Bitcoin Holds $76K as Bond Rout Accelerates, PayPal Plunges on Deal Collapse, Institutional Banks Launch Stablecoin Consortium

Markets open September second with Bitcoin consolidating near seventy-six thousand dollars as a global bond sell-off intensifies-ten-year Treasury yields hit four point eight one percent, Japanese government bonds touched three percent for the first time since nineteen ninety-six, pushing equity markets into defensive mode. PayPal shares tumble after Advent International and Stripe abandoned their fifty billion dollar takeover bid, removing a valuation cap but leaving execution questions. Twenty-one major banks including Citi, Goldman, and Bank of America form a stablecoin consortium targeting twenty twenty-seven launch. Oil surges past ninety-three dollars on Strait of Hormuz tensions while Bitcoin ETFs post two hundred thirty-six million in outflows led by BlackRock's I B I T. Spot Bitcoin consolidates at seventy-six thousand five hundred ninety-two dollars, Ethereum at two thousand three hundred seventy-six dollars.