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Short-term-holder whales’ unrealised profit reached a record US$9.07 billion (AU$12.61 billion) on September 4, according to CryptoQuant, the highest since its tracking began in 2016. The reading eased to US$7.51 billion (AU$10.44 billion) by September 5 but still ranked among the five highest on record, all set in the past two weeks. CryptoQuant said the cohort is historically the quickest to take profit, leaving a record paper gain that could pressure Bitcoin’s floor if the price turns. Short-term Bitcoin holders with whale-sized wallets were sitting on a record US$9.07 billion (AU$12.61 billion) in unrealised profit on September 4, according to…

AUSTRAC cancelled, suspended or refused to renew the registrations of 45 remittance and virtual asset service providers over the past year, removing them from its registers. The regulator cancelled GetCoins’ registration alongside the National Anti-Scam Centre, saying the crypto firm was allegedly exploited by organised investment scams. CEO Brendan Thomas said businesses with cancelled registrations can no longer operate, and some individuals behind them were referred to law enforcement in Australia and overseas. Australia’s financial crime regulator AUSTRAC has cancelled, suspended or refused to renew the registrations of 45 remittance and virtual asset service providers over the past year, removing…

The crypto industry is launching a seven-figure national advertising campaign to rescue the CLARITY Act ahead of a crucial Senate vote next week.The Senate is scheduled to vote Sept. 15 on whether to invoke cloture on a motion to proceed to the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, a procedural hurdle requiring 60 votes.The measure would establish federal rules for digital-asset markets and divide oversight between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The vote would only open debate, leaving lawmakers to clear additional procedural steps before final passage.Yet with a week remaining, senators involved…

Strategy doubled the size of its preferred-stock repurchase program to $2 billion Tuesday as Michael Saylor’s Sept. 8 recovery benchmark arrived with STRC still short of its $100 stated value.The board’s decision extends a campaign that was approaching the limits of its original $1 billion authorization after seven weeks of increasingly large purchases.Data from STRC.live showed that STRC entered Tuesday around $97 to $98, leaving the variable-rate preferred roughly 2% below the level Strategy has spent much of the summer trying to restore.Sept. 8 had emerged as an informal milestone after Saylor compared STRC’s latest recovery with the roughly 70…

Metaplanet’s Bitcoin expansion has exposed an executive compensation windfall that shareholders want the company to unwind.The dispute centers on an executive options pool that expanded as the Tokyo-listed company repeatedly issued equity to finance its Bitcoin purchases.Shareholders are now demanding the cancellation of roughly 273 million potential shares added to management’s compensation package during that expansion.Bitcoin fundraising swelled the executive pay poolThe controversy centers on Metaplanet’s Series 10 stock acquisition rights. Shareholders approved the plan in early 2023, before the company’s pivot to digital assets, and it initially covered 46 million shares.The plan also contained an adjustment mechanism designed to…

A Sept. 2, 2026 analysis by New York Fed researchers shows how a few large reserve portfolios can lower the global dollar share without a broad retreat from dollars. For investors assessing future sovereign demand for Bitcoin, the distinction is between a changing average and an investment decision.Linda S. Goldberg, Oliver Hannaoui and Sneha Parthasarathy report that the dollar share of global official foreign-exchange reserves fell from 64% at year-end 2015 to 56% at year-end 2025, using IMF COFER data.Their country-level evidence points to concentrated decisions and changes in reserve sizes.Countries can change the currency mix of their portfolios, the…

Strategy’s $250 Bitcoin-themed Air Jordans have sold out, extending Michael Saylor’s treasury brand from Wall Street into consumer culture.The shoes, launched Sept. 4 through Strategy’s online store, were sold out by Sept. 8, with all nine advertised sizes listed as unavailable. The company did not disclose how many pairs it offered or when inventory ran out.The release pushes Strategy’s Bitcoin identity beyond its balance sheet and securities business into merchandise aimed directly at consumers.The Saylor-led company holds 845,050 BTC, equivalent to about 4.02% of Bitcoin’s fixed 21 million supply, making its association with the asset central to both its financial…

Bitcoin’s derivatives market is turning more bullish even as spot traders remain reluctant to chase another move above $80,000.Glassnode’s latest Market Pulse showed demand shifting toward call options while US spot Bitcoin ETF inflows accelerated. Yet aggressive selling still outweighed buying on centralized exchanges, leaving the market without the broad participation that would make another breakout more convincing.Data from CryptoSlate showed Bitcoin traded around $78,800 on Tuesday after failing to sustain its latest move above $80,000. This puts the divergence between speculative positioning and actual spot demand back in focus.Options traders start paying for upsideThe clearest change came in Bitcoin’s…

Bitcoin’s next macro catalyst may weaken the dollar without delivering the easier money bulls need.The European Central Bank’s Sept. 10 policy decision could strengthen the euro and push the dollar index lower, potentially offering relief to Bitcoin after its latest slide below $80,000. But a currency-driven drop in DXY would provide limited evidence that the financing conditions restraining risk assets have actually improved.Data from CryptoSlate showed that Bitcoin was trading around $78,800, down roughly 1% over 24 hours, after stronger US labor data revived expectations that interest rates could remain elevated.That leaves Thursday’s ECB decision as the next major macro…

An AI-payment hub on the XRP Ledger has recorded almost 4.5 million transactions while settling only a few thousand XRP.Near press time, the XRPL AI Hub, a dashboard run by t54 labs, showed 4,491,820 all-time transactions alongside cumulative settlements of 5,836.71 XRP and 4,125.29 RLUSD, Ripple’s dollar stablecoin. The figures cover the hub’s tracked activity, not all payments on the ledger.For XRP holders, the distinction is between a service processing frequent payments and one generating substantial demand to buy and hold the token. The hub’s activity establishes the former; its counters alone cannot establish the latter.XRP traded around $1.40 on…