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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
Transition to licensing: Kazakhstan’s digital asset market is moving from pilot projects to licensed activity. Three licensed exchange operators are already in operation, and by the end of the year, the tokenization of the Iconic Tower complex for up to $50 million** and the Birlik logistics center — up to **$10 million** is planned.
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Michael Saylor: crypto will be protected not by the CLARITY Act, but by 50 million satisfied Americans
After the CLARITY Act failed in the Senate on September 15, Strategy chief wrote: Over the next two years, the industry can move forward through the SEC, CFTC, the Treasury, and bank regulators.
• CLARITY limited compensation for holding stablecoins and allowed the Treasury to intervene in such programs when deposits drained from smaller banks. Saylor believes these restrictions are excessive
• Even the “regulatory sandbox” in the law was cut down: up to 25 employees at the company and a maximum of 20 approved projects per year. In his view, you can’t cap the scope of an experiment in advance without knowing what it will grow into
• The SEC already allows trading tokenized stocks, the CFTC is ready to develop the crypto market, and banks are gradually gaining access to crypto infrastructure without a new law
Saylor considers real protection not the law, but 50 million Americans who already use crypto products. Banning an unclear technology is easy, but taking away a useful service from tens of millions of people is a completely different story.
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Who actually controls Bitcoin

• 13.9 million BTC (66.6% of the issuance) is held by retail investors

• 3.5 million BTC (16.7%) is held by institutions: companies, funds, ETFs, and governments

• 1.62 million BTC (7.7%) is believed to be lost

• 968,000 BTC (4.6%) belongs to Satoshi Nakamoto

• Another 919,000 BTC (4.4%) still needs to be mined

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$ Democrats are preparing an investigation into the Trump family over crypto

• In just the first year, the Trump family received about $2.25 billion in realized profit, including thanks to crypto projects and foreign payments

• Separately, Democrats want to check $500 million in investments from the UAE into the crypto businesses of Trump’s sons and Steve Witkoff

• Congressman Jamie Raskin has already called the White House "the most corrupt crypto startup in the world"

• The investigations could also affect Truth Social, Jared Kushner’s business, pardons for Trump supporters, and a number of decisions made by his administration

A wave of investigations could increase pressure on the Trump team regarding crypto regulation and slow the progress of industry-benefiting laws such as the CLARITY Act.
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📣 One of Europe’s largest banks is preparing to launch crypto trading

UniCredit is choosing a technology provider to build infrastructure for the custody and trading of digital assets.

• The bank is also considering working with stablecoins and launching tokenized investment products and bonds

• This is already UniCredit’s third step into crypto in the past 5 months: in April the bank acquired a stake in BlockInvest, on September 8 it acquired a stake in VC Trade, and now it is looking for a partner for custody infrastructure

• The bank is also part of the Qivalis consortium, which plans to launch a euro stablecoin on the Ethereum blockchain by the end of 2026

Large traditional banks are integrating crypto into their services one after another, meaning regular customers soon won’t even need to open a separate crypto account.

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🚨 Almost all Bitcoin short-term holders are currently in profit

According to CryptoQuant, 93.2% of coins held by short-term holders are now in profit—totaling 3,570,000 BTC.

A similar level of the share of profitable coins was already seen at the peaks in 2017, 2021, and 2025, meaning the market is currently in a zone that’s more characteristic of euphoria than fear.
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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan plans to launch tokenized deposits

This is a bank deposit whose rights are recorded on a blockchain as a token. The interest is preserved, but new possibilities emerge: transferring the deposit, paying 24/7, and using it as collateral.

The infrastructure is already being prepared: the National Bank and KASE are developing digital assets. The first licenses and products may be available by the end of 2026, with an active launch in 2027.
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On September 7, 2026, the National Bank and Binance Investments Co. signed a memorandum to establish a regional clearing hub in Kazakhstan to service international payments and transfers, including settlement of transactions involving clients’ digital assets with Binance from Central Asia, the CIS and Eastern Europe.

Earlier, on September 4, Binance signed three agreements with Kazakhstan’s government agencies, including exploring the possibility of issuing a stablecoin in the country and developing payment infrastructure using digital assets. $USDT

🇮🇷 Iran has legalized crypto for foreign trade

While the United States is tightening sanctions, the Central Bank of Iran has quietly eased currency controls and started allowing the use of USDT and Bitcoin in foreign trade. Exporters were allowed to return proceeds “by any available means,” and receiving cryptocurrency for exports has become “completely commonplace.” This is a quiet but important shift in using crypto as a tool to bypass sanctions.
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While BTC stalled under $78K, Zcash gained +43% over the week and entered the top 10.

The reason is the Grayscale Zcash ETF (ZCSH):
— Crossed $500 million in AUM just two weeks after the listing
— Holds **550,000 ZEC** — that is **3% of the total float**
— Only in the last 24 hours — **$70 million** in inflows

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Sberbank will begin issuing loans secured by Bitcoin and Ethereum
Tether (USDT) will also be accepted as collateral
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New trend 2026 — tokenization of strategic metals. Companies are moving beyond gold (XAUT, PAXG) and launching digital assets on copper, nickel, cobalt, uranium, and antimony. And sometimes—even before mining.

Two approaches:

🔹 Metals.io — tokens xCo (cobalt) and xNi (nickel) are backed by real metal held in storage facilities. The investor gets ownership rights without the headache of logistics. Trading started in December — $24M, 9,000 holders.

🔹 Datavault AI (NASDAQ) — plans Coppercoin tokens backed by copper from deposits that haven’t been developed yet. In practice—digital futures on future production. Resource base — $2.15B.

Why is it cool? Access to assets that used to be available only to institutions. The market is still small ($6B vs. $530B for gold ETFs), but the potential is enormous.

But there are risks: legal uncertainty, operational risks at mines, and lack of regulation.

It’s a bold experiment. Will this become a standard or a bubble? Time will tell.

🔥 Would you buy a token for metal that hasn’t been mined yet?
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AI agents are becoming independent participants in the digital economy and are making millions of micropayments on the blockchain. Autonomous programs operate without human involvement. In a year, they completed 176 million transactions. The total amount of transfers exceeded $73 million.
Infrastructure for agents: Circle launched Agent Stack for payments via USDC, and BNB Chain introduced a set of tools for autonomous agent payments.
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CZ (personal opinion):

$BTC Bitcoin will overtake gold — the market-cap gap (~10x) will shrink already in the next bull cycle.

🚀 $1M per BTC — a matter of time, faster than within 25 years. More important is adoption (payments, reserves, pensions).

📈 2026 = a supercycle — new ATH, despite volatility driven by AI and geopolitics.

🏦 Strategic reserves — top-5 cryptocurrencies (excluding stablecoins): BTC >50%, ETH 10–20%, BNB and others.

🤖 AI + crypto — will start with stablecoins, then BTC. AI trading will become 10x more effective, and AI agents will pay with crypto.

🔗 Tokenization of stocks and real estate will bring new users to bitcoin.

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⚠️ Important: These are forecasts, not investment advice. The market is volatile, and the risk of losing capital is real. Think for yourself.

⚠ Rapper Pitbull accidentally triggered a wave of shitcoins

• On August 12, Pitbull announced his 14th music album PITCOIN. On the same day, the first token with the same name appeared on Solana

• On August 25, the rapper wrote on X: “Pitcoin is coming”

• After the post, one of the PITCOIN tokens grew by more than 100%

• Another token with the same name on the Robinhood blockchain gained 207% in less than 7 hours

Right now, dozens of shitcoins are trading under the name PITCOIN. Pitbull has nothing to do with them, and his pre-save campaign is only run on music platforms.

Even if Pitbull had launched a token himself, stories like this almost always end the same way

• In May 2024, Iggy Azalea launched the token MOTHER; in 2 weeks the market cap grew to $240 million, but later it stabilized around $50 million. Later it turned out that insiders had bought 20% of the issuance in advance and dumped the tokens for $2 million

• Caitlyn Jenner launched the token JENNER, which reached a market cap of more than $40 million, but the very next day it lost about 50% of its value

So think twice before getting involved in such adventures)
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August 26 will go down in history. Not because of the Bitcoin price. Because three giants stepped into the blockchain era at the same time:

🇯🇵 Japan — launches a blockchain-based payment system for stocks and government bonds. Today, deals take 1–2 days. The new system will be instant. Rollout by the early 2030s.

🇮🇳 India — in September runs a pilot of tokenized corporate bonds worth $57M with settlement in CBDC. Asia’s second RWA move after Singapore.

🏦 Citadel + DTCC + ICE — have entered LayerZero. Yes, that same Citadel Securities. Together with DTCC (US clearing) and ICE (exchange), they’re studying institutional trading on the Zero blockchain. This isn’t about “crypto for geeks.” This is about a new market infrastructure.

Bitcoin today — $78.5K. And tomorrow it may become just one element of the global financial system being rewritten right now.
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Yesterday Bitcoin decided to play mountaineer: it climbed up to $81 000, looked down at everyone from above—and then went back down. A classic.

What the numbers say:
• For the week +23% — that’s strong. But today -0,58%.
• Ethereum also decided to take a break: -1,60% to $2 442.
• The greed index fell from 74 to 65 — everyone sobered up a bit.
• In 24 hours, **$566 million** was liquidated. Someone lost, someone found.

Altcoins: SOL and XRP are down about 4.5%, DOGE is down 5%. Meanwhile Stacks (STX) blasted up +15,92%.

This evening — PCE and Nvidia. It’ll be fun. Or not. As always.
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⚡ Ray Dalio expects Bitcoin to rise amid the devaluation of global currencies

Ray Dalio is a billionaire and the founder of the largest hedge fund in the world, Bridgewater Associates.

• The US is already following the classic scenario of a major debt cycle: government debt supply is growing faster than demand, long-term bond yields are rising, the dollar is weakening, and the Treasury begins buying Treasuries (US government bonds)

• If demand for US debt is not sufficient, two options remain: rising yields, which will hit markets and the economy, or printing money and buying back the debt, which will lead to further currency devaluation

• If the US doesn’t change its current course, a debt crisis could begin in about 3 years, plus or minus 2 years

• Similar debt-related problems exist in the EU, the UK, China, Japan, and other countries

• In this environment, “non-governmental money” such as gold and Bitcoin should do better than traditional debt assets

In his view, investors should reduce the share of bonds and increase the share of gold and a little
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📉 Largest liquidation: $1 billion in a day

The market correction has gained momentum. In 24 hours, more than 214,000 traders were liquidated for a total of about $995 million** — **$721 million came from long positions and $274 million from short positions.

· BTC fell by 1.85% to $77,068** (at one point breaking **$76,000)
· ETH dropped by 3.84% to **$2,417** (previously falling to $2,383)
· ADA, XRP, XLM crashed by 12–14%
· AVAX fell by 6.57% to $7.47
· Maximum loss: Binance — $22.4 million on a single trade

Reasons for the crash: profit-taking after a strong rally + geopolitics — Iran warned that countries participating in economic restrictions against it will be viewed as enemies.
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