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The week started with HYPE swaggering about like Bertie Wooster at a country dance, but alas, the tempo has taken a wee moment to pause. That $52 to $53 zone has behaved like a reliable valet, catching any wayward price as it tries to dodge the dance floor. Still, if selling pressure decides to gatecrash, we might see a polite stumble down to the $50 mark-nothing catastrophic, just the market adjusting its cravat before the next dance.

Boasting a $138.89 billion market cap and a daily trading volume of $3.01 billion, BNB stands firm, a beacon of resilience in a sea of cooling market fervor. The question, my dear reader, is not *if* it will break free, but *when*-and whether we shall all be invited to the victory ball. 🎉

In a new and thrilling twist on the social media sensation X, our pals at Glassnode decided to crank out some data on Bitcoin market sentiment-because nothing screams fun like numbers! 📊 They introduced us to “Long/Short Bias,” which sounds like a fancy cocktail that no one wants to try, but here we are.

The biggest whale splash came from wallet 0x04EA, which yanked a hefty 7.04 million ASTER (valued at $4.66 million) about 13 hours ago. Another whale, 0xe1Da, was feeling adventurous just 10 hours ago, pulling out 5.1 million tokens ($4.1 million). Not to be outdone, 0x841D made a thrilling 2.22 million APX deposit ($2.22 million) and then-drumroll, please-swapped it for ASTER worth $2.11 million. This, my friends, is the dance of the whales. No quick sell-offs here. They’re hanging on, possibly hoping for that sweet surge. 🦈💰

In a move that’d make a prospector blush, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced on Sept. 19 that it’s beefing up its Global Markets Advisory Committee (GMAC) with some highfalutin financial cowboys. Acting Chairman Caroline D. Pham, the new marshal in town, is putting Scott Lucas, head honcho of Markets Digital Assets at J.P. Morgan, in the saddle as co-chair of the Digital Asset Markets Subcommittee. His sidekick? Sandy Kaul, a sharp-shooting executive from Franklin Templeton. 🤠💼

LayerZero, like a humble chronicler of ancient lore, recently declared in their blog scroll that PayPal USD (PYUSD) advances boldly through integration with the Stargate Hydra-a name that instantly evokes mythic beasts and multi-headed promises-allowing the poor stablecoin to wander where it once dared not tread. Behold PYUSD0: a rebellious, permissionless sibling perfectly interchangeable with the original PYUSD, spreading mischief and liquidity wherever it roams.

This latest cash splash brings the total creditor recoveries to over $8 billion. Yep, you heard that right! FTX already shelled out $6.2 billion in two earlier rounds-$1.2 billion in February and $5 billion in May 2025. 💸 Who says crypto’s all about rug pulls and tears? 😂

Backed by some fancy folks with names like Multicoin Capital and Dragonfly-because dragons and coins make everything cooler-DoubleZero’s whipped up a clever concoction called the “N1” base layer. It’s designed to zap away those pesky network delays that make your decentralized systems feel like they’re running on dial-up. Yuck.

(1/3) “Behold, approximately $1.6 billion shall be scattered among those worthy holders of allowed claims-those who have toiled through the trials of paperwork and digital rituals-on this very September 30, 2025,” proclaims the oracle known as @FTX_Official.

In the past 23 hours, HBAR has been a study in resilience-or perhaps stubbornness. From $0.25 to $0.24, it slid like a child on a muddy hill, giggling all the way down. 😂 Sellers pounced at 19:00, their claws sharp and their wallets heavier. By late evening, HBAR was testing the limits of its support, like a tightrope walker without a net. Yet, at $0.24, it found a temporary sanctuary-a place to catch its breath and dream of better days. 🌈