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Stablecoin watchTron holds $94.27bn of USDT against Ethereum’s $88.31bn, read off both contracts
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TIME-SENSITIVEverified 8 September 2026
The marketBitcoin was $78,664 and Ether $2,492 in CoinGecko’s 8 September snapshot at 16:33 UTC. Their reported 24-hour changes were -0.27% and +0.80% respectively.Digital dollarsDefiLlama’s 8 September record values tracked stablecoin circulation at $311.69bn across all pegs. The dollar-pegged subset is $310.11bn at market prices.DeFiLiquid’s reserve incident has become the immediate bridge-risk story: 3,400 BTC returned on 7 September after a roughly 4,000 BTC withdrawal. Blockstream’s status page still lists the public bridge incident as active at the 8 September check.
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All briefings →04 Sept 2026 · 00:02:18Tron's USDT lead and the fee puzzleUSDT on Tron has reached $94.27bn against $88.31bn on Ethereum. We read both figures off the contracts themselves rather than taking Tether's word. The lead has changed hands more than once, and the fee gap normally used to explain it has inverted.04 Sept 2026 · 00:02:20Michigan miners off for one customerHyperscale Data turned off every bitcoin miner at its Michigan data centre on 1 September to make room for an AI customer. The signed contract covers 20MW of a campus the company says will eventually run to about 340MW.