Fear and Greed Index
0.00% Annual Percentile
72 Greed
Total Crypto Market Cap
$2.80T
0.97%
Total Market Trading Volume
$75.50B
6.96%
Altcoin Season Index
66.67%
Quarterly Percentile
45 / 100
Total Futures Market Open Interest
1.38B
0.44%
Futures
406.37B
8.10%
Perpetuals

II. Industry Updates

Cryptocurrency Regulatory Trends

1.

Russia's central bank proposes capping commercial banks' crypto exposure at 1% of capital, potentially curbing institutional demand and weighing on BTC price.

2.

Saudi Central Bank exits mBridge CBDC project, signaling fragmentation in cross-border digital payment infrastructure and dampening global CBDC interoperability hopes.

3.

SEC grants five-year tokenized stock exemption; analysts say Coinbase, Robinhood, Circle benefit, lifting DeFi tokens like UNI by over 25%.

4.

Coinbase, Kalshi, Bitnomial file US single-stock perpetual futures rules pending SEC-CFTC approval, accelerating crypto-native derivatives into regulated equities markets.

5.

UK FCA opens crypto authorization gateway Sept 30 with Feb 28 deadline; MLR registration won't auto-convert, raising compliance costs for UK crypto firms.

Trending Tokens

1.

MemeCore (M): Surged 16.8% to $1.51, mcap $3.43B, driven by Zerostack's $1.03B treasury holding of 925.9M tokens and upcoming Seoul holder event on Sep 30.

2.

Avalanche (AVAX): Rallied 14.6% to $10.67 with $1.27B volume (+72.8%), fueled by ICE/NYSE evaluating it for 24/7 tokenized securities and Helicon upgrade on Sep 22.

3.

Pieverse (PIEVERSE): Gained 7.2% to $1.66, hitting ATH $1.92 on Sep 20, as volume spiked 206% above 30-day average amid AI-agent payment stack adoption momentum.

Smart Money Movements

1.

Garrett Jin closed a $36.13M ZEC short loss and retained a 1,330 BTC long position valued at $107.77M with $3.71M unrealized profit.

2.

TRUMP allocation wallet transferred 8.73M TRUMP tokens worth $17.99M to BitGo custody, extending two-week cumulative transfers to $70.64M.

3.

GMGN moved 23,550 BNB valued at $17.34M to Pionex exchange over the past week as fee revenue from meme coin trading activity.

4.

Arthur Hayes accumulated $3.28M unrealized gains on a 25.33M ENA position purchased at $0.09 average, reflecting 146% return on $5.53M investment.

Events to Watch

Sep 21 (Mon)

PBoC announces LPR rate decision; Chicago Fed releases August National Activity Index and Governor Goolsbee speaks on monetary policy outlook.

Sep 22 (Tue)

Vitalik Buterin delivers keynote at ETHShanghai 2026 on Ethereum as AI infrastructure layer; multiple Fed officials speak alongside Eurozone consumer confidence flash release.

Sep 23 (Wed)

S&P Global Flash PMIs released across US, Eurozone, UK; Indonesia central bank announces interest rate decision amid Japan Autumnal Equinox market closure.

Sep 24 (Thu)

Trump-Xi summit begins at White House covering trade and AI regulation; SNB rate decision, US initial jobless claims, and new home sales data released.

Sep 25 (Fri)

Plasma (XPL) unlocks 1.76B tokens worth $158M representing 63.2% of supply; US durable goods orders and final University of Michigan consumer sentiment published.