🔮 #BTC Analysts at Standard Chartered predict BTC will reach $135,000 in the near term if the government shutdown drags on, and expect a price of $200,000 by the end of the year.

🇺🇸👀 #macro US (Sep):
- S&P Composite PMI: 53.9 (pre: 54.6);
- S&P Services PMI: 54.2 (pre: 54.5);
- ISM Services PMI: 50 (pre: 52).

🆕👀 #MORPHO Binance adds Morpho.

📊 #BTC Swissblock: The Short-Term Holder cost basis (~$111.6K) continues to act as the pivot between bullish continuation and bearish risk.

Five successful defenses since May highlight structural resilience.

🎢 The crowd is massively opening long positions in altcoins, which significantly increases the risk of liquidations, experts warn.

🏦 #ETH Goldman Sachs sees an increase in institutional participation in Ethereum

💸👀 CoinGlass: >$130 million liquidated in the last hour

🤔 #BTC CQ: Why the rising share of long-term Bitcoin holders matters in this rally?

If trend continues, it signals that investors are not just holding because of past conditions but are deliberately positioning for long-term growth.

🕵️‍♂️📈 #BTC Taker Buy Volume just spiked to $1.62B in a single hour.

🇺🇸👀 Crypto #ETF Flows Today:
#BTC-ETFs:
NetFlow: +5,256 BTC ($632.13M) 🟢
BlackRock inflows 3,859 BTC ($464.17M) and currently holds 777,321 BTC ($93.49B);
#ETH-ETFs:
NetFlow: +67,038 ETH ($300.33M) 🟢
BlackRock inflows 39,320 ETH ($176.16M) and currently holds 3,888,192 ETH ($17.42B).

🙋‍♂️ #ADA Google Cloud is running a validator for Midnight, Cardano’s privacy-first partner chain. x.com

📊🤔 #BTC Glassnode: After last week’s record options expiry, Bitcoin open interest reset sharply. This "clears the board" of hedging noise and sets the stage for Q4. The rebuild in OI now reflects deliberate positioning on direction & volatility, not just expiry mechanics.

📈 CryptoRank: Perp Volume Soars Past $9 Trillion

Traders assume more risk, driven by on-chain perpetuals. Institutional investments and wider crypto adoption fuel a surge. Competition among perpetual DEXs boosts volume, risk appetite increases, #ETF demand is strong, and crypto interest grows.

Perpetual futures (or perps) are a type of derivative contract that enables traders to speculate on the price movements of cryptocurrencies or other assets, without owning the underlying assets.

🏴‍☠️🐶 #SHIB Shibarium by Shiba Inu prepares for a bridge relaunch.
Most of the stolen assets remain with the attackers, but a plan is underway to return funds to users.

📊👀 #SUI has 2 liquidity clusters right now

One around the $3.8-$4 level and the other around the $3.2-$3.4 level. Major liquidations are to the upside, so whales could sweep that liquidity first.

🗽👀 #ETF Rex/Osprey have filed 21 new crypto #ETF applications

🤑 This guy turned $68.7K into $9.4M in just 2 days, a 135x return.
Two days ago, he spent 68 #BNB ($68,700) to buy 63.07 million #4/WBNB tokens—they're now worth $9.4 million. That's over $9.3 million in profit.

Address:
0xce5ad0ff16863f54a0daa27ff831177ad1144c07

🧐 #ETH Ethereum Foundation converts 1000 ETH to stablecoins using CoWSwap's TWAP feature to "fund research and development, grants and donations, and to highlight the power of DeFi"