Crypto Pulse—Industry Perspectives

Circle Internet Group, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tazapay, a Singapore-based cross-border B2B payments infrastructure platform. Circle announced the deal on September 8, 2026, while the share purchase agreement was signed on September 4. The transaction has a base value of $400 million, to be paid in Circle shares rather than cash.The transaction has not yet been completed. Circle expects the deal to close in 2027, subject to customary closing

Key TakeawaysEthereum (ETH) trades near $2,500 after spiking to $2,660 on September 11, its highest level since January, and consolidating just below the $2,550 to $2,600 zone that analysts flag as the trigger for a run toward $3,000.Spot Ethereum ETFs pulled in $216.41 million on September 11, the strongest day of the month, led by BlackRock's ETHA with $148.82 million and a 20 session inflow streak. ETH funds have gathered about $863 million in net inflows in 2026 while Bitcoin ETFs sit roughl

Key TakeawaysZcash (ZEC) has surged more than 2,300% in a year and about 125% in the past 30 days, briefly topping $1,250 last week and lifting its market capitalization to roughly $19.5 billion, enough to enter the top 10 and overtake Monero as the largest privacy coin.Tachyon, led by Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe, is a redesign of the shielded protocol around proof carrying data that would let block producers aggregate many private transactions into a single proof, offload wallet syncing to serve

Key TakeawaysDOGE-1, the first space mission ever paid for entirely in Dogecoin (DOGE), was scheduled to lift off on Monday, September 14, 2026 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare from Kennedy Space Center, more than five years after Elon Musk first promised to send Dogecoin to the moon.The 12U CubeSat, built by Geometric Energy Corporation and partners, will orbit the moon for up to two years carrying a screen that displays community submitted images and advertisements broadcast back to Earth. D

Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ: SMCI) technical analysis, chart patterns, and price outlook IntroductionSuper Micro Computer, known on the NASDAQ under the ticker SMCI, has become one of the most closely watched AI infrastructure stocks on the market. The company builds high performance servers and rack systems that power data centers running artificial intelligence workloads, which puts it right at the center of the ongoing AI buildout. For traders and long term investors alike, this SMCI stock t

Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) technical analysis, chart patterns, and price outlook IntroductionOracle Corporation, trading on the NYSE under the ticker ORCL, is one of the largest enterprise software and cloud infrastructure companies in the world. Once known mainly for database software, Oracle has repositioned itself as a major player in cloud computing and AI infrastructure, and that shift has made the stock one of the more closely watched large caps of the past year. This ORCL stock techn

IntroductionStrategy Inc, the company long known as MicroStrategy and still trading under the ticker MSTR, has become the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin in the world. Rather than behaving like a typical software company, MSTR stock now trades almost like a leveraged proxy for Bitcoin itself, since the bulk of its balance sheet sits in BTC. This MSTR stock technical analysis looks at what the chart, moving averages, oscillators, and analyst targets are currently signaling after a brutal year

Executive SummaryIntel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) shares jumped as much as 9.05% on September 8, closing at $104.47, after a DigiTimes report said the company plans to raise personal computer processor prices by roughly 10% starting in early OctoberThis is Intel's third reported CPU price increase since late 2025, following hikes in the first quarter and again in July 2026Northland Securities upgraded the stock to Outperform with a $120 price target, citing "material progress" in Intel's

Indonesia’s adjusted base money, or M0 Adjusted, reached Rp2,281.5 trillion in August 2026. According to Bank Indonesia, the amount increased by 16.3% from August of the previous year.Growth remained high, but the pace eased from 17.1% year on year in July. The difference of 0.8 percentage points indicates that base money was still expanding rapidly, although its momentum was no longer as strong as in the previous month.It is tempting to turn the data into a simple conclusion that more money wil

Indonesia’s foreign reserves reached US$146.5 billion at the end of August 2026, up from US$145.3 billion at the end of July. The US$1.2 billion increase was equivalent to approximately 0.83% in one month.The additional reserves give Bank Indonesia a larger buffer for managing foreign-currency needs and reducing excessive rupiah volatility. The figure alone, however, is not enough to conclude that the currency will continue to appreciate.Bank Indonesia said the change in August was mainly influe