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__ZM ZEST CHADS__ ZM and happy Tuesday! First day of September, let's get into it. Today at 10am ET: the Stacks DeFi Show, link dropping shortly. https://x.com/i/spaces/1qJDzWODnEeKV?s=20 BTC is at $77,700, digesting last week's hawkish Jackson Hole tone from Fed Chair Warsh. Overnight, US-Iran tensions escalated again after the US struck Iranian rocket launchers and Iran retaliated near Jordan and the UAE, which is rattling risk assets broadly. Strategy's Saylor signaled a return to buying with a "We're Back" post. Stacks side: STX sits at $0.2433. PoX-5 is live, Fireblocks and UTXO Management are onboarded, and the Genesis Bond, the first Bitcoin Protocol Bond on Stacks, launches this week. Lock BTC on L1, pair with STX, earn roughly 3% APY in BTC from Proof-of-Transfer miner bids, capped at 3,000 BTC for the bootstrap phase. The Zest Protocol, Stacks, and Bitflow incentive program starts September 19, paying 1 BTC a month to USDCx borrowers against sBTC and STX. https://x.com/Stacks/status/2094119217125785677 __MARKET UPDATE 9.1.26__ Commodities — Oil up sharply, WTI and Brent both above $90 on the Iran escalation. Gold down about 1.3% to $4,470/oz, still pressured after Warsh's comments. Bonds — 10-year Treasury yield at its highest level since January 2025. Long end keeps climbing as rate-hike odds for September build. Tech — Nasdaq-100 futures down about 1%. Nvidia, AMD, and Micron all off more than 1%. Microsoft down 1%, Alphabet down 0.6%. Equities, broad — Dow futures down 0.5%, S&P 500 futures down 0.5%. Risk-off start to the month. __TOPIC OF THE DAY__ Beyond lending and yield, the Bitcoin economy has NFTs, point-of-sale payment rails, and prediction markets all building in parallel. When the next leg up hits, which of these actually pulls in the most new users? Drop your pick and why.