🪙 Macro vibes: gold cools, crypto warms-As gold paused, risk appetite quietly rotated back into Bitcoin ahead of the Fed’s big week. Flows weren’t euphoric, but you could feel sentiment thawing: traders are adding exposure, vol stayed contained, and “risk-on” is creeping back into the group chat. This is the pre-Fed cautiously excited week. If macro keeps cooperating, BTC could finally shake off its late-summer hangover. (CoinDesk)

📈 Trend check: BTC pops the 50-day… but not the skeptics-Bitcoin reclaimed its 50-day moving average, a technical win that usually puts bulls in a better mood. Still, CoinDesk’s trend indicator stayed bearish, a reminder that one good line break doesn’t erase a choppy month. Perhaps a strong close above $110K could finally flip sentiment for good. (CoinDesk)

📊 T. Rowe Price files a mixed-basket crypto ETF-T. Rowe Price filed for a multi-asset crypto ETF holding BTC, ETH, and SOL - a tidy wrapper for investors who want diversified exposure without building a mini-desk. It’s also a quiet nod that the single-asset approach is giving way to portfolio thinking. Welcome to the model-portfolio era of crypto. The big takeaway here being that the good’ol diversification just went on-chain. (Decrypt)

🏦 BlackRock’s next move: narrow, focused, deliberate-Signals out of BlackRock suggest a tighter focus on crypto ETFs, less spaghetti on the wall, more product-market fit. With ETF flows stabilizing, the world’s biggest asset manager looks intent on refining where it competes (and where it doesn’t). When the elephants get selective, smaller players either specialize… or get stepped on. We anticipate a shift from “first-mover” hype to quiet, data-driven positioning. (Blockworks)

💵 Tether’s USAT push: aiming at Main Street by December-Tether is courting fresh investors to drive the adoption of USAT, with a big, hairy target - reach 100 million Americans at launch. The strategy reads like a fintech land-grab: distribution first, debate later. Stablecoin scale is a network-effects game, and Tether plays to win (being the biggest also helps). If they pull it off, USAT could be the most mainstream stablecoin rollout yet. (CoinDesk)

🌍 Zelle eyes cross-border stablecoins -In payments land, Zelle exploring stablecoins for international transfers is the most “of course” headline of the year. Faster settlement and fewer intermediaries are exactly what consumers want, and what legacy rails struggle to deliver. If your parents start unknowingly using stablecoins, adoption just leveled up. Crypto is now fintech, and we love to see less speculative headlines and more financial innovation in action. (Decrypt)

🔥 Solana hits Fidelity’s retail shelf-SOL is now available on Fidelity’s retail platform, another clean stamp of mainstream access, while price action danced around $195 with eyes on $188 support. Access + narrative tends to be rocket fuel if liquidity cooperates. Keep an eye on how flows behave into the month-end. Between Robinhood and Fidelity, Solana is quietly turning into the retail investor’s favorite alt. (CoinDesk)

🧱 Tokenized deposits: banks try on-chain rails (quietly)-Custodia’s Vantage pilot for a tokenized-deposit network went live, giving U.S. banks a sandbox to move dollars on programmable rails. It’s not flashy, but it’s the kind of infrastructure work that turns experiments into operations. For all the hype around DeFi, this is where real institutional adoption quietly starts. (Decrypt)