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South Korean brokerage BNK Investment & Securities has signed a strategic memorandum of understanding with cultural-finance fintech EverTreasure, teaming up to build fractional investment and tokenized securities products backed by films, performances, musicals and artworks. The deal, reported by Yonhap News Agency on September 14, 2026, lands just months before South Korea’s regulated tokenized securities market officially opens for business, making this partnership one of the earliest concrete bets on where that market might head. Key takeaways BNK Investment & Securities and EverTreasure signed an MoU on September 14, 2026, to develop tokenized securities tied to cultural assets like films,…

Doctor Profit, a closely followed trader in the cryptocurrency market, announced that he has closed all his short positions in Bitcoin and altcoins and has resumed buying spot BTC. Doctor Profit stated that among the positions he closed were a short position opened when Bitcoin was between $115,000 and $125,000, as well as another Bitcoin short position created in the $79,000 to $82,000 range. The trader also said that he closed all of the short positions he had opened for more than 100 altcoins in the last few months and made significant profits from these trades. Doctor Profit announced that…

Ethereum has fallen roughly 2% over the past 24 hours to trade near $2,480 on Sept. 15, putting $ETH at risk of slipping below $2,400 if selling continues. CoinGecko data shows the decline followed a sharp rejection from an intraday high near $2,606, extending $ETH’s repeated failure to establish $2,500 as support. The rejection extended a series of failed attempts to establish $2,500 as support. $ETH has repeatedly moved above the level only to meet selling between roughly $2,535 and $2,600, leaving buyers unable to hold the breakout. Macro uncertainty has weighed on the latest attempt, with the Federal Reserve…

Grayscale CEO Peter Mintzberg stated that the long-running “crypto winter” in the cryptocurrency market is coming to an end and the market is starting to heat up again. In an opinion piece published in Fortune, Mintzberg noted that institutional investors’ interest in digital assets has increased significantly compared to previous periods. According to Mintzberg, the current market cycle differs significantly from previous downturns experienced in 2014, 2018, and 2022. In this cycle, the more active role of institutional investors has contributed to sharper price declines being more limited compared to previous periods. Grayscale’s CEO stated that traditional financial institutions’ interest…

The $XRP Ledger has surpassed 8.03 million accounts, pushing the estimated balance required to rank among the top 1% of $XRP wallets to around 44,930 $XRP. While the figure has become a popular benchmark among $XRP investors, According to analyst cheeky crypto, it should not be viewed as a fixed target because the threshold changes as new wallets are created, balances shift, and the network continues to expand. With approximately 8.03 million accounts on the ledger, the top 1% represents roughly 80,000 wallet addresses. The $XRP balance needed to secure one of those positions is determined by the distribution of…

$USDC and WETH are now available on Neo X through Chainlink’s CCIP-powered Transporter bridge, marking the first tokens configured for cross-chain transfer on the network’s CCIP integration. The activation opens the door for stablecoin and $ETH liquidity on Neo X, opening pathways for DeFi, trading, and application development across the ecosystem. When NNT covered the initial CCIP MainNet deployment in May, the integration supported only arbitrary messaging with a single Neo X-Ethereum lane and no tokens configured for transfer. The Sept. 14 announcement changes that status, activating the token transfer functionality that had remained dormant since deployment. Bridged $USDC and…

Bitcoin ($BTC) has formed a rare bullish Relative Strength Index (RSI) divergence on its weekly chart, a technical signal that previously preceded a rally of more than 700%. The weekly bullish RSI divergence has emerged during $BTC’s consolidation following its correction from 2025 highs above $120,000, signaling that selling pressure may be easing and echoing conditions seen near the 2022 bear-market bottom. The weekly chart shared by analyst Ali Martinez in an X post on July 18 shows Bitcoin printing a lower low in price while the RSI forms a higher low. This creates a bullish divergence, a pattern that…

Ethereum price fell toward $2,475 after a brief move above $2,600 failed, leaving $ETH exposed to weaker momentum and leveraged volatility ahead of two major U.S. events. Ethereum price falls back below $2,500 According to data from crypto.news, Ethereum ($ETH) price traded near $2,475 on Sept. 15 after dropping approximately 2% over the previous 24 hours. The decline followed a sharp rejection above $2,600, where buyers failed to sustain a breakout. The daily chart shows $ETH opening at $2,515.72 before trading between $2,465.60 and $2,520 during the latest session. The token was down 1.65% at the time of writing. Price…

Japanese financial group SBI Holdings has agreed to invest $270 million to acquire a 20% stake in Ajaib, an Indonesian online securities and cryptocurrency trading platform. The deal, reported by Crypto Briefing, values Ajaib at approximately $1.35 billion, marking one of the larger fintech investments in Southeast Asia this year. Deal Background and Platform Overview Ajaib, founded in 2018, operates a digital investment platform that allows users to trade stocks, mutual funds, bonds, and cryptocurrencies. The company reports more than 3 million users, making it one of Indonesia’s most prominent retail investment apps. The fresh capital from SBI Holdings is…

$PEPE’s on-chain ledger just flashed a signal that stands out against two months of price consolidation. According to the on-chain update from Santiment, 4.54 trillion $PEPE tokens moved off exchanges in a single day—the largest net outflow since November 14, 2024. The event caught market attention precisely because it occurred without an accompanying spike in price or social volume. When a meme asset loses exchange liquidity while the crowd is not chasing it, the behavior tends to be read as a deliberate rotation of supply into hands that are less likely to sell immediately. Exchange net flow metrics reflect the…