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"Users are following assets, opportunities and applications across ecosystems rather than staying on a single chain, and they want to be able to get there without friction." That's Zerobit, CEO of @wearetalisman, on what a multi-chain wallet actually sees. It's the same pattern our H1 2026 report found from the swap side: nine swaps in ten now cross a network boundary. Read the full report 👇

We route swaps across dozens of networks every day, and one thing keeps showing up in the data: privacy is no longer a property of the coin. It's a property of the route. In H1 2026, 91.8% of swaps on SimpleSwap moved value between two networks. Every network boundary is where one set of guarantees ends and another begins. What a swap reveals depends on each leg it passes through, not only on the asset you receive. To mark five years of routing swaps together with @secureshift_io, both teams wrote down what they see from their side. Six observations, three from each, and not a single price prediction. Read them on @cryptodotnews and tell us where you see it differently: bit.ly/4ru1unw

Bitget lost an estimated $351.6M from part of its hot and warm wallets on September 24. That's about double what on-chain trackers counted in the first hours, largely because early dashboards missed the XRP Ledger. According to the exchange, attackers compromised a backend system and pushed spoofed transfers through Bitget's own authorization process. Bitget says cold wallets weren't affected and its User Protection Fund will cover the loss. Withdrawals are still paused, with no date to reopen. That's the part worth a closer look. A correct balance on a platform still can't move until the platform decides it can. From Mt. Gox to Bybit, the same mechanic has repeated at different scales. In self-custody, an exchange's hot wallet has no bearing on coins you never deposited. SimpleSwap keeps no long-term user balances: swaps go wallet to wallet, and your exposure narrows to a single order. Self-custody doesn't remove every risk. Wrong addresses and phishing stay on your side, so the final check before sending is yours. What it removes is the wait for someone else to reopen withdrawals.

"A rally is a load test for execution, not a forecast." That's our Head of Infrastructure on what actually changes when BTC hits $85,248 – its highest since January, with $262M in short liquidations in a single hour. The headlines are about price. What changes for anyone with a swap to make this week is the plumbing: the gap between a quote and a confirmed deposit, unfamiliar networks as capital rotates into alts, and clone domains that wake up exactly when a price milestone hits the news. We wrote up what to check before moving funds in a market like this one. Read the full piece: bit.ly/4yaexwT

A year ago we plugged @AMLBotHQ screening layer into the swap flow. The usual way to mark that is a press release with two logos. We wrote a guide instead, because the anniversary isn't the interesting part – what a year of reviews taught us is. People get stuck at the status, not the documents. "Under review" reads like an accusation. It isn't. It's the system saying the transaction context needs clarifying before funds move on. Once that lands, the rest is procedure: official channel only, order ID ready, one ticket, timeline tied to what's missing rather than a calendar. If you've ever seen that status, this is the reference we wish we'd shipped on day one. Read it on @DefiantNews: bit.ly/3V3kmxH

Is altseason coming? Three indexes just gave three different answers Glassnode's Altcoin Cycle Signal hit 81.25 this week, crossing into what it defines as altcoin-season territory. By that measure, it's already here. BlockchainCenter's index sits at 53, above neutral, but well short of the 75 threshold. CoinMarketCap's version was at 34 at the start of September. They disagree because they measure different things: top 50 versus top 100 coins, different windows, different exclusions. What isn't in dispute: altcoin market cap is up 33% since August 19, to roughly $1.19 trillion, and BTC dominance has fallen below 60%, down two weeks running to 58.60%. Market breadth is clearly improving. Whether this qualifies as an "altseason" depends on your criteria, but it's worth watching BTC dominance and whether it continues to decline. Most importantly, we need to see if the rally expands to new assets beyond those that have already surged; without that, it can hardly be called a full-blown altseason. Do you think the long-awaited altseason will finally begin, and if so, when?

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BTC is back above $85,000, up from under $76,000 just a week ago. So, is the bear market over? The case for yes: this happened in September, historically one of Bitcoin's weakest months, negative in nine of the past 15 years. The Fed hiked, the Bank of Japan hiked, and BTC kept climbing anyway. ETFs are back behind it too, with $433M in net inflows on September 18 alone. Total market cap sits at $2.80T, Fear & Greed at 72. The case for not yet: daily RSI is at 71, hourly above 84, deep overbought. Resistance sits near $86,500, and rallies this stretched rarely stay this steep. One strong week doesn't make a new cycle. Bear market over, or just a relief rally with good timing?

A much stronger week. Total market cap climbed to $2.80 trillion, up 5.36% over seven days, erasing last week's pullback and then some. BTC led the charge, breaking back above $85,000 after trading under $76,000 just a week earlier. Sentiment followed this time, with Fear and Greed rising from 68 to 72. But BTC dominance slipped again, from 58.90% to 58.60%. Two weeks in a row now – which means altcoins didn't just keep pace with Bitcoin's rally, they outran it. So last week's question got a partial answer: Bitcoin held its leadership, and alts still found room to move. Does this week turn that gap into a real rotation?

Attention arrives faster than usage does. The median new listing on SimpleSwap waited 48 days for its first meaningful activity. We list ahead of demand on purpose: carrying a route nobody uses costs almost nothing, not carrying one when someone needs it costs a user. @kuvilabs sees the same gap from their side: new listings generate curiosity on arrival, but that curiosity doesn't reliably turn into sustained activity once you actually measure it. Read the full report below👇

NEAR has surged 45% in 3 days. Rising from $2.34 to $3.45 since September 15, its market cap has jumped from $3.22 billion to $4.46 billion. The primary trigger was the launch of confidential perpetual trading powered by Hyperliquid, where position size, entry point and direction are hidden by default within a private shard. It offers up to 40x leverage across more than 50 markets, with routing via @near_intents from over 35 networks. This rally coincided with Confidential Intents TVL surpassing $70 million, triggering the first snapshot of the NEAR@3.33 program. Those 333,333 tokens stay locked until the 3-day Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) holds at $3.33 or above – the rewards are queued, not yet distributed. Privacy is repeatedly proving to be a major price driver this month. Is this genuine demand or simply the season's dominant narrative?

The Revolut data leak is a reminder that your personal information can put your crypto security at risk. That’s one of the reasons we created SimpleSwap Safety Academy, a dedicated space where we break down different scams, security risks, and real-world situations to help you protect your funds. Want to learn more about what happened with Revolut? Read the full article on @InvezzPortal: bit.ly/4yJcsYP

USDC on ARC is now available on SimpleSwap ⚡️ @arc is Circle's own Layer-1, live on mainnet since September 16. The part that matters: USDC is the native gas token, so network fees are paid in the same dollar you're moving, with a base fee targeting around $0.01. ➡️ Choose your pair and swap: bit.ly/4jac29b

Bitcoin was supposed to replace the dollar. Instead, the dollar became the best way to move cryptocurrency. The scale of this is easy to overlook because stablecoins don't make headlines as often as asset prices. They simply move more money every year. A growth curve accounting only for transactions resembling real activity: 2023: $3.9 trillion 2024: $5.8 trillion 2025: $10.8 trillion First half of 2026 alone: $8.82 trillion Six months of 2026 have already surpassed the entirety of 2024. However, it is worth clarifying what exactly lies behind these figures. Of the tens of trillions transferred last year, only about $350-550 billion came from genuine payments in the real economy. The rest is trading and settlements, moving dollars between platforms, and a significant portion of that is people moving in and out of Bitcoin. This is exactly what the original hypothesis failed to account for. Bitcoin remains the asset people want to hold. The dollar, meanwhile, turned out to be the "rails" they use to enter and exit. DeFi never believed in the idea of replacement anyway. From day one, the space required dollars, and that approach proved correct. Every stablecoin transfer is a vote for the dollar. Most of these votes were cast by accident. Does this make stablecoins crypto's greatest success or its greatest concession?

14 million payments in USDC over 30 days, made by AI agents rather than people. It's the kind of number that makes stablecoins sound like they've already become the world's payment layer. The fuller picture is more interesting. Of the tens of trillions moved in stablecoins last year, only an estimated $350-550 billion was actual real-economy payments. The rest was trading and transfers between wallets and exchanges. So the market is $308 billion and growing, with the top two tokens holding over 80% of it, but it's still mostly a trading rail that happens to work for payments. Read our new article below to find out what backs each type and why this determines the de-pegging scenario.

71.4% of swaps on our platform touched a network outside the four largest chains. We wanted to know if that number was just us. @near_intents runs its own cross-chain-native router, and across 14M+ swaps, nearly 57% of their users touched a network beyond Ethereum, TRON, Solana, and BSC. Lower than ours, but still a majority – the long tail isn't a niche anymore, it's where the traffic already is. Read the full H1 2026 report 👇

The past week retraced some of the previous week's gains. Total market capitalization fell to $2.66 trillion, losing 1.49% over seven days. However, sentiment did not follow price. The Fear and Greed Index remains firmly in the Greed zone at 68. BTC dominance decreased slightly from 59.10% to 58.90% – a minor shift, but exactly in the direction altcoins have been waiting for, and we are already seeing solid growth in several top CoinMarketCap assets. The main question remains: will Bitcoin maintain its leadership, or will another week of sideways movement give altcoins the breakthrough opportunity they’ve been missing?

Two-thirds of cryptocurrency thefts have nothing to do with hacking. No exploits, no stolen keys – someone simply convinces you to send the funds yourself. This is exactly what SimpleSwap Safety Academy is about: twelve attack scenarios, each broken down by how it works and what you need to check before completing a transaction. Scammers need you to take action, which means they start by sending signals. Urgency. Guaranteed returns. A fee to unlock money that supposedly already belongs to you. Keep your funds safe and study every scenario to avoid trouble: simpleswap.io/safety