​​Your weekly catch-up on everything that moved 👇

➡️ $BTC closed September up 6%, and over the third quarter it gained almost 43% while $ETH put on 70%

➡️ $QNT rose 178% in a week, from $90 to over $300, after The Clearing House, owned by the 25 largest US banks, picked Quant for its tokenized bank deposit network

➡️ Petrobras, Brazil's state oil company, launched a system with Cardano that turns the properties of green aviation fuel into tokens recorded on-chain, so they can't be counted twice or quietly altered after the fact

➡️ The Ethereum Foundation launched zkAPI on mainnet, letting people pay for AI models without revealing who they are: you deposit ETH or USDC into a vault contract and your balance is kept as a private note. It was built with the Open Anonymity Project along a design Vitalik Buterin and Davide Crapis published in February, though prompts and network data still aren't hidden

➡️ NEAR Intents was exploited for $3,8M through a bug in the Omni infrastructure, with withdrawals frozen across 11 networks and full compensation promised, the same protocol had blocked $50M belonging to the Bitget hackers a week earlier

➡️ Binance Pay rolled out USDT payments at Japanese retail locations that accept PayPay

➡️ Monad is preparing to launch a new privacy-focused product

➡️ Shiba Inu posted its best monthly return of 2026, closing the strongest month of its year after a run of rallies

➡️ DogeOS opened its testnet, bringing apps and games to Dogecoin