Lighter outpaces HYPE & ETH, but can it hold on to its 13% gains?
Lighter [$LIT] surged by another 13% in the last 24 hours, its third consecutive green day. The altcoin made a new local high of $4.67, with trading volume surging after the perpetual DEX was built into Robinhood Wallet.
The perpetual DEX is slowly but steadily closing on the gap that exists between it and Hyperliquid [$HYPE ].
$LIT outpaces $HYPE and $ETH Lighter has performed better than both Hyperliquid and Ethereum [$ETH]. On the charts at press time, Lighter was up 465%, followed by $HYPE with 136% and $ETH a distant third with 24% returns.
Over the past five months, the altcoin has outperformed both $HYPE and $ETH combined.
Strategy: Bitcoin Would Have to Fall 83% for STRC to Hit 1x BTC Rating
Why Strategy Published the Bitcoin Floor Chart Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR) used the Sept. 1 chart to address a central risk created by its capital structure: how far bitcoin could decline before the reserveโs modeled value matched the obligations counted for each security. The company stated:
โ$BTC would have to fall 83% from current levels before $STRC reaches a 1x $BTC Rating.โ
๐จ JUST IN ๐จ Clarity Act Update: Did Sheriffs Just Clear the Path for the Senate?
Clarity Act Update: Sheriffs Association Shifts Position This Clarity Act Update covers a policy shift dated September 3, 2026. The National Sheriffs Association moved its stance on the CLARITY Act from opposed to neutral. The change removes one obstacle ahead of a key Senate vote.
The group sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Sheriff Troy Wellman, the association's president, and Justin Smith, its executive director and CEO, signed it. The letter addressed H.R. 3633, the CLARITY-Act. #clarity #ClarityActPassed
๐จ Bitcoin ETF News: BlackRock IBIT Captures 62% of Inflows
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF recorded $730.8 million in net inflows on September 3. BlackRockโs IBIT led the session with $454 million in net inflows. That was well over half of the total.
The result offers a fund-by-fund view of where net creations and redemptions were recorded for the day. The daily flow figures can be revised as late fund reports are received, so totals should be read as tracker data for the reported trading session.
Bitcoin bear market may not be over, Fidelity warns
Bitcoin recorded its strongest monthly gain since November 2024 during August, but Fidelity said the advance does not prove that the latest crypto bear market has ended.
In its fourth-quarter crypto market outlook, Fidelity said Bitcoin, Ethereum and several altcoins recorded their strongest positive months since late 2025. Bitcoin gained more than 25% during the third week of August alone.
Ethereum rose 34.1% during the same period, while Solana advanced 28%, according to Fidelity. The gains followed relatively subdued market activity from June through the middle of August.
However, Fidelity warned that the rally could represent either the beginning of a sustained recovery or a temporary move within a continuing bear market.
Bitcoin bear market faces a November cycle test Some investors are watching November 2026 as a possible market-bottom period based on Bitcoinโs historical four-year cycle. Bitcoinโs previous major bear-market bottom occurred in November 2022.
Applying the same approximate interval would place the next potential bottom around November 2026. Fidelity stressed that historical cycles have never followed precise four-year schedules and cannot reliably identify market turning points.
The firm said Bitcoin may have already reached its low in July. It could also decline again and establish another low during November or later.
Bitcoin News: BTC to Gold Ratio Hits 18 as Both Assets Rally Bitcoin now buys 18 ounces of gold, the highest reading on that ratio since January, and itโs climbing while both assets rally together after the Fedโs job data news. The number forces a specific question onto the table: is Bitcoin capturing a durable share of the safe-haven trade from gold, or is it simply moving faster through a door gold already opened?
The bitcoin-to-gold ratio is a straightforward comparison: bitcoinโs dollar price per coin divided by goldโs dollar price per ounce. At 18.17, one bitcoin now covers a little over 18 ounces of the metal, and TradingView data pegs that as the strongest relative showing for bitcoin since January.BTCXAU, In dollar terms, Bitcoin is trading around $80,800 to $81,000. That places BTC firmly in a zone traders have watched all week closely, with the asset also grinding back above $81,000 on shifting rate-hike expectations.
Discover: The Best Token PresalesDebt Fears News Are Driving Bitcoin
Both bitcoin and gold spent months lagging the AI-driven equity boom running through U.S. and Asian markets. Now both are rallying at the same time. The move specifically to fears that heavily indebted governments will lean on currency debasement to inflate away their obligations, rather than to shifts in bond yields. The fiscal backdrop supports that reading. Every major advanced economy except Switzerland now carries a debt-to-GDP ratio above 100%, and the U.S. leads that group on primary deficit, the shortfall that remains once interest payments are stripped out. Policymakers, for their part, are betting on growth rather than austerity to close the gap.
๐จBESSENT: TREASURY WILL ROUTINELY RUN BUYBACKS ABOVE $4B!Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. will conduct buybacks on a routine basis and increase their size, with operations set to exceed $4 billion.
XRP is back at $1.45, having a violent 6% rally on the Fed news, so is the whole crypto market. The run is strengthening the bigger story: a macro-driven relief rally that has traders whispering about $10 again, a target that felt like fantasy just weeks ago. Whatโs actually fueling this move, and how far can it realistically run before the next resistance wall shows up? The rally traces back to softening expectations around Federal Reserve policy, with risk assets broadly catching a bid as traders price in a friendlier rate path. XRPโs 24-hour volume has stayed elevated near $4 billion, with a market cap sitting around $90.9 billion, putting it firmly back in the conversation among large-cap majors.
Rate-cut odds have been a moving target all week, and that volatility is spilling directly into altcoin price action. XRPโs August run, a 70% surge from $1 to $1.70, set the stage for this entire narrative arc, and the subsequent 20% correction into the $1.35โ$1.38 zone is now the line in the sand bulls are defending.
Institutional demand has been quietly building under the surface, which adds some weight to the bull case beyond pure retail sentiment. $XRP
Bitcoin Price Could Reach $250K-$840K if Wall Street Allocations Grow
Bitcoin Could See $5.3T in Inflows if Portfolio Adoption Accelerates Bitcoinโs next major price move may depend less on crypto traders and more on traditional portfolio managers.
A new adoption model by River estimates that bitcoinโs price could reach between $250,000 and $840,000 within three to five years if more investors begin allocating even a small share of their portfolios to the asset.
The thesis starts with a simple observation: bitcoin ownership remains low.
Roughly 4% of the global population owns any bitcoin, while institutional allocations are still tiny relative to the amount of wealth under management. Investment advisers, for example, currently allocate only about 0.008% of assets to bitcoin overall. $BTC Small Portfolio Shifts Could Mean Trillions for Bitcoin The model assumes that 20% to 40% of global investment portfolios eventually allocate 2% to 4% to bitcoin. That range broadly reflects recommendations now emerging from major financial institutions, where suggested bitcoin allocations often sit between 1% and 7%.
Against an estimated $333 trillion global financial asset base, those assumptions would imply roughly $1.3 trillion to $5.3 trillion in net inflows into bitcoin.
The number is significant because bitcoin supply cannot expand in response to demand in the way shares or commodities often can.
Adoption among financial advisers is already moving higher. The share of advisers allocating to crypto rose from 22% in 2024 to 32% in 2025, while 56% said they planned to add exposure or were considering doing so.
Pakistan forex reserves rise to $21.9 billion, recent payments yet to reflect . State Bank of Pakistan reserves increased by $19 million in the week ending Apr. 3
. Recent external debt repayments of $1.4 billion to be reflected in next data release
USD/JPY forecast: Yen strength puts 155.00 in focus The USD/JPY has dropped around 300 pips from its overnight highs in second day of sharp selling. Suspected BoJ intervention and, more likely, expectations of a hawkish BoJ hike have helped to lift the yen across the board. There is also some chatter about the reverse carry trade driving flows back into the yen. The focus will turn back to the US dollar with the release of ISM services PMI later and the August jobs report on Friday.
๐บ๐ธ๐ช Trump: From a Face Onlineโฆ to a U.S. Coin! A historic development is attracting attention: the U.S. Mint has released a $1 coin featuring President Donald J. Trump, as part of the United Statesโ 250th anniversary celebration. ๐บ๐ธ And that makes the story even more interesting for the crypto worldโฆ ๐ช A Trump on a physical coin. ๐ปA Trump in the crypto world with $TRUMP . Two completely different worlds โ traditional currency and crypto โ but the same name is attracting attention. ๐ฅDo you think this could bring even more attention to $TRUMP ? Whatโs your opinion? #TRUMP #crypto
Cryptocurrency Prices Today By Market Cap The global cryptocurrency market cap today is $2.63 Trillion, a -2.38% change in the last 24 hours. Total cryptocurrency trading volume in the last day is at $75.70 Billion. Forbes is now tracking 19,515 cryptocurrencies. dominance is at +59.07% and dominance is at +11.11%. Bitcoin (BTC): Holding steady around $77.2K with strong market dominance near 57%.$BTC
Arbitrum (ARB): Trending upward with double-digit 24-hour gains.MultiversX $ARB
(EGLD): Noted as a top daily gainer with a surge of over 25%.Hyperliquid (HYPE): Gaining traction after joining major crypto ETF holdings. $HYPE