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Mars Finance news, September 3: Market news: The Bank of Japan is reportedly inclined to raise interest rates by 25 basis points and plans to adopt flexible policy measures going forward.

Mars Finance reports that THORChain has announced the ZEC liquidity pool is now live. The network has completed a node rotation, and all nodes have begun monitoring the Zcash chain. THORChain stated that transaction functionality will be the next step. Liquidity is currently shallow, so early traders should be aware of risks such as slippage. Previously, THORChain added native Zcash support in a protocol upgrade, including UTXO processing, RPC logic, and a ZEC price oracle, and continues to advance mainnet integration.

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Author: Dong Jing, Wall Street News

The U.S. September nonfarm payrolls report will be released on Friday (October 2). This is the last employment report before the Federal Reserve’s October 28 policy meeting, yet the market’s pricing of its impact has fallen to a recent low—and historical experience shows that when the market cares the least, the data is often most capable of roiling the market.
The median Wall Street forecast is for 90,000 new jobs, down sharply from August’s 162,000. The market is closely watching whether the August figure will be revised down significantly, as unusual seasonal adjustments had previously substantially overstated overall employment performance, leaving September’s data facing considerable uncertainty from base effects.
At the same time, expectations for Fed policy have shifted dramatically over the past week: On Monday, the market was pricing in roughly a 70% chance of a rate hike in October, but after New York Fed President Williams said the Fed was “in no hurry to raise rates” and August core PCE came in moderately ...

Copper launches an institutional trading service for Hyperliquid perpetual contracts, supporting trading through APIs and the platform interface, with assets held in Copper Vaults under a non-custodial MPC architecture. Its strategy engine enables multiple authorizations, granular permissions, and comprehensive auditing for institutional trading strategies, while using the same governance framework as ClearLoop on centralized exchanges.

Mars Finance reports that Morgan Stanley has re-listed NVIDIA (NVDA.O) as its top pick.

According to AliCharts’ long-term candlestick analysis, the current bull market top is estimated as follows: Bitcoin’s first target is $125,000, with a potential move to the upper boundary at $190,000 after a breakout; if Ethereum breaks above the channel’s upper boundary at approximately $5,000, its target could rise to $8,800; SOL is forming a monthly cup-and-handle pattern, with the neckline at approximately $295, and a monthly close above it would point to approximately $2,744.

Mars Finance reported that Adam from the Greeks.live Research Institute posted on X that 30,500 BTC options expired, with a Put-Call Ratio of 1.07, a maximum pain point of $82,000, and a notional value of $2.63 billion; 116,000 ETH options expired, with a Put-Call Ratio of 1.17, a maximum pain point of $2,660, and a notional value of $320 million. On the first weekly expiration date after the quarterly settlement, BTC’s price rebounded significantly on the expiration date, call option block trades were active, and BTC has fluctuated around $85,000 for more than a week. Adam said that implied volatility for major maturities this week declined from last week but rebounded from two weeks ago, and is currently at a low level for this bull market; the trend in monthly realized volatility is similar, mainly

Toshiba plans to double its hard disk drive capacity for AI data centers by fiscal 2027, investing approximately ¥60 billion (about $380 million) to expand its HDD plant in the Philippines. This will be its first large-scale investment in five years. As one of the world’s three largest HDD manufacturers, Toshiba hopes to increase its global market share by capacity from slightly above 10% to 30% through the expansion, meeting AI infrastructure’s demand for high-capacity storage.

Mars Finance reports, according to The Block, that Forward Industries increased its holdings by nearly 949,000 SOL last quarter, bringing its total holdings to 8.5 million SOL, equivalent to approximately 1.4% of SOL’s circulating supply. The company said the average cost of the SOL acquired during the quarter was $83.

Mars Finance reports that, according to on-chain analyst Ember, an address suspected to belong to an Aave team member has gradually sold 50,000 AAVE on-chain over the past week, receiving approximately 8 million USDC at an average selling price of about $160. The address previously received 108,000 AAVE from a wallet labeled “Aave Team” between October 2020 and October 2021. It still holds approximately 30,000 AAVE, worth about $5.5 million.

Mars Finance reports that, according to The Block, the Lloyds Bank 10th annual Financial Institutions Sentiment Survey shows that 71% of senior executives at major UK financial institutions expect tokenization to reshape the financial services industry. The survey shows that faster payment and settlement speeds are the most frequently cited benefits of tokenization among respondents, followed by collateral and liquidity management.

Mars Finance reports that, according to Gate market data, European semiconductor stocks generally rose amid growing market demand for artificial intelligence-related stocks. Micron Technology reported strong quarterly results, while Dutch companies ASML and ASM International rose 2.3% and 4.1%, respectively. BE Semiconductor Industries rose 2.6%, Infineon Technologies rose 4.6%, and STMicroelectronics rose 2.7%.

On October 2, support for Trump among voters aged 18–29 fell from 43% to 19%. Some young crypto investors called the TRUMP meme coin a profit-making scheme and accused him of exploiting crypto supporters. Morten Christensen, an investor holding TRUMP tokens, said Trump’s reputation was not as strong as it was during the campaign, and that the online response to the second event at Mar-a-Lago also differed from that of the first. Trump earned at least $500 million through the World Liberty Financial token sale, while the market capitalization of its related USD1 stablecoin exceeded $4 billion.

USDT will return to the Bitcoin network through Utexo. Utexo uses RGB and off-chain storage, with ownership anchored to UTXOs, offering private transfers, native BTC↔USDT swaps, and BTC-collateralized lending. It blacklists sanctioned UTXOs to block redemptions, but assets cannot be frozen like Ethereum addresses.