The U.S. and China have agreed to reduce tariffs on $30 billion worth of goods each and begin regular talks on AI, Cointelegraph reported. The two countries also plan to set up a hotline to respond to AI-related incidents. Source: Coinness

Crypto influencer and former FTX community partner Benson Sun said the current Bitcoin market cycle may show a gradual bullish trend with successive record highs, rather than the kind of sharp surge and clear peak seen in 2013 and 2017. Sun said Bitcoin’s main buyers have shifted since 2021 from retail investors to institutions such as listed companies, spot ETFs, and corporations. As those institutions mainly buy spot holdings and some use delta-neutral strategies, Sun said traditional indicators such as funding rates and the MVRV Z-Score may not rise to…

Bloomberg senior analyst Mike McGlone said Bitcoin’s relative investment appeal could weaken if the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield rises to around 5% while stock market valuations remain elevated. McGlone’s analysis focused on how the rate and Bitcoin price backdrop has changed sharply since 2021. Unlike 2021, when the U.S. 10-year yield was around 0.5% and Bitcoin was under $10,000, both the benchmark yield and Bitcoin’s price are now about 10 times higher, suggesting investment flows could move in the opposite direction from that period. McGlone added that a comparison of…

A Bitget hacker moved about $83 million worth of stolen XRP to another wallet, CoinDesk reported. Roughly 54 million XRP has now left the original five wallets. Source: Coinness

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng, better known as CZ, said on the 'When Shift Happens' podcast that his social media posts do not have enough influence to move prices across the broader cryptocurrency market. CZ said he has maintained a bullish view on Bitcoin for a long time, and because he posts five to 10 times a day, messages published just ahead of positive market news may simply be coincidental. He added that if he had known market-moving information in advance, he would not have posted about it, stressing that any…

U.S. spot Solana ETFs recorded about $80 million to $87 million in net inflows on Sept. 25, the largest daily total on record, Crypto Briefing reported. The figure was more than double the previous high of $33.5 million, while weekly net inflows reached about $181 million. Source: Coinness

XRP whales accumulated more than 470 million XRP over the past five days, worth about $724 million, CryptoPotato reported. Amid the accumulation, Ripple unveiled a smart contract developed with Securitize that lets investors in BlackRock’s BUIDL and VanEck’s VBILL tokenized short-term Treasury funds instantly swap their holdings for Ripple’s stablecoin RLUSD. Securitize said it also plans to integrate with the XRP Ledger, or XRPL, to broaden the use of tokenized assets and the ecosystem. Source: Coinness

An early AAVE whale sold 30,000 AAVE at an average price of $147 over the past two days, for a total of $4.41 million, Lookonchain reported. Source: Coinness

Bitcoin has entered a new bull cycle after holding the $60,000 level under a Power Law model, with a $300,000 target for 2029, Fidelity director of global macro Jurrien Timmer said. A power law refers to a functional relationship in which one variable changes in proportion to, or declines as a power of, another variable. Source: Coinness

Veteran trader Peter Brandt said XRP’s low fees are notable, but its usefulness for transactions alone does not justify a high market valuation. In a recent Cointelegraph interview, Brandt distinguished Bitcoin as a store-of-value asset and XRP as a transaction-focused cryptocurrency. While Brandt said XRP can be used for efficient, low-cost transfers, he argued that utility as a medium of exchange does not necessarily lead people to hold the asset over the long term, citing the dollar as an example. Brandt added that cryptocurrencies should be evaluated by function, separating…

Kazakhstan is moving to let cryptocurrency mining companies run their own power plants using surplus associated gas produced at oil fields, Euronews reported. Under the plan, miners would secure cheap and stable electricity, while oil producers would earn revenue by selling gas that had previously been flared. Kazakhstan had restricted miners' electricity use after power shortages and blackouts followed the 2021 mining boom, but shifted course last year toward incentive policies aimed at reviving the legal mining industry. Associated gas is currently being flared at around 40 to 60 oil…