562 Million in Crypto Longs Fell on a PPI Print That Matched Forecast
August wholesale prices rose 0.4 percent, right on forecast, but the 5.4 percent annual PPI headline drove 562 million dollars in crypto liquidations.
August wholesale prices rose 0.4 percent, right on forecast, but the 5.4 percent annual PPI headline drove 562 million dollars in crypto liquidations.
Traders now put the odds of a September Fed rate hike near 58 percent, yet Bitcoin ran up 25 percent on the week and still held well above 80,000 dollars.
A September SEC order rewired Nasdaq's crypto ETF listing rules, letting each fund hold up to 15 percent of net asset value in assets that do not qualify.
Scott Bessent bet stablecoins would become a big new buyer of US Treasuries. Supply has slipped to a six-month low as the GENIUS Act sends yield elsewhere.
US spot Bitcoin ETFs booked $3.52 billion in August, their best month of 2026, yet 2026 net flows stay negative and most asset growth is price, not cash.
Bitcoin ETFs shed $201.9 million on August 28 and ended a nine-day run. The same session, Ethereum ETFs added $102 million and reached day ten.
Fed Chair Warsh turned hawkish at Jackson Hole. September rate-hike odds jumped toward 60%, and crypto liquidations hit $487M in a single day.
Bitcoin cleared $80,000 in a 27% August run, but over $4 billion in short liquidations did the buying, and the Treasury buyback starts September 9.
Hyperliquid unlocks 14.18 million HYPE on August 29, about $1.2 billion. Its Assistance Fund buyback purchases near 540,000 tokens a month at current fees.
The debasement trade is back after two weeks of gains, but gold rose 37 percent this year while bitcoin fell 28 percent. A look at the split.
Crypto card spending reached $759 million in July, but three programs ran most of it and USDC quietly overtook USDT at the point of sale.
Solana ETF inflows jumped 70x to their best week since May, then got the credit for a 26% rally that a market-wide short squeeze actually drove.
Grayscale's Zcash ETF filing sets a 2.5% fee, ten times a spot Bitcoin fund. DCG could vote 44% of the trust, which spent 700 days below NAV.
A single Binance minute traded $1.26 billion and $3 billion in shorts got wiped. The Bitcoin rally looks more like a squeeze than a bottom.
A proposal to move 546.9 million OP from user airdrops to a fund the Optimism Foundation controls was failing. One paid delegate cast the deciding vote.
LayerZero's August 20 ZRO unlock sent 24 of its 25.7 million tokens to insiders. The community's share of the float keeps sliding lower.
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