Bitcoin Pulls Back from $80K as PCE Inflation Data Lands, Japan Accelerates Tokenization Push

Welcome to Stock Market Today — your market briefing with actionable insights on stocks, bonds, crypto, and the events moving markets. Let's get into it. Bitcoin trading at seventy-eight thousand three hundred dollars after pulling back from eighty thousand resistance. Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded three hundred fourteen million in net inflows Tuesday — seventh consecutive day — pushing August total past three billion dollars. Ethereum at twenty-four fifty-five, Solana at ninety-seven after transactions hit a record four point two billion in July. July PCE inflation data just hit: core PCE rose point-two percent month-over-month, double the point-one percent forecast. Markets now pricing thirty-eight percent probability of a twenty-five basis point rate hike in September. Thirty-year Treasury yields dropped below five point two percent — lowest since early August. Japan making waves: Financial Services Agency, Ministry of Finance, and Bank of Japan launching blockchain settlement infrastructure for stocks and government bonds. System converts BOJ reserve accounts into digital tokens for interbank use — cutting stock settlement from two days to near-zero, bonds from one day to instant. Full rollout targeting early 2030s as nearly eighty percent of Japanese institutions plan crypto allocation within three years. Strategy, ticker M S T R, slashed net leverage to near-zero after building six point six nine billion in dollar liquidity. Five point one billion covers four years of preferred stock dividends, with one point six billion cash pool for Bitcoin buys, dividends, and debt repayment. Six point four billion bitcoin options expiry Friday at zero-eight-hundred UTC on Deribit with put-call ratio of point eight three signaling bullish positioning. Concentrated strikes at seventy-five thousand and eighty thousand could amplify volatility. Nvidia reports earnings after hours Wednesday. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh delivers his first Jackson Hole keynote Friday. Revolut rolled out EURR euro stablecoin to select customers in Denmark, Poland, and Portugal — M i C A-compliant token giving euro pegs mainstream distribution through Revolut's eighty-million-user base. That wraps your market intel — trade smart out there. For deeper insights and real-time analysis, visit capitalcopilot dot i o.