Crypto's back on its feet

Crypto News Daily Squeeze

Written by Gode S.,

Web3 Market Analyst

Last Updated: September 22, 2026

Plus: Ethereum's kitchen got a major expansion

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GM. We plucked today's headlines straight from the vine so you don't have to go picking yourself.

Here's what's ripe and ready:

🍍 Crypto's comeback arc;

🚇 Ethereum expands its blocks;

🍋 Australia eyes stricter crypto exchange regs, Conor McGregor slams Khabib's NFT + more

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🍍 Market flavor today

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Name		Price	24H	7D
Crypto Market Cap: $3.10T 3.27% (24H)
	Bitcoin BTC	$91,391.71	4.17%	4.40%
	Ethereum ETH	$3,017.44	2.54%	6.29%
	XRP XRP	$2.21	1.02%	10.48%
	BNB BNB	$893.60	2.16%	1.84%
	Solana SOL	$142.11	3.63%	6.99%

Prices as of 12:00 PM EST. Click here to see live data.

The market woke up this morning, cracked its neck, and said, "Aight… nuff of that."

Bitcoin popped back over $90K, and everyone's pretending they weren't bearish 2 days ago.

This comeback came with a clean lil' reveng revenge arc - after getting dragged earlier this week, Bitcoin pulled off a squeeze that wiped out over $220M in shorts in the past 24 hours.

Bitcoin price chart from BitDegree, 11-27

Source: BitDegree

And this wasn't strictly a Bitcoin comeback story.

While BTC was busy squeezing shorts, a new cast of characters stepped into the spotlight: altcoin ETFs.

These new products - XRP, SOL, DOGE, etc. - had more than $350M in cumulative inflows, even while some Bitcoin ETFs kept leaking.

The market responded instantly: ETH climbed back above $3K, SOL added a few percent, and even quieter names caught a bit of a bid.

Nothing crazy, but just enough to show there's real interest forming.

Ethereum ETF flows table

Source: Farside Investors

Layer that on top of a macro vibe change - rising odds of a December rate cut (at ~86%) + a little pre-holiday risk-on energy - and suddenly the whole space feels lighter.

So yeah, crypto's back on its feet - a little shaky, a little chaotic, but definitely alive.

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🥝 Memecoin harvest

Memecoins flipping more than an acrobat at a circus 🤸

Data as of 09:33 AM EST.

Check out these memecoins and plenty more here.

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🚇 Ethereum expands its blocks

Lately, Ethereum kinda felt like a packed restaurant during dinner rush. Orders piling up, gas fees spiking, everyone hoping their transaction didn't get dumped in the "we'll get to it when we get to it" pile 🍽️

But this week, the chefs said: "We gotta expand the kitchen."

Ethereum's validators pushed an upgrade to raise the block gas limit - the total "workload" a block can handle - from 45M to 60M.

Over half a million validators signal a gas limit of 60 million. Source: GasLimit.Pics

Source: GasLimit.Pics

A higher gas limit means each block can fit more transactions, whether that's token transfers, smart-contract calls, or someone minting their 12th "experimental art" NFT.

More room in the kitchen = fewer orders backed up = fewer customers screaming at the waiter about gas prices 🍝

And the vibe from Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin's comments is that this is just the warm-up.

Source: Vitalik Buterin