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Issue #87 · Tuesday, September 8, 2026 | | Market mood Greed · 69/100 ▼ from 71 yesterday | | Bitcoin and Ethereum edged lower today while institutional crypto adoption expanded across payments, stablecoins, and settlements. |
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☀ The Numbers | Bitcoin (BTC) | $78,415 -1.3%
+0.9% this week | | Ethereum (ETH) | $2,474 -0.7%
+1.2% this week | | Total crypto market | $2.66T -3.5% | | BTC dominance 58.9% · BTC 38% below its all-time high |
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☀ The Movers Top gainers (24h) | AERO Aerodrome Finance | +20.4% | | VET VeChain | +12.4% | | INJ Injective | +10.0% | | DOT Polkadot | +9.8% |
| Top losers (24h) | DASH Dash | -7.6% | | MORPHO Morpho | -5.3% | | ENA Ethena | -5.2% | | LINK Chainlink | -5.1% |
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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 ($70.0K) and 200-day ($69.8K) averages — the longer-term trend reads as up. Over the past 30 days it has traded between $62.8K and $81.3K; today's price sits in the upper third of that range. RSI(14) is 50 — momentum is roughly neutral. See all nine coins on the daily markets page → |
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☀ The Brief | | Cronos rolls back blockchain after $111M theft attempt Cronos validators reversed nearly two hours of blockchain history to recover stolen assets, though attackers escaped with $9.19 million before the network halted. The incident highlights security risks and governance tradeoffs in decentralized systems. (CoinDesk) |
| | Visa stablecoin settlement volume hits $20B annualized rate Visa's stablecoin payment volume grew nearly 200% year-over-year and jumped more than 15x to reach a $20 billion annualized run rate. The growth signals mainstream adoption of blockchain-based settlement infrastructure by traditional finance. (The Block) |
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