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BCH has fallen by 3.58% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, BCH is trading at $313.09.

An anonymous whale deposited 177,518 HYPE worth $16.08 million into OKX and Bybit about an hour ago, according to Lookonchain. Lookonchain added that an address believed to belong to Hypersphere Ventures also appears to have sold 62,869 HYPE worth $5.78 million, which it bought a month ago, for an estimated profit of $2.13 million.

South Korea’s Financial Services Commission is reviewing whether to introduce a market-making framework for digital assets, Digital Asset reported. Yu Young-jun, the commission’s director-general for digital finance policy, said at the The Bridge Summit 2026 in Seoul on Sept. 28 that authorities also plan to examine the need for systems including market-making activity to improve the efficiency and stability of the digital asset market. Such activity is currently banned under South Korea’s Virtual Asset User Protection Act, suggesting the issue could be taken up during the second phase of legislation.

South Korean exchange Upbit announced it will temporarily suspend PROS deposits and withdrawals at 6:00 a.m. UTC on Sept. 29 to support the Pharos hard fork.

An anonymous address deposited 6,100 ETH worth $16.38 million into Coinbase eight hours ago, according to ai_9684xtpa. The ETH appears to have been bridged from the Robinhood network to the Ethereum mainnet about six days earlier. Exchange deposits are typically interpreted as a sign of intent to sell.

Jamie Coutts, a cryptocurrency analyst at global financial research and media platform Real Vision, said on X that NEAR Protocol is a layer-one project that could stand out in a new market environment marked by rising cryptocurrency demand and well-managed token supply. Coutts said he conducted in-depth research during the first half, when the crypto market was at its most sluggish, and found that NEAR is focused on addressing interoperability and privacy, two major unresolved issues in the industry. He added that the team also has additional growth potential in inference and private AI, given its AI expertise, and said NEAR is building a structure in which the success of other leading layer-one projects also contributes to NEAR’s success rather than putting it in direct competition with them.

China’s Ministry of State Security said via its official WeChat account that cryptocurrency anonymity is effectively an illusion and that transactions can be traced when digital assets are used for illegal crimes. The ministry said blockchain transaction records are public and difficult to tamper with, allowing authorities to track on-chain fund flows, while device information, IP addresses and other traces remain during fiat currency conversion. It added that in February, Chinese authorities reaffirmed their existing position that BTC, ETH and USDT cannot circulate as currencies in China and that related financial activities are illegal.

Privacy-focused layer-one blockchain Zano rolled back about a month of blockchain history after a vulnerability in its gateway address feature led to the unauthorized circulation of ZANO and Freedom Dollar (fUSD), Cointelegraph reported. Zano’s core team restored the network to block 3,833,000, before the affected feature was introduced. As a result, assets created through the vulnerability and legitimate transactions processed during that period were invalidated, and some transactions may require separate settlement. Payments already completed on other blockchains are not included in the rollback.

A whale address that moved 4,500 BTC to an external address for the first time in four years on Sept. 25 has transferred another 4,500 BTC, worth about $378.79 million, to an external address, according to Lookonchain.

QNT has risen by 4.46% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, QNT is trading at $267.22.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $84,000. BTC is trading at $83,981.59 on the Binance USDT market.

According to data from Dropstab, the major token unlocks scheduled for this week (Sept. 28–Oct. 4) are as follows: - FF: 247 million tokens ($32.42 million), representing 10.58% of circulating supply, at 12:00 a.m. UTC on Sept. 29 - EIGEN: 36.82 million tokens ($10.17 million), representing 3.97% of circulating supply, at 8:00 a.m. UTC on Oct. 1 - Q: 241 million tokens ($7.66 million), representing 5.38% of circulating supply, at 12:00 a.m. UTC on Oct. 2 - BTW: 101 million tokens ($124 million), representing 3.62% of circulating supply, at 6:00 a.m. UTC on Oct. 2 - ENA: 94.19 million tokens ($25.60 million), representing 0.93% of circulating supply, at 8:00 a.m. UTC on Oct. 2

CoinMarketCap’s Altcoin Season Index stood at 64. The index is calculated by comparing the price performance of Bitcoin with that of the top 100 coins by market capitalization, excluding stablecoins and wrapped coins. If 75% of the top 100 coins outperform Bitcoin over the past 90 days, the market is considered to be in altcoin season; the opposite is considered Bitcoin season. A reading closer to 100 indicates stronger altcoin season conditions.

Cross-chain decentralized exchange THORChain (RUNE) has drawn industry criticism after refusing a request to block addresses linked to funds stolen in last weekend’s hack of crypto exchange Bitget, Cointelegraph reported. Bitget disclosed the hack on Sept. 25 and initially reported about $351.6 million in stolen cryptocurrency, later revising the figure to $387.5 million. According to the outlet, Bitget asked THORChain to block addresses tied to the hacked funds, but THORChain declined, citing decentralization principles. The report said the crypto community remains divided between those who argue decentralized protocols should preserve censorship resistance and those who say the movement of illicit funds should not be left unchecked.

The key global macro events for the fifth week of September are as follows, in UTC: - Sept. 28, 1:15 p.m. UTC: Speech by FOMC Governor Bowman - Sept. 29, 2:00 p.m. UTC: August JOLTS job openings and labor turnover report - Sept. 30, 12:15 p.m. UTC: U.S. September ADP nonfarm employment change - Sept. 30, 12:30 p.m. UTC: U.S. August core personal consumption expenditures - Oct. 2, 12:30 p.m. UTC: U.S. September nonfarm payrolls, unemployment rate, and initial jobless claims

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

CoinMarketCap’s in-house crypto Fear and Greed Index came in at 72, indicating the market remained in the greed zone. The index signals extreme fear as it approaches zero and extreme optimism as it approaches 100. CoinMarketCap calculates the gauge based on price moves among the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, market volatility, derivatives-market indicators including the put/call ratio, the stablecoin supply ratio (SSR), and CoinMarketCap’s own search data.

QNT has fallen by 4.08% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, QNT is trading at $287.05.

Mike McGlone, a senior Bloomberg analyst, said digital assets have underperformed the Nasdaq index on a risk-adjusted basis over the past decade and described them as a failed asset from a portfolio and risk-management perspective. According to a Bloomberg report, the MarketVector Digital Assets 100 Index, or MVDA, has shown about three times the volatility of the Nasdaq-100 Index, or NDX, since 2017, but its relative returns have remained largely flat. While higher volatility can generally be offset by portfolio diversification through a negative correlation with stocks, digital assets have maintained a positive correlation with equities and therefore have offered little practical benefit for risk management, the report said. The MVDA index, which has a roughly 67% weighting in Bitcoin, has not outperformed the Nasdaq since crypto entered the regulatory fold with the launch of CBOE and CME Bitcoin futures in 2017. McGlone added that major bullish catalysts, including approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs and the Donald Trump administration’s pro-crypto policy stance, have already been mostly priced in, making it difficult for digital assets to generate uniquely strong excess returns over traditional assets going forward.

Dozens of so-called fractional-price tokens priced at less than one won each are trading on South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges, SBS Biz reported. According to the industry on Sept. 28, 39 listed tokens across South Korea’s four major crypto exchanges — Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone and Digitalx — were priced below one won as of 7:10 a.m. UTC on Sept. 24, excluding duplicates. By exchange, South Korean exchanges Bithumb and Coinone each had 26 such tokens, the most among the platforms, while Upbit and Korbit each supported trading in eight. Some had remained below one won for years since listing on domestic exchanges, while others fell under that threshold after losing more than 99% of their value. In the stock market, delisting rules for so-called penny stocks trading below 1,000 won and for companies failing to meet market capitalization requirements were tightened in July to speed the removal of troubled firms. South Korean crypto exchanges also use self-regulatory standards to monitor virtual assets that fall short of market capitalization or trading value thresholds before ending trading support, but unlike the stock market, per-token prices are not part of the monitoring criteria in the crypto market, which appears to have allowed many sub-won tokens to remain listed.

A single actor appears to have siphoned about $18.43 million through the issuance of 53 meme coins on Robinhood Chain in what The Block described as a large-scale chain of rug pulls. According to onchain analyst Wazz, the group exploited a 99% anti-sniping fee exemption feature on the Pons V2 launchpad. When a token creator granted fee-exempt status to a specific cluster of wallets, those wallets used bundled transactions within one second of launch to capture more than 80% of the supply, then immediately sold the tokens to pull funds back out. Wazz said the group repeated the method across more than 50 meme coins, using proceeds withdrawn from earlier tokens to fund initial purchases of later ones. Most of the siphoned funds are in ETH and cannot be frozen, while some were laundered into stablecoins such as DAI through cross-chain bridges.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin outlined a sweeping architectural overhaul in a blog post aimed at turning Ethereum into a cryptographic world computer by 2030, combining blockchain infrastructure with modern cryptography. Buterin said the "Hegota" upgrade set for next year would be the last fork under the current model, after which the protocol redesign would shift toward advanced technologies including recursive STARKs, automated formal verification and quantum-resistant cryptography. Under the plan, nodes would no longer need to re-execute all data directly, instead relying on PeerDAS data sampling and ZK-SNARK proof verification to maximize both processing speed and privacy. By 2030, when the overhaul is expected to be complete, Ethereum’s block production, or slot, time is projected to be shortened to four to eight seconds, while finality is expected to reach eight to 32 seconds. Buterin added parallel processing and off-chain signature aggregation under EIP-8288 would help position decentralized networks as hybrid infrastructure that improves their own performance and scalability, rather than simply raising costs.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed Assembly Bill 2409, which bans public officials from issuing or promoting crypto assets. The move makes California the first U.S. state to legally prohibit politicians from engaging in memecoin-linked activities. The bill strictly bars public officials from using their positions to create their own tokens or promote them for profit. It was introduced to address ethical lapses in politics and prevent investor harm, and passed with unanimous bipartisan support in both the state Senate, 40-0, and the state Assembly, 78-0.

BTW has fallen by 4.23% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, BTW is trading at $1.13.

BTW has risen by 5.89% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, BTW is trading at $1.12.