U.S. August PPI YoY came in at 2.6% and MoM at –0.1%. This reflected a material cooling of wholesale inflation, with markets rallying.
Bitcoin pushed to $114,000 after the print, crossing the decisive $113,000 level, while spot BTC ETFs recorded $757 million net inflows on Sept 10 (third straight day).
Ethereum spot ETFs posted $172 million in inflows yesterday while Bitmine received 46,255 ETH ($201 million), taking its holdings to 2,126,018 ETH ($9.24 billion).
Futures open interest jumped to 84.86 billion for BTC, as liquidations eased to 37.96 million, with shorts bearing the brunt.
CPI tomorrow is the near-term event risk; a second downbeat print would likely accelerate the current risk-on move.
The shift follows a 2025 edition that drew more than 11,000 attendees from 90 countries, and adds closed-door tokenization roundtables to a festival previously built around a single unified stage.
The exchange is enforcing Brussels' sanctions list to the letter, down to the exact spelling of each entity's name — the same pattern it followed with Iran-linked platforms two weeks earlier
After weeks of selling BTC to fund preferred dividends, Strategy raised $334 million through MSTR share sales and made no bitcoin purchases or sales at all — a pause inside a $5 billion monetization program the company approved just weeks earlier
Anchorpoint's HKDAP entered phase-one Beta Access on August 12 with HashKey and OSL as distributors — a controlled first step for the token Blockhead called a parallel, tightly controlled track rather than an open market
