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Fed Rate Cut Boosts Bitcoin Price Ahead of Q4 Melt-Up

Historically, bitcoin’s price peaks approximately 20 months after a Bitcoin halving. The last Bitcoin halving occurred in April 2024, which means we could see a cycle top by December of this year.

The odds of this are increasingly likely as Fed Chair Powell cut rates by 25 bps today, giving the approximately $7.4 trillion sitting in money market funds a reason to come off the sidelines and move into a hard asset like bitcoin, especially now that it’s easier to obtain exposure to bitcoin via spot bitcoin ETFs and proxies like bitcoin treasury companies.

Powell also signaled today that two more rate cuts could be on the way before the year is out, which would only further reduce returns in money market funds, potentially pushing investors into hard assets like bitcoin and gold as well as riskier assets like tech and AI-related stocks. 

This could catalyze the final leg of a “melt-up” comparable to what we saw with tech stocks at the end of 1999 before the dot com bubble burst.

Also, much like the likes of Henrik Zeberg and David Hunter, I believe the stage is being set for the final parabolic leg of a bull run that began in late 2022.

Using a traditional financial index as a reference point, Zeberg sees the S&P 500 exceeding 7,000 before the year is out, while Hunter sees it rising to 8,000 (or higher) within the same time frame.

What is more, we may be witnessing the breakdown of a 14-year support level for the US dollar, according to Macro Strategist Octavio (Tavi) Costa, which means we could see a markedly weaker dollar in the coming months, something else that would support the bull case for hard and risk assets.

What Happens Come 2026?

Both Zeberg and Hunter believe that, as of early next year, we’ll see the largest bust across all markets that we’ve seen since October 1929, when financial markets in the US collapsed, spurring the onset of the Great Depression.

Zeberg’s rationale for this includes the real economy grinding to a halt, in part evidenced by the amount of homes on the market.

Hunter believes that we’re at the end of a half century long secular debt-fueled cycle that will end with a leverage unwind unlike anything we’ve seen in modern history, as per what he shared on Coin Stories.

Other signals like loan payment delinquencies also point to the idea that the real economy is screeching to a halt, which will inevitably have an effect on the financial economy.

The Bitcoin Downturn Isn’t Guaranteed, but It’s Likely

Even if we aren’t headed toward a global macro bust, bitcoin’s price will take a hit in 2026 if history repeats itself.

That is, bitcoin’s price dropped from almost $69,000 at the end of 2021 to approximately $15,500 by the end of 2022 and from almost $20,000 at the end of 2017 to just over $3,000 at the end of 2018.

In both cases, bitcoin’s price either tapped or dipped below its 200-week standard moving average (SMA), the light blue line on the charts below.

Currently, bitcoin’s 200-week SMA is sitting at about $52,000. If we see a parabolic rise in bitcoin’s price in the coming months, it could rise as high as $65,000, before bitcoin’s price drops to such a price point or lower some time in 2026.

If we do see the type of bust that Zeberg and Hunter are forecasting, bitcoin’s price could also drop well below that threshold.

With all of that said, no one knows what the future holds, and please don’t interpret anything in this article as financial advice.

At the same time, you may want to keep in mind that while history doesn’t necessarily repeat itself, it often rhymes.

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Federal Reserve Cuts Interest Rates by 25 Basis Points; Bitcoin Climbs Above $116,000

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter percentage point on Wednesday, lowering its benchmark federal funds rate to a target range of 4.00% to 4.25%. The move, widely anticipated by markets, marks the central bank’s first rate reduction in years and reflects growing concern over slowing job growth and heightened downside risks to the U.S. economy.

In its statement, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) noted that “recent indicators suggest that growth of economic activity moderated in the first half of the year. Job gains have slowed, and the unemployment rate has edged up but remains low. Inflation has moved up and remains somewhat elevated.”

The Fed emphasized its dual mandate of maximum employment and stable prices but acknowledged that “uncertainty about the economic outlook remains elevated” and that “downside risks to employment have risen.”

The decision to cut rates by 25 basis points was backed by 11 committee members, including Chair Jerome Powell. One dissent came from Stephen I. Miran, who argued for a larger 50-basis-point reduction.

Bitcoin Reacts to the Fed Cut

Following the announcement, Bitcoin (BTC) rose slightly above $116,000, according to data from Bitcoin Magazine Pro. The move reflects investor sentiment that looser monetary policy could support risk assets, including cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.

Market analysts pointed to Bitcoin’s quick reaction as a sign of its growing role as a macro-sensitive asset. While the S&P 500 and Nasdaq posted modest gains, Bitcoin’s price spike underscored how digital assets may benefit disproportionately from expectations of easier financial conditions.

Policy Outlook

The Fed stressed that further adjustments will depend on incoming data. “In considering additional adjustments to the target range for the federal funds rate, the Committee will carefully assess incoming data, the evolving outlook, and the balance of risks,” the statement read.

The FOMC also reaffirmed its commitment to quantitative tightening, continuing to reduce its holdings of Treasury securities and mortgage-backed assets.

Looking ahead, traders are now pricing in the possibility of additional cuts if inflation continues to moderate and the labor market weakens further, according to Bloomberg. Powell is expected to expand on the Fed’s outlook in his press conference later today.

With this latest move, the central bank has signaled a cautious pivot toward easing. For Bitcoin, the response suggests that digital assets may be among the early beneficiaries of the Fed’s first steps toward looser policy.

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Michael Saylor Pushes Digital Capital Narrative At Bitcoin Treasuries Unconference

The suitcoiners are in town. 

From a low-key, circular podium in the middle of a lavish New York City event hall, Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor took the mic and opened the Bitcoin Treasuries Unconference event. He joked awkwardly about the orange ties, dresses, caps and other merch to the (mostly male) audience of who’s-who in the bitcoin treasury company world. 

Once he got onto the regular beat, it was much of the same: calm and relaxed, speaking freely and with confidence, his keynote was heavy on the metaphors and larger historical stories. Treasury companies are like Rockefeller’s Standard Oil in its early years, Michael Saylor said: We’ve just discovered crude oil and now we’re making sense of the myriad ways in which we can use it — the automobile revolution and jet fuel is still well ahead of us. 

Established, trillion-dollar companies not using AI because of “security concerns” make them slow and stupid — just like companies and individuals rejecting digital assets now make them poor and weak. 

“I’d like to think that we understood our business five years ago; we didn’t.” 

We went from a defensive investment into bitcoin, Saylor said, to opportunistic, to strategic, and finally transformational; “only then did we realize that we were different.”

Michael Saylor: You Come Into My Financial History House?!

Jokes aside, Michael Saylor is very welcome to the warm waters of our financial past. He acquitted himself honorably by invoking the British Consol — though mispronouncing it, and misdating it to the 1780s; Pelham’s consolidation of debts happened in the 1750s and perpetual government debt existed well before then — and comparing it to the gold standard and the future of bitcoin. He’s right that Strategy’s STRC product in many ways imitates the consols; irredeemable, perpetual debt, issued at par, with the yield fluctuating around the fixed income. The difference is that instead of being backed and issued by the British government and managed by the Bank of England, STRC is issued and managed by Strategy, a private business intelligence company turned proto-bitcoin bank. (And the Bank didn’t micromanage the interest rate to target a specific yield.)

We’re in the first year of reinventing the financial system, Saylor concluded. 

“We say that Bitcoin miners recycle stranded energy; well, bitcoin treasury companies recycle stranded capital.”

Michael Saylor pointed to pension funds and money market mutual funds and said, “more than two-thirds of the capital is locked up in structured institutions right now — it’s capital sitting in a bank, a pension fund, an insurance fund, a retirement fund, an institutional investment fund.”

All that could be freed, the bitcoin treasury company story goes, to be intermediated between the old world’s incessant desire for “yield” and the new bitcoin world that Michael Saylor and Strategy is busy building. 

Michael Saylor thinks that fixing the money happens by fixing all the other money-adjecent industries: finance, regulation, corporate governance, security markets. He remarked, unironically, that during the various gold standards, credit on gold got bigger than the gold market itself. Implication: there’s plenty more paper bitcoin to come. 

It’s a terrible role model, given that self custody, seizure resistance and unstoppable transfers are what bitcoin does so well over gold. Centralized markets and paperized gold is what broke the old world’s “perfect money.”

Bitcoin Treasuries: Walking A Tightrope

Toward the end, we got a nice, little dig at some rival treasury companies not doing a good job. 

“There’s a certain amount of money that’ll come to you, that’s easy to get, that’s just not good for you… it’s hard to do the things that are going to create massive shareholder value for your company. It’s easy to get big and do things that basically transfer your equity and your collateral to an investor.”

We used to dream of liberating money from the paper money system we sleepwalked into during the 20th century. Here we are in the 21st, our best and brightest minds — most of them in this very room — trying their hardest to make paper out of bitcoin. 

It’s a nice vision if it works; if it doesn’t, it’ll be disastrous for the orange dream. 

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Ark and Spark: The Channel Factories We’ve Been Waiting For

Visions of future technology are often prescient about the broad strokes while flubbing the details. The tablets in “2001: A Space Odyssey” do indeed look like iPads, but you never see the astronauts paying for subscriptions or wasting hours on Candy Crush. 

Channel factories are one vision that arose early in the history of the Lightning Network to address some challenges that Lightning has faced from the beginning. Despite having grown to become Bitcoin’s most successful layer-2 scaling solution, with instant and low-fee payments, Lightning’s scale is limited by its reliance on payment channels. Although Lightning shifts most transactions off-chain, each payment channel still requires an on-chain transaction to open and (usually) another to close. As adoption grows, pressure on the blockchain grows with it. The need for a more scalable approach to managing channels is clear. Channel factories were supposed to meet this need, but where are they?

In 2025, subnetworks are emerging that revive the impetus of channel factories with some new details that vastly increase their potential. They are natively interoperable with Lightning and achieve greater scale by allowing a group of participants to open a shared multisig UTXO and create multiple bilateral channels, which reduces the number of on-chain transactions and improves capital efficiency. Achieving greater scale by reducing complexity, Ark and Spark perform the same function as traditional channel factories with new designs and additional capabilities based on shared UTXOs. 

Channel Factories 101

Channel factories have been around since the inception of Lightning. A factory is a multiparty contract where multiple users (not just two, as in a Dryja-Poon channel) cooperatively lock funds in a single multisig UTXO. They can open, close and update channels off-chain without updating the blockchain for each operation. Only when participants leave or the factory dissolves is an on-chain transaction needed.

Channel factories offer a number of important advantages. By enabling multiple off-chain channels to be spun up from a single on-chain transaction, they dramatically reduce the load on the base chain. Participants can rebalance funds among themselves efficiently without needing to touch the chain at all: New channels can be created on demand inside the factory, with no cost beyond what was already paid at the factory’s creation. The ability to tweak the ratio of channels to on-chain transactions makes channel factories one of the most capital-efficient scaling approaches available for Lightning today.

Still, it’s no coincidence that channel factories have largely remained on the drawing board despite their promise. A channel factory generally requires all participants to be online and cooperative to update its state, unless special arrangements or protocols are in place to handle asynchrony. For example, Lightning service providers (LSPs) can’t use channel factories to manage downstream channels with their users because all peers need to be known at the time the factory is created. Without a way to incrementally add peers to an existing factory, the model becomes impractical for nodes whose scalability is built into their business model, as is the case with LSPs. Moreover, handling exits from the factory, especially when participants are unresponsive or malicious, involves complex mechanisms that might require participants to pre-sign a large tree of potential exit transactions covering every possible combination of cooperative and uncooperative behavior. Imagine a five-person factory where one peer goes offline or rogue — each of the remaining peers would need pre-negotiated, pre-signed exit paths for every eventuality. Without automation or covenant support, managing this becomes a combinatorial and operational nightmare. These technical and UX constraints make it hard to deliver a seamless user experience or to scale such systems in production.

We’ve seen several proposals to optimize channel factories since 2019, with continuing interest but little production deployment — until now.

A Brief History of Channel Factory Proposals

One early and very comprehensive proposal for channel factories came from Conrad Burchert, Christian Decker and Roger Wattenhofer in their 2017 paper, “Scalable Funding of Bitcoin Micropayment Channel Networks.” Their design allows a group of participants to lock funds in a single multiparty UTXO and open multiple channels off-chain between pairs of participants. Each state transition (channel open, close or rebalance) requires a complete set of presigned transactions. This ensures that every participant has a cryptographically secure way to exit the factory if needed.

However, the Burchert-Decker-Wattenhofer construction has a serious scalability limitation: Any update to the factory state requires every participant to be online and sign off on the change. As the number of participants increases, the number of required signatures and pre-signed exit paths grows exponentially, as do the coordination overhead, the storage burden and the headaches.

Efforts to improve on this model have leveraged newer Bitcoin features. Taproot simplifies the structure of exit transactions by allowing their conditions to be encapsulated in a Merkle tree of scripts, with only the spending path revealed at redemption. This reduces both transaction size and privacy leakage. OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY (OP_CTV), a proposed soft fork, would dramatically streamline factories by enabling precommitted exit paths without the need for exhaustive presigning. With OP_CTV, a factory could commit to a set of exit transactions at the time of creation. Each participant would know that they can unilaterally exit in a well-defined way, reducing both interactivity and operational complexity.

Despite such progress, practical deployment has lagged. The barriers to full participant interactivity and complex signing schemes, especially in the absence of OP_CTV, are simply too high.

Ark and Spark: Next-Generation Channel Factories

Two recent projects, Ark and Spark, reimagine the channel factory with different trade-offs. While neither project explicitly markets itself as a “channel factory,” their architectures effectively realize many of the goals that early channel factory proposals aimed for. Since both are based on a shared UTXO and both are natively compatible with Lightning, Spark and Ark represent modern incarnations of channel factories that leverage today’s tooling and assumptions. At last! Both aim to preserve the benefits of channel factories (reduced chain usage, scalable liquidity allocation) while resolving key weaknesses around liveness, interactivity and exit complexity. Most importantly, both projects take a pragmatic approach to scaling. They work within Bitcoin’s current consensus rules, avoiding the need for soft forks or new opcodes to be useful today.

UTXO Sharing

Ark introduces a UTXO-sharing model built around the concept of virtual UTXOs (VTXOs). Instead of assigning users individual on-chain outputs, Ark lets them transact off-chain using a shared pool of liquidity managed by an Ark server. Users transact by requesting that a new distribution of VTXOs be included in the next round, when the Ark server creates an “Ark block” aggregating recent user activity and posts a new shared UTXO to the blockchain. So Ark lets users pass VTXOs among themselves and periodically settle the distribution of VTXOs in the shared UTXO via batched anchor transactions on the blockchain. 

Users can also perform out-of-round transactions, which instantly move VTXOs between users without waiting for the next round of anchor transactions. In this case, the Ark server co-signs the out-of-round payment, which may be compromised if the Ark server and the sender collude to double-spend the VTXO. However, the receiver can decide whether to accept the risk on the basis of the Ark server’s reputation and take the funds immediately, or to wait until the next round.

Spark takes a different path to shared UTXOs that builds on the concept of statechains. The fulcrum of Spark’s shared signing protocol is the Spark Operators (SOs), who come together in a consortium called a Spark Entity (SE). When a user joins Spark, they deposit funds into a shared-signature address controlled by themselves and the SE. The SE and the user pre-sign a withdrawal transaction, ensuring that the user can always exit unilaterally. A payment occurs whenever a new withdrawal transaction appears, which creates a new current state. Over time, the history of transactions takes on a tree structure, branching off from the original shared UTXO, and each terminal transaction owned by a user is called a “leaf.” Naturally, after each change, the SOs must delete past keys used for the past owner (i.e., pruning old leaves), and only one of the SOs in the SE must do so for the system to work securely. This allows Spark to offer trust-minimized, self-custodial off-chain payments while keeping the base UTXO unchanged. 

Like Ark, Spark also introduces some new assumptions about trust. Spark requires at least one SO (or some higher configurable threshold) in the SE to act honestly and delete outdated withdrawal transactions. The result is a “moment-in-time” trust model, in which trust is only required at the time of transfer: The system maintains perfect forward security as long as operators delete their key shares after a transfer. Once the keys are deleted, even a compromised or malicious operator cannot retroactively affect past transactions or steal funds, and a deletion by any SO counts for all the SOs in the SE, distributing responsibility among multiple operators.

Lightning Interoperability

To interop with Lightning, both Spark and Ark rely on swaps facilitated by LSPs. These LSPs must participate in a given Ark or Spark Entity to act as bridges: They execute Lightning payments on behalf of users in exchange for the assets inside the respective systems — VTXOs in Ark and leaves in Spark. The process is secured by atomicity: The LSP only receives the VTXO or leaf once it can prove that the Lightning payment has been successfully completed by providing a preimage. This allows users to make Lightning payments without operating a Lightning node themselves, and it anchors both systems firmly into the broader Lightning ecosystem.

If It Walks Like a Duck…

Channel factories increase scale by leveraging shared UTXOs to amplify Lightning’s scalability. By that measure, Ark and Spark are unequivocally channel factories, albeit sporting the latest fashions in VTXO and statechain technology. Given what shared-UTXO models like these are already achieving, we can expect great things from the channel-factory labs in the near future — especially if new opcodes are added to L1.

Both Ark and Spark are significant achievements in themselves, but they also both validate Lightning. Without being able to interoperate with other subnetworks — Liquid, Fedimint, Cashu, etc. — these revamped channel factories would be far less valuable. And it’s Lightning that lets them interoperate virtually anywhere bitcoin can go. The emergence of Spark and Ark is not a sign of Lightning’s limits but of its indispensability in today’s Bitcoin economy. 

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BTC Inc. and Strategy Agree to Five-Year Strategic Partnership Renewal Extending Bitcoin for Corporations Initiative

In a significant development for corporate Bitcoin adoption, BTC Inc. and Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: STRF/STRC/STRK/STRD/MSTR) have announced a five-year renewal of their strategic partnership for the Bitcoin for Corporations (BFC) initiative. The partnership aims to accelerate global corporate Bitcoin adoption through 2030, with BFC currently representing 38 member companies that collectively hold 69% of all corporate Bitcoin holdings.

The renewed agreement strengthens BFC’s position as the primary platform for Bitcoin treasury companies, service providers, and capital allocators working to integrate Bitcoin into corporate balance sheets. The initiative’s global reach now spans North and South America, Europe, and Asia/Oceania.

“Securing this five-year extension to our partnership with Strategy, reinforces our conviction that corporate Bitcoin adoption is not slowing down and will only continue to accelerate,” said George Mekhail, Managing Director of Bitcoin for Corporations at BTC Inc. “I’m grateful for the opportunity to continue our collaboration with the Strategy team and look forward to building on the momentum of an incredible first year. Hyperbitcoinization is closer than we think.”

The partnership will continue providing executive-level networking opportunities, investor relations support, and access to educational resources tailored for corporations integrating Bitcoin into their financial operations. Members benefit from a vetted network of service providers and curated programming across global Bitcoin events in major cities including Las Vegas, Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam.

Strategy CEO Phong Le expressed enthusiasm about the partnership extension, stating, “We’re excited about extending our partnership with BTC Inc. and continuing to support the mission of accelerating corporate bitcoin adoption.”

“Supporting every corporate leader who is looking to implement the Strategy Playbook is good for Bitcoin and we look forward to the ongoing collaboration with the BFC team over the next 5 years,” he added.

The renewal comes at a time when corporate Bitcoin adoption is accelerating, with BFC members representing a significant majority of corporate Bitcoin holdings globally. This partnership extension demonstrates the growing institutional confidence in Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset and the increasing importance of structured support for corporations entering the Bitcoin ecosystem.

BFC will continue to provide research reports, corporate case studies, and educational content designed to help corporate leaders implement Bitcoin treasury strategies based on their specific market and jurisdictional needs.

About BTC Inc.

BTC Inc. is the parent company of Bitcoin Magazine, the original and most trusted source for Bitcoin news and education, and producer of The Bitcoin Conference, the largest and most influential Bitcoin event in the world. Headquartered in Nashville, BTC Inc. builds media, data, events, and advocacy products that accelerate Bitcoin adoption around the globe.

About Bitcoin for Corporations (BFC)

Bitcoin for Corporations is BTC Inc.’s flagship enterprise initiative, offering corporations the tools, frameworks, and relationships necessary to integrate Bitcoin into treasury and operations. BFC supports leading organizations with education, strategic guidance, and access to a growing network of aligned corporate executives, investors, and service providers. Learn more at: b.tc/corporations

About Strategy

Strategy Inc (Nasdaq: STRF/STRC/STRK/STRD/MSTR) is the world’s first and largest Bitcoin Treasury Company. Strategy is a publicly traded company that has adopted Bitcoin as its primary treasury reserve asset. By using proceeds from equity and debt financings, as well as cash flows from operations, Strategy strategically accumulates Bitcoin and advocates for its role as digital capital. Strategy’s treasury strategy is designed to provide investors varying degrees of economic exposure to Bitcoin by offering a range of securities, including equity and fixed-income instruments. In addition, Strategy provides industry-leading AI-powered enterprise analytics software, advancing its vision of Intelligence Everywhere. Strategy leverages its development capabilities to explore innovation in Bitcoin applications, integrating analytics expertise with its commitment to digital asset growth. Strategy believes its combination of operational excellence, strategic Bitcoin reserve, and focus on technological innovation positions it as a leader in both the digital asset and enterprise analytics sectors, offering a unique opportunity for long-term value creation.

Strategy, MicroStrategy, Intelligence Everywhere, are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Strategy Inc in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. For more information about Strategy, visit www.strategy.com.

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Ripple is expanding its role in digital asset infrastructure through a new partnership with DBS Bank and Franklin Templeton, according to a Sept. 18 announcement.

According to the firm, the collaboration introduces trading and lending tools built around tokenized collateral and stablecoins, marking a push to bridge traditional markets with blockchain-based liquidity.

The initiative is anchored on DBS Digital Exchange (DDEx), which will now list Ripple’s US dollar stablecoin (RLUSD) alongside sgBENJI, the tokenized version of Franklin Templeton’s OnChain US Dollar Short-Term Money Market Fund.

This pairing allows institutional clients to exchange stable assets directly, providing both portfolio flexibility and yield opportunities not typically available in volatile crypto markets.

Instead of allocating funds to Bitcoin, Ethereum, or XRP, where sharp price movements arguably erode value, clients can rotate into sgBENJI and maintain round-the-clock liquidity.

These firms’ executives have framed this development as a step forward in institutionalizing tokenized securities.

Ripple President Monica Long noted that tokenized assets must offer utility and liquid secondary markets to achieve their potential. She pointed to this collaboration as an example of how stablecoins and tokenized funds can work together to provide practical financial infrastructure.

Franklin Templeton to expand to XRP Ledger

Franklin Templeton is preparing to expand its token interoperability by launching sgBENJI on the XRP Ledger.

Roger Bayston, Head of Digital Assets at Franklin Templeton, emphasized that tokenization can “reshape the global financial ecosystem” and highlighted the role of the blockchain network in unlocking new use cases for securities trading.

According to RWA.xyz data, the fund is already live on seven other blockchains, including Stellar, Arbitrum, and Base, and currently manages more than $736 million in tokenized assets.

The integration with the XRP Ledger is expected to push adoption further and strengthen cross-chain functionality.

At the same time, DBS is preparing to allow clients to post sgBENJI tokens as collateral for repurchase agreements with banks or as security on third-party lending platforms.

The firm argued that this would extend liquidity channels for institutional investors while assuring lenders of tokenized, regulated fund exposure.

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Bitcoin price trades near $117,000 after the Federal Reserve decision on interest rates, as the 1,065-day post-halving window approaches.

The Fed cut rates by 25bps yesterday, placing Bitcoin’s near-term path at the intersection of policy and a cycle marker Axios says has historically captured a “final high” roughly 1,065 days after a prior cycle low.

The test window runs through late September and early October, then the market will trade into Thanksgiving on flow, dollar, and rate dynamics that can either extend the advance or start the topping process that prior cycles paired with drawdowns of 40 to 60 percent, according to Axios.

Spot ETF demand is the first lever to watch because it turns the cycle into a flow problem. According to CoinShares’ latest weekly fund-flow update, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw renewed net inflows in late August and early September, measured in billions of dollars, while SoSoValue tracked a mid-September multi-session inflow streak with a single-day print of around $260 million on September 15.

Those figures contrast with the post-halving issuance of about 452 Bitcoin per day, calculated as 3.125 Bitcoin per block times roughly 144 blocks per day. When multi-day ETF demand absorbs several thousand Bitcoin per week, the market’s ability to distribute inventory at the highs narrows, and topping processes can lengthen into a plateau rather than a single peak.

Macro conditions set the second lever.

This month, the euro touched a four-year high against the dollar as cut expectations increased, while front-end Treasury yields eased into the meeting.

A softer dollar lowers global financial conditions and often correlates with higher beta across risk assets. At the same time, domestic inflation has cooled from last year’s pace, with August headline CPI at 2.5 percent year over year and core at 3.0 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The policy outcome will shape whether those tailwinds persist or fade. Throughout the rest of 2025, cuts with dovish language that emphasizes progress on inflation and downplays the need for quick reversals would support the dollar’s drift lower and extend the risk window.

Cuts that emphasizes vigilance on inflation and a limited runway for further easing would keep rates sticky and reduce the impulse. A no-cut outcome was a low-probability branch, yet it would have tightened financial conditions into quarter-end and left ETF demand to carry more of the load.

Mining economics frame how deeply price moves are transmitted to the supply side. Hashrate has hovered around 1.0 to 1.12 zettahash per second in recent weeks, with network difficulty near a record around 136 trillion, according to Hashrate Index tracking.

That backdrop keeps hashprice near 53 to 55 dollars per petahash per day, levels broadly consistent with Luxor’s spot readings this month. Because hashprice scales roughly with Bitcoin price and inversely with hashrate, bands for Q4 can be approximated by combining price paths with modest hashrate creep as new rigs energize. Fees remain a smaller component in the current lull, so price carries most of the signal into miner cash flow.

A simple baseline clarifies the inputs that feed scenario bands through Thanksgiving, November 27.

With those inputs, the grid below lays out price and miner hashprice ranges into late November across policy tone and ETF flow states. These are bands, not point targets, designed to reflect how cut tone and net flows propagate into price and miner revenue under low-fee conditions and modest hashrate growth.

The placement of the cycle clock matters for how those bands are interpreted

Axios frames prior “final highs” occurring near the 1,065-day mark, then transitioning to drawdowns that were less severe in the ETF era than in earlier cycles. That adds a second read-through for investors watching the tape into early October.

My own analysis flagged Nov. 1 as a potential date for the cycle peak based on previous cycle peaks extending from the last halving by roughly 100 days.

However, if the window delivers a high and ETF demand remains strong, the outcome can be a rounded top with shallower retracements.

If the window passes without a new high and flows turn mixed, the market can migrate toward the middle cells of the grid where price oscillates under the prior peak while hashprice is constrained by gradual hashrate increases.

Policy tone will color the flow of data almost immediately. Per Business Insider’s breakdown of meeting paths, a dovish cut converts to an easier dollar backdrop and a steeper risk appetite curve, which historically pulls incremental demand into equities and crypto, while a hawkish cut narrows that curve and puts more weight on idiosyncratic flows.

A no-cut outcome would have tested the lower bands in the table since it removes the near-term easing impulse and tends to firm the dollar. The CPI profile reduces the need for restrictive surprises, according to the BLS figures, yet the chair’s emphasis on data dependence can keep rate-path uncertainty in the foreground even if a first cut arrives.

ETF flow streaks are the cleanest high-frequency metric to monitor against this policy backdrop. CoinShares’ weekly data provide size and regional composition, and SoSoValue’s daily tallies map whether the post-announcement sessions extend or fade the bid.

Translating those numbers into supply absorption is straightforward

At $115,000 to $120,000 per Bitcoin, one billion dollars of net inflow equates to roughly 8,300 to 8,700 Bitcoin. Weekly net inflows of $1.5 to $2.5 billion imply 13,000 to 21,000 Bitcoin, or roughly four to seven times weekly issuance.

Sustained ratios above one, even with moderate outflows on some days, build a structural cushion under spot that can pull realized volatility lower and compress the left tail in the upper grid cells.

Miner balance sheets turn from a trailing indicator to a stress indicator if price trades the lower bands. With difficulty near a record and electricity costs rising for some operators, the combination of price dips toward 95,000 dollars and steady hashrate would push hashprice into the low 40s per petahash per day.

That level typically reopens hedging activity and delayed capex rather than wholesale shutdowns, although company-level thresholds vary. According to Hashrate Index updates on public miner expansions, capacity additions remain in the pipeline, so hashrate creep of 3 to 7 percent into November is a reasonable working assumption for the table above.

Through Thanksgiving, the narrative anchor remains the same.

The market is weighing a first policy cut that shapes the dollar and front-end rates, ETF net demand that either absorbs or releases supply relative to a 452-Bitcoin daily issuance, and an approaching 1,065-day cycle marker that Axios argues historically aligns with a final high and subsequent drawdown.

The window falls in late September and early October, then attention shifts to whether post-decision flows and macro conditions confirm or reject the cycle script.

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The Federal Reserve reduced its policy rate by 25 basis points to 4.00%–4.25%, the first rate cut this year. The move, framed as a response to weakening labor data, signals the start of a cautious easing cycle.

Projections show two more cuts possible before year-end, with further reductions likely in 2026. Inflation remains above target, but Chairman Jerome Powell emphasized risk management over immediate price control, prioritizing stability in employment conditions.

Stablecoins will be quickly affected by this. Issuers like Tether and Circle have generated large profits by holding reserves in short-term Treasuries during the high-rate environment of the past two years. That income stream now begins to erode.

DeFi protocols that offered tokenized Treasury exposure face the same squeeze, with returns set to fall further if the Fed continues cutting into next year. A multi-cut easing cycle could substantially reduce stablecoin profitability, forcing issuers and protocols to adapt.

The decline in dollar yields also alters the balance between holding stablecoins passively and seeking higher returns in risk assets. Bitcoin benefits most from this reallocation. As nominal rates move lower and inflation remains sticky, real yields decline, making non-yielding assets more attractive. The weaker dollar and improving risk appetite amplify the effect, positioning Bitcoin as a relative winner of the Fed’s shift.

The September cut is modest, but it could bring significant changes to the crypto market. Stablecoin models built on Treasury income face structural headwinds after the rate cut, while Bitcoin and other high-beta assets stand to gain from falling real yields and increased liquidity. The Fed has opened an easing cycle, and crypto’s internal capital flows will move with it.

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BNB crossed the $1,000 mark for the first time on Sept. 18, briefly touching $1,007 before retreating to $997, according to CryptoSlate data.

The surge capped a 12% weekly gain and extended the token’s year-to-date rally to more than 42%, making it one of the top-performing large-cap assets of 2025.

BNB is a crypto token founded by Binance, the largest crypto exchange by trading volume. The token plays a central role in the BNB Chain as it is used to pay transaction fees, participate in governance, and also secure the blockchain network through delegated proof-of-stake validation.

Binance co-founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao reflected on the milestone, noting the journey from BNB’s $0.10 initial coin offering price in 2017 to today’s four-figure valuation.

“Watching BNB go from $0.10 ICO price eight years ago to today’s $1,000 is something words cannot explain,” Zhao wrote, thanking community members and long-term holders for their support.

He added that the achievement highlighted collective perseverance, saying:

“We had our challenges along the way, but we worked hard, we built, and we held. It’s truly a community effort.”

Meanwhile, BNB’s ascent has rewarded early adopters handsomely.

Blockchain analytics firm Lookonchain highlighted the example of a wallet identified as “Diamond Hand 0x8503” that acquired 999 BNB for less than $1,000 about eight years ago. That stake is worth roughly $1 million at today’s prices, translating into a return of 1,000x.

What drove BNB’s price?

Market analysts have pointed out that BNB’s all-time high price reflects the broader momentum across digital assets after the Federal Reserve delivered a fresh rate cut.

Historically, lower borrowing costs have fueled appetite for risk assets, and cryptocurrencies have been no exception.

According to them, BNB’s run exemplifies how easing financial conditions can accelerate demand, pushing prices to record levels.

Beyond macroeconomic factors, regulatory developments surrounding Binance have also shaped sentiment.

Earlier in the week, reports emerged that the exchange was in talks with the US Justice Department about lifting the requirement for an independent compliance monitor, which was imposed under a $4.3 billion settlement in 2023.

At the same time, the crypto token is also attracting significant institutional interest, with several firms adopting it as a treasury reserve asset.

In addition, talks about a potential BNB-focused spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) product are also gaining momentum, with VanEck recently filing for a BNB fund.

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The first US spot exchange-traded fund tied to XRP will begin trading today, and analysts believe it could unlock billions in institutional inflows within its first year.

REX-Osprey, the issuer behind the fund, confirmed that the product, trading under the ticker XRPR, will list on the CBOE BZX Exchange. The company will also roll out a Dogecoin fund under the ticker DOJE today.

However, investor attention is firmly centered on XRP.

This is unsurprising considering anticipation around XRP-linked ETFs has been building for months, with more than a dozen similar applications still awaiting review at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

As a result, Nate Geraci, president of Nova Dius Wealth, described the XRP ETF as a “litmus test” for whether investor enthusiasm can stretch to the Ripple-linked digital asset.

XRP ETF inflows could reach billions

CryptoSlate spoke to several market experts who believe that XRP-focused funds, including XRPR, could attract as much as $8 billion in fresh capital during their first trading year.

Julio Moreno, head of research at CryptoQuant, estimated that between 1% and 4% of XRP’s circulating supply could be absorbed by ETFs in the first year, equivalent to 600 million to 2.4 billion tokens, or $1.8 to $7.2 billion at current prices.

Such levels, he argued, would meaningfully improve liquidity while establishing XRP as a more mature investment vehicle in institutional portfolios.

Meanwhile, Bitget’s Chief Marketing Officer Jamie Elkaleh was much more bullish as he told CryptoSlate that inflows could reach between $4 billion and $8 billion within the first year. He added that such momentum could push XRP’s price toward the $4-$8 range by year-end.

According to him, this is similar to the early trajectory success of Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs, which attracted record flows at launch.

Notably, Bitcoin-focused funds attracted more than $100 billion in assets within their first year of trading. In comparison, their Ethereum counterparts have seen over $10 billion in inflows within the last three months.

However, Elkaleh also warned that lingering regulatory delays or heightened market volatility could temper those projections.

How ETF fees could impact flows

On the other hand, analysts at Bitunix outlined a more scenario-based forecast where fees play a significant role in influencing the flows.

In their base case, the ETF could attract $500 million to $1.5 billion in its first month and $1–3 billion in the first quarter of trading.

Under a bearish setup, where fees are high or distribution channels are limited, inflows might shrink to as little as $200-500 million initially. Conversely, if fees remain low and brokerages offer wide access from day one, inflows could climb to $3-5 billion within three months.

The analysts explained that their projections are based on the Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF launch data, which were adjusted for XRP’s smaller market position and liquidity structure.

They also pointed out that XRP lacks the “legacy trust redemption overhang” that constrained Bitcoin and Ethereum inflows, suggesting its early numbers may appear cleaner.

So, if the XRP ETF inflows capture even 2-6% of the circulating supply within the first quarter, this could lead to significant price appreciation for the digital token.

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Bitcoin price is once again at a pivotal point. The Federal Reserve just delivered its first interest rate cut since December 2022, and the daily BTC price chart is hinting at an attempt to push higher. The big question is whether this policy shift will give Bitcoin price enough momentum to reclaim fresh highs, or if the market is setting up for another round of consolidation.

Fed’s rate cut and why it matters for Bitcoin Price Prediction

The Fed lowered its key rate by 25 basis points to a range of 4 to 4.25 percent. More importantly, officials signaled that two more cuts could follow this year, bringing rates down to 3.5 to 3.75 percent. On paper, lower interest rates reduce borrowing costs, encourage liquidity, and push investors toward risk assets. Bitcoin often thrives in these liquidity-driven environments because it is treated like a hedge against both loose monetary policy and political uncertainty.

At the same time, the divided vote inside the Fed committee shows a dilemma. Inflation is still above target, but the risks of unemployment are rising. This uncertainty means markets will remain volatile. For Bitcoin price, that usually translates into sharper moves rather than flat trading.

Apart from that, adding to the spectacle surrounding the Fed’s decision, a 12-foot golden statue of President Donald Trump holding a Bitcoin was temporarily installed outside the U.S. Capitol. The display, funded by a collective of cryptocurrency investors, was timed to coincide with the announcement and designed to spark debate about digital currency’s role in modern finance. 

Organizers framed it as a symbol of the intersection between politics and monetary innovation, underscoring how Bitcoin is increasingly tied to national economic conversations. The unusual installation served as a reminder that crypto is no longer operating on the sidelines but is now part of the broader discourse on policy and financial power.

Current technical setup

Looking at the BTC price daily chart, price is trading around 116,800 USD. After weeks of sideways action in August and early September, Bitcoin has broken above its mid-Bollinger Band and is pushing toward the upper band, now near 118,000 USD. This suggests building bullish momentum.

The Fibonacci retracement levels plotted above the current price highlight potential resistance zones. The nearest challenge sits around 120,000 USD, with extended targets at 124,000 USD and 128,000 USD. If momentum accelerates, the psychological 140,000 USD mark comes into play.

Support remains firm around 112,000 USD, where the lower Bollinger Band and recent consolidation align. A break below that would expose 108,000 USD and possibly drag sentiment lower.

Macro meets chart action

Historically, Bitcoin price rallies tend to gain traction when the Fed signals easing. Investors reallocate into risk-on trades as real yields fall. However, this time political pressure on the Fed adds a layer of unpredictability. Trump’s push for deeper cuts and attempts to reshuffle the Fed board show the institution is under stress, which could amplify Bitcoin’s role as a hedge against systemic risk.

If the Fed follows through with more cuts this year, the backdrop could resemble 2020’s liquidity wave that pushed BTC into price discovery. But in the short term, Bitcoin still needs to clear technical resistance levels before bulls can take control.

What to watch next?

Near-term direction hinges on whether BTC price can close daily candles above 117,500–118,000 USD. Sustained strength here opens the door toward 120,000 USD and beyond. Failure to break this band, however, could trap Bitcoin in another consolidation range between 112,000 and 118,000 USD.

Macro events will drive volatility. Traders should keep an eye on Fed communications, inflation prints, and labor market data. If unemployment ticks up faster than expected, the Fed may accelerate its easing path, which would almost certainly boost Bitcoin.

Bitcoin Price Prediction: Where BTC Price goes from here?

Short term, $Bitcoin price looks set to test 120,000 USD. If it clears that resistance with conviction, the next leg toward 124,000–128,000 USD could unfold quickly. On the downside, a pullback to 112,000 USD remains possible if bulls fail to maintain current momentum.

Medium term, as liquidity returns and the Fed leans dovish, the probability skews toward higher highs for Bitcoin. The path will be choppy, but the structure suggests $BTC could challenge the 130,000–140,000 USD range before year-end if macro conditions stay supportive.

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Big corporate bets on crypto are no longer limited to bitcoin. Forward Industries, a Nasdaq-listed design firm now reinventing itself as a Solana treasury, is raising billions to stockpile the token. The company has already spent more than a billion dollars on Solana in the past week and is now preparing a $4 billion share sale to fuel even larger purchases. This marks one of the boldest moves yet by a public company into Solana, putting it in the same league as the largest corporate crypto treasuries on record.

Forward Industries Shifts Strategy Toward Solana

Forward Industries, a Nasdaq-listed design firm, has taken a sharp turn from its traditional business model. The company is now positioning itself as a Solana-focused corporate treasury. It recently filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a $4 billion at-the-market equity offering program to raise fresh capital, primarily for accumulating more SOL tokens.

Recent Investments Backed by Galaxy Digital

This move follows a $1.65 billion private investment in public equity that closed last week. The round was led by Galaxy Digital, Jump Crypto, and Multicoin Capital. Forward has already started deploying this capital, acquiring 6.82 million SOL at an average price of $232. The purchase cost approximately $1.58 billion, marking the beginning of its aggressive treasury program.

Flexibility Through the ATM Offering

Kyle Samani, chairman of Forward, explained that the at-the-market structure provides flexibility. The company can issue and sell new shares from time to time rather than in a single bulk transaction. Cantor Fitzgerald will handle the sales under an agreement dated September 16, 2025. The plan is covered by an automatic shelf registration statement that took effect upon filing.

Proceeds and Strategic Direction

Forward stated that the proceeds may be used for general corporate purposes. However, the company made it clear that a significant portion will go toward expanding its Solana balance sheet and potentially purchasing income-generating assets. This reflects a broader strategy of using equity markets to fund crypto treasury growth.

Growing Trend Among Public Companies

Forward’s filing highlights a growing trend among publicly listed firms. More companies are turning to crypto treasuries, with at-the-market offerings becoming a preferred way to access capital. The Block’s data dashboards show that public treasuries are expanding across bitcoin, ether, Solana, and other altcoins. Solana treasuries alone hold around $3.2 billion in assets as of September 17, with Forward’s purchase contributing a large share.

Why This Matters for Solana

The move strengthens Solana’s standing as a major corporate treasury asset. While bitcoin and ether remain dominant, Forward’s billion-dollar bet signals growing institutional interest in Solana. Combined with recent ETF flows, this could accelerate broader adoption and put Solana in direct competition with more established digital assets.

Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), is proud to celebrate its 7th anniversary with the theme of #GearUpTo7, kickstarting a new era of integrated finance.

Over the past seven years, strategic partnerships, community initiatives, and steady business growth have driven Bitget’s global expansion. Collaborations with legendary Messi, Juventus FC, MotoGP, LaLiga, and the UNTOLD music festival have extended Bitget’s reach beyond crypto, connecting with mainstream audiences and global cultural trends. Educational charity initiatives such as Blockchain4Youth and Blockchain4Her have helped over 15,000 youngsters, enabling inclusivity, with over 60 universities across the globe. Additionally, Bitget's collaboration with UNICEF to educate 1M people around blockchain by 2027 has made yet another mark that no Web3 company has been able to surpass.

Looking ahead, Bitget is introducing itself as the Universal Exchange (UEX). A concept first mentioned in Bitget CEO Gracy Chen's recent letter to the community. UEX aligns with Bitget’s vision to build a holistic ecosystem that breaks the "impossible triangle" of exchanges: user experience, asset variety, and security. By bringing together a range of centralized-decentralized services, AI tools, and security practices under a single unified platform, Bitget has transformed into the first UEX in the world.

The transformation has started in the past few months. In Q3 2025, Bitget Onchain added full support for Ethereum, BSC, Base, and Solana assets, while partnerships with xStocks and Ondo expanded access to tokenized stocks and ETFs. It also launched the first Stock Futures, bringing traditional instruments like AAPL and NVDA into crypto derivatives. According to Gracy's vision, Bitget is expanding to support all the tradable assets, not just the top few hundred cryptocurrencies, but all existing tokens. And it’s not only about crypto anymore; core assets worldwide, such as stocks, ETFs, gold, and forex, will also be tradable on a single UEX.

Another thing that differentiates UEX from CEX and DEX is its integration with AI. Bitget’s approach to market intelligence and execution automation is powered by its proprietary AI tool, GetAgent, which provides users with actionable insights and customized strategies through real-time data analysis and interactive guidance. Alongside GetAgent, a suite of automated trading bots enhances accessibility and enables users to pursue opportunities continuously, reducing the gap between analysis and action.

“Our growth over the past seven years is based on a methodical approach used to build an infrastructure that serves the evolving needs of traders, investors, and institutions. We're shifting towards providing easier access and clean integration of emerging finance into our daily lives. As the first UEX, Bitget is bound to lead this transition with tools and products that meet both current and future demands of users worldwide,” said Gracy Chen, CEO at Bitget

Furthermore, UEX is designed to deliver advanced security, combining the best of on-chain and off-chain protection. It will integrate intelligent tools to detect early signs of token concentration or potential rug-pull risks, reinforced by Bitget’s User Protection Fund, now valued at over $700 million.

Since day one, Bitget’s growth strategy has emphasized sustained, measurable progress rather than premature expansion. It has broadened its presence in emerging regions, including Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, through localized community programs, multilingual support, and offline engagement.

As regulatory alignment remains a priority. In 2025, Bitget secured licenses or registrations in jurisdictions including Italy, Poland, Lithuania, Czechia, El Salvador, Argentina, Bulgaria, and Georgia. A specialized compliance team of over 70 experts works closely with regulators to advance sustainable frameworks and maintain trust in crypto markets.

Throughout this September, Bitget is celebrating its 7th anniversary with the “Gear Up to 7” campaign, boosting the Universal Exchange (UEX) era. The promotion features global events like the #GearUpTo7 Sprint Challenge with a $400,000 USDT prize pool and a Bitget-themed MotoGP racing motorcycle. Motorcycle Parades in multiple cities, anniversary anthem by crypto influencer Lil Bubble, and TopGear Night afterparty at TOKEN2049 will bring the community together. Bitget will also host its inaugural Smart Awards to recognize outstanding traders who have been integral in its continued success, amplifying their stories of resilience and success within the crypto space.

As Bitget commemorates its seventh year, the platform continues to focus on long-term frameworks that connect users, assets, and markets while setting new standards for security, accessibility, and innovation in the cryptospace and beyond.

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The Federal Reserve is walking into one of its most consequential meetings in years. With markets already bracing for a rate cut, the decision will ripple far beyond equities and bonds. Cryptocurrencies, in particular, stand to benefit as liquidity loosens and borrowing costs fall. While uncertainty lingers over whether the cut will be 25 or 50 basis points, one thing is clear: a new cycle of monetary easing could ignite momentum in risk assets.

In this environment, 3 coins stand out as having huge upside potential: Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana.

Why Fed Cuts Matter for Crypto Market?

Lower interest rates reduce the yield investors can earn from bonds and savings, pushing capital into higher-risk, higher-reward assets. Crypto sits at the far end of that spectrum, thriving when liquidity is cheap and abundant.

At the same time, a softer labour market and political pressure on the Fed suggest an easing cycle could last well beyond a single cut. If markets are correct in pricing in 75 basis points this year and another 75 next year, crypto markets could see a surge of inflows similar to the 2020–2021 bull cycle. Let's take a look at the 3 coins

Bitcoin: The First Beneficiary of a Liquidity Wave

Bitcoin remains the first stop for institutional flows when monetary policy shifts dovish. A cut to 4.0–4.25% reinforces its appeal as digital gold, especially if real yields fall.

The August jobs report revealed economic softness, making Bitcoin’s scarcity narrative more powerful. If the Fed signals further cuts into October and December, BTC could revisit $1,25,000 in the short term and push toward $150K by early 2026. The key driver will be how much risk appetite revives as the dollar weakens and bond yields fall.

Ethereum: The Utility Play in an Easing Cycle

Ethereum benefits from lower rates differently. While Bitcoin absorbs the macro liquidity trade, Ethereum captures activity growth through its ecosystem. Cheaper capital and improving risk sentiment historically fuel DeFi and NFT markets, both of which rely on ETH as their backbone.

The Fed’s dot plot will be crucial. If investors sense multiple cuts ahead, ETH’s staking yields become even more attractive relative to Treasuries. This could accelerate institutional adoption. Price-wise, ETH looks positioned to touch $5000 in the near term, with an upside target of $6,000 if liquidity cycles strengthen through 2026.

Solana: The High-Beta Winner

When liquidity is plentiful, high-beta coins like Solana often outperform. Solana’s ecosystem, already showing resilience with surging developer activity, could see explosive growth if borrowing becomes cheaper and risk-taking increases.

Markets don’t expect the Fed to validate the full 150 basis points in cuts that futures traders are pricing in, but even partial easing creates a powerful tailwind. Solana, more sensitive to speculative inflows than Bitcoin or Ethereum, could double from current levels, retesting $300–$400 within the next year.

Divided Fed, United Market Outlook

The intrigue of this FOMC meeting lies in its division. With Trump’s new appointee Stephen Miran joining and potential dissents from multiple governors, Powell’s press conference may leave more questions than answers. Yet, markets are clear: they are betting on a loosening cycle.

Crypto thrives not on certainty, but on momentum. Even if the Fed cuts cautiously now, the signalling of easier policy ahead will be enough to reignite flows.

The Fed is unlikely to surprise with a 50-basis-point cut, but even a smaller move opens the door to sustained easing. For crypto investors, that is the real story. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana each represent a different angle of the trade: store of value, utility backbone, and high-beta growth.

With liquidity cycles turning, these three coins are poised to lead the next leg higher.

US and UK Move Closer on Crypto Policy

The United States and the United Kingdom are preparing to unveil a new crypto cooperation deal. This marks a significant step in aligning their approaches toward digital assets, stablecoins, and blockchain technology. For years, both countries have taken different regulatory paths, but the upcoming agreement suggests a turning point. The announcement also comes at a time when previous tensions between Washington and London - especially over tariffs and trade disagreements - may be fading, paving the way for closer collaboration.

Details of the Cooperation Deal

The cooperation is expected to include:

1. Stablecoin Regulation: Joint frameworks to address the issuance and use of stablecoins, a fast-growing segment of the digital economy.
2. Digital Asset Oversight: Stronger coordination on rules governing exchanges, custody, and cross-border operations.
3. Innovation and Adoption: Initiatives to support blockchain adoption across finance and other industries.

The talks were led by UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, following calls from crypto industry groups urging that digital assets be central to any new UK–US trade framework.

Why This Matters

Regulatory Alignment

The US has recently signaled a more supportive stance on crypto, introducing clearer regulatory pathways and engaging with industry stakeholders. The UK, by contrast, has leaned toward stricter EU-style rules. This new deal may help bridge the gap, reducing uncertainty for companies operating across both jurisdictions.

Trade and Market Access

Crypto regulation is not just about finance, it also ties into broader UK–US trade relations. With past frictions over tariffs and trade policies, digital assets could provide common ground for cooperation. A smoother crypto framework may serve as an entry point for renewed transatlantic trust.

Global Signal

For the wider crypto market, a joint US–UK approach could set a global benchmark. If two of the world’s largest financial hubs coordinate on stablecoins and blockchain, other jurisdictions may follow suit.

Outlook: Fading Tensions, Growing Opportunities

The upcoming deal represents more than just regulatory alignment; it could be a diplomatic tool signaling that earlier disputes over tariffs and trade barriers are giving way to collaboration in emerging industries. For crypto investors and companies, this may mean a more predictable environment, greater cross-border opportunities, and a potential boost in institutional adoption.

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Prediction market users think that PENGU is likely to continue pumping, though the Pudgy Penguins NFT collection has traded fairly flat.

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Ripple president speaks out on major partnership set to impact on-chain markets

TLDR:

• Kraken and Circle team up to expand access to USDC and EURC across global markets, boosting stablecoin adoption worldwide.
• The partnership offers reduced conversion costs and increased liquidity for traders using Kraken’s platform.
• Circle’s fully reserved euro stablecoin EURC will now be available for deployment on Kraken’s exchange.
• Regulatory clarity and rising demand for stablecoins have pushed Kraken to deepen support for Circle-issued products.
  

Big moves are coming to the stablecoin market. Kraken has lately teamed up with Circle to expand access to USDC and EURC across its platform. The deal promises better liquidity, cheaper conversions, and a smoother path for traders looking to deploy stablecoins. 

Demand for stablecoin trading is still growing, and this partnership looks set to accelerate that trend. The collaboration aims to make stablecoins easier to use across global markets.

Kraken confirmed the news in a post on X and a detailed blog update. The exchange called Circle a market leader in the stablecoin space and said the move will help build a stronger foundation for onchain financial applications. 

The partnership builds on Kraken’s long history of supporting stablecoin liquidity, which it says has surged since 2017.

Kraken Expands USDC, EURC Access

Under the agreement, Kraken users will see improved liquidity across USDC trading pairs and lower conversion fees. 

The exchange will also support Circle’s EURC, opening the door for euro-backed transactions. Kraken’s team stated that these changes reflect rising global demand for stablecoin-based trading and payments.

Mark Greenberg, Kraken’s Global Head of Consumer Business, described stablecoins as the most natural layer of crypto’s financial system. 

He said the focus is on embedding new opportunities into tools that Kraken users already trust. This aligns with the platform’s effort to meet growing demand for onchain financial services.

Circle’s Chief Commercial Officer Kash Razzaghi said the company is building the largest stablecoin network in the world. Working with Kraken, he said, helps expand that network to millions of traders. 

The collaboration will allow traders to benefit from faster, cheaper, and more reliable conversions when moving funds on and off-chain.

Kraken reported that its stablecoin market share has climbed as regulatory clarity improves. The exchange added that the growth has encouraged more users to rely on stablecoins as a key trading instrument.

We’re excited to announce our partnership with @Circle.

Together, we’re expanding access to @USDC and EURC, strengthening stablecoin infrastructure, and reducing conversion costs for clients. https://t.co/qq4Ku4hlVr

— Kraken (@krakenfx) September 17, 2025

Stablecoin Liquidity and Lower Fees

Kraken said the partnership is designed to make trading more efficient for clients. 

The goal is to help traders avoid unnecessary conversion costs and unlock more ways to use stablecoins in their portfolios. With Circle’s infrastructure backing, Kraken aims to improve speed and reliability for settlements.

The launch of EURC support gives European traders another fully reserved option. The move could attract more euro-denominated transactions to the platform and widen its user base. 

Stablecoin demand continues to rise globally, and this integration arrives at a time when more traders are looking for trusted solutions.

Kraken added that stablecoins remain one of the most used assets on its platform. This partnership represents a further step toward scaling that demand with better infrastructure and support.

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XRP price prediction analyses reveal troubling patterns as established payment tokens struggle against institutional resistance levels. Yet certain traders can turn this market weakness into an advantage, knowing it creates perfect conditions for discovering explosive 100x opportunities in overlooked blockchain sectors. 

While XRP consolidates within a narrow $2.75-$3.07 trading range despite BBVA partnerships and MiCA compliance wins, certain presale tokens are quietly attracting millions in funding. Achieving 100x gains requires identifying projects before mainstream adoption, not chasing trillion-dollar market caps with mathematical growth limitations. Read on to find out what everyone is looking at.

XRP‘s $2.75-$3.07 consolidation range signals extended sideways movement ahead

The current XRP price prediction landscape shows concerning patterns as analysts identify critical support levels around $2.40 with upside resistance capping gains near $3.70. Recent Ripple partnerships with BBVA under MiCA compliance have generated institutional optimism about traditional banking settlement adoption, yet whale accumulation patterns indicate smart money preparing for extended consolidation rather than explosive breakouts. 

Market volatility metrics demonstrate XRP‘s vulnerability to broader crypto market headwinds, with rising VIX levels and upcoming inflation data creating potential bull trap scenarios that could derail momentum toward substantial gains. Even successful institutional adoption faces the mathematical reality that payment tokens with established market caps rarely deliver life-changing returns to retail investors.

Layer Brett‘s funding surge validates revolutionary L2 memecoin architecture

While XRP battles resistance levels, Layer Brett emerges as the crypto chart showing authentic signs of becoming the next 100x crypto gainer through its innovative approach to blockchain scalability. The $LBRETT presale offers entry at $0.0058 pricing, positioning early supporters for exponential gains as the project develops its Layer 2 ecosystem with over 675% staking APY rewards.

Unlike payment tokens constrained by institutional partnerships and regulatory frameworks, Layer Brett combines meme culture energy with cutting-edge Ethereum Layer 2 infrastructure. The project solves critical blockchain problems, including high gas fees and slow transaction speeds, while maintaining the viral potential that creates generational wealth opportunities. This memecoin approach with real utility represents the perfect formula for 100x gains during favorable market conditions.

Pre-discovery positioning maximizes Layer Brett‘s exponential growth window

Layer Brett‘s roadmap demonstrates why sophisticated investors view this crypto presale as superior alpha compared to established tokens facing growth limitations. The project’s journey from Base limitations to Layer 2 innovation creates compelling narrative potential that drives exponential price appreciation once broader market participants recognize the opportunity.

Early staking rewards through the presale provide immediate yield generation while positioning holders for long-term appreciation as Layer Brett expands its ecosystem features. The combination of next-generation blockchain technology with community-driven meme energy creates the perfect conditions for 100x performance that established tokens simply cannot replicate due to their mature market positioning.

Institutional capital shifts toward high-yield L2 staking mechanisms

The cryptocurrency market’s current dynamics favor projects like Layer Brett that offer genuine innovation without the constraints imposed by institutional partnerships and regulatory compliance requirements. While XRP price prediction models struggle with resistance levels and market headwinds, Layer Brett‘s $3.76 million presale funding demonstrates growing recognition of Layer 2 memecoin potential.

Investors seeking authentic 100x opportunities should accept that timing matters more than chasing established names with limited upside potential. Layer Brett‘s presale window represents the optimal entry point for explosive gains, combining ground-floor pricing with revolutionary technology. As the project accelerates its path toward incredible returns, early supporters look well positioned for life-changing returns.

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Dogecoin’s Staying Power in the Meme Market

Dogecoin (DOGE), once considered a joke, continues to prove its critics wrong. With a market cap still in the tens of billions, it remains one of the most recognizable meme coins. September has seen Dogecoin’s trading volumes rise, fueled by retail enthusiasm and renewed celebrity mentions. DOGE currently trades around $0.2811, reflecting steady interest despite broader market fluctuations.

Dogecoin’s community sustains its relevance despite an inflationary supply and limited utility, making it a stable meme coin but unlikely to yield significant ROI soon.

Source: CoinGecko – Dogecoin – Price Chart

Solana’s Resilience Fuels Investor Confidence

Solana (SOL) is enjoying a resurgence in September 2025, trading around the $240 mark. Known for its lightning-fast transactions and scalability, Solana remains a hub for decentralized applications (dApps), NFTs, and blockchain gaming.

Increased institutional support from hedge funds and venture capital firms highlights Solana’s growing exposure. Despite past network issues, recent improvements and a robust developer ecosystem position Solana as a leading layer-1 blockchain, making it a key altcoin and a long-term investment in blockchain infrastructure.

MAGAX: The Presale Shaking Up the Market

Moonshot MAGAX is the breakout presale of 2025, combining meme culture with sustainable mechanics. Unlike hype-driven tokens, MAGAX introduces a Meme-to-Earn system, where users earn rewards by creating and sharing memes. This innovation transforms digital creativity into financial value, giving the community an active role in adoption.

Currently in Stage 2 at $0.000293 per token, MAGAX has already drawn over 80,000 participants. Each presale stage raises the price while reducing supply, creating built-in scarcity that rewards early buyers. Backed by a CertiK audit and powered by Loomint AI for fair engagement, MAGAX is showing investors it has substance beyond hype.

Why These Three Lead September’s Conversation

The September spotlight on DOGE, SOL, and MAGAX reflects the variety of opportunities in today’s market. Dogecoin represents cultural staying power, Solana embodies scalability and developer growth, and MAGAX delivers high-upside potential through its presale.

Investors are diversifying across these narratives to balance both risk and reward. Each token serves a distinct role in portfolios: DOGE for meme-driven recognition, SOL for infrastructure bets, and MAGAX for viral growth and ROI potential. Together, they illustrate how different crypto segments can thrive side by side in 2025.

Why Diversification Across Narratives Is Key for Q4 2025

• Dogecoin remains a cultural icon but has limited upside due to inflationary supply.
• Solana solidifies its role as a high-speed, developer-focused blockchain with growing institutional adoption.
• MAGAX combines memes, AI, and deflationary tokenomics for exponential growth potential.
• Presales like MAGAX offer rare opportunities for early entry and high multiples.
• Diversifying across these narratives helps investors capture both stability and breakout potential.

Where Investors Should Focus Next

The biggest takeaway from September is that investors are no longer limiting themselves to Bitcoin and Ethereum. Meme coins, high-speed infrastructure chains, and innovative presales are all carving their place in portfolios.

This shift highlights the evolving maturity of the crypto market, where multiple narratives can coexist. MAGAX stands out by merging the best of both worlds: community engagement and long-term mechanics.

Analysts suggest its potential 100×–166× upside makes it one of the most compelling presales of 2025. Dogecoin and Solana remain strong bets, but MAGAX is quickly becoming the name investors whisper when discussing future market leaders.

Moonshot MAGAX: The Most Dynamic Presale of 2025

Dogecoin, Solana, and MAGAX represent three different stories, but only one offers the chance for life-changing gains. With Stage 2 of the presale live at $0.000293, MAGAX is rapidly gaining traction as the meme-to-earn leader. Early entry ensures maximum upside as each presale stage increases the price.

Secure your MAGAX allocation today and join the movement turning memes into millions before Stage 2 closes.

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As analysts release their latest Chainlink price predictions, investors are asking a more important question: where will the highest returns come from in September? Infrastructure projects like Chainlink are vital to the ecosystem, but history shows the biggest fortunes are often made in the breakout applications built on top of them.

That’s why attention is shifting to upcoming crypto projects offering real-world utility and early entry opportunities. The spotlight today has turned to a project ranked #1 in crypto pre-sale by Certik, blockchain’s leading auditor.

With verified security, a live product, and a trillion-dollar use case, it’s being tipped as the best crypto to buy now, and for many, the top candidate for life-changing gains this year.

Chainlink Price Prediction: Solid but Limited Upside

Chainlink remains a cornerstone of decentralized finance. Its oracle network underpins countless applications, and its importance only grows as blockchain integrates with global markets.

Analysts think Chainlink is nearing a decisive breakout after over three years of consolidation inside a symmetrical triangle. A push above the $25–$27 resistance could trigger a rally toward $40–$52, while a drop below $15 risks a fall to $10–$12. With the Ichimoku cloud showing a bullish bias, LINK’s next move will define its trend in the coming months.

However, with a multi-billion-dollar market cap, Chainlink is no longer the explosive trade it once was. The days of 100x returns are behind it. While LINK will likely continue to perform, investors chasing maximum upside this month are setting their sights elsewhere.

Remittix: The Killer Application With 100x Potential

This is where Remittix comes in. While Chainlink brings realworld data on-chain, Remittix is solving one of finance’s biggest problems: cross-border payments. Built as an ERC-20 token, the high growth crypto bridges crypto and banking, allowing users to send digital assets that settle as local fiat currency in recipient bank accounts.

It’s not just cumbersome theoretical pitches or vaporware, the big shift is already underway. A live wallet beta launched this September, confirmed exchange listings are locked in, and Certik has verified both the technology and the team, ranking it the #1 pre-launch project globally.

Still currently priced under $1 at just 11 cents, RTX offers the kind of ground-floor entry that investors dream about.

Why early investors are betting big on Remittix:

• Direct-to-bank settlement across 30+ countries, making crypto usable for real payments
• Targeted emerging markets in Africa, Asia, and Latin America where remittances are lifelines
• Governance rights that give token holders influence over the protocol’s future
• Zero-fee launch promo for early adopters, ensuring rapid user onboarding
• Explosive community growth with 26,000+ holders and 330,000+ giveaway entries

For those who missed Ethereum or LINK in their early days, Remittix is being called a second chance at generational returns.

Last Chance Before the Breakout

Remittix has already raised over $25.9 million, and its presale is nearing the final stages. A 15% USDT referral program is currently active and driving viral adoption, with promoters earning real daily payouts. Once major exchanges go live, this entry window will close forever.

Investors face a simple choice: hold LINK for steady gains, or buy RTX now for potentially life-changing ones. In 2026, you’ll either be glad you acted, or regret that you watched from the sidelines as others turned small stakes into fortunes.

Discover the future of PayFi with Remittix by checking out their project here:

Website: https://remittix.io/   

Socials: https://linktr.ee/remittix   

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Bitcoin (BTC) has stormed past $115,000, and headlines across the market reflect this milestone. While it reinforces BTC’s status as the top store of value, traders are asking a sharper question: what crypto to invest in next? With the crypto fear and greed index flashing extreme levels, attention is shifting toward assets that still allow room for exponential upside. One name now circulating in analyst conversations is Mutuum Finance (MUTM), a project designed to bring the next generation of lending, borrowing, and staking to a Layer-2 enabled ecosystem.

BTC Dominates, But Growth is Limited

BTC remains a staple for long-term holders, but its current valuation makes exponential returns unlikely. Entering at $115,000 leaves little chance for the type of life-changing gains early Bitcoiners saw. For traders studying crypto prices today, the question becomes less about safety and more about asymmetric opportunity. ETH once played that role, but now carries a $400 billion market cap. The search for an ETH-like starting point is why seasoned traders are eyeing the presale stage of Mutuum Finance (MUTM).

Unlike BTC, MUTM still trades at a presale entry level of just $0.035 in Phase 6. Over $15.9 million has already been raised, 42% of supply allocated is sold, and more than 16,400 holders have positioned themselves early. The next presale phase lifts the token to $0.040, a 15% increase that gives investors urgency to enter before the shift. Security is reinforced by a CertiK audit and a live $100,000 giveaway that broadens visibility. For those debating crypto investment strategies, this setup aligns more closely with ETH’s early days than BTC’s current status.

Mutuum Finance (MUTM)’s Utility Unlocks Real Growth

What sets Mutuum Finance (MUTM) apart from other presale projects is its utility-driven framework. The platform will allow users to borrow stablecoins without selling their holdings, creating a flexible on-chain banking layer. For example, a user lending $20,000 worth of ADA will receive mtADA. With lending pools averaging 14% APY, that translates to $2,800 annually in passive yield, powered by on-chain mechanics.

Borrowers gain similar advantages. A trader holding $8,000 worth of SOL can borrow $5,000 USDT at roughly 65% loan-to-value, keeping SOL’s upside intact while deploying liquidity elsewhere. This design ensures the system is overcollateralized and resilient, as liquidation incentives reward participants for maintaining balance. ETH and USDT markets sustain higher LTVs of up to 75%, while meme coins such as DOGE and FLOKI remain isolated in risk-adjusted pools capped near 35–42%. This separation keeps institutional-grade assets safe while still offering traders access to high-return environments.

The incentive model further strengthens demand for MUTM tokens. Interest rates rise dynamically with utilization, attracting liquidity when needed and balancing borrowing activity. Security is underscored by a $50,000 bug bounty program, rewarding discoveries from $200 at the low end to $2,000 for critical issues. With CertiK assigning MUTM a token scan score of 90, reliability and transparency remain front and center.

For investors comparing crypto prices today, the return profile stands out. ETH’s earliest adopters achieved 100x growth from entry to peak. Analysts now highlight MUTM’s pathway to $0.80 from its $0.035 presale valuation, representing a 23x target. With BTC already commanding six figures, traders debating what crypto to invest in next see Mutuum Finance (MUTM) as the only contender delivering both utility and exponential growth potential in one package.

Conclusion

BTC remains the leader, but its scale makes massive upside unreachable for latecomers. In contrast, Mutuum Finance (MUTM) is still priced at entry levels that allow investors to capture growth as adoption accelerates. From lending mechanics to utilization-based rates and risk-controlled collateral markets, MUTM’s design is built for scalability. Analysts comparing crypto investment options conclude that while BTC offers security, MUTM is the smarter growth play. With the presale live, Phase 7 approaching, and early holders locking in, the market debate over what crypto to invest in may already have an answer.

For more information about Mutuum Finance (MUTM) visit the links below:

Website: https://www.mutuum.com

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/mutuumfinance

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Ethereum’s mid-sized whale cohort is sitting on massive paper gains, reaching levels not seen since the network’s last market peak almost four years ago.

Analyst CryptoOnchain has shared data showing wallets with between 10,000 and 100,000 ETH seeing unrealized profits rise to cycle highs, a sign that historically came right before selling pressure increased.

Whale Wallet Profits Mirror Previous Market Top

According to the analysis, this uptick in unrealized profits among average-sized whales highlights a stage in the cycle where investor psychology can significantly shape price action.

In previous instances, including the 2021 peak, such levels coincided with either large-scale profit-taking or, at a minimum, heightened selling pressure. While the data does not guarantee an imminent correction, it suggests that the market has entered a zone where whale decisions could dictate Ethereum’s near-term trajectory.

“This does not necessarily mean an immediate correction,” wrote CryptoOnchain. “It highlights a critical stage in the cycle where investor psychology and whale behavior could heavily influence price action.”

The timing of these gains is also notable. Ethereum has rallied more than 95% in the last year and 8.7% over the past month, and was trading at $4,591 at the time of this writing, just 6.9% below its record high of $4,946.

Furthermore, in the last week, ETH has oscillated between $4,404 and $4,762, with intraday swings between $4,440 and $4,637 in the past 24 hours. This ideally puts whales in a position of strength, as many of them accumulated at significantly lower levels during Ethereum’s consolidation phase.

Still, the market backdrop is complicating the whale picture. For example, as chartist Ali Martinez reported previously, big investors sold 90,000 ETH worth more than $400 million in just 48 hours, leaving them with only 15.4 million tokens. Those moves may have been opportunistic profit-taking before yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting, but they also showed how quickly whale actions can change the market if sentiment turns.

Institutional Signals and Price Trajectory

Renewed institutional participation is also helping offset the risk of whale-driven sell-offs. Evidence of this was provided by CQ analyst PelinayPA on September 17, who highlighted that Ethereum’s Fund Market Premium (FMP), which compares futures prices to spot prices, has been steadily rising since July. That trend shows that institutional buyers are willing to pay more than the current price for exposure, which is often seen as a sign of long-term rallies.

Meanwhile, on the charts, ETH remains pinned below the $4,850 resistance level after months of climbing within a steep ascending channel, as noted in CryptoPotato’s latest pulse check. The asset continues to print higher highs and higher lows, supported by a bullish moving-average crossover, yet momentum is fading as traders await a breakout.

If whales decide to lock in profits, ETH could revisit the $4,000 zone. But if they hold, or if institutions absorb the selling, analysts see a realistic chance of the altcoin breaking above $5,000 before the month’s end.

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TL;DR

• The launch of the REX-Osprey XRP ETF (XRPR), described as a “spot ETF with extras,” has been among the most talked-about topics in the crypto community recently.
• Ripple also teamed up with Franklin Templeton and DBS Bank, enabling trading between its RLUSD stablecoin and Franklin’s tokenized money market fund sgBENJI.

Breaking News Today

Ripple has taken center stage lately, mainly due to the developments on the ETF front. As CryptoPotato reported, the REX-Osprey XRP exchange-traded fund (under the ticker XRPR) is scheduled for launch today (September 18).

While the issuer described the investment vehicle as a spot ETF, some industry participants identified features that distinguish it from other such products. The popular Fox Business journalist Eleanor Terrett claimed it will operate as a “spot ETF with extras.”

“To my understanding, it’s a spot product in a ’40 Act wrapper that holds real XRP plus cash, Treasuries, and some derivatives. Basically a spot ETF with extras, and is more regulated than traditional spot products,” she said.

Contrary to the upcoming product, spot crypto ETFs that have already been approved in the United States are registered under the Securities Act of 1933, which governs commodity-based trusts. For a detailed breakdown of how REX-Osprey’s ETF compares to standard spot ETFs, please read our article here.

Grayscale has also displayed its intentions to introduce a product that tracks the performance of numerous cryptocurrencies, including XRP.

Earlier today, CEO Peter Mintzberg said the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved the Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund (GDLC) for trading along with the Generic Listing Standards. He also added that the team is working “expeditiously” to launch the first multi-crypto asset ETP with BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, and ADA as underlying assets. 

The GDLC is specifically designed to give investors exposure to some of the biggest cryptocurrencies, without requiring them to buy and store the coins themselves directly. It will track the CoinDesk Large Cap Select Index and will operate with daily cash creation and redemption of 10,000-share baskets.

Ripple’s Prestigious Partnership

In addition to the breaking ETF news, the company shook hands with the global investment company Franklin Templeton (which has over $1.6 trillion in assets under management) and the leading bank in Singapore, DBS Bank.

According to the signed memorandum of understanding (MoU), the financial institution will list sgBENJ and RLUSD. The former is a tokenized version of Franklin Templeton’s US dollar money market fund, while the latter is Ripple’s stablecoin, which is pegged to the greenback.

“With this setup, eligible DBS clients can trade RLUSD for sgBENJI tokens, enabling them to rebalance their portfolios into a relatively stable asset 24/7 and within minutes, while earning yield during periods of volatility,” the official announcement reads.

In the next phase of the collaboration, the Singaporean bank plans to explore helping clients unlock liquidity by using their sgBENJI tokens as collateral.

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TL;DR

• SUI trades near $3.83 after a 7% gain, testing the top of the downtrend channel resistance.
• The Google-backed protocol by Mysten Labs adds attention as consolidation continues above key support zones.
• SUI’s TVL holds above $2.1B, with consistent capital inflow and renewed bullish interest from analysts.

Price Moves Toward Key Resistance

SUI gained 7% in the last 24 hours, reaching $3.83. The trading volume for the same period was over $1.7 billion. Over the past week, the token is up 5%. The price is now testing the top of a downtrend channel that has held since earlier this year.

Chart analysis shows that SUI is approaching the upper boundary of the structure. Crypto analyst Rekt Capital said,

“SUI is on the cusp of breaking out from this Downtrending Channel (light blue). A breakout would see SUI revisit the old All Time High area.”

Notably, the previous high sits near $5.35. SUI has formed a series of higher lows in recent weeks. These moves suggest growing interest from buyers. The top of the channel, near $3.80, is a key area. If the price moves above this level and holds, it may open the way toward higher levels.

If the breakout fails, SUI could move back to support near $3.40. Below that, the next range sits between $2.33 and $2.00. This zone acted as a strong base earlier in the year and may do so again if tested.

Google Partnership Adds Fuel

Recent developments around the SUI network have drawn attention to the project. Google announced its Agents Payments Protocol, built by Mysten Labs, which is the team behind SUI. Analyst Michaël van de Poppe commented,

A massive partnership announcement from $SUI as Google has announced the Agents Payments Protocol.

This has been built by the Mysten Labs team, the founders of $SUI.$SUI & $WAL are both partners with Google and I think that the ecosystem is ready to do well.

Great… pic.twitter.com/BhzMagMudf

— Michaël van de Poppe (@CryptoMichNL) September 17, 2025

He also noted the current trend, saying there is “great consolidation before a big breakout.” The price has moved within a tight range for several weeks while forming a clear support structure.

Platform Usage Remains Strong

SUI’s Total Value Locked (TVL) is $2.116 billion as of September 18, 2025, according to DeFiLlama. TVL reached new highs earlier in the summer and has stayed above $2 billion since then.

Net inflows on the most recent day came in at $3,852. While this is a small figure, overall capital in the ecosystem has remained steady. Analyst Kaleo said,

“Still believe it’s only a matter of time before we see SUI break out of the range it’s been accumulating in… and make a run for all time highs vs. BTC.”

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Bitcoin’s price is quickly recovering and paving its way toward a new all-time high after the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by a quarter point and signals there are still more to come in the upcoming year. Therefore, investors’ fears are alleviated, and the market is likely to rally further in the coming weeks.

By Shayan

The Daily Chart

Bitcoin’s daily chart demonstrates a clear bounce from the $107K demand zone and a rise back above the 100-day moving average, located around the $113K mark. After yesterday’s Fed rate cut, the asset is continuing its path toward the $124K supply zone, which aligns with the current BTC all-time high.

The RSI is also trending above the 50% level, indicating that the momentum has now shifted bullish once again. All these signals point to a potential continuation toward the $124K ATH and likely a further rally toward $130K and even higher.

The 4-Hour Chart

As the 4-hour chart demonstrates, Bitcoin’s recent rally has occurred after the price successfully broke out of a descending channel, following a swift double bottom rebound at the $108K supply zone.

The asset has now swept the liquidity pool above the previous $107K high, which can lead to two possible scenarios. The market can either carry on with the uptrend and attack the $124K area once again, or it can pull back at least to the $112K order block, which is the most notable demand zone nearby. Yet, with the RSI still below the overbought region, the price seemingly has more room to grow before a correction occurs.

Sentiment Analysis

Open Interest

This chart displays the Bitcoin aggregate open interest, which shows the number of open perpetual futures positions. Typically, during bullish market conditions, this metric climbs higher or consolidates, as more and more traders are taking leveraged positions. This is exactly what can be seen on the chart.

Meanwhile, another interesting observation is that even with the market going through a short-term correction a few weeks ago, the open interest has yet to drop. While this is generally a bullish sign, it also points to the fact that the futures market might still be overheated. Therefore, there is still the probability for a liquidation cascade to happen in the short term, which could cause a flash crash before the market stabilizes again.

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Bitcoin (BTC) has recorded a mild uptick over the past week as it traded above $117,240. New data suggest that the crypto asset’s path forward depends on $115,440 support.

The reaction around this level will likely determine whether Bitcoin extends its rally or slips into a sharper correction.

Lose $115K, Face $93K

According to crypto analyst Ali Martinez’s latest update, BTC’s Pricing Bands reveal the emergence of $115,440 as the most critical support level for the crypto asset. This threshold now serves as the decisive pivot point for the market’s next major move.

If Bitcoin manages to hold above it, momentum could build toward the next upside target at $137,300. This is expected to boost bullish conviction further. However, a breakdown below this zone could expose the market to deeper downside pressure, and even bring $93,600 into focus as the next key support.

Meanwhile, Swissblock found that the recent short-term volatility in Bitcoin was repricing risk, and not a market breakdown. According to the firm, testing the lower end of Bitcoin’s current range remains within normal volatility expectations and could be the final downside move before the next major leg higher.

Two bullish signals have surfaced that support this outlook – rising liquidity and strong network growth. These signals together have historically led to sharp advances.

For example, in February 2024, Bitcoin surged 35% in two weeks, while in November 2024, it rallied 40% in three weeks following similar build-ups. Now, the firm noted that Bitcoin is experiencing the strongest and longest build-up of the entire cycle, and is effectively spring-loading the market for a breakout.

Within one to three weeks, they expect new all-time highs for Bitcoin, which could be accompanied by upside rotations in Ethereum and altcoins, fueled by sidelined cash ready to re-enter at lower levels.

September Seasonal Drag Nearing End?

September has historically been challenging for Bitcoin, but conditions appear to be changing. The crypto asset climbed 3% last week. Bitfinex Alpha report also highlighted that the asset is showing signs of forming a stable base.

The momentum is visible across the market as evidenced by the surge in the total crypto capitalization, while on-chain buy pressure and Cost Basis Distribution (CBD) metrics further point to a strong investor participation, which could position Bitcoin for a potential breakout into Q4.

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