Weekend Edition · Aug 29 — Bitcoin's record week, ETF inflows…

Weekend Edition — the week in review. • BTC posted its largest ever dollar weekly gain, climbing $14,264 to close near $77,400 — a record short squeeze of $2.74B on August 19 and $2.6B in ETF inflows confirmed the move had real structural backing. • Thirty-nine state bankers associations launched Bank Chain Alliance, an industry-owned blockchain for tokenized deposits and stablecoins — a broad US banking coalition building its own on-chain rail legitimizes the technology… • StarkWare executed the first quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction on mainnet — a working fork-free method to defend the network against cryptographic risk from quantum computing.