CryptoSlate

The yen hit its strongest level since February while Bitcoin held near $78.5K.
With ¥360T ($2.35T) in cross-border yen borrowing, further BOJ tightening could force investors to unwind funded positions and sell risk assets. BTC hasn’t cracked yet.

Federal trust charters can give crypto firms a firmer legal footing for custody, but they don’t remove Washington from the equation.
The risk just changes shape: less deposit-run exposure, more dependence on OCC supervision, charter conditions and outside banks for cash.

Bitcoin and the S&P 500 posted a −0.62 correlation between their price paths over 260 observations. Their percentage returns were still positively correlated at +0.40.
Bitcoin fell on 76 of 115 dates when stocks declined.

₿ PREDICTION MARKET: Bitcoin’s path through year-end is priced for volatility, not a clean direction.
Below $75K leads the prediction market at 76.5%, while both downside and upside thresholds can still hit.

Some Core Lightning Docker images reported v26.06.7 even though the security fixes were missing.
Four tags were affected between Aug. 28 and Sept. 1. Operators who upgraded during that window should verify the image digest and re-pull any mismatched image.

Strive added 921,511 SATA shares in a week while buying 1,375 BTC, pushing its annualized preferred dividend bill up by nearly $12M to about $130M.
Cash rose too, but cash-only dividend coverage barely moved: 18.67 months to 18.71.

Strategy doubled its STRC buyback authorization to $2B after spending $811.5M trying to pull the preferred back to $100.
Last week, it bought no Bitcoin and sold no MSTR. Instead, it directed $176.3M into STRC repurchases.

Metaplanet’s executive options pool grew from 46M to 319.5M potential shares as Bitcoin fundraising expanded the share count.
Shareholders want ~273M of that increase canceled. CEO Simon Gerovich has already exercised 64M shares at ¥10 each; they’re locked until 2031.

The dollar’s share of global reserves fell from 64% to 56% over the past decade. That does not mean central banks bought Bitcoin.
New York Fed research shows reserve growth and portfolio weighting can reduce the dollar’s global share even when central banks do not cut their dollar holdings.

Strategy’s $250 Bitcoin-themed Air Jordans sold out within four days of launch. The company did not disclose how many pairs it offered.
Strategy holds 845,050 BTC, or 4.02% of Bitcoin’s fixed supply. It is now selling that Bitcoin identity directly to consumers.

Bitcoin options shifted toward calls as 25-delta skew moved from +0.79% to -2.05%, while ETF inflows climbed to $681.2M.
Spot has not matched the move. Exchange CVD improved from -$84.9M to -$29.6M but remained negative, meaning market sells still exceeded buys.

A stronger euro could push DXY lower after the ECB meeting without making money any easier.
For Bitcoin, the cleaner signal is whether BTC rises in both dollars and euros while real yields fall. Otherwise, the “weaker dollar” trade may just be FX.

XRPL’s AI Hub has logged nearly 4.5M transactions, but total settlement is 5,836.71 XRP and 4,125.29 RLUSD.
The count is large; the value is small. The figures cover only the hub’s own payment flow, not all AI activity on XRPL.

Bitcoin is below $80K with Brent near $100, but Friday’s CPI won’t include the Sept. 8 oil shock.
A soft August print could ease rate fears without settling the bigger question: whether higher energy costs keep inflation pressure alive into the next Fed meeting.

🗞 Top Crypto Gainers & Losers: Tue, Sep 8 (24H)
📈 Biggest Gainers
Venice Token (VVV) +42.76%
Useless Coin (USELESS) +32.53%
牛来 (Niu Lai) 牛来 +27.66%
📉 Biggest Losers

SuperTrust (SUT) -14.98%
MarsCoin (MARSCOIN) -11.23%
Unibase (UB) -8.56%

Tether’s WDK CLI can let same-user processes request payments from an unlocked wallet for five minutes without fresh approval each time.
Self-custody doesn’t set the spending limits. Recipient rules, budgets and spend tracking are left to developers.

Sality’s botnet was disrupted, but infected computers may still replace copied crypto addresses before users send a payment.
CrowdStrike says more than 33,000 machines were compromised. Cutting off the operator stopped new payload delivery; it did not remove the malware already present.

BitFuFu’s August Bitcoin production rose 55% to 174 BTC, but most of the gain came from cloud-mining customers.
It self-mined 88 BTC and added 59 BTC to its treasury. Holdings remain 298 BTC below June after the company spent coins to fund new capacity.

Ethereum’s staking debate is now a tradeoff between validator yield and holder dilution.
At 35% staked, the current model implies ~2.54% consensus APR and ~0.89% annual gross issuance. A draft proposal would cut APR to ~1.03% after transition, but EF says the decision needs broader ecosystem agreement.