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Kaupr Daily — Monday 30 August, 2026
August gave bitcoin its best month since 2025. The question this morning is whether anything underneath the price has actually changed.
💎 Warsh puts a number on inflation, and it makes near-term easing hard to argue for 💎 The nine-day ETF buying run broke on Friday, though the week still finished positive 💎 Saylor says he's back — and Strategy's balance sheet no longer stands in the way 💎 Schwab opens its shelf to Solana, Chainlink and Avalanche
💎 New podcast: the Nordic treasury companies, a year after the wave
— Morten
🎧 Did you catch — Kaupr Weekly Episode 9: Life After the Premium — The Bitcoin Treasury Companies a Year On?
Close to fifteen Nordic companies announced a bitcoin treasury strategy last year. A year on, most have left quietly, and the four still standing have each attached something else to the balance sheet.
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Episode 9: Life After the Premium — The Bitcoin Treasury Companies a Year On
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Bitcoin's best month meets its first real test
Warsh puts a number on sticky inflation
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh told Jackson Hole that 54% of the PCE basket rose faster than 3% over the past year, well above the pre-pandemic norm. He described labour markets as consistent with full employment and said broad financial conditions are difficult to call restrictive. Bitcoin slipped back under $80,000 as short-dated yields moved up.
Why it matters: The breadth reading turns an abstract argument about sticky inflation into a standard the market can check each month, and it raises the bar for the easing risk assets have been pricing in.
Source: Bitcoin faces a new macro test as Fed Chair Kevin Warsh highlights sticky inflation metrics — CryptoSlate
The nine-day ETF streak breaks
US spot bitcoin ETFs lost $201.9 million on Friday, ending a nine-session run that had absorbed just over $3 billion. The withdrawals came from ARK, Bitwise and BlackRock — the same funds that drove most of the preceding buying. Ethereum, XRP and Solana funds kept taking money in on the same day.
Why it matters: That run was the strongest single support behind bitcoin's late-August recovery, and Monday's session decides whether Friday was a pause or the start of something wider.
Source: Bitcoin ETF inflows snap after $3 billion streak as ETH, XRP and Solana keep buying — CryptoSlate
The week still finished positive
US spot bitcoin ETFs drew $924.5 million over the week to 28 August. BlackRock's IBIT accounted for more than that on its own, meaning every other issuer combined handed money back. Spot ether ETFs added $815.7 million, close to the bitcoin figure from a far smaller fund complex.
Why it matters: Demand carried by one product behaves differently from demand spread across a market, and a single allocation decision now moves the whole category.
Source: US spot bitcoin ETFs draw $924.5 million in weekly inflows as ether funds add $815.7 million — Bloomingbit
Who arrives next, and what brings them
BlackRock's Mitchnick says bitcoin has moved past the regulatory question
Robert Mitchnick, BlackRock's head of digital assets, told CNBC that the CLARITY Act matters less for bitcoin than for assets touching DeFi, because bitcoin has already won an acceptance the rest of crypto has not. He argued its rally while equities struggled reflects the debasement trade rather than equity beta, and that younger investors are choosing bitcoin for the role their parents' generation gave gold.
Why it matters: If allocators treat further legislation as upside rather than a precondition, their timeline stops depending on Washington's.
The next adoption wave turns on access, not argument
CryptoQuant founder Ki Young Ju said institutional money and ETFs outside the US could drive the peak of this cycle, pointing to markets such as South Korea where access to spot bitcoin ETFs remains restricted. A Bitcoin Policy Institute study found the long-standing digital gold framing ranked poorly against messages about control, security and the ability to start small — and that changing the pitch moved people who had previously said they had no interest at all.
Why it matters: Distribution and framing are levers issuers and regulators can pull directly, which the price is not.
Source: Bitcoin hovers near $78,000 as global ETFs access shapes next adoption wave — Investing com
The treasury companies test whether the pause is over
Saylor posts "We're back" as Strategy's holding returns to profit
Bitcoin's climb to around $79,000 on Sunday put Strategy's holding back above what the company paid for it, roughly $2.8 billion in the green. Saylor marked it with a chart and a two-word post, a pattern that has historically come ahead of the weekly purchase disclosure on Monday mornings. Strategy has not bought bitcoin in about two months.
Why it matters: The largest corporate holder resuming purchases would return a buyer the market has done without all summer.
Three things changed in Strategy's finances before the post
Strategy's cash now roughly matches its convertible debt, leaving net leverage close to zero after a summer in which traders priced in forced selling. Its STRC preferred share, built to trade at $100, closed near par on Friday after bottoming in the seventies. The company last bought bitcoin on 22 June and has sold four times since.
Why it matters: Every dollar spent defending STRC below par was a dollar not spent on bitcoin, so the two numbers meeting removes the financial reason for the pause.
Source: Michael Saylor says 'We're back': 3 reasons MicroStrategy may resume buying bitcoin — BeInCrypto
Strategy's mNAV — its market value against the bitcoin it holds — stands at 1.06, down from 3.89 in late 2024. Investors now pay barely more than a dollar for each dollar of bitcoin the company owns. MARA Holdings and Empery Digital both sold bitcoin this year, and Satsuma Technology abandoned the model outright.
Why it matters: Issuing shares above net asset value was the engine of the whole model, and at 1.06 there is almost nothing left to issue against.
Source: Bitcoin is surging, but investors are still worried about bitcoin treasury companies — The Motley Fool
The broker widens the shelf
Schwab adds Solana, Chainlink and Avalanche
Charles Schwab will add SOL, LINK and AVAX to Schwab Crypto in the coming months, expanding a service that launched in May with bitcoin and ethereum only. Trades carry a fee of 75 basis points, and head of digital assets Joe Vietri said more digital assets will follow over time.
Why it matters: A broker adding to its shelf is a distribution decision rather than a market call, and it puts three assets in front of clients who will never open an exchange account.
Source: Wall Street giant Charles Schwab makes major crypto move beyond bitcoin and ethereum — CryptoPotato
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