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Bitcoin rose to just shy of $86,950 on Monday, within about $500 of its eight-month high, then fell below $86,000, its second stalled rally in a week. Soft U.S. jobs data drove the move, and clearing the high looks to need both lower Treasury yields and leveraged buyers willing to keep paying to wait.
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Bitcoin open interest rose $1.5 billion to $22.4 billion as the price climbed 3.4% past $86,000 before a US jobs report forecast at 90,000. Funding costs show the leverage plainly, but the claim that traders are leaving stablecoins rests on a market-share figure that any rally pushes down.
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Kalshi will end its volume rebate on or after October 13 as the CFTC reportedly reviews over $5 billion in repeated ether perpetual trades. Kalshi says paid market makers produced those prints, leaving investors at a $40 billion valuation to judge how much liquidity was bought.
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Weekly meme coin volume on Robinhood's layer-2 rose to $3.5bn in late August, and the Solana base that figure is measured against sat near $42bn in both weeks, so the gain is share taken, not a market growing.
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Reports say X is weighing USDC for creator rewards. Nothing is committed, but Meta already pays some creators in USDC, which tells you what stablecoins are now actually for.
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Huntress says a researcher targeted after Black Hat and Def Con was sent a Google Doc that rendered an Apps Script sidebar with ClickFix instructions. The lure arrived by DM, not email.
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More than 99% of Robinhood Chain's volume is memecoin trading, while tokenized equities on it sat at $10.68 million in July. That gap is the number to watch.
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