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Issue #78 · Sunday, August 30, 2026 | | Market mood Greed · 69/100 ▲ from 68 yesterday | | Bitcoin and Ethereum posted modest gains as institutional crypto adoption expanded, but security incidents across multiple blockchains raised operational risks. |
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☀ The Numbers | Bitcoin (BTC) | $78,175 +0.6%
+2.1% this week | | Ethereum (ETH) | $2,459 +0.9%
+2.0% this week | | Total crypto market | $2.63T -2.7% | | BTC dominance 59.5% · BTC 38% below its all-time high |
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☀ The Movers Top gainers (24h) | UNI Uniswap | +13.9% | | VET VeChain | +5.8% | | DASH Dash | +5.7% | | M MemeCore | +5.3% |
| Top losers (24h) | TRUMP Official Trump | -7.8% | | JST JUST | -3.9% | | ICP Internet Computer | -1.7% | | LEO LEO Token | -1.5% |
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From the top 100 coins by market cap. |
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☀ The Read Where the chart sits — description, not prediction Bitcoin is trading above both its 50-day ($67.3K) and 200-day ($69.3K) averages — the longer-term trend reads as up. Over the past 30 days it has traded between $62.8K and $80.3K; today's price sits in the upper third of that range. RSI(14) is 82 — territory traditionally described as overbought. See all nine coins on the daily markets page → |
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☀ The Brief | | Polygon patches security flaws in recent hard forks Polygon fixed vulnerabilities that posed denial-of-service and validator resource risks before publicly disclosing them, demonstrating proactive security management on a major layer-one blockchain. (Cointelegraph) |
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Crypto 101 What is a blockchain? A shared database where new records are added in linked batches ("blocks") that are extremely hard to alter afterward. That tamper-resistance is what lets strangers transact without a middleman. |
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“If an APY looks too good to be true, it is funding someone else's exit.” |
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