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Monday to Wednesday, 31 August to 2 September

Thursday, 3 September: Waller talks, bitcoin flies

Friday, 4 September: the jobs report undoes it

The weekend: 5 to 7 September

The ETF money, day by day

What it means

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Bitcoin's Week. A Fed Governor, a Jobs Report, and $730 Million in One Day

By India Crypto Research|3 mins read

Last Updated on: Sep 08, 2026|Published On: Sep 6, 2026

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Key Takeaways

Bitcoin ended the week almost flat, moving from $78,570 to $79,110 despite a sharp rally above $82,000.
Waller's Fed comments triggered the rally, sending Bitcoin to $82,178 and driving $730.8 million into spot Bitcoin ETFs.
The jobs report reversed the move, with stronger-than-expected hiring pushing Bitcoin back below $79,000 within hours.
$82,178 remains the key resistance level, while $78,500–$78,795 has acted as support. The next major catalyst is US CPI on 11 September.

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Crypto Market Updates

Bitcoin's Week. A Mixed CPI Report, Four Days of ETF Outflows, and a Vote Nobody Can Call

1. Tuesday-Wednesday, 8-9 September
2. Thursday, 10 September: The worst day of the week for ETFs
3. Friday 11 September: balanced CPI data grew confidence for both hawks and doves
4. Monday, 14 September
5. The vote that hangs over everything

XRP's Week. A Fall Under $1.34, a Zero-Flow Day, and the Only ETF Category That Never Went Negative

1. Tuesday to Thursday, 8 to 10 September
2. Friday, 11 September: price recovers, flows go flat
3. 12 to 13 September
4. The real story: XRP’s ETFs never went red.
5. Wall Street is beginning to use XRP ETFs as collateral
6. What it means

BNB's Week. A $752 Open, a Drop Under $710, and a Real-World-Asset Crown Taken From Solana

1. Tuesday to Thursday, 8 to 10 September
2. Friday, 11 September: The CPI spike works in BNB's favor as well
3. The weekend: 12 to 13 September
4. The Real Story: BNB Chain Blows Past Solana for Real-World Assets
5. Still no BNB ETF, but the filings keep moving.
6. What it means

Market Update: BNB’s $700 Battle, What’s Behind the Pullback?

1. BNB Had Its Own Big Week Too. Here's What Actually Happened
2. The rally into midweek
3. The pullback
4. Today, 1 September
5. What actually drove the rally
6. How it compares to bitcoin's week

Solana Market Update: Governance Vote Rewrites Inflation and Token Economics

1. Solana Just Rewrote Its Own Economics. Here's the Full Story
2. The rally into the vote
3. Friday's governance vote
4. The weekend and into today
5. Why this matters more than a normal price swing

Market Update: Ethereum’s $2,500 Wall, ETF Inflows Keep Climbing

1. Ethereum, Near-Record ETF Inflows, Staking kept climbing through the month, a Wall at $2,500, and a Close Near $2,419
2. ETF inflows never went negative in the last week
3. Staking kept climbing through the month
4. What's still working underneath the chop

Market Update: TRX Holds Steady as Nasdaq Treasury Keeps Buying

1. A Nasdaq Treasury Keeps Buying While the Price Barely Moves
2. The week in price
3. The real story: a Nasdaq company that keeps buying TRX
4. A staked TRX ETF is still waiting on the SEC
5. Why any of this matters for TRX specifically

Solana's Week. A Trip to $98.65, an ETF Market Measured in Millions Not Hundreds of Millions, and an Upgrade Still Waiting to Go Live

1. Between Tuesday and Wednesday, 8 and 9 September:
2. Thursday, 10 September: a multi-week low
3. Friday, 11 September: the CPI spike lifts SOL back above $100
4. Monday 14 September
5. A network upgrade that isn't activated yet.
6. Defining moments

Bitcoin Mining and Number of Bitcoins Mined Till Today

1. 1. What Is Bitcoin Mining?
2. 2. Why Bitcoin Mining Matters
3. 3. How does the Bitcoin Mining Process Work
4. 4. The Evolution of Bitcoin Mining
5. 5. How Bitcoin Miners Earn Money
6. 6. Bitcoin Halving and the 21 million Supply
7. 7. The Future of Bitcoin Mining
8. Conclusion

Ethereum's Week. A $2,654 Spike, Two ETF Outflow Days Instead of Four, and a Quarter That's Up 60%

1. CPI for Friday, September 11
2. Monday, 14 September
3. Institutional staking as an infrastructure service
4. What this means

Current Article

Bitcoin's Week. A Fed Governor, a Jobs Report, and $730 Million in One Day

1. Monday to Wednesday, 31 August to 2 September
2. Thursday, 3 September: Waller talks, bitcoin flies
3. Friday, 4 September: the jobs report undoes it
4. The weekend: 5 to 7 September
5. The ETF money, day by day
6. What it means

Ethereum’s Week: Whales Are Buying, Retail Is Selling, and $2,544 Won’t Budge

1. Monday to Thursday, 31 August to 3 September
2. Friday, 4 September: a fresh high, then the jobs report
3. The weekend: 5 to 7 September
4. Whales Buying, Retail Selling
5. ETF demand cooled off sharply
6. Behind the scenes: Vitalik on Ethereum's cryptographic future
7. What it means

Solana’s Week: A Death Cross, $348M in RWA Flows, and a Choppy Climb to $105

1. Monday to Thursday, 31 August to 3 September
2. Friday, 4 September: the jobs report cools things down
3. Monday, 7 September
4. ETF flows swung both ways
5. Solana still leads on real-world assets.
6. A death cross is now in place.
7. What it means

Solana's Week. A Fall Under $96, a 17% Faster Network, and an ETF Streak That Wouldn't Break

1. September 16: The Fed Hikes; SOL Remains Strong
2. September 17: Positive Close on Quiet Network Upgrade
3. September 18: Investor Favor Continues; Major Speed Upgrade Activated
4. The recent improvements to the network and what is ahead
5. What's happening

Ethereum's Week. A Drop Under $2,400, a Glamsterdam Milestone, and a Missed Shot at $2,672

1. Tuesday, September 15: ether follows bitcoin lower
2. Wednesday, September 16: FED raises rates, Ether tests Glamsterdam
3. Thursday, September 17: further Ether outflows
4. Sept. 18: Rally arrives, flows turn positive
5. The remainder of the week, Sept. 19-20:
6. What the recent test run means
7. What it Means

XRP's Week. A 9.8% Crash, Ripple's Legal Team Speaks Up, and a Ledger Upgrade Racing Toward Activation

1. September 15: The Crash, and What's at Stake for XRP
2. September 16: bottom before the rate hike
3. September 17: sideways price action and the approach of the Ledger update
4. What the Batch V1.1 update does and the reason for a partial rebuild
5. What it Means

BNB's Week. A Dip to $704, a $768 Peak, and a Correction on a Previous Claim

1. Thurs. 17 September: continued climb
2. Fri. 18 September: Week's high
3. 19-20 Sept. Weekend
4. Revising BNB's ETF section of last week's report
5. What it means

Bitcoin's Week. A Failed Senate Vote, a Fed Hike, and a Rally That Shrugged Off Both

1. Tuesday, September 15: The CLARITY Act Fails
2. Wednesday, 16 September
3. Thursday, 17 September
4. Friday, 18 September
5. The Weekend: Sep 19-20
6. The Cross
7. What it means

Regulation’s Week- ICR Crypto Regulation Updates

1. India: Enforcement Over Legislation
2. United States: Regulators Move Without Congress
3. European Union: MiCA Is Live, But Already Changing
4. Steady and Predictable: Dubai
5. What This Means for the Reader

Bitcoin Treasuries Week: Trump's MSTR Stake, Strategy and Strive Both Buy, and BTC Breaks $84,000

1. Top 3 Latest News on BTC Treasuries
2. Top 5 Bitcoin Holding Companies
3. Top 5 Bitcoin ETFs
4. Top 5 Government Bitcoin Holdings
5. Top 5 Ethereum Treasury Companies
6. Most Important Digital Credit Instruments
7. Summing Up

XRP's Week. A Seven-Year Chart Pattern Completes, Goldman Sachs Shows Up, and ETFs Wake From a Freeze

Bitcoin Reclaims Its Cost Basis but the Buyers Have Not Returned

1. This week in one minute
2. Why does it matter that Bitcoin is back above its cost basis?
3. Where is the new money and buying for this current rally?
4. Bitcoin unfazed by interest rate hike
5. Holders are calm, not greedy
6. Miners keep adding power
7. Leverage is neutral ahead of a big expiry.
8. Where are the key levels?
9. What this means for Indian readers
10. What is yet to occur

BNB's Week. A Touch of $807, a Wednesday Low, and the Fed's Stablecoin Rules Land Right in BNB's Backyard

Solana's Week. A New ETF Record, a Friday High, and Alpenglow One Day Away

Ethereum's Week. A $2,800 Rejection, Five Straight Days of ETF Inflows, and a Quiet Quarter-End

Bitcoin started the week at $78,570. It's ending the week at $79,110, almost the same number. In between, it spiked past $82,000, then got yanked back under $79,000 within hours, and still pulled in the biggest single day of ETF money since January. Here's the whole week.

Monday to Wednesday, 31 August to 2 September

Bitcoin closed Monday at $78,570, up 1.12%. Tuesday gave that back and more, down 1.45% to $77,431. Wednesday was flat, down just 0.10% to $77,350. Nothing dramatic. The real trigger was still 24 hours away.

Thursday, 3 September: Waller talks, bitcoin flies

Fed Governor Christopher Waller said he'd support holding interest rates steady this month unless inflation ran hot. That was it. That was the whole spark. Bitcoin ran from $77,349 to an intraday high of $82,178, its best level since May, before settling the day at $81,272, up 5.07%. Roughly $456 million in short positions were liquidated as the move caught bearish traders offside. Spot bitcoin ETFs took in $730.8 million that day, the strongest single day since January.

Friday, 4 September: the jobs report undoes it

Then came the number nobody was ready for. August nonfarm payrolls came in at 162,000, nearly triple the 56,000 economists expected, the strongest month of hiring since March. Unemployment held at 4.1%. Two-year Treasury yields jumped, the dollar strengthened, and bitcoin gave up the entire Waller rally inside two hours, falling from above $81,000 to as low as $78,672. It closed at $79,666, down 1.98%. CME FedWatch odds of a September rate hike jumped to 58% from 49.4% overnight. The crypto market lost roughly $70 billion in total value in the space of thirty minutes.

Bitcoin's full week, 31 August to 7 September 2026, including Thursday's Waller-driven spike and Friday's jobs-report reversal.

The weekend: 5 to 7 September

Bitcoin recovered quietly, closing Saturday at $79,823, up 0.20%, then Sunday at $80,350, up 0.66%, briefly back above the $80,000 mark heading into the new week.

Bitcoin closed at $79,110, down 1.54%, slipping back under $80,000 on a quiet trading day. Markets in the US were shut for Labor Day, which meant no ETF flow data for the session, but bitcoin itself trades every day of the year regardless of what Wall Street is doing.

The ETF money, day by day

Spot bitcoin ETFs had one red day all week. Monday brought $216.7 million in. Tuesday reversed hard, $236.5 million out; BlackRock's IBIT alone shed $201.2 million. Wednesday steadied at $101.1 million in. Then Thursday's Waller-fuelled rally pulled in $730.8 million, the biggest single day since January, before Friday's jobs-report selloff still managed to close with $174.6 million more coming in, not going out. Even on the day bitcoin fell nearly 2%, ETF buyers kept showing up.

US spot Bitcoin ETF net daily flows, 31 August to 4 September 2026, five trading days. Built from verified data cited directly from Farside Investors' live flow table.

What it means

This was a week where the price ended almost exactly where it started, but the two forces pulling on it couldn't have been more different. Waller's comments showed the Fed has at least one voice arguing for patience. The jobs report showed the economy isn't slowing down enough to make that case easy. Bitcoin has now failed to hold the low $82,000s four separate times since 25 August, each attempt turned back by a fresh piece of data. It did climb back above its 50-week moving average on Thursday, a level Galaxy Digital placed at $81,041, the first time since May, even if it couldn't hold there through the week.

$82,178, Thursday's high, is the level that matters most now. A daily close above it would be the first genuine break of the ceiling that's rejected bitcoin four times running. Below it, $78,500 to $78,795 has held as support on every dip this week. The next scheduled catalyst is the CPI report on 11 September, four days before the Fed's own meeting on 15 and 16 September.

Data as of 7 September 2026. Prices and figures sourced from Investing.com, Farside Investors, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Benzinga, 24/7 Wall St., BigGo, AMBCrypto, and Cryptonomist reporting.

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