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El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has made concessions to meet International Monetary Fund (IMF) requirements, announcing an end to government-level bitcoin purchases and the transfer of the country’s existing bitcoin reserves to a private operator for management. The move marks a significant shift in El Salvador’s bitcoin strategy, after the country made bitcoin legal tender and continued accumulating the asset.

El Salvador’s government has agreed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to stop purchasing additional bitcoin and to transfer the majority ownership and control of more than 7,763 tokens, valued at over $632 million, to a private operator. The move marks a major shift from the country’s policy since bitcoin was made legal tender in 2021. The decision came after the policy faced opposition from 71% of the population and saw very limited real-world use.

$AMC, a token issued by Backpack Securities, has been listed on Solana in partnership with Sunrise. The token is redeemable 1:1 for AMC Entertainment shares and can be transferred to traditional brokerages. AMC Entertainment is the world’s largest movie exhibition company, operating about 850 theatres and 9,500 screens globally.

Solana has reached a $5 billion agreement with a luxury-goods tokenization platform to bring high-end items such as Hermès Birkin bags, Rolex watches and Chanel fashion onto the blockchain. The project aims to use tokenization to improve liquidity and access for luxury assets and draw traditional high-net-worth investors into the crypto market. The move is seen as a major step for real-world asset (RWA) tokenization and could significantly expand the scale of assets and trading activity in the Solana ecosystem.

SBI Group-affiliated exchanges SBI VC Trade and BITPOINT said they will end purchase services for nine crypto assets on Oct. 7, 2026: APT, ETC, OAS, BNB, DEP, JMY, OSHI, PEPE and TRUMP. Selling and other disposal services will be available until Oct. 28, after which any remaining holdings will be sold around November and returned to customers in Japanese yen. BITPOINT said it is currently the only registered Japanese crypto exchange handling OSHI, raising the possibility the token could disappear from Japan’s regulated venue list after the delisting. BITPOINT and SBI VC Trade are scheduled to integrate services by the end of December, though the companies have not stated a direct link between the integration and the delistings.

The U.S. House has canceled the final two weeks of its September session, pushing an expected vote on the CLARITY Act into an indefinite delay. The bill was designed to curb market manipulation and inject more than $10,000,000,000 into the crypto market. With the session cut short, the anticipated regulatory boost will not materialize in the near term. Market expectations that the bill would advance have now been disrupted.

On Sept. 4, 2026, clients of Bitwise and Franklin ETFs bought a combined $6.14 million worth of XRP. The purchases were executed through each firm’s respective ETF products. The activity indicates that regulated investment channels are bringing incremental inflows to XRP.

BlackRock clients made a single purchase of $72.07 million worth of ether (ETH), a move seen as the latest sign of institutional money entering the crypto market. As the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock’s activity is often interpreted by markets as growing traditional finance interest in digital assets. The large buy was concentrated in ETH, which could reflect a preference tied to a specific client or strategy rather than a broad market allocation.

Solana improvement proposal SIMD-0228 passed by a narrow margin, a measure the market has dubbed the “double disinflation” proposal. The plan centers on sharply reducing SOL’s token inflation rate, with a projected drop of about 80% if fully implemented. The change would directly affect staking yields and is intended to ease long-term selling pressure by reducing new token issuance. The proposal’s adoption still depends on implementation by node operators.

Coinbase said it has launched regulated cryptocurrency futures trading in Canada. The service is available to eligible clients and offers Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana contracts with up to 10x leverage. The move expands its compliant product lineup in North America. It is aimed at meeting derivatives demand from institutional and high-net-worth users.