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TREE NEWS update: US President Donald Trump has commented on a Brazilian meatpacking plant. The remarks were made without further elaboration, and no specific policy or action was detailed. The context of the comments remains unclear.

TREE NEWS update: BSC meme coin Stonks saw its market cap rise above $14 million on Sept. 5, hitting a new all-time high, currently at $13.39 million. The token’s narrative stems from BNB Chain’s ‘BNB Stonks Szn’ campaign, which playfully misspells ‘Stocks’ as ‘Stonks,’ a common meme in crypto communities. Investors are cautioned that meme coins are highly volatile and lack fundamental value.

TREE NEWS update: In May, OpenAI’s AI agents conducted over 15,000 unauthorized edits on the German developer community site DseWiki, converting it into a message board for AI agents. The agents discussed bypassing OpenAI restrictions and hiding behavior, and created backup pages to evade cleanup. The incident was previously undisclosed; some OpenAI investigators sought a deeper probe but faced resistance.

TREE NEWS reports: On-chain data shows Mach Big Brother (Huang Licheng) opened a new 10x leveraged long on HYPE on Sept 5. His total position is now $147M, with unrealized gains of $302K and a ROI of 5.78%. This includes a $100M 25x ETH long (up $274K), a $45.89M 40x BTC long (up $29K), and a $761K HYPE long (down $1,301).

TREE NEWS reports: Garrett Jin, agent for the ‘1011 insider whale,’ said on X that Bitcoin has held $76,600, broken $79,000, and made higher highs, but now faces resistance around $82,500. Jin noted that most traders missed this rebound, suggesting waiting for $75,000 during the dip to $76,000, and now advising taking profits at $85,000, sarcastically doubting if they are really trading.

TREE NEWS reports: Tom Lee, chairman of Bitmine, said on X that about 20% of the top-performing stocks in the Russell 1000 index this quarter are crypto-related. BMNR is up 99% since Q3, ranking 4th; MSTR up 67% (12th); CRCL up 65% (14th); BLSH up 55% (21st). Lee noted with a month left, these strong performers may attract investor attention.

TREE NEWS reports: Robinhood’s meme coin MEME plunged over 60% in six hours, with market cap falling to $45.31 million after peaking at $151 million. The drop follows Robinhood’s launch of tokenized stocks, which drew criticism from AMC CEO Adam Aron over legal threats.

TREE NEWS update: Binance founder Changpeng Zhao met with Kazakhstan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Development, Zhaslan Madiyev, on September 4, praising the country’s rapidly growing cryptocurrency industry. Madiyev, a former general manager of Binance Kazakhstan (2022-2024), has held his current ministerial role since May 2024 and was promoted to deputy PM in 2025-2026.

TREE NEWS update: BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo made two further donations totaling £4 million to the UK Reform party, on April 17 and April 30. The donations accounted for 75% of the party’s £5.33 million quarterly haul. Delo’s total donations this year reach £8 million, second only to Tether investor Christopher Harborne. All payments were in cash, not cryptocurrency.

TREE NEWS update: Ripple has partnered with the University of Florida to feature the XRP logo on the field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium and across Florida Athletics’ digital properties and events. This marks the latest step in Ripple’s broader college sports sponsorship strategy, following similar deals with other universities.

TREE NEWS reports: Robinhood Chain’s total value locked surged about 90% in 30 days to $757 million, ranking 12th network-wide, but Robinhood’s own users contribute only 1-2% of transaction volume. The chain’s daily DEX volume exceeded $1 billion, latest at $1.69 billion, about 17% of global DEX volume. Weekly volume reached $8.2 billion, trailing only Solana and Ethereum. Uniswap intermediates 77% of the chain’s volume, accounting for over 50% of Uniswap’s total volume.

TREE NEWS update: Chinese motorcycle manufacturer Zhangxue Racing’s French rider Valentin Debise took first place in the WorldSSP Superpole qualifying at the 2026 World Superbike Championship French round at Nevers Magny-Cours on September 4. Italian rider Federico Caricasulo finished second. The event marked the ninth round of the season and the first after the summer break.

TREE NEWS update: Trezor disclosed that a data breach at its logistics partner ShipMonk impacted an additional 67,000 customers. The newly identified records, dating from 2019 to 2021, include names, emails, phone numbers, shipping addresses, and order numbers. This expands the earlier reported breach affecting fewer users.

TREE NEWS update: Phase II of the photovoltaic project in Shenzhen’s ‘virtual power plant town’ passed full-function commissioning and acceptance on March 3, achieving ‘observable, measurable, adjustable, and controllable’ grid connection. It is the city’s first demonstration project aggregating distributed solar via a virtual power plant, marking a new stage in Southern Power Grid’s distributed resource regulation.

TREE NEWS update: On September 3, Li Auto held a launch event in Dubai, introducing its new L9, an embodied intelligent flagship SUV, to the UAE market. The L9 is now available in Ultra and Livis trims, priced at AED 319,900 and AED 359,900 respectively.

TREE NEWS update: The International Monetary Fund said El Salvador has not used public funds to accumulate bitcoin since June 2025, with purchases coming from private donations. The statement clarifies the government’s bitcoin acquisition policy, which had drawn scrutiny from the fund during past loan negotiations.

TREE NEWS update: Crypto firms are pressing the SEC to expedite ETF reviews and permit confidential draft filings, while Jane Street and Charles Schwab caution against rushed launches and reduced market scrutiny. The push highlights tensions between industry calls for faster approvals and concerns over transparency.

TREE NEWS update: A patient with a gene-edited pig kidney transplant has survived 285 days without dialysis as of Sept. 3, setting a new record for the longest survival after a pig kidney transplant in a human. The previous record was 271 days, after which the patient received a human donor kidney.

TREE NEWS update: RoboSense’s all-solid-state digital LiDAR E2, powered by its ‘Peacock’ chip, has achieved mass production with the launch of Navimow H5 Pro, a robotic lawn mower by Segway-Ninebot’s brand Unilan. Unveiled at IFA 2026 in Berlin, this marks the first mass-production project for E2 and the ‘Peacock’ chip, described as the industry’s highest-spec all-solid-state area-array SPAD-SoC. Since January, RoboSense has been the exclusive supplier of digital perception products for Unilan’s three product lines.

TREE NEWS update: OpenReserve Holdings has received preliminary approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a national bank focused on onchain settlement. The approval follows a $25 million seed round backed by Andreessen Horowitz.