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According to data from Blockworks, the Solana network ranks first in stablecoin transfers, with a transaction volume of 557 million in September, an increase of 33% compared to August. The average daily transaction volume is 18.6 million.

The cryptocurrency trading platform Bitfinex stated that among the approximately 60,000 BTC accumulated by Bitcoin whales, most were purchased since late August, with buying prices ranging from about $80,000 to $86,000.Bitfinex noted that this price range is roughly equivalent to Bitcoin's current price. The platform also mentioned that if these whales continue to hold the aforementioned Bitcoin during this round of correction, the price just above $80,000 will receive support.

According to CNBC, U.S. President Trump sold between 1 million to 5 million dollars worth of AMD stock in August.

In August, the U.S. trade deficit significantly widened to $105.6 billion, the highest level since early 2025. A surge in capital goods imports drove overall imports to a record high, increasing by 4.3%, while exports rose by 1.4%.Adjusted for inflation, the goods trade deficit expanded to $114.7 billion. Imports of crude oil and petroleum products increased by $9.1 billion, while exports rose by $6.3 billion.

Well-known trader Killa posted a prediction that BTC will break its historical high between April 26 and August 2, 2027. The attached chart compares historical cycles, indicating that the bottoming period in 2022 and 2026 has shortened, suggesting that the cycle rhythm has accelerated due to an earlier bottom. It is estimated that Bitcoin could reach a new high as early as May to July 2027.Killa, as a quantitative trader focused on BTC, predicted the peak of this bull market in May 2025 and has over 200,000 followers on platform X. In mid-April, he shorted Bitcoin at $74,688 and switched to long during the market-wide decline on June 5.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics revised the non-farm payroll employment for July from +21,000 to -10,000, and for August from 162,000 to 133,000.After the revisions, the total number of new jobs for July and August is 60,000 lower than before the revisions.

Cryptocurrency analyst @AxelAdlerJr stated that the buying pressure indicator in the Bitcoin futures market has risen to 4.9, the highest since August 19; the contract open interest has increased by nearly 9,000 BTC within 24 hours.This indicator reading means that the accumulated buying pressure over the past 12 hours is nearly five standard deviations higher than the average level of the past week. @AxelAdlerJr indicated that if the Bitcoin price remains above $85,000 while the upward momentum weakens, the upward trend is likely to continue; if the price falls below $83,000, the liquidation of newly established long positions may accelerate the decline.

In August, the actual personal consumption expenditure in the United States increased by 0.6% month-on-month, compared to a previous value of 0.

In August, the core PCE price index in the United States had a year-on-year rate of 3%, lower than the expected 3.3%, with the previous value revised from 3.3% to 3%.

In August, the JOLTs job openings in the United States were 7.079 million, lower than the expected 7.225 million, and the previous value was revised from 7.271 million to 7.335 million.

According to Axel Adler Jr's monitoring, although the price of Bitcoin has further risen to around $87,000, the market's profit-taking pressure is weaker than in August. During the second round of price increases, profits realized were 19% lower than during the first round, and losses also decreased.At the peak of the first round of increases on August 26, the price of Bitcoin was about $78,600, with profits realized over the past 7 days reaching $9.1 billion; at the peak of the second round on September 24, the price of Bitcoin rose to $84,100, with profits realized over the past 7 days amounting to $7.3 billion, a 19% decrease from the previous round. During the same period, losses realized over the past 7 days dropped from $2.6 billion to $1.5 billion. As of today, Bitcoin's net realized profit over the past 7 days is $4.3 billion.The Short-Term Holder SOPR has remained above 1 since August 20, indicating that the overall Bitcoin transferred by short-term holders is still in profit, but the profit margin has narrowed. At the peak on August 26, the corresponding profit margin for short-term holder SOPR was 2.8%; it dropped to 1.6% at the peak on September 23; and as of today, it has further decreased to 1%. During the pullback of Bitcoin to $76,500 on September 17, the short-term holder SOPR fell to a low of 1.003, with the profit margin for short-term holders transferring Bitcoin narrowing to 0.3%, but it did not fall below 1.

On-chain analyst Darkfost posted on X, stating that since June 2026, the total market capitalization of altcoins, including ETH, has attracted over $371 billion in inflows, an increase of about 45%.Meanwhile, approximately 87% of altcoins on Binance are currently above the 200-day moving average, while about 80% of altcoins were still below this average in August of this year. Darkfost believes this reflects a significant recent concentration of funds into altcoins, while market sentiment has shown signs of overheating to some extent, and attention should be paid to whether the subsequent momentum can be sustained.

Analysis released by a16z crypto on September 23 shows that the total transaction volume of real-world asset perpetual contracts in August 2026 is $11.73 billion, with on-chain platform transaction volume accounting for about $10.1 billion, or 86%; centralized exchange transaction volume is about $16 billion, an increase of 44 times compared to the same period last year. A year ago, the on-chain platform transaction share was only one-third or lower.As of the end of August, the open interest size is $4.8 billion, expanding about 30 times from $161 million in July 2025. In terms of transaction volume, stocks account for 48%, commodities for 28%, and indices for 18%, indicating a shift in transaction structure from being commodity-dominated previously. a16z states that the HIP-3 protocol launched by Hyperliquid in October 2025 simplifies the creation of new perpetual markets and enhances liquidity sharing.

ARK analyst Lorenzo Valente stated that Uniswap completed approximately 140 million transactions in August this year, surpassing the total number of transactions on both the Cboe BZX and NYSE American trading platforms. NYSE American, a subsidiary of the New York Stock Exchange, has been operating since 1908, while Uniswap was launched in 2018; five years ago, Uniswap's monthly transaction volume was only about 2 million transactions.Valente noted that in terms of transaction volume, the next target for Uniswap to catch up with is NYSE Arca, which completed approximately 232 million transactions in August.

According to a report released by Spartan Capital, Robinhood Chain will launch its mainnet on July 1, 2026. By the end of August, the on-chain DEX trading volume had risen to $1.5 billion, with a TVL increasing to $711 million, and on-chain gas revenue in August reached $6.6 million.The report shows that most of the trading volume in August came from Uniswap, with a single-day on-chain fee reaching $2.1 million on August 31. Robinhood is responsible for running the sequencer and receives about 90% of the on-chain fees. After deducting Ethereum settlement costs and the 10% licensing fee paid to Arbitrum DAO, the net income for August was approximately $6 million. Regarding Robinhood Earn, users deposit USDG and borrow through Morpho, with the deposit scale increasing from $9.5 million on July 1 to $456 million on August 31, accounting for 68% of Robinhood Chain's TVL at the end of the month. Users can earn an estimated annualized yield of about 7%, while the yield on the loan side was approximately 3.7% at the end of August, with the difference subsidized by reward funds provided by Morpho and its lending partners.Meanwhile, the Meme ecosystem of Robinhood Chain is growing rapidly. By the end of August, over 340,000 tokens had been issued on-chain, with application layer transaction fees reaching $114 million in August. The report states that the trading volume of Meme and tokenized stock trading pairs is also growing rapidly, with the trading volume of Meme tokens paired with Robinhood Stock Tokens reaching $518 million in August. The report points out that the current trading activity on Robinhood Chain is still mainly driven by crypto-native users, and Robinhood's own 27 million funded accounts have not yet been migrated to the chain on a large scale. The gas subsidies in the Robinhood wallet will continue until September 29, and the Earn yield is also planned to be gradually reduced.

The venture capital firm a16z crypto stated that the trading of perpetual contracts linked to stocks, gold, and other traditional assets has rapidly increased, with more transactions occurring on-chain. In August 2026, the transaction volume reached $117.3 billion, up 44 times from a year earlier, with open interest at $4.8 billion. After a decline in transaction volume in April 2026, it hit a new high again in May, rising to $145.1 billion in July, before falling back to $117.3 billion in August.Open interest increased from $161 million in July 2025 to $4.8 billion in August 2026, nearly a 30-fold increase, remaining close to record highs even as transaction volumes declined. As of November 2025, centralized exchanges accounted for about two-thirds or more of monthly transaction volumes, with December nearly evenly split with on-chain venues; in August 2026, on-chain venues accounted for 86%, approximately $101 billion, while centralized exchanges accounted for about $16 billion, with their transaction volume declining from a peak in March to July.The decentralized perpetual contract platform Hyperliquid launched HIP-3 in October 2025, allowing developers to deploy their own perpetual contract markets using the shared trading infrastructure HyperCore. That month, the on-chain RWA perpetual transaction volume increased to about $4 billion, with on-chain venues accounting for nearly half of the tracked transaction volume in December. A year ago, commodities accounted for 84%, while in August this year, stocks accounted for 48%, commodities for 28%, and indices for 18%. In June, the open interest for stocks was $1.6 billion, surpassing commodities at $1.2 billion, and in August, they were $2.2 billion and $1.6 billion, respectively.

According to statistics from Gaogong Robotics, in August of this year, there were a total of 168 winning projects disclosed in domestic bidding related to embodied intelligent robots, with a total amount of approximately 550 million yuan. Among them, products from Yushu Technology appeared in 55 procurement orders and 89 bids, accounting for about one-third, and ranked first in the number of winning bids with 136 medium/full-size humanoid and quadruped robots.In terms of amount, there were only 7 orders at the ten million yuan level, accounting for about 4%. The largest single order was for the "Shanxi Taichu Embodied Intelligent Innovation R&D Center Integrated Technology Operation Service Provider Project," amounting to 122 million yuan, used for the construction of a data collection and training center. In the overall orders, the amount for the data collection training center accounted for about 60%, while the projects flowing into scientific research and education accounted for nearly 80%. Projects directed towards real scenarios such as power inspection, industrial inspection, cultural tourism commercial use, and firefighting accounted for less than 10%.

According to Bloomberg on September 22, China's gold imports are at a record level this year, driven by falling international gold prices and a strengthening yuan. Customs data shows that the procurement volume has exceeded 1,000 tons as of August, surpassing the total for the entire year of 2025, with relevant customs data traceable back to 2017.Goldman Futures analyst Wu Zijie stated that strong investment demand has kept domestic gold prices at a slight premium relative to international benchmarks, thereby attracting imports.