The US Treasury Department announced a budget deficit of $27 billion for September, with market expectations of a deficit of $28 billion, and a budget surplus of $198 billion for September 2025.
[Stablecoin Cross-Border Remittance Costs 84% Lower Than Traditional Transfers]
Data from Borderless.xyz shows that stablecoin cross-border remittance costs are 84% lower than traditional transfers, and settlement speeds are faster than traditional international bank wire transfers. (Source: Cointelegraph)
The price of Bitcoin has fallen below $81000, and a total of $60 million in long leveraged positions have been liquidated in the past 12 hours. (Bitcoin Archive)
The US stock market continues to decline, with the Nasdaq Composite Index falling by 2%, the S&P 500 Index falling by 1.1%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling by 0.53%, popular technology stocks falling generally, and SK Hynix falling by over 5%, AMD、 Micron Technology fell over 4%, while Broadcom and Meta fell over 3%.
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The majority of altcoins in the top 50 have outperformed BTC in the past 3 months.
This has been slowly creeping higher recently after the dip in June where most alts set a local bottom and moved from there. (Daan Crypto Trades)