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  • $11B Bitcoin whale surpasses SharpLink with $4B Ethereum bet
    Cointelegraph.com - 09:38 Sep 01, 2025
    A mysterious mega-whale is rotating billions from Bitcoin into Ether, signaling a broader shift as corporate and institutional investors boost ETH holdings. A Bitcoin whale has been accumulating billions of dollars’ worth of Ether, surpassing the second-largest corporate treasury firm, signaling a growing rotation among large investors seeking cryptocurrencies with more upside potential. A Bitcoin whale worth over $11 billion sold another $215 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC) to buy $216 million worth of spot Ether (ETH) on the decentralized exchange Hyperliquid. Following the latest buy, the whale now holds 886,371 Ether worth more than $4 billion, Lookonchain reported on Monday in an X post. Read more
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  • BTC vs. 'very bearish' gold breakout: 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week
    Cointelegraph.com - 09:19 Sep 01, 2025
    Bitcoin is overshadowed by gold again in 2025 as BTC price action sees new multi-week lows to start a traditionally "red" September. Bitcoin (BTC) starts the weakest month of the year with new local lows and predictions of more BTC price downside. Bitcoin drops to $107,270 after the weekly open before rebounding as volatility ramps up. The US Labor Day holiday keeps traders guessing over how markets will react to fresh US tariff chaos. Read more
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  • Crypto funds see $2.5B inflows despite falling BTC, ETH prices
    Cointelegraph.com - 09:15 Sep 01, 2025
    Crypto ETPs logged nearly $2.5 billion in inflows last week, reversing prior outflows, as investors poured into Ether, Bitcoin, Solana and XRP products. Cryptocurrency investment products attracted renewed inflows last week, offsetting the prior week’s $1.4 billion outflows. Crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) logged $2.48 billion in inflows last week, data from CoinShares showed Monday. Despite inflows, Bitcoin (BTC) struggled in terms of market price, slipping under $108,000 after briefly trading above $113,000 earlier in the week, according to CoinGecko data. Read more
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  • Trump-backed WLFI to unlock 24.6B tokens at launch
    Cointelegraph.com - 09:03 Sep 01, 2025
    World Liberty Financial published a blog post saying that the initial circulating supply for WLFI is 24.6 billion tokens. Update Sept. 1, 12:40 pm UTC: This article has been updated to add information from a WLFI blog post on Medium. World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform backed by the Trump family, will unlock 24.6 billion WLFI tokens at launch, according to data confirmed by CoinMarketCap.  On Monday, WLFI clarified that the initial circulating supply for its token will be 24.6 billion tokens. Read more
  • Bitcoin valuation indicator hints at macro top as ‘death cross’ appears
    Cointelegraph.com - 08:48 Sep 01, 2025
    Bitcoin’s MVRV metric signals weaker momentum as BTC price shows signs of exhaustion and a potential cycle top, yet not all indicators are bearish. Key takeaways: Bitcoin's MVRV death cross signals bearish momentum, historically preceding big price corrections. However, the MVRV Z-Score remains well below historical peak levels. Read more
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  • Raoul Pal sees crypto users hitting a whopping 4B by 2030
    Cointelegraph.com - 06:46 Sep 01, 2025
    Real Vision CEO Raoul Pal also predicted that total crypto market capitalization could reach $100 trillion within the next decade. The total number of crypto users could hit the 4 billion mark by 2030, according to former hedge fund manager and crypto bull Raoul Pal. In an X post on Sunday, Pal shared data comparing the adoption rate of crypto users to internet users after each innovation hit 5 million users. Pal did this by looking at the number of crypto wallets compared to the number of IP addresses. Read more
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  • 99% favor Solana Alpenglow upgrade for 150ms finality, so far
    Cointelegraph.com - 01:41 Sep 01, 2025
    Solana’s Alpenglow protocol looks set to pass, with over 99% of cast votes in favor of the proposal that seeks to bring Solana’s transaction finality in line with Google search speeds. Solana’s Alpenglow proposal, which seeks to slash the blockchain’s transaction finality to around 150 milliseconds, is expected to proceed after 99% have voted in support of it, with just two days left for voting.  The Alpenglow consensus protocol was unveiled in May by Anza — a Solana development firm spun out of Solana Labs — and has been described by ecosystem members as the biggest protocol upgrade in Solana’s history.  It would slash the current finality from 12.8 seconds to just 150 milliseconds, a near 100-fold speed increase that could put it on par with current internet infrastructure. Read more
  • Businesses are absorbing Bitcoin 4x faster than it is mined: Report
    Cointelegraph.com - 22:30 Aug 31, 2025
    Businesses are outstripping miner output several times over, potentially triggering a supply shock if exchange reserves continue to dwindle. Private businesses and public companies are absorbing Bitcoin (BTC) nearly four times faster than the rate at which miners are producing new coins, according to Bitcoin financial services company River. These businesses included publicly traded Bitcoin treasury companies and conventional or private businesses, which collectively purchased 1,755 BTC per day on average in 2025, according to River. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and other investment vehicles also bought an additional 1,430 BTC per day on average in 2025, and governments purchased about 39 BTC per day, River’s data shows. Read more
  • AI will make stocks obsolete, driving investors to Bitcoin: Analyst
    Cointelegraph.com - 21:04 Aug 31, 2025
    Artificial intelligence will speed up innovation exponentially, making slow-moving public companies a poor investment vehicle in the future. Bitcoin (BTC) will be a better investment than stocks in the coming decades due to artificial intelligence speeding up innovation cycles, making public companies inefficient investment vehicles, analyst and investor Jordi Visser predicted. “If the innovation cycle is now sped up to weeks, we are in a video game where your company never hits escape velocity, and in that world, how do you invest? You don't invest, you trade,” Visser told Anthony Pompliano on Saturday. He also said: I think you want to start shorting ideas, and you want to be long beliefs,” Visser continued, adding that AI may compress what normally would have taken 100 years to accomplish in only five years.  Read more
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  • Ether party won’t stop as RWAs, TradFi cement it as the best institutional play
    Cointelegraph.com - 20:30 Aug 31, 2025
    Ethereum’s dominance in stablecoins and real-world assets shifted ETH from a speculative play to a major platform for institutional finance. Key takeaways: The stablecoin market cap has doubled to $280 billion since 2023, with forecasts hitting $2 trillion by 2028; over half of it already runs on Ethereum. Real-world assets onchain have grown 413% since early 2023 to $26.7 billion, with BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and others leading the charge on Ethereum. Read more
  • Venture capital game has changed due to market maturation — VC exec
    Cointelegraph.com - 18:29 Aug 31, 2025
    Venture capital firms are now investing in established projects with clear and predictable revenue generation models over early-stage tech. Venture capital (VC) firms have become much more selective with the crypto projects they invest in, representing a shift from the previous cycle due to market maturation, according to Eva Oberholzer, the chief investment officer at VC firm Ajna Capital.  “It's harder because we have reached a different stage in crypto, similar to every cycle we have seen for other technologies in the past,” Oberholzer told Cointelegraph. She added that market maturation has slowed down pre-seed investing, as VCs pivot their attention to established projects with clear business models. Oberholzer said: Read more
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  • Bitcoin bull market will be 'over' if $100K BTC price is lost — Trader
    Cointelegraph.com - 17:32 Aug 31, 2025
    Bitcoin faces the support retest that will decide the fate of its latest bull market, analysis says — can bullish RSI divergences save the day? Key points: Bitcoin bulls can kiss goodbye to the entire bull market if they lose $100,000 support, a new forecast predicts. BTC price action faces a battle of RSI signals as bullish and bearish divergences compete. Read more
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  • Bitcoin no longer plays gold’s game
    Cointelegraph.com - 13:30 Aug 31, 2025
    Bitcoin is evolving from digital gold to productive capital as BTC now earns native yield, while holders maintain custody and decentralization. Opinion by: Armando Aguilar, head of capital formation and growth at TeraHash Bitcoin was treated as a purely inert asset for years: a decentralized vault, economically passive despite its fixed issuance schedule. Yet more than $7 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC) already earns native, onchain yield via major protocols — that premise is breaking down.  Gold’s ~$23-trillion market cap mostly sits idle. Bitcoin, by contrast, now earns onchain, while holders keep custody. As new layers unlock returns, Bitcoin crosses a structural threshold: from merely passive to productively scarce. Read more
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  • Bitcoin faces a fee crisis that threatens network security: Can BTCfi help?
    Cointelegraph.com - 12:42 Aug 31, 2025
    Bitcoin’s daily transaction fees have dropped over 80% since April 2024, raising concerns about long-term network security. BTCfi could offer a way out. Daily transaction fees on the Bitcoin network have collapsed by more than 80% since April, according to a report from Galaxy Digital. As of August 2025, nearly 15% of blocks are “free,” meaning they’re being mined with minimal or no transaction fees, just one satoshi per virtual byte or less. Lower Bitcoin (BTC) transaction fees benefit users but reduce miners’ revenue, raising concerns about the sustainability of the network’s long-term security model. Bitcoin’s incentive structure relies on miners being compensated for their work through block rewards and transaction fees. But with the April 2024 halving cutting rewards to 3.125 BTC per block, miners are leaning heavily on the fee market, and it’s drying up. Read more
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  • ETH transactions hit year high, $2.7B BTC whale meltdown: August in charts
    Cointelegraph.com - 12:00 Aug 31, 2025
    Bitcoin is sluggish at the end of the month, but that didn’t stop Strategy and Metaplanet from buying over 5,000 BTC in August. The Ethereum network is seeing bullish signals, with the network recording a year high of 1.8 million transactions this month. More Ether is being locked into the network as American regulators issue guidance and definitions for staking.  Bitcoin (BTC) is in a slump, meanwhile, with the currency trading down over 5% over the last 30 days. A $2.7-billion whale trade sparked a flash crash on Aug. 24. Bitcoin treasury countries continue to issue debt to fund their major Bitcoin purchases. In August, Strategy and Metaplanet picked up 5,370 BTC between the two of them. Read more
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  • Will Bitcoin price drop in September?
    Cointelegraph.com - 10:11 Aug 31, 2025
    Bitcoin is in position for a rebound toward $124,500 in September, even as history brands the month as one of its weakest. Key takeaways: Bitcoin may avoid a big September drop and could aim for new highs soon. A weaker dollar and Fed rate cuts can be significant tailwinds for BTC price. Read more
  • California governor teases ‘Trump Corruption Coin’ in jab at MAGA memecoins
    Cointelegraph.com - 09:31 Aug 31, 2025
    California Governor Gavin Newsom says his planned memecoin is meant to expose the absurdity of Trump’s crypto ventures. California Governor Gavin Newsom has teased plans to launch a “Trump Corruption Coin” as a direct response to Donald Trump’s controversial involvement in crypto, especially through memecoins. Speaking on the “Pivot” podcast, Newsom, a Democrat, said the planned memecoin, named explicitly after Trump’s alleged scandals, is part of his broader “Campaign for Democracy” initiative, with proceeds from the coin going toward redistricting efforts and voter outreach. “We’re about to put a meme coin out,” Newsom said during the interview. “And you know what, Donald Trump? We’ll see how well your coin does versus our coin.” When asked if it would be called a “Gavin Coin,” the governor replied: “No, it’s Trump Corruption Coin.” Read more
  • Metaplanet’s Bitcoin strategy faces fundraising crunch as stock sinks: Report
    Cointelegraph.com - 06:50 Aug 31, 2025
    Metaplanet’s stock has plunged 54% since mid-June, forcing the Tokyo-listed firm to seek alternative fundraising as its share-based “flywheel” falters. Metaplanet, the Tokyo-listed firm aggressively accumulating Bitcoin, is facing mounting pressure as its share price tumbles, threatening the fundraising model it has used to build one of the largest corporate Bitcoin treasuries globally. The company’s stock has dropped 54% since mid-June, despite Bitcoin (BTC) gaining around 2% during the same period. The decline has put its capital-raising “flywheel” under stress, a mechanism dependent on rising share prices to unlock funding through MS warrants issued to Evo Fund, its key investor. With shares down sharply, exercising these warrants is no longer attractive for Evo, squeezing Metaplanet’s liquidity and slowing its Bitcoin acquisition strategy, according to a Sunday report by Bloomberg. Read more
  • Crypto ‘buy the dip’ calls are spiking, which may signal more downside
    Cointelegraph.com - 06:12 Aug 31, 2025
    Buy the dip mentions on social media are climbing as Bitcoin falls, which could be a sign the market hasn’t bottomed yet, Santiment says. The rising number of “buy the dip” calls on social media following Bitcoin’s 5% decline over the past week could signal more downside ahead for the crypto market, sentiment platform Santiment says. “Clearly, overall, in the markets, people are getting antsy and trying to find some entry spots now that prices have cooled down a bit,” Santiment analyst Brian Quinlivan said in a video published on YouTube on Saturday. Santiment said in a separate report published on the same day that social media mentions of “buy the dip” have increased significantly amid the crypto market downturn, which may be a warning sign for the market. Read more
  • Skepticism will dog Bitcoin even at $10M price, says analyst
    Cointelegraph.com - 03:48 Aug 31, 2025
    A Bitcoin adviser says Bitcoin could reach as high as $10 million, and people will still be saying, “It can’t go any higher, right?” Skepticism over Bitcoin’s ability to rise further has followed the asset for years, and will likely continue even if the price reaches into the millions, according to a Bitcoin adviser.  “I think it’s going to be that way for a very long time,” The Bitcoin Adviser’s Luke Broyles told Natalie Brunell on the Coin Stories podcast on Friday. “I think Bitcoin will be at $5 million, $10 million or more, and people will still be saying, Yeah, well it’s 8% of world assets now. It can’t go any higher, right?” he added. Read more

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