Bitcoin surged 10% as the U.S. Treasury doubled its bond buyback program to $4B per issue, triggering $517M in spot ETF inflows in a single day. Today's briefing also covers Solana's tokenized stock milestone, Trump's Hyperliquid CFTC signal, MANTRA Chain's exploit halt, and global CBDC developments.
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The U.S. Treasury just doubled its bond buyback program, and Bitcoin jumped ten percent in a single day. That's the signal worth paying attention to this morning.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded five hundred seventeen million dollars in a single day of inflows. August total ETF inflows are now one point four seven billion.
While Bitcoin drew the macro headline, Solana had its own institutional moment. Tokenized AI stocks on Solana crossed four hundred sixty-five million dollars in cumulative trading volume.
On the regulatory front, Trump signaled at a White House crypto event that Hyperliquid can enter the U.S. market through a compliant structure. The implication is a CFTC approval pathway for decentralized perpetuals trading.
Not everything moved in a positive direction. MANTRA Chain halted all network activity after attackers exploited an upstream software dependency.
China expanded its digital yuan operator network to thirty banks, up from twenty-two in April, adding regional and joint-stock institutions. South Korea's Project Hangang pilot faced a different kind of problem: viral misinformation linking the digital won to social credit systems.
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