Range trade: BTC is currently trading between $116,800 (near-term support) and $118,000 (overhead resistance).
ETF Flows: On September 18, ETFs came back strongly into inflows with Ethereum spot ETFs adding $213 million, and Bitcoin spot ETFs adding $163 million.
Derivatives concentration: Options open interest at a record 500,000 BTC ahead of the September 26 expiry; perpetual OI pulled back to ~380,000 BTC.
Structure & breadth: Altcoin Season Index at 80 shows altseason persists as BNB, SOL, and others outperformed; BNB briefly hit $1,004 intraday.
On-chain signal: BTC saw the second-largest inflow to accumulation addresses in 2025, and 95 percent of the supply is currently in profit. This is supportive of the current price structure, but profit-taking risk is elevated.
The shift follows a 2025 edition that drew more than 11,000 attendees from 90 countries, and adds closed-door tokenization roundtables to a festival previously built around a single unified stage.
The exchange is enforcing Brussels' sanctions list to the letter, down to the exact spelling of each entity's name — the same pattern it followed with Iran-linked platforms two weeks earlier
After weeks of selling BTC to fund preferred dividends, Strategy raised $334 million through MSTR share sales and made no bitcoin purchases or sales at all — a pause inside a $5 billion monetization program the company approved just weeks earlier
Anchorpoint's HKDAP entered phase-one Beta Access on August 12 with HashKey and OSL as distributors — a controlled first step for the token Blockhead called a parallel, tightly controlled track rather than an open market
