XRP Short-Term Falls Below $1.8, 24-hour Decline Exceeds 33%

On September 18 local time, Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Russia and Iran Sanctions Act of 2026, authorizing the expansion of legal sanctions, tariffs and bans on Russia, and extending sanctions against Iran. The same day, Trump said he is weighing whether to take further military action against Tehran, remarking "We will see," and noted that the U.S. is in contact with Yemen’s Houthi movement. Additionally, Trump announced that the U.S. has reached an agreement with Denmark on security issues for Greenland, which will ensure Washington’s permanent capability to maintain local security. He also named three media outlets, including CNN, on social media, banning them from entering the White House, and claimed his approval rating among Republicans has hit 95%, a record high.

Singapore-based payment platform Dtcpay has closed its Series A funding round, bringing its total raised capital to $25 million. The round was first led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India in April, with Japanese financial group SBI Group joining as a strategic investor, while Genedant Capital and existing shareholder Kwee Liong Tek also participated. Dtcpay holds regulatory approvals from Singapore’s Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and an electronic financial institution license from Luxembourg, authorizing it to offer regulated services in the European Economic Area, plus operational credentials across multiple jurisdictions including Hong Kong, Australia, the United States, and Canada.

Shanghai-based Chinese embodied tactile technology firm Qianjue Robotics announced it has successfully closed two consecutive strategic financing rounds worth hundreds of millions of yuan. Prior to this, Qianjue had announced the completion of a 100 million yuan-level financing round, with investors including embodied intelligence industry players, Tianji Capital, and Jide Electric Appliance. The company’s current shareholders include financial investment institutions such as Hillhouse Venture Capital, Yuanhe Origin, and Futeng Capital, as well as industry players in the embodied intelligence and industrial sectors like Li Auto, Zhiyuan Robotics, and Jide Electric Appliance. The proceeds from this round will be primarily used for product upgrades, business expansion, and industrialization implementation, accelerating the iteration and large-scale delivery of high-precision visual-tactile sensors, improving real interactive data collection, tactile simulation, and dataset construction, and continuing R&D on tactile embodied models and tactile world models.

MultiversX (EGLD) official announcement: The team is investigating a potential issue detected on the MultiversX mainnet, and will release further updates within the next 12 hours or as soon as a clear conclusion is reached.

Glassnode notes that Bitcoin’s entity-adjusted Spent Output Profit Ratio (SOPR) 7-day moving average has reclaimed the 1.00 break-even threshold. This means most on-chain sold tokens are in profit, yet the price has not immediately pulled back—signaling strong enough buying demand to absorb profit-taking selling pressure, a hallmark of a bull market. If the indicator remains above 1, it reflects robust demand; a drop back below 1 would indicate this supporting force is fading. The accompanying chart’s orange line is the adjusted SOPR, gray line tracks BTC price, green areas denote overall profitable sales, and red areas represent overall loss-making sales.

According to GMGN data, the on-chain meme coin ROBIN on Robinhood Chain has surged 47% in 24 hours, with its market cap exceeding $6.5 million. ROBIN (Robin the Frog) is directly based on a real character from *The Muppets*: Robin the Frog, nephew of Kermit the Frog. This character also appears in *Muppet Robin Hood*, linking directly to the Robin Hood story—an alignment that fits closely with Robinhood Chain’s narrative. The community has dubbed it the "Pepe of Robinhood Chain" or "the native frog of the chain". BlockBeats reminds users that meme coins often lack practical use cases, experience significant price volatility, and caution is required for investments in these assets.