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A single actor appears to have siphoned about $18.43 million through the issuance of 53 meme coins on Robinhood Chain in what The Block described as a large-scale chain of rug pulls. According to onchain analyst Wazz, the group exploited a 99% anti-sniping fee exemption feature on the Pons V2 launchpad. When a token creator granted fee-exempt status to a specific cluster of wallets, those wallets used bundled transactions within one second of launch to capture more than 80% of the supply, then immediately sold the tokens to pull funds back out. Wazz said the group repeated the method across more than 50 meme coins, using proceeds withdrawn from earlier tokens to fund initial purchases of later ones. Most of the siphoned funds are in ETH and cannot be frozen, while some were laundered into stablecoins such as DAI through cross-chain bridges.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin outlined a sweeping architectural overhaul in a blog post aimed at turning Ethereum into a cryptographic world computer by 2030, combining blockchain infrastructure with modern cryptography. Buterin said the "Hegota" upgrade set for next year would be the last fork under the current model, after which the protocol redesign would shift toward advanced technologies including recursive STARKs, automated formal verification and quantum-resistant cryptography. Under the plan, nodes would no longer need to re-execute all data directly, instead relying on PeerDAS data sampling and ZK-SNARK proof verification to maximize both processing speed and privacy. By 2030, when the overhaul is expected to be complete, Ethereum’s block production, or slot, time is projected to be shortened to four to eight seconds, while finality is expected to reach eight to 32 seconds. Buterin added parallel processing and off-chain signature aggregation under EIP-8288 would help position decentralized networks as hybrid infrastructure that improves their own performance and scalability, rather than simply raising costs.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed Assembly Bill 2409, which bans public officials from issuing or promoting crypto assets. The move makes California the first U.S. state to legally prohibit politicians from engaging in memecoin-linked activities. The bill strictly bars public officials from using their positions to create their own tokens or promote them for profit. It was introduced to address ethical lapses in politics and prevent investor harm, and passed with unanimous bipartisan support in both the state Senate, 40-0, and the state Assembly, 78-0.

BTW has fallen by 4.23% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, BTW is trading at $1.13.

BTW has risen by 5.89% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, BTW is trading at $1.12.

BTW has fallen by 4.31% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, BTW is trading at $1.06.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $85,000. BTC is trading at $85,010.01 on the Binance USDT market.

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The U.S. and China have agreed to reduce tariffs on $30 billion worth of goods each and begin regular talks on AI, Cointelegraph reported. The two countries also plan to set up a hotline to respond to AI-related incidents.

Payward, Kraken’s parent company, has spent billions of dollars on acquisitions and investments over the past two years as it pushes a strategy to move beyond an exchange and integrate trading, banking, asset management, and institutional services into a single financial infrastructure platform, CoinDesk reported. The company is expanding across four business pillars: the Kraken exchange, banking, asset management, and its B2B infrastructure unit, Payward Services. To enter the U.S. derivatives market, Payward acquired NinjaTrader for $1.5 billion, and this year it bought Bitnomial, which owns a derivatives exchange and clearinghouse, for $550 million. In Europe, the company is also pursuing a bank acquisition. Payward is also strengthening partnerships with financial institutions in tokenization. Nasdaq invested $100 million in Payward and expanded cooperation on stock tokens and market surveillance technology, according to CoinDesk. The two sides are targeting the second quarter of 2027 for the launch of stock tokens. The London Stock Exchange is also reviewing a stock-token business with Payward.

Crypto influencer and former FTX community partner Benson Sun said the current Bitcoin market cycle may show a gradual bullish trend with successive record highs, rather than the kind of sharp surge and clear peak seen in 2013 and 2017. Sun said Bitcoin’s main buyers have shifted since 2021 from retail investors to institutions such as listed companies, spot ETFs, and corporations. As those institutions mainly buy spot holdings and some use delta-neutral strategies, Sun said traditional indicators such as funding rates and the MVRV Z-Score may not rise to extreme levels even at this cycle’s peak. Sun added the top in this cycle is more likely to emerge when additional institutional inflows begin to weaken, rather than when retail investor sentiment overheats.

Bloomberg senior analyst Mike McGlone said Bitcoin’s relative investment appeal could weaken if the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield rises to around 5% while stock market valuations remain elevated. McGlone’s analysis focused on how the rate and Bitcoin price backdrop has changed sharply since 2021. Unlike 2021, when the U.S. 10-year yield was around 0.5% and Bitcoin was under $10,000, both the benchmark yield and Bitcoin’s price are now about 10 times higher, suggesting investment flows could move in the opposite direction from that period. McGlone added that a comparison of the year-end ratio between U.S. stock market capitalization and public debt since 2001 shows the ratio fell to about 1.2 times in 2018 and 2022, when Bitcoin dropped about 70%. The ratio now stands at about 2.1 times. He said a gradual decline in stocks could become a factor that pressures both Bitcoin and interest rates at the same time. If stock prices and Treasury yields remain high instead, Bitcoin could lose relative appeal as a speculative asset as it competes with many other cryptocurrencies while offering neither cash flow nor interest income.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $84,000. BTC is trading at $83,990 on the Binance USDT market.

A Bitget hacker moved about $83 million worth of stolen XRP to another wallet, CoinDesk reported. Roughly 54 million XRP has now left the original five wallets.

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng, better known as CZ, said on the 'When Shift Happens' podcast that his social media posts do not have enough influence to move prices across the broader cryptocurrency market. CZ said he has maintained a bullish view on Bitcoin for a long time, and because he posts five to 10 times a day, messages published just ahead of positive market news may simply be coincidental. He added that if he had known market-moving information in advance, he would not have posted about it, stressing that any overlap between his posts and subsequent market gains was only a matter of timing.

U.S. spot Solana ETFs recorded about $80 million to $87 million in net inflows on Sept. 25, the largest daily total on record, Crypto Briefing reported. The figure was more than double the previous high of $33.5 million, while weekly net inflows reached about $181 million.

XRP whales accumulated more than 470 million XRP over the past five days, worth about $724 million, CryptoPotato reported. Amid the accumulation, Ripple unveiled a smart contract developed with Securitize that lets investors in BlackRock’s BUIDL and VanEck’s VBILL tokenized short-term Treasury funds instantly swap their holdings for Ripple’s stablecoin RLUSD. Securitize said it also plans to integrate with the XRP Ledger, or XRPL, to broaden the use of tokenized assets and the ecosystem.

An early AAVE whale sold 30,000 AAVE at an average price of $147 over the past two days, for a total of $4.41 million, Lookonchain reported.

Bitcoin has entered a new bull cycle after holding the $60,000 level under a Power Law model, with a $300,000 target for 2029, Fidelity director of global macro Jurrien Timmer said. A power law refers to a functional relationship in which one variable changes in proportion to, or declines as a power of, another variable.

Veteran trader Peter Brandt said XRP’s low fees are notable, but its usefulness for transactions alone does not justify a high market valuation. In a recent Cointelegraph interview, Brandt distinguished Bitcoin as a store-of-value asset and XRP as a transaction-focused cryptocurrency. While Brandt said XRP can be used for efficient, low-cost transfers, he argued that utility as a medium of exchange does not necessarily lead people to hold the asset over the long term, citing the dollar as an example. Brandt added that cryptocurrencies should be evaluated by function, separating transaction assets, store-of-value assets, and platforms such as Ethereum. He did not provide a specific price target for XRP in the interview.

Kazakhstan is moving to let cryptocurrency mining companies run their own power plants using surplus associated gas produced at oil fields, Euronews reported. Under the plan, miners would secure cheap and stable electricity, while oil producers would earn revenue by selling gas that had previously been flared. Kazakhstan had restricted miners' electricity use after power shortages and blackouts followed the 2021 mining boom, but shifted course last year toward incentive policies aimed at reviving the legal mining industry. Associated gas is currently being flared at around 40 to 60 oil fields, and the Energy Ministry and the Ministry of AI and Digital Development are in talks on establishing a legal framework.

Circle’s public chain Arc, now in its 10th day since launch, has reached $494 million in DeFi total value locked, up 44.52% from a week earlier, Odaily reported. Its 24-hour DEX trading volume stood at $55 million.

The spot CVD chart is an order-book analysis chart for the BTC/USDT spot trading pair. The upper section shows the volume heatmap, while the lower section shows 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 moves sharply. Brighter zones may act as support or resistance. - The CVD indicator shows buy and sell orders by order size. As buy orders increase, the corresponding colored line rises. The yellow line reflects orders between $100 and $1,000, while the brown line is based on large orders between $1 million and $10 million.

Ethena said it will fully end token incentive payouts tied to the growth of its USDe stablecoin at the end of this month. The move means inflation linked to new token issuance for USDe-related incentives is also set to disappear. According to Ethena, token incentives related to USDe growth have fallen by about 85% since the first airdrop in 2024 through this year.

Whale Alert reported that 2,400 BTC has been transferred from an unknown wallet to Coinbase Institutional. The transaction is valued at about $202 million.