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Boosted by Nvidia's strong Q2 earnings, the Bitcoin spot price has rebounded to the $81,000 range. As August options expiration approaches, analysts believe key selling pressure is easing, indicating greater upside potential once the price breaks through $82,000.
Odaily News According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a certain wallet opened a long position of 15,000 ETH after the ETH price broke through $2,500 again. It currently holds a 20x long position valued at $38 million, with an entry price of $2,529.77. Since August 24, this wallet has accumulated profits exceeding $852,000 by going long on Bitcoin and ETH.
Odaily News, according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a whale opened a 20x leveraged short on BTC worth $38.07 million and exited after 60 hours due to a stop-loss, incurring a loss of $288,000. This marks the 16th failed trade for the whale since turning bearish on August 19, with cumulative losses of $5.25 million over the past month.
According to the morning report published by on-chain analyst Axel Adler Jr., following Bitcoin's rebound to approximately $78,000, the financial pressure on coin holders has significantly eased: Bitcoin's net unrealized loss (NUL) dropped from 18.57% to 7.35% over the past ten days, a decline of roughly 60%. This represents a near 71% decrease from the local peak of 25.21% on June 30, reaching its lowest level since May 11. Meanwhile, the 90-day realized profit/loss ratio rose to 1.003 on August 26, marking the first time it has returned above 1 since late July. This indicates that, calculated on a 90-day smoothed basis, realized profits have slightly exceeded realized losses. Prior to this, the metric stayed below 1 for 26 consecutive days beginning July 31, touching 0.747 on August 16 when BTC traded around $62,800. The report notes that on-chain loss pressure has shifted from dominating to improving, but the profit/loss ratio sits only slightly above the critical threshold, insufficient to confirm a trend reversal. Subsequent monitoring should focus on whether this indicator can sustainably hold its ground and advance, as well as whether unrealized losses remain subdued. If the ratio falls back below 1 and unrealized losses rebound, it may signal renewed selling pressure.
Bitget has launched a net deposit bonus event, running from August 27 to September 10. During the event, VIP users who meet the specified USDT net deposit requirements and subscribe to the corresponding Simple Earn products can enjoy up to 7% additional yield; all users who meet the specified USDT net deposit requirements and subscribe to the corresponding Simple Earn products can enjoy up to 10% additional yield.Additionally, from September 3 to September 10, users who meet the average holdings requirement for wealth management products over the past 7 days can subscribe to the corresponding USDT or USDT Simple Earn products and enjoy up to 7.5% additional yield. No manual registration is required for the event, as eligibility will be automatically verified by the system. For more details, please refer to Bitget's official platform.
According to data disclosed by Trader T (@thepfund), Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded a net inflow of $232.12 million yesterday, lower than the $314.37 million on August 25. BlackRock's IBIT led with a net inflow of $200.76 million, while Fidelity's FBTC and Bitwise's BITB recorded net inflows of $25.59 million and $5.96 million, respectively. The Grayscale Mini Bitcoin ETF (BTC) saw a net inflow of $46.83 million, whereas Grayscale's GBTC experienced a net outflow of $50.39 million. Morgan Stanley's MSBT logged a net inflow of $3.37 million, while capital flows for the other reported products were zero for the day.
According to the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau, Shanghai police recently dismantled a major underground banking operation involving the use of virtual currencies for illegal cross-border foreign exchange, arresting 19 suspects in a case involving nearly 20 billion yuan. Authorities stated that since August 2024, the syndicate facilitated cross-border currency swaps through a "RMB–virtual currency–foreign currency" pathway: domestic funds were used to purchase virtual currencies, which were then sold via overseas channels to obtain foreign currency before being transferred to client-designated accounts, with service fees collected in the process. Five principal suspects have been formally arrested on suspicion of the crime of illegal business operations and the crime of assisting information network criminal activities, while the case remains under further investigation.
According to Glassnode, Bitcoin has rebounded approximately 26% from its mid-August low, driven primarily by record short liquidations. August 19 marked the largest single-day short liquidation day monitored since 2019, with shorts accounting for 85% of total liquidations within the squeeze window. Over the same period, coin-denominated BTC futures open interest fell by 11%, while perpetual contract funding rates remained largely neutral, indicating that the rally was not accompanied by significant new leveraged long positioning. On the capital flow front, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded cumulative net inflows of $2.23 billion during this window, with no single-day net outflows, marking the strongest consecutive seven-day inflow streak of the year. The 30-day accumulation trend scores for wallets across all size categories remained above 0.5, reflecting broad-based buying coverage throughout the market. However, Glassnode notes that the $81,000–$86,000 zone concentrates the cost basis of long-term holders, sell orders, options market maker negative gamma positioning, and potential short liquidation bands, forming the primary resistance to the current rebound. The report suggests that if BTC holds above $83,300 alongside sustained ETF inflows, it may signal that this supply zone is being absorbed. Downside focus should then shift to the $70,000 short-term holder cost basis, followed by the $62,000–$65,000 support range.
Odaily News reported that Galaxy Research tracking found that 6 bitcoin wallets, dormant since 2011, 2012, and 2014, transferred a total of 553.59 BTC between August 16 and 26, valued at $40.15 million at the time of transfer. Two of the wallets carry the "Salomon Client Dusted" tag linked to a New York lawsuit involving Noah Doe.One of the transfers involved 40 BTC from a wallet dormant since May 28, 2012, with the funds moved on August 26 to German crypto custodian bank Boerse Stuttgart Digital. Calculated at a cost of approximately $5, the funds appreciated by roughly 1,535,911%.The remaining transfers included 212 BTC, 150 BTC, and 132.31 BTC, originating from wallets inactive since 2012, 2014, and 2011, respectively. The Noah Doe lawsuit seeks to declare 39,069 dormant bitcoin addresses in New York State as lost property. Additionally, several long-term holding addresses moved funds following the July Coldcard hardware wallet vulnerability incident. (Decrypt)
Odaily News Bitcoin has rebounded strongly recently. Analysts believe that record-breaking short squeeze activity, along with policy signals from U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, may be pushing the market into a new phase of bull market cycle adjustment.Data shows that Bitcoin has risen approximately 23% over the past week, marking its largest weekly gain since the post-U.S. election rally in November 2024. Crypto market trading activity has also recovered in tandem, with spot and perpetual contract trading volume surging 188%. CME Bitcoin futures volume rose 152%, and the annualized futures basis climbed to 11.1%—the highest level since January 2025. Additionally, Bitcoin ETF products recorded net inflows of approximately 31,740 BTC over the week, the strongest capital inflow since the market peak in October 2025.Vetle Lunde, Head of Research at crypto research firm K33 Research, stated that the early phase of this rally was primarily driven by short covering. On August 19, Bitcoin short positions saw a single-day liquidation scale of $1.37 billion, a record high, followed by another $739 million in short liquidations on August 21. The massive short squeeze pushed open interest in perpetual contracts down to 284,000 BTC, the lowest level since May, while market funding rates also returned to neutral.On the macro front, policy signals from U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent regarding increased long-term Treasury buybacks are also viewed by analysts as a market catalyst. K33 believes that the Treasury buyback program could lower long-term interest rates and boost demand for scarce assets. Meanwhile, Bitcoin's correlation with gold has risen, with the 90-day correlation coefficient reaching 0.52—the highest since October 2020—while its correlation with the Nasdaq index has declined to 0.38, a one-year low.Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer at crypto investment firm Bitwise Asset Management, believes that Bessent's recent remarks on sanctions against Iran's financial network have further strengthened Bitcoin's investment thesis: as the global financial system becomes increasingly influenced by geopolitics, the value of assets that are decentralized and do not rely on any single nation's financial system may appreciate further. (The Block)
Odaily News According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a certain address has accumulated 6,000 ETH since August 17, with a cost price range of $1,894 to $2,505. It currently holds ETH worth $14.56 million, with an average withdrawal price of $2,427.29, resulting in floating profits of $130,000. The most recent position addition occurred 3 hours ago.
According to Odaily, the Iranian rial hit a record low this week, with the open market exchange rate falling to approximately 2.02 million rials per US dollar on August 24, compared to around 1.53 million rials in the first quarter. During the same period, the US government launched "Operation Economic Exodus," adding more than 60 entities to the Treasury Department's blacklist and, for the first time, designating digital assets as a sanctionable category.State-controlled farms linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) control approximately 65% of Iran's Bitcoin mining capacity. Iranian miners have accounted for roughly 3% to 7% of global Bitcoin hashrate since 2019, with the mined Bitcoin valued at an estimated $1.35 billion to $3.15 billion at various stages.Iran legalized Bitcoin mining in 2019, allowing licensed operators to use industrial electricity at approximately $0.004 per kilowatt-hour and sell the mined tokens to the Central Bank of Iran. Chainalysis estimates that IRGC-affiliated wallets received over $3 billion in Q4 2025; Elliptic states that the Central Bank of Iran holds at least $507 million in USDT.The US Treasury sanctioned Nobitex, Wallex, Bitpin, and Ramzinex in June. Nobitex had processed more than half of Iran's digital asset inflows; in April, the US Treasury seized nearly $500 million in Iran-linked crypto assets. (Bitcoin.com News)
According to Digital Asset, Hyperliquid launched the AQAv2 (Aligned Quote Asset v2) mechanism on August 26, allocating a portion of the returns generated by USDC reserves on the platform toward capital accumulation, which will ultimately be directed to the Assistance Fund for secondary market repurchases and burns of HYPE to reduce its circulating supply. Under this mechanism, Circle is responsible for USDC technical deployment, while Coinbase handles reserve management; stablecoin issuers are expected to share approximately 90% of the relevant reserve returns with the protocol after deducting operating costs. Returns are accumulated on a 30-day cycle, with the initial fund transfer expected on October 3. Market estimates indicate that, based on current USDC outstanding balances and yield rates, annualized returns could reach $135 million to $160 million, although the actual repurchase scale will ultimately depend on the platform's USDC supply and reserve yields.
Odaily News Since August 23, Bitcoin long positions have remained at a relatively stable level, with the market showing a neutral consolidation trend following the price increase. Since August 17, Bitcoin short positions have been continuously declining, with some short capital steadily exiting the market. At present, longs have yet to show any significant further accumulation.
Odaily News: As of August, cumulative top-ups on USDC- and USDT-linked stablecoin cards have reached $13.8 billion, an increase of nearly $10 billion over the past 12 months. Stablecoin cards are shifting USDC and USDT from trading balances toward everyday consumer use cases.USDC currently leads in tracked card spending, while USDT is accelerating its catch-up. The two follow different adoption paths: USDC benefits more from fintech integrations and payment infrastructure, whereas USDT is more active across exchanges, remittances, and emerging markets.On-chain settlement also reflects a multi-chain distribution, with Base leading at approximately $1.2 billion, followed by Solana at $635 million, Polygon at $544 million, and Optimism at $509 million. Networks such as Arbitrum, Scroll, Ethereum, and Stellar are also carrying significant activity.Stablecoin cards still rely on traditional payment networks like Visa and Mastercard, shifting the competitive focus toward custody, FX costs, cashback, and capital efficiency. Meanwhile, Circle has renewed its USDC partnership with Coinbase under the original terms, excluding any dividend arrangements. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily News: Recent Bitcoin volatility has triggered a wave of leveraged long position liquidations. On August 22, hourly liquidations reached $529 million, with long positions accounting for $478 million; on August 23, an additional $84 million in crypto long positions were liquidated within one hour.Prediction market Kalshi launched the first spot Bitcoin perpetual futures contract approved by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on June 3, with liquidations reaching $5.5 billion in the first two weeks. Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour stated that the product offers U.S. institutions regulated onshore perpetual contract trading.Benjamin Schiffrin, Director of Securities Policy at Better Markets, pointed out that perpetual futures are high-risk crypto products for retail investors, and the CFTC did not impose additional investor protections when approving them. Analysis account Qmo noted that there are significant Bitcoin long liquidation pools in the $62,000 to $67,000 range; trader Money Bunny disclosed that short liquidations reached $2.7 billion to $3.5 billion within 24 hours. (Forbes Digital Assets)
According to official announcements, Binance will adjust the cross-margin leverage borrowing and transferable collateral ratios, Unified Account margin ratio, and Unified Account Pro tiered margin ratio for certain assets on August 28, 2026, at 14:00 (UTC+8). The process is expected to take approximately 30 minutes.
Odaily News: As AI trading sentiment cools and South Korean regulators take measures to curb related investment demand, leveraged ETFs tied to the country's chipmakers have seen nearly $1 billion in outflows this month.So far, Samsung Electronics-linked leveraged products have seen approximately $381 million in outflows in August, while SK Hynix-linked products have seen about $601 million. If this trend continues, it would mark the first monthly net outflow since these products were launched at the end of May. (Bloomberg)
According to a post by CryptoQuant analyst Woominkyu, since early July, BTC’s price has climbed from approximately $60,000 to $78,000, marking an increase of roughly 30%. Over the same period, overall market funding grew from $20.6 billion to $24.9 billion, nearing a high for this phase. He noted that, contrary to the price appreciation, the share of borrowed funds did not rise correspondingly. This indicator peaked on August 14 and has trended downward since, with the leverage ratio failing to recover significantly despite BTC accelerating its gains after August 19. He views the current capital structure as healthier than rallies driven by borrowed capital; however, should BTC prices stagnate while the borrowing ratio climbs again, it could emerge as a risk signal requiring close monitoring.
Odaily News, CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr. stated that as BTC rose from approximately $63,000 to $77,000 over the past 8 days, the proportion of BTC short-term holders (STH) in profit has climbed from 26.1% on August 17 to 74.9%, indicating that the majority of short-term holders have returned to a profitable state.Meanwhile, the net profit/loss indicator for short-term holders flowing to exchanges has turned positive, reaching +28,600 BTC as of August 24, surpassing the +25,000 BTC level. Axel Adler Jr. pointed out that if this indicator continues to stay above +25,000 BTC while BTC's upward momentum begins to slow, the risk of concentrated selling by short-term holders will further increase. Conversely, if the indicator falls back to near zero while BTC's price remains stable, it would suggest that potential selling pressure is easing.