Ethereum

The crypto market fell 3.16% to $2.67 trillion on September 16, 2026, as Bitcoin dropped 2.70% to $75,847 and XRP lost 9.20% after the Senate crypto bill stalled. Read the daily BTC, ETH, XRP, and SOL analysis.

ETH jumps 17.8% as broad risk appetite and a short squeeze lift turnover; rising open interest and positive funding keep USD 2,275 pivotal.

Bitcoin trades near USD 63,581 and Ethereum near USD 1,885.71 before the July 29 FOMC. Funding, USD 400B open interest and ETF flows frame the decision-risk boundary.

Ethereum (ETH) has registered a selective 2.22% daily outperformance to $1,916.78, beating a minor 0.25% drop in Bitcoin (BTC) as the aggregate crypto market market cap holds flat at $2.30 trillion. Easing macro interest-rate tightening concerns and an active 13.61% weekly surge across the Ether.fi ecosystem are backing the current relief rotation.

President Donald Trump reported roughly $1.4 billion in income tied to cryptocurrency ventures. The disclosure lists $635 million in royalties from his memecoin business. It also reports more than $715 million related to World Liberty Financial, including token sales, equity sales, and wallet income.

A federal financial disclosure says US President Donald Trump holds Bitcoin valued at more than $50 million in a cold wallet. The filing uses the form’s highest reporting category, meaning the amount disclosed is a threshold rather than an exact figure and the holdings could be worth more.

Traditional U.S. investors who once poured into crypto are now pulling back. Assets in U.S. crypto ETFs have fallen sharply from their October 2025 peak, with large outflows since then. The retreat has coincided with weaker U.S.-led demand signals and a drop in spot Bitcoin ETF inflows.

Sharplink purchased another 10,000 ETH, bringing its total holdings to 886,725 ETH as it builds one of the largest corporate ether treasuries. The company also repurchased more than 2.1 million shares, linking its capital strategy to growth in ETH per share. Sharplink is tying share buybacks to its ETH treasury as part of a long-term capital plan.

Coinbase’s layer-2 network Base suffered an outage of about two hours on Thursday after an invalid block triggered a consensus failure that halted all transactions on the chain. The disruption began at 16:03 UTC, when Base’s status page flagged mainnet block production as “unhealthy.” Base later said operations were restored, user funds remained secure, and a full post-mortem would follow.

Crypto security incidents are often labeled “DeFi hacks” even when the underlying failure has little to do with smart-contract code. Several common breakdowns—stolen private keys, compromised signers, poisoned frontends, or governance abuse—can all end with funds moving on-chain, but they start in different places. In 2024, off-chain incidents made up 56.5% of attacks and 80.5% of stolen funds, according to Halborn. The piece argues that misnaming the failure can push the industry toward the wrong fix.