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Grant Cardone Lists Private Jet for 1,025 BTC (~$81 Million)!

Instead of pricing in dollars, the real estate mogul is turning physical luxury into hard digital assets.

The asking price almost matches Cardone Capital's entire reserve, which sits at ~1,200 $BTC built up by stacking rent cash flows from debt-free apartment funds.

While traditional REITs can't hold crypto, Cardone uses real estate cash flow to dollar-cost average into Bitcoin. Swapping a high-maintenance, depreciating jet directly for scarce BTC takes using Bitcoin as a true unit of account to the next level.

Trading flight hours for digital gold?

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Grok Al Says Bitcoin Could Reach $250K by 2027

While $BTC is still trading far below six figures, Elon Musk-backed Grok Al sees a path toward $200K-$250K by the end of 2026...

The model points to Bitcoin's previous market cycles, where percentage returns have gradually declined as the asset has grown larger. But this cycle also has something earlier ones didn't have at the same scale: ETFs and much deeper institutional participation.

Here's what Grok's forecast is based on:

• $200K-$250K Range: Grok Al sees $BTC potentially reaching this zone by the end of 2026, with $250K possible by January 1, 2027.

• Bigger Institutional Base: ETF demand and growing institutional ownership could provide stronger long-term buying support than retail-driven cycles alone.

• Diminishing Returns: As Bitcoin's market cap grows, repeating the explosive percentage gains of earlier cycles becomes harder.

Why it matters:

A move to $250K would represent another major step in Bitcoin's transition from a mostly retail-driven asset into a much larger institutional market. At the same time, deeper liquidity could also make future cycles less extreme.

The $250K target is still an Al forecast, not a guarantee. But if institutional demand keeps expanding, the path toward a much larger Bitcoin market becomes easier to imagine.

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$XRP may have a long way to go before $100. The key reason is simple: the XRP Ledger still doesn't hold enough tokenized value to support that kind of valuation.

Tokenized assets on XRPL have grown sharply, reaching roughly $4.26B after rising about 30x year-over-year. But analysts argue the number would need to move into tens, hundreds of billions, and eventually trillions.

Key XRP Takeaways:

Institutional Scale: XRP Ledger activity is becoming more concentrated, with fewer active accounts but roughly 3x higher trading volume per account. That suggests larger players are moving more value through the network.

Infrastructure Is Growing: Ripple's new integration with Settlement connects custody with digital asset lifecycle management, giving institutions one interface to issue, manage and custody tokenized assets on XRPL.

The bigger variable is still $BTC and institutional adoption. XRP's infrastructure is clearly expanding, but $4.26B in tokenized value is still far from the scale analysts associate with $100 or $1,000 XRP. So the long-term case may be building, but the data says the market isn't there yet.

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August went down in crypto market history with $BTC jumping 25.3% in a single month. Plus, while the crowd was selling Bitcoin in August, whales were accumulating.

From August 1 to August 30, wallets holding 100+ BTC purchased around 60,000 BTC ($4.6B).

At the same time, retail investors were cutting their positions:
- Wallets with 1-100 BTC sold around
33,000 BTC ($2.5B).
- Wallets with less than 1 BTC sold around 14,000 BTC ($1B).

Did you buy or sell?

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$XLM
Stellar operates continuously without downtime, recently processing over 11.6 million transactions in a single day to reach a weekly throughput peak.

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Corporate $BTC Accumulation Is Still Moving at Different Speeds

Bitcoin remains a major treasury asset for a growing group of public companies, but their accumulation strategies are far from identical:

Take Strive. They have recently acquired 1,375 BTC (for ~$109 million) at an average price of $79,281, bringing its reported holdings to 24,531 BTC. That followed another purchase of 1,800 BTC for $143 million at a similar average price.

And then look at Strategy - who despite being closely associated with corporate $BTC accumulation, has also directed attention toward repurchasing STRC shares rather than consistently adding Bitcoin.

The broader takeaway is that corporate Bitcoin exposure is no longer defined by a single playbook. Some companies continue accumulating aggressively, while others are balancing BTC purchases with wider capital-allocation decisions.
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Bitcoin ownership continues to grow, with about 371 million people worldwide now estimated to hold Bitcoin, according to the 2026 Crypto Wealth Report.

That means almost half of the estimated 742 million crypto users globally have exposure to $BTC.

Another interesting point is that Bitcoin ownership keeps expanding across both regular users and wealthy investors.

The report estimates around 92,272 Bitcoin millionaires, showing how widely BTC has spread as a digital asset.

A growing number of holders also means more people are choosing to keep Bitcoin as part of their long-term financial strategy.

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🇺🇸 ETF FLOWS: Spot XRP ETFs recorded net inflows on Sept. 8, while $BTC, $ETH, and SOL spot ETFs ended the day with net outflows.

• BTC: -$46.65M
• ETH: -$24.29M
• SOL: -$667.72K
• XRP: +$1.55M

XRP was the only one among the four to see positive flows, while the rest experienced modest outflows.

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Dan Held says some of $BTC 's earliest whales encouraged him to buy $ZEC while it was trading between $100 and $400, months before its rally past $1,000.

He ultimately remained unconvinced by the privacy coin's story, despite Zcash crossing that milestone last week for the first time in nearly a decade.

It's a pretty striking example of how quickly sentiment can shift in crypto - but Held still isn't sold on the long-term case for Zcash.

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RWA is approaching an important regulatory test.

On September 15, attention turns to Washington and the CLARITY Act as the U.S. continues debating a clearer market structure for digital assets.

But the bigger RWA story is what happens beyond regulation.

Tokenized assets are growing, DeFi is integrating more real-world value, and tokenized equities are gaining traction. Yet issuance alone doesn't create liquidity, distribution or institutional adoption.
That requires infrastructure.

This is where Brickken is positioned:
→$660M+ tokenized
→150+ clients
→40+ countries
→ISO 27001, 27701 & 27018 certified
→MICA-aligned infrastructure
→BKN 2.0 live
→ERC-7943 co-authored

Whether U.S. regulatory clarity accelerates or takes longer, institutions still need compliant infrastructure capable of issuing, managing and distributing tokenized assets.

Regulation determines when the door opens.
Infrastructure determines who is ready to walk through it.

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Hyper Foundation holds about 48.8% of all staked $HYPE, making it the largest single staking position in crypto.

With hundreds of millions of HYPE staked, the Foundation has a major role in helping secure and support the Hyperliquid network.

For HYPE holders, the main thing to watch is how this stake is managed over time.

A large stake can support network stability, but such a high concentration also means changes in the Foundation's staking activity could have a noticeable impact on the network.

As Hyperliquid grows, the distribution of staked HYPE will be an important metric to follow.

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India's $BTC Crypto Adoption Is Getting Very Practical 🇪🇬

Groceries, fuel, food delivery, flights and gold that's what indians buy with crypto today. According to The Economic Times, the route goes through overseas gift-card platforms:

- user sends USDT/crypto from a wallet
platform converts it into an Indian gift card
- voucher gets spent at the local merchant
- crypto is sold abroad and the Indian voucher partner is settled separately

And this is a quite global story: one such platform has reportedly issued 16M+ cards to Indian users. Some users even accept a sizeable conversion haircut ET cites ₹88 per USDT when the local rate was above ₹95.

Maybe that shouldn't be surprising though.
India ranked top-1 globally for crypto adoption in Chainalysis' latest index across retail, CeFi, DeFi and institutional activity
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CLARITY Act could be delayed until 2030

Senator Cynthia Lummis says that if Congress fails to pass the crypto $BTC market structure bill this session, the next real chance could be as late as 2030.

The Senate is scheduled to hold a key procedural vote on September 15, with 60 votes needed to move the bill forward.

After months of delays, the crypto industry is running out of patience.

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Ethereum is getting rid of one annoying UX problem

$ETH developers have scheduled EIP-8141 (Frame Transactions) for the upcoming Hegotá upgrade.

The idea is simple: you won't need to hold ETH just to pay gas. Apps could cover the fee for you, or you could pay it in USDT/USDC while the network still receives ETH.

Basically, hold stablecoins, make a transaction, forget about gas. Much closer to how a normal payment app should work.

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XRP's Futures Boom Now Has Three Things to Prove

$XRP entered September with its strongest derivatives activity in six months, as futures volume across Binance, Bybit and OKX reached about $64.6B in August. At the same time, spot XRP ETFs extended their positive-flow streak to eight consecutive weeks, adding another $18.96M in the latest week.

The first confirmation is direction. High futures volume alone is neutral because it can come from both longs and shorts, so funding rates and open interest now matter more than the headline turnover.

The second is whether ETF demand remains persistent. The latest $18.96M inflow was much smaller than the previous week's $110.49M, but eight straight positive weeks still point to steady institutional participation rather than a one-off burst.

The third is price acceptance above $1.40. XRP is compressing around that level, with a clean break opening the way toward $1.46, while losing support near $1.388 would weaken the setup.

So the next move will depend less on whether activity is high and more on whether derivatives positioning, ETF demand and spot price all start pointing in the same direction.

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Visa's Stablecoin Volume Explodes 15x to $20B as Onchain Credit Takes Over!

The payments titan just revealed its annualized stablecoin settlement volume surpassed a staggering $20 Billion - a massive 15x jump year-over-year. With over 160 stablecoin-linked card programs on its network and payment volume up nearly 200%, Visa is unlocking onchain credit for fintechs.

By merging VisaNet settlement data with smart contract protocols (piloted via Credit Coop), Visa enables real-time underwriting. The platform has already financed $2.5B+ in settlement volume with zero defaults across 3,000+ automated borrow events.

While $BTC remains the undisputed digital gold, real-world utility is heavily driven by dollar-pegged liquidity. Combining legacy credit data with automated DeFi lending bridges institutional capital directly into Web3.

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$BTC may be setting up for something bigger than most people expect.

Willy Woo points to a market structure that looks surprisingly similar to 2015, when Bitcoin started moving differently from stocks before the major 2017 run.

Right now, $BTC liquidity is strengthening while equities are showing some weakness.

That doesn't guarantee another bull market, but it's definitely a setup worth watching closely.

Sometimes the biggest moves start when the market is still debating whether they're possible.

The richest 1% hold over 12x the wealth of the entire bottom half of the U.S.

Q1 2026 share of household net worth:

- Richest 1%: 31.6%
- Bottom 50%: 2.5%

That 12x gap is just 31.6% compared with 2.5%. Same pie. One thin slice owns twelve times what half the country owns together.

Net worth is what you own minus what you owe. A house, stocks, a business, retirement accounts, and cash count. A mortgage and other loans subtract. Your salary is not in this chart - only the pile left after debts.

So someone can work full-time and still show almost no wealth if their debts are as large as their assets. That is why the bottom 50% can be a huge group of workers and still only add up to 2.5%.

The chart does not measure hours worked. It measures who holds the assets. Stocks and businesses grow on their own; a paycheck usually does not.

How to change that is a political fight. The numbers only show the split.

Source: U.S. household net worth shares, Q1 2026.

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CoinShares head of research James Butterfill says two key factors could help push $BTC back above US$80,000.

The outlook comes as the CME FedWatch Tool puts the odds of a 25-basis-point Fed rate hike at next week's FOMC meeting at 60.4%.

Bitcoin was trading around $79,337, leaving it within striking distance of that psychological milestone.

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Hackers have returned 3,400 $BTC worth about $268 million from the recent Liquid Network exploit, while keeping around 600 BTC worth $47 million under a reported whitehat deal.

That means roughly 85% of the stolen Bitcoin has been recovered, significantly reducing the impact of the attack.

Liquid is still working on security measures before fully restoring its services.

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