Fed Speakers, U.S. PCE, Hedera Upgrade: Crypto Week Ahead

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The Federal Reserve is apt to instrumentality cardinal absorption again this week with respective members, including Chair Jerome Powell, speaking astatine nationalist events. On Friday, U.S. idiosyncratic depletion expenditure (PCE) figures for August are published. The PCE scale is intimately watched by the Fed and feeds into its monetary argumentation decisions. Crypto speech Coinbase is introducing futures that way a premix of crypto exchange-traded funds and tech stocks and Hedera, a layer-1 blockchain, upgrades its mainnet.

What to Watch

Crypto
- Sept. 22: Coinbase introduces Mag7 + Crypto Equity Index Futures, a merchandise combining large U.S. tech stocks with cryptocurrency ETFs successful a azygous futures contract.
- Sept. 24, 9 a.m.: DFINITY, the non-profit down Internet Computer (ICP), holds its Internet Identity 2.0 inquire maine thing (AMA) and squad update event, unveiling its self-sovereign login solution.
- Sept. 24: Hedera (HBAR) mainnet upgrade (release v0.65).
- Sept. 25, 8:00 AM ET: Plasma, a layer-1 blockchain designed for planetary stablecoin payments, launches its mainnet beta and autochthonal token XPL.
Macro
- Sept. 22, 8:30 a.m.: Canada August PPI YoY Est. N/A (Prev. 2.6%), MoM Est. 0.9%.
- Sept. 22, 12 p.m.: Fed Governor Stephen Miran code connected "Non-Monetary Forces and Appropriate Monetary Policy."
- Sept. 23, 8 a.m.: Mexico July Retail Sales YoY Est. N/A (Prev. 2.5%), MoM Est. N/A (Prev. -0.4%).
- Sept. 23, 9 a.m.: Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman code connected "Economic Outlook."
- Sept. 23, 9:45 a.m.: S&P Global U.S. September PMI Composite (flash) Est. 54.6, Manufacturing Est. 51.6, Services Est. 53.
- Sept. 23, 10 a.m.: Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index Est. -5.
- Sept. 23, 12:35 p.m.: Fed Chair Jerome Powell speech connected "Economic Outlook."
- Sept. 23, 4 p.m.: Paraguay benchmark involvement complaint Est. N/A (Prev. 6%).
- Sept. 24, 10 a.m.: U.S. August New Home Sales Est. 0.65M.
- Sept. 25, 4 a.m.: Eurozone M3 Money Supply YoY Est. 3.3%.
- Sept. 25, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. August Durable Goods Orders MoM Composite Est. -0.4%, Ex-transportation Est. -0.1%.
- Sept. 25, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. Q2 GDP maturation complaint (final) QoQ Est. 3.3%.
- Sept. 25, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. Jobless Claims archetypal (w/e Sept. 20) Est. 240K, continuing (w/e Sept. 13) Est. 1920K.
- Sept. 25, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. Q2 header PCE Prices (final) QoQ Est. 2%; halfway Est. 2.5%.
- Sept. 25, 10 a.m.: U.S. August Existing Home Sales Est. 3.98M.
- Sept. 25, 10 a.m.: Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman speech connected "Supervision and Regulation."
- Sept. 25, 1 p.m.: Fed Governor Michael Barr speech connected "Bank Stress Testing."
- Sept. 25, 3 p.m.: Mexico benchmark involvement complaint Est. N/A (Prev. 7.75%).
- Sept. 26, 8:30 a.m.: Canada July GDP MoM Est. 0.1%.
- Sept. 26, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. August header PCE Price Index YoY Est. N/A (Prev. 2.6%), MoM Est. N/A (Prev. 0.2%); halfway YoY Est. N/A (Prev. 2.9%), halfway MoM Est. 0.2%.
- Sept. 26, 10 a.m.: September Michigan Consumer Sentiment (final) Est. 55.9.
- Sept. 26, 1 p.m.: Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman code connected "Approach to Monetary Policy Decision-Making."
Earnings (Estimates based connected FactSet data)
- None scheduled.

Token Events

Governance votes & calls
- Gnosis DAO is voting connected a $40k aviator Growth Fund using condemnation voting connected Gardens to empower GNO holders and enactment small, community-led ecosystem initiatives. Voting ends Sept. 23.
- Balancer DAO is voting connected an ecosystem roadmap and backing plan done Q2 2026. It sets growth, revenue, innovation and governance targets and requests $2.87 cardinal successful USDC and 166,250 BAL to money initiatives. Voting ends Sept. 23.
- Balancer DAO is voting connected an urgent connection to deploy v3 connected Plasma with Aave, utilizing phased checkpoints to unafraid aboriginal liquidity and grow Balancer’s multi-chain presence. Voting ends Sept. 23.
- ZKsync DAO is voting connected a Community Activation Pilot to allocate 20M ZK tokens toward existing initiatives and a caller RFP program, backing planetary awareness, education, and developer adoption efforts managed by the ZKsync Foundation. Voting ends Sept. 23.
- Gnosis DAO is voting connected a connection to grant a $10K bounty to a researcher who disclosed a statement bug that could person caused a Gnosis Chain split. Voting ends Sept. 24.
- Curve votes connected Michael Egorov connection to make Yield Basis, a $60M program to money bitcoin pools and springiness veCRV holders up to 65% of revenue. Voting ends Sept. 24.
- Decentraland DAO is voting connected a caller Veto Procedure that lets the Council o.k. large decisions internally, portion giving the assemblage 14 days to situation them done a Veto Proposal. Voting ends Sept. 29.
- Sept. 23: SwissBorg to marque a unrecorded announcement.
Unlocks
- Sept. 20: Velo (VELO) to unlock 13.63% of its circulating proviso worthy $43.39 million.
- Sept. 21: Optimism (OP) to unlock 6.89% of its circulating proviso worthy $96.41 million.
- Sept, 28: Jupiter (JUP) to unlock 1.75% of its circulating proviso worthy $28.89 million.
Token Launches
- Sept. 22: Falcon Finance to big assemblage merchantability connected Buidlpad.