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📄 Crypto Watchlist for this week: ➡️$SOL - SOL Strategies will become the first Solana treasury company listed on Nasdaq on Sept. 9 ➡️$RESOLV - Resolv S2 points program ends on Sept 9 ➡️$ENA - StablecoinX will start buying $5m-$10m worth of ENA per day ➡️$LINEA - Linea's TGE will happen on Sept. 10 ➡️$HOME - DeFi App will announce a "1000 bonus HOME for everyone" campaign next week ➡️$DOT - Polkadot will have a big product launch tomorrow (more details about this haven't been revealed yet) ➡️$DOGE - The first Dogecoin ETF fund is rumored to launch in the US as early as next week ➡️$S - 5.02% of Sonic's S token supply will be unlocked on Sept. 9 ➡️Falcon - Falcon Finance will make a big announcement in collaboration with WorldLibertyFi soon ➡️Macro events - US CPI data will be released on Sept. 11

✨ Crypto Institutional Highlights • Bitcoin ETFs Approach Gold Spot Bitcoin ETFs have reached $160B AUM, closing in on gold ETFs at ~$180B. The growth is fueled by younger investors seeking higher-return assets. • U.S. Bank Resumes Custody Services U.S. Bancorp has relaunched Bitcoin custody for institutional clients after a three-year pause. NYDIG will serve as sub-custodian while U.S. Bank manages client relations, expanding institutional infrastructure. • Global Adoption Rising The 2025 Chainalysis Global Adoption Index shows 49% growth in North America. India, the U.S., and Pakistan lead globally in crypto adoption. Insight: Bitcoin is narrowing the gap with gold as an investment vehicle, while traditional banks re-entering custody services signal greater institutional legitimacy. Simultaneously, adoption is accelerating worldwide, bridging both developed and emerging markets.

🐋 Whale drains $AAVE from exchanges One address has been steadily pulling $AAVE into self-custody, showing large-scale conviction away from CEX liquidity. Over the past week, the wallet has cleared funds from Binance, Kraken, Bybit, OKX, and Gate. ➡️ 25,097 $AAVE ($7.9M) withdrawn in the last few hours ➡️ 167,451 $AAVE ($53.6M) withdrawn over the past week ➡️ Activity spread across multiple major exchanges Whales don’t move size like this without a reason. Whether for long-term holding or a DeFi play, the effect is the same - less liquid supply on the open market.

📈 Hyperliquid dominates August revenues Hyperliquid pulled in over $106M last month, leading all token-backed onchain apps by a wide margin. ➡️ Ethena followed with $60.3M ➡️ PumpFun at $46.1M ➡️ Jupiter and Sky trailed far behind To put it in perspective: Ethena and PumpFun combined made about the same as Hyperliquid alone. A clear sign of $HYPE’s current strength and market momentum.

📊 TPO inefficiencies: where price moves fast Fast vertical moves leave thin auctions behind. On TPO these show up as single prints - rows with little to no overlap. Think of them as low-liquidity corridors that price can travel through quickly later. ➡️ Mark single print zones from recent sessions. They often act like air pockets until fully traded. ➡️ When price re-enters the zone, expect speed and low friction. Targets are usually the opposite edge of the zone. ➡️ Look for confluence with gaps, imbalance candles, or news. The more overlap, the cleaner the move. ➡️ Use VAH, VAL, and POC as anchors for entries and invalidation. Avoid taking fresh entries in the middle of the zone. ➡️ If the zone gets filled and value builds, the “inefficiency” is gone. Treat it as normal auction again. TPO does not tell you direction. It tells you where movement can accelerate. Use these zones for context, plan the path of least resistance, and let the market do the heavy lifting.

Summary of the day, September 3 🇺🇸 The SEC and CFTC have, for the first time, allowed the trading of "individual crypto tokens" on licensed American exchanges. 🌕 The World Gold Council (WGC) is launching a pilot digital gold in the format of pooled gold interests (PGIs) — fractional ownership of physical bars stored in trust accounts, in 2026. 🏆 Russia and Ukraine have again entered the TOP-10 of the global cryptocurrency adoption index Chainalysis for 2025, ranking 10th and 8th respectively. 🤖 The valuation of AI company Anthropic skyrocketed to $183 billion after a new investment round. 💎 The company AlphaTON Capital is raising $100,000,000 to purchase TON for its balance sheet. 🇺🇦 The Ukrainian Parliament has voted in the first reading to legalize the virtual asset market and to set the rules for their taxation. 🤖 ChatGPT is transmitting all requests in Russian to the Pentagon — Deputy Chairman of the Public Chamber of Moscow. 🇷🇺 Nornickel, the world’s largest producer of nickel and palladium, is considering the possibility of monetizing its resources through token issuance. 🪙 The queue for Ethereum validators has reached a two-year high — over 860,000 ETH (around $3.7 billion) are currently waiting to be staked. 🚓 In Irkutsk, police and energy specialists discovered an illegal mining farm consisting of 21 devices just 20 meters from residential homes. 🏎 Robots, supercomputers, and Elon Musk's unfulfilled promises. 📊 The monthly spot trading volume on cryptocurrency exchanges in August reached $1.86 trillion — the highest figure since January 2025. 🇺🇸 The US Federal Reserve will hold a conference dedicated to stablecoins and tokenization.

💠 Ethena prepares fee switch activation Ethena’s $USDe supply surged 42% in the past month to an all-time high of $12.43B, with record August revenues of $61M. ➡️ Two of three conditions for the fee switch are already met: ➡️ $USDe supply above $6B ➡️ Protocol revenue above $250M ➡️ The last milestone is $USDe integration on 4 of the top 5 derivatives exchanges Once triggered, the fee switch will allow $ENA holders to share protocol revenues for the first time. A key shift from growth mode to value accrual.

🐋 Dumb whale, smart market In 2014 a whale dumped 30,000 BTC on Bitstamp at $300, well below the $330 spot price elsewhere. Panic hit, price briefly crashed to $275, but the market absorbed it and kept moving higher. ➡️ Back then $9M was huge relative to thin liquidity, a single order could move the whole market ➡️ The dump became known as the “bear whale,” a symbol of short-sighted selling ➡️ Buyers who stepped in at $275 captured one of the cleanest asymmetric trades in Bitcoin’s history ➡️ Those same coins would be worth more than $3B today Now we’re watching a similar show. Another whale is offloading close to 100,000 BTC in the open, clumsily, even rotating part of it into ETH. Around half is already sold. When supply like this clears, history suggests the market doesn’t follow the whale, it buries him.

JUST IN: The SEC and CFTC are set to enable the trading of specific spot crypto asset products on registered exchanges.

JUST IN: Donald Trump claims that removing tariffs could harm the stock market, suggesting that the market relies on tariffs to avoid the risk of becoming a third world country.

📊 ETH options whipsaw Last week showed how quickly sentiment can swing in derivatives. ➡️ Aug 22: upside bias as calls got bid, with 1w skew at -7% ➡️ Aug 25: shift into defense as puts gained demand, with 1w skew at +4% ➡️ Aug 28: back to neutral, with skews flattening across tenors In plain terms, traders flipped ETH risk pricing from bullish to bearish and then to balanced in less than a week. That speed highlights how fragile conviction is right now. In this kind of environment, option markets are a compass, they show you not where price is, but where traders are afraid it might go next.

JUST IN: Bitcoin rises above $111,000.

🔽One trader’s $WLFI FOMO spiral This wallet closed its $WLFI long with a $915K profit. A clean exit. Then FOMO hit. He jumped back in with 3x leverage. Now he’s sitting on a $930K unrealized loss. In bull markets, the hardest trade is often to do nothing.

JUST IN: Today, Trump's cryptocurrency advisor David Bailey claimed that the current BTC value isn't at $150,000 due to two major investors. He mentioned that after both are dealt with (one is already down, and the other is halfway), the value will only increase.

Trading crypto is easy. You only have to endure extreme volatility, survive scams, protect the downside, take profits, but let winners run, work around the clock, do the opposite of what your emotions tell you to do, withstand enormous pain, and explain to your wife why you’re betting your savings on a dog coin.

💰Justin Sun unlocks $178M in WLFI Justin Sun received his 20% unlock of $WLFI, worth $178.24M. In total, his WLFI holdings now stand at $891.2M. Sun stated he has no plans to sell the tokens anytime soon, a signal meant to calm the market around one of the most watched positions in the ecosystem.

🔎 Crypto Snapshot • Market Overview – Total crypto market cap: $3.87T (–0.65% 24h) – Bitcoin dominance: 56.0% – Stablecoins share: $287B (~7.4%) • Staking & DeFi Metrics – Over $360B in assets currently staked, with yields ranging 4%–15% across protocols – DeFi lending apps control 59.8% of crypto-backed borrowing, up from 54.6% in Q1 – Crypto-collateralized lending grew 27.4% QoQ to $53B • Institutional Allocation – 59% of institutional investors plan to allocate >5% of AUM to digital assets in 2025, highlighting rising mainstream adoption Insight: Despite a slight dip in market cap, staking participation and DeFi lending activity remain robust. With institutions preparing to expand allocations, digital assets continue to integrate deeper into global financial markets.

📈 Gold vs Bitcoin divergence Gold and Bitcoin have been moving almost tick for tick for the past three years. Both seen as hedges against fiat debasement, both reacting to liquidity. Now the correlation has broken. Gold is making new highs while Bitcoin is dumping. ➡️ Historically, such divergences don’t last long ➡️ Either Gold is leading a macro bid, or Bitcoin is flashing a warning ➡️ The odds favor Gold - it rarely “lies” in these setups A resolution is coming. When it snaps back, it won’t be quiet.

Time doesn’t care if you’re scared. It keeps moving — with or without you.