📢 Strategy has only sold its Bitcoin holdings five times since 2020.

📢 BitMine is just 200,000 $ETH away from hitting its target.

📢 Altcoins have just overtaken $BTC in total open interest.

📢 Nike will be dropped from the S&P 500 after its stock fell to its lowest level since 2014.

📢 High-severity CVEs have surged, with over 2,200 flagged in 2026 alone, more than 6x the average from 2022 to 2025.

📢 The market remains constructive: $BTC is holding close to $80K, $ETH is consolidating under $2,500, and $SOL is protecting its breakout above $100. Momentum has cooled compared with the earlier surge, but the structure is still positive a

📢 Top Gainers

Pons PONS
Arbitrum ARB
Dash DASH
Zcash ZEC
Uniswap UNI
NEAR Protocol NEAR

Top Losers

Pump.fun PUMP
Official Trump TRUMP
Canton CC
Cronos CRO
Rain RAIN
Pepe PEPE

📢 Japan may have sold US Treasuries to fund its record ¥15.4T ($98.6B) yen intervention, as foreign securities holdings dropped $87.8B in August, according to Bloomberg.

📢 Jane Street ($4.4M), UBS ($7.5M), and Bank of Montreal ($6.7M) have been confirmed as HYPE ETF holders through recent 13F filings.

📢 Tokenized stock holders doubled in August, according to CryptoRank. Robinhood Chain, BNB Chain, and Solana now account for 95% of all tokenized stock holders.

📢 The Japanese yen has climbed to its strongest level against the US dollar since February.

📢 The US now has a record ~90 data centers exceeding 100MW, with that number projected to triple to ~280 by 2030 as tech companies commit roughly $7T to the AI buildout.

📢 Bitcoin OGs are moving more BTC, with the 90-day average rising to 1,500 BTC, according to CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost.

📢 Privacy coins are the only crypto sector trading above October 2025 levels, up 213%, according to Glassnode.

📢 Hong Kong’s Russian gold imports have surged from almost zero in 2019 to around $14.5B in just seven months of 2026, according to the FT.

📢 Bitcoin short-term whale profits have hit a record $9.07B, increasing the risk of a potential sell-off, according to CryptoQuant.

📢 Spot CEX trading volume climbed 15% in August to $811B, recovering from July’s two-year low, with Coinbase and KuCoin recording the biggest gains.

📢 US data center construction spending surged 57% YoY in July to a record $75B annualized pace, up 717% since 2021 as the AI infrastructure buildout accelerates.

📢 The top 7 token unlocks this week total $703.73M, with $RAIN accounting for the largest share at $586.44M.

📢 A sharp decline in average PISA scores across 23 OECD countries since 2018 has pushed reading performance to roughly two years of schooling below its 2012 level.