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The cryptocurrency market has stormed into the new month, with expectations high thatbitcoincould break its historically poor September performance. A look back at monthly price data since 2013 shows bitcoin has closed September in the green just twice in eight yearsin 2015 and again in 2016but even then with only small gains.Cointelegraphhas a full write-up. With bitcoin looking healthy today, many areanticipating a pumpthanks to the attention bitcoin's set to see from El Salvador's adoption of the cryptocurrency tomorrow.

The crypto market continues to climb despite sentiment switching to "extreme greed."

Elsewhere, cryptocurrencies across the board are continuing to climb.Chainlink, a 2020 crypto darling, has led the major market higher with a 15% rise over the last 24 hours and adding to gains of almost 40% this past week.Ethereumis holding onto its huge more-than-20% gains over the last seven days but is flat on this time yesterday. Among the crypto top ten Ripple'sXRPpayment token is leading the pack, up 10% on the last 24 hours.Dogecoinis also outperforming other tokens with a 5% gain as an upgrade continues to improve confidence.

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Solana, one of the many ethereum rivals jostling for attention, has now climbed to the seventh spot among the worlds top 10 largest cryptocurrencies, after its price has tripled in about three weeks, giving it a value of more than $42 billion, according to CoinMarketCap. The market could be getting dangerously hot, however, with theCrypto Fear & Greed Index, a measure of market sentiment, showing traders are back in the "extreme greed" mindset. With a score of 79/100, the gauge is just 16 points away from its historical top zone, an area that has sparked corrective moves in the past.

TheNew York Times'big weekend of crypto coverage:

-Cryptos rapid move into banking elicits alarm in Washington

-Crypto banking and decentralized finance, explained

-Bitcoin uses more electricity than many countries. How is that possible?

FTX CEO and crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried

NFTs for all:FTX, the derivatives-focused bitcoin and crypto exchange that's seen its volumes explode this year, is ramping up its support for NFTsnon-fungible tokens that digitize all manner of different assets and have become a collecting craze. This morning, FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Friedtweetedthat the exchange will offer the ability to mint NFTs directly on its platform.

Minted:FTX users, including on the U.S.FTX.US, will be able to create their own artwork and mint them as NFTs directly on FTX and then sell them on its marketplace, with the exchange hoping to win market share from dedicated NFT platforms such as OpenSea to be sold within its marketplace. Other crypto exchanges, including Binance and OKEx, also offer NFT marketplaces to varying degrees and on a mixture of blockchains. FTX NFTs will be cross-chain, across the ethereum and solana blockchains, according to Bankman-Fried. Ethereum remains by far the most popular NFT blockchain despite its eye-watering fees. Bankman-Fried and FTX have close ties to ethereum rival solana.

The big question:Is bitcoin losing its position as the crypto market's leader?

Crypto craze 2.0:The NFT market has roared back in recent weeks, defying suggestions the bottom had fallen out of the market after Beeple's $69 million salein March. Last week, one day's sales volume of the CryptoPunks NFT collection alone touched $150 million, according to data from NFT tracking websiteCryptoSlam. Last month, Visa set the market alight whenit announcedit had bought CryptoPunk #7610 for 49.50 ethereumaround $150,000 at the time's price.

Testing patience:Bankman-Fried's scribble of the word "test" with the caption "I'm testing out a DIY NFT listing onFTX.US" hasalreadyreached a price of $1,100 with 19 bids. But FTX isn't giving out NFTs for free: it will charge 5% to the buyer and to the seller per salea 10% fee in total, it was noted byThe Block.

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