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TREE NEWS update: Xiaomi founder and CEO Lei Jun said in a livestream that reports he made over 10 billion yuan from Unitree Robotics’ IPO were inaccurate, stating the investment was made by Shunwei Capital and was not a new-share subscription. Lei said he met Unitree founder Wang Xingxing more than a decade ago and that Shunwei was the sole investor in Unitree’s Series A round, adding that Shunwei’s shareholders also profited.

TREE NEWS update: White hats recovered roughly 40% of the Bitcoin moved in the second wave of the Coldcard exploit, transferring the funds to a Wyoming trust set up for victims. The second wave involved about 52 Bitcoin. The white hats outran the attackers to secure the portion before it could be moved further.

TREE NEWS reports: Bernstein forecasts annual prediction market trading volume will reach $10 trillion by 2035, up from an estimated $41 billion in 2026. Crypto, equity and commodity trading is expected to surpass sports-related trading before 2035, accounting for 49% of total volume, the firm said.

TREE NEWS update: ByteDance dismissed 114 employees in mainland China during the second quarter of 2026 for violating company red lines, according to the company’s corporate discipline and professional ethics committee. Eight of those dismissed were referred to judicial authorities on suspicion of criminal offenses, and ByteDance filed civil lawsuits against six others for seriously harming company interests.

TREE NEWS reports: DeFi researcher Chado estimates Aave DAO would need roughly 473 days of retained income to repay a 30,000 ETH Mantle credit line tied to April’s rsETH incident. Aave DAO’s retained revenue averaged about $167,000 a day over the 144 days since April 29, down 41% from the prior 144-day period. The DAO contributed 25,000 ETH of its own treasury to the recovery.

TREE NEWS reports: Ethereum holders weighing how to use idle ETH face a choice between native staking and DeFi lending, which serve different needs. Native staking earns protocol rewards by capitalizing on long holding periods, while post-Pectra 0x02 compounding validators raised the maximum effective balance per validator from 32 ETH to 2,048 ETH. Lending, such as on Aave, releases liquidity against ETH collateral but adds debt, interest-rate and liquidation risk.

TREE NEWS reports: Solstice CEO Ben Nadareski said deeper liquidity and growing institutional participation could make future crypto bull runs less volatile than previous cycles. He argued the market’s wild boom-and-bust pattern is fading as these structural changes take hold.

TREE NEWS reports: US spot bitcoin ETFs drew $999 million in net inflows on Monday, the largest single-day haul since Oct. 6, 2025. The figure marks the biggest daily inflow for the funds in 11 months.

TREE NEWS update: Binance Futures will list a MOONSHOTUSDT USDT-margined Pre-IPO perpetual contract on September 22 at 16:30 (UTC+8), the exchange said in an official announcement. The listing adds a pre-IPO-linked perpetual to Binance’s derivatives venue, with trading set to open at the stated time.

TREE NEWS reports: US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in close to $1 billion on Monday, their biggest single-day inflow since October 2025, as Bitcoin briefly traded above $87,000. The move marks a 2026 high for the funds and signals renewed investor demand for regulated Bitcoin exposure.

TREE NEWS update: Xiao Feng, vice chairman of Wanxiang Holdings and chairman of Wanxiang Blockchain, said at the ETHShanghai 2026 conference in Shanghai on September 22 that Ethereum does not need a renaissance, calling it a high-market-share blockchain infrastructure with a still-important application base. He said his early support for Ethereum was not an investment call but an endorsement of its idea of letting third parties build applications on a new accounting system.

TREE NEWS update: Binance set out how rewards for 4Stock holders will be paid. Binance Wallet holders receive BNC4 automatically from Four Meme to their on-chain wallet addresses, while Binance Alpha 2.0 holders get rewards pooled into the Binance Alpha vault contract, calculated from daily random snapshots and paid monthly. Only daily holdings above 10,000 4Stock count toward a day’s effective position, and last month’s rewards go to eligible users’ spot accounts early next month.

TREE NEWS update: Binance Futures will adjust the leverage and margin tiers for 16 USDT-margined perpetual contracts at 14:30 (UTC+8) on September 25, the exchange said in an official announcement. The contracts affected include COOKIEUSDT, TLMUSDT, EPICUSDT, RAVEUSDT, DODOXUSDT, MOVEUSDT, SOPHUSDT, AVAUSDT, AWEUSDT, ARKUSDT, B2USDT, UAIUSDT, VELODROMEUSDT, BLURUSDT, MOVRUSDT and LSKUSDT. Binance said the update is expected to complete within an hour, and existing positions opened before the change will be affected, advising users to adjust in advance.

TREE NEWS update: Animoca Brands has suspended reverse merger talks with Currenc, putting its planned Nasdaq debut on hold. The Hong Kong-based Web3 investor said it remains committed to pursuing a listing on a major exchange, without giving a new timeline for the deal.

TREE NEWS reports: Strategy bought 950 bitcoin at $79,670 for about $75.7 million last week, its first purchase in two weeks, lifting its holdings to 846,000 BTC. Listed non-mining companies swung to a net $183 million of bitcoin buying for the week. 21, 2026. Bitmine holds about 5.98 million ETH after 68 straight weeks of additions, and DeFi Development Corp. added 101,381 SOL.

TREE NEWS reports: White-hat hackers moved 52.37 bitcoin linked to the Coldcard exploit to an address tied to a newly formed recovery trust, Galaxy Digital research head Alex Thorn said on September 22. The funds represent about 2.8% of the bitcoin stolen in the Coldcard vulnerability.

TREE NEWS reports: Binance has delisted 42 spot tokens and 28 USDT-margined perpetuals so far in 2026, more spot delistings than in any full year since 2022, with announcements arriving roughly every 28 days. Spot removals hit older listings — median age at delisting rose to 5.1 years from 4.1 in 2022 — while perpetual delistings hit newer ones, with median age falling to 0.8 years from 1.3. FDV and open interest, not trading volume, drove the decisions.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase announced a partnership with League of Legends to host a ‘Mundo Dodgeball’ tournament, with the winner receiving 1 bitcoin. The fan-made format sees two players both pick Dr. Mundo and trade Q abilities in the Baron pit until one dies. Bitcoin was worth about $85,000 at the time of the announcement.

TREE NEWS reports: Ethena’s synthetic dollar USDe briefly lost its peg on Binance on September 22, with the USDe/USDT pair falling as low as $0.9202. The token has since recovered its peg and was last quoted at $0.9997.

TREE NEWS update: Binance will remove seven USDC spot trading pairs — AIXBT/USDC, DOLO/USDC, ENJ/USDC, HUMA/USDC, SXT/USDC, TNSR/USDC and TURTLE/USDC — and halt trading on them at 11:00 (UTC+8) on Sept 25. The exchange will also disable related trading bot services for those pairs. The tokens remain tradable against Binance’s other available pairs.