ubisoft.

Latin America’s stablecoin ecosystem shows potential vulnerability because it relies on a small number of liquidity providers, according to a report by Veris Capital and Verda Ventures cited by Cointelegraph. The report said only 16 of the 494 companies surveyed focused on stablecoin-to-fiat wholesale liquidity, corporate treasury services, and credit provision. It added that if key providers lose access to banking services, local currency conversion costs could rise and withdrawals could be delayed or suspended. At the same time, the report said it did not obtain trading volume or market share data showing the actual degree of liquidity concentration.

Sui said it is working with OpenAssets, a tokenized real-world asset infrastructure provider, on the Open Tokenized Asset Standard (OTAS) under Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust, and plans to expand its use across the Sui ecosystem. OTAS is an open-source standard designed to standardize how tokenized assets express identity, compliance rules and audit history so they can be represented, verified and settled across different financial systems. The goal is to make tokenized assets such as securities, funds and commodities easier to move and trade between institutions and networks without mandating any specific blockchain or technology stack. The Sui Foundation said it was one of OTAS's initial sponsors and took part from the standard's design stage.

The three major U.S. stock indices opened higher today. - S&P 500: +0.13% - Nasdaq: +0.32% - Dow Jones: +0.17%

Near Intents, a cross-chain intent protocol based on NEAR, said a hack caused about $3.8 million in losses. The protocol said the incident stemmed from a bug in interactions between its omni deposit and withdrawal infrastructure and the Near Intents smart contract, and added the related vulnerability has been patched. Near Intents said it plans to fully compensate the losses. Services are expected to resume in about one hour, while deposits and withdrawals on some networks, including BSC, Polygon, TON, Optimism and Avalanche, will remain suspended for an additional 12 hours. The protocol said it has reported the incident to investigative authorities and is tracing and seeking to recover the stolen funds.

Robinhood Wallet has integrated the API of decentralized exchange Arcus, allowing users to route spot stock token orders through Arcus from within the wallet, The Block reported. Arcus, built by the dYdX development team, launched on Robinhood Chain in July with more than 90 stock tokens and has since expanded support to more than 190.

Crypto.com said its AI agent platform remains in stealth mode, with no formal launch timeline or other specific details disclosed so far, Cointelegraph reported. The company ran a $15 million Super Bowl ad about eight months ago to promote the platform, and the related website went down at the time as users rushed in.

NEAR has fallen by 3.54% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, NEAR is trading at $4.91.

Evernorth Holdings, a company pursuing a strategic XRP accumulation plan, said shareholders approved its SPAC merger with Armada Acquisition II. If the remaining conditions are satisfied or waived, the companies plan to complete the merger on Oct. 7 and begin trading the combined company’s shares on Nasdaq under the ticker XRPN on Oct. 8. The merger is expected to raise about $300 million in cash, including $225 million in private investment, $30 million in additional convertible note financing, and about $48 million held in trust. Investors also contributed XRP in kind, and Evernorth’s XRP holdings are expected to reach about 473 million XRP once the merger closes.

Proposers of EIP-8363 have withdrawn the Ethereum issuance policy change from consideration for the Hegotá upgrade, The Block reported. The proposal centers on removing additional incentives for staking participation above 50% of ETH’s total supply. The proposers said Ethereum’s issuance policy should be discussed through a separate process rather than as part of a network upgrade.