Everything Crypto ICYMI – Friday’s Edition✍️
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🌎Macro, Markets & Global Economy.
•Saudi Arabia’s oil production has fallen to its lowest level in 36 years.
•Brent crude oil surged 5% to $108, its highest level since May.
•US PPI rose to 5.4%, higher than expectations.
•US 30-year bond yields climbed to 5.35%, their highest level since June 2007.
•The
$BTC ETFs recorded 6 straight weeks of net outflows.
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@POTUS claimed the US controls the Strait of Hormuz and said nothing will reach Iran unless a deal or “total surrender” is reached.
•US gas prices are set to break $4 per gallon on Labor Day as Middle East tensions drive oil prices higher.
•Gold is heading for a 3rd straight weekly decline near $4,315/oz, as surging oil prices and hotter US inflation data fuel bets on a Fed rate hike next week.
•The ECB raised interest rates by 25 basis points, lifting its deposit rate to 2.50%.
•Japan likely dumped US Treasuries to fund its record ¥15.4T ($98.6B) yen intervention, with foreign securities holdings falling $87.8B in August, according to Bloomberg.
•US CPI data is due today, Sep. 11.
•Cryptocurrency Performance Year to Date;
$BTC: -29.72%
$ETH: -40.48%
$BNB: -36.52%
$XRP: -47.43%
$SOL: -44.49%
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@HunterBiden says his crypto memecoin
$LAPTOP experienced a “sharp swing” in price due to “technical issues…which has since stabilized to healthy levels.”
The coin is now down over 95% since launch!
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🏛️Regulation & Institutional Adoption..
•Senate Republicans released an updated version of the Crypto Clarity Act following August recess negotiations.
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@Cboe filed to list 3× leveraged ETFs for Bitcoin, Ether, gold, silver, crude oil and natural gas.
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@MorganStanley Investment Management launched the Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust (MSSE) and Morgan Stanley Solana Trust (MSOL), 2 exchange-traded products designed to track the performance of Ether & SOL.
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@Nasdaq is investing $100M in
@krakenfx’s parent company
@Payward at a $21B valuation.
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@Revolut won conditional OCC approval for a US national bank charter, targeting a 2027 launch with loans, credit cards, insured deposits and crypto access.
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🏗️Infrastructure & Network Development…
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$SOL —
@solana announced a network upgrade designed to make the network 2× faster.
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🚀Product & Ecosystem Updates….
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@Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent that works 24/7 through a secure, approval-based virtual machine.
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@coinbase rebranded Base App back to Coinbase Wallet after just over a year.
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🧠DeFi & AI Agents…..
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@Morpho now lets Vault users redeem underlying market positions even when vault liquidity is low, allowing exits without curator approval.
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@1inch has routed over $800B in trades but has never turned a profit, with co-founder
@deacix saying DeFi is still too small to focus on extracting revenue.
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📊Market Intelligence & Onchain Data……
•According to
@SantimentData,
@HyperliquidX’s perp volume hit $19.4B on August 21, below June’s spike and the October 2025 record.
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$ETH supply increased by over 20,125
$ETH in the past 7 days.
•Robinhood’s TVL went from 0 to $700M in less than a month.
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@StellarOrg stablecoin transfer volume surged 50% in 30 days to $8.92B, even as supply fell 11.7% to $387.9M.
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🏢Real-World Assets (RWA) & Tokenization…….
•Onchain spot RWA trading volume hit a record $7.82B in August, according to
@CryptoRank_io
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🔓Token Unlocks……..
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$PUMP @Pumpfun → $28.6M today, Sep. 11.
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$APT @Aptos → $7.17M today, Sep. 11.
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$CC @CantonNetwork → $16.6M ongoing daily.
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$TRUMP → $14.4M ongoing daily.
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$MORPHO @Morpho → $5.17M ongoing daily.
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$TAO @bittensor → $6.97M ongoing daily.
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📈Daily Movers (24H)
•Top Gainers:
$XMR,
$NEAR,
$OKB,
$MORPHO,
$VVV
•Top Losers:
$ZEC,
$BCH,
$CC,
$ADA,
$HYPE
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