📢 🇺🇸 US consumer confidence fell to 81.9 in September, its lowest level since 2014 and well below the 89.0 expected. For the first time in four years, more Americans described their finances as bad rather than good, citing rising prices, fuel costs, and a weaker job market.

📢 Polymarket traders now price a 37% chance of a Fed rate hike in October, while putting the odds of no change at 61%.

📢 🇺🇸 U.S. electricity prices are nearing 20 cents per kWh, rising at their fastest pace in decades.

📢 Bitcoin outperformed stocks and gold in September, gaining around 7% while the S&P 500 remained flat and gold dropped more than 6%, according to Santiment.

📢 🇺🇸 U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has tapped Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help shape the military technology of the future through “Project Meridian.”

📢 Binance Research projects tokenized equities could surge from $4.43B today to $349B by 2030, according to Richard Teng.

📢 Most of the top $NEAR traders on Hyperliquid are positioned short, with the largest short currently sitting on nearly $13M in unrealized losses, while the biggest long is up $17.35M.

📢 ZachXBT reports that NEAR Intents was exploited for more than $3.8M, with the stolen funds sent to KuCoin before being bridged to Bitcoin.

📢 NEAR Intents has confirmed an exploit involving more than $3.8M, saying the vulnerability has been patched and affected users will be fully reimbursed.

📢 BitMart has proposed a court-approved recovery plan after revealing a $319.5M balance sheet shortfall linked to its 2021 hack.

📢 Arrakis Finance’s latest report shows Solana leads all other chains in tokenized stock trading.

📢 Trump claims he neutralized Iran’s nuclear threat “in one night,” adding that the remaining effort is focused on ensuring it does not return.

📢 Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan expects stablecoins to grow significantly, as the San Francisco Fed points to their role in compensating for declining Chinese holdings of U.S. Treasuries.

📢 Social sentiment around Ethereum and $XRP has fallen to its lowest levels since June 7 and August 17, respectively, as bearish discussions take over, according to Santiment.

📢 Anthropic’s valuation has surged 22x since June 2024, significantly outperforming both Nvidia and the Nasdaq-100, according to Eric Balchunas.

📢 Bitcoin has climbed above $85K after sell orders were pulled from the market, with the next major sell wall sitting near $87K, according to Glassnode.

📢 Long-dormant $ETH recorded its largest movement since June 2 on September 30, while exchange balances remained largely unchanged, according to Santiment.

📢 Bitcoin whales have added 75,000 $BTC to their holdings over the past month, according to CryptoQuant data.

📢 BNB Chain has become the first blockchain to surpass $1B in tokenized stocks and ETFs, accounting for roughly 30% of the $3.7B market.

📢 Microsoft’s official X account was compromised and used to promote a Clippy-themed meme coin.