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On-chain tokenized real-world assets stood at $34.18 billion as of Sept. 15, up 85.2% from the start of the year, according to a Binance Research report. Bonds and money market funds accounted for the largest share at $18.29 billion, while tokenized stocks grew 390.4% over the same period. The two categories made up more than 75% of the new market value added to the RWA sector this year. The report said the current value of tokenized underlying assets amounts to only about 0.01% of the broader underlying asset market, and only around 12% of on-chain RWA is being used in DeFi, including liquidity pools, lending, and collateral markets. For further growth in the RWA market, it said, raising DeFi usage of tokenized assets will be as important as bringing assets on-chain.

Crypto asset manager 21Shares filed an amended S-1 registration statement for a spot Injective ETF with the U.S. SEC on Sept. 18, Crypto Briefing reported. If approved, the ETF will trade on Nasdaq under the ticker 'TINJ,' track the price of INJ based on the FTSE Injective Index, and include a strategy allowing the issuer to stake a portion of its INJ holdings at its discretion to reflect staking rewards. The filing does not mean the ETF has been approved for launch, and a final decision will be made after the SEC’s review. According to CoinMarketCap, INJ was trading at $6.59, up 14.98%.

ETH futures open interest across major cryptocurrency exchanges rose about 10% over the past 24 hours to roughly $34.24 billion, according to CoinGlass data. Binance accounted for the largest share, with about $9.57 billion in open positions. Based on CoinMarketCap data, ETH was trading at $2,617.48, up 6.97%.

ZEC has risen by 3.09% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, ZEC is trading at $1,567.1.

Ethereum rose above $2,630 on Sept. 18, its highest level since January, while whale activity has also been increasing, according to on-chain analytics firm Santiment. Santiment said the number of non-empty Ethereum wallets has reached a record 207 million, indicating Ethereum has built a broad holder base despite choppy market conditions in recent months. The firm added staking remains a key factor supporting long-term ETH holding, with more than 40 million ETH currently staked. DeFi is also boosting Ethereum’s utility, Santiment said, with around $50 billion in total value locked on the network. It added that markets spanning stablecoins, lending, decentralized exchanges and liquid staking give ETH holders ways to use their holdings beyond expectations of price gains.

The three major U.S. stock indices closed mixed today. - S&P 500: +0.17% - Nasdaq: +0.39% - Dow Jones: -0.18%

M has fallen by 4.78% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, M is trading at $1.27.

Crypto holders lost a total of 274.6 ETH, worth about $517,000, to a fake YouTube tutorial promising to build an AI-powered cryptocurrency arbitrage bot, CryptoSlate reported, citing a TRM Labs report. The tutorial appeared to show users how to create an AI trading bot using Anthropic’s AI model Claude, but instead guided them into deploying a malicious smart contract and transferring funds themselves. TRM Labs said at least 224 people are believed to have been affected. TRM Labs said a key feature of the scam was that victims approved every transaction themselves. Because users deployed the smart contract and sent the funds on their own, it was harder for existing security systems to detect the malicious activity.

The U.S. Senate Banking Committee is expected to hold a prediction market roundtable next week attended only by Republican senators, Punchbowl News reported. The meeting is scheduled for Sept. 22, and no formal agenda or participant list has been disclosed. In June, the House Financial Services Committee held a roundtable made up only of Republican lawmakers, with executives from Kalshi, Polymarket and Robinhood in attendance.

Bullish CEO Tom Farley, the former CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, is set to discuss cryptocurrency policy with Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Sept. 22 at CoinDesk’s policy and regulation conference in Washington, D.C., Crypto Briefing reported. The agenda for the discussion has not been disclosed. Gillibrand had earlier said, alongside six other Democratic senators, "클래리티 법안 통과를 위해 계속 노력하겠다. 이번 주 법안 통과에 차질이 있었지만, 중요한 작업이 끝난 것은 아니다."

Banks now account for 23% of cryptocurrency businesses registered under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation, according to Cointelegraph. Between June 26 and Sept. 16, the number of banks on the MiCA crypto-asset service provider, or CASP, registry doubled to around 80 from about 40. Over the same period, the total number of registered CASPs rose to 349 from 243. The data showed non-bank firms’ share of the total fell to 77% in September from about 84% in late June, while banks’ share increased to 23% from 17%. Cointelegraph said European banks are entering the crypto market more quickly as the MiCA regulatory framework takes hold.

Alex Thorn, head of research at Galaxy Digital, said Bitcoin is showing strong upside momentum. In a post on X, Thorn said Bitcoin is currently trading above its 50-week moving average and added that, in past cases, a break above the 50-week moving average has served as an important signal confirming a bear-market bottom. Thorn added that if Bitcoin closes this week above the 50-week moving average and holds that level as of the weekly close on Sunday, it would further support that view, adding, "this rally is real."

Tom Lee, chairman of Ethereum treasury company Bitmine (BMNR) and DeFi Technologies (DAT), said the cryptocurrency market can continue to rise even if the Clarity Act does not pass. Lee said actual demand in the crypto market matters more than any single bill. He added that if the Clarity Act passes, it would create a clearer regulatory framework for the crypto industry and further clarify the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s role. Even if the bill does not pass, however, Lee said the CFTC and the SEC would continue to serve as the main federal regulators overseeing the industry. He also pointed to prediction markets and sports betting as examples of sectors that kept growing despite regulatory uncertainty.

Bitcoin is moving into a zone with concentrated liquidation pressure, according to Glassnode. The firm said liquidation interest is currently clustered in the $83,000-$86,000 range, and if Bitcoin reaches that area, forced liquidations of short positions, or short covering, could help drive the price quickly through the zone. Glassnode added the short positions appear to have built up over several weeks.

Pro-crypto Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis criticized Senate Democrats for voting down a cryptocurrency bill that would have fully preserved the U.S. SEC’s authority to police fraud and market manipulation, Cointelegraph reported.

Matthew Sigel, head of digital assets research at asset manager VanEck, said quantum computing could pose a threat to Bitcoin, but the Bitcoin community recognizes the seriousness of the issue. In an interview with CNBC, Sigel added that progress on a solution could be slow because of the decentralized nature of cryptocurrency networks, while the community continues related research. Sigel said bigger advances could emerge within the next few years.

Some smaller hedge fund clients of crypto technology provider Haruko may have suffered asset losses in a cyberattack earlier this week, CoinDesk reported, citing industry sources. The report said the breach is believed to have exposed read-only exchange API credentials and trading data from 15 client firms. Haruko said it had fixed the vulnerability and rotated server-side secrets. CoinDesk added that some funds may also have been stolen from smaller hedge funds with relatively weaker security systems.

Pantera Capital co-founder and managing partner Dan Morehead said in an interview with CNBC that the crypto industry does not need Congress, as the U.S. SEC and CFTC are already implementing measures that would be included in the Clarity Act. Morehead added that Pantera is more bullish on Solana than on Ethereum, while viewing both blockchains as viable. Over the long term, Morehead said, he expects dozens of core blockchains to emerge.

Altcoin leverage remains below risk levels that typically signal market overheating, according to Glassnode. The firm said the market is usually considered overheated when altcoins’ share of open interest narrows to within a few percentage points of Bitcoin’s, but current conditions have not yet reached that threshold, suggesting altcoins may still have further upside.

Yahoo Finance has ended its partnership with Polymarket, Bloomberg reported. The two companies entered the partnership in November last year, when Polymarket said it had become Yahoo Finance’s exclusive prediction market partner. Through the deal, Yahoo Finance used Polymarket data to build a market prediction hub on its website.

David Hoffman, host and co-founder of crypto podcast platform Bankless, said on X that it is now altcoin season and that a true market inflection point is arriving sooner than expected. Hoffman had earlier sold all of his Ethereum holdings and later bought VVV, NEAR, ZEC, HYPE and LIT.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $81,000. BTC is trading at $81,012 on the Binance USDT market.

Institutional interest in Bitcoin ETFs is being driven not by simple custody but by financialization, Jay Jacobs, BlackRock’s head of U.S. equity ETFs, said in a podcast interview, according to Crypto Briefing. Jacobs said the main force behind Bitcoin’s integration into traditional financial markets through the ETF structure is not secure storage, but making it usable like other financial assets, including as collateral, for options trading, and for borrowing.

Morpho has launched a lending market on Base that lets users borrow USDC against Coinbase-issued stock tokens, according to The Defiant. Users can use five stock tokens tied to Apple, Alphabet, Nvidia, Meta and SpaceX as collateral to borrow USDC at either variable or fixed rates. Coinbase has been issuing the stock tokens to users outside the U.S. since August. Users can hold the tokens in self-custody wallets and access U.S. dollar liquidity through collateralized loans without selling the underlying assets.

Crypto-related stocks in the U.S. equity market were broadly higher, with CEA Industries (BNC) up 12.65%, SharpLink (SBET) rising 8.29%, Strategy (MSTR) gaining 10.09%, Coinbase (COIN) advancing 8.43%, Circle (CRCL) climbing 8.11% and Robinhood (HOOD) adding 7.18%.