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South Korean exchanges Upbit, Bithumb and Coinone announced they have lifted the caution designation on Injective (INJ). The exchanges said they had confirmed a security incident involving Injective, including hacking-related issues, and had designated the token as a caution item. They added that, following Injective’s explanation process, they determined the grounds for the designation had been resolved.

South Korean exchange Bithumb announced it will temporarily suspend Zircuit (ZRC) deposits and withdrawals at 9:00 a.m. UTC on Sept. 23 to support a network upgrade.

Ethena’s synthetic dollar stablecoin USDe briefly fell to 0.9202 USDT in spot trading against USDT on Binance at around 5:00 a.m. UTC today before quickly recovering to 0.9996 USDT, according to Wu Blockchain. Earlier, the exchange had announced a suspension of deposits and withdrawals tied to an infrastructure wallet upgrade scheduled for 6:00 a.m. UTC today. On this, the outlet said, "currently there is no evidence confirming a link between USDe’s temporary price drop and the wallet upgrade."

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 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 shows buy and sell orders by order size. As buy orders increase, the line in the corresponding color rises. The yellow line is based on orders between $100 and $1,000, while the brown line reflects large orders between $1 million and $10 million.

Binance announced it will delist the AIXBT/USDC, DOLO/USDC, ENJ/USDC, HUMA/USDC, SXT/USDC, TNSR/USDC and TURTLE/USDC spot trading pairs at 3:00 a.m. UTC on Sept. 25.

South Korean exchanges Upbit and Bithumb announced they have placed SOPH on a delisting watchlist. The exchanges said the designation followed a review under best-practice guidelines for virtual asset trading support and reflected multiple shortcomings, including a failure to disclose material information in a timely manner through appropriate electronic channels, issues surrounding whether and to what extent key matters were disclosed, changes to the token’s circulation plan and the scale of those changes, whether procedures existed for making such changes, and whether those procedures were transparent and reasonable. The exchanges added they had confirmed a risk of user harm.

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: 51.28% long, 48.72% short - Binance: 51.31% long, 48.69% short - OKX: 52.88% long, 47.12% short - Bybit: 51.5% long, 48.5% short

An anonymous whale swapped 200.71 BTC, worth about $17.2 million, for 6,247 ETH, according to Lookonchain. Over the past six days, the whale swapped a total of 1,308 BTC, worth about $104 million, for 40,670 ETH and appears to have staked all of the acquired ETH.

Polymarket has been in talks with regulators as it seeks to be regulated as a financial services provider rather than a gambling operator in Europe and the UK, the Financial Times reported. The prediction market platform has been holding discussions in London and Brussels with the European Securities and Markets Authority, the European Commission and national regulators. Polymarket is pushing to have its prediction market contracts classified as derivatives rather than bets so they would fall under Markets in Financial Instruments Directive rules.

On-chain analyst Darkfost said BTC was nearing the target zone for a fifth Elliott Wave up leg and was showing signs of short-term overheating. Darkfost said the three-hour relative strength index had entered overbought territory, while the daily chart was showing early signs of bearish divergence, with price making a higher high as RSI moved lower. Darkfost added that if the current advance is confirmed as wave one, BTC could correct to $74,500, the 0.382 Fibonacci retracement level, during a wave two pullback. Darkfost emphasized that such a correction would not imply a bearish outlook.

U.S. spot Ether ETFs recorded about $269.98 million in net inflows on Sept. 21, marking a second straight trading day of net inflows, according to SoSoValue. - BlackRock ETHA: +$110.06 million - BlackRock staking ETHB: +$12.8 million - Fidelity FETH: +$72.96 million - Bitwise ETHW: +$4.35 million - Morgan Stanley MSSE: +$1.49 million - 21Shares TETH: +$4.14 million - Grayscale ETH: +$59.3 million - Grayscale Mini ETHE: +$4.88 million

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded about $999 million in net inflows on Sept. 21, the largest daily total since Oct. 6 last year, according to Farside Investors. - BlackRock IBIT: +$381.4 million - Fidelity FBTC: +$238.8 million - Bitwise BITB: +$21.6 million - ARK Invest ARKB: +$289.1 million - Morgan Stanley MSBT: +$61.7 million - Grayscale GBTC: +$3.3 million - Grayscale Mini BTC: +$3.1 million

Cardano has been added to the official software kit for x402, a crypto payment standard that uses HTTP, enabling developers to build apps and AI agents that pay for online services with ADA or Cardano-based tokens, CoinDesk reported. The media outlet said the kit currently supports TypeScript and is expected to add Python later. CoinDesk added, "actual payments have been made on Cardano’s test network, but not yet on mainnet," meaning ADA is not yet being used broadly for commercial service payments.

South Korean government agencies will be allowed to pay operating expenses, including official business promotion costs for public officials, with blockchain-based digital currency, Yonhap reported. South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT said today it designated nine regulatory sandbox exemptions for new technologies and services through a written review by the 45th ICT Regulatory Sandbox Committee on Sept. 21. Under the exemption, agency operating expenses can also be paid through smartphone QR codes instead of physical cards. Settlements are completed at the same time as payment when digital currency is used.

A proposal posted on the Balancer (BAL) governance forum calls for launching an official fork to preserve the protocol’s technology and ecosystem regardless of whether a separate shutdown proposal passes. The proposal says MAXYZ would lead the new fork and transfer liquidity, team members, partners, users, and intellectual property, while delaying the suspension of pool and vault operations until the second quarter of 2027 to secure a migration period. It also includes using about 6 million non-circulating BAL, valued by the source at about $690,000, as initial funding for the new fork, and allocating 10% of the fully diluted token supply or an equivalent value to the Balancer treasury if a future token generation event or other liquidity or exit event takes place. The new protocol plans to focus on the RWA market, including tokenized stocks and on-chain index products. A separate proposal had previously been submitted to the Balancer forum to halt protocol operations and distribute about $9 million in treasury assets to BAL holders.

DOGE has risen by 3.00% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, DOGE is trading at $0.1.

0xDeployer, the founder of automated trading agent Bankr, said 30% of revenue generated from token launches will be used to buy BNKR, with the purchased tokens to be automatically accrued for staking rewards. In a post on X, 0xDeployer said staking rewards are already accumulating, the related smart contract is scheduled to be disclosed this week, and reward distribution will begin after users are given time to participate in staking. 0xDeployer added the staking feature has not yet launched. According to CoinMarketCap, BNKR was trading at $0.0003507, up 41.4% over the past 24 hours.

An address believed to belong to an anonymous whale or institution sold its entire 31.4 million CRV position on OKX over the past two weeks, locking in a loss of about $4.1 million, or 27%, on holdings kept for three years, on-chain analyst EmberCN said. The address withdrew a total of 31.4 million CRV from Binance in 2023 and 2024 for about $15.13 million, implying an average entry price of $0.48. The recent sales were made at an average price of $0.35, according to EmberCN.

Ether has risen 74.58% so far in the third quarter of this year, marking its strongest third-quarter return since CoinGlass began tracking the data in 2016. With eight days left until the quarter ends as of Sept. 22, the current gain is above the previous record of 66.55% set in the third quarter of 2025. ETH fell 29.26% in the first quarter and 25.28% in the second quarter this year, but has rebounded sharply in the third quarter. The average third-quarter gain on record is 13.55%, while the median is 9.87%.

Garrett Jin, a Bitcoin OG and founder of BitForex, has closed a 500 BTC 3x leveraged short position worth $43.23 million that Jin opened this morning, realizing a profit of $81,700, according to Lookonchain.

The following shows estimated liquidation volumes and position ratios for major crypto perpetual futures over the past 24 hours: - BTC: $662.8 million liquidated (88.47% shorts) - ETH: $178.93 million liquidated (80.55% shorts) - XRP: $26.86 million liquidated (86.94% shorts)

Stock token trading platforms based on the U.S. SEC’s new “Innovation Exemption” framework may begin emerging as early as the fourth quarter of this year, Crypto in America reported. The Innovation Exemption, introduced by the SEC on Sept. 17, refers to a temporary conditional exemption allowing limited trading of tokenized U.S. stocks in an on-chain environment. In that regard, SEC Crypto Task Force chief counsel Taylor Lindman said related firms were expected to announce business plans in the coming months and that “the first announcements are likely to come in the next quarter.” SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce said limits remain on listed securities and trading size, but added the framework is sufficient to operate commercial platforms and could be adjusted later if needed.

An anonymous whale accumulated 21,520 ETH worth about $55.8 million over the past five days, according to ai_9684xtpa. The whale kept buying ETH around $2,450 as a rebound began after last week’s pullback. Unrealized profit currently stands at about $3.253 million.

Blockchain infrastructure company DSRV is partnering with global blockchain development platform Alchemy to expand into آسيا’s blockchain data infrastructure market, starting with South Korea and Japan, Edaily reported. The two companies plan to link DSRV’s RPC node service All That Node with Alchemy’s RPC and data infrastructure to broaden network support and data processing capacity.

A white hat has secured 52.37 BTC, or 2.8% of the funds stolen in the Coldcard exploit, Alex Thorn, head of research at Galaxy Digital, said on X. Thorn said the funds from multiple victim addresses were consolidated into a new address, and the transfer included a message referring to Crypto Recovery Trust. The total amount stolen in the Coldcard exploit is known to be around 1,806 BTC.