Treasury ‘not‑QE’ buyback expansion coincides with Bitcoin’s 23% run toward $79K
Standard Chartered kept a conditional $100,000 year-end target and flagged $65,500 as the level that has to hold.
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View Bitcoin price, charts & market data →Standard Chartered kept a conditional $100,000 year-end target and flagged $65,500 as the level that has to hold.
Glassnode flagged a dense $58K–$67K realized-price cluster as the most reactive support band below spot.
Spot Ether ETFs added $220.8M the same day, their biggest intake since Oct. 28, 2025.
The break coincided with a US Treasury plan to raise long-end buybacks from $2B to at least $4B per operation starting Sept. 9.
Strategist Mark Connors frames the shift as a long-yield relief valve, with Sept. 15 policy progress as the near-term check.
Q2 2026 results show colocation is now the profit engine, but the buildout is being financed with roughly $4.3B of long-term debt.
Traders are anchoring to a Sept. 15 Clarity Act vote and expanded Treasury buybacks, with $66.6K now the key technical line.
Users can hold, send, and receive USDU now, while swaps and buy-sell are slated for later via third parties.
The White House remarks offered no approval, structure, or timeline for an onshore perps product.
Exchange stablecoin supply and CryptoQuant’s SSR suggest thinner on-exchange liquidity for follow-through.
The cross-asset split keeps a risk-off, inflation-sensitive tape in view for crypto beta traders.
The move came after the Wall Street open alongside an S&P 500 rebound from 7,696 and fresh Strait of Hormuz messaging.
Data showed 637 BTC of short liquidations on Monday, while spot demand and ETF flows were cited as the constraint.
Analysts kept the focus on a $62K–$65K box as BTC sits below key moving averages and miners report a 21% compute drop over three quarters.
Proceeds went to STRC repurchases, STRC dividends, and a $4.80B USD reserve that the firm says covers 2.8 years of obligations.
Trezor and SafePal disclosed breaches affecting 50,000+ customers while the SEC pulled a planned crypto rules meeting.
Decree No. 936 cites grid-capacity risk as Russia still accounts for 175 EH/s of Bitcoin hashrate in Q1.
He argues the move would require about $15 trillion of new capital and resets expectations to $100,000 as a major milestone.
The endowment’s crypto ETF value fell from $14.6M to $12.4M as BTC, ETH, and SOL declined over the quarter.
The rollout would run through the Leumi Trade app and use GalaxyOne Institutional plus Galaxy’s ex‑GK8 custody stack.