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According to ArzDigital, citing the latest data from on chain analytics firm Glassnode, the value of open bitcoin futures contracts fell by 1,400,000,000 dollars on Tuesday, October 6, 2026 (14 Mehr 1405), dropping from 38,000,000,000 dollars to 36,600,000,000 dollars. At the same time, the Spot Cumulative Volume Delta index swung from negative 102,800,000 dollars to positive 33,200,000 dollars, indicating rising buy pressure in the spot market. Sahmino's own data showed bitcoin trading around 85,631 dollars at the same hours. Glassnode also reported that bitcoin's hot capital share rose from 18.9 percent to 19.5 percent, while long side funding payments climbed from 926,400 dollars to 1,500,000 dollars.

Mike Selig, chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), announced on Monday, 5 October 2026, the agency's first proposed package of rules to regulate the crypto market. According to ArzDigital, the proposal includes two frameworks called the Digital Asset Transactions Regulation (CTX) and the Digital Asset Markets Regulation (CAM), which would set requirements for exchanges registered with the CFTC and could allow qualifying platforms to offer leveraged and margin trading to retail users. Selig stressed the proposal does not require all exchanges to register with the CFTC, noting such a mandate would require action by Congress. The rules are not yet final or in effect.

Metaplanet, one of Japan's largest corporate bitcoin holders, cashed out 10,000 bitcoin worth 124.7 billion yen (about $790 million) and shortly after bought back 11,000 more for close to 150 billion yen, according to its third-quarter financial report cited by ArzDigital. The company said the move was meant to demonstrate to credit rating agencies and debt-market investors its ability to quickly liquidate its bitcoin holdings; the proceeds exceeded its roughly 122.4 billion yen in combined net debt, bonds and financial obligations, though those liabilities were not settled. The transaction left Metaplanet's bitcoin reserves at 44,000 units by the end of September 2026.

Some users of the cryptocurrency exchange Avamp Finix gathered outside the Tehran Prosecutor's Office building on Monday, October 5, 2026 (13 Mehr 1405) to protest delays in withdrawing their assets. According to ArzDigital, those present demanded action on the status of their withdrawals and resolution of their holdings; no further details on the number of protesters have been released. In response, the exchange said its "user support fund," created to back user assets, remains operational and that asset disbursement is continuing. Avamp Finix said access to the fund is being rolled out to users in stages and that daily settlement, without a waiting queue, will be carried out as quickly as possible. The exchange said it would publish further updates on the support fund's progress in future notices.

Iranian cryptocurrency exchanges said on Sunday, October 4, 2026 (12 Mehr 1405), that the nightly halt on Tether to toman trading, which had been due to end that day, has been extended through Tuesday, October 6 (14 Mehr). According to ArzDigital, the Tether to toman market will remain closed every night from 9pm to 9am, and the daily purchase cap of 2,000 USDT per user remains in place. The exchanges said the move follows instructions from the relevant authorities implementing Central Bank policy. Open orders in the restricted market are automatically cancelled at 9pm, though conditions announced differ slightly across platforms, with some notices describing the halt as lasting until further notice.

Citigroup turned more bullish on bitcoin in a note published Saturday, Mehr 11, 1405 (October 3, 2026), forecasting the price would top $113,400 over the next year, a roughly 40 percent increase from the bank's previous target of below $82,000, set in July. According to ArzDigital, Citi's analysts cited rising market activity, an improving macro backdrop and renewed inflows into spot bitcoin ETFs, and the bank expects about $5 billion in fresh capital to enter the digital asset market over the coming year. Citi also nearly doubled its price target on MicroStrategy, the largest corporate holder of bitcoin, raising it from $136 to $240 while maintaining its buy recommendation.

Citing a Tasnim reporter, Iran's Central Bank is reviewing, through one of its committees, the status of crypto exchanges operating without its license, a move running alongside an already implemented restriction on overnight tether trading. Since 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Mehr 8, 1405 (September 30, 2026), exchanges including Nobitex have halted overnight tether to toman trading and capped each user's daily purchases at 2,000 USDT, a restriction that, per Nobitex's own notice, runs through Sunday, Mehr 12 (today, October 4). Separately, Fars News reported on Saturday, Mehr 11, that the Central Bank, citing "artificial order placement" by some exchanges that distorts tether and foreign exchange pricing, is considering freezing their bank accounts and payment gateways. In response, exchanges including Bit24, Wallex and Kif Pool Man denied the report, saying their services, including rial and crypto deposits and withdrawals, continue uninterrupted and as usual.

According to ArzDigital, the US Treasury Department sanctioned the Russia linked "A7 Network" on Friday, October 2, 2026 (Mehr 10, 1405), over allegations of sanctions evasion. The Treasury said the network's subsidiaries and intermediaries processed more than 17 billion dollars in transactions between January 2025 and June 2026, using digital assets, including Tether (USDT), to move money and bypass financial restrictions. According to the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the network used a ruble backed token called A7A5, tied to deposits at the sanctioned Russian bank Promsvyazbank, as a settlement tool before converting it into more liquid assets such as Tether. The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated the network as a significant transnational criminal organization, and FinCEN has proposed barring covered US financial institutions from sending or receiving funds linked to specific A7 subsidiaries, including digital currency addresses it controls.

According to ArzDigital, Tether's toman price rose more than 1.5 percent on Friday, October 2, 2026 (Mehr 10, 1405), crossing 260,000 tomans and touching a fresh record near 262,500 tomans. A week earlier it traded around 233,000 tomans, meaning roughly a 29,500 toman, or 12.7 percent, gain over seven days. Sahmino's own live feed recorded Tether near 265,180 tomans at 11:29 local time on Saturday, October 3, up 1.23 percent on the day, indicating the rally has continued. The rise has tracked gains in the free market dollar and in gold and coin prices domestically.

According to ArzDigital, bitcoin extended its rally on Friday, 10 Mehr 1405 (October 2, 2026), breaking through resistance at 86,000 dollars and reaching as high as 86,700 dollars. The move put heavy pressure on traders who had bet on a price decline. The report said the rally triggered roughly 150 million dollars in liquidations across the market within four hours, with about 140 million dollars of that coming from short positions. Sahmino's own data shows bitcoin trading at 86,083 dollars as of 11:32 Tehran time today, up 1.47 percent from the previous day.

According to ArzDigital, Citigroup raised its 12-month bitcoin price target from 82,000 dollars to 113,000 dollars, an increase of more than 31,000 dollars from its previous forecast, announced Thursday, 9 Mehr 1405 (October 1, 2026). Citi also raised its 12-month ethereum target from 2,240 dollars to 3,028 dollars. Citi analysts attributed the bullish revision to improving activity in the cryptocurrency market, more favorable macroeconomic conditions, and renewed inflows into spot exchange-traded funds. The bank said capital inflows could continue at a slower but steadier pace over the coming year, supporting digital asset prices.

A hacker who previously stole about 387.5 million dollars from crypto exchange Bitget began moving part of the stolen funds, about 2,700 ZEC (roughly 3.8 million dollars), into Zcash's shielded Ironwood pool on Thursday, October 1, 2026 (9 Mehr 1405), ArzDigital reported, citing on chain investigator ZachXBT. Bitget CEO Gracy Chen said technical evidence points to North Korean hackers' involvement in the breach. Earlier, the Near Intents platform's screening system, called Shield, blocked the conversion of more than 50 million dollars of the hacker's assets and froze about 503,000 dollars of it, while the THORChain protocol declined to block the hacker's addresses.

Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin market capitalization surpassed 2.4 billion dollars after growing more than 50 percent over the past month, Jack McDonald, Ripple's senior vice president of stablecoins, said on his X account on Thursday, October 1, 2026 (9 Mehr 1405), according to ArzDigital. He said the token's average daily activity has more than tripled since the start of this calendar year. According to the company's independent August attestation report, most circulating tokens sit on Ethereum (about 1.37 billion dollars) and the XRP Ledger (about 1.05 billion dollars), with reserve assets exceeding circulating tokens by more than 120 million dollars.

Wallets holding between 10 and 10,000 bitcoin bought more than 41,025 BTC over the ten days to Thursday, October 1, 2026 (9 Mehr 1405), pushing their combined holdings to 13.64 million bitcoin, or about 67.93 percent of total supply, ArzDigital reported citing on chain analytics platform Santiment. US spot bitcoin ETFs took in more than 2.4 billion dollars over the past week, the report said, while Strategy and Strive added 1,665 and 1,107 bitcoin respectively to their treasuries over the same period. Bitcoin's price held relatively steady around 85,000 dollars during the window, according to the report.

Nobitex, Wallex and AbanTether imposed temporary restrictions on the Tether-Toman market starting 9 PM on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 (8 Mehr 1405). According to Nobitex's notice, the Tether-Toman market will be unavailable to users every night from 9 PM to 9 AM the next day, a restriction running through Sunday, October 4, 2026 (12 Mehr). The daily Tether purchase cap per user has also been limited to 2,000 USDT during this period. Nobitex said the decision follows requirements set by the Central Bank of Iran, which a day earlier (Tuesday, September 29) banned banks from issuing loans for the purchase of gold, foreign currency or cryptocurrency. Users can still cancel open orders and close leveraged positions during the halt hours, but order execution prices are not guaranteed in this window, and the leverage multiplier on the Tether market has temporarily been reduced to one.

According to ArzDigital, the domestic price of Tether (USDT) rose more than 3 percent on Monday, 28 September 2026 (6 Mehr 1405), in step with the free-market dollar, entering the 241,000-toman range and, according to the outlet, setting a new price high. A week earlier Tether and the dollar were both trading around 229,000 tomans; in seven days both have gained more than 12,000 tomans. Sahmino's own recorded data show the same trend: Tether stood at about 244,240 tomans at 16:04 on Monday, up 3.15 percent on the day, and the free-market dollar at about 243,900 tomans at 16:00, up 3.8 percent. In Iran's domestic market Tether functions in practice as a digital dollar, and its price usually moves with the free-market dollar rate.

Bitcoin, which in recent days broke out of its $75,000 to $81,000 range and climbed to near $87,000, fell about 1 percent in Friday, September 25, 2026 trading to around $83,000. Boursenews attributed part of the drop to the expiry of $15.6 billion in Bitcoin options on the Deribit exchange. According to Sahmino's data, Bitcoin stood at about $84,110 as of 16:00 Tehran time on Saturday, September 26. The same report said about $162 million of long positions and $156 million of short positions were liquidated over 24 hours, and spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $299 million on Friday. Total crypto market capitalisation stood at $2.87 trillion, and the CME FedWatch tool put the probability of a Fed rate hike in October at about 75 percent.

According to ArzDigital, in a report published on Friday, 3 Mehr 1405 (September 25, 2026), several large altcoins posted double digit gains over the past week, while Bitcoin's share of total crypto market value (dominance) fell about 2 percentage points to 56.5 percent. The report highlighted gains in Ethena, NEAR Protocol, Ondo, Sui, Bitcoin Cash and Avalanche, and said XRP, Chainlink and Cardano each rose about 17 to 18 percent. CoinGecko data as of 8:00 a.m. Tehran time on Saturday, 4 Mehr 1405 (September 26, 2026), confirms the same trend: seven day returns were about 55 percent for Ethena, 41 percent for Sui, 32 percent for Ondo, 31 percent for Bitcoin Cash, 28 percent for NEAR and 24 percent for Avalanche, while Bitcoin gained about 3.3 percent over the same window and traded near $83,900. ArzDigital reported that NEAR broke above $5 after NYSE Arca approved Bitwise's NEAR exchange traded fund (ETF).

According to data from on-chain analytics platform CryptoQuant, reported by ArzDigital on Friday, September 25, 2026, the Binance exchange has recorded its largest net daily bitcoin outflow in three years, with more than 13,800 BTC leaving the platform in a single day. ArzDigital reported that Binance's bitcoin reserves fell from about 705,000 to 685,000 BTC within four days, and the seven-day moving average of its net flow dropped to minus 2,000 BTC. Binance holds about 30 percent of all bitcoin held on exchanges. Meanwhile, addresses holding 100 to 1,000 BTC have added more than 113,950 BTC in recent months. CryptoQuant analyst Darkfrost said moving this volume of coins into private wallets mechanically reduces potential selling pressure on exchanges. The outflow comes as bitcoin has traded above the $84,000 area in recent days.

Crypto exchange Bitget said in an official statement that about $351.6 million in assets was moved without authorisation in an attack on parts of its hot wallet layers. According to ArzDigital, reporting on Friday, September 25, 2026 (3 Mehr 1405), withdrawals have been temporarily suspended while deposits and trading continue, and cold wallets were untouched. Bitget says its initial investigation shows no private key leak and that its user protection fund, worth more than $464 million, will fully cover the losses. According to Bitget, the attackers gained access to back-end services and injected forged transaction data into the signing and approval process; most of the assets taken were 102.93 million XRP, 31,890 ETH and stablecoins. Chief executive Gracy Chen said some IP addresses matched the pattern of a North Korean hacking group, though no official body has confirmed the link. Withdrawals will resume once the review is complete.

Crypto exchange Bit24 said in a notice published on the evening of Thursday, September 24, 2026, that it is ending support for five tokens linked to Tesla and SpaceX shares, citing regulatory requirements. Buying, deposits and withdrawals of the TSLAX, TSLAB, TSLAON, SPCXX and SPCXB tokens have been halted with immediate effect. According to Bit24, users have until 12:00 noon on Sunday, September 27, to sell their holdings in these tokens. After the deadline, open orders will be cancelled, remaining balances will be converted automatically, and the rial equivalent will be credited to users' wallets on the exchange.

Bitcoin fell to the $84,000 range in trading on Wednesday evening, September 23, 2026 (1 Mehr 1405), after gains in recent days. According to ArzDigital, more than $230 million of leveraged long positions were liquidated within a single hour as the price dropped, with cascading stop losses intensifying the selling. EcoIran also reported that Bitcoin pulled back to $85,000 that day after crossing $87,000. The drop came on a risk-off day across global markets, with gold and silver also lower. In Sahmino's data, Bitcoin stood at about $83,900 on Thursday morning, 2 Mehr (08:00 Tehran time).

Zcash (ZEC) crossed 1,600 dollars for the first time since 2016 on Wednesday, September 23, 2026 (1 Mehr 1405), reaching an intraday high of 1,643 dollars. Arzdigital reported the rally followed 21Shares launching the first European exchange traded product (ETP) tracking Zcash, listed on Euronext Paris and Amsterdam. Cointelegraph independently confirmed the listing, describing it as Zcash's first European ETP following Grayscale's US spot ETF launch in late August. According to CoinGlass data cited by Arzdigital, the move past 1,600 dollars triggered about 21.6 million dollars in liquidations, most of them short positions, while Zcash's daily trading volume jumped more than 60 percent to roughly 1.77 billion dollars.

According to Arzdigital, a malicious app called Fomopeek, published on Apple's App Store, bypassed iOS security layers and targeted the crypto wallet security of iPhone users. The app was marketed as a tool for monitoring large blockchain transactions, but according to research by blockchain security firm SlowMist and crypto exchange OKX, versions 1.1 and 1.2 broke out of Apple's sandbox isolation and, by accessing the Keychain and other apps' stored data, extracted private keys and wallet recovery phrases without requiring users to enter them directly. Per SlowMist's estimate, the malware stole nearly 580,000 dollars worth of Tether from iPhone users. Binance's security team also warned on X that the malware could gain the highest level of device access. Security experts advised users who installed the app to remove it immediately, update iOS, and transfer any remaining assets to new wallets on a separate, secure device.

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has bought a stake in Circle, issuer of the USDC stablecoin, through a 100 million dollar investment. According to documents Circle filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, 1 Mehr 1405 (September 22, 2026), reported by ArzDigital, the company transferred 1.24 million Class A shares to Binance in a private placement at 80.84 dollars per share, a price set at a discount to Circle's market value. Alongside the investment, the two companies signed a five year agreement under which Binance, in exchange for financial incentives, has committed to promoting and marketing USDC across its trading platform. Per the filing, Binance is barred from selling, transferring or hedging the shares for two years, though it holds voting rights over them.

CME Group, the world's largest derivatives exchange, said on Monday, 1 Mehr 1405 (September 22, 2026), that it will add Uniswap (UNI) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) futures contracts to its listings starting October 19 (27 Mehr). The contracts will be offered in both standard and micro sizes. According to ArzDigital, Uniswap's price jumped nearly 5 percent and Bitcoin Cash's price nearly 10 percent after the announcement. Giovanni Vicioso, CME Group's global head of cryptocurrency products, said that as crypto markets continue to mature, market participants need more regulated and comprehensive tools to manage the price risk of digital assets. Because many traditional investment funds and banks are not permitted to trade on conventional crypto exchanges, exchanges regulated by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, such as CME, serve as one of the main gateways for Wall Street institutional investors into these assets.

According to ArzDigital, in a report published Monday, 1 Mehr 1405 (September 22, 2026), US spot Bitcoin ETFs opened the new week with net inflows of 998.95 million dollars, which the report described as the largest single day inflow into these funds in 2026. The wave of demand came as bitcoin's price crossed above 86,000 dollars, pushing the funds' combined net assets above 110.14 billion dollars. No fund saw outflows that day, and BlackRock's IBIT led the market with 381.37 million dollars in inflows. Spot Ethereum ETFs also posted 269.98 million dollars in net inflows the same day, led by BlackRock's Ethereum fund with 110.06 million dollars, while Solana funds drew 26.10 million dollars. James Seyffart, senior ETF analyst at Bloomberg, wrote that the average cost basis for Bitcoin ETF investors is now estimated at about 81,722 dollars, meaning the average buyer has moved into profit for the first time since January.

According to Arzdigital, citing Bloomberg, US federal prosecutors in Manhattan, with the Justice Department's criminal division, are examining whether cryptocurrency exchange Binance violated US sanctions by failing to block certain Iran linked transactions. Per the report, published Tuesday, September 22, 2026 (31 Shahrivar 1405), the investigation is at an early stage and details of the transactions under review have not been disclosed. Binance said in response that it has a zero tolerance policy for sanctions violations and cooperates fully with law enforcement. The exchange previously pleaded guilty in 2023 to violating anti money laundering and sanctions laws, paying a 4.3 billion dollar penalty, and its founder and former CEO, Changpeng Zhao, was pardoned by President Donald Trump in 2025.

According to Donya-e-Eqtesad, citing Bloomberg and Coinglass, bitcoin surged nearly 8 percent during US trading hours on Monday, September 21, 2026 (30 Shahrivar 1405), touching a high of 87,381 dollars, its highest level since January, and triggering more than 920 million dollars in short position liquidations in perpetual futures. Coinglass data showed open interest in those contracts reached about 160 billion dollars, the highest since late October 2025. Donya-e-Eqtesad reported the rally pushed the total digital asset market value above 3 trillion dollars again for the first time since January. Live CoinGecko data showed that figure had eased back to roughly 2.93 trillion dollars as of 16:08 Tehran time on Tuesday, September 22 (31 Shahrivar). US spot bitcoin ETFs took in a net 999 million dollars on Monday, their largest single day inflow since October 6, 2025. Sahmino's price board showed bitcoin trading around 86,150 dollars as of 16:04 Tehran time Tuesday.

Bitcoin jumped nearly six percent to above 86,000 dollars on Monday, September 21, 2026 (30 Shahrivar 1405). According to CoinDesk, the move was driven by a short squeeze that liquidated about 648 million dollars in bearish positions. The rally also saw Bitcoin reclaim its 50 week moving average for the first time in more than 10 months, a technical milestone some analysts link to a possible end of the recent bear phase. Separately, Strategy, led by Michael Saylor, said it bought 950 more Bitcoin worth about 75.7 million dollars last week, lifting its holdings to 846,000 coins as of September 20 and keeping its position as the world's largest corporate Bitcoin holder. Sahmino's own live pricing showed Bitcoin trading at 86,000 dollars as of 19:27 Tehran time on Monday, up 6.01 percent on the day, a level consistent with readings from Alanchand and TGJU.

The European Central Bank (ECB) said on Monday, September 21, 2026, that it had launched a new system called Pontes to settle transactions in tokenized assets between banks and financial institutions. The platform connects distributed ledger technology (DLT) networks to the ECB's payment infrastructure, allowing banks to settle blockchain based transactions using central bank money rather than private assets such as stablecoins. The ECB said Pontes is part of Europe's plan to align the traditional financial system with new technologies, but stressed it does not amount to a public digital euro for citizens; for now, the focus is limited to wholesale markets and interbank transactions.

Strategy, the company led by Michael Saylor, said on Monday, September 21, 2026, that it had purchased 950 more bitcoin for 75.7 million dollars, bringing its total holdings to 846,000 coins, about 4 percent of the 21 million bitcoin that will ever exist. The purchase was made at an average price of 79,670 dollars per coin, lifting the company's total cost basis to 63.80 billion dollars, or an average of 75,416 dollars per coin. Saylor said on his official X account that the company funded the purchase from its cash holdings rather than issuing new shares, and separately repurchased 174 million dollars of its STRC preferred stock. As of September 20, 2026, the company held 846,000 bitcoin and 6.09 billion dollars in dollar denominated assets, according to the announcement.

BlackRock said on Monday, September 21, 2026 (30 Shahrivar 1405), as reported by Arzdigital, that Bitcoin's volatility has declined significantly in recent years, falling from around 80 percent to a range of 35 to 40 percent. Jay Jacobs, BlackRock's head of US equity ETFs, attributed the decline to greater market liquidity, growth in Bitcoin ETFs, deeper derivatives markets, and a larger base of long term investors. Jacobs said BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), with nearly $59.87 billion in assets, has widened institutional investors' access to Bitcoin. BlackRock stressed that lower volatility does not mean sharp price swings have been eliminated, and the market can still see heavy volatility during periods of selling pressure or liquidation.

The on chain real world asset (RWA) market has grown 85.2 percent since the start of this calendar year to reach $34.18 billion, according to a new Binance Research report cited by Arzdigital on Sunday, September 20, 2026. Tokenized bonds and money market funds remain the largest segment at $18.29 billion, while tokenized stocks have jumped 390.4 percent this year to $4.43 billion. The report notes only about 12 percent of these tokenized assets are actively used in on chain finance, such as liquidity pools and lending. SEC Chair Paul Atkins recently announced a five year pilot framework approving limited trading of tokenized stocks on public blockchains.

The Ethereum Foundation officially set December 2029 as the deadline to upgrade the Ethereum network's Layer 1 to quantum resistant systems, it announced on Sunday, September 20, 2026. The decision is part of the roadmap for the network's next major upgrade, known as "Hegota," and covers security changes across the execution, consensus and data availability layers. The foundation's protocol team said the 2029 target is "non negotiable" until January 2027, when external experts will reassess the pace of quantum computing progress. One key component planned for the second quarter of 2027 is a proposal called "Frame Transactions," which separates a transaction's validation, execution and fee payment steps.

Michael Saylor, founder and chairman of Strategy, signaled on Sunday, September 20, 2026 that the company may resume institutional Bitcoin purchases, posting on X along with a chart of the firm's six year buying history. According to the company's most recent disclosed purchase on August 31, it added 4,603 BTC at an average price of $80,318 (about $370 million); Strategy had since paused direct Bitcoin buying to focus on share buybacks. The remark came after a turbulent week for markets in which the US Senate blocked the CLARITY Act, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates, and the Bank of Japan lifted its rate to its highest level in 31 years.

Blink Wallet, a payment platform on Bitcoin's Lightning Network, reported a security breach on Saturday, September 19, 2026, and temporarily suspended its services. According to Arzdigital's report published on September 20, 2026, citing the platform's official statement on X, an attacker gained access to a limited number of custodial accounts, several dozen in total, and withdrew their balances. Blink's team said the vast majority of user funds and all non custodial accounts remained fully secure, and that all affected users would be fully compensated. The platform said the incident did not affect the core Lightning Network and was limited to one centralized service provider, which is why bitcoin's price showed no notable reaction to the news.

According to Digiato, republished by Arzdigital on September 20, 2026, Iran's decree forming a temporary regulatory working group for crypto asset exchange platforms, approved by the Supreme Council for Cyberspace Regulation on May 28, 2025, was formally notified for implementation on September 5, 2026, roughly 15 months after its approval. The working group includes 13 bodies, among them the Central Bank, the Securities and Exchange Organization, the Prosecutor General's Office, the Cyber Police (FATA), the Ministry of Intelligence and private sector representatives. Over an 18 month mandate, it will draft rules, set a compliance timeline for existing exchanges, supervise implementation and issue operating licenses for crypto exchange platforms. Under the decree, the working group must meet at least once every two weeks and report to the cryptocurrency specialized committee.

According to Arzdigital, after the US Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to a range of 3.75 to 4 percent at its meeting on Friday, September 18, 2026 (27 Shahrivar 1405), Bitcoin's price returned above the $80,000 channel, briefly trading above $81,200 earlier in today's session. Sahmino's own data showed Bitcoin at $80,344 as of 11:30 a.m. today, down 1.23 percent from the previous day. Arthur Hayes, the founder of BitMEX, wrote on X that the liquidity flowing from the rate hike, not new regulation, is the real driver of the rally in financial assets, and warned the market could still see a pullback to as low as $50,000 before reaching longer term targets.

According to Arzdigital, citing South Korea's National Police Agency, the agency identified 26 users of the decentralized prediction platform Polymarket through analysis of public blockchain data after a five-month investigation, and is pursuing them on illegal gambling charges. The action took place before the site was officially blocked in South Korea, and the cases of 18 suspects have so far been referred to prosecutors for criminal proceedings. The report said the users' combined stakes totaled about $12.7 million (17.6 billion won), with the largest single trader placing $4.1 million in orders. The charge is based on Article 246 of South Korea's Criminal Act, under which any element of chance in an activity can qualify it as gambling.

According to Arzdigital, the Bank of Japan raised its overnight rate by 25 basis points to 1.25 percent on Saturday, September 19, 2026, in a 7 to 2 vote, with the change taking formal effect on September 24. Bitcoin, trading around $76,961 before the announcement, turned sharply higher in the minutes that followed and broke above $81,000, as the yen weakened 1.2 percent against the dollar to 157.84. Sahmino's own price feed recorded Bitcoin at $81,129, up 0.13 percent on the day, as of 11:29 today. Analysts point to the yen carry trade, warning that the rate hike's formal implementation on September 24 could strengthen the yen further and increase selling pressure on risk assets including cryptocurrencies.

Iranian crypto exchange Nobitex announced it will discontinue services for seven tokens tracking US technology company shares within the coming week, citing regulatory requirements on offering and trading share-based financial instruments. According to the announcement, tokens for SPCX (SpaceX), NVDA (Nvidia), AAPL (Apple), GOOGL (Alphabet), AMZN (Amazon), TSLA (Tesla) and MSFT (Microsoft) will be removed from Nobitex, with trading in these assets closing at 16:00 on Thursday, Mehr 2 (September 24, 2026). Opening new leveraged positions on SPCX has already been halted, and existing open positions will remain active until 16:00 on Wednesday, Mehr 1 (September 23), after which they will be closed automatically. Nobitex said that after trading ends, users' remaining token balances will be converted to rials at a conversion price it will announce and credited to their rial wallets, and that it accepts no responsibility for price fluctuations during the conversion process.

According to CoinDesk on Friday, September 18, 2026 (27 Shahrivar 1405), the crypto market staged a broad advance as inflation worries from the US Federal Reserve's rate hike (a 0.25 percentage point increase to a range of 3.75 to 4 percent on Wednesday, September 16) began to fade. Layer 2 and DeFi tokens led the move: starknet gained 18 percent, arbitrum 17 percent and uniswap 13 percent over 24 hours, while CoinDesk's DeFi Select Index rose 8.3 percent. CoinDesk attributed the rally to the 10 year US Treasury yield slipping back below 5 percent and Brent crude easing below 103 dollars, which eased the inflation scare that followed the rate increase. Bitcoin, which had risen above 78,000 dollars during Friday's European morning, reached about 80,700 dollars by Friday evening Tehran time. According to Trading Economics, bitcoin traded at 80,735 dollars as of 19:34 Tehran time on September 18, up 5.66 percent on the day, while Sahmino's own price board recorded a similar figure of 80,712 dollars, up 5.22 percent, at the same hour. Other major cryptocurrencies rose in step: ether gained 5.4 percent to 2,580 dollars, XRP rose 6.9 percent to 1.38 dollars and solana gained 9.3 percent to 111 dollars.

The US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added the crypto exchange BitBank, based in Tehran's Argentina Square (with websites bitbank.com and bitbank3.com), to its Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list in a sanctions update published on 17 September 2026 (26 Shahrivar 1405). The exchange, listed under financial and insurance activities, was designated under the Iran sanctions authority IRAN-EO13902. According to CoinDesk, the US Treasury alleges BitBank moved hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bitcoin to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and processed "toll" payments from ships paying to transit the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most important oil chokepoint. Sahmino's price board showed bitcoin trading around 78,022 dollars as of 16:03 Tehran time on 18 September (27 Shahrivar).

According to Arzdigital, citing the Financial Times, a hacker group calling itself iamnotavillain, which had earlier accessed identity and financial data of Revolut neobank users, demanded a ransom of 6,000 Monero units (about $3 million) with a 24 hour deadline on Thursday, September 17, 2026, threatening to sell the data to other criminal groups if unpaid. To back its claim, the group released a 60 second video showing passport images, driver's licenses and transaction records. The ransom demand follows a data breach Revolut had earlier confirmed; at least 680 user accounts were affected, and blockchain analysis suggests the attackers primarily targeted customers with sizable crypto holdings. Revolut has said passwords, private keys and full bank card details were not among the exposed data.

According to Arzdigital, after the Clarity Act failed to clear a procedural vote in the US Senate late Tuesday, September 15, 2026 (24 Shahrivar 1405), the crypto market reacted swiftly, with about 300 million dollars in long positions liquidated within just 20 minutes. Per the report, leverage in the derivatives market had noticeably declined before the vote, with funding rates near zero and futures premiums below 5 percent, conditions analysts say make Bitcoin unusually sensitive to fresh political headlines.

Asset manager Grayscale made its XRP exchange traded fund one of the largest holdings in two new model portfolios for financial advisors on Wednesday, September 16, 2026 (25 Shahrivar 1405). According to Arzdigital, in the Leaders model, XRP accounts for 11.92 percent, the third largest weighting after Ethereum (38.57 percent) and Bitcoin (37.25 percent), with Solana at 9.63 percent and Hyperliquid at 2.63 percent rounding out the portfolio. In the Next Gen model, which excludes Bitcoin, XRP's weighting rises to 26.11 percent, the second largest holding after Ethereum's 42.34 percent. Grayscale's global head of distribution, Laurie Katz, said the portfolios aim to give financial advisors simpler access to the digital asset market without needing to directly custody tokens.

The US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York said on Tuesday, September 15, 2026 (Shahrivar 24, 1405), that it has filed charges against two former Robinhood engineers, Hefu Chai, 36, of Menlo Park, California, and Huaisong Xiang (also known as Jerry Xiang), 30, of Jersey City, New Jersey, for commodities fraud and wire fraud, Arzdigital reported. Prosecutors allege that between 2025 and 2026 (1404 to 1405), the two used non-public information about when Robinhood would add support for new tokens to buy related perpetual futures contracts on the decentralized exchange Hyperliquid ahead of public announcements, each profiting more than 50,000 dollars. Chai and Xiang face charges under the Commodity Exchange Act (up to 10 years) and wire fraud (up to 20 years); Robinhood said it has cooperated with the investigation. Under the presumption of innocence, the charges remain allegations until proven.

Morgan Stanley's spot Bitcoin ETF (ticker: MSBT), which launched on the New York Stock Exchange on April 8, 2026 (Farvardin 19, 1405), reached 634.83 million dollars in net assets just five months after its debut, Arzdigital reported on September 15, 2026 (Shahrivar 24, 1405). The fund's cumulative net inflows have reached 538.37 million dollars, according to data from the SoSoValue platform, and it has recorded only a single day of net outflows (5.26 million dollars) since launch. Over the past 21 trading days, 12 saw net inflows totaling 71.95 million dollars, with no day of net outflows.

Bitcoin briefly plunged into the 74,000 dollar range on the night of Monday, September 15, 2026 (Shahrivar 24, 1405), immediately after the US Senate failed to advance the Clarity Act, before recovering to around 76,000 dollars, a drop of about 3.77 percent from 24 hours earlier, Arzdigital reported. A separate Arzdigital report said about 300 million dollars in leveraged long positions were liquidated across the crypto market within 20 minutes of the vote. Bitcoin's market capitalization stood at 1.53 trillion dollars during the swing, with daily trading volume reaching 38.3 billion dollars.

The US Senate failed to advance the Clarity Act, a bill on crypto market structure regulation, in a procedural vote on the night of Monday, September 15, 2026 (Shahrivar 24, 1405), Arzdigital reported. More than 40 senators voted against it, short of the 60 votes needed to proceed. The bill, which had passed the House of Representatives 294 to 134 in July 2025 (Tir 1404), stalled in the Senate over disagreements on ethics provisions, stablecoin yield rules and DeFi oversight. Senator Cynthia Lummis, the bill's lead architect in the Senate, had previously warned that death by a thousand cuts is as fatal as one bullet. With the bill's failure, the path for US crypto regulation now shifts to independent action by agencies such as the SEC and CFTC, which have said they would act using their existing authority if the legislation stalled.

In its new policy guidelines for 2027 to 2029, the Bank of Russia listed cryptocurrencies and stablecoins among the major threats to the country's financial markets and monetary sovereignty. The central bank warned that the spread of crypto assets could weaken the ruble, cause heavy financial losses for retail investors and fuel the shadow economy, and it called for tougher enforcement against unlicensed platforms. Under current rules, Russian retail investors face an annual trading cap of about 3,700 dollars through licensed brokers. The policy document reflects a dual approach: using crypto assets to settle international trade and bypass sanctions is permitted, but domestic use remains tightly restricted, since the bank says wider adoption would disrupt monetary tools and complicate inflation and interest rate management.

US company DeFi Development, listed on Nasdaq under ticker DFDV, increased its Solana treasury holdings by another 55,491 units, worth approximately 5.78 million dollars, Arzdigital reported on Tuesday, September 15, 2026. The company simultaneously launched an at the market share offering program of up to 300 million dollars, with proceeds to be used mainly for further Solana purchases. With the addition, the company's total treasury holdings reached about 2,388,923 SOL and SOL equivalents, up about 2 percent from August 27. DeFi Development describes itself as the first US public company whose treasury strategy centers on accumulating Solana reserves; alongside holding the asset, it also operates its own dedicated validator infrastructure.

Bitcoin fell below the $77,000 level on Tuesday, September 15, 2026. According to Arzdigital, the decline came as hopes faded for progress on the US Senate's crypto market structure bill, the CLARITY Act. Donya-e-Eqtesad reported that crypto markets fell broadly the same day, a move it attributed not only to the US regulatory uncertainty but also to rising concern over the impact of monetary tightening and the Federal Reserve's interest rate outlook on risk assets. Live data from tgju.org showed bitcoin trading around $76,850 as of 4 PM Tehran time on Tuesday.

The US Department of Justice claimed in the early hours of Tuesday, September 15, 2026, as reported by IRNA, that it has filed a complaint to forfeit about $61 million in cryptocurrency proceeds from black market sales of sanctioned Iranian crude oil and petroleum products. The department alleged the Iranian government used a network of crypto actors in China and elsewhere to launder more than $1.5 billion in illicit oil revenue to benefit the military and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Shawn Buckley, deputy US attorney for the Southern District of New York, described the action as a sign of US resolve to deprive Iran and its proxies of these funds, and FBI official James C. Barnacle Jr. said the complaint demonstrates the ability to trace and halt crypto flows to governments evading sanctions. The complaint alleges two Chinese companies, Blessed Trust and Hexa Whale, used trading accounts on the Binance exchange in the UAE to launder Iranian oil revenue and transfer it to the Iranian government and its representatives.

Michael Saylor, chairman of Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), said in recent posts on X that the company's bitcoin holdings have remained unchanged at 845,050 BTC. Strategy has spent more than $63.7 billion on the position at an average price of $75,412 per bitcoin, now showing roughly $2 billion in unrealized gains; the firm has recently directed a significant share of its cash toward share buybacks. Meanwhile, asset manager Strive, led by Matt Cole, said it bought 469 more bitcoin for $36.6 million, an average of $77,954 each, taking its total holdings to 25,000 BTC. Cole said the purchase was funded entirely through Strive's STRC preferred stock, whose outstanding face value has now surpassed $1 billion.

According to Arzdigital, strict new rules from Brazil's central bank could force up to 290 of the roughly 300 virtual asset service providers currently active in the country out of the market. Under the new requirements, crypto firms must hold capital of up to 37.2 million reais, about $7.2 million, depending on their classification, a threshold beyond the reach of small and early-stage platforms. Analysts estimate only 10 to 25 companies have the financial structure to apply for a license, with roughly 10 expected to ultimately obtain one; firms have until October 30, 2026, to apply, and those that do not will have 30 days to wind down operations. Isabel Longhi, Ripple's Latin America public policy director, told Brazil's Valor Investe that the regulation aims to separate legitimate players from bad actors, but warned that removing small firms based solely on size could temporarily curb innovation in Brazil.

According to Arzdigital, published Saturday, September 12, 2026 (21 Shahrivar 1405), Ripple's XRP token fell sharply after peaking at $1.70, losing the key $1.40 support level. According to analyst Ali Martinez, citing Santiment data, whales who had accumulated 400 million tokens sold or redistributed about 90 million XRP over the past week, while the network's daily active addresses fell more than 90 percent, from 388,492 to 38,163. Martinez nonetheless assessed the $1.35 zone as strong support that, if held, could set up a move to $1.60 to $1.68. Another analyst, Celal Kucuker, citing Fibonacci patterns, floated a scenario of a 600 percent rally if the current downward channel breaks, a view that remains an analytical projection rather than a forecast of fact.

According to Arzdigital, published Saturday, September 12, 2026 (21 Shahrivar 1405), the identity and financial data of a number of Revolut neobank users, including their Bitcoin transaction history, was exposed after the company responded to a spoofed email sent using an official government domain. According to on chain investigator ZachXBT, who shared the disclosure on Telegram, the leaked data included full names, dates of birth, addresses, identity document images and selfies, IBAN numbers, and complete deposit, withdrawal and Bitcoin transaction histories. Revolut said passwords and wallet private keys were not exposed and that no direct breach of its infrastructure occurred. The company has more than 80 million users worldwide, and assessments indicate the attack was highly targeted, likely aimed at high net worth individuals.

According to Arzdigital, the value of tokenized stocks and funds on the Solana blockchain hit a new record of about 684 million dollars as of Saturday, September 12, 2026 (21 Shahrivar 1405). Per the report, the growth was driven by demand for real world assets (RWA), rising decentralized exchange activity, and new platform launches, with Solana attracting between 348 and 354 million dollars in RWA inflows over the past 30 days. A prominent example was the tokenized Grindr stock (GRND), which recorded more than 31 million dollars in trading volume within 24 hours of its launch on the Backpack Securities platform, exceeding the 16.6 million dollars traded in the company's real shares on the New York Stock Exchange over the same period. The StonkFun platform, just 50 days after launch, has generated about 9 million dollars in revenue, with its native STONK token reaching a 251 million dollar market capitalization.

The bitcoin market sentiment index tracked by CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost climbed above 89 in recent days, according to Arzdigital (as of Saturday, September 12, 2026, 21 Shahrivar 1405), for the first time since March 2024, entering "extreme greed" territory before easing slightly from its peak. Over the same period, the traditional Fear and Greed Index from Alternative.me stood at a calmer 63, in "greed" territory. Per the report, alongside this extreme optimism, US spot bitcoin ETFs posted a net outflow of 462.7 million dollars over recent trading days, with ARK 21Shares accounting for the largest share. Darkfost warned that such sentiment extremes typically form near market turning points and should be treated as a risk management warning rather than necessarily the start of a downtrend.

Tether said on Saturday, September 12, 2026 (21 Shahrivar 1405), that it worked closely with the US Department of Justice to seize and freeze more than 52 million dollars in crypto tied to the Chinese fraud network Xinbi Guarantee. According to Arzdigital, the action froze two wallets holding about 12 million dollars and ordered 47 other addresses blocked over suspected involvement in money laundering. Per the report, the Xinbi platform served as a marketplace connecting cybercriminals, fake investment operators, and human trafficking networks. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said in a statement that the company has worked with more than 340 law enforcement agencies across 67 countries and has stopped more than 5 billion dollars in illicit assets to date.

Blockstream said in a post on its official X account that it will not pay any ransom to recover the roughly 598.5 bitcoin still held by the attackers behind the Liquid Network breach. According to Arzdigital, the stance came after the attackers returned about 3,400 of the nearly 4,000 bitcoin drained from the Liquid Federation wallet, but then demanded a reward equal to 10 percent of the total funds, around 400 bitcoin. Based on the funds' value at the time most of the money was returned, the bitcoin still held by the attackers is estimated at close to $47 million. Blockstream stressed that holding unauthorized withdrawn assets constitutes theft, and rejected the attackers' claim to be acting as white hat hackers; the company warned that if the remaining funds are not returned, it will work with law enforcement and exchanges to trace the bitcoin's movement and identify those responsible.

The Raydium token (RAY), bucking the broader cryptocurrency market's downtrend, rose 90 percent over the week to today, Saturday, 21 Shahrivar 1405 (September 12, 2026), reaching an 11 month high of $1.58. According to Arzdigital, while the overall crypto market fell about 1.1 percent over the past 24 hours, Raydium rose 18 percent in the same period, making it the second best performing asset among the top 300 cryptocurrencies. Per the report, the rally had three main drivers: first, the StonkFun platform's announcement on 15 Shahrivar (September 6) that it would launch all its new tokens through Raydium's LaunchLab service, alongside a cut in the service's token launch fee from 0.29 to 0.03 SOL; second, a roughly $640,788 buyback of RAY tokens on 18 Shahrivar (September 9), the protocol's largest daily buyback since February 2025; and third, the start of trading in a tokenized version of Grindr stock on the Backpack Securities platform on 19 Shahrivar (September 10), which reached $11 million in trading volume within just one hour.

Cryptocurrency and global gold markets rallied on the evening of Thursday, 20 Shahrivar 1405 (September 11, 2026), immediately after the release of the US August inflation report. According to Arzdigital, bitcoin, which had earlier pulled back to around $76,000, moved back above $79,000 on renewed demand after the data, rising to about $79,600; ethereum, XRP and solana also traded higher. Spot gold, which had been trading around $4,340 before the release, climbed toward $4,400 an ounce. Per a separate Arzdigital report, the price jump triggered a wave of short position liquidations in the crypto market, with more than $255 million in short positions closed within just 60 minutes, an event that explains part of the market's short term upward momentum. According to Sahmino's own price data, bitcoin was trading around $77,279 this morning, Saturday, 21 Shahrivar (September 12), a slight pullback from yesterday's peak.

According to Decrypt, the LAPTOP crypto token, launched by Hunter Biden, son of former US President Joe Biden, at 8am ET on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 (18 Shahrivar 1405) on Base (Coinbase's Ethereum layer two network), hit a peak price of $190.81 just two minutes later. Blockchain analytics firm Arkham reported that peak implied a fully diluted valuation near $144 billion, against a liquidity pool holding just $48,000. That gap between valuation and actual liquidity set up the token's rapid collapse; within 30 minutes LAPTOP had shed about 90 percent of its value, and by the one hour mark it traded near $4.77. According to the Washington Post and Bloomberg, the price stabilized in the one to two dollar range later that day, down nearly 99 percent from its peak. About 80 percent of traders who bought LAPTOP lost money, according to data from the platform Bubblemaps. Hunter Biden blamed the crash on sniper bots and thin liquidity, and denied that any insiders had bought before launch.

Michael Saylor, chairman of Strategy, the world's largest corporate holder of Bitcoin, said on his official X account that the company has halted its weekly Bitcoin buying and is directing its funds toward share buybacks instead. He said Strategy has repurchased another 176 million dollars of its STRC preferred shares and raised the ceiling on its digital credit securities buyback program from 1.0 billion to 2.0 billion dollars. In his post, published Tuesday, September 8, 2026 (17 Shahrivar 1405), Saylor said the company held 845,050 Bitcoin units and 6.5 billion dollars in cash as of September 7. With an average purchase cost of about 75,412 dollars per Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency trading around 78,200 dollars at the time of this report, Strategy holds unrealized gains of more than 2 billion dollars. STRC shares, which target a par value of 100 dollars, fell to 75 dollars over the summer but have recovered to around 98 dollars following the buyback program.

Matt Cole, CEO of asset manager Strive, said on his official account on X that the company purchased another 1,375 units of Bitcoin at an average price of 79,281 dollars each, worth a total of 109 million dollars. He said the purchase, announced on Tuesday, September 8, 2026 (17 Shahrivar 1405), brought Strive's total Bitcoin reserves to 24,531 units. Cole said 70 percent of the capital raised by the company last week came through a financial instrument called SATA, whose notional value has now reached 999 million dollars. The purchase is Strive's second aggressive accumulation move in the past two weeks; the company bought 1,800 units of Bitcoin worth 143 million dollars the week before. With Bitcoin trading around 78,200 dollars at the time of this report, the total value of Strive's Bitcoin holdings exceeds 1.9 billion dollars.

On chain data show that Justin Sun, founder of Tron, withdrew a total of 10,000 ETH from the Lido staking protocol between 4 Shahrivar 1405 (August 26, 2026) and Tuesday, 17 Shahrivar 1405 (September 8, 2026), ArzDigital reported. According to the data, the first 5,000 ETH, worth about 12.3 million dollars, was freed earlier, with part of it moved at a price around 2,481 dollars to the Poloniex exchange, which Sun is a major backer of. The latest step in the process came on 17 Shahrivar, September 8, when wallets linked to Sun submitted a request to withdraw another 5,000 ETH from Lido. However, the bulk of Sun's position in Lido remains untouched, as he still holds about 238,000 stETH worth roughly 594 million dollars. ArzDigital noted that moving assets to an exchange he backs does not necessarily indicate a sale, and that the withdrawal process has so far been gradual, with no sign of a sudden liquidation of his full position.

The Ethereum Foundation said on its official blog that it has set December 2029 as a binding deadline for hardening the Ethereum blockchain against threats from quantum computers, ArzDigital reported. According to the report, the date is being treated not as a flexible research goal but as a binding program tracked across the execution, consensus and data layers, so the network is ready before the arrival of advanced quantum computing. The timeline is based on estimates that so called Q day could arrive around 2030, which the foundation said aligns with assessments from companies such as Google and Microsoft. Data cited in the report shows about 65 percent of Ethereum's supply currently sits in addresses vulnerable to quantum attacks. The upcoming Hegota hard fork will serve as the first benchmark for the roadmap's progress, and the foundation said achieving full quantum resistance will require five consecutive hard forks spaced an average of 7.2 months apart, including phasing out the current cryptographic signature scheme and securing validators' withdrawal credentials.

Australia's Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre, AUSTRAC, said it has canceled or suspended the licenses of 45 remittance and digital currency exchange providers over the past year through Tuesday, 17 Shahrivar 1405 (September 8, 2026), and has declined to renew registration for a number of others, ArzDigital reported. The regulator has also referred individuals linked to the management of some of these businesses to law enforcement agencies. AUSTRAC said some of the firms were inactive or insolvent, some lacked sufficient operational capacity to provide digital asset services, and others failed to report fundamental changes to their business structure or violated registration rules; however, the agency said the primary reason for the cancellations was the high risk of money laundering and terrorism financing. AUSTRAC chief executive Brendan Thomas said in a statement that rapid cross border money transfers can create the highest level of money laundering and terrorism financing risk, and that the action came alongside the earlier shutdown of the Cryptolink platform and the deactivation of 96 crypto ATMs.

The Bitcoin network processed 893,391 transactions in the 24 hours ending Monday, September 7, 2026, marking the fourth largest daily transaction count in its history, a figure that, according to Galaxy Research, ranks above 99 percent of all recorded data for the blockchain since it launched in 2009. According to YCharts data, transaction volume rose 23.4 percent from the prior 24 hour period and 102.6 percent from the same day a year earlier, with about 3.36 billion dollars moved across the network. However, analysis by CryptoQuant found that nearly 80 percent of the increase came from micro transactions under 0.01 bitcoin, meaning it does not reflect heavy capital inflows into the network.

Open interest in altcoin perpetual futures has overtaken Bitcoin's for the first time since December 2024, ArzDigital reported Monday, September 7, 2026 (16 Shahrivar 1405), signaling that a larger share of open derivatives positions is now concentrated in altcoins. Two English language crypto outlets, Pluang and Crypto.news, independently reported the same development the same day. According to ArzDigital, the combined market value of altcoins outside the top ten cryptocurrencies has risen more than 10 percent since the start of September to above 200 billion dollars; Zcash (ZEC) has been the standout, up 134 percent over the past 30 days to around 1,200 dollars, with its open interest hitting a fresh record of 2.4 billion dollars, a rally that saw about 34 million dollars of ZEC short positions liquidated on September 4 alone. ArzDigital cautioned that rising leverage in altcoins, which have thinner liquidity than Bitcoin, could trigger heavy liquidation waves if the market suddenly reverses, as happened in December 2024. Bitcoin was trading around 79,500 dollars at the time of the report.

According to data from the Onchain Lens platform, a large cryptocurrency wallet transferred 620,420 Chainlink (LINK) tokens worth approximately $7.6 million to Coinbase on Monday, September 7, 2026 (16 Shahrivar 1405); the wallet has sent a total of 2.41 million tokens worth $26.04 million to the exchange over the past three weeks. According to ArzDigital, the wallet had previously withdrawn and held the tokens from Binance, and its shift from accumulation to transferring funds to an exchange strengthens the possibility of increased sell pressure, though a transfer to an exchange does not necessarily mean a definite sale. At the same time, Chainlink's price rose about 10 percent to around $13.4, with its relative strength index (RSI) reaching 72.47, a level indicating overbought territory.

Chilean cryptocurrency exchange Orionx, in which Tether had previously invested, began a permanent shutdown process on Monday, September 7, 2026 (16 Shahrivar 1405), after discovering a shortfall of more than $7 million in user custodial assets. According to ArzDigital, the exchange has halted customer withdrawals and said it cannot currently guarantee the full return of all users' assets. Audit checks found that the balances recorded in Orionx's internal system, covering bitcoin, ether, XRP and Polygon, do not match the assets actually held in the company's wallets. Orionx has filed a criminal complaint against Roberto Zibert, its former CEO, and Joaquin Diaz, its former technology chief; the two former executives have denied the allegations, and none of the accusations has yet been proven in court.

According to Farside Investors data published by Arzdigital on Sunday, 15 Shahrivar 1405 (6 September 2026), net inflows into US Solana ETFs fell 97 percent week on week to 4.9 million dollars in the week ending September 4, 2026, down from about 142.7 million dollars the previous week. Ethereum funds also saw declining inflows of 215.3 million dollars, while Bitcoin funds recorded the strongest inflow of the week at 986.7 million dollars in new capital. Separately, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission's commitments of traders report showed leveraged funds' net short position in CME Solana futures fell from 2,166,500 contracts to 1,273,000 contracts. Arzdigital said the shift does not necessarily signal a bullish reversal and could reflect hedging strategies.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said the company now ranks fifth among buyers in some short term US Treasury auctions, and considers itself the fifth largest buyer of US Treasuries overall once hedge fund activity is excluded. According to Arzdigital, he said Tether expects to rank among the top 10 Treasury buyers overall by the end of 2026. The report said Tether now directly holds more than 122 billion dollars in US Treasuries, with 83 percent of its reserves held in short term Treasuries, a volume that has pushed it past countries such as Germany, the UAE, Spain and Australia in Treasury holdings. Ardoino said Tether adds about 30 million new users every quarter and that its user base has reached about 530 million people.

Seyed Mohammad Mousavian, the public and revolutionary prosecutor of Isfahan, said on Sunday, 15 Shahrivar 1405 (6 September 2026), that special judicial orders have led to the identification and seizure of 2,406 illegal crypto mining devices in the province since last year. According to Khabaronline, he said the operation aims to reduce pressure on the power grid and prevent energy waste, describing it as a coordinated, targeted effort across the province. The Isfahan prosecutor also called for careful handling of the cases related to the seized equipment and said the province's judiciary stands ready to pursue the rights of the public treasury and citizens in this matter.

According to Arzdigital, citing data from Galaxy Research, published Sunday, September 6, 2026 (15 Shahrivar 1405), at least four old, dormant Bitcoin wallets have reactivated in recent days. A wallet holding 40 bitcoin that had sat untouched since November 2011 turned an initial investment of about $120 into more than $3.09 million, a gain of more than 2,571,899 percent. The largest transaction involved a wallet holding 146.06 bitcoin, worth about $11.31 million, that had been dormant since November 2013 and posted a return of nearly 12,902 percent. Two smaller wallets dating to early 2011, holding a combined 16.78 bitcoin, were also reactivated. Per the report, at least one of the addresses transferred 6.78 bitcoin directly to the Coinbase exchange, a possible sign of intent to sell. Some of the wallets carry a tag linked to a New York legal case known as Noah Doe, related to determining ownership of abandoned assets on the blockchain.

According to Arzdigital on Sunday, September 6, 2026 (15 Shahrivar 1405), Federal Reserve researchers Kristen Payne and Mary-Frances Styczynski examined a framework under which stablecoins and other blockchain based financial instruments could eventually be incorporated into the US M1 and M2 money supply measures. The paper found that stablecoins used mainly for instant payments and transaction settlement resemble M1 style assets, while tokens used more for crypto trading or short term value storage resemble M2 assets. The researchers also flagged technical hurdles, including the risk of double counting stablecoin issuers' reserves, which are often already reflected in M1 or M2 through bank deposits and Treasury holdings, and the difficulty of identifying wallet holders' locations to separate domestic US circulation from global use. They stressed the paper reflects their personal views only, not official Federal Reserve policy or any decision to immediately change liquidity calculations.

According to Arzdigital on Sunday, September 6, 2026 (15 Shahrivar 1405), citing Onchain Lens data, the Hyperliquid trading platform bought back and permanently burned about 9,730 HYPE tokens, worth roughly $829,500, over the past 24 hours. The buyback coincided with the token's price climbing to around $86, just short of its all time high of $88.06. The burn brought total tokens removed from circulation to about 48.42 million, or 4.84 percent of its one billion token initial supply, worth more than $4.14 billion at current market prices. Hyperliquid channels roughly 97 to 99 percent of its network fee revenue through an assistance fund mechanism into buying back and permanently burning tokens from the open market.

The Group of Seven (G7), comprising Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, warned in a new report published Saturday, September 5, 2026 (14 Shahrivar 1405), that advances in quantum computing pose a serious threat to current economic infrastructure and cryptographic systems. According to Arzdigital, the group called on governments and the private sector to begin migrating to quantum resistant systems before quantum technologies can decrypt sensitive data. Per the report, while the G7 statement does not name cryptocurrencies directly, the public key algorithms underpinning blockchain and digital wallet security are vulnerable to the threat. Bitcoin developers are studying proposals such as BIP-360 for quantum resistant signatures, Ethereum researchers are working to replace cryptographic components in staking contracts, and the Solana network, which uses EdDSA signatures, has an easier migration path and has already tested post quantum signatures on its test network.

According to Arzdigital, Coinbase added six new tokenized assets to its Base layer two network on Friday, September 4, 2026 (13 Shahrivar 1405), after recording 228 million dollars in trading volume in the first 30 days of its tokenized stock offering. The new list includes shares of Amazon, Microsoft, Tesla, SanDisk, Strategy and SpaceX, now available to eligible investors as onchain tokens; the addition brings the number of tokenized stocks on Base to 10, joining Apple, Google, Meta and Nvidia. Per the report, the assets are issued under the B20 standard by Coinbase Onchain SPV in the Abu Dhabi Global Market free zone, with Alpaca Securities, registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, handling brokerage and custody. Under US law, the tokens are not available to US citizens, but other eligible investors can hold them in personal wallets and use them as collateral for lending or borrowing on decentralized finance platforms.

According to Arzdigital, the cryptocurrency Zcash topped 1,000 dollars for the first time on Friday, September 4, 2026 (13 Shahrivar 1405), reaching 1,023 dollars on Coinbase, up from under 50 dollars at the start of 2025. The jump followed the US Securities and Exchange Commission's decision in January 2026 to close a two year investigation into the Zcash Foundation without penalty, clearing the way for Grayscale to convert its fund into the first Zcash spot ETF, trading under the ticker ZCSH on NYSE Arca, which now holds more than 414 million dollars in assets under management. Per the report, the rally came alongside the liquidation of more than 34.5 million dollars in short derivatives positions, which pushed the price up about 20 percent further in a short span. Zcash, long under regulatory pressure over its privacy focused design, has now returned to the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market value; analysts cited by Arzdigital described it as hard money comparable to bitcoin, with a 21 million unit supply cap, that also allows confidential transactions.

According to Boursenews, published Friday, 13 Shahrivar 1405 (September 4, 2026), more than 13,000 unlicensed cryptocurrency mining farms have been identified in Iran, with power consumption reaching about 3,750 megawatts, equal to the electricity use of four Iranian provinces and about 8 percent of residential power consumption. Per the report, illegal crypto mining costs the country close to 2.5 billion dollars a year, and authorities have so far identified and seized more than 300,000 unlicensed mining rigs or units operating during restricted hours, with estimated consumption of about 1,300 megawatts. Boursenews writes that more than 70 percent of the discovered farms were located in residential areas, and state utility company Tavanir said identified violators, including illegal miners, will be barred from energy subsidies for one year and billed for their electricity use at the unsubsidized free market rate. According to the report, citizen reports of abnormal power use, equipment noise and voltage drops have played an effective role in identifying these facilities.

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance, according to Arzdigital, published Friday, 13 Shahrivar 1405 (September 4, 2026), added four tokens, AVA (Ava), GNS (Gains Network), SCR (Scroll) and TOWNS (Towns Protocol), to its "monitoring tag" list in its latest review, a label indicating these assets carry higher risk and volatility relative to other tokens listed on the exchange. At the same time, 14 tokens, including MTP, BDXN, TALE, BOS and SAROS, were removed from the curated "Binance Alpha" section. Binance said it will review monitoring tagged projects more frequently and may remove them from spot trading if they fail to maintain the exchange's standards, with review criteria including trading volume, liquidity, developer activity and smart contract stability. Users trading these assets on spot or margin markets must complete a risk awareness quiz every 90 days.

According to on chain data platform CryptoQuant, cited by Arzdigital, Ripple's average monthly reserves on Binance have fallen by about 500 million tokens since November, dropping from 3.1 billion to 2.6 billion XRP, the lowest level since February 2024. Analysts say part of the decline may reflect long term holders moving assets into private wallets, along with new institutional demand from XRP ETFs launched by firms such as Bitwise and Franklin Templeton in late 2025. Bitwise's XRP ETF held close to 364.8 million XRP as of the end of August 2026. XRP has risen about 8 percent this week and is now trading around $1.45. CryptoQuant described the falling exchange reserves as a moderately positive medium term signal, while cautioning that its direct, immediate effect on price in the short term is unclear.

Iranian officials say more than 13,000 illegal cryptocurrency mining farms are operating across the country, drawing about 3,750 megawatts of electricity, equal to the consumption of four provinces and nearly 8 percent of total household power use. Donya e Eqtesad reports the unauthorized mining causes roughly $2.5 billion in annual losses. More than 300,000 illegal mining rigs have been identified and seized so far, with an estimated combined load of about 1,300 megawatts, more than the capacity of the Bushehr nuclear plant. Over 70 percent of the discovered farms were located in residential areas. A spokesman for parliament's presiding board recently announced fast track approval of a bill to combat illegal electricity use for crypto mining. State utility Tavanir said identified violators will lose energy subsidies for one year and be billed at the unsubsidized free market electricity rate.

Bitcoin traded back above $81,000 in Friday morning Asia trading on September 4, 2026, rising about 3.83 percent over 24 hours to $80,744, according to Donya e Eqtesad citing CoinDesk data. The CME FedWatch tool now shows traders pricing the odds of a Federal Reserve rate hike this month roughly even with the odds of no change, down from above 63 percent in recent days. Fed Governor Christopher Waller said he would support holding rates steady if price pressures keep easing. US spot bitcoin ETFs recorded about $277 million in net inflows on Thursday. Among the top ten cryptocurrencies, Zcash led gains with a 14.6 percent jump over 24 hours, while Ethereum rose 4.06 percent.

Ukraine's National Police, working with the country's Security Service, dismantled a large network of fake cryptocurrency investment platforms. According to ArzDigital, the network defrauded users in more than 20 countries and earned up to $1 million a month in illegal revenue. Based on initial reports from Ukrainian authorities, 62 victims have been identified so far, and the investigation continues to determine the exact scale of stolen assets and identify other victims. According to Ukrainian police, the operators built seemingly legitimate websites and advertised on Telegram to convince users to deposit funds, showing them a completely fabricated trading dashboard; when users requested withdrawals, the platform used a fake "additional verification" step to trick them into granting access to their wallets through so-called wallet-drainer tools.

Security researchers at Morphisec warned about fake desktop applications using the name of Anthropic's Claude AI. According to ArzDigital, the malicious apps are distributed with promises of free access to advanced Claude models but contain infostealer malware called Revstealer. Morphisec said a fake app titled "Claude Opus 5 Free Desktop" was distributed via GitHub and, once installed, steals cryptocurrency wallet files, including from Atomic, Armory, Sparrow, Wasabi and Electrum, as well as Ledger and Trezor software, along with passwords and browser data from Windows users. The firm said the malware cannot directly decrypt a wallet at the initial stage, but if a user has reused or used a weak password, attackers may later gain access to the funds. Morphisec advised users to download AI software only from official websites and sources.

An attacker linked to the third wave of Coldcard hardware wallet thefts has begun moving part of the stolen bitcoin after weeks of silence. According to ArzDigital, the hacker converted about 10% of the stolen assets to Ethereum via the THORChain protocol and moved the funds to a new Ethereum address; THORChain said it has shared the address details with law enforcement and security firms so the funds can be traced if moved again to centralized platforms. Before this transfer, about 87% of the stolen assets, roughly 1,789 bitcoin worth approximately $114 million, had remained in the original addresses. Investigations show the hacker ran into problems completing some transactions while using THORChain, though the exact cause is unclear.

G20 finance leaders backed the creation of clear legal frameworks for innovation in digital assets in an official statement. According to ArzDigital, the countries, while stressing the need to preserve financial stability, said precise regulation could play a transformative role in economic growth and placed digital assets among the group's priorities for 2026. A major part of the meeting focused on the stablecoin market, estimated at $315 billion, and the Financial Stability Board (FSB) was tasked with reviewing the cross-border implications of these assets. The G20 also stressed strict enforcement of anti-money-laundering rules; citing a Financial Action Task Force (FATF) report referenced in the statement, only 34% of the world's jurisdictions have complied with global digital asset standards.

Paul Atkins, chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), said in an interview with Fox Business that the digital asset market transparency bill known as the CLARITY Act faces a key procedural vote in the US Senate on September 15, 2026. According to ArzDigital, the vote is not the bill's final passage but concerns formally opening debate on it, and supporters need at least 60 votes to clear that stage. The bill, which would set a federal framework dividing oversight of the digital asset market between the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), passed the US House of Representatives in July 2025 by a vote of 294 to 134, and the Senate Banking Committee advanced its own version in May 2026 by 15 votes to 9. Atkins said he hopes the bill will ultimately reach President Donald Trump's desk for signature.

According to Arzdigital, bitcoin network miners earned revenue of about 1.008 billion dollars in August 2026, their best monthly performance since May. Of that total, about 1.001 billion dollars came from block rewards and 7.1 million dollars from transaction fees, with the increase driven mainly by bitcoin's 24.95 percent price gain in August. Even so, the "hashprice" index, which measures daily revenue per petahash of processing power, held at around 38.86 dollars, still reflecting the economic pressure the recent halving has placed on miners. For hashprice to reach a healthier level of 100 dollars, bitcoin's price would need to climb to around 198,950 dollars, a gap that has pushed some large mining companies to diversify revenue by offering cloud computing services for artificial intelligence.

Dan Morehead, founder and CEO of Pantera Capital, said in an interview with Bloomberg Crypto, carried by Arzdigital on Thursday, September 3, 2026 (12 Shahrivar 1405), that he believes bitcoin has entered a new three year bull cycle. Morehead said recent changes to US Treasury policy toward larger debt buybacks, combined with rising liquidity and weakening fiat currencies, could support a continued rally in scarce assets like bitcoin. Pointing to bitcoin's historical four year cycles, he said he still follows that pattern and believes the next upswing has begun. Morehead also cautioned that these policies do not resolve the core problem in the US economy, namely rising government debt. His comments reflect the analytical view of a well known crypto investor and should be read as such, not as a firm price forecast.

According to Arzdigital, Standard Chartered has launched spot crypto trading for institutional clients in the United Arab Emirates through its branch at the Dubai International Financial Centre. The move makes it the first globally systemically important bank to offer direct Bitcoin and Ether trading in the region. Eligible institutional clients can access the Bitcoin and Ether market through electronic trading gateways previously used for foreign exchange trading. Unlike derivatives, the service delivers assets physically, and clients can choose to hold them in the bank's own custody service or with another custodian. The launch follows the bank's introduction of similar spot trading through its UK branch in July 2025.

Iran's parliament voted in an open session on Wednesday, September 2, 2026 (11 Shahrivar 1405), to fast-track a bill adding Article 687 (repeated) to the Islamic Penal Code, targeting illegal use of electricity for cryptocurrency mining. Abbas Goudarzi, spokesman for parliament's presiding board, told Donya-e-Eqtesad the bill is necessary given the country's energy shortage, noting experts estimate one mining rig consumes as much power as 10 households. He said roughly 13,000 illegal mining farms have been identified nationwide, along with thousands of unauthorized mining rigs.

According to Arzdigital, the price of Tether (USDT) in Iran's market rose 1.39 percent over 24 hours to 214,085 tomans on the evening of Tuesday, September 1, 2026 (10 Shahrivar 1405). The stablecoin's global market value reached $183 billion, with daily trading volume rising to $65 billion. Based on the weekly chart for the domestic market, Tether's price climbed from a low of 207,677 tomans at the start of the week to a high of 214,431 tomans, a gain of about 5.77 percent over the week. The rise coincided with escalating Iran-US military tensions and increased demand for dollar-linked assets.