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Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee said the Federal Reserve could soften its recent hawkish stance if the U.S. August core personal consumption expenditures price index comes in below market expectations, adding that such an outcome could be positive for stocks. Lee also pointed to earlier remarks by New York Fed President John Williams indicating there was no need to rush additional rate hikes.

European stablecoin issuer AllUnity said it plans to launch USDAU, a stablecoin pegged one-to-one to the U.S. dollar. USDAU will be fully backed by segregated reserve assets and issued across six networks: Ethereum, Solana, Base, Tempo, Arkh, and Polygon. AllUnity is regulated under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, or MiCA, and already issues the euro-denominated EURAU, Swiss franc-denominated CHFAU, and Swedish krona-denominated SEKAU. USDAU will be AllUnity’s fourth fiat-backed stablecoin.

Joseph Chalom, CEO of Ethereum treasury firm Sharplink, urged the South Korean government and National Assembly at Korea Blockchain Week 2026 to move quickly to establish a clear regulatory framework for digital assets. In a speech, Chalom said a wait-and-see approach that leaves a regulatory vacuum in place is increasing market uncertainty, and stressed the need for bold legislative action. He added that rather than letting fears stemming from past market turmoil block innovation, authorities should put in place thorough investor protection guidelines and allow the industry to grow within the regulatory fold.

South Korean exchange Bithumb announced an extension of CORE’s delisting watchlist designation. The exchange said it is receiving explanations from the project regarding the facts behind the watchlist designation and follow-up measures, and is conducting additional review procedures, prompting the extension for a closer assessment.

Strive added 6,106 BTC, worth about $490.77 million, between Aug. 24 and Sept. 25 at an average purchase price of $80,375, according to Lookonchain. Separate public data shows Strive has continued buying BTC and recently increased its holdings to 27,462 BTC. The company added another 1,107 BTC over the past week.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $83,000. BTC is trading at $82,994.04 on the Binance USDT market.

Tyler Winklevoss, co-founder of Gemini, said the recent market mood around Zcash (ZEC) resembles the cryptocurrency market in 2019. At the time, the crypto market was starting to regain attention around Bitcoin after the 2018 bear market, while ZEC has shown sharp volatility this year and recently posted a notable uptrend. According to CoinGecko data, ZEC rose above $1,000 in September and climbed as high as $1,335.51 on Sept. 16. Gemini has supported ZEC trading and custody since 2018.

Former U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Commissioner Brian Quintenz said at Korea Blockchain Week 2026 that passing the CLARITY Act is not the only way to overhaul the U.S. cryptocurrency regulatory framework. Quintenz said the U.S. SEC and the CFTC could use their exemptive authority to help fill regulatory gaps. Quintenz also said tokenization adoption in traditional finance has expanded this year, while crypto use cases are broadening beyond finance into entertainment, music, and social networking.

Japanese telecom company KDDI said it has launched the “αU wallet,” a cryptocurrency wallet available through its mobile payment app au PAY. Users can exchange reward points for WBTC, ETH and the yen-denominated stablecoin JPYC, and can also buy cryptocurrencies through accounts at local exchange Coincheck and manage them directly in the wallet. Held cryptocurrencies and stablecoins can be converted into au PAY balance for merchant payments, while a staking feature is set to be added this winter.

The following are the 24-hour long/short ratios for BTC perpetual futures on the world’s three largest crypto futures exchanges by open interest: Overall: 49.44% long, 50.56% short - Binance: 49.62% long, 50.38% short - OKX: 49.84% long, 50.16% short - Bybit: 51.29% long, 48.71% short

Lu Yin, head of APAC at the Solana Foundation, described Solana as an open-source technology similar to Linux at Solana Summit Korea. Lu said Solana aims to be used for moving value in the same way the internet moves information.

Cindy Leow, co-founder of Solana-based decentralized derivatives exchange Velocity, formerly Drift (DRIFT), said Lee will step down following the exchange’s relaunch. In a post on X, Leow said Velocity has moved beyond its startup phase and now needs an executive team suited to driving full-scale growth. Leow added that Drift was attacked by North Korea in April after a six-month social engineering infiltration campaign, and later signed an agreement with Tether to compensate affected users while rebuilding smart contracts and conducting security audits. Velocity relaunched this week after completing the security audit and fully open-sourcing its code.

The probability on decentralized prediction market Polymarket that the U.S. 30-year Treasury yield will reach 6% before 2027 fell 25 percentage points over the past 24 hours to 25%.

A bill has been introduced in South Korea to give the Financial Intelligence Unit under the Financial Services Commission the authority to request preemptive transaction suspensions for cryptocurrency addresses suspected of being used in serious crimes affecting the public, Digital Asset reported. According to the report, 11 lawmakers including Democratic Party lawmaker Park Min-kyu proposed the amendment to the Act on Reporting and Use of Specific Financial Transaction Information on Sept. 30. The bill defines serious public-harm crimes as including illegal private lending, drugs, gambling, new phishing schemes using telecommunications, and terrorism financing. It would allow investigative agencies to ask financial institutions and other entities to temporarily suspend deposits and withdrawals for seven days on accounts or addresses believed to have been used in such crimes, with the FIU chief able to extend the period up to 60 days if deemed necessary. The measure would also allow the FIU chief to request financial institutions and other entities to suspend transactions for up to 180 days on accounts and addresses tied to those crimes.

Ripple told Bitcoin.com it is no longer active in the Bank for International Settlements’ cross-border payments interoperability and extension task force. Ripple said it participated in the task force from 2023 to 2025 and is not currently involved in any other BIS task force or working group. Earlier, BIS researchers disclosed findings on Sept. 2 from a study of a data validation system using the XRP Ledger. BIS said the research did not amount to an endorsement of XRPL or any specific company and instead examined an approach that could also be applied to other blockchains. No link has been confirmed between the end of Ripple’s task force role and the BIS research on XRPL.

The spot CVD chart is an order book analysis chart for 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. The background 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 cumulative volume delta indicator reflects buy and sell orders by order size. As buy orders increase, the corresponding colored line rises. The yellow line is based on orders worth $100 to $1,000, while the brown line reflects large orders worth $1 million to $10 million.

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes said in an interview with CoinDesk that Ethereum (ETH) could reach $10,000 by the end of this year. ETH was trading at $2,672 at the time of the report.

AAVE plans to expand its collateralized lending business beyond crypto into securities such as stocks and real-world assets, according to remarks by founder Stani Kulechov. Kulechov said the protocol aims to broaden the collateral lending market in stages, moving from cryptocurrencies to securities and then to physical assets. Over the long term, Kulechov said assets such as solar power equipment, batteries, GPUs, robots and space infrastructure could also be used as collateral to raise funds. AAVE is currently pursuing a plan through V4 on Base to support tokenized stock-backed loans that would let users borrow USDC against seven U.S. stocks.

Canada-listed Digital Commodities sold part of its physical gold holdings to buy about 100,000 Canadian dollars ($73,000) worth of Solana, equal to about 5% of its estimated net asset value, according to Bitcoinist.

Capital outflows at crypto exchange Bitget have begun to stabilize after it resumed withdrawals following a hacking incident, with flows now shifting into net inflows. According to X account EmberCN, Bitget is running a high-yield stablecoin deposit program and PoolX ETH and BTC staking events. Since yesterday afternoon, the exchange has seen inflows of about 28,900 ETH and outflows of just 7,266 ETH, marking a large net inflow. In particular, one whale address withdrew 20,000 ETH, or about $54.66 million, from Lido and transferred it to Bitget’s deposit pool offering an annual yield of 11.27%. More than $31.73 million in funds flowed in this morning.

A newly created address withdrew 5,731.9 ETH worth about $15.31 million from Coinbase Prime, according to Arkham monitoring. The address is still holding all of the withdrawn ETH, with no further outbound transfers so far.

Taiwanese crypto exchange MAX announced support for deposits and withdrawals of Tether (USDT) issued on the Aptos network. Users can deposit and withdraw Aptos-based USDT directly without a separate bridge or wrapping process. The service has been available since Sept. 29, and MAX said users must select the Aptos network correctly when making deposits, warning that choosing another network could result in a loss of assets.

SlowMist said its investigation into the wallet asset theft that occurred on Sept. 25 at Bitget’s request found signs that a zero-day vulnerability in a system used by an external security vendor was exploited. A zero-day vulnerability refers to an undisclosed flaw for which no security patch has yet been released. SlowMist said the attacker appears to have gained unauthorized access to the external security vendor’s management system by posing as an internal employee. It also found signs the attacker used a separately developed withdrawal tool to remove assets from the Bitget wallet. The attack began at 6:31 p.m. UTC on Sept. 24 and continued across multiple blockchains for about two hours and 52 minutes. SlowMist added that the attacker later manipulated withdrawal records and attempted additional BTC withdrawals. The firm said it is continuing to investigate the specific intrusion route.

U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs posted a net outflow of $2.8 million on Sept. 29, reversing course after seven trading days of net inflows, according to Farside Investors. - BlackRock ETHA: -$8.9 million - Fidelity FETH: -$6.7 million - Grayscale ETH: +$12.8 million

Joseph Lubin, CEO of Consensys, said at Korea Blockchain Week that the team is reviewing “many excellent approaches” related to a potential native token launch for MetaMask.