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SideSwap says its Liquid markets have reopened, but L-BTC redemption into Bitcoin remains suspended.
A Sept. 10 snapshot showed reserves covering about 85% of L-BTC supply. Reopened trading does not restore holders’ ability to redeem at par.

U.S. Bank moved its USBDC stablecoin between its North American and European entities in a live Stellar pilot.
The test included freezing and clawback controls. No customers were involved, and no commercial rollout date was announced.

Canada’s OSFI will let banks offset qualifying crypto hedges across regulated exchanges when the asset and maturity match.
The change can reduce capital requirements for those positions. High risk weights and the 5% Group 2 exposure cap remain.

🎾 PREDICTION MARKET: New York's title race has a new leader.
Alexander Zverev now leads the prediction market at 51%, with Ben Shelton at 36% as the final rounds test whether Zverev's surge can hold.

.@brian_armstrong thinks Bitcoin has bottomed and calls $400K by 2030 a “reasonable target.”
$BTC remains near $77K. Galaxy says a weekly close above its 50-week average, around $81.5K, would strengthen the case that the bear market is over.

A Philadelphia Fed paper found Bitcoin wallets were more likely to trade in a whale’s direction within 15 minutes of an alert. Ethereum activity changed little.
The researchers could not establish that alerts caused the response.

Circle agreed to buy Tazapay for $400M in stock, adding local-currency payout routes across 100+ markets if the deal closes.
The purchase would help turn stablecoin transfers into money recipients can use. Closing is expected in 2027, pending approvals.

🤖 PREDICTION MARKET: Anthropic’s September AI lead just got harder to dismiss.
It now tops the prediction market at 88.5% after launching Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, with the Arena snapshot due Sept. 30.

US CPI and PPI each rose 0.4% in August. Monthly core CPI accelerated to 0.3%, even as its annual rate eased to 2.4%.
That gives the Fed reason to keep rates restrictive, leaving leveraged Bitcoin buyers facing higher financing costs.

🗞 Top Crypto Gainers & Losers: Fri, Sep 11 (24H)
📈 Biggest Gainers
牛来 (Niu Lai) +61.40%
STONK (STONK) +68.17%
Theta Fuel (TFUEL) +25.56%
📉 Biggest Losers

Hunter Biden’s Laptop (LAPTOP) -28.95%
MultiversX (EGLD) -11.17%
AKEDO (AKE) -11.27%

Circle is ending USDC support on Noble, forcing roughly $92M to move across more than 50 Cosmos-linked chains.
Minting stops Oct. 13, and legacy cross-chain burn limits start tightening Oct. 31. Cosmos is moving its main USDC route to Injective.

Treasury bought $5.187B of long-dated bonds, but the signals Bitcoin traders were watching moved the other way.
The 10-year real yield rose to 2.55%, while spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $282.7M in net outflows. Treasury was buying its own older debt—not injecting liquidity like the Fed.

Bitcoin trades around the clock, but its biggest moves increasingly happen during US market hours.
From 2022 to 2025, just nine US-session hours accounted for 50.6% of daily realized variance. On NYSE holidays, that share fell to about 41.9%.

Bitcoin gained ~0.2% after Friday’s $2.24B options expiry, then erased the bounce within two hours.
The move fell short of a reversal seen in past research. Public data couldn’t establish whether the same options positioning was present this time.

BitMine reports 5.07M ETH staked, equivalent to 11.8% of Ethereum’s active stake.
It hasn’t disclosed how validator signing keys are split among operators. Without that breakdown, the ETH total alone cannot establish its control over consensus.

A profitable Bitcoin trade can still get liquidated if the stock collateral backing it falls far enough.
Trading venues now let equities and crypto share one margin account, tying a position’s survival to assets beyond the trade itself.