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🔥 The odds of an October rate hike are dropping fast again.

The latest PCE data came in favorable, while several Fed officials have signaled support for keeping rates unchanged in October. If September’s upcoming economic data remains strong, the Fed will likely hold rates steady.

👉 Still, an October pause doesn’t mean rate hikes are finished for the year. The focus could shift to December and potentially into next year.

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If there’s one thing I wish every beginner understood early, I’d say that a token becomes real when the tokenomics makes sense and the narrative makes people care. Tokenomics is the “math side” and narrative is the “story side.”

In the real world, they’re tied together. If the story says “long-term project” but the tokenomics screams “cash grab,” people notice.

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$BTC ( ▲ 2.82% ) just crushed its historic September curse, finishing the month up 6.33%. FYI, September has historically been a bloodbath for crypto, averaging a -2.41% loss every year since 2013.

While breaking a multi-year trend is huge, the buying momentum driving this rally is starting to show serious signs of fatigue right as October kicks off.

1/ Breaking the September Curse

Since 2013, September has traditionally been Bitcoin's worst month. But the market just flipped the script:

→ October (aka "Uptober") is historically Bitcoin's second-best month, closing green 10 out of the last 13 years with an average gain of 12.73%.

2/ Institutional Buying is Cooling Down Fast

Despite the green monthly close, fresh data shows buyer demand is rapidly drying up across the board.

Back on September 21, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $998.95M in net inflows, it’s their single biggest day in nearly a year. But by September 28, inflows collapsed to just $31.07M, and on September 30, ETFs recorded a net outflow of $148.69M with zero funds posting positive gains.

CryptoQuant estimates that spot market demand shrank by 170,000 BTC over the last 30 days. Derivatives demand also slowed down drastically, falling from 164,000 BTC on September 14 to just 16,000 BTC.

Glassnode data shows total daily spot and ETF trading volume hovering around $6.4B, near the lowest levels seen since the ETF launches early last year.

3/ Long-Term Holders Are Taking Profits

On September 22 alone, Bitcoin holders realized 25,700 BTC in profit, the highest single-day profit-taking event of 2026.

Long-term holders (holding over 155 days) accounted for 55% of all realized profits by the end of September, up from just 34% the week prior.

CryptoQuant notes that average trader unrealized profit sits at 33%, the highest since December 2024. Historically, profit margins this high trigger heavy selling pressure. (Though Glassnode points out overall profit-taking is still lower than the 2024 and 2025 peaks).

4/ The $85,000 Sell Wall & Key Support Levels

BTC is currently hovering near $86K, but the path higher looks really hard.

Glassnode spotted a massive sell order wall on Binance between $85,000 and $85,500. This sell wall first appeared on September 24 and has tripled in size since.

If price gets rejected at $85K, CryptoQuant sees primary support at the 365-day moving average around $80,000. Below that sits Glassnode's "True Market Mean" at $77,200 (the average purchase price for retail investors).

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NEAR Intents, a major cross-chain swap protocol built on NEAR Protocol, just got exploited for $3.8 million.

The hack sent shockwaves through the market, causing the NEAR token to drop 8.6% down to $4.92 in just a few hours. So is NEAR Protocol itself broken, or was this just a bridge problem?

1/ How the $3.8 Million Exploit Happened

NEAR Intents is a cross-chain swap service that lets you swap tokens from one blockchain to another. You request a trade, and external market makers compete to fulfill it.

The dev team confirmed the hack was caused by a technical bug in how the Omni deposit and withdrawal system connects with NEAR Intents' smart contracts on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC).

On-chain sleuth ZachXBT caught suspicious activity coming from the service's BSC hot wallet (the online wallet used to pay out withdrawals) right before it went dark.

The hacker stole USDT on BSC, quickly routed the funds through the KuCoin exchange, and bridged them into Bitcoin (BTC) to clean their tracks.

2/ Is NEAR Protocol Safe?

If you’re holding $NEAR ( ▼ 4.29% ), luckily, the NEAR Protocol blockchain was NOT hacked.

Both official team updates and ZachXBT's alerts confirmed zero damage to the NEAR Protocol core network or its underlying consensus. The bug was strictly inside the NEAR Intents smart contract and its connected BSC hot wallet.

To prevent further leaks, deposits and withdrawals were frozen across 11 networks, including BNB Chain, Polygon, TON, Optimism, Avalanche, Stellar, Monad, X Layer, ADI, Scroll, and Plasma.

If you have funds locked inside NEAR Intents on these frozen chains, the team confirmed you will be able to swap them to other tokens once service fully recovers.

3/ ETF Launch & Full Refunds Promised

Interestingly, just days before this hack, NEAR Intents actually won praise for freezing $500K+ stolen by the Bitget hacker, showing they can act fast when needed.

This marks the second notable exploit in the ecosystem this year, following Rhea Finance’s $7.6M loss in April.

The U.S. Treasury dropped $6B into bond buybacks while Bitcoin confronts extreme yield pressure. Is a crypto shift brewing? Read more

September was crypto's worst month of 2026, with $766M lost across 55 hacks, a massive 462% spike from August. Read more

Standard Chartered predicts will reach $2 by 2028, driven by USDe supply surging to $40B and huge buybacks. Read more

Binance is under fire again as EU regulators accuse it of dodging key compliance laws to bypass European MiCA rules. Read more

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