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Bitcoin Reaches Its Highest Level Since January as Crude Sinks 8%
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Bitcoin Reaches Its Highest Level Since January as Crude Sinks 8%

Bitcoin traded as high as $86,355 on Coinbase, its best level since Jan. 29, in a leg that started in the 8 a.m. UTC hour and extended through the U.S. open. West Texas Intermediate crude fell 8.1% and the Nasdaq Composite rose 1.6%. Perpetual funding sits near zero and the bitcoin and ether swaps trade below index. Of the 125 largest non-stablecoin tokens, 106 are higher.
Zoomex Relaunches Zero-Fee TradFi Campaign for Traders
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Zoomex Relaunches Zero-Fee TradFi Campaign for Traders

Eligible traders can receive up to 100 USDT in trading fee rebates across stock contracts, commodity contracts and stock tokens through October 11, 2026.
Bitcoin Runs to $81,000 and NEAR Adds 32% as Tokenization Tokens Lead
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Bitcoin Runs to $81,000 and NEAR Adds 32% as Tokenization Tokens Lead

Crypto rallied through the Asia and Europe sessions and extended at the U.S. open, and 111 of the 125 largest non-stablecoin tokens are higher. Bitcoin is up 5.8% at $80,829 after touching $81,000, its best level since Sept. 4. NEAR Protocol added 32%, Starknet 27% and Arbitrum 26%, a day after the Securities and Exchange Commission cleared tokenized stocks to trade onchain. The S&P 500 is 0.1% lower.
Bitcoin Round-Trips the First Fed Rate Increase Since 2023 as Zcash Runs to $1,383
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Bitcoin Round-Trips the First Fed Rate Increase Since 2023 as Zcash Runs to $1,383

The Federal Open Market Committee voted 12-0 to lift its target range a quarter point to 3.75%-4%, and the median projection now puts the rate at 4.1% at the end of 2026 against 3.8% in June. Bitcoin spiked to $76,499.99 five minutes after the release and gave it back within half an hour. The S&P 500 and gold closed lower. Zcash reached $1,383.30.
Bitcoin Falls Below $76,000 as Traders Cut CLARITY Act Odds Hours Before Senate Vote
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Bitcoin Falls Below $76,000 as Traders Cut CLARITY Act Odds Hours Before Senate Vote

Polymarket priced the odds of the bill becoming law this year at 12.5% on Tuesday morning, down from 29.5% on Monday afternoon, ahead of a cloture vote scheduled for 2:15 p.m. Ninety-five of the 124 largest non-stablecoin tokens fell as the Federal Reserve opened a two-day meeting with a quarter-point increase priced at 86.5%.
Standard Chartered Sets $10 Arbitrum Target on Robinhood and Tokenization Growth
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Standard Chartered Sets $10 Arbitrum Target on Robinhood and Tokenization Growth

Geoff Kendrick's note calls Arbitrum "the blockchain for TradFi" and puts the token at roughly 70 times its current price by the end of the decade. The forecast rests on the 10% cut Arbitrum takes from chains built on its stack — a line that Robinhood Chain created in July and that has fallen 93% from its peak in the past 10 days.
XRP Leads a Broad Crypto Bid on the Eve of a Senate Vote and a Fed Decision
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XRP Leads a Broad Crypto Bid on the Eve of a Senate Vote and a Fed Decision

Bitcoin added 2.3% to $79,164 and set its session high in New York rather than overnight, while the S&P 500 held a 0.3% loss. Seventy-nine of the 121 largest non-stablecoin tokens rose. The Senate votes at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday on whether to take up the CLARITY Act, and Polymarket traders price a quarter-point Federal Reserve increase on Wednesday at 85.5%.
Brent Tops $106 And Hike Odds Reach 64% As Crypto Sells Off
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Brent Tops $106 And Hike Odds Reach 64% As Crypto Sells Off

One hundred and three of the 125 largest non-stablecoin tokens were lower on the day after August producer prices came in at 0.4% and the 30-year Treasury yield passed every close of the past five years. Bitcoin traded at $77,120. Ether.fi rose 14.2% on a buyback vote that closed a week ago.
Sonic SVM and Manic Open-Source the Trader Intelligence Framework, After Finding $6.82M in Profit Can Come With Weak Forecasting Edge
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Sonic SVM and Manic Open-Source the Trader Intelligence Framework, After Finding $6.82M in Profit Can Come With Weak Forecasting Edge

Sonic SVM and Manic have open-sourced the Trader Intelligence Framework, a method for ranking prediction market wallets by judgment accuracy rather than realized profit. Built on 3,359,388 reconstructed Polymarket positions, it qualified 87 of 3,638 wallet-and-category pairs.
Report Links $2.08M in LAPTOP Sales to Wintermute-Tagged Wallet
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Report Links $2.08M in LAPTOP Sales to Wintermute-Tagged Wallet

Lookonchain traced a 2.5 million-token team allocation to the address; separately, one trader reported nearly empty launch pools and a 98% early drop.