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Bitcoin has climbed more than 10% over the week, trading around US$86,400. Major altcoins including Ethereum, XRP, Solana, Zcash and Hyperliquid have posted strong weekly gains. More than US$1 billion in crypto positions have been liquidated over 24 hours, including US$839.4 million in shorts. Bulls are back in town as the crypto market rallies and short traders got wrecked. Bitcoin gained over 10% on the weekly chart and 6% on the daily chart, currently trading at US$86,400 (AU$121,364). Major altcoins like Ethereum (+9.88%), XRP (+8.1%), Solana (+15.51%), Zcash (+26.18%) and Hyperliquid (+16.7%) also made strong weekly gains. Zcash’s gains come…

Bitcoin and Ethereum are rallying hard, up over 6% and 4.9% respectively in the past 24 hours, with some analysts calling it a full-blown bull market. Bitmine has bought another 27,562 ETH and is now 98% of the way to its goal of holding 5% of the total ETH supply.  Strategy has resumed buying after a three-week pause, picking up 950 BTC and taking its total holdings to 846,000 BTC. Strive has added 1,355 BTC to reach 26,355 BTC in total, while Japanese firm Metaplanet pushes its treasury strategy into the US market. The crypto market is on a rally,…

The Senate fell short of advancing the CLARITY Act on Sept. 15, when a 49-50 cloture vote failed to reach the 60-vote threshold. Six days later, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said Stand With Crypto had surpassed four million members.Armstrong wrote in a post that “the 2024 election proved the importance of the crypto voter,” adding that voters would remember who supported them.The Senate vote concerned whether to begin considering H.R. 3633, not final passage or the effectiveness of one group. Their proximity instead put Stand With Crypto’s political challenge in converting a large supporter list into the bipartisan votes needed to…

Eligible Circle Mint institutions can now deposit Bitcoin, turn it into wrapped cirBTC collateral, and borrow USDC through a Morpho lending market in one coordinated workflow.Circle made the service live on Arc and Ethereum on Sept. 21, reducing the number of systems a treasury team must navigate to raise dollar liquidity without selling its Bitcoin.The service remains limited to eligible institutions, excludes New York clients, and is subject to jurisdiction and eligibility. Circle Mint is the account interface, cirBTC is Circle’s tokenized claim backed by native Bitcoin, and Morpho supplies the third-party lending market.Under Circle’s Digital Asset-Backed Borrowing service, customers…

Key takeaways XRP rose more than 8% in 24 hours as the broader crypto market rallied. Its trading volume increased 55% to approximately $4.7 billion. Crypto-wide short liquidations reached about $665 million; that figure is not specific to XRP. XRP outpaces major cryptocurrencies XRP gained more than 8% over 24 hours amid a broad cryptocurrency rally. Trading volume rose 55% to approximately $4.7 billion, equivalent to about 5% of XRP’s circulating market value. The higher volume shows that trading activity increased alongside the price. It does not, by itself, establish how much of that activity came from new buyers rather…

The United States Mint has unveiled the final designs for its 2027 Working Dogs Commemorative Coin Program, with six designs for $5 gold coins, silver dollars and clad half dollars honoring the varied roles working dogs perform. US Mint line art images of the 2027 Working Dogs Commemorative Coin designs Representatives from the Mint, America’s VetDogs and the Guide Dog Foundation revealed the designs Sept. 21 during a ceremony at the White House. Authorized under the Working Dog Commemorative Coin Act, Public Law No. 118-109, the program recognizes the contributions of working dogs in detection, military service, therapy and assistance…

Oracle provider Pragma classified 6 of 22 mainnet market and rate feeds as critical risk in a Sept. 18 assessment, warning lenders that an available token price does not establish that collateral can be sold to cover a loan.The liquidity report followed a Sept. 17 borrowing exploit at Nostra, a lending protocol on Starknet. Nostra’s account reported that a manipulated NSTR oracle price allowed one account to borrow approximately $3.5 million of other assets against NSTR collateral.Pragma placed BROTHER, DAI, DOG, EKUBO, LORDS and NSTR in its critical category, with nine other feeds rated high risk. The assessment does not…

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce drew a sharp line around decentralized finance on Sept. 17. She said investors need no exemption to use permissionless smart contracts for peer-to-peer trading. The SEC and CFTC actions examined here set separate limits on intermediary control.The unresolved question is how much control a software provider can retain before it begins to resemble a regulated intermediary.Peirce’s statement expressed her own position. A binding definition from the US Securities and Exchange Commission would require Commission action. The SEC’s tokenized-securities order and a separate staff statement leave her phrase “truly decentralized” undefined. Their specific provisions focus on custody,…

Ethereum’s institutional data hub showed about $120 billion in staked ETH and $40.4 billion in daily average total value locked on layer-2 (L2) networks in a Sept. 21 snapshot.They measure different things: ETH committed to network security and assets held across L2 networks, so adding them together would not measure fresh ETH demand.Meanwhile, US-traded Ethereum ETF sessions saw over $140 million in net outflows from Sept. 15 to 18. Large pools of staked ETH and assets on Ethereum-linked networks can coexist with investors pulling money from a particular investment channel.A staking balance is not a purchase receiptStaking involves depositing ETH…

Bitcoin treasury companies Strategy and Strive bought about $183 million of BTC last week as the cryptocurrency’s rebound helped corporate balance sheets recover losses.Strategy Inc., the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin, acquired 950 BTC for $75.7 million between Sept. 14 and Sept. 20 at an average price of $79,670, according to a regulatory filing Monday. The purchase returned its holdings to 846,000 BTC, acquired for a total of $63.8 billion at an average cost of $75,416.Strive Inc. separately bought 1,355 BTC for $107.7 million at an average price of $79,475 between Sept. 14 and Sept. 18, taking its treasury to…