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Below price, the 20-day exponential moving average (EMA), a trend line that weights recent prices more heavily, sits at $2,616.57. The 50-day EMA at $2,445.18 and the Supertrend at $2,439.02 form the next cushion, about 8% under price. Related: Bitcoin Price Prediction October 2026: $BTC Eyes $90,000 in October as Fed Hike Odds Slide Below 50% The Supertrend, a trend tool that trails price and flips when the trend turns, has stayed in buy mode since July. $ETH trades above all four EMAs, and the 100-day at $2,280.93 now sits above the 200-day at $2,267.02. $ETH Support and Resistance Levels,…

Brown argued that when someone buys a “passive” index fund, a private company’s committee, not the fund manager, decides what counts as “the market.” However, three firms, MSCI, S&P Dow Jones Indices and FTSE Russell, set the benchmarks that 54% of all long-term fund assets in the United States follow. $21 trillion is benchmarked to MSCI’s indexes alone. Three major index firms control 54% of the market. Source: Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) Brown is calling out that scale as a problem. Index providers, by adding or cutting a single company, force every fund tracking the benchmark to rebalance, which trickles…

Alongside that job, he founded Saavedra & Associates LLC, a security outfit that staffed its shifts with active LASD deputies and other law enforcement officers. Adam Iza became the firm’s marquee client. Court documents say the self-styled cryptocurrency businessman, who lived between Beverly Hills and Newport Beach, paid roughly $100,000 a month for round-the-clock guards, first from August 2021 through March 2022 and again from July 2024 until his arrest that September. Saavedra’s plea agreement reportedly revealed that he recruited 20 to 25 deputies for the detail, each paid about $750 a shift. Prosecutors said Saavedra used his LASD credentials…

On Binance, a separate review produced a narrower action. Binance announced that AIXBT/$USDC, DOLO/$USDC, $ENJ/$USDC, $HUMA/$USDC, SXT/$USDC, TNSR/$USDC and TURTLE/$USDC will stop trading at 03:00 UTC on Sept. 25. The exchange cited factors including “poor liquidity and trading volume.” Upbit gives SOPH until mid-October for review Upbit’s warning period runs from Sept. 22 through the second week of October, which the exchange defined as Oct. 12–16. During that window, the exchange will assess whether the concerns behind the designation have been addressed. Three outcomes remain possible under Upbit’s process. The exchange can lift the warning, extend its review period or…

Market Pulse Currently, the market is witnessing a lack of trading volume for Optimism, with the price remaining at $0 and no recorded volume in the last 24 hours. This absence of market activity suggests that while interest in partnerships is growing, actual trading dynamics may take time to develop. Observers are keen on how this partnership will impact both Optimism and the broader market as more real-world assets enter the blockchain sphere. Optimism is a layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum, designed to enhance transaction throughput and reduce costs on the network. DB Securities is a financial services company in…

The milestone activated FIP-102, a consensus upgrade that changes how future FB emissions are distributed while preparing the token for distribution on Bitcoin. The proposal does not raise FB’s total supply or create a separate supply for tokens distributed through Bitcoin. Under FIP-102, Fractal’s first scheduled halving reduced the block reward from 25 FB to 12.5 FB. The proposal simultaneously brought forward the network’s second halving, cutting the reward available on Fractal again to 6.25 FB. The remaining 6.25 FB per Fractal block equivalent has been allocated to a Bitcoin mainnet distribution budget. That allocation will not immediately be distributed…

Despite those headwinds, Ethereum’s daily chart remains constructive. The asset continues trading above its key exponential moving averages, although buyers have yet to overcome nearby resistance. Rising exchange reserves signal potential selling pressure Ethereum exchange reserves have increased by roughly 125,000 $ETH since Friday, according to CryptoQuant data. The metric tracks $ETH held in exchange wallets. Rising reserves can indicate that holders are preparing to sell, particularly after a price recovery, although deposits alone do not establish that those tokens have been sold. Santiment data also showed more than $222 million in realized profits on Friday. Profit-taking subsequently eased, suggesting…

Clarification of Stablecoin Characteristics Stablecoins, as described in the guidance, are privately issued digital tokens pegged to fiat currencies and designed to maintain price stability. That definition matters because it draws a firm boundary: these are not government-issued money, even though they are built to track the value of currencies like the euro or the dollar. The distinction sounds technical, but it has real consequences for how regulators classify risk, oversight and consumer protection around crypto assets. Distinction from Central Bank Digital Currencies The guidance also draws a sharp contrast between stablecoins and central bank digital currencies. Unlike stablecoins, central…

The committee said Monday that it has since received nearly 1,000 documents and five briefings from representatives of Polymarket and Kalshi as it continues examining whether prediction markets have adequate safeguards against traders using sensitive information. The latest letters extend that scrutiny beyond dedicated prediction market platforms. For Hyperliquid, lawmakers specifically pointed to a large leveraged crypto short opened before President Donald Trump announced new China tariffs in October 2025. Public blockchain data showed a trader opened roughly $1.1 billion in leveraged Bitcoin and Ether shorts about 30 hours before the announcement and later closed the positions for more than…

However, those numbers alone don’t reveal how many different traders generated such activity. In this case, a large share of Kalshi’s volume came from the same set of recurring trade sizes, making it important to understand what was driving the pattern. One trade size drove 57% of Kalshi’s ether perp volume. (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk) The pattern predates that four-day sample. In 43 of 46 one-hour samples CoinDesk examined between June 19 and Sept. 20, ether trades repeatedly clustered around recurring specific dollar targets. The prevailing trade size accounted for about 45% of the value across those samples and more than half…