FTX Drops $1.6B Like It’s Hot – But Is It Enough? 💸💔

Let’s break it down, shall we? US customers are getting an extra 40% this round, bringing their total recovery to a cool 95%. 🇺🇸🤑 International folks under the dotcom entity? Another 6%, inching them up to 78%. 🌍 Meanwhile, general unsecured creditors and digital asset loan holders are getting 24% more, hitting nearly 85%. 📈 And the real MVPs? Convenience claims are getting 120% of their original claims. Because apparently, being small and speedy pays off. 🐇💨

Tether’s Uruguayan Fiasco: $5M Debt Leaves Miners in the Dark! 💡💸

USDT Market Cap Chart

According to the ever-reliable Busqueda, Tether’s payment defaults began in May 2025. By June, UTE’s president, the formidable Andrea Cabrera, penned a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microfin, the local operator tied to this mining extravaganza. But, my dears, negotiations are only as good as the willingness to pay, and Tether seemed rather unwilling. After arrears piled up like unsold tickets to a Coward revival, UTE invoked its standard procedures, dipping into security deposits before pulling the plug on July 25. The mining sites in Flores and Florida? Left in the dark. Quite literally. 🌚💡

Federal Reserve Cuts Rates and Crypto Markets Have a Tea Party (Or a Tantrum?)

The grand crypto circus packed up another volatile week, all while the U.S. Federal Reserve tinkered with the interest rates like a wizard fumbling with a wonky spell. The market capitalization started off peeking just under $4.17 trillion, then flirted briefly with $4.2 trillion on September 19th before crashing back down to $4.12 trillion by the 20th. It’s that classic crypto mood swing: One minute you’re riding high like a caffeinated dragon, the next you’re wondering why you agreed to this madness at all.

Stablecoins: The Devil’s Currency in the EU? 🐍

The Bank of Italy, that bastion of prudence, has cast a shadow upon the burgeoning realm of stablecoins, those digital phantoms that dance on the edge of our financial abyss. On Thursday, the illustrious Chiara Scotti, Vice Director of the central bank, sounded the alarm, her voice a tremulous whisper of dread: “The issuance of these coins by myriad players across the globe may herald a tempest that could storm the shores of the European Union’s financial stability!” 🧠💸

Ethereum’s Wobbly Dance: $4K Floor, $6K Dreams & Traders Shuffling Chairs

Ethereum Futures Market Overview

According to those mysterious gods of finance known as exchanges (ethereum, if you’re one to trust names), futures open interest (OI) is strutting around $64.57 billion-roughly 14.43 million ETH-like a cat convinced it owns the place, all courtesy of Coinglass. Markets have been chopping about September as if trying to figure out where the last slice of pizza went.

Bybit’s New Collateral: Cashmere-Coated Cash or Crypto Shenanigans? 🐐💸

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit, the digital equivalent of a party animal, announced on Sept. 19 it’s teaming up with QNB Group (Qatar’s bank) and DMZ Finance to launch QCDT, a DFSA-approved tokenized money market fund (MMF) backed by U.S. Treasuries. Basically, it’s like putting your cash in a gold-plated piggy bank and calling it a crypto asset. 🐷💰

The Dark Circus of Wall Street: XRP ETF’s Grand Entrance

$37.7 million-the figure that danced across the ticker on its debut day. Bloomberg’s Eric Balchunas, ever the maestro of hyperbole, dubbed it the “biggest natural first-day volume” of any ETF launch in 2025. Meanwhile, the Dogecoin ETF, that court jester of crypto, trailed meekly with $17 million. Together, these ’40 Act crypto ETFs siphoned over $54.7 million, a sum that could fund a small revolution or at least a lavish dinner for Wall Street’s elite. 🍾