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TREE NEWS update: ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) announced at the World Manufacturing Convention on September 20 that its fifth-generation process technology platform has entered mass production, alongside the display of high-capacity LPDDR5X products built on the platform. The company said the move enriches its product lineup and strengthens competitiveness, but added that no large-scale sales have yet been generated from the platform and it will not materially affect near-term operating results.

TREE NEWS reports: Jane Street Group began providing swap contracts for leveraged ETFs earlier this year, writing about $1.2 billion in notional swaps for roughly 75 leveraged and inverse single-stock ETFs in the second quarter. The firm now holds about 2% of the single-stock ETF segment, trailing Clear Street at roughly 21% and Marex Group at about 11%, as US leveraged ETF assets peaked above $200 billion in the second quarter.

TREE NEWS reports: A joint report from Glassnode and Bybit says holding anything other than Bitcoin has been a losing bet for the past two years, framing the divergence as the defining feature of the current cycle. The report notes that speculative froth is pooling in the market’s riskiest corners while Bitcoin does the heavy lifting.

TREE NEWS update: Police in Yibin, Sichuan, have administratively detained and fined a 33-year-old man surnamed Lin for fabricating a rumor that an employee at a company’s Yibin base was humiliated by management and reacted with extreme behavior, the Sanjiang New Area public security sub-bureau said on September 9. Authorities confirmed the company and location described in the post were false, and said Lin invented the story to attract attention and pose as an industry insider.

TREE NEWS update: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin will appear online at ETHShanghai 2026 and deliver a keynote address, the conference announced. The event opens September 22 in Shanghai under the theme “The Renaissance of Ethereum,” covering Ethereum’s development, AI × Web3, decentralization and individual sovereignty, prediction markets, stablecoins and US equities on-chain. His talk extends his earlier argument that blockchain can serve as a privacy infrastructure layer for the AI agent era.

TREE NEWS update: Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) said his personal X account has not been managed by a team or interns for the past several years, and that he has not used any AI automation tools. Every post and reply, he said, is written and published manually by himself.

TREE NEWS reports: Michael Saylor posted an X message reading “A little more orange” alongside Strategy’s bitcoin purchase record, a signal the market typically reads as a possible new BTC accumulation disclosure. The chart shows Strategy holding about 845,050 BTC as of September 20, bought at an average cost of roughly $75,400, for a total value of about $67.9 billion.

TREE NEWS reports: Meme trading platform gmgn transferred 23,550 BNB, worth about $17.34 million, in fee revenue to the Pionex exchange over the past week, on-chain analyst Yu Chen said on September 20. The transfers were made in batches across the seven-day period. gmgn is a meme coin trading platform; Pionex is a crypto exchange.

TREE NEWS reports: Plasma (XPL) will unlock about 1.76 billion tokens on Sept. 25 at 8 p.m. Beijing time, equal to roughly 63.20% of its circulating supply and worth around $158 million. Humanity Protocol (H) will release about 266 million tokens on Sept. 25 at 8 a.m., about 7.34% of supply and worth roughly $19.2 million. SoSoValue (SOSO) will unlock about 23.46 million tokens on Sept. 24 at 5 p.m., about 5.97% of supply and worth about $6.8 million.

TREE NEWS reports: SlowMist and OKX’s security team traced a wave of wallet drains to FomoPeek versions 1.1–1.2, a meme-monitoring app that bundled iOS kernel exploit code to escalate privileges, escape the app sandbox and decrypt the system keychain. The malware silently exfiltrated plaintext private keys and scanned other wallets and memos on the same device, with no phishing site or malicious signature involved. The teams’ joint review followed reports of assets being emptied without unusual user interaction.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin held in known over-the-counter trading desk addresses has dropped to an all-time low of about 123,000 BTC, CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost said on September 20, down from nearly 500,000 BTC in September 2021. The decline likely reflects investors favoring long-term holding, miners selling less through OTC channels and sellers shifting to public markets, leaving fewer coins listed for off-exchange sale.

TREE NEWS reports: The Apollo Guidance Computer, programmed in 2019 to run Bitcoin’s mining algorithm, takes 10.3 seconds to complete a single double SHA-256 hash with its roughly 4KB of memory. Computer scientist Ken Shirriff’s team verified the program against block 286,819 but earned no bitcoin. With network hashrate at 934 EH/s after the Sept. 5 difficulty adjustment and mining difficulty at 127.45 trillion, the machine would need about 13 million times the age of the universe to find one block.

TREE NEWS update: SlowMist founder Cos warned on X that seemingly normal iPhone apps can poison devices and drain users’ crypto, citing the ComeCome food-delivery app as a more notable case than FomoPeek. He advised users to update to the latest iOS version, noting iPads and Macs may also be affected.

TREE NEWS update: The attacker behind the earlier Fetch.ai and NuNet exploits minted 260 million AGIX and 53.838 million WMTX without authorization on Ethereum by exploiting a SingularityNET vulnerability. The hacker now holds roughly $16.77 million in crypto assets, including 198.3 million AGIX worth about $14.42 million, 649 ETH worth about $1.67 million, and 33.538 million WMTX worth about $627,400.

TREE NEWS update: CoinW has listed AINVDA perpetual futures with leverage of up to 25x. AINVDA is a meme token focused on the intersection of AI, Nvidia and on-chain culture, built around the Artificial Inu dog mascot and a narrative tied to growing demand for AI compute, GPUs and Nvidia-related infrastructure. CoinW said it has no affiliation with any listed company mentioned and that the service may not be available in some jurisdictions.

TREE NEWS update: Grayscale’s Zcash ETF is set for a 3-for-1 forward share split, with shareholders of record receiving two additional shares for each share held at the close of trading on Sept. 28. The split increases the number of shares outstanding while proportionally reducing the per-share price.

TREE NEWS reports: Ethena has generated $1.04 billion in cumulative revenue since launch, including $284 million over the past 12 months, but ENA holders have received none of it. A September 2 governance vote passed a fee switch that will route 95% of revenue to open-market ENA buybacks once USDe’s 14-day average supply tops $7.5 billion. USDe currently sits at $4.75 billion, 58% below the threshold.

TREE NEWS reports: Real Vision founder Raoul Pal said bitcoin’s weekly chart against the Nasdaq 100 has broken its downtrend and he expects the cryptocurrency to outperform the index. He noted bitcoin rose from about $75,580 to above $81,000 after the Federal Reserve raised rates by 25 basis points to 3.75%-4.00%. Pal said fiscal dominance and debt refinancing needs will boost liquidity and benefit crypto assets.

TREE NEWS update: Gate on Sept. 22 at 18:00 (UTC+8) opened the 144th round of its contract points airdrop, split into two pools. Users holding at least 40 Gate contract points can claim a 100 USDT position trial voucher for 20 points, while those with 120–90 points under a declining threshold can claim 0.016 QQQG for 15 points. The QQQG pool uses a descending threshold, giving higher-point users earlier claim eligibility.