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🔥AI Agents consume nearly 5 times as many tokens as humans.
The first time Agents surpassed humans in token consumption was in February this year.
Within just 6 months, this figure increased 14-fold.

🔥CIA Director John Ratcliffe secretly traveled to Moscow
🔴He flew from Washington to Riga on a government aircraft, then switched to a military transport aircraft for the leg into Russia
🔴The US asked Ukraine to halt strikes on Moscow and St. Petersburg for 3 days; Kyiv agreed. Peskov, spokesman for President Putin, initially denied it but today admitted this was “contact between security agencies”
🔴This was the first trip by a CIA director to Moscow since 2021.

🔥Strategy establishes a $1.59B USD Cash fund: accumulating cash instead of Bitcoin
🔴On August 24, Strategy announced the establishment of "USD Cash" — a new component within the Digital Credit capital framework, completely separate from the existing USD Reserve.
🔴Inflows:
- Sold 18,261,118 MSTR shares through the ATM program last week. Net proceeds of $2.01B
- Did not buy or sell BTC for the second consecutive week
🔴Allocation
- $136.4M used to repurchase 1,431,212 STRC preferred shares
- $300M added to USD Reserve
- The remaining ~$1.57B transferred to the newly established USD Cash accou

🔥August ETF flows: record inflows into Q, record outflows from semiconductors
🔴Q has attracted +$10.9B since the beginning of August, on track to set the highest monthly net inflow record in history—more than twice July’s +$4.9B and surpassing the previous record of +$9.2B in March 2022 (during the Covid money-printing period).
🔴We are seeing the opposite trend in other funds:
- SMH fund (semiconductors): -$2.8B, very likely to post the largest monthly net outflow in history
- IGV fund (software): -$610M, the third consecutive month of net outflows
🔴However, this does not mean money is flo

🚨 Crypto just experienced its biggest flash crash since 10/10/2025.
Within just 6 minutes, $108B in market capitalization evaporated. No news, no catalyst.
Developments:
- 1:00 AM UTC: Total market capitalization at $2.66T, long liquidations only $6M
- 1:06 AM UTC: down to $2.55T
- BTC $78,500 -> $76,500 (-2.5%)
- ETH $2,530 -> $2,380 (-5%)
- XRP $1.70 -> $1.38 (-18%)
- 1:30 AM UTC: $467M longs liquidated
Altcoins took the full hit, with TOTAL3 falling from $784B to $731B in a single candle, down 6.7% compared with BTC's 2.5%.
Liquidity was far too thin relative to leverage, making the lo

🔴Arthur Hayes has just announced a comeback to directly serve as CEO of Flop Labs—the project building Flop Network for the AI Agent economy. $FLOP is being promoted with the familiar combo: no presale, no VC, fair launch, and a major airdrop expected in Q4/2026.
🔴The Black Guy once called $HYPE , $NEAR , and $ZEC the Holy Trinity, set a $150 target for HYPE, and even said HYPE had the potential to increase 126x. By early June, Hayes had sold off all his HYPE, NEAR, and ZEC in succession. With $WLD , the U-turn was even faster: he had just said he would continue holding it, then sold his enti

🔥ETFs recorded their largest net inflow day of 2026
🔴U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs +$517M right after the U.S. Treasury announced an increase in bond purchases — the largest daily inflow in 100 days.
Ethereum ETFs +$189M, the strongest since October last year
🔴Total net assets of U.S. Bitcoin ETFs stand at $84.31B. $517M That is only 0.61% of the size of all Bitcoin ETFs and just ~0.04% of BTC’s market capitalization. It is still not enough to say the bull run has returned.
🔴Which ETFs are receiving inflows?
- IBIT alone accounted for $284.7M, or 55% of inflows into BTC ETFs.
- For ETH, the three

🔥US public debt exceeds $40T for the first time in history
🔴The US Treasury confirmed that total public debt reached $40.047T as of August 18, of which $32.266T was debt held by the public and $7.782T was intragovernmental debt.
🔴The new $39T milestone was only breached this March—meaning $1 trillion in new debt was created in less than five months. In January 2017, public debt stood at $19.95T. In less than a decade, it has doubled in size.
🔴The CBO forecast in May 2023 that the US would reach $40T in fiscal year 2028. This milestone arrived nearly two years earlier than forecast.
🔥Why i

🔥The U.S. Treasury Department announced it will raise the bond buyback cap from $2B to $4B per session. Purchases will begin on September 9.
$BTC has broken through the 200-day moving average at $69,031—its first time since October 2025.
$1.3B was liquidated in less than one hour, with more than 50% being BTC short positions.

🔴China is falling into a prolonged recession: Not a single July economic indicator met forecasts.
- Fixed-asset investment fell 6.7% YoY in the first seven months of 2026 (below the forecast of -6% and the -5.7% recorded in the first six months)
- Private fixed-asset investment fell 9.4% YTD YoY (the sharpest decline since 05/2020)
- Public-sector fixed-asset investment fell 3.3% YTD YoY (the sharpest decline since 04/2020)
-> Over the past five years, whenever the private sector pulled back, public investment made up for it, maintaining steady growth of +5-10%. Now both are negative. The gov

🔥US enterprise AI spending: The gap reaches 620x
🔴US enterprise spending data for July shows that AI spending per employee continues to hit record highs, but the disparity between groups has reached extreme levels:
- Top 1%: $7,400 per employee per month (the group’s median) — the highest ever
- Leading top 10%: $650
- Median enterprise: $11.95
-> All three groups have increased spending more than threefold in just the past few months. At the beginning of 2024, the leading 1% were still spending <$1,000
🔴The gap reaches 620x. A typical US enterprise still buys exactly one paid account.
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🔥US30Y yield hits a 19-year high
🔴US30Y is at 5.23%, the highest since July 2007. The unusual aspect lies in the context: Core CPI just fell to 2.5%, the lowest since March 2021. July employment declined. The 2-year yield fell to 4.17%. All three should have pulled the entire curve lower, but only short-term yields declined.
🔴Long-term yields are no longer being priced by the Fed. They are being priced by fiscal policy. Three main effects:
- Federal interest expenses will hit $1.0T this year, the second-largest spending item after Social Security. Higher yields widen the deficit, forcing mo

🔥The S&P 500 set its 26th ATH in 2026, after 39 times in 2025 and 57 times in 2024.
🔴Historical data shows that every time U.S. stocks break above their previous high, they tend to reach a higher high over the following 6 months. 13 out of 17 times were positive, with a median gain of +8.25%.
🔴3 very interesting points in history:
- Any random 6-month period is positive roughly 3/4 of the time.
- The 4 negative instances include 2000 and 2007. Those were the starting points of declines of 49% and 57%.
- The 2026 ATH pace annualized is ~43 times, higher than in 2025.
-> BTC $64K, -49% from t

🔥July inflation: what reassures the Fed, and how long will it last
🔴Headline CPI +3.4% YoY from 3.5%, Core CPI +2.5% from 2.6%, Supercore CPI +2.84% from +3.17%. All 3 data points matched market forecasts.
🔴The figures reassuring the Fed:
- Energy continued to decline, -1.5% MoM after -5.7% in June. The 0.9-point gap between headline CPI and Core CPI is almost entirely energy, which contributed 0.946 percentage points to YoY.
- This is a supply shock, not demand-driven inflation.
- Average hourly earnings +3.2% YoY, below CPI, meaning real income is negative
- Core goods remained near zero,