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2026-09-30 · 8 high-impact headlines

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  1. Binance Pay allows users in Japan to make payments to PayPay merchants using USDT.BlockBeats news, September 30: Binance Pay will allow eligible overseas users to pay with USDT at the vast majority of merchants supporting PayPay while visiting Japan starting Wednesday. The service operates through the payment interoperability framework HIVEX, with merchant-side settlement still completed in Japanese yen. Binance said this is the first crypto payment service to connect to the PayPay merchant network through HIVEX, and relevant merchants do not need to apply separately or individually enable the feature. PayPay is currently accepted at millions of locations across Japan, covering large chain stores, small and medium-sized retailers, vending machines, taxis, and public transportation, among other scenarios. HIVEX currently also supports 9 overseas payment services, mainly from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Japan received a total of 42.7 million international visitors in 2025; in the first 8 months of 2026, visitor arrivals to Japan were 27.6 million, down 2.7% year-on-year.
  2. Bitget Releases 47th Proof of Reserves, Comprehensive Reserve Ratio for 19 Asset Types Reaches 131%BlockBeats news, September 30th, according to an official announcement, Bitget has released its 47th Proof of Reserves (PoR). The total reserve ratio reached 131%, covering 19 types of assets. Among them, the reserve ratios for BTC, ETH, USDT, and USDC were 142%, 110%, 107%, and 154%, respectively. Bitget has been updating its Proof of Reserves monthly since December 2022, and in September of this year, it expanded its coverage from 4 types of assets to 19, providing users with broader visibility into the platform's reserves. Bitget's historical average reserve ratio has remained above 120%, higher than the 100% coverage benchmark, ensuring full coverage of insured user assets.
  3. Prominent Trader: Current Bitcoin Trend Differs from 2023, Still Bullish Towards $90,000 RangeBlockBeats news, September 30: Renowned trader Killa posted that the current market is keen on drawing parallels between Bitcoin's price action and the pullback after its rebound to $25,000 in 2023, but there are clear differences in market structure between the two. In 2023, BTC only formed an equal high near $25,000, failed to effectively close above that level, and then quickly pulled back. In contrast, BTC has now formed a higher high on the weekly timeframe and is consolidating above the previous high following the breakout. In addition, the largest drawdown in the previous bear market was about 77%, while this round is about 54%. Killa believes that, considering diminishing returns and the gradually narrowing retracement range, the main correction in this bull market could be closer to 10% to 15%, corresponding to approximately $78,000 and $74,000, respectively. Killa said that even if prices repeat a similar trajectory, they may not necessarily break below the previous low as clearly as in 2023. Open interest has now completed its reset, and prices remain above the previous high, with the market structure appearing relatively healthy in his view. He has not positioned for a major pullback and still targets the $90,000 range.
  4. Grayscale: Zcash still has room to further expand its market share, and demand for privacy technology will continue to grow.BlockBeats news, September 30 - Zach Pandl, Head of Research at Grayscale, stated in a post that over the past year, the price of ZEC has risen from approximately $60 to around $1,500, but Grayscale believes it has not yet reached its valuation ceiling. This increase reflects Zcash's previously low valuation starting point and its large potential market size. Data shows that a year ago, ZEC's market cap was less than 0.1% of BTC's, and it has now risen to approximately 1.5%. Grayscale believes that while this change is significant, it is not extreme within the digital currency sector. Currently, XRP's market cap is about 6% of BTC's; during the 2017-2018 cycle, the market caps of XRP, BCH, LTC, and DASH all reached at least 3% of BTC's. Grayscale expects that market demand for privacy-preserving technologies will continue to grow. If Zcash can consistently provide superior privacy features compared to other cryptocurrencies, it still has room to further expand its market share.
  5. Michael Saylor Seeks to Restart Strategy's Financing Engine, Daily Dividend Preferred Stock Proposal May PassBlockBeats news, September 30, according to Bloomberg, Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor is seeking to adjust the company's preferred stock dividend mechanism, proposing to change the dividends on billions of dollars of preferred stock from semi-monthly or quarterly payments to daily payments. The annualized yield on the related securities is as high as 12%, and Saylor said the move will help improve liquidity and market efficiency. Strategy previously mainly raised funds by selling common stock to buy Bitcoin, but as the premium of its common stock relative to its Bitcoin assets disappeared, the company turned to issuing perpetual preferred stock that does not dilute common shareholders' equity. Such securities have no fixed repayment date and can provide Strategy with a new source of financing. Strategy currently has more than $14 billion of preferred stock outstanding. Although the company has repurchased more than $1 billion of floating-rate preferred stock STRC, it has still been unable to issue new STRC since May. Analysts pointed out that increasing the dividend frequency mainly reduces dividend-related volatility, cannot eliminate credit and Bitcoin price risks, and may not necessarily improve market liquidity. Shareholder voting on the proposal will end on October 28. Given that Saylor is Strategy's major shareholder, the proposal is expected to pass.
  6. BlackRock: AI adoption may become a structural catalyst for digital asset adoption, with stablecoins and computing power assets potentially becoming the infrastructure of the AI economy.BlackRock stated in its latest report "The Machine-Native Economy" that AI and digital assets are accelerating their convergence: AI represents "machine-native intelligence," while digital assets represent "machine-native currency." As AI agents begin to autonomously purchase services and initiate financial transactions, blockchain can provide machine-readable assets and programmable settlement infrastructure. BlackRock believes that stablecoins may be the first to become the primary transaction tool for agent commercial activity. Compared with traditional payment networks, blockchain is better suited for round-the-clock, high-frequency, small-value machine-to-machine payments. Data shows that as of September 2026, the circulating market value of stablecoins exceeded $300 billion; adjusted transaction volume in 2025 exceeded $11 trillion, with a compound annual growth rate of 80% from 2020 to 2025. In addition, computing power may become an emerging large-scale market for digital assets. Analysts expect that the combined revenue of AWS, Microsoft Intelligent Cloud, and Google Cloud may reach approximately $1.1 trillion by 2030. In the future, the right to use computing power could be standardized and tokenized for transfer, collateralization, and programmable settlement, and computing power futures may also support price discovery and risk hedging. BlackRock also pointed out that liquidity in agent payments and the computing power market is still at an early stage, but as AI applications expand, digital assets may gradually become important infrastructure for the AI economy.
  7. Jumper token subscription applications reached nearly $16 million, about 8 times the target amount.BlockBeats news, September 30: Multichain DEX Jumper's token sale subscription applications on the Legion platform reached nearly $16 million, about 8 times the target amount. The token sale opened at 9 PM yesterday and will close at 9 PM on October 2. Jumper positions itself as an on-chain financial super app, integrating swaps, cross-chain, wealth management, perpetual contracts, and tokenized stocks and other RWA trading into a single interface. The official claims cumulative trading volume exceeding $41 billion, monthly active users over 100,000, and leading cross-chain aggregation volume.
  8. Preview: US August PCE to be released tonight at 20:30, may hardly serve as a basis for the Fed to pause rate hikes.BlockBeats news, September 30: The U.S. August PCE price index will be released tonight at 20:30. The market expects that August PCE inflation will remain elevated, and the data may struggle to provide sufficient grounds for the Federal Reserve to pause further tightening. Headline PCE is expected to rise 0.4% month-on-month and 3.7% year-on-year, both broadly unchanged from July; core PCE, excluding food and energy, is expected to rise 0.3% month-on-month and 3.3% year-on-year, still above the Federal Reserve's 2% inflation target. The rebound in energy prices and resilient consumption may make the Federal Reserve's policy judgment more difficult. If the data meet expectations, the market may continue to focus on whether the Federal Reserve will raise rates again this year. At its September meeting, the Federal Reserve raised the policy rate by 25 basis points to 3.75%-4.00% and hinted in its latest projections that there is still room for further adjustment before the end of the year. There are divisions within the Federal Reserve over the subsequent policy path. Federal Reserve Governor Barr believes that tariffs and the Iran conflict have pushed inflation off the track toward the 2% target, and further rate hikes may still be needed in the future; New York Fed President Williams said there is no need to act hastily, but he expects one more rate hike may still be needed this year. If PCE comes in above expectations, market pricing for further rate hikes may strengthen.