🚨Everything Crypto ICYMI – Thursday’s Edition✍️
Your daily breakdown of what actually moved markets across Crypto, DeFi, AI, GameFi & RWAs.
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🌎Macro, Markets & Global Economy.
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$BTC surpassed Samsung, Micron & by market cap as it returns above the $1.2T level.
•@POTUS said the US & Iran agreed to a framework deal that included the “complete” & “total opening” of the Strait of Hormuz.
•Stocks closed lower, with the S&P 500 down 0.5% & the down 0.7%.
•China’s US Treasury holdings have fallen to their lowest level since 2008, continuing the decline in its Treasury holdings.
•US data-center construction spending jumped 57% year-over-year in July to a record $75B annualized pace, up 717% since 2021 as the AI buildout accelerates.
•Traditional-finance perpetual futures traded at twice the volume of ’s BTCUSDT perpetual contract over the past month.
•@Bybit_Official launched 24/7, USDT-settled perpetual futures for EUR/USD, GBP/USD & USD/JPY with up to 100× leverage.
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🏛️Regulation & Institutional Adoption..
•US Bank completed its 1st live cross-border payment using its own
$USBDC stablecoin.
•Russia approved Bitcoin, Ethereum & USDT for public trading on exchanges.
•@coinbase filed SEC registrations as it works to bring single-stock perpetual futures to the US.
•Canary Capital’s Staked ETF (
$TRXS) is launching on today, September 10, according to its SEC S-1 filing, after Cboe listed the ETF under the
$TRXS ticker.
•Japan’s financial institutions continue expanding blockchain-based settlement & stablecoin infrastructure.
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🏗️Infrastructure & Network Development…
•@Citi offers instant cross-border payments for Japanese firms via blockchain, according to
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$SOL — underwent the Transactions V1 upgrade yesterday.
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$EGLD — will release Supernova, one of its biggest network upgrades ever, today, Sep. 10.
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$STX — will launch self-custodial
$BTC Staking today, Sep. 10.
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$NEAR — the Virtual NEAR Day conference takes place today, Sep. 1
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