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Crypto analyst Benjamin Cowen said it is still too early to conclude that Bitcoin’s bear market has ended, even after BTC rose above $81,280. Cowen said temporary pullbacks during the formation of a golden cross have appeared in the past. Cowen added it matters more how the current rebound ends than the decline seen in early September. If BTC breaks above its previous high, sets a higher high as it did in 2019 and 2023, and closes the weekly chart above the 50-week simple moving average, or 50W SMA, that could signal the bearish trend has eased. If it instead meets resistance at current levels and forms a lower high than before, the bear market could continue in a pattern similar to 2014-2015, Cowen said.

BTC.top founder Jiang Zhuoer, who has Chinese roots, said on X the market is now in a bullish cycle and his personal position is effectively fully allocated to spot ETH. Jiang added that he recently traded using some short positions, but his core strategy is to hold spot ETH for the long term, using those shorts as a hedge to reduce losses during market pullbacks.

Global banks including JPMorgan and Citi are expanding blockchain-based tokenized deposit and payment systems, though the services remain focused on institutional clients and permissioned networks, CoinDesk reported. JPMorgan’s blockchain platform Kinexys has processed more than $3 trillion in cumulative transactions, while Citi Token Services handles billions of dollars in cross-border payments each day.

Cryptocurrency analyst Ali said ETH could rise as high as $3,000 if it holds support at $2,570. In a post on X, Ali said ETH has continued to trade within an ascending channel on the four-hour chart despite recent volatility, with support near the channel’s lower bound around $2,375. Ali added that about 140,000 ETH, worth $350 million, has left exchanges over the past four days, indicating a stronger long-term holding bias among investors. Lower ETH supply on exchanges could ease potential selling pressure and support an upside breakout, Ali said.

Bitcoin buying remains strong enough to absorb selling pressure, according to on-chain analytics firm Glassnode in a post on X. Glassnode added BTC’s Entity-Adjusted SOPR, a key on-chain metric, has remained consistently above one, which it said is a typical feature of a bull market. At the same time, Glassnode said a drop back below one could signal weakening current buying demand. SOPR measures whether BTC moved on-chain was traded at a profit or a loss relative to its acquisition price. A reading above one means profit-taking is occurring on average.

Hyperliquid’s HYPE perpetual futures open interest reached $16.3 billion, the highest level in the past year, BlockBeats reported. Over the past year, Hyperliquid has expanded beyond a crypto perpetual futures trading platform into an on-chain trading infrastructure supporting stocks, commodities, indices, pre-IPO assets and event contracts. HIP-3, launched in October last year, allows third parties to stake HYPE and open their own perpetual futures markets, broadening the range of underlying assets to include U.S. stocks, gold, crude oil, the S&P 500 and private companies such as SpaceX.

Vietnam plans to issue its first licenses for crypto service providers in 2026 under a pilot regulatory framework, allowing digital asset platforms to operate. Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance and the State Securities Commission said they are preparing a supervisory framework focused on oversight of service providers, protection of investor assets and anti-money laundering measures, drawing on recommendations from the Financial Action Task Force and the European Union’s regulatory model. The ministry also said it recently met with Austria’s Financial Market Authority to share supervisory experience on emerging assets including cryptocurrencies, while the two sides plan to pursue cooperation through the International Organization of Securities Commissions and hold technical meetings among experts.

Blockchain security firm SlowMist said a joint investigation with the OKX security team found malware in versions 1.1 to 1.2 of the FomoPeek app that could lead to the theft of users’ crypto assets. Multiple recently reported cases confirmed private key leaks, and some victims were found to have used the app. SlowMist said the malware exploits an iOS vulnerability to escape the sandbox and access keychain data and files from other apps. That could expose private keys, seed phrases, login credentials and chat records, it said. SlowMist advised users who had installed those versions to generate new private keys and seed phrases on a secure device, transfer assets immediately, and stop using FomoPeek.

Seventy percent of Binance-listed altcoins have regained their 200-day moving average, a key trend indicator, and are showing stronger momentum than BTC, according to a CryptoQuant analysis by contributor Darkfost. The share marks the highest level since October 2025, when the market peaked. Altcoin market capitalization excluding ETH, or TOTAL3, has also surpassed $800 billion for the first time in about eight months. BTC, meanwhile, has been moving sideways in the recent $75,600-$82,000 range, with trading volume shifting toward altcoins, Darkfost said. Darkfost added that while the altcoin market is showing positive momentum, caution is needed as conditions can change quickly.

ChinaAMC Hong Kong said it has completed a digital asset investment using the Hong Kong dollar stablecoin HKDAP in collaboration with Standard Chartered Bank and others. The asset manager described it as the first case in Hong Kong of HKDAP being used for a digital asset investment. HKDAP is a Hong Kong dollar-pegged stablecoin designed under the leadership of Standard Chartered Bank Hong Kong and issued by licensed stablecoin issuer Anchor Financial. ChinaAMC Hong Kong said the case shows Hong Kong dollar stablecoins can be linked with digital financial assets within a regulatory framework.

A whale address said to be linked to BIT.com, the cryptocurrency exchange under Matrixport, deposited another 1,000 BTC worth about $81.06 million to Binance, according to Lookonchain.

Oracle protocol Switchboard said it is winding down operations and will fully discontinue its existing services starting Sept. 25. Core developer Switchboard Technology Labs said it decided to wind down the remaining business after reviewing all possible alternatives. Switchboard said it will immediately deprecate related services following a recent security vulnerability incident and the departure of other contributors and node operators. It urged protocols using Switchboard to migrate immediately to other oracles, including Pyth and RedStone, to avoid service disruptions. Switchboard previously raised $7.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Tribe Capital and RockawayX in May 2024.

The Cronos community has unveiled a governance proposal to use all product revenue from Cronos Labs for CRO buybacks and burns. Under the proposal, all revenue generated by Ult and Cronos Launch would be used to buy CRO on the market each month and then burn it, with the on-chain transaction hash for each purchase also to be disclosed. Operating, infrastructure, and growth-related costs would be covered with existing capital, while strategic reserves are planned for future Cronos POS staking rewards. The measure remains at the proposal stage.

Brazil’s Securities and Exchange Commission, or CVM, plans to conduct a simulated test of tokenized securities using distributed ledger technology. The test will review the full trading process from issuance to settlement for assets including stocks, bonds, receivables certificates and investment fund shares. No actual securities or investors will take part. The test will run for 60 days and may be extended by 30 days if needed. A related draft is currently awaiting approval from the CVM board.

Taiwanese singer Jeffrey Huang, better known as Machi Big Brother, has seen unrealized profit on his ETH long position widen to $4.05 million, according to TradingBits. The ETH long position is currently valued at $88.76 million, while the BTC long position is showing an unrealized profit of $135,000. Huang also recently added a 10,000 HYPE long position with 10x leverage at an entry price of $92.21.

Bitdeer mined a total of 287.2 BTC this week and sold the entire amount into the market over the same period, leaving its net Bitcoin position increase at 0 BTC. The company reduced its BTC holdings to zero as of Feb. 20 and has since continued to liquidate all newly mined Bitcoin.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong pushed back on what he said was an upcoming Wall Street Journal report that would blame him and Coinbase for the failure of the CLARITY Act, saying on X the claim was false. Armstrong said he opposed a committee vote on the bill’s draft in January because it included issues involving DeFi, tokenization, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s authority and stablecoin rewards. Coinbase publicly opposed that draft at the time, and negotiations over those provisions continued afterward. Armstrong said all four issues he had raised were later revised, and an improved version of the bill passed committee about four months later. He added that he strongly supported the final bill. Earlier, the CLARITY Act failed to secure 60 votes in a Senate procedural vote on Sept. 15, halting further progress.

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 represents cumulative volume delta, or CVD. - The volume heatmap tracks trading volume at each price level. The background color becomes brighter when the price stays within a certain range for an extended period or makes a large move. Brighter areas may act as support or resistance levels. - The cumulative volume delta 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 worth $100 to $1,000, while the brown line is based on large orders worth $1 million to $10 million.

Partior, a blockchain-based interbank payments network jointly founded by JPMorgan, DBS and Temasek, said it will work with LSEG DiSH, a payment infrastructure unit of London Stock Exchange Group, to build a 24/7 international settlement system. The companies are developing a solution that combines LSEG DiSH trust accounts with Partior’s multi-currency clearing and settlement network to move liquidity across multiple settlement banks on a near real-time basis, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The plan is to reduce the need to prefund nostro and vostro accounts for interbank settlements while lowering reliance on traditional cross-border transfer cutoff times.

Robinhood plans to use stock, cryptocurrency and prediction market trading to attract customers, then expand into services such as retirement accounts and investment advisory to manage client assets over the long term, CNBC reported, citing CEO Vlad Tenev. Tenev said active trading is the engine and foundation of Robinhood’s business, adding that the company’s goal is to bring in customers through trading and then move them into longer-term financial products such as retirement accounts. Robinhood has recently expanded into asset management, banking and credit cards, and plans to eventually offer mass-market access to wealth-focused financial services such as trusts, estate planning and private banking.

BitMine Chairman Tom Lee said some investors who followed his recommendation to allocate 2% of their portfolios to cryptocurrencies now have crypto exposure of more than 85%, according to an interview with Wealthion. Lee said the shift was not driven by additional purchases, but by Bitcoin’s sharp price gains. Lee added that over the next 10 years, cryptocurrencies could offer relatively low correlation with other assets, benefit from AI-driven growth, and become a key pillar in the restructuring of the financial services industry.

The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has conditionally approved Bastion Platforms Trust Company’s conversion into a federal trust bank, according to Crypto Briefing. Under the approval, Bastion will convert into Bastion Platforms National Trust Company and will be able to provide institution-focused services under federal regulation, including digital asset custody, stablecoin issuance and redemption, wallet and payments, and fiat currency exchange. The entity will not be allowed to accept deposits, however, and will not be covered by Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. insurance. OCC also conditionally approved the establishment of federal trust banks for Catena and Agora the same day.

Argentine cryptocurrency exchange Lemon said it will withdraw from Brazil, citing steep capital requirements tied to obtaining a local license. Lemon said securing a crypto service provider license from Brazil’s central bank would require capital levels disproportionate to the size of its local business. Lemon Card services will end on Sept. 30, and Brazilian user accounts are scheduled to be automatically closed on Oct. 16.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $81,000. BTC is trading at $80,991.9 on the Binance USDT market.

U.S. spot Ether ETFs recorded about $143.7 million in net inflows on Sept. 18, reversing course after three trading days of net outflows, according to data compiled by Farside Investors and SoSoValue. - BlackRock ETHA: +$114.3 million - Fidelity FETH: +$26.2 million - Bitwise ETHW: +$1.3 million - VanEck HODL: +$1.9 million