Strategy Back in the Game, DeFi Exploits Rack Up $214M, Oil Breaks $90

Markets open September with fresh volatility as Strategy returns to Bitcoin accumulation after two months, adding 4,603 BTC at $80,318 per coin and bringing total holdings to 845,050 Bitcoin. DeFi security takes another hit with Cronos blockchain halted after a $75 million Tectonic exploit-attackers pumped a thinly-traded governance token 100-fold before borrowing against inflated collateral-while More Markets on Flow lost $9.3 million in a similar overborrowing attack. August crypto hacks total $139.7 million. Oil markets surge past $90 Brent as U.S.-Iran fighting resumes with airstrikes on Strait of Hormuz launchers, offsetting last week's seven percent decline. Bitcoin holds steady near seventy-seven thousand eight hundred eighty-five dollars despite geopolitical escalation, with the 58 percent probability of a September Fed rate hike keeping volatility elevated. The week ahead brings critical employment data: private payrolls Wednesday, jobless claims Thursday, and August nonfarm payrolls Friday expected to show fifty thousand additions versus June's twenty-three thousand loss. Meanwhile, Russia's Sberbank plans to accept Ethereum and Tether as loan collateral alongside Bitcoin starting September first, and Robinhood Chain overtakes Ethereum in daily revenue driven by memecoin speculation rather than tokenized stocks.