
Block Puts Bitcoin Lightning Into x402, the AI Agent Payment Standard
Lightning joins a payment standard where stablecoins have carried the traffic so far. Block named no date for Square, Cash App or Bitkey.
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Lightning joins a payment standard where stablecoins have carried the traffic so far. Block named no date for Square, Cash App or Bitkey.

A six-session run to Thursday brought in $2.84 billion and closed a deficit the funds had carried since the summer. Three counts of the year's net figure do not agree.

Deribit settled one of its largest expiries of the year at 08:00 UTC with bitcoin just above $84,000. Five outlets read the notional differently.

The 10-year Treasury yield ran past 5.1% on Wednesday and bitcoin gave up $87,000. Outlets do not agree on how much of the long side was liquidated.

The joint EBA, ESMA and EIOPA report says the risk could arrive before quantum computing is commercially useful. Estimates of exposed bitcoin do not agree.

Robert Kiyosaki told his followers on 15 September that the biggest crash in history has started, and repeated his advice to hold gold, silver and bitcoin over cash. He blamed debt, the AI boom and retiring Baby Boomers.

US spot bitcoin ETFs took in about $999 million on Monday, led by IBIT, ARKB and FBTC. It was their largest day since October 2025.

Bitcoin traded above $85,000 on 21 September for the first time since late January. More than $750 million in leveraged positions were liquidated, most of them short bets, as the price climbed.

The 19 September retarget took difficulty to 132.76 trillion while hashrate sat near 914 EH/s. Three estimators disagree on what comes next.

Four sessions moved about $1.5 billion in opposite directions and left $6.2 million behind. Ether funds broke a four-week inflow streak.

Bitcoin closed back above $80,000 on Friday and ether cleared $2,550, with about $130 billion added to the total crypto market capitalization in a day. A short squeeze did much of the work, and the tallies for it do not agree.

One company accounted for most of it. Glassnode puts the group's average entry at $80,500, about 6% above where bitcoin traded on Friday morning.