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Binance’s crypto payment service Binance Pay will support USDT payments at most PayPay merchants for overseas visitors to Japan starting today, Cointelegraph reported. When users pay through Binance Pay, merchants will continue to receive settlement in yen. The service is being offered through HIVEX, which connects overseas QR payment services with PayPay merchants.

Min Byoung-dug, senior vice chair of the Democratic Party’s policy committee, said most parts of South Korea’s second-phase digital asset legislation tied to stablecoins are expected to be completed this year, signaling plans to pass the bill within the year. Speaking at Solana Summit Korea in Seoul today, Min said the National Assembly would hold responsible discussions on a basic digital asset law that balances innovation, financial stability and user protection, according to Edaily.

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes said at Korea Blockchain Week 2026 that none of the existing digital currencies, including Bitcoin (BTC) and stablecoins, can yet serve as a native currency for AI agents, and that he is advancing a new project, Flop Network, to target that demand. He said Flop Network aims to build payment infrastructure that allows AI agents to send and receive payments autonomously.

Cryptocurrency trader Killa said on X the current market structure is clearly different from past cycles and BTC still has a strong chance of rising to $90,000. Killa added that when BTC rebounded to $25,000 in 2023, it failed to post a meaningful close or high above that level and quickly pulled back. By contrast, BTC is now moving sideways above $83,000, a previous high that it broke after setting a higher high on the weekly chart. Killa also said the maximum drawdown in the previous bear market was around 77%, compared with about 54% this time. Applying a pattern of gradually narrowing returns and pullbacks, Killa said BTC could rise to $126,000 while seeing major corrections limited to around 10% to 15%. From the current price, a 10% decline would put BTC near $78,000, while a 15% drop would place it near $74,000.

Ripple is working with Brazil’s central securities depository CSD BR on a project to tokenize investment fund shares using the XRP Ledger, Bitcoin.com reported. More than 22 trillion reais worth of assets, or 5,730 trillion won, are currently registered with CSD BR, and the initial phase will focus on fund shares from Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual. The project will mirror ownership records for traditional financial assets on the XRP Ledger, while the fund-share tokenization will use the network’s Multi-Purpose Token standard.

South Korean exchange Bithumb announced that it will temporarily suspend cryptocurrency deposit and withdrawal services for 10 hours from 8:00 a.m. UTC on Sept. 30 to 6:00 p.m. UTC on Sept. 30 for a routine asset inspection.

South Korean exchange Upbit announced it will temporarily suspend deposits and withdrawals for FCT2, FirMACHAIN, from 11:00 a.m. UTC on Oct. 2 due to a network upgrade.

ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood said on X that the firm has newly added private prediction market platform Kalshi to its ETF strategy. Wood added that Kalshi’s management is proactively preparing for the direction prediction markets are headed.

Binance announced it will temporarily suspend deposits and withdrawals for tokens on the Ronin (RON) network at 3:00 p.m. UTC on Oct. 7 to support the network’s upgrade and hard fork.

Applications for multichain exchange Jumper’s JUMP token sale reached $15.97 million as of 1:40 a.m. UTC today, more than five times the $3 million maximum raise. According to the Legion sale page, applications stood at $15,974,614, or 799% of the $2 million target, across 3,247 submissions. The application period is set to close at 1:00 p.m. UTC on Oct. 2. Jumper had previously said it was spinning off from LI.FI to launch as an independent company and proceed with the JUMP token sale through Legion.

An anonymous whale address beginning with 0x9a80 bought an additional 7.96 million ENA worth $1.99 million today, Lookonchain reported. The same whale also bought 30 million ENA worth $8.3 million three days earlier.

Digital asset manager Arrington Capital deposited 40,000 HYPE worth $3.44 million to FalconX, according to Onchain Lens. Exchange deposits are typically interpreted as being intended for a sale.

Japan-listed Bitcoin accumulation company Metaplanet said it reduced by about 41% the number of underlying shares tied to the 10th series of warrants held by management. The company also said it scrapped an adjustment mechanism that had automatically increased warrant volumes for shares issued on and after Sept. 1, 2025. According to the company, the changes reduced potential warrant value by more than $220 million and increased Bitcoin holdings per fully diluted share by about 8.8%. Shares already issued or that could be issued through the exercise of the 10th series of warrants account for about 12.5% of total shares currently outstanding, Metaplanet said, adding that the ratio will decline further if additional new shares are issued.

A Quant Network founder-linked address beginning with 0x48E9 ended about seven years of dormancy and transferred 25,776 QNT worth $6.97 million to a new wallet, Lookonchain reported. The founder-linked address currently holds 600,000 QNT valued at about $160 million.

Prediction market platform Kalshi has filed notice with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission that it plans to end its volume incentive program as early as Oct. 13, according to The Block. The program was used to boost liquidity by paying users rewards based on their share of eligible trading volume.

Crypto analyst Michaël van de Poppe criticized the Dutch government’s plan to apply a 36% tax rate to unrealized gains on cryptocurrencies including BTC starting Jan. 1, 2028, calling it a disastrous decision. In a post on X, van de Poppe said, "2028년 1월 1일부터 BTC 등 암호화폐의 미실현 이익에 36%의 세금을 부과하고, 이 제도를 최소 2년간 적용하려 한다." According to the Dutch government’s website, the related bill passed the lower house in February and is still awaiting Senate deliberation. The government is targeting implementation on Jan. 1, 2028, and is also reviewing partial revisions to the bill.

A whale address dormant for 15 years transferred 20.43 BTC, worth about $1.7 million, to an external address, according to Onchain Lens. The address also previously showed on-chain interactions with addresses linked to Mt. Gox and Silk Road around 15 years ago.

Grayscale’s Chainlink (LINK) ETF received 159,480 LINK worth $2.36 million from Coinbase Prime about five hours ago, according to Onchain Lens. LINK transfers to and from custodian Coinbase Prime may be part of the fund’s operations, including settlement and redemptions tied to capital flows in the U.S. stock market yesterday. Onchain Lens estimated the ETF has added at least 629,100 LINK, worth about $8.37 million, so far this month.

Multicoin Capital has invested in Grass, a decentralized physical infrastructure, or DePIN, project, through its hedge fund and venture fund, general partner Shayon Sengupta said. Grass uses users’ idle internet bandwidth to collect, process and provide public web data, and is already being used in data pipelines at major AI companies. Sengupta said Grass could be used not only for AI training data, but also to help AI models and agents retrieve up-to-date web information needed for responses or tasks. Sengupta added that the market could be much larger than the training data market as requests occur repeatedly. The investment size and specific use of funds were not disclosed.

CoinMarketCap’s altcoin season index came in at 60, down two points from yesterday. The index is based on a comparison of price performance between Bitcoin and the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, excluding stablecoins and wrapped coins. An altcoin season is identified when 75% of the top 100 coins outperform Bitcoin over the past 90 days, while the opposite is considered a Bitcoin season. A reading closer to 100 indicates a stronger altcoin season.

Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao cited HYPE’s past token distribution and asset custody structure as a reason its Binance spot listing was delayed. According to Wu Blockchain, Zhao said on the "When Shift Happens" podcast the way HYPE was distributed and custody arrangements were handled at the time may not have met Binance’s counterparty risk management requirements, though he added the situation may have changed since then. Binance listed three HYPE spot trading pairs at 11:00 a.m. UTC on Sept. 24.

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 represents cumulative volume delta, or CVD. - The upper volume heatmap tracks trading volume at each price level. The background becomes brighter when price stays in a specific range for an extended period or makes a large move. Brighter zones may act as support or resistance. - The lower CVD indicator reflects buy and sell orders by order size. As buy orders increase, the line for the corresponding color rises. The yellow line is based on orders worth $100 to $1,000, while the brown line is based on large orders worth $1 million to $10 million, among others.

CoinMarketCap’s in-house Crypto Fear and Greed Index came in at 68, down two points from yesterday, with the market remaining in greed territory. The index indicates extreme fear as it approaches zero and extreme optimism as it nears 100. CoinMarketCap calculates the index based on factors including price movements in the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, market volatility, derivatives-market data such as the put/call ratio, the Stablecoin Supply Ratio (SSR), and CoinMarketCap’s internal search data.

LIT fell more than 14% and triggered large-scale cascading liquidations after Robinhood announced it would offer crypto perpetual futures to U.S. users in partnership with Bitstamp, according to Onchain Lens. CoinMarketCap data showed LIT was recently trading at $3.78, down 14.67%.

Solana-based NFT platform Metaplex said it has launched MPL-3643, a new token standard for permissioned real-world assets and tokenized securities. The standard was designed to support compliance and access-control functions required in issuer-led asset tokenization processes. According to CoinMarketCap, MPLX was recently trading at $0.05617, up 4.91%.