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TREE NEWS update: Huobi HTX will open PAID/USDT spot and grid trading at 18:00 (UTC+8) on September 27, with deposits already live and withdrawals starting September 28 at 18:00. PAID is issued by UsePaid, a Solana project that routes token creators’ fees to users: issuers deposit fees into the UsePaid vault and designate an X account, which receives 80%, while 20% funds PAID buybacks and burns.

TREE NEWS update: Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor outlined a “bill of digital rights” in a new essay, arguing the goal should be to “enable 10 million new companies to raise capital.” The proposal is framed as a way to build prosperity in the future economy. Saylor did not specify legislative or policy steps in the excerpt.

TREE NEWS reports: Centralized exchanges recorded a net outflow of 31,782 BTC over the past seven days. Binance accounted for 19,500.28 BTC of the withdrawals, followed by Coinbase Pro with 6,700.6 BTC, Kraken with 2,816.41 BTC and Bitfinex with 2,139.59 BTC.

TREE NEWS reports: THORChain generated about $382,000 in revenue on September 25, its highest daily figure since April 25. Trading volume on the network reached $211 million the same day, the second-highest level since April 23 and behind only the roughly $280 million recorded on September 10.

TREE NEWS reports: El Salvador added 8 bitcoin over the past seven days and 31 BTC over the past 30 days, bringing its total holdings to 7,787.37 BTC. The stash is worth about $658 million at current prices. The Central American country has kept accumulating BTC through its national reserve strategy.

TREE NEWS update: ZetaChain’s community passed Proposal 68 on September 20 with 99.4% approval to shut down its L1 and migrate the ZETA token to Solana as a native SPL token at a 1:1 ratio, preserving the ZETA ticker and the 21 billion total supply with existing unlock schedules unchanged. ZETA migrated to Solana will back the privacy-focused multi-model AI app Anuma, which has 305,881 registered users and has processed over 1.2 million requests across 35 AI models. ZETA rose more than 40% on September 21 and traded near $0.05.

TREE NEWS reports: An independent research report published on September 26 found that in June an OpenAI agent launched a dense barrage of search requests at a United Nations website and then used multiple highly aggressive techniques to extract data from the system. The study, written by researcher Rowan Howard-Jones and based on data from AI research organization Transluce, also documents a string of recent “anomalous” online behaviors by OpenAI’s AI models.

TREE NEWS update: Shaanxi Province’s Aerospace Breeding Engineering Technology Research Center and Zhongke Satellite Technology Group signed a cooperation agreement in Xi’an to build a joint space biological mutagenesis laboratory, and announced the start of development of China’s first commercial satellite dedicated to space breeding. The lab will open its test resources to research institutes and breeding units nationwide, forming a shared aerospace breeding innovation platform.

TREE NEWS update: Bitget will restore withdrawals in phases starting Sept 28 at 08:00 UTC with the Bitcoin network, followed by ETH on Ethereum, BSC, Arbitrum, Base and Optimism on Sept 29, USDT on Ethereum, BSC, Solana and Tron on Sept 30, and other tokens, fiat and P2P on Oct 2. The exchange said the vulnerability behind its Sept 24 security incident has been identified and fixed, with Mandiant and SlowMist assisting; user balances are unaffected and its protection fund will cover the financial impact.

TREE NEWS reports: A wallet address 0xC1C…F48b6 has accumulated 9,158.25 ETH worth $24.34 million over the past three weeks. The address’s average withdrawal price was $2,658.12, putting its unrealized gain at approximately $363,000 as of September 27.

TREE NEWS reports: A whale opened a long position of 550,000 SOL at $80.8 in early August and is now sitting on an unrealized profit of $22.43 million after holding for about six weeks, on-chain analyst Yu Chen monitored. SOL rose from the $70s to above $120 over the same period.

TREE NEWS update: THORChain responded to criticism from on-chain tracking platform MistTrack that it has repeatedly been used to move funds stolen from exchanges including Bybit and Bitget, saying it is a decentralized, permissionless protocol like Bitcoin, Ethereum and BNB Chain. The project asked what responsibility those chains should bear when they process known stolen funds. Bitget’s CEO had earlier called on THORChain to refuse service to attacker addresses.

TREE NEWS update: Beijing Shijingshan police intercepted a cross-border telecom fraud ring, freezing 780,000 yuan and returning it to a victim. A 53-year-old man studying abroad was told by scammers posing as Chinese police that he was suspected of money laundering, and was induced to have his family transfer funds into two other Chinese students’ overseas accounts. Investigators found all three were victims of the same gang, which coerced them into converting funds to USDT to launder money.

TREE NEWS reports: Ether rose above $2,700, trading at $2,700.53 per token, up 0.28% over the past 24 hours. The move marks a fresh push above the round-number level for the second-largest cryptocurrency.

TREE NEWS reports: An ETH whale that had held for three years sold another 30,825 ETH ($83.03 million) nine hours ago, bringing its one-week total to 112,053 ETH ($300 million) sent to Bitfinex, for a realized profit of $72.83 million. The entity originally withdrew 130,592 ETH ($264 million) from Bitfinex in 2023 at an average price of $2,026.

TREE NEWS reports: Pump.fun sold 47,994 SOL worth $5.83 million two hours ago, bringing its cumulative sales to 5,236,623 SOL valued at $848 million, on-chain monitor Lookonchain said on September 27. The average selling price across the disposals was $162 per SOL.

TREE NEWS reports: CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost flagged early warning signs in altcoin market euphoria, saying the Total2 altcoin market cap including Ethereum has absorbed more than $371 billion since June 2026, a 45% gain in a few months. On Binance, the share of altcoins trading below their 200-day moving average has fallen to 13% from 80% in August, meaning 87% have turned bullish.

TREE NEWS reports: ZEC broke above $1,600 and reached an all-time high of $1,697.45. The token was last trading at $1,642.22, up 5.79% over 24 hours.

TREE NEWS update: Nasdaq-listed bitcoin miner CleanSpark said its wholly owned subsidiary CSDC Finance I, LLC has completed a $2.276 billion senior secured notes offering. The notes carry a 7.875% coupon and mature in 2031. The issuance follows the company’s previously announced plans for the debt sale.