Bitcoin traded at $79,979.7, up 0.43% as of 05:27 ET (09:27 GMT) on Sunday, after rebounding from roughly $63,000 in August but remaining down about 9% for 2026. Strategy raised $602.8 million through common-stock sales from Aug. 24 through Aug. 30 and spent $369.7 million on 4,603 bitcoin, taking its holdings to 845,050 BTC as of Aug. 30. The company has issued $20.9 billion in common and preferred equity this year, with some of the proceeds funding bitcoin purchases. U.S. lawmakers are also nearing a procedural vote on the CLARITY Act, which would establish a federal digital-asset market structure and divide oversight between the CFTC (U.S. derivatives regulator) and SEC (U.S. securities regulator). The cloture motion is scheduled to ripen on Sept. 15, after the House approved the measure last year. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said U.S. crypto leadership was within reach after an August White House meeting involving regulators and executives from Coinbase, Kraken, Robinhood, Nasdaq and Intercontinental Exchange. Bitwise Europe data shows that excluding Bitcoin's five strongest trading sessions in 2026 would change its roughly 9% decline into a loss of about 36%, underscoring the market's uneven returns. Ether rose 1.81% to $2,503.04, XRP gained 0.99% to $1.4215, Solana advanced 3.64% to $106.29, BNB climbed 1.39% to $758.05, Cardano rose 2.72% to $0.2194 and Dogecoin gained 5.62%. TRUMP rose 27.68%, while Shiba Inu gained 0.93%.