Last week in Bitcoin:
→ Bitcoin held the low $80Ks, printing a weekly high near $82K on September 3 (its highest since May) before a blowout August jobs report pushed it back under $80K, up roughly 2% on the week.
→ The Liquid Network was paused after roughly 4,000 BTC (~$320M) left the Blockstream-run Federation wallet via an Elements software bug.
→ The UK's Hargreaves Lansdown opened nine crypto ETNs to its ~2M retail clients, nearly a year after ban was lifted.
→ France's Capital B ran a rare raise-and-buy in a single announcement on September 7, adding 376 BTC via a €30.1M raise to reach 3,521 BTC group-wide.
→ US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $986.9M for the week (third straight positive week, IBIT led at $691.5M).
→ 21Shares said it will commit its own BTC treasury to the Stacks Genesis Bond for institutional Bitcoin staking launching September 10.
→ The CLARITY Act's fate hinges on a September 15 Senate cloture vote needing 60 votes, with stablecoin rewards, ethics rules, and AML provisions still unresolved.
→ Optech #421 advanced post-quantum work with two new proposals (SHRINCS and DropKick) alongside a Core Lightning DoS fix.