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CryptoQuant contributor Crypto Dan said Bitcoin’s two recent strong rebounds were led by overseas whales rather than retail investor funds. Crypto Dan said this suggests market sentiment is shifting from a bearish cycle to a bullish one, adding the latest rebound may be more likely than previous ones to develop into a trend reversal.

Hedera-based enterprise software developer The Hashgraph Group (THG) has listed its AI agent identity verification solution IDTrust on the IBM Cloud Catalog and entered into a global partnership with IBM, Investing.com reported. IDTrust assigns verifiable digital identities to AI agents, devices and people, allowing users to confirm whether an agent is in fact acting under delegated authority. Through the partnership, THG will be able to integrate IBM’s cloud and AI technologies into its products. IDTrust is currently being used by a European telecom provider to verify caller identity.

The value of real-world assets on the Solana (SOL) ecosystem has surpassed $4.6 billion, reaching a record high, Solana said, citing data from RWA.xyz.

Bitcoin-backed lending protocol Zest Protocol announced the release of a mainnet demo for its Bitcoin-collateralized vault. Users can deposit native BTC into a Bitcoin Layer 1 vault and borrow USDC on Ethereum against that collateral. The BTC remains on the Bitcoin network without wrapping or bridging, and the vault is structured for users to manage directly. With the launch, Zest Protocol said it is positioning the project as "Bitcoin's Capital Layer."

Matt Cole, CEO of Bitcoin treasury company Strive (ASST), said ASST stock has outperformed Bitcoin by more than 100 percentage points this year while BTC has been თითქმის flat, according to BitcoinTreasuries. Cole said the company’s model is creating a virtuous cycle in which it can keep buying Bitcoin while delivering BTC-linked returns to shareholders.

The Financial Action Task Force said Türkiye’s virtual asset service providers generally have a solid understanding of money laundering risks and related compliance obligations, while authorities are stepping up supervision based on risk levels. It added, however, that implementation remains lacking in areas including procedures to identify and manage politically exposed persons and the filing of suspicious transaction reports. FATF also said Türkiye’s regulatory framework for virtual asset service providers was still in the early stages of implementation at the time of its on-site review.

Crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX has formally ended exchange operations after 11 years, CoinDesk reported. Trading, deposits and new position openings were halted from 4:00 a.m. UTC on Sept. 22, while users can continue withdrawing existing balances. Founded in 2014 by Arthur Hayes and others, BitMEX is considered one of the exchanges that pioneered crypto perpetual futures trading. In July, BitMEX announced plans to wind down services following a strategic review by parent company HDR Global Trading.

Bitcoin may face heavier profit-taking as it approaches $90,000, but any such move would likely be a natural correction within an uptrend rather than a trend reversal, CryptoQuant said, according to Cointelegraph. The analytics firm said the average cost basis for BTC moved within the past one to three months was $64,300, and the upper price zone where profit-taking could increase was around $90,300. That area overlaps with an on-chain supply cluster at $88,000-$90,000, which it identified as the next major resistance zone. Even if selling pressure rises there, CryptoQuant said it would not necessarily mean the uptrend has broken. From the current price of $86,000, the firm added, there appears to be little clear resistance before that zone, while technical indicators, valuation metrics and on-chain data continue to point to a bull market.

UNI has fallen by 3.85% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, UNI is trading at $9.6.

BCH has fallen by 4.20% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, BCH is trading at $348.28.

Prediction market platform Kalshi is preparing to launch Perpetual SFPs, or perpetual futures tied to individual stocks, and has moved to establish listing and trading rules for the products. According to the Federal Register, Kalshi submitted a proposed rule change to the U.S. SEC on Sept. 18 covering listing and trading standards for the products, and also applied to the U.S. CFTC for approval the same day. The CFTC has not yet approved the proposal. Eligible stocks must have a market capitalization of at least $100 billion, an average daily trading value of at least $450 million over the past six months, and more than 20 million shares available to the market. After listing, maintenance requirements including a $50 billion market capitalization and an average daily trading value of $200 million in the previous quarter would apply. Trading would take place on the Kalshi platform, while clearing would be handled by Klear, a CFTC-registered entity.

Bitcoin was up 10.9% in September, following gains of 4.8% in July and 25.2% in August, putting it on track for three straight monthly advances, CoinDesk reported. If Bitcoin closes September higher, it will mark the first three-month winning streak since 2012. After posting consecutive gains from July through September in 2012, BTC saw a 9.7% pullback in October, but then rose more than 2,000% over the following 165 days.

The spot CVD chart is an order book analysis chart for the BTC/USDT spot trading pair. The top panel shows the volume heatmap, while the bottom panel shows cumulative volume delta, or CVD. - The volume heatmap in the top panel 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 moves sharply. Brighter zones may act as support or resistance levels. - The cumulative volume delta indicator in the bottom panel reflects buy and sell orders by order size. As buy orders increase, the line in the corresponding color moves higher. The yellow line represents orders between $100 and $1,000, while the brown line represents large orders between $1 million and $10 million.

Vandell Aljarrah, co-founder of crypto investment analysis and consulting platform Black Swan Capitalist, said investors may be better off waiting for a further pullback rather than chasing XRP’s recent rebound, according to The Crypto Basic. Aljarrah said investors who have not accumulated as much XRP as they wanted should avoid getting swept up in the rally and instead look for a better entry point if the token corrects again. The outlet added that any further pullback would not necessarily mean a return to the August low of $0.978. XRP was trading at $1.59, up 23.96% over the past week, according to CoinMarketCap.

Bloomberg senior analyst Mike McGlone said in a recent report that it is unlikely Bitcoin formed its final bottom for this cycle around $60,000 earlier this year. McGlone said BTC appears to have entered a pullback phase after first rising above $100,000 on a monthly closing basis in January 2025. He added that record-high U.S. stocks and the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield climbing above 5% in the third quarter could weigh on assets such as BTC that do not generate income.

The XRP Ledger’s permission delegation upgrade is set to take effect on Oct. 5 if it proceeds as scheduled, CoinDesk reported. Once completed, the upgrade will allow account owners to grant another account limited authority to perform specific tasks without sharing the master key.

Reeve Collins, a Tether co-founder involved in USDT’s development, said in an interview with Wu Blockchain that the next generation of stablecoins will evolve into “stablecoin 2.0.” Collins said reserve assets will be disclosed with full on-chain transparency, while the stablecoin itself will be separated from its revenue model. He added that programming features will enable more sophisticated distribution of returns to participants such as liquidity providers. Collins also said blockchain and stablecoins will become core infrastructure supporting real-time settlement of global funds as AI reshapes the financial industry.

Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission plans to introduce a new licensing regime for digital assets soon, while also strengthening oversight of digital asset custody, market supervision and anti-money laundering capabilities. Over the medium to long term, the regulator also plans to establish a regulatory framework for real-world assets including tokenized gold, as well as tokenized investment products.

South Korean exchange Bithumb announced it will temporarily suspend INJ deposits and withdrawals at 9:00 a.m. UTC on Sept. 24 to support the Injective network upgrade.

Game developer Dungeon Labs on Sept. 23 unveiled Dungeon Coin, or DUNG, a utility token built on the Creditcoin (CTC) mainnet, along with its “Dungeon Series” game lineup. The company said DUNG will be used for game entry fees, item purchases and settlements tied to in-game performance, with total supply fixed at 100 million DUNG. Reward funding will come from entry fees paid by users and blockchain transaction fees, and will not involve issuing additional new tokens for payouts. Initial distribution will be conducted through a public sale without any pre-allocation to institutional investors or venture capital firms. Dungeon Labs added it plans to open-source code for smart contracts that manage and distribute entry fees, as well as code related to on-chain leaderboards, so external developers can build games using DUNG.

CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju said on X that the current consensus among Ethereum analysts is "STRONG BUY."

Austria-based Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) plans to offer cryptocurrency investment services to customers in Central and Eastern Europe through a partnership with crypto platform Bitpanda, Bloomberg reported. The service is set to be rolled out sequentially through RBI’s regional subsidiaries. Bitpanda already provides crypto investment services to other banks, including Germany’s N26.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $86,000. BTC is trading at $85,925.8 on the Binance USDT market.

DeFi lending protocol Aave’s v4 deposits have surpassed $1 billion, Token Terminal said on X. Deposits have roughly doubled over the past month, and active loans currently stand at $300 million.

On-chain analyst Axel Adler Jr. said Bitcoin long-term holders are sitting on roughly 37% unrealized gains versus their average purchase price after the recent price rise. In a blog post, Adler said BTC was priced at $86,406 as of Sept. 23, while the average cost basis for holders who have kept the asset for more than six months stood at $62,706. A week earlier, unrealized gains relative to that average cost basis were 20%, and the cost basis itself had changed little, indicating the expanded gains came from Bitcoin’s price increase. In early August, the group’s average purchase price and BTC’s market price moved close enough that they nearly slipped into losses.