Circle has announced a partnership with Kraken to expand access to USDC and EURC.

September 18th. According to IFR, which is a media outlet under Reuters. In addition to a 25-basis-point rate cut in this Fed decision, the first headline that market participants are likely to notice is that three or more officials dissented. Clearly, Bullard, Bowman, and Mester will hold three positions because they advocated for a larger rate cut. Furthermore, the dissenters may include Quarles, Schnabel, or Mousallem who preferred to keep rates unchanged. What traders are actually concentrating on is the FOMC's dot plot, namely whether it predicts only one more rate cut by 2025 or potentially two more cuts. Trump's strategy of removing Fed Governor Powell is probably intended to ensure that after today's rate cut, there will be two more cuts in 2025. (FXStreet)

On September 18th, as per the monitoring of LookOnChain, an address of BlackRock deposited 4,538 ETH into Coinbase Prime, which was valued at $20.42 million. Additionally, it received 293.6 BTC from Coinbase Prime, with a value of $34 million.

According to PayPal's Q2 2025 financial report, PayPal's average daily payment volume was $4.93B. And the $USDT transfer volume on #Tron reached $36.5B yesterday, more than 7 times that of PayPal.

On September 18th, as per Cryptoslate, the ETF issuer Defiance has submitted an application to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for the launch of two ETFs centered around "Basis Trading", which are pegged to Bitcoin and Ethereum. The purpose is to profit from the spread between the spot market and futures contracts while essentially reducing the impact of significant price fluctuations.

On September 17th, Michael Egorov, the founder of Curve Finance, put forward a new "Yield Basis" plan today. He plans to issue a $60 million crvUSD stablecoin to support the operation of three Bitcoin trading pools. The plan will return up to 65% of the revenue to veCRV holders and allocate 25% of the "Yield Basis" tokens to the Curve ecosystem. At the time of this proposal, Michael Egorov is coming under scrutiny due to multiple CRV liquidation events, such as a massive $140 million loss in June and an $882,000 loss in December.

On September 18th, the world's first Web3 creative AI Agent officially launched its testnet in conjunction with the on-chain creative asset DAO—GaiAI. GaiAI integrates AI generation with on-chain attribution, enabling every creation to be attributed, circulated, and monetized, transforming visual content from "works" into "on-chain assets." The testnet is now available for participation by creators, developers, and community users.