Gold Hits Record $3.5K as Whales Dump Bitcoin | CoinDesk Daily
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🗓️ 2 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Gold hits a new all-time high, and strategy continues. It's Bitcoin buying spree. You're watching CoinDusk Daily. I'm your host, Jen Sanassi. |
| 0:12.4 | Gold surged to a record high of $3,500 an ounce earlier this morning. The move is driven by growing expectations of Federal Reserve |
| 0:22.3 | interest rate cuts, a worsening fiscal outlook for major economies, and increased political pressure |
| 0:27.7 | on central bank policies. Gold-backed tokens such as PAXG and X-AUT followed the rally, but have |
| 0:34.0 | since pulled back, along with the precious metal itself, which is now trading at around |
| 0:37.9 | $3,470. Meanwhile, Bitcoin remains below key resistance, trading at approximately $108,700 |
| 0:45.7 | as of recording time. Despite Bitcoin's sideways price action, its largest corporate holder |
| 0:50.6 | strategy has continued its aggressive accumulation. The company added another 4,048 |
| 0:56.4 | bitcoins last week, bringing its total holdings to 636,505 coins. The purchase was made for just under |
| 1:04.0 | $450 million at an average price of 110,981 per coin. Funding for the acquisition came primarily from sales of the company's |
| 1:13.3 | common stock supplemented by its preferred shares. Based on current prices, strategies, total |
| 1:18.1 | holdings are valued at just under $70 billion. I'm I'm going to be able to The And in Defi News, the Trump family affiliated project, World Liberty Financial is attempting to shore up investor confidence following its rocky market debut. |
| 2:00.2 | The team has proposed a buyback and |
| 2:01.9 | burn program, which would be funded by fees from its protocol-owned liquidity. This comes as the |
| 2:06.8 | project faces sharp market headwinds. According to Cuen Gecko, the WLFI token is currently |
| 2:12.6 | trading around 23 cents, down 27% on the day. That gives it a market cap of approximately $6.4 billion. |
| 2:21.3 | The program aims to reduce token supply by using liquidity fees to purchase and burn WLFI tokens. |
| 2:27.7 | That's it for CoinDesk Daily. Get more updates on CoinDesk.com and we'll see you next time. |
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