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US stocks fell for a third straight session on Wednesday. Rising Treasury yields and another jump in oil prices weighed on sentiment.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 405.41 points, or 0.77%, to 52,380.66. The S&P 500 slipped 0.48% to 7,636.36. The Nasdaq Composite fell 0.64% to 26,253.34.
Treasury Buyback Sends Yields Higher
The Treasury Department said it will triple its buyback of longer-dated debt to $6 billion. The move failed to stop the 10-year yield from climbing to 4.84%, its highest level since November 2023.
The 10-year Treasury Yield is inching towards 5%. Image Source: CNBC
Some traders had bet on an even bigger repurchase. Peter Boockvar of The Boock Report said Wall Street expectations ran as high as $7 billion to $8 billion.
Thomas Martin of Globalt Investments pointed to an unusual standoff in sentiment.
“You look at equity sentiment, and it’s at an extreme. At the same time, the sentiment for higher interest rates is also at an extreme. Those two things shouldn’t be able to live together for very long.”
Martin, CNBC
Oil Extends Its Climb on Iran Tensions
Brent crude settled up 3.36% at $101.21 a barrel, its highest close since May. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) gained 3.25% to $96.05.
Escalating tensions between the US and Iran have stoked fears of disruption to Middle East energy supplies. The pressure builds on a strained bond market already rattled by the standoff.
Similar fears already sent Asian equity benchmarks lower earlier this month. Separate strikes had pushed oil to a multi-week high at the time.
Martin said a move toward $120 a barrel would grab the market’s full attention. Wednesday’s run has not yet reached that level.
The losses followed the Dow’s worst single day in nearly three weeks on Tuesday. That session opened a holiday-shortened week after Monday’s Labor Day closure.

Anthropic has published a model of how artificial intelligence (AI) could reshape the US economy by 2030. Interestingly, its fastest growth case is the one that cuts knowledge worker wages by more than 10%.
The company’s economics team released the tool alongside a technical report, Economic Scenarios for Transformative AI, and invited readers to plug in their own forecasts.
Three Futures With Very Different Winners
The model runs three cases, coming only hours after researcher Jacob Coxon said he had resigned from Anthropic and accused the industry of racing toward self-improving superintelligence.
That same capability triggers the model’s worst case:
Modest case
AI matches the internet in scale and lifts gross domestic product (GDP) to $34.1 trillion, a 1.6% gain.
Substantial case
Assumes AI handles half of all knowledge work by 2030. GDP reaches $36.3 trillion, roughly twice the normal growth rate, while unemployment settles near 5%. Knowledge worker wages stay flat.
Extreme case
Requires AI that improves its own capabilities without human help. Annual growth hits 15%, GDP reaches $44.4 trillion, and unemployment spikes to historic levels. Knowledge worker pay falls by more than 10%.
Labor’s share of national income tells the same story. It slips slightly in the modest case, drops to 56.1% in the substantial one, and falls to 45.2% in the extreme.
“In the extreme scenario, the gains from a rapidly expanding economy are unevenly distributed,” read an excerpt in the report.
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Americans Are Betting on the Middle
Anthropic surveyed 10,980 people in August. The typical answer implied GDP about 10% higher by 2030, close to the substantial case. Roughly one in 10 expected the extreme.
That caution echoes earlier work. Anthropic’s June polling found Americans name job loss as their biggest AI worry, while Goldman Sachs traced the sharpest hiring damage to entry-level tech roles.
Anthropic frames the outcome as a choice rather than a forecast.
Anthropic’s Economics team is sharing a new model of how AI might affect economic growth, jobs, wages, and more by 2030.Explore the scenarios, tell us what you think will happen, and see how your answers compare to more than 10,000 Americans. https://t.co/AvQlEZNxR0
— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) September 9, 2026
The model makes the trade explicit, since the scenario that creates the most wealth also hands the smallest slice of it to workers. The harder question is who gets to choose.

Altcoin perpetual futures carried more open interest than Bitcoin’s on September 6, the first such flip since December 2024, according to Coinalyze data. That crossover comes even as Bitcoin’s own rally stays anchored in spot demand, not altcoin leverage.
Neoclassic Capital Co-Founder and Managing Partner Michael Bucella called Bitcoin’s advance a healthy rotation. He said the initial surge came from short covering. Spot demand and rising call-option skew have since taken over as futures positioning eased.
Altcoin Leverage Nears Levels Last Seen Before 2025’s Crash
Zcash drove most of the shift. ZEC’s derivatives book swelled to an all-time high near $2.4 billion during Zcash’s decade-high rally. Short sellers absorbed roughly $34 million in forced closures as the token broke higher.
Zcash’s rally has drawn extra attention as Grayscale files to convert its ZEC trust into a spot ETF. That filing adds a new demand angle even as leverage climbs.
Zcash is up almost 150% in a month. Image Source: CoinGecko
Ether and tokens tied to Robinhood’s new blockchain have also outperformed. Pons, a memecoin launchpad built on that same chain, has fueled a fresh wave of token launches. Traders are rotating leverage further down the risk stack as Bitcoin’s rally matures.
Proceed to Altcoins with Caution
Bucella told CNBC’s Halftime Report the buildup echoes conditions from October 2025. That was just before a sharp market-wide liquidation. He argued Bitcoin’s own move looks comparatively healthy. It is driven by spot buying rather than pure short covering.
“I’m not saying that this move isn’t sustainable. I’m just saying you should proceed with a lot of caution.”— Michael Bucella, CNBC
Bitcoin’s ETF-backed bid has held up despite a brief late-August outflow streak, per BeInCrypto’s September warning signs. Whether altcoin leverage unwinds as calmly is the open question for the rest of September.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev defended his company’s tokenized stock products on CNBC, offering his first televised comments since AMC Entertainment chief Adam Aron went public with his objections.
Aron has accused Robinhood of issuing unregistered tokens tied to AMC stock in violation of U.S. securities law, and threatened to bring in outside counsel and the SEC.
A Public Feud Over Stock Tokens
The dispute began after Robinhood extended its tokenized stock offering to cover AMC and more than 190 other companies through Robinhood Assets Limited, without those firms directly signing on.
Aron reacted furiously on X, arguing the products let Robinhood create exposure to AMC stock without the company’s involvement, undermining the usual relationship between a company and its shareholders.
In my opinion, one that is shared by others, that’s a terrible lapse in your judgement @vladtenev Playing fast and loose with U.S. securities laws is not something that brings honor to Robinhood. It is not one that adds integrity or credibility to financial markets. By your… https://t.co/6EIw0tqaeX
— Adam Aron (@CEOAdam) September 4, 2026
“I find this practice to be contemptible, outrageous, disgusting, detestable, inexcusable, vile. How can it possibly be legal? We have no connection to this at all, and do not condone it in any way.”— Aron
AMC’s stock jumped as much as 15% in premarket trading when the public row first broke out, with traders piling into both the shares and related tokens.
Tenev Says Issuers Cannot Control Everything
On Wednesday, Tenev told CNBC that a public company cannot dictate every financial product built once its shares start trading.
He described Robinhood’s tokens as debt securities backed one to one by the underlying shares held as collateral. Token holders get economic exposure to the stock but no voting rights in the company itself.
Robinhood’s chief legal officer, former SEC commissioner Dan Gallagher, also pushed back publicly, defending the company’s reading of U.S. securities law.
We know a little something about the U.S. securities laws and will not “DECIST.” Send your lawyers and we’ll educate them. https://t.co/hz8dH2bz8G
— Dan Gallagher (@DanGallagherDC) September 4, 2026
The clash raises a genuinely open question for regulators, namely whether a brokerage can wrap any public company’s stock into a tradable token without that company’s consent. AMC’s threatened SEC complaint could be the first real test of where that line sits.

Trezor said attackers breached its third-party email provider and sent customers a phishing email disguised as a critical chip security alert, the company’s third vendor failure in four weeks.
The hardware wallet company said it took down the domain behind the campaign and is investigating how attackers reached its legitimate domain. Reportedly, wallets, keys, and recovery backups were never exposed.
Trezor’s Email Provider Breach Follows the ShipMonk Leak
An August 10 incident at ShipMonk, the partner that ships Trezor orders, started the run. A September 4 update pushed the number of exposed customers above 80,000.
That leak held names, phone numbers, and home addresses. BeInCrypto reported in August that devices stayed safe while the phishing and scam risk climbed. Customers have since reported scam calls and printed letters.
The pattern is old. Trezor warned 66,000 users after a support portal breach in 2024, and rivals have stumbled too, with SafePal leaking nearly 40,000 records last month. The devices hold up. The partners holding customer data do not.
Why the Fake STM32 Alert Works
The email arrived as a critical security alert about an “STM32 Entropy Vulnerability.” STM32 names the family of small chips inside Trezor devices.
Entropy is the randomness a wallet uses to build a recovery phrase, the backup that controls the funds. Weak randomness would be a real danger, which makes the lure credible to a worried owner.
Our third-party e-mail provider has been breached. Please be aware that the email named ‘Critical Security Alert: STM32 Entropy Vulnerability’ is not coming from us, and it’s a phishing attempt. Do not click on any link,” the team warned.
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What Trezor Users Should Do Now
Do not click links in any unexpected Trezor email, especially one citing STM32 or entropy.
Never type a recovery phrase or device passcode into a website.
Treat unexpected phone calls and physical letters as hostile until verified.
Check trezor.io or the verified Trezor account on X for real notices.
Anyone who entered a backup on a linked page should move funds to a new wallet.
Leaked contact details paired with a genuine sender domain strip away the signals users lean on.
“There are convincing phishing emails going out right now from hardware wallet companies (have heard Trezor and Bitbox at least). It’s likely that a marketing email provider was compromised. That will mean more customer emails are leaked,” one user noted.
Indeed, BitBox, a Swiss-made Bitcoin hardware wallet also reported a similar incident, only that the phishing mail was sent out to their newsletter subscribers.
Our preliminary review of the phishing mail that was sent out to our newsletter subscribers about an hour ago found that it is very likely that our newsletter provider got compromised.Multiple other Bitcoin companies got targeted as well, and it appears that we all share the…
— BitBox (@BitBoxSwiss) September 9, 2026
According to BitBox, the phishing attacks may have targeted Bitcoin companies sharing the same newsletter provider.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that oil prices will not fall until right after the November midterm elections. He tied relief at the pump to an Iran war he expects Tehran to abandon once Americans vote.
Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, climbed 3.78% to $103 the same day. That is its highest level since May, and it followed fresh strikes around the Strait of Hormuz.
Oil and Brent Price Performances. Source: TradingView Oil Sets the Political Clock
Trump spoke to reporters before flying to a Republican convention in Dallas, accusing Iran of dragging out the fighting to weaken his party in the midterms, the congressional elections held halfway through a presidential term.
“I think it’s going to take a little bit longer than the midterm,” he said.
He also argued Tehran is near collapse and would seek an end to the war immediately after the vote. No Iranian official has offered any such timetable. The conflict is now in its seventh month.
President Donald Trump says the war in Iran will end after the November midterm elections, and that significant gasoline price relief won't come before then https://t.co/axw1jf2F1E pic.twitter.com/BKkVS9xTWV
— Bloomberg TV (@BloombergTV) September 9, 2026
BeInCrypto reported a day earlier that Goldman Sachs saw $120 oil as Trump walked away from diplomacy. Wednesday’s remarks confirmed that reading.
“Bookmark this lie…Why should Americans pay the price for the wars of the Israeli regime?” the Consulate General of the Islamic Republic of Iran wrote in a post, responding to Trump putting a political clock on oil prices.
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Pump Prices and Crypto Feel the Squeeze
The American Automobile Association (AAA) put the national gasoline average at $4.22 a gallon on Wednesday. A month earlier drivers paid $4.01.
I HOPE PEOPLE ARE SMART ENOUGH TO NOT ALLOW THE PRICE OF GASOLINE TO SWAY THERE VOTE BETWEEN FREEDOM & MARXISM pic.twitter.com/NHB23rYNsW
— DAWGTURD🌟 (@Christo23674916) September 9, 2026
Traders are now pricing the same war twice, once in oil and once in risk assets. Crypto bettors currently give Democrats 51% odds of sweeping Congress, with record pump prices cited as a driver.
Democrats are favored by Polymarket bettors to sweep the House. Image Source: Polymarket
Republicans currently control both chambers of Congress. Elections are set for November 3.
History Says Wars Move Oil, Not Voters
Trump’s remarks notwithstanding, the record gives his timeline little support. Crude has collapsed after a midterm before, but never because Congress changed hands.
Oil ran from $17 a barrel in July 1990 to roughly $46 by mid-October. Prices then slid as coalition forces gained ground against Iraq and supply fears eased. The war resolving moved the market, not the November vote.
Academic work points the causality the other way. A World Bank study of 207 elections across 50 democracies found that a 1% oil shock cuts an incumbent’s re-election odds by 5.9 percentage points. Higher prices squeeze household spending, and voters punish whoever holds office.
“Trump’s latest lie is that the war will end immediately after the elections. The spin is that Iran is only holding out to influence the outcome of the election. It’s a very convenient take, as it lets Republicans off the hook, assuming voters are dumb enough to buy the excuse,” Peter Schiff challenged.
That makes the midterms far more likely to be a consequence of $100 oil than a cure for it. Whether Brent falls in November depends on the Strait of Hormuz reopening, and voters have no say in that.

“AI could kill us all by the end of this decade” – that’s exactly what British AI researcher Jacob Coxon said today, after quitting his job at Anthropic.
But why should anyone take him seriously? Because Coxon’s resume is the best possible example of a complete AI insider. Before Anthropic, he worked at OpenAI and was part of developing ChatGPT 4.5.
So, clearly, he should be a guy speaking from real concerns rather than just fearmongering? Let’s analyze the facts behind some of his wild cautions.
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
— Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) September 9, 2026
AI Could Kill Us All – But How?
It’s unlikely that Coxon means an AI model like Claude or GPT could physically turn into killing machines, like Terminator. What he probably means is that the superintelligence capabilities could make human cognitive function obsolete.
And the same concerns are also shared by prominent figures like Bill Gates.
OpenAI’s latest ChatGPT 6 Astra model claims to have achieved AGI, which basically means a machine being able to think like humans.
So, an AI can already start doing the research and developing processes to build another AI model itself. This is already happening to a limited degree, according to both OpenAI and Anthropic.
In that case, very soon, an AI might not need humans to keep upgrading its capabilities. How many jobs does that kill?
And when a full generation becomes accustomed to delegating creative and critical thinking to AI, originality dies first.Perhaps that’s the death Coxon was referring to in his viral tweet.
Welcome to AGI. ChatGPT 6 Astra just releasedIn the announcement, Greg Brockman claims this is the AGI era, and Astra might be the first model thereHere is everything you need to know:1. It is rolling out to businesses now. Personal accounts over the next few days2.… pic.twitter.com/zZyHoFdZSi
— Alex Finn (@AlexFinn) September 3, 2026
AI Could Hack Everything
This is a more serious and immediate threat worth losing sleep over. The current gen AI models have catastrophic capabilities for breaching systems and overriding access.
Just months ago, an AI model hacked itself out of its sandboxed development environment and sent the developer an email – without any prompt. That’s a sci-fi movie scenario that is already real.
GPT-6 Astra has now officially crossed OpenAI’s “Critical” cybersecurity threshold. Astra scored 100% on ExploitBench.
To put simply, ChatGPT 6 can now find any known or unknown flaw in a real-world system, and exploit it without needing a human hacker behind the computer.
Sadly, human security hygiene is nowhere near that level. How many people still don’t use Two-Factor Authentication? How many still have a mediocre level of passwords? How many still accept browser cookies without reading a site’s description? Too many.
And that’s where the biggest killing blow from AI could come.
BREAKING: OpenAI's investigation into its AI agents hack of Hugging Face has revealed shocking findings, per Axios.1. They built an organization – 1,200 AI agents found each other, exchanged 70,000+ messages/files and formed a hierarchy.2. Some agents risked their own success…
— Bull Theory (@BullTheoryio) August 30, 2026
So What Can Humans Do?
A lot, actually. But it is not in the hands of us mere civilians. The biggest responsibility is on the regulators and policymakers. While the progression and development of Artificial Superintelligence is important, there needs to be some breaks.And several praiseworthy initiatives are already in place. In New York, Mayor Zohran Mamdani imposed a one-year ban on children from using AI up to 8th grade, affecting nearly 600,000 students.
The EU AI Act is the world’s broadest binding AI law, which bans certain AI uses and requires developers of powerful general-purpose models to test for systemic risks, mitigate them, and secure their models.
In the UK, MPs and Lords are pushing proposals that could give authorities an AI “kill switch” and potentially halt development of superintelligent AI in Britain.
Just because technology is everywhere doesn’t mean it belongs everywhere. The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but necessary. We don't see it that way.This week, we announced a moratorium on all generative AI for public… pic.twitter.com/7Ivme25NNd
— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) September 4, 2026
So, the fear that Jacob Coxon described in his Tweet today is realized and share my millions of people, including regulators. How they act on it is another question that only time can tell.

Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, says 91% of its balance sheet rests on money nobody can take back. JPMorgan runs on deposits customers can pull any day. Strategy calls that the safer design.
The claim comes from a slide that the company put in front of investors. It puts Strategy’s short-term funding gap at zero and JPMorgan’s at negative $1.2 trillion. Strategy wrote those definitions itself.
MicroStrategy versus JPMorgan. Source: Strategy
“MSTR inverts TradFi,” says Strategy.
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What MicroStrategy Says JPMorgan Cannot Do
Banks borrow short, lend long, and deposits can vanish in a day. Additionally, sometimes loans take years to come back, which is why insurance, regulators and central bank credit exist to cover that gap.
Silicon Valley Bank customers asked for $42 billion on a single day in March 2023, a quarter of its deposits. Regulators closed the bank the next morning.
The case for MicroStrategy is that it has no depositors. It owns 845,050 Bitcoin (BTC), funded mostly through perpetual preferred stock issuance. Those shares pay a fixed dividend and never mature. Its September 8 filing shows nothing due inside 12 months.
48% of JPM’s balance sheet is funded by withdrawable deposits. 91% of Strategy’s balance sheet is funded by permanent capital. $MSTR inverts TradFi. pic.twitter.com/Zq9xA52q4f
— Strategy (@Strategy) September 9, 2026
What the Comparison Leaves Out
Start with the 48%. JPMorgan’s June filing reports $2.71 trillion of deposits against $5.02 trillion of assets. That is 54%. The smaller figure is a bucket that MicroStrategy picked.
BeInCrypto found the same habit last week, when Strategy’s reserve capital versus Berkshire claim ran ahead of its own filing.
Now the asset side. MicroStrategy paid an average of $75,415 per coin. Bitcoin trades near $78,498 as of this writing. Its entire $66.8 billion stack sits barely 5% above cost.
MicroStrategy BTC Holdings and Average Purchase Price. Source: Bitcoin Treasuries
The bills still arrive. Strategy paid $400.7 million in preferred dividends in the second quarter alone. It keeps a $5.10 billion cash reserve to fund those payments and its $6.71 billion of debt.
That cost showed this summer, when MicroStrategy bought no Bitcoin for 10 weeks into late August, raising $3.28 billion in dollars and spending none of it on coins.
Notwithstanding, nobody catches Strategy if Bitcoin slips. Deposit insurance and Fed lending halted the 2023 bank runs. Bitcoin fell 77% from its 2021 peak to its 2022 low, and Strategy has already mapped what breaks first.
Both designs can break. One dies from a crowd at the door. The other dies from one price chart and a dividend it cannot skip.

The US Treasury walked into the bond market on Wednesday with $6 billion. It was triple its usual size, and the biggest such offer in years. The market took one look and sold.
While yields were supposed to fall, they rose, because within hours, one bond manager had shrunk the whole plan down to a single sentence.
The Bond Market Was Not Impressed
Citing Mark Spindel, chief investment officer at Potomac River Capital, CNBC referred to 2008, when a Treasury secretary needed an act of Congress to turn markets around. Scott Bessent has no such firepower.
“Hank Paulson’s bazooka this is not,” said Spindel.
The treasury’s tool is a buyback, just as a company would normally repurchase its own shares. For the treasury, however, they use cash to lift older, hard-to-trade bonds off dealers’ books.
It pays down none of the $40 trillion national debt. It is not quantitative easing, where a central bank creates money to buy bonds. Washington funds it by selling more short-term IOUs. As that is the entire machine, the size was the story.
US TREASURY TO BUY BACK UP TO $6B IN LONGER-DATED DEBT THURSDAY, ABOVE PRIOR $4B MINIMUM PER OPERATION pic.twitter.com/uow5fwGobU
— Wall St Engine (@wallstengine) September 9, 2026
On August 19, Bessent promised to at least double the standard $2 billion operation. Traders began whispering about $8 billion, even $10 billion. He came back with $6 billion.
The Market Called the Bluff
The 10-year Treasury note hit 4.84%. The 30-year added five basis points to 5.307%, back through a line traders watch closely. A basis point is one hundredth of a percentage point.
Bitcoin, Gold, and US Treasuries Performances. Source: TradingView
Hard assets stayed cold, with the gold sitting near $4,407 an ounce. Bitcoin (BTC) dipped toward $78,000 as yields spiked, then crawled back to $79,084. Three weeks ago, the same announcement sent both flying.
Washington announced it was buying its own debt, and its debt got more expensive. Long-term bonds are already limping out of their worst decade since 1803.
BeInCrypto saw it coming. A week ago it reported Pantera Capital’s Dan Morehead calling the plan a bluff that had already backfired.
“Governments defending prices against fundamentals always lose. The only variable is how much they spend before conceding,” said Stanley Druckenmiller, who once mentored Bessent.
Thursday’s buying window lasts 20 minutes and shuts at 2 p.m. ET. If yields are still climbing once the $6 billion is spent, Druckenmiller’s line stops being an opinion.

After its strongest August since 2017, Bitcoin (BTC) has faced renewed volatility in September as hawkish Fed signals and strong jobs data pressure risk assets.
Yet, the daily chart has flashed a key bullish signal: a golden cross that bulls have awaited for almost a year. The setup has sparked optimism among analysts that the bear market may finally be over.
But is the signal strong enough to confirm a lasting trend reversal?
Bitcoin's recent price action was driven by Fed expectations.Aug 28 to 29: Warsh's Jackson Hole speech was read as hawkish, and September hike odds rose above 60%. BTC fell from 81K to 77K.Aug 30 to Sep 2: Government bond yields rose across major markets, raising the… pic.twitter.com/HJtRAIrrEu
— BloFin Research (@BloFin_Academy) September 9, 2026
Analysts at BloFin note this is the first such crossover since the death cross of November 2025. In Bitcoin’s history, the same setup has usually preceded significant rallies. However, the analysts argued that critical confirmation is still missing.
Bitcoin’s Golden Cross Comes With a Weekly Asterisk
A golden cross forms when a shorter-term moving average moves above a longer-term one. Traders read it as a sign that a trend is turning up.
Bitcoin last recorded a golden cross in May 2025, and the asset went on to set a new all-time high in October. It gained more than 16% during that period.
BloFin’s confirmation framework sits on the weekly chart rather than the daily one. The desk uses the 200-week moving average (200W MA) to identify where long-term bottoms form, and treats the 50-week moving average (50W MA) as the stronger test of a new trend.
Bitcoin trades above its 200W MA and below its 50W MA. It has met the first condition but not the second.
Bitcoin’s classic daily Golden Cross has formed, the 50-day SMA has crossed above the 200-day SMA.This is the first such crossover since the Death Cross in November 2025.The same setup usually preceded significant BTC rallies in Bitcoin's history.It adds another signal that… pic.twitter.com/bgd9PuEBHQ
— BloFin Research (@BloFin_Academy) September 9, 2026
Why the 200-Week Moving Average Matters For Bitcoin Price Direction
Bitcoin has spent most of its history above the 200W MA, and its lowest prices in a cycle have generally formed around the level. That happened in 2015 and 2018, and BTC briefly returned to the area during the March 2020 crash.
The 2022 cycle broke from that precedent. Bitcoin fell below the 200W MA and stayed there while the market absorbed a series of major deleveraging events. The FTX collapse added further pressure later that year.
Bitcoin 200W MA. Source: BloFin Research
BTC set its cycle low beneath the indicator, then recovered and reclaimed the level during the subsequent rebound.
According to BloFin, the 200W MA has never posted a weekly decline. Four years of long-term appreciation have kept the average moving higher.
Bitcoin’s 200W MA Differs From Stocks and Gold
That steady climb is not a general property of long-term averages. BloFin Research noted that the S&P 500’s 200-week MA has lost momentum during prolonged periods of weak performance.
The index stagnated for parts of the 1960s and 1970s. The dot-com crash and the 2008 crisis then prolonged weakness from 2000 to 2012.
S&P 500 200-week MA Over The Years. Source: BloFin Research
Gold followed a similar pattern. After the metal peaked in 2011, its 200W MA flattened and eventually turned lower during the multi-year decline that followed.
Gold 200-Weekly MA Over The Years. Source: BloFin Research
Trading above the 200W MA still does not answer whether the bear market has ended. Bitcoin can consolidate near the level for months before a durable recovery takes shape, as it did through 2022 and 2023.
The 50-Week Bullish Signal Bitcoin Has Yet To Reclaim
Bitcoin’s past cycles give traders a stronger reason to watch the 50W MA. The level has repeatedly separated major recoveries from temporary relief rallies.
Bitcoin lost this average during the downturns of 2014, 2018, late 2021, and late 2025.
Bitcoin Falling Below The 50W MA Marking The End of Bull Markets. Source: BloFin Research
The opposite happened during cycle recoveries. Bitcoin reclaimed the 50W MA in 2015, 2019, and 2023, and each time a longer-term uptrend followed.
A golden cross can signal improving momentum on the daily chart. Reclaiming the 50W MA would extend that improvement to the weekly trend BloFin uses to date cycle turns.
A weekly close above the level would be the first step. Holding it would show that resistance has turned into support.
Bitcoin Rising Above The 50W MA Marking The Start of Bull Markets. Source: BloFin Research
BloFin flags a trade-off in waiting for that. By the time Bitcoin reclaims the 50W MA, the price may already sit well above its cycle low.
Traders who wait for the confirmation may miss part of the initial rebound. What they gain is stronger evidence that the market has left its previous bear-market structure behind.

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In July, Brazil’s Securities and Exchange Commission, the CVM, created a dedicated Tokenization Working Group to study the registration, custody, trading, and settlement of securities using distributed ledger technology.
The group has also been tasked with proposing an experimental regulatory regime for tokenized securities, placing tokenization directly within the regulator’s agenda for the modernization of Brazil’s capital markets.
Meanwhile, Brazilian tokenization platform Liqi Digital Assets and XDC Network have renewed their partnership for another two years and raised the total targeted issuance from $500 million to $2 billion through 2028.
The new agreement consists of the original $500 million, which the companies say has already been completed, alongside a further $1.5 billion in planned issuance.
JUST IN: Monthly transaction count on @XDCNetwork is at an all-time high of 27.7 million, up 50% over the past six months.A network to watch 👇 pic.twitter.com/E7UaiiHRY9
— Token Terminal 📊 (@tokenterminal) August 17, 2026
Liqi Reached Its Original $500 Million Target Nine Months Early
The expansion follows faster-than-expected issuance under the companies’ first agreement.
Liqi and XDC initially signed their partnership in April 2025, setting a target of up to $500 million in real-world assets over 24 months. According to the companies, that target was reached in roughly 15 months, nine months ahead of schedule.
This makes Liqi the largest issuer of yield-bearing assets on XDC, according to the company. The company says approximately $835 million has now been tokenized across 386 series and 60 asset pools, supported by 378 smart contracts deployed on XDC mainnet.
Daniel Coquieri, CEO and co-founder of Liqi Digital Assets, said the original target was set at a time when institutional demand was harder to gauge.
“We signed the first agreement with a target that looked aggressive: half a billion dollars in two years. We delivered in fifteen months, because Brazil’s structured credit market was already there – what was missing was the infrastructure. We tripled the commitment because demand tripled. What we are building is not a blockchain pilot: it is the rail that regulated banks and originators run credit through, with auditable collateral and on-chain settlement.”
Under the renewed agreement, XDC will remain Liqi’s exclusive blockchain for RWA issuance. The companies intend to expand into additional forms of structured credit, trade finance and receivables generated by larger originators.
Tokenized Credit Is a Growing Part of the RWA Market
The credit focus is key because the RWA market is expanding beyond the tokenized US Treasury products that drove much of its earlier institutional growth.
RWA.xyz currently tracks $7.82 billion of distributed tokenized credit and another $37.73 billion of represented credit assets across more than 2,500 assets. The category includes corporate credit, structured credit, specialty finance and other forms of non-sovereign debt.
Tokenized Credit Market Snapshot as of September 9, 2026. Source: RWA.XYZ
Liqi’s activity sits within this part of the market. According to the company, assets already issued on XDC include trade receivables, payroll-deductible loans, debentures, corporate credit and Brazilian receivables certificates. Issuances have involved institutions including Itaú BBA, Banco BV, Banco ABC Brasil and Creditas.
Diego Consimo, Head of LATAM at XDC Network, said:
“These are structured credit operations, originated within the regulated financial market, that now use blockchain as an effective part of their infrastructure.”
For XDC, securing additional issuance also strengthens its exposure to the RWA sector at a time when competition between blockchains for tokenized assets is growing.
Ethereum currently leads distributed RWA value with around $17.6 billion, followed by BNB Chain, Solana and Stellar, according to RWA.xyz.
Brazil Brings Tokenization Into Capital Markets
Brazilian regulators are also increasing their focus on how tokenized assets should operate within the existing financial system.
The CVM’s new working group includes representatives from 14 areas of the regulator and has already begun discussions with organizations including ANBIMA, ABCripto, ABToken and other capital-market participants. Its mandate includes examining custody, registration, trading and settlement using DLT systems.
Brazil’s Central Bank has separately explored tokenized finance through Drex, a DLT-based environment designed for regulated financial intermediaries and programmable financial services.
Commercial issuance and regulatory development are therefore beginning to come together. Credit instruments can already be created and settled through blockchain systems, while regulators are working through how those systems should interact with established securities-market rules.
The Liqi-XDC agreement offers an indication of the volumes that could follow if institutional adoption continues. However, the $2 billion commitment remains a forward target rather than completed issuance, with $1.5 billion still scheduled to be brought on-chain during the next two years.
For Brazil’s tokenization market, reaching that target would show that tokenized credit can progress from comparatively small deployments into repeat issuance involving regulated banks, originators and established financial instruments.

US-listed XRP ETFs saw $1.55 million in inflows on September 8, the largest among 12 spot crypto fund groups. Only Hedera (HBAR) products joined them, with $431,180.
Four groups lost money, and six recorded no flow at all. Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Solana (SOL) had not all fallen on the same day since July 9.
Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana Bled Together for the First Time Since July
BTC funds lost $46.65 million, the heaviest loss in the group. Ethereum products followed with $24.29 million. Solana products shed a slimmer $667,719.
Those three had not fallen together in the previous 41 sessions. Hyperliquid (HYPE) funds lost $12.96 million, erasing the $10.52 million they collected on September 4.
Those four accounted for every dollar that left, $84.56 million in total, according to SoSoValue records.
US Spot Crypto ETF Net Flows Across 12 Groups, September 8, 2026. Source: SoSoValue/BeInCrypto
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For XRP, Franklin’s XRPZ fund absorbed the entire $1.55 million inflow. The Bitwise, Canary, 21Shares, and Grayscale products all printed zeros.
The Avalanche (AVAX), BNB (BNB), Dogecoin (DOGE), Polkadot (DOGE), Chainlink (LINK), and Litecoin (LINK) funds all printed zeros. Momentum had already drained from the altcoin groups the previous week.
Monthly figures read softer than the daily numbers. Bitcoin funds still hold a $723.5 million gain for September, while Ethereum products sit on $106.43 million.
XRP funds have added $14.86 million this month, ahead of Solana at $4.58 million. Dogecoin and Hyperliquid are the only groups underwater for September.
The two groups that drew money also led the field on price. Hedera has gained 7.4% over seven days, XRP 7%, and Bitcoin 2.2%.
XRP Price Performance. Source: BeInCrypto Markets
XRP changed hands near $1.44 on Tuesday, up 4.06% over 24 hours. Hyperliquid rose 3.3% to $86.77, while Solana added 2.03%.
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Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP meme coin peaked two minutes after Wednesday’s launch and now trades 99% below that high. One trader cleared more than $1 million inside the window. Another turned $200,000 into less than $2,000.
Blockchain analytics firm Arkham put the peak at $199.51. Hours later the token changed hands at $2.27, a market value near $794.5 million, and it has kept sliding since. It trades on Base, the network Coinbase built.
Hunter Biden’s Laptop Price Performance. Source: BeInCrypto A $48,000 Pool Was Pricing a $144 Billion Token
Arkham said the pool of money backing LAPTOP trades held about $48,000 shortly after launch, while the token’s full supply was being valued at $144 billion. A liquidity pool is the pot of assets buyers trade against, and a shallow one means a modest order moves the price a long way.
DID LAPTOP TOP IN 2 MINUTES?LAPTOP just launched at 8:02pm. It reached a peak price 2 minutes later at 8:04.The FDV of the coin is currently $144B and the liquidity pool contains $48K. pic.twitter.com/9yvDk6r2sB
— Arkham (@arkham) September 9, 2026
That mismatch drove what followed. The LAPTOP price was anchored to almost nothing, so a few large buys could mark it in the hundreds of dollars, and a few sells could erase that.
Ownership is concentrated too. Arkham’s holder list shows the two largest wallets, both tied to the project, holding 30% of supply each.
The $200,000 Buyer Paid More Than LAPTOP Ever Traded At
Blockchain tracker Lookonchain found the losing trader withdrew $250,000 from Binance before the launch, then spent $200,000 on 919 LAPTOP at an average of $218 a token.
Don't FOMO!This guy turned $200K into just $3K by FOMOing into @HunterBiden's $LAPTOP.He withdrew $250K from #Binance in advance to buy $LAPTOP as soon as it launched.He ended up spending $200K to buy 919 $LAPTOP at a high price of $218, which is now worth only $3K.… pic.twitter.com/JLgqlotPyI
— Lookonchain (@lookonchain) September 9, 2026
That average sits about 9% above Arkham’s record high of $199.51. In a pool that shallow, an order that size pushes the price up as it fills. He absorbed his own impact. The stake has since fallen under $2,000.
On the other side, a wallet Lookonchain labels 0xa5019 spent 100 ether (ETH), worth $249,800, on 9,124 LAPTOP at roughly $27 each, then sold 8,480 of them for 472 ETH, or $1.18 million.
Biden had set expectations low.
“You should not expect me or anyone else to make this token more valuable for you. $LAPTOP isn’t just about owning something, it’s about saying something,” he wrote.
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Where the Price Landed Was Called Two Days Early
BeInCrypto calculated on Monday that LAPTOP would need roughly $2.26 a token to match Official Trump (TRUMP) across its full supply, the level that triggers Biden’s promised token burn. Hours after launch it changed hands within a cent of that mark.
Biden’s airdrop plan hands 20% of supply to community wallets, including people who lost money on TRUMP. That token trades near $2.20, about 97% under its January 2025 peak. Whether they sell into the same shallow pool is the next test.

On Wednesday, U.S. Bank sent dollars from North America to Europe on a public blockchain. However, while anyone can watch that network, only the bank can undo the payment.
The bank calls it a launch, but it’s own announcement describes it as a test. U.S. Bank paid itself, using a token, USBDC, that no customer can buy.
The Kill Switch for U.S. Bank
Crypto’s founding promise was that nobody could pull your money back. USBDC breaks that promise deliberately. The bank chose Stellar, whose token XLM ranks 19th by market value.
Stellar lets whoever issues a token cut off an account, while at the same time allowing that issuer to destroy coins sitting in someone else’s wallet.
U.S. Bank tried creating the token, cashing it out, freezing it, and taking it back. All four worked.
So this is not a rival to the dollar coins traders already use. It is a wire transfer with an undo button.
“This live pilot demonstrates our ability to accelerate global cash management and money movement capabilities,” read an excerpt in the bank’s statement, citing Gunjan Kedia, chairman and chief executive officer at U.S. Bank.
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Wall Street Split, and the U.S. Bank Stablecoin Walked Away
A week earlier, 21 banks and asset managers agreed to share one dollar token in 2027. Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and Deutsche Bank signed up. U.S. Bank did not.
🔥 ADOPTION: 21 major financial institutions are teaming up to launch a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin in H1 2027.The group includes @GoldmanSachs, @BankofAmerica, @Citi, @DeutscheBank, @UBS, and @WellsFargo.The group plans to expand into other G7 currencies. pic.twitter.com/tneo0akYiv
— Cryptic (@Cryptic_Web3) September 2, 2026
That is the part nobody is saying out loud. Most of Wall Street wants a shared coin. U.S. Bank wants its own name on the dollar.
Federal Reserve data ranked it sixth among domestic commercial banks in March, holding $683 billion in assets. Big enough to go alone.
Washington helps. BeInCrypto reported in August that new Treasury stablecoin rules favor chains built on licensed dollars.
The prize is dull and enormous. Weekend payrolls. Cash trapped between subsidiaries. Collateral that cannot move until Monday.
“Our focus remains on delivering solutions that solve real client challenges while maintaining the safety, security and reliability that clients expect from U.S. Bank,” said Jamie Walker, head of digital assets and money movement at U.S. Bank, in the same release.
Circle should worry, though not about this pilot. Rivals courting USDC’s enterprise users already show how fast that base can be taken.
Stellar’s XLM price barely moved, near $0.19 after a 0.6% gain in a day. Traders want the version they can hold.

Germany is putting a deadline on tax-free Bitcoin (BTC). Buy before December 31, 2026 and the old rules follow your coins, but buy later and the taxman comes.
That date sits inside a draft law from the finance ministry, and while nothing has passed yet, German investors are already doing the arithmetic.
The Rule That Made Germany Different
For years, Germany had it such that you hold your crypto for 12 months and the profit was yours, untaxed. Sell sooner and you paid income tax, up to 42%.
It gave a country famous for paperwork a reputation as one of Europe’s friendliest homes for long-term crypto holders.
The draft seen by Handelsblatt kills the clock, with every sale expected to become taxable. Gains would meet a flat 25% withholding tax, the same one Germany charges on shares and dividends.
INTEL: Germany plans to scrap its one-year crypto tax exemption and impose a flat 25% capital gains tax on new holdings from 2027 pic.twitter.com/IR9cTHf2uU
— Solid Intel 📡 (@solidintel_x) September 9, 2026
A solidarity surcharge also lands on top, so that the first €1,000 ($1,163) of yearly gains stays free, and losses could finally be written off against other gains.
The Part That Stings
The ministry says the exemption rewards speculation.
“It is unfair that hard-earned income and capital gains are taxed, while profits from speculation with crypto assets remain largely tax-free,” read the report, citing the German Federal Ministry of Finance.
Yet under this draft, the speculators do better. A top-rate trader flipping coins inside a year pays 42% today. They would pay roughly 26%.
The person who bought quietly and waited goes from zero to roughly 26%. Berlin expects €160 million ($186.2 million) from all of this in 2028, reaching €350 million ($407.35 million) by 2031.
It still has to survive cabinet, the Bundestag and the Bundesrat, Germany’s two parliamentary chambers. Lawmakers rejected a similar attempt in May.
BeInCrypto saw this coming in July, when the budget framework quietly targeted the tax exemption. Exchanges would only withhold the money automatically from 2028, in step with wider crypto tax reporting rules.
Until parliament votes, the clock is still running.

Holders of distributed tokenized assets reached an all-time high of 3.67 million, according to real-world asset tracker RWA.xyz.
Tokenized stocks did nearly all the lifting. They account for 80.58% of distributed asset holders, leaving every rival category far behind.
Stocks Dwarf Every Other Tokenized Asset Class
Stocks accounted for 2.96 million of the total. Commodities ranked a distant second, at roughly 332,000, followed by asset-backed credit at roughly 91,000 and active strategies at roughly 81,000.
US Treasury debt counted close to 73,000 holders despite anchoring the sector by value. Real estate held about 15,000, and venture capital fewer than 1,500.
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Tokenized Asset Holders Hit a Record High. Source: RWA.xyz
The gap reflects how fast equity tokenization has scaled since platforms started bringing blue-chip listings onchain. Tokenized stocks alone now span 5,246 individual assets worth $2.89 billion, a 14.03% gain in 30 days.
Overall, the represented asset value across all tokenized assets reached $386.92 billion, up 3.63% over the past month. Distributed value grew far more slowly, rising 1.54% to $39.15 billion.
A Wider Base, Thinner Trading
The holder boom sits beside the slower activity data. Tokenized stockholders grew 159.31% in 30 days, yet monthly transfer volume fell 50.96% to $13.14 billion.
Monthly active addresses dropped 48.36% to 760,339 over the same stretch. More people now hold these tokens. Fewer appear willing to trade them.
That chill has spread to decentralized venues, too. Real-world asset perpetual volume fell 13.5% to $122 billion in August, down from a record $141 billion in July.
Ondo leads platforms by value at $860 million, ahead of xStocks at $631.2 million and bStocks at $627.5 million. Robinhood holds $133.2 million across 189 assets, as its chief executive pushes for US access to tokenized equities.
Whether that widening base converts back into volume is the question the coming weeks should settle.
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Malone Lam pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a racketeering conspiracy that drained more than $245 million in cryptocurrency.
The 22-year-old Singaporean citizen led a group that talked its way past people rather than past software. Prosecutors say the enterprise ran from October 2023 through at least May 2025.
Malone Lam Guilty Plea Caps a Two-Year Theft Spree
According to the court documents, Lam was the ringleader of the international cybercrime conspiracy. He organized the enterprise, identified the targets, and coordinated the roles of the other conspirators. Lam used the aliases “Anne Hathaway,” “$$$” and “King Greavy.”
The scheme was developed through connections made on online gaming platforms. Its members operated from California, Connecticut, New York, Florida, and abroad.
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🚨🇸🇬 Malone Lam pleads guilty over $245M Bitcoin social engineering heistThe 22-year-old Singaporean admitted his role in the operation that stole more than 4,100 BTC from a single Washington, D.C. victim in August 2024.Members of the group impersonated Google and Gemini… pic.twitter.com/zg91LDPsnw
— Dark Web Informer (@DarkWebInformer) September 8, 2026
The group used social engineering and occasionally broke into homes to obtain the information that let it drain victims’ wallets.
The case began with a September 2024 indictment over 4,100 Bitcoin (BTC) taken from a single Washington D.C. victim. Investigators later folded the theft into a wider $263 million ring. One launderer in that crew drew a 70-month prison sentence in April.
Stolen Assets Funded Jets, Exotic Cars, and Nightclub Tabs
The spending left an obvious trail. Nightclub bills reached $500,000 in a single evening, and watches ran past $500,000 apiece.
Conspirators also rented homes in Los Angeles, Miami, and the Hamptons. They hired private security teams, chartered jets, and bought exotic cars priced as high as $3.8 million.
US Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro framed the plea as a warning to imitators.
“If you build a cybercrime empire, we will find you, dismantle your operation, and hold you accountable. This defendant led an international network that preyed on victims through deception, invaded their privacy, and stole hundreds of millions of dollars in cryptocurrency,” she said.
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly accepted the plea to one RICO conspiracy count and set a status hearing for December 8. The case sharpens a point security researchers keep making. As violent crypto wrench attacks and social engineering scale up, a key weak link sits outside the wallet.
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Peter Schiff wants investors to buy nickels instead of US Treasury Bonds. He argues the copper and nickel inside each coin now outvalue the bond market.
The economist put the melt value at 7.76 cents, about 55% above face value. However, federal law bans melting the coins at all.
The nickel and copper in modern nickels are now worth 7.76 cents, 55% more than the cost of buying nickels from the bank at face value. The U.S. government stopped making pennies last year. Soon it may stop making nickels too. Buy yours while you can. Much better than Treasuries.
— Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) September 8, 2026
Peter Schiff’s Unconventional Nickel Math
Copper price closed Tuesday at $6.69 a pound on COMEX, just below its August record. Nickel settled at $16,776 a tonne. Each coin carries 3.75 grams of copper and 1.25 grams of nickel.
Those prices value the metal at 7.63 cents, roughly 53% above face value. Schiff’s number therefore lands close to the mark. The metal also set a fresh record in London on Tuesday, as traders braced for US tariffs on refined copper.
His supply warning also holds. The Mint spent 13.31 cents to produce and ship each nickel in fiscal 2025. Each coin therefore costs taxpayers more than double its face value. The Mint struck the final circulating penny last November.
Nickel melt value. Source: BeInCrypto Federal Law Blocks the Melt Trade
The Peter Schiff nickels pitch then hits a legal wall. Replies to his post flagged the problem, and they are right. Regulation 31 CFR Part 82 bars melting or exporting five-cent and one-cent coins. Violators risk $10,000 fines and five years in prison.
Schiff waved the objection away.
You don’t have to melt them. They will hold their value.
Yet that answer skips the logistics. Each nickel weighs five grams. A $10,000 stack therefore weighs a full metric ton. Scale it to $100,000, and the buyer stores 10 tons of change.
Meanwhile, the 10-year Treasury paid 4.77% on Sept. 3 and needs no warehouse.
The pitch fits Schiff’s long-running case against Bitcoin and paper claims, sharpened by record US debt and rising yields.
So the premium is real on paper, yet locked inside metal nobody may legally melt. Whether the Mint retires the nickel next will decide if it ever pays.

Sam Altman has taken up an online dare to hunt a room-temperature superconductor, replying to a satirical post with “you know what, let’s try.”
The remark landed days into a dispute over OpenAI’s Millennium Prize claim. The company says its agents solved one of seven famous math problems worth $1 million each.
A Viral Dare Follows the Math Fight
A developer needled OpenAI, arguing that cracking a few more Millennium problems would silence every skeptic. Sam Altman replied with two words, “ok fine.”
ok fine
— Sam Altman (@sama) September 8, 2026
Hours later, another user floated a satirical rumor that Anthropic had quietly found a room-temperature superconductor. The joke warned that a rival might throw 10,000 agents at the problem for 88 hours to beat the press release. The post lifted both figures straight from OpenAI’s account of its disputed Navier-Stokes proof.
you know whatlet's try
— Sam Altman (@sama) September 8, 2026
Sam Altman. Source: X
That account is already contested. Two mathematicians, Tristan Buckmaster of New York University and Anthropic’s Levent Alpoge, say the work may lean on their unpublished research. OpenAI denies touching it.
Altman leaned into the banter instead of brushing it off. His five-word reply turned a running gag around the GPT-6 Astra launch into a public challenge.
Why the Sam Altman Superconductor Dare Matters
Charge a phone, and the back gets warm. That warmth is electricity going to waste, lost as current pushes through ordinary wires. Superconductors waste none of it, because they carry current with zero resistance.
The catch is temperature. Today’s superconductors only work under extreme cold or crushing pressure. One that works at room temperature would cut waste from power grids, chargers, and chip design alike. Physicists have therefore chased that material for decades.
No evidence supports the room-temperature superconductor rumor, and Anthropic has announced nothing. Meanwhile, one of its own researchers quit this week over superintelligence safety warnings, not superconductivity. The researcher had spent three years on pre-training work at Anthropic and OpenAI.
Altman’s answer reads as banter rather than a roadmap. Still, OpenAI now carries a public dare it took on itself. Whether anything concrete follows the joke should become clear soon enough.