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Steam's boards ran their usual volume on Helldivers 2

The market layer's only new contracts tracked Oscar-category bets and an AI-model-release guess; bitcoin cooled to around 79,000 dollars after August's ETF-driven rally.

Google Trends stayed sports- and gaming-heavy, World Cup qualifying fixtures, Premier League transfer chatter and a leaked God of War screenshot crowding out most other queries.

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