TREE NEWS update: Gate’s stock derivatives section has launched pre-market trading for SHEINUSDT perpetual contracts, allowing traders to speculate on SHEIN’s stock price before its IPO. This move expands Gate’s offerings in pre-IPO derivatives, targeting crypto traders interested in traditional equity exposure.
TREE NEWS reports: French Bitcoin treasury firm Capital B has raised $24.5 million in a private placement, with support from Adam Back and TOBAM. The company may unlock an additional $158 million through warrant exercises, amid market uncertainty.
TREE NEWS update: Public Citizen reports that investors in Trump-associated crypto projects have suffered at least $4.7 billion in unrealized losses. The figure highlights the financial toll on those backing the ventures.
TREE NEWS reports: UK police have seized 20.21 BTC worth $1.4 million, traced to darknet markets that operated between 2016 and 2019. The bitcoin was held by a man who died before the forfeiture, and the funds have now been confiscated by authorities.
TREE NEWS update: CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju says Bitcoin’s profitability data has flashed a bear-market reversal signal last seen in early 2023, suggesting the current downtrend may be ending. The metric indicates that the bear market is likely over, with recovery patterns mirroring the 2023 rebound.
TREE NEWS reports: In the UK, 240 crypto asset taxpayers declared £717 million in capital gains, accounting for more than half of the total reported gains. This highlights the significant contribution of crypto investors to the country’s tax revenue.
TREE NEWS update: Bullish has extended a $100 million credit line to USD.AI to support GPU-collateralized lending. This move aims to bridge traditional finance with decentralized AI infrastructure financing.
TREE NEWS reports: Circle, the issuer of USDC, has become the official shirt sponsor of Chelsea FC, with the USDC logo set to feature on the team’s jerseys. This partnership highlights the growing mainstream adoption of stablecoins and crypto in sports.
TREE NEWS update: HMRC’s first-ever breakdown reveals 17,600 UK residents declared £1.38 billion in taxable crypto gains, with 240 individuals accounting for over half. Most declarants are under 55, and 87% are men.
TREE NEWS update: MANTRA disclosed a post-mortem of a recent attack, revealing that an underflow vulnerability allowed over 720 million tokens to be transferred, with approximately 37.96 million frozen. The incident underscores ongoing security challenges in DeFi protocols.
TREE NEWS reports: A whale address spent 13.55 million USDT to purchase 5,425 ETH within 30 minutes, indicating significant large-scale buying activity in the crypto market. This move could signal bullish sentiment or strategic accumulation by a major investor.
TREE NEWS reports: Despite a retail liquidity rebound, South Korea’s crypto industry lags globally, missing out on growth in perps, prediction markets, stablecoins, and RWA. Regulatory gaps and the absence of legal frameworks for these sectors widen the gap with the global market, though Korea’s potential for rapid development remains if regulation improves.
TREE NEWS update: Robinhood Chain’s meme coin AI surged to a $100 million market cap, up nearly 10x in a week, paired with tokenized NVDA stock. The coin’s community treasury buys back and burns tokens using fees, and the trend is boosting RWA trading volume on the chain.
TREE NEWS update: Moonwell, a DeFi lending protocol, lost $8.7 million on Base after an attacker bypassed its supply cap by depositing once and then sending 53 million tokens directly to the market, inflating the value of their shares about 3.7-fold. The exploit highlights vulnerabilities in supply cap mechanisms.
TREE NEWS reports: Charles Schwab will offer trading in Solana, Avalanche, and Chainlink to its nearly 40 million brokerage accounts in the coming months, marking its first token additions since launching with bitcoin and ether. This expansion broadens retail access to major altcoins through a traditional brokerage platform.
TREE NEWS reports: The OCC and FDIC finalized a rule defining ‘unsafe or unsound practice’ to require examiners to cite material financial harm or legal violations, removing reputational risk as a basis for supervisory action. This change is expected to reduce debanking of crypto firms by limiting subjective regulatory pressure.
TREE NEWS update: Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al Nahyan, the UAE’s national security adviser, and co-investors own nearly half of WLTC Holdings, the holding company behind the Trump family’s bank charter bid. The involvement of a foreign official raises regulatory and geopolitical questions, though the news does not directly relate to asset tokenization.
TREE NEWS reports: Blockstream researchers have proposed SHRINCS, a new signature scheme designed to make Bitcoin quantum-resistant while preserving block space efficiency, maintaining roughly three transactions per second. The draft aims to safeguard Bitcoin against future quantum threats without compromising network capacity.
TREE NEWS update: Arthur Hayes has called on the community to create a Technocore DID to qualify for the FLOP token airdrop. This move aims to leverage decentralized identity in the crypto space, potentially marking a step towards broader adoption of DID-based reward systems.
TREE NEWS update: A US judge ruled that the Trump administration illegally retaliated against AI company Anthropic, revoking a ban and issuing a permanent injunction. The decision marks a significant legal setback for the administration’s actions against the AI firm.