​​We went through this week in crypto so you don't have to 👇

➡️ Total crypto market cap hit its highest level since late January, with Bitcoin touching $87,2K on September 21 before settling back around $84,4K

➡️ Apple and Google are both hiring for blockchain payment roles built around stablecoins

➡️ Solana began activating Alpenglow on its public testnet, a new consensus design that cuts block finality from around 12,8 seconds to 150 milliseconds, roughly 85 times faster

➡️ Tokenized real-world assets passed $34B, up 85% since the start of 2026, with tokenized stocks growing 390%, and only 0,01% of fiat assets are tokenized so far, so the market everyone keeps talking about has barely started

➡️ Strategy bought another 950 BTC and now holds 846K in total

➡️ Bitget was drained of $351,6M in the largest exchange hack of the year, and the method matters more than the number: the attacker faked transaction history in the wallet service backend to trigger transfers, never touching the private keys. Cold wallets were untouched and losses are covered by the exchange's protection fund