⚰️ The 2026 crypto bear market claims two more: a16z-backed L1 Linera and oracle protocol Switchboard shut down a day apart

🔹 Linera (Sept 18): raised $12M across 2 seed rounds (a16z, Borderless Capital), but a final sale drew just ~$900K vs. its $1.5M minimum — forced to refund everyone
"The decision does not reflect on the technology, the team, or this community."
🔹 Switchboard (Sept 19): telling devs to migrate to Pyth/RedStone, support ends Sept 25
"In many ways, crypto has won, there's less of a need for data intermediaries."

RootData's 2026 dead-projects list has now passed 260 entries — and still growing
#Crypto #BearMarket

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🐳 A wallet linked to BIT (formerly Matrixport) just sent another 1,000 $BTC (~$81M) to Binance — its 2nd big deposit this week, taking the 4-day total to 2,400 BTC (~$189M)

$BTC holding near $81K, testing resistance at $81,700-$83,000

📈 Binance $BTC reserves hit 693K+, highest in 2 years
📈 US spot $BTC ETFs pulled in $433M on Sept 18 (Fidelity's FBTC led with $311M) — more than 2x the value of BIT's transfers combined
3 possible outcomes: fresh sell pressure at resistance, coins sit idle for margin/client flows, or ETF demand simply absorbs it
#Bitcoin #Whale #Binance

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🚨 Michael Saylor argues crypto's real opportunity is bigger than the failed CLARITY Act — build products millions use, not chase restrictive legislation
"Our safest path forward is to create products that delight customers and deploy them broadly. Lower costs, easier access, useful services, and greater control over money give people a direct interest in preserving innovation."
His case:
🔹 CLARITY would've capped stablecoin reward incentives & limited its innovation sandbox to firms with ≤25 employees
🔹 Regulators (SEC, OCC, CFTC) can already expand bank custody, BTC-backed lending & tokenized stocks under existing law
🔹 Goal: "50 million satisfied users... Adoption raises the political cost of reversal."
His playbook spans bank custody, tokenized MSTR/STRC, Coinbase's stack & Circle's USDC — build now, formalize the rules later
#Bitcoin #CLARITYAct #Saylor

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📊 Weekly Wrap: Crypto market cap reclaims $2.8T, briefly nearing $2.9T — a stunning turnaround from the CLARITY Act crash

🔹 $BTC: +5% for the week, hit $81,914 (highest since Sept 4) after briefly dipping below $75K on Sept 16
🔹 $HYPE: new ATH at $94.48, +18% weekly, +260% YTD, mcap tops $20B
🔹 $ZEC: multi-year high of $1,590, +36% this week alone, +190% YTD, mcap nearing $25B
🔹 $NEAR: +75% in a week ($2.33 → $4.06)
🔹 $AVAX: +50% weekly
Altcoin mcap jumped from $1.17T → $1.23T. Some call it a "mini altseason" after ETH/BTC broke a 5-year downtrend
#Bitcoin #Altseason #Crypto

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🚨 $ZEC whale just capitulated.

Garrett Jin (@GarrettBullish), the largest $ZEC short, closed his entire 38,000 $ZEC ($58.5M) position at a staggering $35.44M loss.
But he’s still holding 202,078 $ZEC worth $309.25M on-chain, with $221M in unrealized profit.
The short is gone. The whale’s spot bet remains. 👀
Is this a sign of more upside for $ZEC?

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🚨 $BTC holds above $81,000, riding the wave after the SEC cleared onchain trading of tokenized US stocks (Thursday) and sparked a short squeeze

🔹 $NEAR is the standout — up ~23% to $4, as $NEAR Intents (its cross-chain swap service) saw daily $ZEC volume jump 6x in a week, with wallets like ZODL & Vizor plugging in $ZEC swaps
🔹 $ZEC +3% to ~$1,500, $BNB +2% to ~$777, $ETH & $HYPE +2%
Macro tailwind: Asian equities + US futures rose on "very successful" US-China trade talks ahead of the Trump-Xi summit; Brent crude fell to ~$101, easing inflation worries.

#Bitcoin #NEAR #Zcash

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🚀 $BTC breached $87,000 Monday — first time since Jan 30 — triggering a market-wide altcoin surge
🔹 $ETH +6% to $2,770 (touched $2,800), mcap $338B, YTD losses now under 7%
🔹 $BNB crossed $800 for the first time since late Jan (hit $806)
🔹 $XRP $1.40 → $1.54, double-digit gain
🔹 $DOGE led top-tier alts, +14%
🔹 $SUI +15%, $TAO +19%, $XLM +11%
Losers: $ZEC -1.4% (still +24% over 24 weeks), $NEAR -1.6%, $ENA -4.7%
Altcoin mcap jumped from ~$1.25T to nearly $1.3T. Santiment flagged ~$648M in short liquidations fueling the squeeze:
"Sudden volume expansion usually means the crowd has flipped from hesitation to conviction... yet another vertical volume surge could eventually signal FOMO becoming crowded rather than fresh demand."
#Bitcoin #Altcoins #Crypto

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🚨 deVere CEO Nigel Green: "The market's momentum has flipped, and this time there's serious institutional money behind it... patient capital that plans to stay."
📊 $BTC ETFs pulled $433M on Sept 18, but 5-day net inflows were just ~$6.1M after $746.3M withdrawn earlier in the week
"The crypto winter looks to be ending."
#Bitcoin #Institutional

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📉↗️ Jim Cramer said on Aug 3 he was dumping all his $BTC over quantum computing fears (per IBM's Arvind Krishna: "give yourself three or four years... I would get rather paranoid").
49 days later: $BTC is up ~37%, from $63,520 to an $87,395 intraday high — adding $475B in market cap.
Not his first miss: called BTC "monopoly money" in 2017, sold in 2021, warned of a crash after ETFs launched in 2024.
#Bitcoin #JimCramer

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🚨 BITCOIN OG MOVES $51.28M

A Bitcoin wallet just woke up after 14+ years of silence and moved all 600 $BTC.

Back in 2012:
💰 600 $BTC = ~$4.8K
📈 BTC price = ~$8

Today:
💎 600 $BTC = $51.28M
🔥 Unrealized profit = ~$51.27M
🚀 Return = 10,683x
14 years of holding.

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🚨 Binance just bought $100M in Circle (CRCL) stock — 1.24M shares at $80.84, ~14% below Monday's close
Deal terms:
🔹 2-year lockup, no hedging allowed, but Binance keeps full voting rights
🔹 Alongside a new 5-year commercial deal — Binance will promote $USDC via Circle's Modular Smart Contract Wallet
🔹 Circle pays Binance a monthly fee based on USDC balances in that wallet (% undisclosed)
Timing context: this came just 2 days after the CLARITY Act stalled and CRCL fell 11% in a session. Stock has since recovered — closed at $94.49 Monday (+2.95%), traded $95.76 in Tuesday pre-market
Binance got in at $80.84. The market says $95.50.
#Binance #Circle #USDC

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📉 US crypto ownership among investors fell to 11%, down from 17% in 2025 — Gallup
📊 63% of investors call crypto "very risky" — even 47% of current owners agree
📊 Men 18-49 remain the top-owning group at 24% (down from 33%), still 2x+ any other group
Still well above 2021's 6% and 2018's 2%. Top reason nonowners cite: not enough information.
#Crypto #Bitcoin #Gallup

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⚰️ $BTC has been declared "dead" 478 times since 2010. Here's what $1,000 invested at each obituary would be worth today:
🔹 2011, Forbes ("So, That's the End of Bitcoin Then"): $4,922,700
🔹 2017, Jamie Dimon ("a fraud... worse than tulip bulbs"): $20,700
🔹 2018, Warren Buffett ("rat poison squared"): $8,800
🔹 2019, Trump ("not a fan... value based on thin air"): $7,300
🔹 2022, ECB ("last gasp before the road to irrelevance"): $5,000
🔹 2024, ECB again ("the naked emperor's new clothes," fair value zero): $1,700
Peter Schiff leads the obituary count with 26 calls, ahead of Buffett's 8. Dimon later said he regretted it — JPMorgan now holds BTC. Buffett's Berkshire softened its stance in 2025. Trump ran and won on a pro-crypto platform.
$BTC trades near $86,500 today, up 14% in 7 days
#Bitcoin #BitcoinIsDead

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🚨 $BTC is on track for a 3-month winning streak (Jul-Sep) — something that's happened only once before, in 2012

📊 This year: Jul +4.8%, Aug +25.2%, Sept +10.9% so far (trading ~$86,140)
📊 2012: Jul +41.0%, Aug +6.4%, Sept +24.4%
What happened next in 2012: October fell 9.7%, bottoming at $10.17 on Oct 26 — then BTC launched a 165-day, 2,000%+ rally to $230 by April 2013
#Bitcoin #BTC

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🚨 ~11.7M $XRP (~$20M) drained from D'CENT App Wallet users between Sept 15-20
📊 6,678 wallets hit across 6 coordinated waves, using keys the attacker already controlled — no XRPL exploit, all valid signatures
📊 5,001 accounts deleted outright to claim reserve balances; 2,470 of those had never even been swept before
📊 ~5.6M XRP routed to Ethereum via THORChain, rest through Binance, unionchain.ai & NEAR Intents — often off-ramped within hours
📊 ~1.3M XRP still sat in attacker wallets as of Sept 21
D'CENT confirmed hardware wallets are unaffected — only the App Wallet. No word yet on reimbursement.
$XRP trading near $1.49, -6% in 24h, ~$93.82B mcap (#5)
If you've ever used D'CENT's App Wallet, security researchers say migrate funds now.
#XRP #Security #Crypto

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🚨 $BTC fell below $84,000 Wednesday, reversing a morning rally above $87,000, as a hot US PMI report sent yields higher
📊 Composite PMI hit 58.4 — fastest growth since July 2021
📊 10-year Treasury yield spiked to 5.058%, a 19-year high, reviving Fed hike fears
Higher yields make non-yielding assets like $BTC less attractive
#Bitcoin #Fed #Yields

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🚨 An iPhone app called FomoPeek, marketed as a "read-only" crypto monitoring tool, secretly carried malicious code — found in official App Store versions 1.1 and 1.2 — SlowMist
The code could bypass iPhone security, pull data from other apps (targeting 19 wallet/note-taking apps), and send it to a remote server
A wallet linked to the attacker has received ~$580K (579,984 USDT) since Sept 15
Affected versions were live Sept 9-17, removed in v1.3. SlowMist's advice: anyone who ran v1.1/1.2 should treat their seed phrases and private keys as compromised and move funds to a new wallet on a clean device
#Crypto #iOS #Security

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🚨 $ETH just printed its first higher high since the Aug 2025 ATH — reaching $2,807, with old resistance at $2,438 flipping into support
Weekly RSI climbed to 64. A break above $2,920 could open the path to $3,400

⚠️ But daily RSI is showing bearish divergence — higher price highs, lower momentum highs, plus falling volume
Key level: holding $2,440 keeps the bullish structure intact; losing it risks a drop to $1,950-$2,000
#Ethereum #ETH #Crypto

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🚨 $BTC trades near $84,000, highest since Jan 2026 — but analyst Benjamin Cowen says it all comes down to one candle: this week's close
A strong weekly close above ~$82,500 (May highs) would confirm the breakout into a new bull market. A drop back below could turn it into a false start.

Headwind: 10-year Treasury yield hit 5% Wednesday, a 19-year high, as hot PMI data revives Fed hike fears — higher yields make BTC less attractive

"For breakout traders, I think the weekly candle is worth watching closely for either confirmation of the breakout or a failed move back into the range." — Benjamin Cowen
#Bitcoin #BTC

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🚨 Bitget exchange had $351.6M exposed in a hack Thursday — CEO Gracy Chen says cold wallets and user funds are safe, breach hit only hot/warm wallet layers

📊 Exchange maintains a $464M+ user protection fund
📊 Withdrawals temporarily paused pending security review; deposits & trading remain live
📊 Attackers drained ETH, BNB, AVAX & USDT0 across 3 hot wallets + 1 cold wallet, consolidated into one address — per Arkham analyst Emmett Gallic
"Cold wallets remain fully secure. Bitget operates a three-tier wallet architecture." — Gracy Chen
Possibly the biggest hack of 2026. $BGB dropped ~2.9% on the news
#Bitget #Hack #Crypto

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🚨 $BTC holds near $84,000 after dipping to $83,229, pressured by macro headwinds: 30-year Treasury yield hit its highest since 2004, Brent crude back above $100, Fed officials sounding hawkish
$67M liquidated (longs: $47M, shorts: $20M)

Yet the setup looks different from past rebounds:
📊 BTC never closed below its Realized Price during the pullback — no capitulation, just stress
📊 Spot volume has more than doubled since August's low; ETF demand strengthening
📊 Next resistance: mean MVRV price near $96,700
A $14B options expiry (167K contracts, max pain $79K) just passed — dealer gamma exposure now shifts higher, above $90K
"With risk assets continuing to show resilience in the face of so much uncertainty, this makes for a good setup as we move toward Q4 2026." — Andrew Melville, Block Scholes
#Bitcoin #BTC #Crypto

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