Your Weekly Deep Dive into The World of Crypto

September 2, 2026 · 5 Min Read

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Bitcoin tagged $81,347 intraday on Aug 28 (per Coinglass), then Fed Chair Warsh spoke at Jackson Hole, and the tape reversed within an hour. BTC settled the week near $77,700, and a nine-day spot BTC ETF inflow streak snapped with a $201.81M outflow.

But money did not leave crypto. ETH ETFs took their best week. BitMine bought another $131M of ETH. And a Trump-branded memecoin rugged nearly 98% in an afternoon. 

Let’s get into it...

On Aug 31, Tom Lee’s BitMine reported another 53,501 ETH bought in the week ending Aug 30, its 65th straight weekly purchase since June 2025. The stack now sits at 5,901,112 ETH, about 4.9% of supply. Total holdings including cash: $15.6B. 5.07M ETH is staked, projected to earn $335M annualized (Source: PR Newswire).

BitMine is 133,900 ETH from its 5% target.

Whale Intel: When one entity owns 5% of an asset and keeps buying every week for over a year, it stops being a trade and starts being infrastructure.

Vivek Ramaswamy’s Strive (NASDAQ: ASST) picked up 1,800 BTC for roughly $143M this week, taking total holdings to 23,156 BTC and passing Bullish for the No. 5 spot among public corporate holders. Strive keeps issuing ASST common and SATA preferred to fund the buys. Shares jumped 5% on the news, even after a $257.6M Q2 net loss tied to BTC’s drop.

Whale Intel: Equity-issued Bitcoin buying is a leveraged bet on both the price and the market’s patience with dilution.

On Aug 28, Lookonchain flagged 244.148 BTC ($19.42M) moving between wallets tied to North Korea’s Lazarus Group, the same pattern as the Aug 12 transfer of 262.2 BTC ($16.64M). Lazarus wallets typically stage funds through fresh addresses before mixers or DEX aggregators. The flag matters less for the dollar size and more for what usually follows.

Whale Intel: State-linked wallets rarely move funds for fun. Watch for a mixer or DEX interaction within two weeks.

On Aug 31, Lookonchain flagged a large ETH holder identified as 0xF626 beginning to distribute. The wallet received 102,913 ETH (about $248.6M) and then transferred 2,858 ETH (about $7M) to exchanges within twenty minutes. The address still holds 100,055 ETH, roughly $241.6M.

Whale Intel: A first small deposit from a big new wallet is usually a fee-check, not the full exit. The real signal is whether the remaining 100K ETH follows within the week.

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US spot BTC ETFs took in $924.48M net for the week (Aug 24-28), even after the Aug 28 outflow snapped a nine-day streak. ETH ETFs added $824.41M, SOL ETFs $153.87M, and XRP ETFs $110.5M (Aug 24 to Aug 28). Combined: about $2.013B in one week, with three separate fresh yearly highs.

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On Aug 29, a Solana token called Trump Digital Gold ($GOLD) launched via a promotional post from the verified X account @realtrumpcoins1, which is followed by @realDonaldTrump. No Trump family member confirmed the claimed Trump Foundation endorsement. Eric Trump had preemptively denied any new coin on Aug 22.

Then Lookonchain flagged the setup: the developer wallet held 600M $GOLD; 15 newly created wallets bought 224.5M for $18,657. Team control: 82.45%. Thirty minutes after the post hit, those 15 wallets sold everything for 3,178 SOL (about $330K), netting $312K profit (Source: Lookonchain). They later deleted the post.

Whale Intel: Verified follows are not endorsements. Check on-chain supply distribution before the price, not after.

 Manpreet Kohli, 45, is the former CEO of Saitama, an ETH-based token that peaked at a $7.5B market value. On Aug 19, a UK judge rejected his final extradition challenge and moved the case to British ministers for sign-off.

Per the US Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts, Kohli is one of 18 defendants tied to a wash-trading operation involving market makers ZM Quant and Gotbit. Executives publicly claimed to hold their tokens while selling into inflated volume. Kohli’s take was about $20M. Notable: the FBI created its own token during the probe, a first for a crypto case. Gotbit’s founder already served eight months and forfeited $23M in 2025.

Whale Intel: If a token’s volume charts look too smooth, someone is usually paying for the smoothness.

Kalshi on Aug 28 predicted one in three shots that BTC will be around $85,000 in the next 5 days. 

Kalshi on Aug 28 marked a 53% chance of a rate hike next month. 

Polymarket on Aug 29 predicted a 76% chance that Nvidia remains the largest company by the year-end.

August payrolls print Friday, Sept 4. The Sept 15-16 FOMC decision is now the whole tape’s pivot. On-chain, watch whether BitMine crosses 5% ETH and whether Lazarus’ staged BTC hits a mixer.