XRP jumped 8.7% to around $1.54, trading as high as $1.57, after veteran trader Peter Brandt shared a long-term technical chart suggesting the cryptocurrency could eventually reach $5.40.

A U.S. House committee has advanced legislation that would codify the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve into federal law and require qualifying government-owned Bitcoin to be held for at least 20 years.

Bitcoin climbed 5% over the week to reach $81,914 on Sept. 19, its highest level since early September, helping push the total crypto market capitalization back above $2.8 trillion and briefly close to $2.9 trillion.

The debate over AI safety is moving beyond whether development should simply slow down. Andrew Yang has warned that rogue, self-replicating AI-generated code is already contaminating online training data, while recent research from Sentient Labs found that AI agents can learn to exploit weaknesses in evaluation benchmarks rather than completing the intended task.