According to BitMart's market report on September 18, the total market value of the cryptocurrency market is approximately US$4.11 trillion, up 1.63% from the previous day.

BTC is currently priced at $117,384.31, up 0.7% over the past 24 hours. Institutional investment is surging, with listed companies exceeding 1 million. Short-term support lies at $114,720, and resistance at $117,280.3. Yesterday, BTC ETFs saw net outflows of $201 million. Ethereum is currently priced at $4,601.12, down over 4% over the past 24 hours. Despite increased short-term volatility, the long-term outlook remains positive, with key support at $4,420 and resistance at $4,616.68. Yesterday, ETH ETFs saw net outflows of $29 million. Altcoins saw mixed performance, with the Fear & Greed Index at 51, indicating neutral market sentiment.

BitMart X Insight data shows extremely optimistic market sentiment (index +0.82). The Federal Reserve's 25 basis point rate cut and the SEC's approval of Grayscale's large-cap fund and general ETF listing are driving bull market expectations for BTC and altcoins, with significant regulatory support. Overall market social media activity is active (average SSI 70.86). The overall market anomaly is extremely high, with altcoins like MEW and BLAST experiencing surging social media activity but low KOL attention, signaling speculative risk. BTC, on the other hand, is stable amidst institutional support and short-term fluctuations. Investors are advised to be wary of market overheating and high volatility.

Lombard Finance announced the official launch of the BARD token at 6:00 PM on September 18th. Users can claim tokens and immediately participate in staking via claim.lombard.finance. The staking program offers an annualized yield of up to 240%, gradually increasing to 30% over 30 days, with a minimum staking period of 60 days.

At 7 PM on September 18th, major exchanges including Binance, OKX, Bybit, and Upbit will simultaneously launch BARD trading. This staking program, jointly supported by Chainlink, Symbiotic, and Mellow Protocol, provides cryptoeconomic security for cross-chain Bitcoin transfers. Users can complete the staking process under the "BARD" tab by visiting this link. Early participants will enjoy the highest returns.

According to official news from Odaily Planet Daily, Bithumb will launch BARD and TAO Korean won trading pairs.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, LA may have been affected by the news that "Upbit is about to launch LA", and its price rose by more than 70% in a short period of time, with its market value rising to US$117 million.

According to official news from Odaily, the OKX Wallet product OKX Boost's second phase of the X Launch campaign, Lombard, is now open for airdrop rewards. The OKX exchange has also launched a BARD bonus campaign. Deposit and trade BARD to share in a prize pool of 500,000 BARD tokens. Participate by clicking here .

Lombard is reportedly committed to building an on-chain Bitcoin capital market, aiming to fully unleash the enormous potential of this era's most iconic digital asset. Since its founding in 2024, Lombard has achieved a deep integration of Bitcoin and DeFi through the launch of LBTC. OKX Wallet, an industry-leading one-stop Web 3 portal, already supports over 140 popular public chains.

According to the official announcement from Odaily Planet Daily, Upbit will launch the LA Korean won trading pair.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, LookonChain monitoring shows that as the price of BNB exceeded $1,000, a diamond hand address 0x8503 spent less than $1,000 to purchase 999 BNB 8 years ago, with an average price of only $1; now, these 999 BNB are worth $1 million, with a return rate of 1,000 times.

Binance Wallet will exclusively launch the 38th TGE (Trading Entry) from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM (UTC+8) on September 19, 2025, listing JoJo World (JOJO) tokens. Eligible users must use Binance Alpha Points to participate. Additionally, 32 million JOJO tokens will be allocated for future activities, details of which will be announced separately. TGE details and the event page will be released soon.

Odaily Planet Daily reported that as the price of BNB broke through $1,000, Binance founder CZ could not contain his emotions. He first posted on the X platform, saying: "Watching BNB rise from the ICO price of $0.10 eight years ago to $1,000 today is something that cannot be expressed in words. I do not represent any entity or title, but as a BNB community member and BNB holder, I thank everyone in the BNB and crypto ecosystem for their support. We have encountered challenges along the way, but we work hard, we build, and we persist. This is truly a community effort! This is just the beginning. Let's move towards the next 10,000x together!" He then forwarded his previous article, saying: "Back to this article I wrote 3,000 days ago, when we completed the ICO on July 2, 2017. 10,000x in 3,000 days. Persevere!"

According to official news from Odaily Planet Daily, Upbit will launch BARD Korean Won, BTC and USDT trading pairs.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, Aster announced on the X platform that the ASTER token's total trading volume exceeded $345 million in the first 24 hours after its launch. The token price continued to rise from $0.03015 after opening, reaching an intraday high of $0.528, a single-day increase of 1,650%. Currently, ASTER only supports spot trading on the Aster DEX, which serves as the sole entry point for funds and users. Within 24 hours, the platform's TVL climbed from $660 million to $1.005 billion, with a total daily trading volume of nearly $1.5 billion and over 330,000 new unique wallet addresses.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Orderly, a liquidity infrastructure provider, has launched multi-collateral functionality on Solana. Users can now use SOL and USDT as trading margin.

According to Onchain Lens, the Royal Government of Bhutan has transferred 343.1 bitcoins (approximately US$40.18 million) to a new wallet and is expected to deposit the funds into a CEX as usual.

Binance Wallet will exclusively launch the Aspecta BuildKey token generation (TGE), with Riverdot Inc (RIVER) listed as the first token. Users will need to use Binance Alpha Points to participate in the BuildKey subscription. The subscription period will be from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM on September 19th, and the trading period will be from 5:00 PM on September 19th to 5:00 PM on September 22nd. The TGE and BuildKey exchange will take place at 5:00 PM on September 22nd. Note: Token prices will fluctuate dynamically based on the Bonding Curve. The liquidity pool will remain stable for a period of time after the TGE, and liquidity may decline. The exchange function will be available at any time.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that all new nodes on Dora Factory's decentralized governance blockchain, Dora Vota, have been launched on the anonymous MACI (aMACI) protocol operation service (aMACI Operator Service). This service , as the core infrastructure of decentralized governance, will play a vital role.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, LookonChain monitoring revealed that a high-risk trader, identified as 0x2226, opened a long position with 40x leverage four hours ago, holding 700 BTC (worth approximately $82 million). The same address also opened a long position with 20x leverage of 120,000 SOL (worth approximately $29.6 million). The liquidation prices for these positions were: $114,560 for BTC and $231.35 for SOL.