Mando

Mando Minutes · 18 Sep 2026, 03:56 AM NZT

### Crypto higher, Robinhood chain volumes dip, Fed’s hawkish hike

Crypto

BTC: 76,715 (+1%) | BTC.D: 58.8% (-0.4%)

ETH: 2,470 (+3%) | BNB: 729 (+2%) | SOL: 101 (+4%)

Fear & Greed: 51 · 24h Liq: $346m

BTC ETFs: -$296M | ETH ETFs: -$224M

Top Gainers: MCAT, ZCAT, STONK, BULLA, CASHCAT

Crypto higher despite fed hike

ZEC continues rally post governance vote

BTC slips below bottom of the range: Glassnode

BTC ETFs no longer buying the dip: Glassnode

Bitcoin Core update targets speed, security fixes

EIP-8411 tests sub-1s payload propagation

ETC miners reverse Core Geth v1.13 migration

Robinhood Chain volumes dip

* STONK surges, as Stonkfun board tokens rally

Solana wants to 'win in all trading', perps: Toly

Two crypto bills clear House panels post-Clarity

SEC to deliver clarity 'without Clarity’: Atkins

Bernstein sees 'aggressive, swift' SEC, CFTC rules

Clarity 'not fully dead', window narrow: JP Morgan

Revolut hackers demand $3M in XMR

Crypto VC funding rebounds in Q2: Galaxy

Only 290 people hold $100M+ in crypto: Henley

Pomp's ProCap sells 50 BTC to buy back shares

Injective gets Pumpfun-style launchpad Sprout

Robinhood plans to support Circle's Arc L1

No ARC token launched, only minted

Celsius sues BitMEX for $495M before shutdown

Tether lent $1.5B to US gold dealer Golddotcom

Ondo joins DTCC's Fund/SERV

DB to launch crypto custody this year

Hyundai to scale stablecoin payments

XRPL becomes settlement option in Stripe's MPP

Two Prime launches $10M-backed BTC yield vault

Aave to launch RWA lending market

Aave founder pitches 'Uber path' for DeFi

KREMLIN malware uses ETH to update servers

Hong Kong targets stablecoin trading, RWAs

UK crypto firms face fresh FCA authorisation

Moscow Exchange to launch crypto perps

South Korea police probe 26 Polymarket users

Shinhan AM becomes Canton super validator

Ethiopia slashes BTC mining power 77%

Macro

NASDAQ: $25,980 (0%) | Gold: $4,320 (+1.5%)

* Extreme Fear hits stocks, on fed’s hawkish hike

Oil below $100 as Saudis offer more oil via Hormuz

S&P 500 breaches 100-day MA, first since Apr

Not in the forward guidance business: Warsh

Goldman now expects second hike in Oct

Traders price ~50% chance of Oct hike

Trump still backs Warsh

White House calls fed hike 'unfortunate'

House passes Russia-Iran sanctions bill

GOP looks to block Hegseth impeachment

House votes 352-72 to codify DOJ Fraud Division

US to stop trade with EU if Canada joins: Trump

Canada joining EU would be a 'hostile act’: Trump

Iran not ready to make a deal: Trump

US met Houthi leaders in Oman

Venezuela readies first US aluminium shipment

China may seek F-35 tech via Saudi: US intel

Turkey stocks crash amidst liquidity concerns

South Korea stock scam losses hit $250M

EU asks China to cut hybrid vehicle exports

Multiple leaders ill after BRICS summit

Australia plans major immigration crackdown

US moves to strip Endangered Species Act

Paramount to leave California after failed talks

AI & Tech

AI capex partly explains rise in yields: Warsh

Fed AI task force to report by end-2026: Warsh

OpenAI discloses 6 new AI misbehaviour cases

Astra model told itself it was 'freed' from rules

Alignment not enough to scale at max speed: OpenAI

OpenAI rogue agents probed HF 2 mnths before hack

OpenAI tests sponsored agents

Investors approach OpenAI on new funding round

Altman, Cook to attend Trump's Xi state dinner

Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork

Claude training may 'upend society’: MSFT AI chief

No 'honor code' for AI labs: Anthropic policy chief

Novo Nordisk, Anthropic collab on drug dev

Apple could return to server market

Rand Paul blocks AI 'kill switch' bill

AI pause helps dominant firms, not safety: Cato

Rogue agents planted self-replicating code: Yang

Mystery 'Union Alpha' model free on OpenRouter

Google must make tech work with rivals: Judge

Nebius raises on-demand GPU prices ~20%

China drops 10x cheaper Astra-level model

Huawei to unveil new chip to replace Nvidia’s

Meta preps camera-free glasses after backlash

Snap takes Specs to enterprise with Nvidia, AWS

Zipline nears $20B valuation in funding talks

NHTSA orders Tesla to prove Cybercab is safe

Chipotle partners with Palantir on food safety

EU to ban social media, chatbots for under-15s