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Nasdaq-listed HYPE strategic buyer Hyperliquid Strategy (Hyperliquid Strategies, PURR) bought an additional $135 million worth of HYPE over the past week. According to on-chain data, Hyperliquid Strategy was a net buyer of 1.444 million HYPE at an average price of around $93.7, bringing its total holdings to about 35.1 million HYPE, valued at roughly $3.206 billion.

The European Banking Authority has formally urged the EU to bring crypto lending and DeFi intermediation within the scope of its Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation, or MiCA. In a report submitted to the European Commission, the EBA recommended leverage limits, user suitability assessments, disclosure requirements and a certification regime for DeFi protocols for lending services offered by crypto-asset service providers, or CASPs, including DeFi-linked lending. The recommendation comes as crypto lending has surged across more than 16 EU countries and access to DeFi through AI and centralized exchanges has expanded, blurring the boundary between CeFi and DeFi.

IBM has connected its Digital Asset Haven digital asset management platform to Swift’s shared blockchain ledger and launched a beta version of its self-hosted system. Through a newly introduced ISO 20022 messaging adapter, financial institutions can execute 24-hour tokenized deposit transactions through existing payment processes without separate blockchain workflows. The Swift ledger was designed with participation from about 40 financial institutions, and 17 institutions are currently running pilot projects. IBM also introduced a self-hosted version based on its IBM Z and LinuxONE servers to reduce reliance on public cloud infrastructure. Under the Crypto Express HSM security environment, the setup allows financial institutions to directly manage stablecoins and tokenized deposits in their own data centers.

XRP accumulation company Evernorth Holdings will hold a final shareholder vote on Sept. 30 on its SPAC merger with Armada Acquisition II and a Nasdaq listing under the ticker XRPN. The U.S. SEC approved its Form S-4 registration statement on Aug. 27, completing the regulatory process for the SPAC listing. If the vote passes, Evernorth plans to begin trading on Nasdaq in the fourth quarter of 2026. The company’s strategy is to hold hundreds of millions of XRP at the corporate level and enhance XRP value per share through operations including lending and liquidity provision.

About $4.2 million in crypto was stolen from the Ethereum, BSC and Tron hot wallets of crypto casino platform Duelbits and sent to a newly created hacker address. The security breach is believed to have stemmed from a compromised private key. The stolen assets included 836 ETH, 1.62 million USDT, 97,000 USDC, 209 BNB and 192,000 TRX. On-chain tracking showed the hacker swapped most of the stolen funds into Ethereum.

Major exchanges have seen $116 million worth of futures liquidated in the past hour. In the past 24 hours, $617 million worth of futures have been liquidated.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $83,000. BTC is trading at $82,939.01 on the Binance USDT market.

Garrett Jin, the BitForex founder who has faced allegations of profiting from insider trading ahead of last October’s largest-ever forced liquidation event, withdrew all 147 million USDC held on Hyperliquid and transferred the funds to Binance.

Two new cryptocurrency wallets believed to belong to the same entity withdrew a total of 950 BTC, worth about $72.6 million, from Binance, according to on-chain asset tracking platform Lookonchain.

Former Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan said financial markets are pricing in overly aggressive expectations for U.S. Federal Reserve rate hikes. Kaplan said a September rate increase was appropriate and another hike in December could be a reasonable option, but added that holding rates steady in October would be preferable. He said the Fed’s dot plot points to one additional hike this year, while markets are pricing in at least three more hikes through June next year. Kaplan added that inflation remains a concern, but interest-rate-sensitive sectors such as autos, housing, and industries serving middle- and lower-income households are not overheated.

Digital asset investment firm Merkle Value said it plans to roll out a Bitcoin investment service for institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals in India, emphasizing regulatory compliance, transparency and risk management. The company said it aims to build long-term demand for BTC investments with an asset management system aligned with standards in traditional financial markets.

OKX has revised its fiat and stablecoin trading guidelines for institutional investors in the European Economic Area to strengthen compliance with the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation, or MiCA. Under the revision, the assets, trading pairs and eligibility available to institutional investors may vary depending on the investor’s country of residence, account type and whether a stablecoin meets regulatory compliance requirements. That means some European institutional accounts may face restrictions even on trading pairs supported across the broader exchange. The move is not the launch of new products, but a compliance-focused adjustment to existing trading services.

A U.S. Federal Reserve official, Williams, said raising interest rates once more by year-end would be reasonable, BlockBeats reported. Williams said downside risks to achieving full employment had eased, while inflation still faced significant challenges. Williams added demand related to artificial intelligence, or AI, remained very strong.

The implied volatility gap between one-week XRP call and put options widened to 9.3 percentage points, a level in the top 5% of readings seen over the past year, according to Coinbase Markets. The move indicates a sharp increase in demand for call options betting on further gains in XRP. The indicator emerged as XRP rose about 15% to 18% over the past week. XRP futures open interest also surged to $4.1 billion, while CME overtook Binance to become the largest XRP futures exchange. Coinbase Markets added that concentrated buying in call options after the recent rally has increased the risk of crowded positioning alongside rising upside expectations.

Payy Network, a privacy-focused stablecoin payments network, is estimated to have lost about 1.8 million USDC in a hacking attack, according to on-chain analyst Specter Investigation. The attacker is understood to have obtained the initial funds through privacy protocol Railgun, then swapped the stolen USDC for ETH and dispersed it across three addresses.

Spot CVD is an order-book analysis chart for the BTC/USDT spot trading pair. The upper panel shows the volume heatmap, while the lower panel shows cumulative volume delta, or CVD. - The volume heatmap tracks trading volume at each price level. 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. - The cumulative volume delta indicator reflects buy and sell orders by order size. As buy orders increase, the line for the corresponding color moves higher. 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.

Strive (SATA) is estimated to have raised enough funds so far this week to buy more than 1,000 BTC, according to Bitcoin Treasuries. A CoinNess analysis of Bitcoin Treasuries data showed the estimated purchase size equals about 74% of average daily Bitcoin mining output.

Crypto investment firm Paradigm unstaked 1 million HYPE worth about $94 million through four wallets about six hours ago, BlockBeats reported, citing on-chain monitoring. It was not confirmed whether the unstaked tokens were actually sold.

Binance announced the addition of HYPE/USDT, HYPE/USDC, and HYPE/TRY spot trading pairs at 11:00 a.m. UTC today.

A 23-year-old U.S. man who posed as a Coinbase employee and stole as much as $16 million in cryptocurrency from about 100 users was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office. Ronald Spector used a social engineering scam rather than a hack of Coinbase’s systems, telling victims their accounts were at risk of being hacked and urging them to move assets to a safe wallet or hand over wallet seed phrases, which he then used to steal the cryptocurrency. Spector pleaded guilty on Sept. 2 to all 31 counts, including money laundering and grand larceny. The court also ordered the forfeiture of more than $500,000 in cash and cryptocurrency and restitution for victims.

A US Bank survey of 5,000 U.S. adults found 48% of Gen Z respondents and 47% of millennials view emerging investments such as cryptocurrencies as more attractive than traditional investments. Interest in crypto did not translate into trust, however. According to the bank’s 2026 wealth survey, 30% of Gen Z respondents and 28% of millennials said their trust in cryptocurrencies had declined over the past year, while 33% and 29%, respectively, said their trust in stocks had increased. The survey also found 76% of Gen Z respondents and 79% of millennials view traditional investments as the most suitable option for building long-term wealth.

The following are the 24-hour long/short ratios for BTC perpetual futures on the world’s three largest crypto futures exchanges by open interest: Overall: 48.05% long, 51.95% short - Binance: 48.08% long, 51.92% short - OKX: 48.26% long, 51.74% short - Bybit: 46.4% long, 53.6% short

Multicoin Capital deposited another 130,331 HYPE, worth about $12.15 million, into Coinbase Prime within a week, BlockBeats reported, citing Lookonchain. Since July 28, Multicoin Capital has transferred a total of 4.23 million HYPE, worth about $285 million, to Coinbase Prime, although it remains unconfirmed whether the tokens were actually sold.

Crypto analyst Darkfost said a bull-market reversal signal has emerged as Bitcoin’s short-term holder, or STH, realized price moved above the realized price of active long-term holders, or LTHs. According to the analyst, this is the fifth time the signal has appeared. Darkfost said active long-term holders refer to long-term investors holding BTC that has moved at least once over the past seven years. The method excludes coins that have remained dormant for extended periods when calculating the average acquisition price. The analyst added that more than 3.5 million BTC has not moved for over 10 years, and that amount has been increasing by an average of 8,000 to 30,000 BTC per month. Darkfost also said liquidity inflows through ETFs have been supporting the recent bullish reversal, while cautioning the indicator does not confirm a bull market and could still be invalidated.

Zcash recorded 62,375 shielded transactions last week, the highest level since 2022 and the largest in about four years, according to Blockworks data. Over the same period, network transfer volume reached $23.88 billion, marking the biggest weekly total on record aside from one week during the 2021 bull market. Shielded transactions use zero-knowledge proofs to keep senders, recipients and transfer amounts private. Weekly transaction counts, which stood at around 8,000 to 12,000 from January through July this year, surged from August and climbed to about 48,000 in early September, the data showed.