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TREE NEWS update: SoFi has gone live with SoFiUSD stablecoin settlement on Mastercard’s network, the company said. Its card program is targeting more than $25 billion in annualized volume. The launch puts a bank-issued stablecoin into live card-rail settlement, with SoFiUSD used to move funds on Mastercard’s network.

TREE NEWS update: Binance has taken a $100 million equity stake in Circle as part of a five-year commercial agreement to promote the USDC stablecoin. The equity placement and the commercial deal closed on the same day, with money moving in both directions. Neither the size of the stake as a percentage of Circle nor further terms were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: Bernstein forecasts global prediction market volume will reach $10 trillion by 2035, with financial assets overtaking sports as the main driver of growth. The projection points to expanding financial-asset markets as the key catalyst for the sector’s long-term expansion.

TREE NEWS update: Shanshan Co. plans to invest about 5.106 billion yuan ($700M) to build an integrated 150,000-ton-per-year lithium-ion battery anode material base in Qingshan District, Baotou, Inner Mongolia, of which roughly 4.318 billion yuan is fixed-asset investment. The board approved the plan, which still requires shareholder approval and is in early-stage preparation after feasibility studies and a conditional investment cooperation agreement.

TREE NEWS update: Biwin Storage’s board approved roughly RMB 4.5 billion in phase-three investment for its wafer-level advanced packaging and testing project, including RMB 4 billion in fixed-asset spending. The company plans to sign a project cooperation agreement with the Dongguan Songshan Lake High-Tech Industrial Development Zone Administrative Committee. The resolution passed on September 21, 2026, and the deal does not require shareholder approval.

TREE NEWS reports: World Liberty Financial’s announced crypto partnerships, including an Aave-backed lending market, Ethena stablecoin collateral and Ondo tokenized Treasuries, have yet to launch, and most of its “strategic token reserve” holdings of LINK, AAVE, ENA and MOVE have been transferred or disposed of, some to centralized exchange accounts. Tokens bought by World Liberty typically rose 10% to 26% within a day of being spotted on-chain, but most gains did not hold. The company said it adjusts strategy with market conditions and business priorities and stressed no link to Trump administration decisions.

TREE NEWS reports: Franklin Crypto executive Chris Perkins said the SEC and CFTC have already given institutions the regulatory certainty the crypto industry was waiting for, speaking on the Bits + Bips podcast a week after the Senate blocked the crypto market-structure bill. Perkins argued the rulebook came without Congress acting, as the industry continues to press for market-structure legislation.

TREE NEWS reports: Helius CEO Mert Mumtaz said Zcash’s recent rally is being driven by its case as a complete store of value rather than the privacy feature most observers cite. Speaking to Unchained, Mumtaz argued the coin’s run reflects broader demand for sound money characteristics, not just anonymity. No price levels or figures were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: Glassnode’s Altcoin Cycle Signal printed a new altseason signal after a month of gains in both Bitcoin and altcoin market capitalizations. Bitcoin’s share of total crypto market value has stalled below 60%, the level the metric uses to flag rotation into altcoins. The signal follows a month in which both segments rose.

TREE NEWS update: The HSC Conference Seoul 2026 will return this October in Seoul, South Korea, connecting the crypto industry with institutional finance. The event’s announcement was dated 22nd September 2026. Further details on the agenda and participants were not disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: The Best Event is bringing its AFTERDARK event to Singapore’s Capitol Theatre during Token2049 Week. The venue sits in Singapore’s civic district, where Token2049 Week draws the crypto industry’s side events. No further details on programming, participants or ticketing were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: The total crypto market capitalization reclaimed $3 trillion as Bitcoin traded near $86,000 and major altcoins posted gains. Rising derivatives leverage signaled growing speculative activity across crypto markets.

TREE NEWS update: X has added a trade button to cashtags, letting US users tap tickers such as $BTC to see a live chart and hand off to a brokerage to execute the trade. The partners named are Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Interactive Brokers and Moomoo, with the trade executed at the partner rather than on X itself.

TREE NEWS update: Kalshi rejected wash-trading allegations after an analyst said a single order size accounted for as much as 58% of ether perpetual volume on the platform. The prediction-market exchange said the critic had confused prediction-market data with perpetual futures data. The dispute centers on repeated $5,500 ether perpetual trades flagged by the analyst.

TREE NEWS reports: US prosecutors are investigating whether Binance knowingly allowed Iran-linked trades to pass through its platform and whether the exchange’s 2023 compliance fixes held. Binance said it maintains a “zero-tolerance policy” for sanctions violations. The probe examines whether the compliance measures the exchange agreed to in 2023 remained effective.

TREE NEWS reports: Hyperliquid repurchased and burned 39,980 HYPE tokens over the past 24 hours at a volume-weighted average price of $94.18, worth $3.76 million. Cumulative burns now total 48.84 million HYPE, about $4.64 billion at current prices, or 4.88% of maximum supply. Cumulative revenue has reached $1.27 billion.

TREE NEWS reports: Three newly created wallets have accumulated 782,130 UNI tokens worth $6.97 million, on-chain tracker Lookonchain reported. One wallet received 130,000 UNI worth $1.14 million from Galaxy Digital; a second withdrew 221,955 UNI worth $1.99 million from Bybit and OKX 21 hours ago; a third pulled 430,174 UNI worth $3.84 million from Binance and Gate over the past three days.

TREE NEWS reports: PlanB said on X that bitcoin, at about $87,000, has climbed above all major realized prices: the overall realized price near $53,000, the 155-day realized price near $72,000 and the 2-year realized price near $86,000. He sees a drop below $53,000 this cycle as unlikely and expects BTC to set a new high within the 2024-2028 halving cycle.

TREE NEWS update: Binance will update collateral ratios for cross-margin borrowing and transfers, unified account collateral, and Unified Account Pro tiers on September 25, 2026 at 06:00 UTC, the exchange said in an official announcement. The adjustment covers ENA, BCH, GAS, NEWT, ORCA, SFP, UMA, 1MBABYDOGE and KAVA, among other assets.

TREE NEWS reports: BNB’s market capitalization reached about $104.95 billion, edging past Bank of New York Mellon’s roughly $104.41 billion to rank 249th among global assets by market value. Bank of New York Mellon sits at 251st on the same list.