Solana pushes to $118 amid $18 million in short liquidations
Solana's SOL token reached $117.23 on Sept. 21, its highest level since January, as Bitcoin pushed above $86,000 and roughly $900M in leveraged crypto shorts
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Solana's SOL token reached $117.23 on Sept. 21, its highest level since January, as Bitcoin pushed above $86,000 and roughly $900M in leveraged crypto shorts
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Multicoin's Kyle Samani predicts Solana will overtake Ethereum this cycle. SOL needs a 5x rise to top ETH's $293B cap; Solana already leads on 30-day fees.
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Volmex BVIV perpetuals debuted on Hyperliquid Monday with USDC, 5x leverage. Fee schedule, day-one volume and Deribit comparison not disclosed.
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Bitcoin cleared $85,000 on Sept. 21, hitting $85,248 before easing to $84,545. CoinGlass tracked $648M in short liquidations over 24 hours.
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NEAR traded around $4.29 on Monday, up 78.2% over seven days, while NEAR Intents cumulative volume approached $29.3 billion and ZEC shielded flow rose.
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Strategy bought 950 Bitcoin for $75.7 million, bringing its holdings back to 846,000 BTC while spending another $174 million on STRC preferred-stock buybacks.
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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said on CNBC crypto event-contracts are taking a disproportionate share of platform flow and sports will fall into the minority within
NEAR climbed 23% to above $4 as daily ZEC swap volume on NEAR Intents jumped sixfold in a week, while Bitcoin held just above $81,000, per CoinDesk data.
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Bitcoin options now carry more open interest than futures for the first time, while offshore dated futures volume sits 97% below its 2021 high, per Glassnode
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XRPL processed 2.34M transactions in 24 hours through Sept 18, up 8.9% day-on-day and above the 30-day average, per XRPScan.
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In one hour on Sept. 15, XRP saw $2.02M of short liquidations vs $1.58M of longs, an 851% imbalance. Binance funding had turned negative.
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BSOL saw $85M in trading volume as SOL rose 11% to $112 on Thursday, its highest since January 2026. The $85M figure could not be verified here.
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WTGXX, WisdomTree's $1.23 billion tokenized U.S. Treasury money market fund, will be sold through MoonPay to U.S.
Coinbase Derivatives filed on Sept. 18 to list cash-settled US single-stock perpetuals with the CFTC. The CFTC docket shows the product 'Approval Pending (45)'.
Polymarket bettors price a 51% chance Bitcoin falls to $75,000 in September, with 70% odds of $80,000 and 18% of $85,000. Deribit's 25-delta put skew sat 1.44pp above calls, with DVOL near 38.9%.
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OFAC designated Tehran-based BitBank for moving hundreds of millions in bitcoin to Iran's IRGC between June and July, citing Executive Order 13902.
Bitcoin Core 32 adds parallel validation reads and a mempool-based fee estimator. Draft release notes also flag mining compatibility changes, wallet updates and server limits.
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Avalanche (AVAX) rose 4.65% as the broader crypto market rallied, while fresh tokenization developments added support to the network's RWA narrative.
XRP plunges nearly 10% after the CLARITY Act fails to advance in the Senate, while Bitcoin falls toward $76,000 and major crypto assets slide.
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Bitcoin ETFs recorded $282.6 million in outflows for a third straight session, while XRP funds continued attracting capital as institutional demand becomes more selective.
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Solana minted more than 263,000 SPL tokens in a single day, setting a new record as Pump.fun accounted for the majority of launchpad-driven creations.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is urging the Senate to advance the CLARITY Act before the September 15 procedural vote, framing the legislation as a tool for crypto regulation, enforcement and national security.
Dogecoin dropped more than 5% as Bitcoin held near $78,000, with rising oil prices and Treasury yields increasing pressure on crypto markets ahead of U.S. CPI data.
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Bitcoin slipped toward $77,000 after August PPI pushed September Fed rate-hike odds to 74%. Here's how inflation, Treasury yields and Friday's CPI could impact BTC.
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