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Greece has produced its first businesses registered under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation, Cointelegraph reported. The Greek entities currently registered with the European Securities and Markets Authority, or ESMA, are BCash, Xenios Blockchain Group, Capital Wallet Greece and Piraeus Bank. Meanwhile, Greece’s Hellenic Capital Market Commission fully denied reports that European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde intervened in Binance’s Greek MiCA licensing application process.

The spot CVD chart is an order book analysis of the BTC/USDT spot trading pair. The upper panel shows the volume heatmap, while the lower panel shows cumulative volume delta, or CVD. - The volume heatmap tracks trading volume at each price level, and the background becomes brighter when the price stays in a specific range for an extended period or makes a large move. Brighter zones may act as support or resistance. - The CVD indicator tracks buy and sell orders by capital size, with each colored line rising as buy orders increase for that segment. The yellow line represents orders between $100 and $1,000, while the brown line represents large orders between $1 million and $10 million, among others.

Former U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Rostin Behnam said Congress needs to establish clearer and more durable legal standards for regulating cryptocurrencies and prediction markets, according to Crypto in America. Speaking at Georgetown University’s Financial Markets Quality Conference, Behnam said the rapid growth of prediction markets has increased the need to draw a clearer line between financial products used for risk management and gambling. With Senate discussions on the CLARITY Act, a digital asset market structure bill, failing to make progress, Behnam said regulating the crypto spot market under the CFTC’s existing authority amounts to a stopgap measure. The current approach is little more than a patchwork fix using tape and clips, he said, adding that a clearer long-term regulatory framework is needed.

U.S. macroeconomist Lyn Alden said Bitcoin could eventually rise above $840,000 over the long term. Alden argued BTC could climb more than 10-fold from current levels, adding that Bitcoin’s current market size remains small relative to its long-term potential value and that a scenario in which it accounts for about 2% of global liquid assets is plausible.

ETH perpetual futures open interest on decentralized derivatives exchange Hyperliquid has surpassed BTC, with ETH OI at around $3.02 billion versus roughly $2.8 billion for BTC.

Bitcoin is facing resistance in the $84,000-$85,000 range, where long-term holders are most heavily concentrated, according to a Glassnode analysis. In a post on X, Glassnode said sustaining the uptrend would require BTC to break through that range and hold above it. The chart showed the average MVRV price, or the level at which aggregate BTC holder returns are in line with the historical average, at $96,900, while the true market mean, or the average cost basis of more actively trading investors, stood at $77,200.

A rise in the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield to 6% would not necessarily be negative for BTC if it is driven by concerns over fiscal deficits and government debt, according to a CoinDesk analysis. Markus Thielen, founder of 10x Research, said higher Treasury yields tend to weigh on BTC when they rise because of Federal Reserve rate hikes, but the impact differs when yields climb on fiscal instability. Thielen said the 10-year yield could rise to 6% in the coming months. CoinDesk said yield increases tied to fiscal instability could instead support alternative assets such as BTC. The outlet added that BTC fell 64% in 2022 amid the Fed’s aggressive tightening, but has roughly doubled since late 2023 while the 10-year yield rose 1.35 percentage points. CoinDesk said downside pressure similar to 2022 could reappear if the Fed resumes aggressive rate hikes.

Citi said it has launched Citi Token Services, its corporate tokenized deposit service, in Japan and the United Arab Emirates. The launch allows clients in Japan to transfer funds instantly to accounts in markets where the service is already available, including the U.S., the UK and Singapore. In Japan, the service supports USD, and cross-border transfers are available 24/7.

Bitcoin logged daily closes below its 200-day moving average for 293 straight trading days before forming a golden cross on Sept. 8, Binance Research said. The firm said six of the 12 past golden crosses came after BTC had stayed below the 200-day moving average for at least 150 days. In those cases, Bitcoin rose about 100% to 600% at its peak within a year of the golden cross. By contrast, in four of the other six cases, where the period below the 200-day average was relatively short, the maximum gain within a year remained under 100%, according to Binance Research. The firm added the current pattern most closely resembles the golden cross seen in October 2015, after which BTC climbed about 150% at its peak.

Bitmine could secure 5% of Ethereum’s total supply by early November if it maintains its recent pace of purchases, Cointelegraph reported. Analyzing 12 weekly reports from July 13 to Sept. 28, the outlet said the Ethereum accumulation firm bought about 259,000 ETH over that period, or an average of 21,600 ETH per week. As of Sept. 27, Bitmine held 6,001,302 ETH, equal to 4.9% of total supply of 122.1 million ETH. Reaching 5% would require about 6.105 million ETH, leaving roughly 103,700 ETH to go. At the average buying pace of the past 12 weeks, that would take about 4.8 more weeks, although the actual timing could vary depending on the size of future purchases.

Binance announced it will delist the AUCTION/USDC and VANA/USDC spot trading pairs at 3:00 a.m. UTC on Oct. 2.

The schedule for a public hearing on South Korea’s Framework Act on Digital Assets, which had been discussed for Sept. 30, has not yet been finalized, Asia Today reported, citing industry sources on Sept. 29. Political circles had initially discussed a timeline under which a public hearing would begin in September, followed by a review by a bill subcommittee in November and passage of the digital asset bill during the regular National Assembly session. However, with the government’s proposal submitted later than expected, the process has run into delays from the public hearing stage. With the National Assembly’s annual audit set to begin on Oct. 6 and continue for about three weeks, the public hearing and related bill discussions may slip to after November, according to the report.

Bithumb announced it will temporarily suspend deposits and withdrawals for 33 virtual assets on the Base network at 9:00 a.m. UTC on Sept. 30 to support the network’s upgrade.

Crypto-linked unregistered foreign exchange trading detected over the past eight years and seven months totaled 12.14 trillion won ($8.4 billion) across 91 cases, Digital Asset reported. Data that lawmaker Park Soo-young of the People Power Party received from the Korea Customs Service showed that digital asset-based illicit remittances from 2018 through July 2026 amounted to 12.1407 trillion won in 91 cases. Overall, authorities detected 177 illicit remittance cases worth 18.0297 trillion won, meaning digital assets accounted for 51% of cases and 67% of the total amount.

If BTC falls below $82,150, about $757.51 million in long positions could be liquidated across major centralized exchanges, according to CoinGlass data. If BTC rises above $84,790, about $445.44 million in short positions could be liquidated.

Bitcoin holdings on exchanges fell by about 35,800 BTC to 1.325 million between Sept. 20 and 27, according to on-chain analytics firm Santiment. Santiment added that about 20,000 BTC had flowed into exchanges between Sept. 13 and 20, leaving net outflows of roughly 15,900 BTC over the past two weeks. The firm said last week’s decline was concentrated on a specific date, with about 26,700 BTC leaving exchanges on Sept. 22 alone, around double the typical weekday outflow at the time. Given the scale of the movement, Santiment said the drop in exchange holdings was unlikely to be a simple accounting change, although exchanges may have moved BTC to internal wallets that are not being tracked.

UK-listed The Smarter Web Company, which has adopted a Bitcoin treasury strategy, has secured shareholder approval to launch MORE, the UK’s first BTC-backed preferred stock, BitcoinTreasuries reported. The company is pursuing an initial public offering of MORE to raise about $20 million to $33 million, with the proceeds set to be used for additional Bitcoin purchases and business acquisitions.

The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s wide-area investigation unit said it has returned about 26.3 billion won ($19.8 million) in voice phishing proceeds that had been frozen at South Korea’s five largest virtual asset exchanges to around 1,100 victims. According to KBS News, police identified the victims after confirming in early 2023 that large sums of 피해금 were frozen in virtual asset accounts used in voice phishing crimes and suspended from trading, then tracing fund flows across around 1,000 frozen exchange accounts and about 160,000 bank accounts.

Upbit announced it will suspend LSK deposits and withdrawals at 9:00 a.m. UTC on Sept. 30 as Lisk migrates from its existing network to the Ethereum network. The South Korean exchange said existing deposit addresses will become unusable after the suspension takes effect and recommended users generate new deposit addresses after the network transition. It added it will announce the timing of the service resumption in a separate notice.

Bitcoin long-term holders’ realized profit is currently around 72% to 78%, well below the roughly 350% recorded during market overheating in December 2024, according to a CryptoQuant analysis. CryptoQuant added that BTC long-term holders’ realized price has continued to rise to around $48,000-$50,000. That suggests investors who bought BTC at relatively higher prices have, over time, entered the long-term holder cohort, gradually lifting the group’s average cost basis. The firm said the current market looks closer to a "mid-cycle reset" than to a cycle top. It noted that in past transitions from bull markets to bear markets, long-term holders absorbed substantial unrealized losses and MVRV came under heavy pressure, while the current market is showing a reduction in profit size rather than those kinds of extreme conditions.

An anonymous whale address starting with 0x487 withdrew 11,610 ETH worth $30.97 million from centralized exchanges over the past five hours at an average price of $2,667, according to ai_9684xtpa. Exchange withdrawals are typically interpreted as a sign of holding intent.

Hana Bank is seeking specialized staff to build its blockchain security framework and respond to related regulations, Digital Asset reported. According to a Hana Bank job posting dated Sept. 29, the bank has separately opened recruitment for an "information security (AI and blockchain security)" role as part of its second-half 2026 NEXT CAREER hiring for experienced full-time employees, which has been under way since Sept. 22. Key responsibilities for the role include establishing and operating security frameworks for artificial intelligence and blockchain, analyzing security threats tied to AI and blockchain (Web3.0), handling compliance, and internalizing related technologies.

Adam, an analyst at crypto options analytics platform Greeks.live, said the recent move in Bitcoin looks closer to a rebound within an ongoing bear market than the start of a bullish reversal. In a post on X, Adam said put option block trades, which are typically used to hedge against or bet on price declines, accounted for about one-third of activity as the market entered a correction. Adam added implied volatility across major option expiries was slightly lower than two weeks earlier and did not rise much during the latest rally, before falling to around 35%. In the options market, traders are not pricing in major volatility ahead, and some are positioning for volatility to decline again even if it ticks up slightly, Adam said. A BTC options chart Adam shared showed put option block trades at 32.47%.

Crypto payments firm MoonPay has officially launched its South Korean unit, MoonPay Korea, and plans to file as a virtual asset service provider next year, according to Edaily. MoonPay plans to connect the payment and stablecoin infrastructure it has built in global markets with domestic financial services to roll out practical services in South Korea, including remittances, payment and settlement, and the global distribution of digital assets. Centered on MoonPay Korea, the company aims to work with local partners on service localization, financial system integration, and customer experience validation, then expand the model across Asian markets based on each country’s market environment.

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has released the open-source novel 'Snowmoon,' and token ZC, based on a concept appearing in the work, saw a brief spike, Odaily reported. According to GMGN data, ZC’s market capitalization at one point reached $20.89 million before falling to about $14.34 million. Its intraday gain at one stage exceeded 41x. Some traders also issued tokens such as SNOWMOON, ZC and EMERALD based on elements in the novel, including its title, currency and AI assistant.