Australian crypto: 7 – 20 Sept 2026

Every fortnight we record what actually happened here, with sources — and what the market did around it.

The fortnight's local story was Australia Removes 45 Remittance and Crypto Firms From AML Registers. Bitcoin moved +3.8% in AUD terms (A$109,951 → A$114,150), Ethereum +7.1%, and 98 of the 134 coins with records covering the fortnight finished higher. Sentiment averaged 63/100 on the Fear & Greed Index.

What happened in Australia

Stories that named an Australian regulator, platform or market — deduplicated, so one event reported by five outlets appears once.

Australia Removes 45 Remittance and Crypto Firms From AML Registers Crypto News Australia · 9 Sept
Australia says it removed 45 crypto, remittance registrations over the past year Cointelegraph (Australia tag) · 8 Sept · also covered by 1 other outlet
Australia cancels registration of crypto provider GetCoins following customer scam complaints CryptoSlate · 7 Sept

What the market did

Biggest risers — 7 – 20 Sept 2026

NEAR NEAR Protocol	A$3.21 → A$5.85	+82.2%
AR Arweave	A$4.09 → A$6.6	+61.4%
STRK Starknet	A$0.0432 → A$0.069	+59.8%

Biggest fallers — 7 – 20 Sept 2026

STABLE Stable	A$0.0402 → A$0.0345	−14.3%
SPX SPX6900	A$0.7651 → A$0.6674	−12.8%
RAIN Rain	A$0.0226 → A$0.0198	−12.4%

Bitcoin dominance moved from 59.1% to 58.7% over the fortnight — what that measures.

Elsewhere

Wider-market stories from the same fortnight, for context.

JPMorgan: Bitcoin Could See Stronger ETF Demand Than Gold Crypto News Australia · 18 Sept
Why keeping your private keys safe won’t always stop crypto theft CryptoSlate · 20 Sept
Anthropic’s potential $2 trillion IPO is fueling an $80 million crypto trade CryptoSlate · 19 Sept
ZetaChain votes to shut down Layer 1 network and move ZETA to Solana The Block · 20 Sept
Crypto platform Gemini’s stock is down 80% from its IPO. That’s reviving takeover speculation CoinDesk · 20 Sept

A fortnight is a short window — the coins at the top of one are regularly at the bottom of the next. For the live picture, today's wrap; for the longer view, the monthly recaps; and for what any of it means for your own holdings, the portfolio tracker.

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Stories are recorded from our news sources at the end of each fortnight and kept unchanged afterwards, so this page reads the same in a year as it does today. Headlines link to the original publisher; we do not republish their reporting. Market figures are computed from our own daily AUD records (powered by CoinGecko), covering coins with at least 8 days of data in the period. Past performance does not indicate future returns. General information only, not financial advice.