Bitcoin closed at $81,160, its first weekly close above the 50-week average in 45 weeks. The rally then pushed it above $87,000 for the first time since early February and drove roughly $900 million in 24-hour short liquidations.
STONK rose 30% in 24 hours and hit a new all-time high of $0.40. Its launchpad has used fee revenue to buy and burn tokens, removing 17% of the original supply.
ZADDR opened its 2,800-item Zcash NFT mint at 0.02 ZEC. Users then linked its art and site to the1969ETH, a prior project accused of rugging, though the team connection and theft claims remain disputed.
The Senate voted 49-50 against advancing the CLARITY Act, short of the 60 votes needed. Senators split over ethics, yield rules and procedure, leaving little time to revive the bill this session.
Muse added Stripe Link so its agent can pay on sites without a direct Link integration, using a one-off card for each purchase. Meta also opened Muse connectors to developers.
The Fed raised rates by 25 basis points to 3.75%–4.00% on September 16, its first hike since 2023. Bitcoin then climbed from $74,000 to above $85,000 even as markets priced in another hike.
Strategy returned to buying Bitcoin with a $75.7 million purchase after a two-month pause. It funded the buy from its dollar reserve.
The SEC granted qualifying venues five years of conditional relief to trade tokenized U.S. stocks through permissioned automated market makers on public chains. Goldman Sachs and Citizens analysts say Coinbase, Robinhood and Circle could benefit, but permissionless protocols remain outside the exemption.
ETH moved above $2,700 after closing above $2,600 for the first time in eight months. Traders now mark the $2,800 to $2,900 range as the next resistance.
TradeXYZ allocated about $3.4 million, or 12% of perpetual-fee revenue, to buy roughly 59,000 HYPE through time-weighted orders.
CATE reached an all-time-high market cap of roughly $115 million after crossing $100 million. The move followed repeated drawdowns of roughly 80% to 90%.
Solana processed a record 4.2 billion transactions in July, up 13.5% from June and about 91% from December 2025.
Robinhood Chain reached a record 375,000 active addresses, with DEX volume at $361 million and launchpad volume at $212 million. Robinhood Wallet’s confirmed swap route accounts for under 1% of transactions, so most activity may come from existing crypto users.
TAO passed $310 and gained about 30% on the week as it neared a high-time-frame base breakout.
Circle launched Arc mainnet with USDC as gas. Arc topped $300 million in TVL in about a day and crossed 20 million transactions within four days as DeFi apps and new tokens drove early activity.
HYPE broke above $95 and set another all-time high, extending its move past the previous record near $89.66.
A public study found repeated trade sizes and other abnormal patterns across 4.1 million Kalshi perpetual trades worth $11.5 billion. The findings suggest wash-style volume, though Kalshi staff have disputed parts of the analysis.
Apple listed an Apple Pay role that requires stablecoin expertise. The hire raises the odds of stablecoin support across its payments products, though no launch is committed.
LIT reached about $5.20 and set a new all-time high.
Useless Coin rose 21% on September 9 and reached a $336 million market cap.
Investors pulled a net $389.7 million from U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs from August 10 to 14, the largest weekly outflow in six weeks. Fidelity’s FBTC accounted for $153 million.
DRV hit $1.21 on Upbit after gaining 207% in a week and 365% in a month. Derive was on pace for record monthly options volume, but remained much smaller than Deribit.
Coinbase opened IPO share requests to eligible U.S. customers through its app, starting with Oura. Users can request shares at the offer price, but allocations are not guaranteed.
ZCAT takes a 3% cut from each trade and pays holders in ZEC every two hours. Total ZEC distributions passed $10 million 21 days after launch.
SOL reached $117, its highest level since January, and liquidated more than $18 million in shorts over 24 hours. The January breakdown level now stands as the next hurdle.