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U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded about $999 million in net inflows on Sept. 19, the largest daily total since Oct. 6 last year, according to Farside Investors. - BlackRock IBIT: +$381.4 million - Fidelity FBTC: +$238.8 million - Bitwise BITB: +$21.6 million - ARK Invest ARKB: +$289.1 million - Morgan Stanley MSBT: +$61.7 million - Grayscale GBTC: +$3.3 million - Grayscale Mini BTC: +$3.1 million

Cardano has been added to the official software kit for x402, a crypto payment standard that uses HTTP, enabling developers to build apps and AI agents that pay for online services with ADA or Cardano-based tokens, CoinDesk reported. The media outlet said the kit currently supports TypeScript and is expected to add Python later. CoinDesk added, "actual payments have been made on Cardano’s test network, but not yet on mainnet," meaning ADA is not yet being used broadly for commercial service payments.

South Korean government agencies will be allowed to pay operating expenses, including official business promotion costs for public officials, with blockchain-based digital currency, Yonhap reported. South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT said today it designated nine regulatory sandbox exemptions for new technologies and services through a written review by the 45th ICT Regulatory Sandbox Committee on Sept. 21. Under the exemption, agency operating expenses can also be paid through smartphone QR codes instead of physical cards. Settlements are completed at the same time as payment when digital currency is used.

A proposal posted on the Balancer (BAL) governance forum calls for launching an official fork to preserve the protocol’s technology and ecosystem regardless of whether a separate shutdown proposal passes. The proposal says MAXYZ would lead the new fork and transfer liquidity, team members, partners, users, and intellectual property, while delaying the suspension of pool and vault operations until the second quarter of 2027 to secure a migration period. It also includes using about 6 million non-circulating BAL, valued by the source at about $690,000, as initial funding for the new fork, and allocating 10% of the fully diluted token supply or an equivalent value to the Balancer treasury if a future token generation event or other liquidity or exit event takes place. The new protocol plans to focus on the RWA market, including tokenized stocks and on-chain index products. A separate proposal had previously been submitted to the Balancer forum to halt protocol operations and distribute about $9 million in treasury assets to BAL holders.

DOGE has risen by 3.00% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, DOGE is trading at $0.1.

0xDeployer, the founder of automated trading agent Bankr, said 30% of revenue generated from token launches will be used to buy BNKR, with the purchased tokens to be automatically accrued for staking rewards. In a post on X, 0xDeployer said staking rewards are already accumulating, the related smart contract is scheduled to be disclosed this week, and reward distribution will begin after users are given time to participate in staking. 0xDeployer added the staking feature has not yet launched. According to CoinMarketCap, BNKR was trading at $0.0003507, up 41.4% over the past 24 hours.

An address believed to belong to an anonymous whale or institution sold its entire 31.4 million CRV position on OKX over the past two weeks, locking in a loss of about $4.1 million, or 27%, on holdings kept for three years, on-chain analyst EmberCN said. The address withdrew a total of 31.4 million CRV from Binance in 2023 and 2024 for about $15.13 million, implying an average entry price of $0.48. The recent sales were made at an average price of $0.35, according to EmberCN.

Ether has risen 74.58% so far in the third quarter of this year, marking its strongest third-quarter return since CoinGlass began tracking the data in 2016. With eight days left until the quarter ends as of Sept. 22, the current gain is above the previous record of 66.55% set in the third quarter of 2025. ETH fell 29.26% in the first quarter and 25.28% in the second quarter this year, but has rebounded sharply in the third quarter. The average third-quarter gain on record is 13.55%, while the median is 9.87%.

Garrett Jin, a Bitcoin OG and founder of BitForex, has closed a 500 BTC 3x leveraged short position worth $43.23 million that Jin opened this morning, realizing a profit of $81,700, according to Lookonchain.

The following shows estimated liquidation volumes and position ratios for major crypto perpetual futures over the past 24 hours: - BTC: $662.8 million liquidated (88.47% shorts) - ETH: $178.93 million liquidated (80.55% shorts) - XRP: $26.86 million liquidated (86.94% shorts)

Stock token trading platforms based on the U.S. SEC’s new “Innovation Exemption” framework may begin emerging as early as the fourth quarter of this year, Crypto in America reported. The Innovation Exemption, introduced by the SEC on Sept. 17, refers to a temporary conditional exemption allowing limited trading of tokenized U.S. stocks in an on-chain environment. In that regard, SEC Crypto Task Force chief counsel Taylor Lindman said related firms were expected to announce business plans in the coming months and that “the first announcements are likely to come in the next quarter.” SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce said limits remain on listed securities and trading size, but added the framework is sufficient to operate commercial platforms and could be adjusted later if needed.

An anonymous whale accumulated 21,520 ETH worth about $55.8 million over the past five days, according to ai_9684xtpa. The whale kept buying ETH around $2,450 as a rebound began after last week’s pullback. Unrealized profit currently stands at about $3.253 million.

Blockchain infrastructure company DSRV is partnering with global blockchain development platform Alchemy to expand into آسيا’s blockchain data infrastructure market, starting with South Korea and Japan, Edaily reported. The two companies plan to link DSRV’s RPC node service All That Node with Alchemy’s RPC and data infrastructure to broaden network support and data processing capacity.

A white hat has secured 52.37 BTC, or 2.8% of the funds stolen in the Coldcard exploit, Alex Thorn, head of research at Galaxy Digital, said on X. Thorn said the funds from multiple victim addresses were consolidated into a new address, and the transfer included a message referring to Crypto Recovery Trust. The total amount stolen in the Coldcard exploit is known to be around 1,806 BTC.

An anonymous whale whose wallet address begins with 0xc3ed was liquidated four times in 14 hours as Bitcoin continued to rise. The liquidated short positions totaled 375.8 BTC, worth about $32.55 million.

An anonymous whale address beginning with 0x4cee withdrew another 7,216 ETH worth $19.97 million from Binance an hour ago, according to on-chain analyst ai_9684xtpa. Exchange outflows are typically interpreted as a sign of holding. The address has withdrawn a total of 14,783 ETH worth $39.9 million since yesterday at an average price of about $2,699.44, with unrealized gains currently estimated at about $720,000. According to ai_9684xtpa, the address previously posted $3.666 million in profit from ETH trades in August.

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes argued that a slowdown in the U.S. AI industry would ultimately support Bitcoin by expanding the money supply. In a blog post, Hayes said weaker demand for AI computing could expose debt risks tied to data centers, raising the likelihood that the U.S. government would inject liquidity either to support the AI industry or to bail out insurers exposed to bad assets. In either scenario, Hayes said, the U.S. would end up printing money, which would lift BTC and some altcoin prices.

South Korean exchange Bithumb announced it will begin supporting multi-chain deposits and withdrawals for USD Coin (USDC) on the Arc network at 2:00 a.m. UTC today. Arc is the newly added network.

Amazon Web Services is recruiting specialists in Seoul to support real-world asset tokenization and digital-asset businesses at South Korean financial institutions, including banks and securities firms, Digital Asset reported. According to an AWS job posting, AWS Korea is hiring an "Industry Specialist, Capital Markets and Banking" for a Seoul-based role. The position will work with digital-asset leaders at domestic financial institutions and help apply blockchain and distributed ledger technology, or DLT, to capital markets and banking operations.

U.S. federal prosecutors are investigating whether Binance violated sanctions on Iran by failing to block some Iran-linked transactions, Bloomberg reported. The probe is being led by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, New York, with participation from the U.S. Department of Justice's criminal division. Authorities are examining whether Binance knowingly allowed the transactions, according to the report. Binance said it applies a zero-tolerance policy to sanctions violations and is fully cooperating with law enforcement. It remains unclear whether the investigation will lead to charges.

A Bitmine (BMNR)-linked address withdrew about 12,500 ETH worth $34.56 million from Kraken today, according to Onchain Lens. Exchange withdrawals are typically interpreted as a sign of intent to hold, and the same address also withdrew 20,000 ETH worth $48.89 million from Kraken three weeks earlier.

A ruling Democratic Party lawmaker has publicly called for delaying South Korea’s planned digital asset tax, arguing the government is not ready to implement it fairly, Edaily reported. Min Byoung-dug, senior deputy chair of the Democratic Party’s policy committee, said in a Facebook post today that taxation should begin only after passage of a basic law on digital assets. Min said South Korea should avoid criticism that its laws move slowly while taxation moves quickly, adding that proper taxation requires a system capable of collecting taxes fairly and that the necessary groundwork is not yet in place. According to Edaily, this is the first time a ruling party figure has openly raised the need for a tax delay, drawing attention to its potential political impact.

Muneeb Ali, co-founder of Bitcoin layer-two platform Stacks (STX), said South Korea is a major market for STX, particularly for retail investors, and that he plans to continue engaging with the Korean Telegram community. In a post on X, Ali said, "한국은 스택스에 큰 시장이며 특히 개인투자자 비중이 크다. 현재 한국 텔레그램 그룹에서 활동하고 있으며 다른 지역 커뮤니티와의 접점도 넓히고 싶다. 회사는 비트코인 본드(Bitcoin Bonds) 출시를 계기로 기관 시장 공략에 집중하고 있으며 기관 투자자와의 소통을 위해 내 X 계정명에서 '.btc'를 한시적으로 제외하고 본명을 사용하는 방안도 검토 중". Ali currently uses muneeb.btc as his X handle.

Cointelegraph said on X, citing Glassnode data, that the altcoin cycle indicator has shifted from Bitcoin season to altcoin season. According to the data, the seven-day average altcoin cycle signal recently moved above the baseline and entered altcoin season territory. In past periods within that range, altcoins tended to show relatively stronger performance than Bitcoin.

Kakao Pay and KakaoBank said today they signed an MOU with global digital asset infrastructure firm Fireblocks to build digital asset infrastructure in South Korea. The three companies will explore business opportunities based on conditions in South Korea’s digital asset market and demand for related infrastructure, according to News1. They will also seek digital asset distribution solutions centered on stablecoins that fit the domestic regulatory environment, security systems and service conditions.