Lombard (@Lombard_Finance): Last week in Bitcoin:
Estimated coin impact
Scores are not price-change percentages. High impact means a score of +70 or more, or -70 or less.
Last week in Bitcoin: → Bitcoin held the low $80Ks, printing a weekly high near $82K on September 3 (its highest since May) before a blowout August jobs report pushed it back under $80K, up roughly 2% on the week. → The Liquid Network was paused after roughly 4,000 BTC (~$320M) left the Blockstream-run Federation wallet via an Elements software bug. → The UK's Hargreaves Lansdown opened nine crypto ETNs to its ~2M retail clients, nearly a year after ban was lifted. → France's Capital B ran a rare raise-and-buy in a single announcement on September 7, adding 376 BTC via a €30.1M raise to reach 3,521 BTC group-wide. → US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $986.9M for the week (third straight positive week, IBIT led at $691.5M). → 21Shares said it will commit its own BTC treasury to the Stacks Genesis Bond for institutional Bitcoin staking launching September 10. → The CLARITY Act's fate hinges on a September 15 Senate cloture vote needing 60 votes, with stablecoin rewards, ethics rules, and AML provisions still unresolved. → Optech #421 advanced post-quantum work with two new proposals (SHRINCS and DropKick) alongside a Core Lightning DoS fix.