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Kaupr Daily — Friday 4 September, 2026
The rebound: What turned, what it moved, and what it doesn't prove. Crypto's total market value is back to $2.73 trillion, and almost nothing was left out — coins, the stocks, the ETFs, the dollar. A single Fed governor said he could hold rates steady, and everything repriced within hours.
💎 One Fed governor's remarks cut September hike odds from 59% to 42%
💎 Coinbase, Circle, Strategy and Robinhood all up double digits
💎 Only bitcoin ETFs took money in — ether, XRP and Solana went the other way
💎 Glassnode and IG question how much of August was short covering
💎 Coinbase and Polymarket both push perpetuals onshore
💎 Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
And the last Blockathon Stockholm pre-event is up to watch in full — a weekend before the build starts.
— Morten
The rebound: what turned
A Fed governor flips the rate bet
Christopher Waller, a governor on the Federal Reserve board, said he could support holding rates steady this month if inflation keeps easing — and the market repriced within hours. Odds of a September hike fell from roughly 59% to 42%, Treasury yields eased and gold rose. Crypto's total market value reached $2.73 trillion, with bitcoin back above $81,000.
Why it matters: A week ago Warsh's Jackson Hole speech had the market pricing a hike, and one governor's remarks were enough to reverse it — which says how thin the conviction underneath was.
Source: Crypto market rockets to $2.73T as Fed rate hike fears evaporate — Bitcoin com News
The dollar takes the same message
The dollar touched its lowest level since May, heading for a weekly loss, with traders now seeing roughly even odds on the Fed's 16 September decision. The yen had its best week since July on expectations the Bank of Japan raises this month. Speculators had already cut their dollar bets by almost half since the end of July, when bullish positions were the largest since 2014.
Why it matters: Positioning was unwinding before Waller spoke, so the currency move reflects an exit from a crowded trade as much as a fresh view on the Fed.
Source: US dollar slumps to start September as yen surges on rate bets — Bloomberg
The rebound: what it moved
Crypto-linked stocks run harder than the coins
Coinbase gained more than 10%, while Circle, Strategy and Robinhood each rose about 15%. Bitmine and Galaxy Digital followed with double-digit gains, the latter after Morgan Stanley raised its price target. Bitcoin itself was up around 5% over the same day.
Why it matters: The equity wrappers amplify the move in both directions, which is why they lead on the way up and lead again on the way back down.
Source: Coinbase, Circle, MicroStrategy stocks surge on crypto rebound — TheStreet
Only bitcoin ETFs took money in
US spot bitcoin ETFs took in $101 million on Wednesday, reversing an outflow the day before that had been their largest since July. Ether funds broke a twelve-day run, XRP snapped an eleven-session streak, and Solana funds also lost money. August was the bitcoin funds' strongest month of the year.
Why it matters: Three of the four major categories retreated while bitcoin advanced, which reads less like money leaving crypto than money consolidating inside it.
Source: Bitcoin ETFs rebound as ethereum and XRP ETFs end winning streaks — Decrypt
The move tracked gold, not crypto
Bitcoin's correlation with gold reached 91% during Thursday's rally, well above its correlation with the S&P 500, and liquidations fell sharply, easing forced selling. Bitcoin accounted for close to 60% of the total market. SEC Chairman Paul Atkins is pressing Congress to advance the CLARITY Act ahead of a Senate procedural vote on 15 September.
Why it matters: A move driven by macro positioning rather than by anything happening inside crypto can reverse as quickly as the macro does.
Source: BTC, ETH, XRP rally boost global crypto market cap to $2.7trn — MarketForces Africa
The rebound: what it doesn't prove
Glassnode and IG ask who is actually buying
Glassnode noted that trading activity stayed subdued against previous bull runs even as ETF money came in, and that the Coinbase premium — which compares US prices with international ones — has been negative for more than four months. IG's Tony Sycamore said a good part of the August rally was short covering, leaving positioning close to flat. Glassnode estimates long-term holders are waiting to sell between $83,000 and $86,000.
Why it matters: US demand is the piece that has not confirmed, and the level where existing holders plan to take profit sits just above where the price is now.
Source: Bitcoin retakes US$80,000 as choppy U.S. demand tests the rally — Financial Post
Perpetuals come onshore
Coinbase asks the SEC for 24/7 equity perpetuals
Coinbase filed with the SEC this week for permission to list equity perpetuals, with CFTC approval needed after that. Chief Policy Officer Faryar Shirzad said the products have proven demand internationally and the company wants a regulated route for US investors. Coinbase has offered them outside the US since March, on stocks including Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia and Amazon.
Why it matters: The CFTC cleared bitcoin perpetuals for US listing in May, and equities are the next category to test whether the structure travels onshore.
Source: Coinbase seeks SEC greenlight to list 24/7 equity perpetuals — The Block
Polymarket launches perps on oil, gold and stocks
Polymarket launched perpetual futures on Thursday across crypto, stocks and commodities, including never-expiring contracts on the Brent and West Texas Intermediate oil benchmarks, with up to 20x leverage. Kalshi filed for approval of its own oil perpetual the day before. The structure faces scrutiny over its effect on price discovery in physical markets.
Why it matters: Oil is the first commodity where a perpetual meets a deep existing futures market, which is where the price-discovery question stops being theoretical.
Source: Polymarket launches perpetual futures for 24/7 trading — Investing com
The open-model platform gets an owner
Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
Nvidia confirmed it is buying Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. The platform hosts three million AI models and is used by more than 18 million developers. Jensen Huang said it stays open, and that Nvidia hardware will not be required to build on or deploy through it — a year after Hugging Face turned down a $500 million offer from the same buyer.
Why it matters: The default place developers go to find open models is now owned by the company that sells the hardware most of them run on.
Source: Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion — TechCrunch
The last pre-event is up, and the build starts Monday
Three pre-events, four and a half hours, and one week to go
The last session went out live on Thursday and can now be watched in full, alongside the two earlier ones. The first two were about why. This one was about what: the challenges teams will work on, what the days in Stockholm actually look like, and what it takes to arrive ready.
Watch: The last pre-event before Stockholm is now available to watch — Onchain Build
The last session went out live on Thursday and can now be watched in full, alongside the two earlier ones. The first two were about why. This one was about what: the challenges teams will work on, what the days in Stockholm actually look like, and what it takes to arrive ready.
Seven guests. Fati Hakim (FirstBlock) on why she started the event. Hani Baloch (Blockchain Sweden) on the hackathon and onchain impact. Hani Raisi Halilovic (AI Institutet) on the AI x Blockchain Summit that closes the week. Anna Cederholm (AWS) on the jury and the prize — USD 10,000 in credits for one winning team. Gunnar Risting (Netlight) on a problem statement from the World Food Programme, with Netlight hosting the first two days. Donnie Lygonis (KTH Innovation) and Aidin Ziapour (Sullis) on the platform teams can use during the hackathon.
Hosted and moderated by Morten Myrstad and Melissa Persson.
FIRSTBLOCK-ATHON runs 7–11 September in Stockholm. Applications are still open.
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