
Bitcoin Tops $80K as ETF Inflows Near $1B
Bitcoin topped $80,000 this week as spot Bitcoin ETFs absorbed nearly $1 billion in a single session, the largest daily ETP inflow since November 2024.

Bitcoin topped $80,000 this week as spot Bitcoin ETFs absorbed nearly $1 billion in a single session, the largest daily ETP inflow since November 2024.

Bitcoin trades near $85,800 after failing at $87,300. Bitcoin Cash jumps 28% to nearly $349 after CME says it will list BCH futures from Oct.

CryptoQuant calls Bitcoin's bull market confirmed at $86K spot, but flags a $90,300 upper profit-taking band as the next real test.

Bitcoin held $86,379 with daily volume down 36% as CoinDesk 100 breadth narrowed sharply and Brent crude slipped below $100 for the first time since Sept. 9.

BitMEX stopped all trading at 4:00 UTC on Sept. 23, 2026. Users can still withdraw via the website, but API withdrawals close on Sept. 28.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled $1.7B over Monday and Tuesday while BTC cleared the average ETF holder's $81,722 cost basis for the first time since January.

Bitcoin trades near $86,300 ahead of Friday's $16B Deribit expiry, with US data and CME futures behind it. The gamma map and the invalidation levels.

The median 18-month return for the top 20 non-mining bitcoin treasury stocks is roughly negative 18%, while BTC itself is up less than 3%.

Strategy sold 6,948 BTC at $62,150 in summer, then rebought 5,553 at $80,207 this autumn. The roundtrip cost $100M+; 1,363 coins remain missing.

Coinbase has added fixed-rate bitcoin-backed loans through Morpho Midnight, sitting next to its existing variable-rate Morpho Blue loans. Rates are set onchain.

Binance withdrawal transactions crossed a 90,000 monthly average, about double start-2026 levels, as ETH traded above $2,700 on a 6% daily gain.

Glassnode's Altcoin Cycle Signal printed a new altseason reading at 81.25 as Bitcoin dominance stalled under 60%. Altcoin market cap is up 33% since Aug 19.

Spot bitcoin ETFs took in $998.95M on Monday, the largest single-day inflow in 11 months. BlackRock's IBIT led with $381.4M as bitcoin briefly cleared $87,000.

White hats moved 52.37 BTC tied to the Coldcard entropy flaw into a Wyoming recovery trust. About 1,816 BTC remains in attacker wallets across four theft waves.

Dogecoin added 15% to lead major tokens, the largest move on the day. Bitcoin held $85,600 as $844 million in shorts were liquidated, per CoinGlass.
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Volmex BVIV perpetuals debuted on Hyperliquid Monday with USDC, 5x leverage. Fee schedule, day-one volume and Deribit comparison not disclosed.

Bitcoin cleared $85,000 on Sept. 21, hitting $85,248 before easing to $84,545. CoinGlass tracked $648M in short liquidations over 24 hours.

Strategy bought 950 Bitcoin for $75.7 million, bringing its holdings back to 846,000 BTC while spending another $174 million on STRC preferred-stock buybacks.

Bitcoin price surged toward $85,000 as more than $300 million in crypto short positions were liquidated in one hour, accelerating the market recovery.

NEAR climbed 23% to above $4 as daily ZEC swap volume on NEAR Intents jumped sixfold in a week, while Bitcoin held just above $81,000, per CoinDesk data.

Bitcoin options now carry more open interest than futures for the first time, while offshore dated futures volume sits 97% below its 2021 high, per Glassnode

Polymarket bettors price a 51% chance Bitcoin falls to $75,000 in September, with 70% odds of $80,000 and 18% of $85,000. Deribit's 25-delta put skew sat 1.44pp above calls, with DVOL near 38.9%.

Eric Balchunas says Bitcoin ETFs could eventually hold three times the assets of gold ETFs. Scenario math shows what $1.85 trillion in ETF assets could mean for BTC.