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TREE NEWS reports: Stolen Bitget funds have begun being laundered through Wasabi CoinJoin, blockchain analytics firm AMLBot said on September 27. Tracing shows roughly 4 BTC in one CoinJoin round traces back to a Bitget TRON wallet: the funds were swapped from TRX to USDT, bridged via USDT0 to Ethereum for about 145 ETH, then moved through THORChain into about 4.59 BTC before being split and fed into CoinJoin.

TREE NEWS update: Sui said on X that CME Group’s micro futures now cover SUI and DeFi assets in the Sui ecosystem. The network compared the tool to the futures used by corn farmers and airlines that lock in fuel prices three years ahead, arguing that businesses cannot operate on price guesses. No launch date or contract details were given.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase users can now participate in IPOs through the exchange’s app, CEO Brian Armstrong said in a post on X. Users open the Coinbase App, tap the three-line menu in the top-left corner and select “IPOs” to take part. Armstrong did not specify which offerings are available, eligibility requirements or timing.

TREE NEWS reports: The Trump administration is considering an overseas stablecoin initiative that could take the form of a joint venture with private companies, with the Treasury Department, State Department and the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation potentially involved, to expand dollar use and support demand for U.S. Treasuries. No partnership with Tether has been established and the plan is not yet an official program. Tether’s latest reserve report shows it held $114.96 billion in direct U.S. Treasuries as of June 30, against $187.75 billion in total reserves, exceeding liabilities by $4.11 billion.

TREE NEWS reports: Strategy and Strive together bought 2,305 bitcoin this week, bringing their holdings to 846,000 BTC and 26,355 BTC respectively. Combined holdings across all listed companies now total 1.273 million BTC. Strategy remains the largest corporate bitcoin holder, while Strive has entered the top five.

TREE NEWS reports: Three wallets believed to belong to the same whale withdrew a combined 211,430 HYPE, worth about $19.4 million, from Hyperliquid within minutes, on-chain data shows. The withdrawals comprised 81,340, 78,090 and 52,000 HYPE. The wallets are now moving HYPE between Hyperliquid and linked addresses.

TREE NEWS reports: Hyperliquid bought back and burned 10,400 HYPE tokens in the past 24 hours at a volume-weighted average price of $91.97, worth about $956,800. Cumulative burns now stand at 48.96 million HYPE, roughly $4.48 billion, or 4.9% of maximum supply. Protocol revenue over the past 30 days was $58.27 million.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin ETFs took in $2.4 billion over the past week, their largest weekly inflow since October, pushing year-to-date net flows back above zero for 2026. The funds had been roughly $5.8 billion in the red just two months ago, the swing restoring positive net flows for the year.

TREE NEWS update: CleanSpark closed a $2.276 billion debt financing for its Sandersville data center in Georgia, carrying a 7.875% coupon. The notes fund construction of the project and reimburse earlier equity contributions. The site operates under a 20-year lease.

TREE NEWS update: An AI-assisted StarkWare challenge reduced the estimated compute required for quantum-safe Bitcoin work by 79%. The contest targeted offchain GPU work rather than Bitcoin fees, and the experimental method still requires a direct path to a miner.

TREE NEWS update: Block announced on September 24 that it has integrated the Bitcoin Lightning Network into the x402 payment standard, which lets servers return an HTTP 402 payment request and verify payment via Lightning invoices and preimages before unlocking data. Steve Lee, who heads Block’s open-source Bitcoin R&D unit Spiral, said the integration targets instant, low-cost micropayments. Block has not disclosed a timeline for bringing the standard to Cash App, Square or Bitkey, and the Python implementation still needs testing on real nodes.

TREE NEWS update: Morpho said an AI marketing tool was responsible for a now-deleted post from its official X account claiming most curator businesses are not self-sustaining from vault fees and rely on private distribution agreements. The post was removed the same day. Aave founder Stani Kulechov called it the most bearish take for MORPHO holders.

TREE NEWS update: Huang Li-cheng, known as ‘Machi Big Brother,’ posted ‘ETH love you 3000’ on X on September 26, an apparent nod to a line from Avengers: Endgame and a hint that he expects ether to reach $3,000. The post echoes the film’s ‘I love you 3000’ exchange between Tony Stark and his daughter Morgan.

TREE NEWS reports: The Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Index has printed negative for four consecutive days, most recently at -0.0082%. The gauge, which tracks the spread between Bitcoin’s price on Coinbase and other venues, turned positive on August 24 at 0.0052% — its first positive reading since May 19 — after spending 97 straight days in negative territory.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto futures liquidations across all exchanges totaled $93.15 million over the past 24 hours, CoinGlass data shows, with $43.29 million from long positions and $49.86 million from shorts. Bitcoin liquidations reached $8.56 million and Ethereum $9.41 million. The largest single liquidation was an $802,900 BTCUSDT order on Binance.

TREE NEWS update: A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Kalshi has not adequately shown its sports event contracts are swaps under the Commodity Exchange Act, delivering the prediction market a setback in its fight with Ohio and Tennessee sports betting laws. The decision widens a circuit split on whether such contracts fall under federal commodities law or state gambling rules.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin spot ETFs have taken in $5.3 billion in cumulative net inflows since the US Treasury first signaled it would increase long-term bond buybacks, ETF Institute co-founder Nate Geraci said on X. Last week alone drew $2.4 billion, including $1 billion on Monday — the ninth-largest single-day inflow on record. After running $5.7 billion net negative in July, year-to-date flows have turned positive.

TREE NEWS update: An open competition run by StarkWare, Yukon Research and Eigen Labs drove the estimated cost of building a quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction from about $320 to roughly $67, with AI models topping the leaderboards. The contest was framed as a race to make post-quantum Bitcoin transactions cheap.

TREE NEWS update: Riot Platforms voluntarily repaid all outstanding principal and accrued interest on its $200 million credit facility with Coinbase Credit on Sept. 21, terminating the loan without prepayment penalties. The loan, fully drawn at a fixed 6.15% annual rate and originally maturing April 20, 2027, was secured by BTC, USDC and cash collateral, whose security interests were released on repayment.