Bitcoin ETFs notch best month of 2026 as BTC gains 25% in August

US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) capped their best month of 2026 alongside Bitcoins biggest monthly gain since November 2024.  Bitcoin ETFs attracted $3.52 billion in net inflows in August, their highest monthly total of 2026 and a sharp increase from just $172 million in inflows in July, according to SoSoValue data.  Bitcoin (BTC) gained about 25% in August, its strongest monthly performance since a 37.29% rally in November 2024, according to CoinGlass.  The August momentum quickly gave way to a weaker start to September, as ETF flows turned negative and Bitcoin briefly fell below $77,000.  August cuts year-to-date outflows by 66% to $1.77B  Augusts $3.52 billion in Bitcoin ETF inflows cut year-to-date net outflows by roughly 66%, from $5.29 billion to $1.77 billion.  The biggest monthly outflows came in June at $4.51 billion, followed by $2.43 billion in May and $1.61 billion in January, according to SoSoValue data.Monthly flows into US spot Bitcoin ETFs in 2026. Source: SoSoValue  The funds recorded net inflows on 16 of 21 trading days in August, including nine consecutive sessions from Aug. 17 through Aug. 27.  Total net assets rose to $99.61 billion at the end of August from $76.29 billion at the end of July, an increase of about 31%. Monthly

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Strategy CEO defends selling BTC at $60K, buying at $80K

Strategy CEO Phong Le defended the company‘s decision to sell Bitcoin near $60,000 before resuming purchases around $80,000, arguing that its treasury trades depend on capital costs rather than Bitcoin’s market price.  SummaryStrategy bought 4,603 Bitcoin for $369.7 million at an average price of $80,318 last week.Phong Le said capital costs, rather than Bitcoin‘s market price, determine Strategy’s treasury transaction decisions.Strategys latest filing showed 845,050 Bitcoin acquired for an aggregate $63.73 billion through August 30.Dollar assets reached $6.71 billion, nearly matching convertible debt and reducing reported net leverage completely.Le said Strategy remains a net Bitcoin accumulator despite adopting a formal two-way treasury strategy.  Speaking on Bloomberg Crypto on Sept. 1, Le said the earlier sales and the latest purchase were both appropriate because Strategys financing conditions had changed between the transactions.  Strategy purchased 4,603 BTC for $369.7 million between Aug. 24 and Aug. 30 at an average price of $80,318, according to an Aug. 31 regulatory filing.  The purchase lifted its holdings to 845,050 BTC, acquired for approximately $63.73 billion at an average cost of $75,412 per coin.  You might also like:  Strategys STRC remains below $100 despite $635 million in buybacks  Strategy links Bitcoin trades to capital costs  Le said Strategy does not decide whether to buy

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Deribit already holds 96.6% of Coinbase’s derivatives open interest ahead of Sept. 9 migration

Nearly all the open interest displayed on Coinbases derivatives dashboard already sits at Deribit, its global derivatives venue, eight days before institutional positions at the much smaller Coinbase International Exchange are scheduled to move there.  A Coinbase derivatives dashboard snapshot retrieved at 15:42 UTC on Sept. 1 showed $40.65 billion of daily open interest across three venues. Deribit accounted for $39.26 billion, about 96.6%, while Coinbase Derivatives held $1.17 billion and International Exchange held $226.98 million.  The Sept. 9 transfer covers the $226.98 million International Exchange book, client accounts, and trading infrastructure. The $39.26 billion already at Deribit stays where it is, on the venue that represents almost all the open interest displayed on Coinbases dashboard.  Related Company Coinbase A leading digital currency company  Open interest measures outstanding derivatives positions, a different metric from customer assets, exchange revenue, unique capital and solvency.  Related Company Deribit Cryptocurrency Futures & Options TradingVenueSept. 1 daily open interestShare of $40.65 billionRole in Sept. 9 cutoverDeribit$39.26 billion96.6%Destination venueCoinbase Derivatives$1.17 billion2.9%Separate U.S.-regulated venueInternational Exchange$226.98 million0.6%Institutional positions and accounts migrate  The dashboards headline total was $40.55 billion at the same retrieval, $100 million below the venue-level panel. The venue panel is the relevant basis for comparing where the displayed open interest sat, and

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Coinbase is moving $227 million onto the venue already holding over 96% of its derivatives

Nearly all the open interest displayed on Coinbases derivatives dashboard already sits at Deribit, its global derivatives venue, eight days before institutional positions at the much smaller Coinbase International Exchange are scheduled to move there.  A Coinbase derivatives dashboard snapshot retrieved at 15:42 UTC on Sept. 1 showed $40.65 billion of daily open interest across three venues. Deribit accounted for $39.26 billion, about 96.6%, while Coinbase Derivatives held $1.17 billion and International Exchange held $226.98 million.  The Sept. 9 transfer covers the $226.98 million International Exchange book, client accounts, and trading infrastructure. The $39.26 billion already at Deribit stays where it is, on the venue that represents almost all the open interest displayed on Coinbases dashboard.  Related Company Coinbase A leading digital currency company  Open interest measures outstanding derivatives positions, a different metric from customer assets, exchange revenue, unique capital and solvency.  Related Company Deribit Cryptocurrency Futures & Options TradingVenueSept. 1 daily open interestShare of $40.65 billionRole in Sept. 9 cutoverDeribit$39.26 billion96.6%Destination venueCoinbase Derivatives$1.17 billion2.9%Separate U.S.-regulated venueInternational Exchange$226.98 million0.6%Institutional positions and accounts migrate  The dashboards headline total was $40.55 billion at the same retrieval, $100 million below the venue-level panel. The venue panel is the relevant basis for comparing where the displayed open interest sat, and

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Kast launches stablecoin-powered business platform after $80M raise

Stablecoin payments company Kast has launched a platform combining business accounts, payment cards, cross-border transfers and yield-bearing balances on stablecoin rails.  Kast said its KAST Business platform allows companies to receive funds through fiat virtual accounts provided by regulated partners, deposit supported stablecoins and crypto, issue virtual cards and make local payouts in more than 20 currencies. The company said it serves more than 170 countries, although availability varies by jurisdiction.  The platform offers up to 8% annual percentage yield on idle balances, which Kast says is generated through short-term US Treasurys and stablecoin yield, alongside up to 3% cashback on purchases.  Kast is a financial technology company rather than a bank, with regulated services provided through licensed partner institutions.  The launch comes after Kast raised $80 million at a reported $600 million valuation in March. The company said it would use the funding to develop products, secure licenses and expand across North America, Latin America and the Middle East.  Kast subsequently hired former US Securities and Exchange Commission adviser Stephanie Allen to lead policy communications as it prepared the business-platform rollout.  Kast claims more than 1 million users and aims to onboard between 1,000 and 5,000 active businesses by the end of 2026.

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Bitcoin Price Analysis: Warning Signs Emerge as BTCs Breakout Loses Momentum

Bitcoin continues to hover below $78K, but the absence of meaningful upside progress is becoming increasingly important. After the initial breakout impulse, repeated failures to challenge the $80K-$82K supply area suggest demand is losing strength, raising the probability of a deeper corrective move.  Bitcoin Price Analysis: The Daily Chart  The daily chart shows BTC transitioning from an impulsive breakout into a clear loss of momentum. Following the rapid advance from the mid-$60K region, Bitcoin has spent several sessions fluctuating between roughly $77K and $81K without establishing a fresh high.  This behavior is particularly notable because the price is consolidating directly beneath the major $80.5K-$82.5K resistance zone. The inability to absorb supply around this area, combined with repeated upper wicks, suggests buyers are struggling to maintain the strength seen during the initial rally.  Although the broader structure remains bullish following the breakout above the moving averages and previous resistance levels, the probability of a deeper pullback has increased. The $72K-$74.4K zone is the first major daily support area and represents a logical destination if selling pressure expands.  For the immediate bearish risk to diminish, BTC would need to regain momentum and establish acceptance above $80.5K-$82.5K. Until then, the prolonged hesitation beneath resistance favors caution.  BTC/USDT 4-Hour Chart  The

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Layer-1 chain to pause new transactions for 24 minutes to unlock a 10x speed boost

MultiversX has given node operators nine days to prepare for an upgrade designed to make its blockchain 10 times faster.  Related Asset MultiversX #153 EGLD · $4.24 24-hour change: up 8.98% Price history is not available. 24H Up 8.98% 7D Up 24.36% 30D Up 60.22%  The Supernova upgrade is scheduled to activate Sept. 10 during epoch 2233, cutting block times to 600 milliseconds from six seconds and forcing more than 5,000 nodes to migrate onto software capable of processing the new rules.  The upgrade goes beyond shorter block intervals. Supernova restructures MultiversXs consensus pipeline so validators can vote on a block while execution proceeds in parallel, removing transaction execution from the critical path that previously constrained block production.  The design is also intended to preserve deterministic finality while pushing intra-shard finality below 250 milliseconds and cutting cross-shard settlement from about 18 seconds to roughly 2.4 seconds.  Meanwhile, MultiversX is keeping its epoch length unchanged and maintaining backward compatibility for addresses, keys, and balances.  The countdown begins as MultiversXs EGLD token shows renewed momentum. Data from CryptoSlate showed that EGLD crossed $4 over the weekend for the first time since May, reaching about $4.05 before pulling back below the threshold.  Most MultiversX nodes are still on the old

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Hyperliquid Strategies expands stock-sale facility to $2.5B for HYPE treasury

According to a Form 8-K filed with the SEC on September 1, Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. (HSI), the Nasdaq-listed company building a treasury around $HYPE, has doubled its stock-sale program, which is used to fund its strategy, thereby increasing its equity financing commitment to $2.5 billion from $1 billion.  The move demonstrates how corporate treasuries have become an increasingly important source of demand for tokens in the cryptocurrency market.  $HYPE is not an equity, but Coinbase Institutional considers its economic model as “equity-like” since the fees collected by the protocol will help cover the costs for systematic token buybacks. By providing HSI with access to as much as $2.5 billion in equity financing, the company is now able to accumulate $HYPE if it draws and deploys the facility.  Selling up to $2.5 billion in stock to feed a $HYPE hoard  The change came through Amendment No. 1 to the ChEF Purchase Agreement, the committed equity facility HSI signed with Chardan Capital Markets in October 2025. The structure allows the company to sell newly issued shares over time and use the proceeds for its treasury strategy.  The original agreement capped gross proceeds at $1 billion. The September 1 amendment raises that ceiling to $2.5 billion.  The Amendment increases

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Bitcoin leads Ethereum and Solana in decentralization, ARK finds

ARK Invest and Glassnode published a joint study on Sept. 1 that found three entities could cross the measured block-production thresholds for both Bitcoin and Ethereum, while Solana required 19.  SummaryBitcoin reaches its 51% hash-rate threshold through three mining pools, according to the joint report.Ethereum requires three staking entities to exceed 33%, although pooled delegation complicates direct control assumptions.Solanas Nakamoto coefficient is 19, but nearly all measured infrastructure operates inside commercial data centers.Bitcoins infrastructure is comparatively dispersed, with 63% of measured nodes operating anonymously through Tor networks.Ethereum hosts roughly 49% of execution-layer nodes in clouds, including 20% through Amazon Web Services.  The 32-page report, titled The Decentralization Spectrum: Design Tradeoffs in Digital Assets, compares the networks across ownership, exit fluidity, verification costs, critical resilience, reconstruction costs and infrastructure distribution.  The findings do not mean three companies control Bitcoin or Ethereum. The metric counts mining pools and staking platforms as entities, even when the underlying hardware, stake or node operators belong to separate participants who may withdraw or redirect their resources.  Bitcoins three-pool threshold does not equal ownership  The report applied a 51% hash-rate threshold to Bitcoin. Foundry USA represented 27.27% of the measured hash rate, followed by AntPool at 17.06% and F2Pool at 16.96%. Together,

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Core DAO plans emergency hard fork after validators drew excess rewards

Core DAO is coordinating an emergency hard fork after validators claimed more CORE rewards than the blockchain intended to issue.  In an update, Core said the incident had been contained and that “malicious validators” could no longer draw excess rewards. It said the fork would be a forward upgrade and would not roll back the network or reverse any previously confirmed transactions.  This followed an earlier status update on Monday, in which Core said a small number of validators had accrued rewards significantly above the protocols intended issuance. It said the incident was limited to reward issuance and that user assets remained safe, adding that it would publish a technical postmortem.  Several exchanges restricted CORE transfers around the time of the incident. Coinbase paused sends and receives on the Core network, while Bithumb and Coinone suspended deposits and withdrawals, citing suspected or confirmed security concerns.  Bitget also suspended CORE deposits and withdrawals, citing wallet maintenance, while LBank suspended deposits because of what it described as the projects requirements.  Core has not disclosed how much CORE was issued, how long the activity continued, or whether any of the additional tokens entered circulation. It also has not explained the vulnerability that enabled the validators to obtain the

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