- EIP-8141 may allow Ethereum users to pay for gas with stablecoins by sometime next year (very interesting - link below)
- $QQQ at $718.96
- Oil at $92.72 and lots of attention on crack spreads
- Gold at $4,405.40
- Total crypto market cap at $2.765T
- My beloved $FXN up almost 200% from spring lows - to $28.19(!) (still insanely undervalued though!)
- Hunter Biden to apparently release a memecoin on Wednesday called $LAPTOP, with part of supply airdropped to wallets that lost money on $TRUMP and 30% of supply to be burned if Democrats win the 2028 election
- Also... odds of Democrat sweep in November have risen to 52%
- $PONS, $ZEC, and $ENA all getting lots of positive attention on the TL (link below)
- Copper hits ATH
- Variational still most anticipated airdrop (link below)
- Stacks $STX to launch self-custodial Bitcoin staking
- Biggest bond bear market in US history continues... with $TLT (long-duration US bond ETF) averaging -7.65% per year the last 5 years, while conversely $QQQ (stonks) averaged +13.82% per year during that time
- (Related) 30 year fixed rate mortgages in the US are averaging 6.71% right now, down from high of 7.79% and up from 2.65% in 2021
- Above issue (yields and thus mortgages at record highs - since mortgage rates track long-duration US bond rates) is a very bullish setup for US real estate imho, at least residential (definitely not office) and at least in states people want to move to... As a result I still have significant exposure to $JOE (FL landholding + development company with huge holdings in the Panhandle/Bend section of FL) as my main RE exposure
- Also re: the above... I think the odds on Polymarket re: the Fed raising vs cutting rates are WAY WAY off (and thus asymmetric) and therefore I am seriously considering throwing a bit of money on bets that they somehow actually cut rates by EOY. The payoffs are absolutely insane proportionally and I can still 100% see it happening depending on how things go. Consensus is the opposite though with the bond market pricing in an 88% chance they RAISE by end-of-year...
- Also re: the above... I thought Trump's post on Truth Social over the weekend was quite shocking, where he seemed to openly threaten the Fed... saying (again, directed toward the Fed): "LOWER THE RATE OR I'LL STOP TRADING WITH COUNTRIES WITH WHICH WE HAVE A DEFICIT..." - which is quite startling and perhaps blackpilling to consider the President and Fed are openly at war to this degree... but it seems like Powell and his ilk who are still on the board are refusing to lower rates as Trump (and presumably Warsh) want... very fascinating situation that really brings up a lot of questions about how much control over the Fed the Executive Branch is supposed to have in the US...
- Also lots of talk about security and OpSec after Bold losing all his on-chain funds... tbh I remain a huge fan of just having all your on-chain crypto on a dedicated $200 Chromebook (or several) with multiple handwritten seed phrases cut in half and kept in multiple secure locations. Then if you are managing a defi protocol or something and need to sign all the time create a multi-sig. Or if you're degening on-chain and doing lots of transactions just separate your long-term holdings from that wallet. And if you have serious wealth in crypto diversify between on-chain and off-chain and various chains/counterparties/etc.
Conclusion
That is everything lads!
Remember to get jacked and tan for the $ETH $10k party! 💪
-and lift weights while watching the sun set! see pic below :)
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Crypto + Macro Stuff I'm Looking At Today
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- Tradfi markets closed today for Labor Day
- CPI and PPI inflation data coming out this week
- EIP-8141 may allow Ethereum users to pay for gas with stablecoins by sometime next year (very interesting - link below)
- $QQQ at $718.96
- Oil at $92.72 and lots of attention on crack spreads
- Gold at $4,405.40
- Total crypto market cap at $2.765T
- My beloved $FXN up almost 200% from spring lows - to $28.19(!) (still insanely undervalued though!)
- Hunter Biden to apparently release a memecoin on Wednesday called $LAPTOP, with part of supply airdropped to wallets that lost money on $TRUMP and 30% of supply to be burned if Democrats win the 2028 election
- Also... odds of Democrat sweep in November have risen to 52%
- $PONS, $ZEC, and $ENA all getting lots of positive attention on the TL (link below)
- Copper hits ATH
- Variational still most anticipated airdrop (link below)
- Stacks $STX to launch self-custodial Bitcoin staking
- Biggest bond bear market in US history continues... with $TLT (long-duration US bond ETF) averaging -7.65% per year the last 5 years, while conversely $QQQ (stonks) averaged +13.82% per year during that time
- (Related) 30 year fixed rate mortgages in the US are averaging 6.71% right now, down from high of 7.79% and up from 2.65% in 2021
- Above issue (yields and thus mortgages at record highs - since mortgage rates track long-duration US bond rates) is a very bullish setup for US real estate imho, at least residential (definitely not office) and at least in states people want to move to... As a result I still have significant exposure to $JOE (FL landholding + development company with huge holdings in the Panhandle/Bend section of FL) as my main RE exposure
- Also re: the above... I think the odds on Polymarket re: the Fed raising vs cutting rates are WAY WAY off (and thus asymmetric) and therefore I am seriously considering throwing a bit of money on bets that they somehow actually cut rates by EOY. The payoffs are absolutely insane proportionally and I can still 100% see it happening depending on how things go. Consensus is the opposite though with the bond market pricing in an 88% chance they RAISE by end-of-year...
- Also re: the above... I thought Trump's post on Truth Social over the weekend was quite shocking, where he seemed to openly threaten the Fed... saying (again, directed toward the Fed): "LOWER THE RATE OR I'LL STOP TRADING WITH COUNTRIES WITH WHICH WE HAVE A DEFICIT..." - which is quite startling and perhaps blackpilling to consider the President and Fed are openly at war to this degree... but it seems like Powell and his ilk who are still on the board are refusing to lower rates as Trump (and presumably Warsh) want... very fascinating situation that really brings up a lot of questions about how much control over the Fed the Executive Branch is supposed to have in the US...
- Also lots of talk about security and OpSec after Bold losing all his on-chain funds... tbh I remain a huge fan of just having all your on-chain crypto on a dedicated $200 Chromebook (or several) with multiple handwritten seed phrases cut in half and kept in multiple secure locations. Then if you are managing a defi protocol or something and need to sign all the time create a multi-sig. Or if you're degening on-chain and doing lots of transactions just separate your long-term holdings from that wallet. And if you have serious wealth in crypto diversify between on-chain and off-chain and various chains/counterparties/etc.
Conclusion
That is everything lads!
Remember to get jacked and tan for the $ETH $10k party! 💪
-and lift weights while watching the sun set! see pic below :)
THE STREET: Ripple CEO blasts $11 billion gold transfer
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THE STREET: Ripple CEO blasts $11 billion gold transfer
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Eyes on the Market: Sustained Inflows
Oil led everything. Brent rose 9.27% to $96.54 as US-Iran strikes resumed. BTC added 2.28% to $79,808, ETH 1.62% to $2,490.60, the S&P 0.40% and the Nasdaq 100 0.73%. Waller signals dovish. Polymarket hike odds fell from 51% to 41% on Thursday's remarks. BTC wicked to $82,262 and closed the session up 5.67%. Payrolls reversed it two days later. 162K against 53K consensus took hike odds back to 49%. BTC fell 2.95% and ETH 2.69%. The move is not levered. Aggregate OI is $139.7B, up 3.5% and the highest since mid-January. Coin-denominated BTC OI fell from 762.2K to 669.6K since mid-August, even as BTC moved from $63K to $80K. ETFs took $1.2B, a third straight week above $1B, the first such run since July 2025. BTC drew $986.7M including $730.8M on September 3, the largest day since January 14. BTC ETFs AUM crossed $103.3B, 6.32% of supply. Oil Leads the Week BTC opened Monday at $78,031, hit a high of $82,262 on Thursday and closed Sunday at $79,808. Up 2.28% on the week. ETH gained 1.62% to $2,490.60. Total crypto market cap finished at $2.708T, slightly outperforming BTC as selected alts continue to rally.
Oil saw the largest move, rising 9.27% to $96.54 as the US and Iran conflict intensified during the week. The S&P 500 added 0.40% to 7,728.60 and the Nasdaq 100 gained 0.73% to 29,616. Gold slipped 0.60% to $4,470.50. Events of the Week US-Iran Strikes Resume US-Iran strikes resumed for the first time in roughly a month after the 60-day ceasefire lapsed in mid-August. US forces disabled two Iranian tankers and destroyed a third on September 2, following IRGC ballistic missile fire at a US carrier and destroyer. Iran struck Kuwait with missiles and drones on September 3, escalating to a US Gulf ally, and Israel warned it would cripple Iranian infrastructure. Brent went from $88.32 to $95.15 on Tuesday, then plateaued between $95 and $97 for the rest of the week. Waller Gives Disinflation a Chance Fed Governor Christopher Waller's prepared remarks went out on Thursday 8:30am ET. Inflation is still meaningfully above the 2% goal, he said, but the recent data finally show some signs of disinflation, and if that holds through the next two weeks he would back holding the funds rate at 3.50% to 3.75%. Treasury yields fell to session lows and hike odds on Polymarket dropped from about 51% to about 41%. BTC wicked to $82,262 before settling at $81,704, up 5.67%. Hot Payroll Print August payrolls came in at 162K against 53K consensus, three times the estimate, with unemployment at 4.1% in line. Strongest print since March and the first up-month in five after. Expectations of a hike reversed back up from 41% to 49%. BTC fell 2.95% and ETH 2.69%. Volatility, Positioning and Leverage BVIV is up 5.4%, from 38.9 last week to 41.02. The metric is up 14% from the low of 35.81 that it hit on August 7. Aggregate futures open interest is $139.7B against $135B last issue, up 3.5% and the highest since mid-January. 24-hour volume is $136.4B, up 31%. BTC open interest in coin-denominated terms is the lowest it’s been since March 25. It’s been steadily falling since mid-August from 762.2K BTC to 669.6K BTC as BTC has risen from $63K to $80K. A reflection of how spot driven the recent move has been. Coinglass's 24-hour long/short ratio is 49.04% / 50.96%. Annualized funding on Binance runs BTC near 4.7%, ETH 8.4%, SOL flat to slightly negative and HYPE 5.5%. ZEC funding is roughly -3.65% annualized and ZEC still gained 45% in the past week. The coins that lead are now moving on spot inflows. ETF Flows Continue BTC and ETH ETFs took $1.2B combined, a third consecutive week above $1B. The last stretch of this magnitude was July 2025. BTC: $986.7M. September 3's $730.8M is the largest single day since January 14 and the third largest of 2026, behind January 14 at $840.6M and January 13 at $753.8M. BTC ETF AUM crossed $103.3B, 6.32% of supply. Year to date cumulative flows now sit at -$0.90B, from -$4.74B three weeks ago. Three weeks have erased 81% of the year's outflows. ETH: $215.3M. Flows fell 74% week on week from $815.7M. ETH captured 22% of BTC's dollar flow against 88% the prior week. Cumulative net flows are $13.19B and August closed at $1.84B. This breaks the ETH outperformance pattern we have tracked since late July, and the spot data agrees: ETH gained 1.62% against BTC's 2.28%. First week in a while where ETH lagged on both flow and price.
Key Events for the Week Ahead Tuesday, September 8 US consumer credit (G.19), 3pm ET. Wednesday, September 9 US NFIB small business optimism for August. Thursday, September 10 US PPI for August, 8:30am ET. Europe: ECB rate decision, 8:15am ET. Friday, September 11 US CPI for August, 8:30am ET.
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Eyes on the Market: Sustained Inflows
Oil led everything. Brent rose 9.27% to $96.54 as US-Iran strikes resumed. BTC added 2.28% to $79,808, ETH 1.62% to $2,490.60, the S&P 0.40% and the Nasdaq 100 0.73%.
Waller signals dovish. Polymarket hike odds fell from 51% to 41% on Thursday's remarks. BTC wicked to $82,262 and closed the session up 5.67%.
Payrolls reversed it two days later. 162K against 53K consensus took hike odds back to 49%. BTC fell 2.95% and ETH 2.69%.
The move is not levered. Aggregate OI is $139.7B, up 3.5% and the highest since mid-January. Coin-denominated BTC OI fell from 762.2K to 669.6K since mid-August, even as BTC moved from $63K to $80K.
ETFs took $1.2B, a third straight week above $1B, the first such run since July 2025. BTC drew $986.7M including $730.8M on September 3, the largest day since January 14. BTC ETFs AUM crossed $103.3B, 6.32% of supply.
Oil Leads the Week
BTC opened Monday at $78,031, hit a high of $82,262 on Thursday and closed Sunday at $79,808. Up 2.28% on the week. ETH gained 1.62% to $2,490.60. Total crypto market cap finished at $2.708T, slightly outperforming BTC as selected alts continue to rally.
Oil saw the largest move, rising 9.27% to $96.54 as the US and Iran conflict intensified during the week. The S&P 500 added 0.40% to 7,728.60 and the Nasdaq 100 gained 0.73% to 29,616. Gold slipped 0.60% to $4,470.50.
Events of the Week
US-Iran Strikes Resume
US-Iran strikes resumed for the first time in roughly a month after the 60-day ceasefire lapsed in mid-August. US forces disabled two Iranian tankers and destroyed a third on September 2, following IRGC ballistic missile fire at a US carrier and destroyer. Iran struck Kuwait with missiles and drones on September 3, escalating to a US Gulf ally, and Israel warned it would cripple Iranian infrastructure. Brent went from $88.32 to $95.15 on Tuesday, then plateaued between $95 and $97 for the rest of the week.
Waller Gives Disinflation a Chance
Fed Governor Christopher Waller's prepared remarks went out on Thursday 8:30am ET. Inflation is still meaningfully above the 2% goal, he said, but the recent data finally show some signs of disinflation, and if that holds through the next two weeks he would back holding the funds rate at 3.50% to 3.75%. Treasury yields fell to session lows and hike odds on Polymarket dropped from about 51% to about 41%. BTC wicked to $82,262 before settling at $81,704, up 5.67%.
Hot Payroll Print
August payrolls came in at 162K against 53K consensus, three times the estimate, with unemployment at 4.1% in line. Strongest print since March and the first up-month in five after. Expectations of a hike reversed back up from 41% to 49%. BTC fell 2.95% and ETH 2.69%.
Volatility, Positioning and Leverage
BVIV is up 5.4%, from 38.9 last week to 41.02. The metric is up 14% from the low of 35.81 that it hit on August 7.
Aggregate futures open interest is $139.7B against $135B last issue, up 3.5% and the highest since mid-January. 24-hour volume is $136.4B, up 31%. BTC open interest in coin-denominated terms is the lowest it’s been since March 25. It’s been steadily falling since mid-August from 762.2K BTC to 669.6K BTC as BTC has risen from $63K to $80K. A reflection of how spot driven the recent move has been.
Coinglass's 24-hour long/short ratio is 49.04% / 50.96%. Annualized funding on Binance runs BTC near 4.7%, ETH 8.4%, SOL flat to slightly negative and HYPE 5.5%. ZEC funding is roughly -3.65% annualized and ZEC still gained 45% in the past week. The coins that lead are now moving on spot inflows.
ETF Flows Continue
BTC and ETH ETFs took $1.2B combined, a third consecutive week above $1B. The last stretch of this magnitude was July 2025.
BTC: $986.7M. September 3's $730.8M is the largest single day since January 14 and the third largest of 2026, behind January 14 at $840.6M and January 13 at $753.8M. BTC ETF AUM crossed $103.3B, 6.32% of supply. Year to date cumulative flows now sit at -$0.90B, from -$4.74B three weeks ago. Three weeks have erased 81% of the year's outflows.
ETH: $215.3M. Flows fell 74% week on week from $815.7M. ETH captured 22% of BTC's dollar flow against 88% the prior week. Cumulative net flows are $13.19B and August closed at $1.84B. This breaks the ETH outperformance pattern we have tracked since late July, and the spot data agrees: ETH gained 1.62% against BTC's 2.28%. First week in a while where ETH lagged on both flow and price.
Key Events for the Week Ahead
Tuesday, September 8
US consumer credit (G.19), 3pm ET.
Wednesday, September 9
US NFIB small business optimism for August.
Thursday, September 10
US PPI for August, 8:30am ET.
Europe: ECB rate decision, 8:15am ET.
Friday, September 11
US CPI for August, 8:30am ET.
In a Bitcoin Asia fireside chat published by Bitcoin Magazine on Aug. 28, 2026, Binance founder CZ @cz_binance said that if Bitcoin gradually becomes a strategic reserve asset for countries, its ultimate importance will likely surpass gold's.
The real resistance today is not the asset itself, he argued, but the mature valuation, custody and reserve systems countries have already built around gold, and for large economies completing such a switch typically takes many years. Bitcoin nonetheless holds the stronger long-term advantage over gold, CZ said, with a single low-probability exception: a stronger digital asset emerging to replace it before Bitcoin closes the gap, which he sees as unlikely for now.