Metaplanet announced that it will invest 2100 BTC and $2.5 million in cash to acquire approximately 95.7% of the issued shares of Nasdaq listed company Super League for a total investment of approximately $134.6 million. After the transaction is completed, Super League will be renamed Superplanet, and Metaplanet currently holds 43000 BTC.

According to Bloomberg, Standard Bank is in talks to invest in Nigerian fintech company OPay and plans to complete the transaction before OPay's IPO in the United States. OPay is supported by SoftBank Group, Sequoia Capital, and is collaborating with Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan Chase to promote its listing in New York. The two parties have not yet reached a final agreement. OPay was founded in 2018, with approximately 50 million users and a transaction volume of $358 billion by 2025, achieving profitability. McKinsey expects Africa's fintech revenue to increase to $47 billion by 2028, with mobile payments reaching $1.4 trillion in transaction volume in sub Saharan Africa.

Visa’s request for product (RFP) talks about the need to support a range of stablecoins.

According to Whale Alert, USDC Treasury has issued 250 million USDCs on the Solana chain, corresponding to approximately $250.225 million.

Glassnode indicates that the Bitcoin market is in a highly contracted state, with buyers absent and trading activity dropping to its lowest level since 2019. If BTC falls below $58500, the next support level may drop to $52800. CryptoBusy points out that seller exhaustion is approaching the bottom of a bear market, but Bitcoin still needs to release selling pressure. Michael Terpin expects Bitcoin to bottom out around $57000 in October. Some analysts believe that the potential bottom of BTC is between $49000 and $53000. Glassnode warns leveraged traders to bet on market recovery, but current data does not support this expectation.