Crypto Fear & Greed Index Drops to 23, Market Still in "Extreme Fear" State

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) has raised its key interest rate by 25 basis points, lifting the target rate from 1.00% to 1.25% — the highest level in 31 years. The decision, approved by a 7-2 vote, aligns with market expectations. The BOJ stated it will continue to raise rates based on economic and price developments as well as financial conditions.

Beating AI News Flash: Anthropic has revamped Claude Projects, resulting in a feature nearly identical to the same-named function Cursor launched a week ago. Cursor uses a central agent as project manager, which does not write code itself—instead, it breaks down tasks, sets plans, and assigns work to multiple agents for parallel completion. Tasks run persistently in the cloud, even when users close their laptops; all agents share project context and can automatically activate local agents when needed. Claude’s new Projects follow almost the exact same design: a central agent breaks down tasks and verifies results, with multiple parallel Claude Code sessions running below. Each session independently modifies code, runs tests, and submits pull requests (PRs), shares project memory, and continues working even when the laptop is closed. Cursor launched its Projects on September 10, while Claude Projects were released on September 17. Even now, Cursor’s feature is more robust, indicating Claude only managed a rough copy in just seven days.

According to monitoring by Onchain Lens, a whale holds a long HYPE position that has been open for 343 days. The position size is 1.38 million HYPE, valued at approximately $119.12 million, with an average entry price of $38.68. The position currently has an unrealized profit of $65.74 million, and has paid $5.67 million in funding fees over the period.

Jiang Zhuoer, founder of BTC.TOP, posted that holdings of BNCB have risen again, reaching $17.28 million. In the comparative data he cited, this holding size exceeds related positions of Coinbase and MicroStrategy (MSTR), and is close to Tesla’s related holdings. He noted BNCB provides BNB exposure at approximately a 58% discount. BNC is the BNB Treasury controlled by Binance, while BNCB is Binance’s bStock token corresponding to BNC. He believes Binance launched BNCB to channel crypto market funds to the U.S.-listed BNC, forming a “crypto-stock flywheel” similar to MicroStrategy’s model. He pointed out that BNB’s current total market cap is around $94 billion, while BNC’s market cap stands at only about $220 million; if 1% of BNB’s buyer funds shift to BNC, it could erase the current discount. So far, crypto market funds have bought $17.28 million worth of BNCB and $5.29 million worth of BNC4, totaling $22.57 million, roughly 10% of BNC’s total market cap. BNC’s advantage over small-cap tokens is that its downside potential may be limited by asset discounts, which was his main rationale for earlier BNC purchases. He also stated he bought BNC at around $4.5 per unit.

On the FOMO platform, a whale holding Artificial Inu (AI) sold 6.096 million tokens this morning, worth $2.03 million. The whale still holds 17.5 million AI tokens (valued at $5.84 million), with total realized and unrealized profits of $7.56 million from its AI holdings. According to GMGN market data, Artificial Inu (AI) dropped over 12% between 5 AM and 6 AM this morning, likely due to the whale’s sell-off.

According to HTX market data, Bitcoin has surpassed $77,000, posting a 0.96% gain in the past 24 hours.