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The DeFi Report, a cryptocurrency analysis and data platform, shared a comprehensive assessment of Bitcoin ($BTC) and the broader cryptocurrency market in its latest report. Analyzing the bear market that has lasted for approximately 9.5 months (287 days), analysts have made critical observations at the intersection of on-chain metrics, buyer group behavior, and global macroeconomic risks. According to analysts at The DeFi Report, based on past bear market cycles that averaged one year, approximately 80% of the current downturn is behind us. Noting that the market has experienced three major corrections exceeding 30% so far, the analysts highlighted investor psychology…

September rate-hike odds have fallen to 38% on Polymarket after Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said cooling August inflation could persuade him to support holding rates steady. Waller makes August CPI the Fed rate hike test The Federal Reserve said in Waller’s published remarks on Sept. 3 that his decision at the September Federal Open Market Committee meeting would depend heavily on the next inflation report. With employment near what Waller called its maximum sustainable level, he said inflation has continued to move slowly toward the central bank’s 2% goal. Another jobs report and a fresh inflation reading will arrive…

There is speculation about a possible connection between pseudonymous Shiba Inu lead ambassador Shytoshi Kusama and Litecoin founder Charlie Lee. An X user had asked if Charlie Lee was Shytoshi Kusama. This claim remains unestablished, with no verified evidence showing that Lee and Kusama are the same person. However, the question prompted a response from long-time SHIB community member and Shiba Eternity advisor Mazrael. “Could be he chatted with Litecoin that one time,” Mazrael answered. This does not confirm that Charlie Lee is Shytoshi Kusama but suggests that Kusama may have interacted with Litecoin at some point. The latter might…

Fairshake affiliate Protect Progress spent $189,527.60 supporting Representative Jake Auchincloss before he defeated Democratic challenger Jason Poulos in Massachusetts’ Fourth Congressional District primary on Sept. 1. Unofficial results showed Auchincloss winning 72.3% of the vote, compared with 27.7% for Poulos. The victory moved the incumbent closer to securing a fourth House term as the crypto industry increases its involvement in the 2026 U.S. elections. A Protect Progress filing disclosed media spending supporting Auchincloss. Independent expenditure groups can advocate for or against candidates but cannot coordinate that spending with their campaigns. Poulos criticized the intervention, alleging that some of the money…

For an Indian crypto trader, selling $USDT on Binance P2P can look like a routine transaction. When a seller matches with a buyer, they receive Indian rupees through UPI or a bank transfer. Once they confirm that the money has arrived, they release the $USDT held in escrow. But what happens if the rupees came from money connected to a cybercrime committed before the transaction? That question has become a recurring concern on Reddit’s r/CryptoIndia community, where users have described bank liens, account freezes, and lengthy attempts to establish that they were simply counterparties in a legitimate crypto trade. Community…

Bitcoin’s comeback from the mid-August has divided the entire cryptocurrency trading into top performers and underperformers. Since August 17, Bitcoin increased by almost 22%. The exchanges and stablecoin-linked companies have followed suit but it cannot be said the same for miners. The September 9 Data & Insights analysis by The Block showed that, out of all mining companies, Canaan is the only one that is performing better than Bitcoin. The other 10 miners and those working close to it are delivering average median results of 1.8% profit, leaving their performance 20.2 percentage points behind Bitcoin’s 22% gain. The gap is…

Starting at year-end, large operators will have to meet the EU’s deforestation due diligence requirements, while smaller operators have a later deadline. Penalties for infringement include a maximum fine of at least 4% of a company’s annual EU-wide turnover. The system, designed to track cocoa batches from the farm to the factory, combines chemical maker Merck’s physical authentication technology with a Hedera-based record of origin, quality and compliance data, which the firms say will allow processors and regulators to verify a batch’s history ahead of the EU deadline. PwC has experience in the use of blockchain for traceability. In 2019,…

BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager, has chimed in on the crypto-quantum debate — and is surprisingly optimistic. The firm, which manages over $15 trillion in assets, said in its new report, Quantum Computing and Blockchains, that upgrading existing cryptography to quantum-resistant standards is a far easier task than actually building a functional quantum computer capable of breaking that cryptography. “In our view, PQ migration for cryptocurrencies is eminently addressable from a technical standpoint, and the key challenge is one of timely coordination and implementation,” the report read. The crypto community has sounded the alarm about hypothetical advancements in quantum…

India’s gold dominance is facing a new challenge as crypto ownership approaches 100 million users, although the gap remains wide. About 700 million Indian adults, 75%, own gold, compared with roughly 97.5 million, 10.2%, who hold crypto, according to figures cited by CoinDCX co-founder Sumit Gupta on September 3, 2026. The contrast highlights both gold’s deep-rooted role in Indian households and the rapid rise of crypto in just a decade. How Crypto Reached Nearly 100 Million Indian Users in a Decade India’s crypto adoption has accelerated from virtually zero to nearly 100 million users in about ten years, challenging gold’s…

Stellar is counting down to a major upgrade that will make it easier for builders writing smart contracts on the blockchain, while a change under the hood will help the network reach consensus faster as it continues to scale. In a recent post, Stellar made it known that the next upgrade to the network, Adapter (Protocol 28), is on its way. The Adapter upgrade is designed for builders, with two of its three changes ($CAP-85, $CAP-86) aimed squarely at making Soroban smart contracts easier to build, upgrade, and scale; reducing the number of contracts users have to deploy; making upgrades…