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Binance announced the listing of HK0625/USDT perpetual futures at 2:45 a.m. UTC today, with support for up to 20x leverage.

Senior executives from Franklin Templeton, Northern Trust, Moody’s and S&P Global are set to attend KBW2026 with Upbit in Seoul from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1. Speakers will include Franklin Templeton Senior Vice President Chetan Karkhanis, Northern Trust Senior Vice President Alvin Chia and Moody’s Executive Director Jin Fang, who will discuss asset tokenization and the on-chain transition in institutional finance. Representatives from New York Life Investment Management and SBI Securities will also take part, while figures from Coinbase, BitGo and Bitwise are included on the speaker lineup. A private event for institutional investors, the Upbit Institutional Summit, will be held on Sept. 29, the opening day, followed by the main conference from Sept. 30 to Oct. 1. FactBlock CEO Park Wi-ik said blockchain initiatives in the financial industry had until a few years ago been closer to proof-of-concept work and feasibility testing, but have now moved into a phase where core functions that actually drive financial markets, including products, custody and credit rating information, are being connected on-chain.

An anonymous whale deposited a total of 70,739 ETH, worth about $174 million, to multiple exchanges over the past two days, according to Lookonchain. Such exchange deposits are typically interpreted as a sign of intent to sell. The whale currently holds 97,115 ETH, valued at about $237 million.

Tron founder Justin Sun withdrew 5,000 ETH from Lido, according to ai_9684xtpa. Of that amount, 3,500 ETH moved through Poloniex to a hot wallet address, while its specific use has not been identified, ai_9684xtpa said. The remaining 1,500 ETH was deposited into decentralized lending protocol Morpho. Justin Sun currently holds more than 243,000 ETH, worth around $600 million, ranking fourth by ETH holdings, ai_9684xtpa added. The size of those holdings exceeds that of the Ethereum Foundation.

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, also known as CZ, said at the Bitcoin Asia 2026 event in Hong Kong that the cryptocurrency industry has already overcome its harshest crypto winter and that its fundamentals remain solid. Zhao added that the outlook for the real-world asset, or RWA, tokenization market is bright, as on-chain assets can remove time and cross-border constraints, connect global investors, and improve liquidity for small and mid-sized assets. On the global regulatory environment for crypto, Zhao said the United Arab Emirates is the most advanced, while the United States is making rapid progress on stablecoin and exchange regulation. He added that Japan has taken a friendly stance, Hong Kong is growing quickly, and Singapore is relatively conservative. Zhao also said decentralized exchanges, or DEXs, have matured in both technology and user awareness over the past eight years, and that the crypto industry could make a bigger leap if global regulation is eased further.

South Korea’s National Assembly Research Service has identified virtual asset, or digital asset, taxation as a topic for analysis ahead of the 2026 parliamentary audit, Digital Asset reported. In a report released on Aug. 27 titled “2026 Parliamentary Audit Issue Analysis,” the service reviewed the question of whether it is time to tax digital asset income. The relevant standing committee is the National Assembly’s Public Finance and Economic Planning Committee. The report also noted that digital asset taxation has been postponed three times and is scheduled to take effect in 2027, while authorities plan to secure and use tax data through tax infrastructure including the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework, or CARF.

Galaxy Digital analyst Christine Kim said Bitcoin Core’s next major release, v32, will introduce three key features to improve block processing, transaction management, and fee setting. The first is a feature that loads the previous transaction outputs needed for block verification in parallel. The second changes transaction rate limiting from a per-peer basis to a network-wide standard. The last adds a fee estimation function based on actual transaction data accumulated in the mempool. The goal is to reduce cases where required fees are calculated above actual levels.

U.S. Nasdaq-listed DeFi Development (DFDV) said it plans an initial public offering of up to $20 million in variable-rate Series C perpetual preferred stock. The net proceeds will be used for working capital, expanding its SOL holdings, and other digital asset investments.

CoinMarketCap’s Altcoin Season Index rose two points from yesterday to 28. 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. An altcoin season is identified when 75% of those top 100 coins have outperformed Bitcoin over the past 90 days, while the opposite is considered a Bitcoin season. A reading closer to 100 indicates conditions more consistent with an altcoin season.

Bitcoin is maintaining a firm trend and holding support at $77,100 despite a more hawkish Federal Reserve stance, according to Bitfinex’s latest Alpha report. Bitfinex said BTC briefly rose above $81,000 last week before pulling back after Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole speech, but it continues to hold the key $77,100 support level. The firm said August’s gains were driven by spot buying rather than excessive leverage, while open interest rose gradually. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw about $1 billion in net inflows last week, indicating continued institutional demand. Bitfinex added that liquidity centered on ETFs and stablecoins is supporting the crypto market’s uptrend, although expectations for future rate hikes could limit further upside. U.S. employment and inflation data, along with capital inflows into the crypto market, are likely to be the key variables going forward.

An address estimated to belong to Bitmine withdrew 20,000 ETH worth $49.42 million from FalconX, according to Onchain Lens. Exchange outflows are typically interpreted as a sign of holdings accumulation.

The Digital Asset eXchange Alliance (DAXA) said it referred four unregistered offshore cryptocurrency exchanges to police on Aug. 31 after finding they had continued serving South Korean users without filing the required registration. According to The Asia Business Daily, the referral was aimed at addressing illegal domestic business activities by unregistered offshore exchanges that failed to comply with reporting requirements under Article 7 of a law on the reporting and use of specified financial transaction information.

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 in a specific range for an extended period or makes a large move. Brighter areas may act as support or resistance. - The CVD indicator in the lower section reflects 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 tracks large orders worth $1 million to $10 million, among others.

CoinMarketCap’s in-house Crypto Fear and Greed Index came in at 75, unchanged from yesterday, indicating that the market remained in the greed zone. The index signals extreme fear as it approaches zero and extreme optimism as it nears 100. CoinMarketCap calculates the index based on price movements among the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, market volatility, derivatives-market indicators such as the put/call ratio, the stablecoin supply ratio, and CoinMarketCap’s own search data.

Wallets linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group, a hacking organization sanctioned by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control, recently transferred $30 million in cryptocurrency through Hyperliquid, Wu Blockchain reported, citing an analysis by Arkham analyst Emitt Galili. According to Wu Blockchain, the funds entered Hyperliquid as Bitcoin, were swapped into Ethereum and Solana, then bridged to the Tron, Solana and Ethereum networks before being transferred to KuCoin, LBank, Kraken and several unidentified Tron-based services.

President Donald Trump ruled out the use of nuclear weapons in the conflict with Iran. At a recent White House press conference, Trump said, "핵무기는 누구도 사용해서는 안 되며 미국은 재래식 무기만으로도 이란군에 충분한 타격을 가할 수 있다." Trump added, "미국의 공습으로 이란군은 이미 궤멸적인 타격을 입었으며 핵무기와 같은 최후의 수단으로 갈등을 확대할 필요는 없다."

Open interest in the Bitcoin derivatives market has fallen while long-position funding rates have risen, pointing to a possible long squeeze ahead, according to CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr. Adler said BTC open interest fell about 3.8% to 318,000 BTC on Aug. 21 from 331,000 BTC on Aug. 31, local time. Over the past 24 hours, positions totaling 2,850 BTC were liquidated, and the derivatives market is now in a deleveraging phase following a short squeeze, Adler said. At the same time, the funding rate stands at 0.00906%, with the eight-hour average at 0.00821% and the 24-hour average at 0.00725%. With the eight-hour average running about 13% above the 24-hour average, short-term crowding in long positions is intensifying, he said. Adler added that if Bitcoin falls below a key support level, it could trigger a cascade of forced liquidations in long positions, resulting in a long squeeze.

Crypto.com has partnered with fintech media outlet Payments.com (PYMNTS) and plans to launch more than 20 AI-related prediction market products starting in September, AMBCrypto reported. The products will cover healthcare, retail, and financial services and will be offered through OG Prediction Market, which is regulated by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

Strategy has sent a letter to MSCI opposing a proposal to exclude non-operating companies from the MSCI Global Investable Market Index, arguing the move is misleading and flawed and discriminates against cryptocurrency companies. The company also questioned MSCI’s fairness and credibility. MSCI had earlier said it was reviewing changes to eligibility requirements for the Global Investable Market Index, and that Strategy, Metaplanet and others could be removed from the index if the revised rules are adopted.

The three major U.S. stock indices closed lower today. - S&P 500: -0.33% - Nasdaq: -0.12% - Dow Jones: -0.70%

Polymarket is in talks to raise $1 billion at a $20 billion valuation, with 1789 Capital, an investment firm co-founded by Donald Trump Jr., set to lead the round, Crypto Briefing reported. 1789 Capital previously invested in Polymarket in August 2025, with the investment said to total tens of millions of dollars. Trump Jr. later joined Polymarket’s advisory board.

Whale Alert reported that 229,538,292 USDC has been transferred from Coinbase Institutional to Coinbase. The transaction is valued at about $230 million.

North Korean hackers moved about $30 million worth of Bitcoin through Hyperliquid over the past three weeks, Crypto Briefing reported, citing Arkham data. In December 2024, Hyperliquid came under scrutiny over links to wallets labeled as belonging to North Korean hackers. At the time, Hyperliquid said there had been no hack and no loss of user funds.

Assets under management for Bitwise's spot XRP ETF, XRP, surpassed $500 million as of the end of August, about nine months after its launch, according to crypto market data platform SoSoValue. CoinMarketCap data showed XRP trading at $1.38, down 2.72%.

OpenSea will support trading in Solana-based NFTs, The Block reported. The move comes more than four years after OpenSea launched a beta version of Solana NFT trading in April 2022. At the time, OpenSea supported Solana NFT trading for 165 collections, but later ended that support. With the service now restored, users can buy, sell and trade Solana-based NFTs on OpenSea. Solana is the first non-EVM chain to gain NFT trading support on OpenSea since the company ended its beta support, according to The Block.