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Economics The S&P GSCI/S&P 500 ratio is near its lowest reading in more than five decades. Jefferies, UBS, and Azoria Capital are calling a commodity upcycle driven by physical scarcity and structural dollar weakness. Bitcoin is the only hard asset the market can't supply its way out of. The S&P GSCI/S&P 500 ratio is near its lowest reading in more than five decades. Wall Street says the reversion is coming.

Technology Gov. Greg Abbott directed PUCT and ERCOT to audit all queued data center projects before any can connect to the Texas grid, halting roughly 1,800 projects and exposing a 474 GW interconnection queue that is more than five times the state's all-time peak demand. The AI capex supercycle just met a constraint that no equity raise can print away: electrons. Key takeaways Texas Gov.

Culture An attacker manipulated Tectonic's TONIC governance token roughly 100x in ~20 minutes to drain an estimated $66M, $75M from Cronos's largest lending protocol. Validators halted the entire chain to stop the bleeding. Depositors have no confirmed backstop. A Mango Markets-style price manipulation attack on Tectonic just demonstrated, in real time, what happens when a governance token with thin liquidity becomes the monetary base for a lending protocol.

Economics ECB Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel told Jackson Hole on August 28 that central banks must place their reserve money directly onchain or risk being displaced by dollar-denominated stablecoins. Project Pontes goes live September 21. ECB Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel declared at Jackson Hole that the Eurosystem must place its reserve money directly on distributed ledger infrastructure or surrender the settlement layer to private stablecoins.

↓ Jump to the video and timestamps Melody Wright came back on the show and opened with a number she was almost reluctant to say out loud. Foreclosure starts in her client books for August were up 150% month over month. In 20-plus years working default, she said she had never seen anything like it, and it will be a national headline soon. We are now four years into a housing market frozen not by organic market forces but by deliberate government intervention.

Marty Bent [0:07] You've had a dynamic where money's become freer than free. Melody Wright [0:09] Let me talk about a Fed just gone nuts, all, all the central banks going nuts. Marty Bent [0:15] So it's all acting like safe haven. I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their currency, Bitcoin wins. In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor. Melody Wright [0:29] I mean, that's part of the bull case for Bitcoin.

Economics FinCEN's proposed rule would sever Banque Misr UAE's five branches from dollar correspondent banking over $1.8 billion in suspected Iran-linked transactions. The China exemption tells you everything. FinCEN's proposed rule targets $1.8 billion in suspected Iran transactions. China, which routes roughly 90% of Iran's oil, remains untouched.

Technology Utah FORGE began its longest-ever enhanced geothermal circulation test on August 12, 2026. Fervo Energy's 500 MW Cape Station sits less than a mile away. The results will determine whether EGS graduates from research project to commercial power source. The longest continuous enhanced geothermal test in U.S. history just started in the Utah desert, and the results will determine whether firm baseload power from hot rock becomes real infrastructure for AI and Bitcoin.

Economics Capital B closed a €21M private placement with repeat strategic investors Adam Back and TOBAM, targeting 270 additional BTC. Four warrants per share could unlock ~€135M more over five years, and the raise succeeded above market price during a sector-wide downturn. Europe's self-described first bitcoin treasury company closes a fresh raise with insider conviction, not fresh believers.

Technology Huawei and U.S.-blacklisted iFlytek submitted a 102-page tender to Egypt proposing 2,008 Ascend AI chips for military and surveillance use. Washington scrambled Nvidia, AMD, and Microsoft in response. Neither side's offer comes with confirmed restrictions on population surveillance. Washington scrambles Nvidia, AMD, and Microsoft into a counter-bid, but neither side's offer includes confirmed restrictions on population surveillance.