10 stories cleared the bar for Sep 3.

BTC ran from $78K to above $81K in a single session while Metaplanet crossed a 20,000-BTC treasury milestone, and a fight over who gets to list Bitcoin perpetual futures in the US moved a step closer to resolution.

1. Bitcoin climbed from ~$78,000 in the morning to above $81,000 by the afternoon, pushing daily and hourly RSI into overbought territory (73 and 80 respectively). Institutional demand -- fresh ETF inflows and Strategy's resumed buying -- is the cited fundamental backdrop, but bulls need to clear $83,048 resistance while bears watch $81,194 support; a stretch this sharp raises the odds of a short-term pullback even if the broader trend holds.

2. Metaplanet bought 1,007 more BTC for ~$69M (avg. $68,520/BTC), lifting its treasury to a 20,000-BTC milestone worth over $1.38B -- making it one of the most closely watched non-US corporate Bitcoin holders. Separately, the firm is buying a 95.7% stake in Super League Enterprise for $134.6M to launch a US bitcoin-treasury platform, "Superplanet."

3. The CFTC asked a federal judge to dismiss CME Group's lawsuit challenging its May approval of Kalshi's Bitcoin perpetual futures contract, calling CME's case "much ado about nothing" and arguing CME hasn't shown financial harm. CME's opposition is due Oct 2 -- the outcome decides whether platforms beyond CME can list perpetual-style crypto futures in the US.

4. Coinbase went live with regulated crypto derivatives trading in Canada -- 23 perpetual and dated futures contracts on BTC, ETH and SOL, plus commodity and index futures, up to 10x leverage -- through its CFTC-registered Canadian entity. It's initially limited to institutional and high-net-worth clients while Coinbase pursues full dealer membership for the broader retail market by early 2027.

5. Roughly $1.5B in token unlocks land in the first week of September, led by Hyperliquid's 9.92M HYPE (~$808M) release to core contributors on Sept 6, alongside SUI and ENA unlocks. Analysts note only about 1.75% of past unlocks were typically claimed and sold, tempering the "supply shock" narrative traders often price in ahead of these dates.

6. Bitcoin's network hashrate has sat below its October 2025 peak for roughly 316 days -- the longest sustained drought in over a decade, with 10 of 17 2026 difficulty adjustments moving lower. One mining executive is calling it a "hashrate bear market," attributing it to miners redirecting infrastructure toward AI and HPC compute rather than a seasonal dip.

7. The SEC scheduled a Sept 17 roundtable -- with panelists from Citi, BlackRock, Nasdaq, Schwab, Jane Street and NYSE -- on preparing US equity markets for 24-hour trading, while separately signaling a path for qualified platforms to offer 24/7 trading of tokenized US stocks. A direct crossover point between TradFi market structure and crypto-native tokenization infrastructure.

8. The Senate's CLARITY Act, crypto's core market-structure bill, is set for a critical procedural vote Sept 15 after recess. Unresolved sticking points -- stablecoin rewards and ethics provisions tied to Trump family crypto interests -- have several observers questioning whether it can pass in 2026 at all.

9. A trader claimed over $5M in losses after more than 30 funding-rate arbitrage positions were liquidated within minutes as AKE perpetual futures surged roughly 6x on external venues; Binance says its systems functioned normally and points to broader market volatility, since AKE isn't listed on its own spot market.

10. Solana's first gas-fee-reduction phase went live ahead of an Alpenglow consensus upgrade and a Sept 9 Transaction V1 launch, while Jupiter rolled out "Universal Deposit" for flat-fee cross-chain transfers into Solana and SOL ETFs had their strongest inflow week since October 2025.

Which shifts your read more: BTC's overbought rally, or the derivatives turf war over who gets to list its perpetual futures?

Not financial advice. DYOR.

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