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🚨 TODAY’S US JOBS REPORT IS NOT REALLY ABOUT JOBS.
It’s about whether the bond market gets another excuse to push yields even higher.
US 10Y yields have already touched 5.34%, the highest since 2002.
Brent is still above $100.
The dollar is strong.
Gold is heading for a second straight weekly loss.
Stocks are wobbling.
Yet the market has cut the probability of an October Fed hike to roughly 26–28%.
Sounds dovish?
Not really.
Markets are still pricing around an 80% chance of another hike by December.
That is the important bit.
We haven’t necessarily killed the tightening cycle.
We may have just pushed the next hike back.
Today economists expect roughly 90,000 jobs, with unemployment holding at 4.1%.
If payrolls come in hot, the market has a very simple problem:
Oil above $100.
Inflation still sticky.
Labour market still holding up.
Fed still uncomfortable.
And a bond market already questioning whether rates need to stay higher for longer.
That is why I’m watching yields first today.
Not the headline payroll number.
The number is not the trade.
What it does to rate expectations is the trade.
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London Session LIVE! | E8 Markets | Oct 1, 2026 | Ken Chigbo & Joel xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1RKZzBmqb…
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🚨NEW: The @SECGov just updated its crypto FAQ on token buybacks to add a stipulation that if there is no central party behind those token buybacks, then this arrangement likely does not constitute an investment contract.
It comes following comments from @a16zcrypto General Counsel and Head of Policy @milesjennings last week that the prior wording could “empower an issuer to announce the buyback program without that announcement then creating an investment contract.”
🚨NEW: SEC staff has issued new FAQs clarifying how the Commission’s March interpretive release on digital assets applies to token functionality, staking receipt tokens and investment contracts.
Among the guidance: once a network is functional, services to maintain, improve or grow it generally would not count as “essential managerial efforts” under the Howey test.
The FAQs reflect staff views and have no legal force or effect.
SyAz retweeted
BESSENT COULD TAP NEAR $1 TRILLION TREASURY GENERAL ACCOUNT TO FUND BOND BUYBACKS, SOURCES SAID
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[ $ASTER Buyback and Burn Update ]
From 2026-06-29 00:00 UTC to 2026-07-13 00:00 UTC, 99% of daily platform fees were used to buy back 3,083,815.69 $ASTER for stakers.
A matching 3,083,815.69 $ASTER has been burned from the team allocation.
bscscan.com/tx/0xf078f6d3573…
- Cumulative burn under the upgraded tokenomics since 2026-06-17: 6,020,941.22 $ASTER
- Cumulative burn across all programs: 183,801,942.79 $ASTER
- Est. total staking APY as of 2026-07-13: 5.35% with a 26-week lock and 28.85% with the maximum 208-week lock. Variable.
[Tokenomics Update] $ASTER Buyback and Burn Steps Up to 198%
Aster is upgrading its buyback so the platform's own activity both rewards stakers and sets $ASTER on a deflationary path.
Starting from 12:00 PM UTC today, 99% of Aster's daily platform fees buy back $ASTER. An equal amount of $ASTER is burned from reserve, matching the buyback one for one.
The bought-back $ASTER goes to stakers. Each epoch it is added to Loyalty Rewards (300K $ASTER base, plus the buyback amount), distributed to veASTER by lock weight.
The burn takes team allocation first. $ASTER launched with a total supply of 8,000,000,000. The burn continues until total supply reaches 3,000,000,000.
Buybacks run automatically via TWAP across each day and settle on-chain. The buyback and the burn are both public and verifiable:
- Buyback wallet: 0xa0edBaBcb48034e368de286b49F9603C7AfA1b60
Every permissionless listing on Aster Spot pays a 50,000 USDT fee, used to buy back $ASTER as extra staking rewards.
- Listing fee wallet: 0x39C473f4420e4ae9Ab3fe9e7ceDFc08F9684bB1a
Docs: docs.asterdex.com/usdaster-t…
SyAz retweeted
Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor.
It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. anthropic.com/institute/recu…
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🔥 BULLISH: Bitwise announces it will hold $HYPE on its balance sheet, allocating 10% of its Hyperliquid ETF (BHYP) management fee directly toward the token.
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I've seen more posting in the last hour from some people about the US + Iran than I did from them about crypto for years. Some of you have become exceptional war correspondents, overnight 😏
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You could die tomorrow.
Take risks. Step out of your comfort zone. Overcommit if you have to. You can always scale back later.
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Booking some in person podcasts for Token2049 Dubai.🔥
Will be uploaded to my YT channel (220k subs), and here on X (620k).
If you're a VC, founder, creator, or important person in the space - comment below and I'll DM you if it makes sense.
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Story's first public testnet, Iliad, is live.
Join thousands of builders and creators solving real problems on the World's IP Blockchain.
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A 🧵showing @WazirXIndia's own misleading actions and security lapses which most likely led to their Customers loosing over $230M in assets 👇
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