Bitcoin Holds Near $86,000 as Market Gains Narrow; Brent Falls Below $100
Bitcoin traded near $86,000 as gains narrowed across digital assets. Bitcoin Cash rose 32% in 24 hours following a CME futures listing, while Brent crude fell below $100.
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Bitcoin traded near $86,000 as gains narrowed across digital assets. Bitcoin Cash rose 32% in 24 hours following a CME futures listing, while Brent crude fell below $100.
CFTC Chair Michael Selig said tokenization could reshape financial markets as the CFTC and SEC advance onchain initiatives, including the SEC’s opening to onchain stocks, despite a setback for the CLARITY Act.
Cointelegraph reported that on-chain signals have confirmed a new Bitcoin bull market. The analysis flagged $90,000 as a potential profit-taking area, creating a possible risk for BTC’s ongoing advance.
FTX- and Alameda-linked wallets moved roughly $75 million in ether to a wallet associated with Wintermute, PeckShield and EmberCN said. Neither a sale nor the purpose of the transfer has been confirmed.
A former Polish police officer has been charged in an investigation linked to Zondacrypto. Authorities are searching a fuel depot where the exchange’s founder was last seen in 2022, using experts and forensic equipment.
BlackRock says AI agents could support wider stablecoin and crypto adoption, with payments viewed as the nearer-term opportunity. Markets for computing capacity remain at an early stage, according to the asset manager.
The XRP Ledger is retrying an upgrade that could activate Oct. 5, allowing businesses to delegate limited powers such as payments or customer approvals without giving another account full control.
A report cited by Cointelegraph names the US Treasury secretary as the leading candidate for Trump’s AI czar role. David Sacks previously held the combined AI and crypto position before reaching his service limit.
Solana is testing Alpenglow, an upgrade that could reduce transaction finality from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds. CoinDesk said the change may help exchanges, bridges and merchants treat payments as irreversible almost immediately.
Bitcoin’s 10% September gain has put it on track for a rare three-month sequence of monthly advances, a streak CoinDesk says would be the cryptocurrency’s first since 2012 if sustained through month-end.
DeepSeek will speak to the UN Security Council about AI risks this week alongside Dario Amodei, who has spent the past year calling China’s government the industry’s biggest threat, Decrypt reported.
Four decade-old Bitcoin wallets moved 1,971 BTC worth about $161 million between September 6 and September 22. One transfer involved 600 BTC valued at $51.9 million, while three wallets carried “Noah Doe” lawsuit tags.