Crypto Pulse—Industry Perspectives

Solana activated Transaction V1 on mainnet at the start of epoch 1035, around 01:00 UTC on 15 September 2026. For Indonesian readers, that activation occurred at approximately 08:00 WIB.The upgrade increases the maximum transaction size from 1,232 bytes to 4,096 bytes. This is a meaningful infrastructure change because some applications, especially those using large multisignature structures, zero-knowledge proofs, or batched instructions, previously could not fit their full workload into one So

Bank Indonesia’s JISDOR reference rate reached Rp17,813 per US dollar on 21 September 2026. The level moved above Rp17,800 ahead of Bank Indonesia’s September Monetary Policy Meeting, scheduled for 22 to 23 September.JISDOR was Rp17,635 per US dollar on 14 September. The move to Rp17,813 represents an increase of about 1.01% in USD/IDR over the period. Because USD/IDR measures how many rupiah are required to buy one US dollar, the higher figure indicates that the rupiah weakened against the doll

Indonesia Stock Exchange will lower the minimum stock-trading price from Rp50 to Rp1 starting on 28 September 2026. The change applies to equity trading on the Regular Market and Cash Market, allowing shares that were previously unable to trade below Rp50 to be priced as low as one rupiah per share.The new rule gives the market more room for price discovery. A stock that remained at Rp50 because of the previous minimum price may now find a new market-clearing level through buy and sell orders. F

Key TakeawaysAt around 4:00 a.m. on Sunday, September 20, 2026, four masked men broke into a family home in Vendin-le-Vieil near Lens in northern France, bound the parents and their two children, aged 8 and 12, with tape, beat the father and forced him to hand over access codes for roughly €40,000 in cryptocurrency.The victim is a 40 year old IT worker in the crypto sector. A fifth accomplice directed the attackers by phone for the entire two to three hour ordeal, and the family was only freed a

Key TakeawaysBitcoin (BTC) surged to an eight month high above $86,000 on Monday, September 21, 2026 and is pressing $87,000 today, up roughly 14% from the sub $76,000 lows it hit after the Senate blocked the CLARITY Act on September 15.The rally came despite the Federal Reserve's first rate hike since 2023 on September 16 and a Bank of Japan hike to a 31 year high, with easing oil prices and a drop in 10 year Treasury yields to 4.93% helping risk appetite recover.Roughly $750 million in bearish

Key TakeawaysStrategy (MSTR) bought 950 Bitcoin for $75.7 million at an average of $79,670 between September 14 and 20, 2026, according to a Form 8-K filed Monday, lifting holdings to 846,000 BTC acquired for $63.80 billion at an average cost of $75,416.The purchase confirms that the summer pause is over. After roughly ten weeks without buying and two sales that ended its never sell era, Strategy added 4,603 BTC for $369.7 million in late August and has now bought 5,553 BTC across two purchases

Solana is moving closer to one of its most significant consensus upgrades yet, with Alpenglow now entering public-testnet testing. The upgrade targets transaction finality of roughly 150 milliseconds, down from about 12.8 seconds today, potentially changing how quickly exchanges, merchants and payment platforms can treat blockchain transactions as irreversible.The development is particularly important for crypto payments, where processing a transaction quickly is only part of the equation. Busin

Trading activity on Hyperliquid is changing significantly as perpetual contracts linked to real-world assets, particularly equities and stock indexes, account for an increasingly large share of activity compared with the period when the platform was primarily centered around Bitcoin, Ether, and other crypto-native assets.The main driver is HIP-3, a framework that allows builders to deploy perpetual markets on Hyperliquid in a permissionless manner. According to data published by The Block, HIP-3

S&P Global is expanding deeper into the digital asset market after announcing on September 17, 2026 that it had signed an agreement to acquire OpenZeppelin, a blockchain security company founded in 2015 and behind one of the industry’s most widely used open-source smart contract libraries. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed, and the deal remains subject to closing conditions.If the transaction is completed, OpenZeppelin will continue operating under its own name as a busin

Circle officially launched the Arc public mainnet on September 16, 2026, marking a significant expansion from stablecoin issuance and payment infrastructure into operating a Layer 1 blockchain designed for financial markets. Circle positions Arc as an “Economic Operating System for the Internet,” focused on real-time payments, tokenized assets, trading, lending, and economic activity involving AI agents.Arc launched with more than $74 billion in USDC in circulation. The network uses USDC as the