Bitcoin is about to sign its best third quarter since 2017, with a gain of more than 42% since early July. However, the return of the price below 83,000 dollars weakens this performance before the release of decisive US data.
A report by Democratic senators accuses USDT of being a pillar of Iran's parallel banking system. Tether responded the same day, highlighting nearly 550 million dollars frozen in 2026. The episode revives the question of stablecoin regulation.
Strive continues to buy bitcoin almost every week. The Nasdaq-listed company acquired an additional 1,107 BTC for 94.5 million dollars between September 21 and 25. Average price: 85,396 dollars per bitcoin. Its reserve now reaches 27,462 BTC, or about 2.3 billion dollars at current prices.
Despite spectacular increases in several launched tokens, the memecoin market falls to around 35.4 billion dollars. These performances usually rely on low liquidity, while the sector's main assets remain stable or decline.
China tackles an old reputation of crypto. For its Ministry of State Security, using Bitcoin or other digital assets is not enough to disappear from the radars. Public transactions remain on the blockchain, exchanges often know their customers, and conversions to traditional currency can leave new traces. Beijing talks about fraud, money laundering, ransoms, and even espionage. The observation holds quite well for Bitcoin. For all crypto, it is already less simple.
Bitget has started restoring withdrawals after the September 24 security incident that resulted in approximately $388 million in unauthorized transfers. BTC withdrawals reopened on September 28 across the Bitcoin and BSC networks, while the exchange continues a phased restoration of other assets. Bitget says user account balances were not affected and no additional unauthorized transfers have been identified since the incident was contained.
Ethereum has set the date: Glamsterdam, its next major update, will activate on the Sepolia testnet on October 6 at 13:53 UTC. Operators have one week to update their clients or face exclusion from the network. This is the final rehearsal before the mainnet, targeted for the fourth quarter of 2026.
As it approaches its stock market debut, Anthropic delivers an unusual warning. In its prospectus, the Claude designer thinks that advanced AIs could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity".
Bitcoin continues, in my opinion, to show a generally positive structure, even though the market remains very volatile. After the recent rise, I would not be surprised to see BTC correct further before resuming. A drop towards the 82,000-79,000 dollar zone remains quite possible and, in my eyes, this would not mean that the bullish trend is over.
This Tuesday, Aave posts the best DeFi rise! Its founder, Stani Kulechov, envisions a crypto token burn in Aavenomics 3.0, and buyers have seized on it. Meanwhile, the US 10-year yield remains very high and DeFi still progresses. Here are the key figures.