1-Min Market Brief_20250902

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Key Takeaways

  • Macro Environment: Milan is highly likely to take office before the September FOMC meeting, slightly increasing rate cut expectations. U.S. equities were closed for the day; U.S. equity futures edged higher.
  • Crypto Market: With U.S. equities closed and lacking direction, Bitcoin traded in a narrow range between 107k–109k, closing up 0.92% on the day. ETH came under pressure, ETH/BTC fell below 0.04, and altcoin market cap dominance dropped by 0.3%, with broad-based declines across altcoins.
  • Outlook for Today:
    • U.S. August S&P Global Manufacturing PMI Final
    • U.S. August ISM Manufacturing PMI
    • ENA unlock: 1.25% of circulating supply, ~$145M

Main Asset Changes

Index Value % Change
BTC 109,237.40 +0.92%
ETH 4,314.33 -1.78%
Crypto Fear & Greed Index: 49 (vs. 46 24h ago), Neutral

Project Highlights

Trending Tokens: WLFI
  • WLFI: Circulating supply ambiguity before launch caused major controversy. Opening price was 0.3. Early-round investors gained 20x and 6x returns respectively, leading to heavy profit-taking and sharp price declines at launch.
  • USD1 Ecosystem Projects (B, BLOCK, EG1): Declined alongside WLFI.
  • SOL: Solana’s proposal SIMD-0326 passed, reducing block finality time from 12.8 seconds to ~150 ms.

Macro Economy

  • U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent: Fed nominee Milan is highly likely to assume office before the September FOMC meeting.

Industry Highlights

  • Hong Kong Monetary Authority: Received 77 stablecoin license intent applications, but only a few licenses will be issued in the initial phase.
  • South Korea: To share domestic and overseas crypto transaction data with multiple foreign tax authorities.
  • EU Regulators: Warn tokenized stocks may mislead retail investors.
  • Metaplanet increased Bitcoin holdings by 1,009 BTC, bringing its total to 20,000 BTC.
  • WLFI: USD1 officially launched on Solana, integrated with Raydium, BONK.fun, and Kamino.
  • WSJ: Trump family accumulated $5B in paper wealth following WLFI issuance.
  • Futian Investment Holdings issued the world’s first public offshore RMB RWA bond on a public blockchain.
  • CoinShares: Digital asset investment products saw $2.48B in inflows last week.

This Week’s Outlook

  • Sep 2: U.S. Aug S&P Global Manufacturing PMI Final; U.S. Aug ISM Manufacturing PMI; ENA unlock (1.25% of supply, ~$145M).
  • Sep 3: Ondo Finance to launch on-chain U.S. equities trading platform.
  • Sep 4: Fed Beige Book release; U.S. Aug ADP employment change; Taipei Blockchain Week 2025.
  • Sep 5: U.S. Aug Nonfarm Payrolls; IMX unlock (1.27% of supply, ~$12.8M).
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