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South Korean exchange Bithumb announced the delisting of RSS3. Trading support will end at 6:00 a.m. UTC on Oct. 14, and withdrawal support is scheduled to end at 6:00 a.m. UTC on Nov. 13. The exchange said it decided to end trading support after a comprehensive review found the token did not meet its criteria for maintaining trading support, citing the foundation’s actual business progress related to the virtual asset as well as the asset’s use, purpose, and functions.

An anonymous whale address starting with t1fWZr withdrew about 12,870 ZEC from Binance, OKX, Kraken and Gate over the past week, then transferred 12,860 ZEC to a new address starting with t1XvZ, according to Onchain Lens. The moved ZEC was worth about $13.65 million.

Bitcoin futures open interest has fallen about 13.5% since Sept. 3, signaling ongoing deleveraging, according to on-chain data analytics platform Santiment. BTC futures open interest declined by about 43,346 BTC to 278,151 BTC on Sept. 11 from 321,497 BTC on Sept. 3, while Bitcoin’s price fell about 5% over the same period. Santiment said the drop in open interest exceeded the decline in notional value caused by the price move. Current BTC futures open interest is still about 20% below the level seen just before the mid-August rally, although it has posted modest gains for two straight days since Sept. 11. Santiment said market attention is focused on a U.S. Senate cloture vote on the Clarity Act on Sept. 15 and the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate decision on Sept. 16. The platform added that position adjustments in the futures market appear to have already been reflected last week.

The number of addresses holding stock tokens on the Solana network has risen 88% this month to more than 800,000, and many of them may be wallets that received stock tokens as trading fees during memecoin transactions rather than bought the assets directly, Cryptopolitan said, citing Blockworks data. According to the data, the number of Solana-based stock-token holder addresses rose from 424,894 at the start of this month to 801,439 on Sept. 12. Cryptopolitan explained that Pump.fun’s custom pairs, introduced on Sept. 9, allow memecoins to launch as trading pairs using stock tokens such as Nvidia instead of SOL as the base asset, with fees also paid in those stock tokens. As a result, wallets that did not directly purchase stock tokens can still be counted as holder addresses.

XRP Ledger, Ripple’s layer-one blockchain, recently set a record by processing 3,254 transactions in a single block, XRPL Foundation community leader and validator Vet said on X. Vet said XRPL does not have a fixed block size like Bitcoin and instead adjusts its transaction-processing target based on network conditions. When transaction volume surges and block processing remains fast, the network raises the number of transactions it can handle at once, but reduces that number again if processing time exceeds five seconds, Vet said. Vet added that most transactions in the block were simple transfers of very small amounts of XRP, which placed relatively little strain on the network. More complex activity, such as DEX or NFT trades, uses far more processing resources, making transaction count alone an incomplete measure of network capacity, Vet said. Vet also said the purpose of the large batch of transactions was unclear, though Vet estimated it was likely a throughput test.

An anonymous whale address beginning with 0x08E, which had held Ethereum long term and remained dormant for five years, deposited 1,250 ETH worth about $3.14 million into the MAX exchange around two hours ago. Exchange deposits are typically interpreted as a sign of selling intent. According to on-chain analytics platform Arkham, the address received 1,500 ETH in September 2021, worth about $4.74 million at the time. The whale had not moved its ETH holdings even once after that. CoinMarketCap data shows ETH was trading at $2,507.95, down 0.51%, at the time of writing.

South Korea’s Ministry of Economy and Finance said classifying virtual asset income as miscellaneous income was not due to unclear legal status, but was intended to apply a taxpayer-friendly tax regime, including reducing the potential for disputes through comprehensive taxation. The ministry made the remarks in response to a Seoul Economic Daily report on Sept. 14 that said virtual assets were categorized as miscellaneous income rather than financial investment income because their legal nature is not clearly defined. On the issue of not allowing loss carryforwards on virtual asset investments, the ministry said capital gains on overseas stocks and ETFs are also not eligible for carryforwards, adding the approach reflects fairness across income types. It also said, as with other assets, taxpayers must directly prove acquisition costs. The ministry added that for assets acquired on or before Dec. 31, 2026, if acquisition costs are difficult to verify, the market price as of Dec. 31, 2026 may be recognized as the acquisition cost. For assets acquired from 2027 onward, if objective documentation is difficult to provide, 50% of the transfer value may be recognized as the acquisition cost.

Europe-listed Capital B, which has been strategically accumulating Bitcoin, said it bought four more BTC for about €270,000 ($299,000) on Sept. 14, local time. The purchase was funded through a €250,000 ($277,000) capital increase conducted at €5.64 per share. Following the purchase, total Bitcoin holdings at Capital B and its subsidiary Capital B Luxembourg SA rose to 3,525 BTC. The combined acquisition cost stands at €309.7 million ($342.8 million), with an average purchase price of €87,854 ($97,300) per BTC.

Crypto market maker and trading firm Wintermute is holding about $102.1 million in cryptocurrency short positions, according to an analysis by Onchain Lens. An address believed to be linked to Wintermute, beginning with 0xecb, currently holds total positions worth $122.23 million, including both longs and shorts, with about $928,400 in unrealized profit. Over the past 30 days, the address posted a loss of $12.04 million, while cumulative profit stood at $176.88 million. The largest single position was an ETH short worth about $38.47 million.

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: 49.94% long, 50.06% short - Binance: 49.67% long, 50.33% short - OKX: 48.98% long, 51.02% short - Bybit: 49.91% long, 50.09% short

Chinese-rooted cryptocurrency industry participants are increasingly converging on Hong Kong, according to Colin Wu, operator of the crypto media outlet Wu Blockchain. In a post on X, Wu said former Huobi founder Li Lin has personally reentered the exchange business and has been drawing industry figures around him through weekly gatherings in Hong Kong. Wu added that Li has effectively taken on a role similar to an industry elder in Hong Kong’s crypto sector. Wu also said Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, or CZ, appears to visit Hong Kong more often than Singapore, while HashKey Group Chairman Xiao Feng and TRON founder Justin Sun also spend significant time there. Amid those moves, Wu said the center of gravity for the Chinese-rooted crypto industry appears to be shifting to Hong Kong, while non-Chinese-rooted industry participants still tend to prefer Singapore, Dubai and Tokyo.

A CoinNess market monitoring update shows open interest on decentralized perpetual futures exchange Hyperliquid (HYPE) stood at about $10.28 billion as of Sept. 14, exceeding levels on major centralized exchanges Bybit and Gate. Hyperliquid’s BTC perpetual futures open interest also topped that of OKX, the world’s second-largest exchange, while CoinMarketCap data shows HYPE was trading at $79.74, up 0.42%.

Exodus CEO JP Richardson said some electricity now being diverted from Bitcoin mining to the AI sector could eventually return to mining. In a post on X, Richardson said computing resources naturally flow to where returns are highest. He said AI may take power from mining for now, but if overinvestment in data centers hurts the economics of some facilities, crypto mining could absorb surplus power and infrastructure.

Frank, founder of the y00ts NFT project under DeGods, said trading pairs linking memecoins with tokenized real-world assets can help reduce the competition among memecoins to capture the same pool of investors. In a post on X, Frank said tying a memecoin to a specific asset can artificially increase scarcity. If the underlying asset is limited, the cost of creating new memecoins also rises, and latecomers would have a harder time displacing memecoins that secured a given pair first, Frank said. By contrast, when all memecoins trade against the same asset, competition to draw investor attention becomes more intense, according to Frank. He added that the main driver behind high memecoin valuations at present is not token pairs themselves, but the rapid growth of mobile apps and social trading, a method in which investors share trading information and strategies and use them as references. As long as apps keep growing, the on-chain market will expand alongside them, although social trading will also eventually go through difficult growing pains, Frank said.

HSBC expects the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates by 25 basis points each in September 2026 and December, revising its earlier forecast for no change in the policy rate.

Investor sentiment in the Bitcoin futures market has been recovering since late May, and BTC could break out of its corrective phase if spot buying also strengthens, on-chain analyst Darkfost said. Darkfost said the 30-day cumulative funding rate for Binance BTC perpetual futures, shown at 20.1% on the chart, is moving similarly to past periods when sentiment recovered after bearish positioning intensified near the end of corrections. Darkfost added that a chain of short liquidations built up after BTC fell 52% in May previously fueled a rebound. With funding rates now recovering gradually again, optimism may continue to strengthen, and BTC could exit the correction phase if spot demand also picks up.

Japanese cryptocurrency exchange bitbank announced it will delist Enjin Coin (ENJ) at 10:00 a.m. on Oct. 16. The exchange cited a continued price divergence between the Ethereum-based ENJ token and the ENJ token on Enjin's own Relaychain-based blockchain as the reason for the delisting. According to CoinMarketCap, ENJ was trading at $0.02646, down 3.25%, at the time of writing.

Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee, whose company DAT accumulates Ethereum, said on X that ETH is the future "settlement rails" for Wall Street and artificial intelligence. Lee made the comment in response to a question about why Ethereum was showing relative strength against major altcoins even as the broader crypto market declined. Lee has cited the tokenization of traditional assets and the rise of agentic AI, which can trade autonomously, as growth drivers for Ethereum. Lee has also argued that the recent rise in the ETH/BTC ratio signals the market is reflecting those changes. According to CoinMarketCap, ETH was trading at $2,512.55, down 0.3%, at the time of writing.

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 volume heatmap in the upper section tracks trading volume at each price level. The background becomes brighter when the price stays in a specific range for an extended period or makes a large move. Brighter zones may act as support or resistance. - The cumulative volume delta indicator in the lower section reflects buy and sell orders by order 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 represents large orders between $1 million and $10 million.

The UK Financial Conduct Authority is considering whether to exclude certain tokenized gold products from rules covering collective investment schemes and alternative investment funds, the Financial Times reported. With it still unclear whether those regulations should apply to tokenized gold, industry participants have said the uncertainty could limit some investors’ access to the products. The FCA is discussing with the Treasury and the Bank of England whether to exempt specific tokenized gold products from current rules or create a separate regulatory framework for tokenized gold and commodities, although no concrete approach has been decided.

Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis said on X that the final version of the CLARITY Act includes strong ethics restrictions on politicians’ personal cryptocurrency investments after a year of daily bipartisan negotiations. Lummis said the bill released by Senate Republicans includes revised ethics provisions agreed to by President Donald Trump. Lummis added Trump voluntarily agreed to what Lummis described as the strongest ethics rules in U.S. history for all federally elected officials, judges and their spouses, and said the final draft also reflects more than 120 Democratic demands. Voting against the bill, Lummis argued, would amount to opposing meaningful ethics reform on politicians’ crypto investments and leaving Americans without protections in the digital asset market. Meanwhile, the U.S. Senate is set to hold its first procedural floor vote for CLARITY Act deliberations at 6:15 p.m. UTC on Sept. 15.

The following shows estimated liquidation volumes and position ratios for major crypto perpetual futures over the past 24 hours: - ETH: $64.08 million liquidated (82.78% longs) - BTC: $40.57 million liquidated (68.38% longs) - LSK: $19.72 million liquidated (55.04% shorts)

Accurately reading the macroeconomic outlook alone is unlikely to be enough for successful BTC trading, crypto analyst KillaXBT said on X. KillaXBT said many investors try to predict an asset’s next move based on macro conditions, policy and economic indicators, but most market narratives are closer to after-the-fact explanations for price action. BTC in particular often reacts before the reason for a market move becomes clear, meaning Bitcoin may already have moved substantially by the time macro conditions change and many investors recognize it. Cross-market correlations can also appear with a lag, KillaXBT added, so traders may still miss the actual entry point even if they correctly judge the broader direction. As a result, KillaXBT said consistent trading requires watching actual price action, market structure and momentum rather than constantly revising outlooks in response to new headlines and data.

Matthew Tuttle, CEO of Turtle Capital Management (TCM), proposed a four-part portfolio that includes Bitcoin in an interview with Maeil Business Newspaper, arguing traditional investment advice is outdated and strategies should adapt to changing times. Tuttle suggested allocating 25% each to stocks; assets that could replace bonds, such as property and casualty insurers; assets meant to hedge against currency depreciation, including BTC, digital credit and gold; and tail-risk hedges, including short-term U.S. Treasuries.

Whale address billΞ.eth (@0xbilly) withdrew 500,000 LIT worth $2.07 million from perpetual futures DEX Lyra about two hours ago, on-chain analyst ai_9684xtpa said.