Cryptocurrency holding is declining among American investors. According to a Gallup survey published on September 21, 11% of them reported holding cryptos in June, down from 17% a year earlier. Despite this decline, bitcoin has strongly rebounded since the survey period.
Bitcoin Cash jumps 28%, Zcash 9%, and bitcoin falls back below 86,000 dollars. On paper, it looks like a capital flight. Except that while the market looks elsewhere, BlackRock continues to accumulate. Here is what the on-chain data doesn't tell you about BTC.
In the third quarter, SHIB shows a cumulative increase of 44.1%, thanks to three consecutive months in the green. Historically, the month of October often has an average return of 167.5%, however this figure almost entirely relies on the spectacular explosion of 2021.
Solana is generating more fees than Ethereum, but ETH still leads on burn. The gap reveals two very different crypto economic models.
After failing to hold the $87,000 threshold, bitcoin erased its recent rebound. The price dropped to $83,508, while long position liquidations amplified the downward movement.
AI giants DeepSeek and Kimi are under Beijing's scrutiny following accusations of query transfers to Claude. The case reignites concerns about data and digital sovereignty.
An attack against users of the D’CENT App Wallet allowed the diversion of 11.746 million XRP, nearly 20 million dollars. Between September 15 and 20, 6,678 wallets were affected in six waves. More than 5.59 million XRP have already left the network via THORChain. The case does not come from a flaw in the XRP Ledger: the crypto transactions were signed with private keys controlled by the attacker. D’CENT is still investigating how these keys were compromised.
Peter Brandt believes that the price of Ethereum would reach 8600 dollars following a break of 5000 dollars. Ether progressing around 2660 dollars, this scenario remains distant and depends on multiple intermediate resistances.
The Russian Ministry of Finance estimates crypto assets held by Russians at 44 billion dollars. The figure, based on expert estimates, is much higher than the data published by the Central Bank.
In 2026, Kaspa stopped being "just" a fast payments network. After the Crescendo hard fork took the network to 10 blocks per second in 2025, the Toccata upgrade added native smart contracts, KRC-20 tokens and zero-knowledge (ZK) verification in late June 2026. That leaves the question anyone following the project actually cares about: what comes next? The answer is three build-outs, DAGKnight, the climb to 100 blocks per second, and VProgs, plus a Layer 2 ecosystem taking shape, not without friction. Here is what the next upgrades are preparing, and what they do not yet prove.