TREE NEWS update: X has sued the operators of six Bitcoin-focused accounts, alleging they coordinated posts and engagement to inflate creator payouts. The platform claims and projects losses of at least $378,000.
TREE NEWS reports: smartestmoney.hl (0x082e…ca88) still holds a long position of 1.38 million HYPE tokens worth about $132 million, with unrealized profit rising from $54.97 million to $78.94 million. Total profit stands at $71.56 million, with an entry price of $38.68 against a current price of $95.88 and a liquidation price of $73.26.
TREE NEWS reports: Decentralized stablecoin USDD grew its market cap by $12.8 million on Sept. 20, the third-largest single-day gain among stablecoin issuers behind Ethena ($35.8 million) and StablR ($18.7 million). USDD’s circulating supply now stands at $1.54 billion, ranking 10th among all stablecoins, with protocol TVL at $2.29 billion.
TREE NEWS update: Binance will list ARB/U and ENA/USD1 spot trading pairs on September 22, 2026 at 08:00 UTC, the exchange announced. Spot algorithmic order trading bots will also be enabled for both pairs. Separately, spot grid and spot DCA trading bots will open for NVDAB/USDT and QQQB/USDT.
TREE NEWS update: Growatt plans to raise product prices by 5% to 10% starting October 8. The increase covers string inverters, including grid-tied and energy-storage inverters, as well as energy storage systems such as commercial and industrial storage cabinets and residential storage systems.
TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin broke above $84,000, up more than 12% from its September 16 dip below $75,000, after the Federal Reserve’s 25-basis-point rate hike landed and the CLARITY Act stalled in the Senate. Spot Bitcoin ETFs drew $159 million of net inflows on September 17 and about $433 million on September 18, pushing cumulative net inflows past $55 billion, or nearly 6.3% of total net asset value. Total crypto market cap briefly reclaimed $2.9 trillion; ETH traded near $2,690 and SOL around $115.
TREE NEWS reports: Machi Big Brother is running three leveraged long positions worth more than $123 million combined. The largest is a 25x ETH long valued at about $88.39 million with $4.595 million in unrealized profit. He also holds a 40x bitcoin long worth roughly $26.1 million, up $950,000, and a 10x HYPE long valued at about $8.81 million, up $287,000.
TREE NEWS update: X has filed a lawsuit against two UK users, alleging they manipulated crypto-focused accounts to extract $277,000 from its creator revenue-sharing program. The platform accuses the pair of gaming the payout system tied to its crypto content accounts. The suit marks X’s latest legal action over alleged abuse of its monetization tools.
TREE NEWS reports: An early MRVL long is holding $61.8 million in perpetual contracts, with $1.46 million in unrealized profit, on-chain data shows. The position includes a $25.21 million bitcoin short alongside tokenized-stock longs: SPCX at $12.56 million (+$1.71 million), MU at $8.21 million (+$174,500), SNDK at $7.91 million (+$261,000), DRAM at $5.97 million (+$549,500) and SKHX at $1.93 million (+$77,100).
TREE NEWS update: Bitget VIP trader Steve has moved his trading from A-shares to US stocks via IBKR and, since around June, increasingly to on-chain markets that run 24/7. Steve said he trades news-driven short-term strategies, spending about ten hours a day watching markets, and uses contracts at 3-5x leverage. He cited a July loss from holding a position too long despite knowing he should exit.
TREE NEWS update: PancakeSwap’s first Pre-Access offering, pPOLY, sold out shortly after subscriptions opened at 17:00 Beijing time on September 21. The sale offered 309,677.42 pPOLY tokens at $15.5 each, raising roughly $4.8 million and implying a valuation of $15.5 billion.
TREE NEWS update: X-Agent published a whitepaper detailing its AI Agent Onchain OS, including its product architecture, MCP ecosystem, business model and $XAGT use cases. The project says it has surpassed 1 million registered users, completed over 1.1 million autonomous tasks, and consumed more than 84 billion LLM tokens. $XAGT is planned for compute fees, LLM and API calls, agent transaction settlement, MCP service payments and Premium Agent template purchases.
TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin briefly climbed above $84,000 on the day, gaining more than 3% intraday. The move marked a session high for the largest cryptocurrency before it eased back below the level.
TREE NEWS reports: Shengyu Technology shares closed up 9.23% at 248 yuan on September 21, giving the PCB maker a market value of 237.3 billion yuan, after market talk that it had won 70% of a North American client’s orthogonal backplane orders and that Google’s TPU PCB guidance had doubled. The company declined to confirm, saying cooperation details with specific clients are confidential and that it has made no forecast or commitment on second-half results.
TREE NEWS reports: Hyperliquid’s HYPE token hit an all-time high of $94.52 on Sept. 19, rebounding from a Sept. 15 low of $75.18, while bitcoin traded between $74,950 and $81,950 last week and now approaches the $82,850 top of its box range. Both assets are in deeply overbought territory, with proprietary momentum and spread models flagging top warnings.
TREE NEWS update: CATL adjusted prices on its online mall for energy storage cells, raising the starting quote for its 280Ah (1P) cell 1.1% and its 314Ah cell 2.0% from early September levels, to 0.470 yuan/Wh and 0.403 yuan/Wh respectively. The 587Ah ultra-high-capacity cell was listed publicly for the first time at a starting price of 0.415 yuan/Wh, setting a new price reference for the small and mid-sized storage market.
TREE NEWS update: ZetaChain token holders have approved a plan to wind down the project’s Cosmos-based layer 1 and migrate the ZETA token to Solana, the project said. The move makes ZetaChain the latest crypto project to abandon a standalone chain in favor of an established network.
TREE NEWS reports: Polymarket has hired executives from Amazon, Uber, the NYSE, Coinbase and Robinhood, naming Warren Jenson as its first company-level CFO on September 10, as the platform’s valuation anchor sits between $15 billion and $21 billion. ICE, the NYSE parent, holds about 22% of Polymarket’s issued shares as of June 30, 2026, with the right to nominate and vote one director. A viral September 20 screenshot tied Polymarket to $pPOLY, a Paimon Finance SPV token, not an actual IPO.
TREE NEWS update: Hyperliquid said its perpetual futures market now supports trailing stop orders. The trigger price adjusts with the mark price as long as the move favors the position, and a market order fires when the mark price retraces a set distance or percentage from its best level — the highest mark price since activation for longs, the lowest for shorts. Users can set an activation price to decide when tracking begins; without one, tracking starts immediately at the current mark price.
TREE NEWS update: Binance opened trading in 25 additional stocks on September 21 at 21:30 (UTC+8), the exchange said in an official announcement. The new tickers are AADX, ADIG, ALIT, BOT, BXDC, CYPH, DHC, DPC, EROC, FDXF, FRVO, HAWK, IAUM, INIO, LCLN, LFTO, LGL, LYTE, ONT, RAM, SIVR, SKDD, SKUU, SVC and UG.
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