Crypto Pulse—Industry Perspectives

CFX’s daily trading summary for September 23, 2026 shows that crypto activity in Indonesia was not concentrated in Bitcoin alone. USDT recorded the highest reported transaction value at about IDR412.61 billion, while Bitcoin followed with roughly IDR125.26 billion. XRP recorded around IDR62.25 billion, Ethereum about IDR56.24 billion, and Solana approximately IDR34.97 billion.Bitcoin stood out in transaction frequency. CFX recorded about 36,727 BTC transactions on that date, above USDT’s roughly

Bank Indonesia and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority signed a memorandum of understanding on September 24, 2026 to strengthen cooperation on QR-code-based cross-border payments. The agreement opens a path toward possible payment interoperability between Indonesia and Hong Kong.Its status needs to be read carefully. The memorandum does not mean that Indonesian QRIS users can already pay in Hong Kong, or that Hong Kong users can already pay in Indonesia through the new arrangement. Bank Indonesia s

Indonesia’s House of Representatives has approved an extension to the deliberation period for the New and Renewable Energy Bill, commonly known as the EBET Bill. The decision allows the legislative process to continue, but it does not create a new rule that immediately changes electricity tariffs, energy prices, project incentives, or corporate obligations.The status must be distinguished from an enacted law. The EBET Bill remains under discussion between the House and the government. Until a fi

Ethereum moved back above $2,700 as Bitcoin’s rally began spreading into other crypto assets. The ETH/USDT daily candle on MEXC opened at $2,644.93 on September 21, reached a high of $2,807.96, and closed at $2,776.20.The open-to-close gain was approximately 4.96%. Measured from the session low of $2,643.44 to the high of $2,807.96, the trading range was approximately 6.22%. This distinction explains why readers may encounter different percentages depending on the starting point, ending point, a

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