Bitcoin briefly crossed $87,000 on Oct. 2 after US employers added just 29,000 jobs in September against about 90,000 expected. Traders added roughly $2.3 billion of futures positions during the climb, so more leverage now rides on the Fed's Oct. 28 decision.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in about $2.39 billion in their biggest week in a year while Coinbase priced Bitcoin below global venues for 29 straight days. The split means weekly fund flows were a poor guide to who was buying spot Bitcoin in September.
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Coin Metrics has recomputed all daily and hourly Ethereum exchange-flow metrics from the first block, using the exchange wallets it knows today. Outflow backtests run on a fresh download can now count wallets nobody had identified on the trade date.
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Strategy spent $151.7 million buying back STRC preferred stock and $142.7 million on 1,665 Bitcoin in the week covered by its Sept. 28 filing. Its $18.84 billion of unsold common stock can fund more of both, though Michael Saylor's Oct. 4 post confirms no new purchase.
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U.S. spot Ether ETFs lost a net $118 million in the week to Oct. 2, after taking in about $689.8 million the week before. The selling shrank as the week went on, and with ETH stuck under $2,800, Glamsterdam's Oct. 6 Sepolia activation is the dated event to watch.
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US spot XRP funds took in $121.4 million in September, more than the roughly $104 million of open interest that left Binance between Aug. 22 and Sept. 17. With less leverage in the market, XRP's price now depends on whether that fund buying continues into October.
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CryptoQuant counted 78,000 altcoin deposits to exchanges in the seven days to Sept. 28, up from about 29,800 two weeks earlier. More holders look ready to sell into the rally, though the reports count transfers without putting a size on them.
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Bitcoin's CMBI benchmark closed near $83,113, just under the $84,000-$85,000 band where Glassnode counts more long-term holder coins than at any other price. With futures leverage at its lowest since March, spot buyers and sellers will decide whether the band holds.
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CryptoQuant's scarcity index for XRP on Binance has fallen to its lowest since January 2025, with the token trading around $1.10 to $1.13. The index is scored against a shrinking baseline, so it shows that supply is returning more clearly than it shows how much.
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Bitcoin fell to $82,568 on Monday, about 4% under the $86,000 average cost of US spot-ETF holders, two days before its September and third-quarter closes. Corporate treasuries paid $80,500 on average, so Wednesday's close sets whether each group ends the quarter in profit or underwater.
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Forced closures of bearish bets, counted at $648 million by Crypto Briefing and above $600 million by CoinGlass, carried bitcoin to its highest price since January. Glassnode puts the US spot ETF cohort's average entry at $85,638.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $998.95 million on September 21, the year's biggest single day, and another $648 million of buying came from short sellers being liquidated in a market still about 30% below its October 2025 high.
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Traders are waiting on Thursday's PPI and Friday's CPI, but the order book already brackets spot at 78,800 and 80,500, and with a quarter-point hike 58.4% priced there is less left for the Sept. 16 meeting to move.
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Both trackers measure 90 days, and this rally is seven days old. BlockchainCenter's reading sits at 43 against a threshold of 75, which is a long way from a rotation.
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More than $3 billion of short liquidations did the heavy lifting, with a $517 million ETF day alongside it. That fuel is spent, so the next leg has to be bought.
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The average that capped the 2022 bear market is overhead again near $63.2k, and this week's Fed minutes and Japan data decide whether the level holds any authority.
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