CryptoSlate

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.

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Liquid recovered 3,400 BTC from the reserve drain. The self-described whitehats kept about 598.5 BTC, worth $47M, after asking onchain: “is that ok?”
No public evidence shows the amount was an agreed bounty. Withdrawals remain unconfirmed, with public bridge nodes still down.

Ethereum’s 2029 quantum deadline is already forcing tradeoffs.
Developers may pull post-quantum attestations forward one fork and push mandatory execution proofs back one. Nothing is approved yet, but Hegotá has almost no room for unrelated consensus work.

Hunter Biden is launching a 1B-supply LAPTOP memecoin on Sept. 9, with 30% allocated to founders and 20% reserved for airdrops, including wallets that lost money on TRUMP.
The launch comes after months of Biden criticizing political families for using crypto for private gain.

Polish crypto firms can no longer rely on the old registration regime, but they still have no domestic MiCA licensing route.
Meanwhile, firms already licensed elsewhere in the EU can passport into Poland and keep serving the market.

Orionx froze withdrawals and is shutting down after an audit found over $7M in customer assets had moved to wallets outside its control.
Chile’s regulator cannot force repayment. Orionx must reconcile balances and approve a restitution plan. No repayment date has been disclosed.

Harmony rolled back its chain on Aug. 21 to keep it alive. Now it wants to shut the network down and move ONE to Ethereum.
The proposal is still non-binding, but users are being told to exit smart contracts before Sept. 10 because those positions won’t migrate automatically.

UBS shifted from expecting no Fed moves this year to forecasting 25-basis-point hikes in September and December after the strong August jobs report.
If that path materializes, higher yields could keep pressure on Bitcoin through year-end.

In Bitquery’s 30-day Ethereum arbitrage sample, builders received 49.3% of measured surplus, while 9.4% was burned—about $5.24 for every $1 destroyed.
Builders did not necessarily keep the full amount; some of those receipts were passed on to validators.

Moonwell says its proposed rate changes could cut monthly interest on bad debt from $338,785 to $50,273.
The change would only slow further interest accrual. It would not unlock USDC for suppliers, and no repayment schedule or reserve transfer has been confirmed.