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Ethereum price today is trading near $3,948, slipping below the $4,000 mark after a sharp breakdown from its ascending trendline. The decline comes as whales accelerate selling, while inflows into exchanges highlight growing caution. Traders are watching the $3,800–$3,850 support zone as the key line of defense. Ethereum Price Struggles Below Key Trendline ETH Price Key Technical Levels (Source: TradingView) The 4-hour chart shows Ethereum breaking decisively under its multi-week ascending trendline around $4,200. Sellers forced price below the 20-, 50-, and 100-EMAs, which are now clustered between $4,083 and $4,238 and acting as resistance. Related: XRP Price Prediction: Futures…

Itaú Asset Management, Brazil’s largest private asset manager, has created a dedicated crypto division and appointed former Hashdex executive João Marco Braga da Cunha to lead the new unit. The unit builds on Itaú Asset’s existing crypto products, including the bank’s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) and a retirement fund offering exposure to digital assets. Itaú Asset manages over 1 trillion reais ($185 billion) in assets for its clients. “The crypto asset segment has unique characteristics for generating alpha. It’s a relatively new market that creates major opportunities due to its volatility,” Cunha said. He previously served as portfolio management director…

The US federal government is at risk of shutting down on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, if Congress fails to approve a new budget. In the ongoing budget negotiations between the parties, Republicans have proposed extending current spending levels until November 21, while Democrats have offered a proposal that would impose additional health care regulations and limits on President Donald Trump’s ability to block funding. However, these conditions are unacceptable to Republicans. The intransigence between the two sides increases the likelihood of a shutdown. Congressional leaders will reportedly meet with Trump at the White House on Monday to seek a solution.…

The size of crypto market cap is reported to be a total of 3.2 trillion of the present day (CoinMarketCap). Assuming it increases at the same rate as Bitcoin, 60 percent per annum, it might increase by approximately 9.5 times within five years. This trend is leading to a market size of between 36 trillion and 40 trillion by 2030. This is the proof of history. Throughout the years of 2020 to 2025, the market cap of Bitcoin significantly increased by 7 folds, reaching up to 1.2 trillion dollars. Ethereum was ahead of this trend, surging to $470 billion by…

Unless Republicans negotiate with Democrats and sign off on a bipartisan funding bill, the US government will shut down at midnight on Tuesday, likely delaying any consideration of a digital asset market structure bill in the Senate. On Monday, the US House of Representatives and Senate leaders are scheduled to meet with President Donald Trump to negotiate terms to avoid a government shutdown. Though in the majority of both chambers of Congress, Republicans need additional support to pass a temporary funding bill to keep the government open, leading to Democrats asking for a reversal in many of the healthcare cuts…

Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, announced that it will support two important network upgrades. Binance to Support Kusama and Polkadot Networks’ Migration to Asset Hub According to the exchange’s statement, Kusama (KSM) and Polkadot (DOT) networks are preparing for the transition to Asset Hub structures. Binance will temporarily suspend deposits and withdrawals on certain dates to prevent users from experiencing inconvenience during the transition period. Accordingly, token deposits and withdrawals on the Kusama network will be suspended at 10:00 AM on October 7, 2025. The network will transition to Asset Hub Kusama at 8:00 AM on the…

Trikon, a prominent Web3 platform for chain abstraction, has partnered with LERAX, an EVM-compatible L1 blockchain for RWA tokenization. The partnership aims to merge chain abstraction with real-world asset (RWA) tokenization to advance accessibility for worldwide participants. As the platform revealed in its official social media announcement, the development focuses on tokenization of commodities, real estate, and other tangible assets. Hence, the move is anticipated to foster a relatively efficient, inclusive, and secure ecosystem for ownership on-chain. 📣 Trikon × LERAX 🤝We’re thrilled to team up with @lerax_rwa , an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain revolutionizing ownership through fractionalization and secure…

An OTC whale who accumulated more than 60,000 ETH in the past week. It is now sitting on steep losses after Ethereum slipped below $4,000. On-chain data from Lookonchain shows the whale bought 60,333 ETH worth $238.7 million at an average cost of $4,230 per ETH. With ETH now trading below that level, the unrealized losses exceed $16 million. This OTC whale bought 60,333 $ETH($238.7M) at ~$4,230 avg in the past 7 days, and is now sitting on a loss of over $16M!Address:0xd8d041705735cd770408AD31F883448851F2C39d0xC4de1a0F88b5E10bdeF769830699c4F6191b49330x2aAF355c820676C104bd00Ee6c506FA05998dDa2 pic.twitter.com/SDbyFN9MXM — Lookonchain (@lookonchain) September 26, 2025 Large Buys Across Coinbase and Wintermute The whale spread purchases…

Public Keys is a weekly roundup from Decrypt, that tracks the key publicly traded crypto companies. Sharpening the Stake Ethereum treasury firm SharpLink Gaming is planning to stake a portion of its $3.6 billion ETH stash on the Linea network once it hits mainnet. The company had been staking almost all of its holdings through its custodians, Anchorage and Coinbase. But now it’s eyeing higher-yield opportunities. “When you hold billions of dollars of ETH and you’re looking at a portfolio of staking, there is going to be an ability to deploy that through staking opportunities on Linea,” SharpLink co-CEO Joseph…

New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Monday that Adrienne Harris will step down as Superintendent of the state’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) after four years of service. Kaitlin Asrow, currently Executive Deputy Superintendent of Research & Innovation, will assume the role of Acting Superintendent effective Oct. 18, 2025. Hochul credited Harris with strengthening DFS’s consumer protections and regulatory framework, including recovering more than $725 million in restitution for New Yorkers and establishing DFS as a global leader in digital asset oversight. Harris, appointed in August 2021, reshaped DFS into a more assertive financial regulator. She expanded consumer protections…