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According to CoinDesk, data from the cryptocurrency recruitment platform CryptoJobsList shows that the number of job postings by cryptocurrency companies in September increased from 382 in July to 1,241, continuing to rise from 886 in August, and surpassing the most active month earlier this year, January, which had 573 postings. The number of companies posting jobs in September rose to 125, up from 107 in July, and briefly dropped to 77 in August.The platform believes that the recovery in hiring in September aligns with the seasonal pattern of business returning to normal after the summer off-season in the Northern Hemisphere, but the data indicates that seasonality is not the only reason: the number of job postings in August had already doubled compared to July, and there was no similar surge from August to September in 2025; the most active month that year, October, had only 373 postings, with data from July to September remaining basically flat.In contrast to the increase in job postings, the number of applications fell from 25,700 in July to 24,631 in August, and further declined to less than 20,000 in September. CryptoJobsList interprets this divergence as a tightening competition for professional talent. Over the past three months, finance has been the largest recruitment category, followed by engineering and trading, with stablecoins, AI, security, and compliance also making the top ten; the most requested blockchain skills are Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana.

According to the United Morning Post, as of early September, ticket bookings for the 2026 Singapore F1 race weekend have decreased by 22.92% year-on-year. As of September 21, the hotel booking rate for the race long weekend is about 14% lower than the same booking period last year.Industry players believe that this year's event coincides with China's National Day Golden Week, and the return of the Malaysian Sepang Circuit after nine years, which takes place the week before, may divert some of the crowd. At the same time, TOKEN2049 Singapore will be held at Marina Bay Sands from October 7 to 8, with officials expecting to attract over 25,000 attendees.

According to Coinglass data, the total contract open interest for BTC has decreased by 6.05% in the past 24 hours, with the current total open interest at 54.091 billion USD. Among them, Binance's open interest is 11.371 billion USD, OKX's open interest is 3.032 billion USD, Bybit's open interest is 5.396 billion USD, and Gate's open interest is 4.284 billion USD.

The decentralized trading protocol Osmosis in the Cosmos ecosystem announced that the maintenance mode of the past few months is coming to an end, and active development will resume. The team stated that the first step is to streamline the core product, including simplifying the tokenomics, focusing on the treasury, and enabling the network to act faster when needed.Osmosis proposed three adjustments to OSMO, all of which will be submitted for on-chain governance. First, further reduce inflation, decrease the circulation of new OSMO, and stop injecting newly minted OSMO into the community pool, making the network rely more on actual revenue. Second, destroy most of the OSMO held by the community pool, as well as the OSMO previously allocated from the community pool. Third, the treasury will only provide liquidity for the core liquidity pool, with a complete list to be published before the changes take effect.The team also plans to reduce the active validator set to 30, stating that a smaller set helps with security incident response and chain upgrade coordination, and aligns with a low-inflation model. Osmosis stated that streamlining the protocol is to prepare for future expansion, as it remains the central venue for IBC asset trading, and seeks community input on the direction of the next steps.

K33 Research Research Director Vetle Lunde analyzed that in the past 7 days, the total open interest of CME and perpetual contract BTC decreased by 49,000 contracts, marking the largest weekly decline since October 2025, during which market volatility was low and funding rates continued to decline.Unlike previous significant reductions in positions that were accompanied by forced liquidations, this round of deleveraging is more akin to proactive profit-taking, with overall market sentiment trending towards rationality.

According to the data panel on the ChainCatcher official website, regarding BTC wallet balances, in the past 7 days, among the top 10 exchanges by balance, only two had net inflows; Binance had the largest decline, at 2.95%.In terms of exchange asset transparency proof, the top three exchanges with net outflows of reserve assets were Deribit (-340 million USD), Bybit (-291 million USD), and MEXC (-99.5608 million USD); in terms of net inflows, Binance had the highest inflow, reaching 703 million USD, followed by Bitfinex (+321 million USD) and OKX (+40.4574 million USD).

StarkWare stated in an update on September 23 that the estimated GPU computing cost for preparing a quantum secure Bitcoin (QSB) transaction has dropped to below $67, a decrease of about 79% compared to the approximately $320 computing expenditure for the first similar mainnet transaction in August. According to StarkWare, the first QSB transaction was packaged and confirmed on August 26, with the engineering work completed by Tomer Giladi, and submitted directly through MARA's Slipstream service. The preparation process consumed about 3100 GPU hours, utilized around 100 GPUs, and incurred a computing cost of approximately $320, excluding Bitcoin network transaction fees.This cost reduction resulted from the quantum secure Bitcoin optimization challenge initiated on September 16 by StarkWare, Yukon Research, and Eigen Labs. The challenge invited developers, researchers, and AI agents to optimize transaction construction software, ultimately resulting in 62 adopted improvements across two computational tasks required to prepare a QSB transaction, with benchmark tests showing an estimated computing cost reduction of about 79%. The relevant dashboard currently indicates that the estimated cost has further decreased to $66.The QSB proposal was released by StarkWare researcher Avihu Levy in April, introducing hash-based quantum attack protection for transactions without altering Bitcoin's consensus rules. Due to limited cost, complexity, and applicability, he described it at the time as an emergency measure while continuing to advocate for adjustments at the protocol level.

According to Coinglass data, the total contract open interest for BTC has decreased by 7.56% in the past 24 hours, with the current total open interest at 57.131 billion USD. Among them, the open interest for Binance is 11.313 billion USD, OKX is 3.153 billion USD, Bybit is 5.781 billion USD, and Gate is 5.032 billion USD.

According to Coinglass data, the total contract open interest for BTC has decreased by 5.32% in the past 24 hours, with the current total open interest at 58.446 billion USD. Among them, Binance has an open interest of 11.681 billion USD, OKX has an open interest of 3.267 billion USD, Bybit has an open interest of 5.761 billion USD, and Gate has an open interest of 5.216 billion USD.

According to The Block, based on the seventh annual Geographies report by blockchain analysis company Chainalysis, during the 12 months ending June 30, 2026, the scale of global cryptocurrency economic activity shrank by only 1.6%, from $9.5 trillion to $9.4 trillion. During the same period, the total market capitalization of the cryptocurrency market fell by about 50%, shrinking by $2.1 trillion, marking the most severe cryptocurrency bear market since 2022. The report states that the decline in economic activity is much smaller than the decline in market capitalization.Capital flows showed divergence. Funds flowing into exchanges, DeFi protocols, and other cryptocurrency services decreased by 4.3% to $8.9 trillion; domestic P2P transfers surged by 302.9% to $228.7 billion; cross-border stablecoin flows grew by 77.5%, rising from $124.2 billion to $220.3 billion. Chainalysis noted that its cross-border statistics are somewhat conservative, as they exclude transfers where the sending and receiving countries cannot be confirmed, and pointed out that this growth comes from payments averaging about $3,000, which are far from institutional levels and more aligned with everyday use cases such as personal payments to vendors, cross-border remittances, or transferring savings.Stablecoins demonstrated better value retention during the market capitalization decline compared to other cryptocurrency assets, with global on-chain balances dropping from $860 billion in September 2025 to $440 billion in June 2026, while stablecoin balances remained between $98 billion and $109 billion during this period.

Glassnode stated that over time, it seems increasingly unlikely that a decline of the same depth as in past cycles will occur again in the later stages of this market. The "four-year cycle" pattern that the market previously relied on has not been reflected in this bear market.Data shows that the drawdowns in the past three cycles exceeded twice that of this cycle, and there are still several weeks until the cycle low point; in contrast, this time BTC has only fallen about 30% from its historical high, and the price is currently rising.

The artificial intelligence research organization Epoch AI posted on X: AI is becoming cheaper at a faster rate than any other transformative technology in history. The cost has decreased by approximately 47% each quarter since 2023 at a given performance level.This speed is 4 times faster than DNA sequencing, 6 times faster than computing, 18 times faster than lithium batteries, and 54 times faster than electricity (as of 1973).

According to data from Dune, the network transaction fees on the sixth day since the launch of Circle's Arc mainnet dropped to approximately $9,218, a decrease of 96.7% compared to the first day of launch.During the same period, the daily transaction fees for Robinhood Chain, Base, Arbitrum, and Sui were approximately $312,000, $139,000, $22,300, and $11,500, respectively.

Cryptocurrency analyst @AxelAdlerJr posted that after August 19, the number of bitcoins held by long-term holders has decreased for 5 consecutive weeks, but the pace of reduction in the last 30 days has significantly slowed from 105,900 BTC on August 30 to 21,700 BTC on September 20 (nearly five times slower).In addition, the amount of bitcoins held by long-term holders decreased by 47,800 BTC last week. LTH SOPR data shows that most of them were sold at a loss.

J.P. Morgan analyst Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou's team stated in a report on Wednesday that if ETF hedging demand decreases, Bitcoin may receive more support compared to gold. The report mentioned that after the Federal Reserve's meeting at the end of July, "devaluation trades" returned, with both Bitcoin and gold ETFs experiencing inflows.The gold ETF has recovered all outflows from earlier in 2026, while the Bitcoin ETF has recovered about half. BlackRock iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) short positions remain close to year-to-date highs, while SPDR Gold Shares ETF (GLD) short positions are below historical averages, and the put/call ratio for IBIT is also higher than that for GLD.Analysts stated: From a positioning perspective, the higher short positions of IBIT relative to GLD may provide more support for Bitcoin compared to gold if hedging demand decreases.

According to Coinglass data, the total contract open interest for ETH has decreased by 5.53% in the past 24 hours, with the current total open interest at 31.353 billion USD. Among them, Binance's open interest is 8.65 billion USD, OKX's open interest is 1.668 billion USD, Bybit's open interest is 2.091 billion USD, and Gate's open interest is 2.909 billion USD.

Filecoin's official statement says that once the allocations of Protocol Labs and the Filecoin Foundation end in October this year, the new supply of FIL is expected to decrease by 75%. After that, block rewards will become the only new supply source, and burn and staking locks will determine the subsequent situation.

According to the 8-K document submitted by Strategy to the SEC, the company did not sell any shares through the ATM plan from September 8 to 13, 2026, nor did it buy or sell Bitcoin, maintaining a position of 845,050 coins, with a total holding cost of approximately 6.373 billion USD and an average price of about 75,412 USD.During the same period, the company repurchased 1.4205 million shares of STRC preferred stock for 139.3 million USD, funded by USD Cash, with a remaining quota of approximately 1.05 billion USD for the preferred stock repurchase plan. As of September 13, the USD Reserve balance was 5.1 billion USD, and the USD Cash balance was 1.3 billion USD, a decrease of approximately 139.3 million USD compared to the previous week.

According to the data panel on the ChainCatcher official website, regarding BTC wallet balances, in the past 7 days, Bybit had the largest increase among the top 10 exchanges, reaching 1.50%; Bitget had the largest decrease, dropping by 2.98%.In terms of exchange asset transparency proof, in the past 7 days, the top three net outflows were Bybit (-436 million USD), Binance (-156 million USD), and Bitget (-128 million USD); the top three net inflows were Deribit (+241 million USD), Bitfinex (+119 million USD), and MEXC (+102 million USD).