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Bitcoin hit an intraday high of $81,400 on Friday, approaching the low-$82,000 zone that has capped every recovery attempt since late August.US spot Bitcoin ETF shares stop trading once American markets close for the weekend. Any further push through that ceiling over the next two days would occur in continuously open crypto markets, without US spot ETF-share trading.The week’s shocks already happenedBitcoin absorbed two real setbacks before Friday’s rebound. The Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act, and the Federal Reserve delivered its first rate hike in three years, raising its target range 25 basis points to 3.75% to 4.00%…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says laptop AI is approaching a practical turning point. Wallet software still needs a much higher bar before it can hand an AI control over crypto assets.He said on Sept. 17 that Qwen 3.8 Flash and recent improvements in llama.cpp had brought local models close to handling a “large share” of tasks on his Strix Halo laptop.For more advanced work, he described a local model coordinating requests to stronger remote systems while withholding the user’s full personal context.The benchmark image attached to the post showed 10 workloads. Its reported input-processing rates ranged from 109.82 to 373.22…

Binance lowered the collateral ratio for six tokens on Sept. 18, while Coinbase International Exchange says 29 assets will leave its eligible-collateral list on Sept. 29. That ratio determines how much of an asset’s market value an exchange recognizes for borrowing or margin calculations.The exchanges operate separate products and account systems, but both changes show how an affected token can keep the same market price while contributing less to a trader’s borrowing limit or margin cushion.Binance’s Sept. 18 update cut collateral ratios for AUCTION, BLUR, GALA, HYPER, S and SYRUP from 30% to 10%. The same update raised ARB, TAO…

A roughly $5.15 million outflow from US spot XRP exchange-traded products on Sept. 17 interrupted a $192 million inflow month. The reversal creates the first clean test of whether recent demand is cooling, yet the broader flow pattern still favors the buyers. Maketo’s five-fund series remained about $10 million positive for the rolling week through Sept. 17. Its rolling month contained 16 inflow days and two outflow days, and Canary Capital’s official fund table showed that only part of the daily reversal coincided with a confirmed contraction in shares. The base case is a narrow, one-session reset inside a positive…

Anthropic’s Claude helped three security researchers breach OpenAI accounts and reach an internal code repository within 72 hours.Researchers at cybersecurity startup Hacktron chained an image-processing vulnerability with a flaw in OpenAI’s identity infrastructure in July to gain access to multiple employees’ ChatGPT and Codex accounts.One compromised Codex account was connected to OpenAI’s GitHub organization, giving the researchers a path into the company’s internal software environment.The team stopped after instructing the compromised employee’s Codex account to create a harmless pull request inside OpenAI’s private openai/openai monorepo. Hacktron said the researchers did not inspect proprietary source code.This week, Hacktron disclosed the vulnerabilities…

Bitcoin’s rebound above $80,000 on Sept. 18 extended a technology-led relief rally. The move coincided with yen weakness and followed a return to Bitcoin ETF inflows the previous day. The advance was already underway in European trading, hours before weak US economic figures offered a possible argument against further monetary tightening.At press time, Bitcoin traded at $80,856, up 5.60% over 24 hours. The clearest explanation is a broader relief rally with an improving, but still tentative, demand signal. The timing points to a recovery in risk appetite, although it does not identify one decisive trigger.Dow Jones reported Bitcoin at $78,309,…

The Bank of England has committed to remove £368 billion of gilts held for monetary-policy purposes by September 2034, even as the first market response pointed toward easier conditions in long-dated UK debt.The figure covers the portfolio left after the Bank separated £120 billion of longer-dated gilts to back banknotes. The Monetary Policy Committee said the remaining stock will fall by an average £46 billion a year through bond maturities and £20 billion of annual active sales.Quantitative tightening shifts bonds from a central bank’s balance sheet toward private investors. That can lift the extra yield investors demand to hold longer-dated…

The Bank of Japan announced a policy-rate increase to about 1.25% on Sept. 18, yet the visible Bitcoin and currency response showed limited signs of a disorderly yen-carry unwind.The BOJ voted 7-2 to lift its target for the uncollateralized overnight call rate by 25 basis points, from about 1% to about 1.25%. The new target and related facility rates take effect Sept. 24, so the decision changed the policy path before it changed the official operating rates.That separates a scheduled funding-cost change from the market’s reaction to the announcement. Positions can adjust before implementation, and the BOJ’s next signal could…

Dtcpay, a Singapore payments company, has completed a $25 million Series A with SBI Group joining as a strategic investor, giving its stablecoin payments business fresh backing for product and merchant expansion.The company announced the close on Sept. 18, naming SBI Ventures Asset Pte Ltd and the SBI-NTU-Kyobo Digital Innovation Fund as the Japanese group’s investment vehicles. Genedant Capital and existing investor Kwee Liong Tek also participated. Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India led the initial tranche.The funding will support a revamped business portal for enterprise customers, additional consumer features in the dtcpay app and expansion of its merchant network,…

The UK Financial Conduct Authority says overseas crypto providers can fall inside the country’s incoming authorization regime when they serve British consumers, even when the business is established abroad.A “UK consumer” for this purpose means an individual in the UK acting outside a trade, business or profession. The definition is a statutory territorial concept and can differ from client categories elsewhere in the FCA Handbook.The regulator published its final cryptoasset perimeter guidance on Sept. 16. It explains when firms carrying on the new regulated cryptoasset activities may need FCA authorization from Oct. 25, 2027. The application window opens Sept. 30,…