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TREE NEWS reports: CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr. said Bitcoin has spent the past 20 days repeatedly testing its yearly moving average without holding above it, with volatility compression intensifying near key resistance. He noted this is the fourth such occurrence in the current bear-market phase, signaling the price may soon pick a direction.

TREE NEWS reports: Harmony’s ONE token has surged nearly 500% since the project announced on September 6 that it would shut down its mainnet, trading at 0.00411 USDT with a 24-hour gain of 82.1%. Harmony has issued two proposals to fully close the Layer 1 mainnet launched in 2019, migrate the native ONE token to Ethereum, and pivot to an AI video editing business.

TREE NEWS reports: MicroStrategy (MSTR) was the best-performing component of the Nasdaq 100 over the past month, with its share price surging 48%, as of September 20. The bitcoin-holding software company outperformed every other stock in the index during the period.

TREE NEWS reports: Three projects are scheduled for token unlocks: Plasma will release 1.77 billion tokens worth about $160 million, Humanity Protocol 270 million tokens worth about $20.46 million, and SoSoValue 23.49 million tokens worth about $6.79 million. The XPL unlock exceeds 60% of its circulating supply. Plasma is a Layer 1 blockchain built for global stablecoin payments, Humanity Protocol is an anti-Sybil identity network, and SoSoValue is an AI-driven investment research platform.

TREE NEWS update: BitMEX will formally close on Sept 23, 2026, and has stopped accepting new user registrations, parent HDR Global Trading Limited said after a strategic review. The Moscow Exchange will list BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP and TRX index perpetual futures on Sept 22, cash-settled and ruble-denominated for qualified investors. Phantom ends Sui support Sept 24, and oracle project Switchboard halts operations Sept 25.

TREE NEWS update: TapeOut, an on-chain hardware manufacturing infrastructure that turns digital logic elements into blockchain assets, opened its Proof of Design (PoD) mining on August 21, 2026, the same day its $BEM token launched on BNB Chain with a total supply of 21 million. The protocol, launched on August 15, 2026 by developer Blonskr, lets users assemble NAND and LATCH components in a Canvas, tape out circuits into Circuit NFTs, and register verified circuits as miners to earn $BEM.

TREE NEWS update: Japan’s National Police Agency and the FBI jointly disclosed that North Korean hacking group WaterPlum, also known as “Contagious Interview,” has posed as recruiters and crypto firms to trick developers into running malicious code. Between December 2025 and July 2026, the group infected at least 30,000 devices across more than 100 countries and stole funds or credentials from over 7,000 crypto wallets, involving at least $10.71 million in crypto assets.

TREE NEWS reports: A wallet identified as 0x68f…bac8a has spent a total of $261,000 buying GSTOCK, which surged more than 170% intraday. The address first bought the token two days earlier and added again during a 20-minute rally, building a position of 12.31 million GSTOCK at an average price of $0.02117. It now holds an unrealized gain of $51,000 and ranks as the token’s fourth-largest holder.

TREE NEWS update: Istanbul prosecutors said a transnational investment fraud network allegedly run by an Israeli citizen and operating in Turkey has been dismantled, with losses exceeding $3 billion. Turkish police arrested 191 of 239 suspects in a joint operation involving the Interior Ministry, intelligence agency MIT, Interpol and financial crimes watchdog MASAK. The network posed as service, consulting and travel firms and lured investors into forex and crypto trading with promises of high returns.

TREE NEWS update: ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) announced at the 2026 World Manufacturing Convention on September 20 that its fifth-generation DRAM technology platform has entered mass production. Two LPDDR5X products built on the G5 platform were shown, each with a 24GB die capacity — 50% higher than the previous generation of comparable products. The modules use 496-ball and 245-ball packages and are already in volume production.

TREE NEWS reports: NEAR rose from about $2.3 to above $3.9 over the past week, a gain of more than 50%, as the network shifted its focus from sharding to cross-chain trading, privacy and derivatives. NEAR’s NEAR@3.33 milestone program triggered its first snapshot on Sept. 17 after privacy-account assets on near.com reached $70 million, unlocking a 333,333 NEAR pool worth about $1.11 million if NEAR’s three-day volume-weighted average price holds at or above $3.33.

TREE NEWS update: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin rejected Paradigm CTO Georgios Konstantopoulos’s assertion that privacy is now effectively extinct, saying on September 20 that it only dies if people give up on it. “I will not give up on privacy. I will double down on defending it,” Buterin said. The exchange centers on the future of privacy in crypto as surveillance and data-collection pressures mount.

TREE NEWS update: A senior aide to the UK’s Reform Party, Arron Banks, said the party would set up a crypto industry union to circumvent a potential ban on foreign donations if the Labour government introduces one. Labour has promised new residency requirements to retroactively void £72 million in crypto billionaire donations from Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne received last week. Banks said the party plans to establish the “Allied Computer & Crypto Workers Union (ACCAW),” representing IT, AI and crypto workers, which could legally receive funds if certified in the UK.

TREE NEWS update: Paraguayan authorities dismantled two illegal Bitcoin mining farms in Alto Paraná, seizing 35 mining machines. On Sept. 17, power utility ANDE found an illegally connected farm in Minga Guazú, confiscated 10 ASIC miners and fined the operator about 1.76 billion guaraníes (roughly $30,000). Earlier, on Sept. 12, police seized 25 mining devices in Remansito, Ciudad del Este, after noise complaints. The Chamber of Deputies has ordered ANDE to report on crypto mining power use within 15 working days.

TREE NEWS reports: Polymarket mishandled stolen debit card fraud during its rapid US expansion, with at least $10 million in fraudulent deposits flagged, the Wall Street Journal reported on September 20. The firm processing debit card transactions for Polymarket’s US platform found fraudsters linking stolen cards to accounts to place bets and withdraw to controlled accounts. At the peak, more than 80% of deposits were flagged as fraudulent, far above the industry norm of about 1%.

TREE NEWS reports: Ether slipped below $2,600 on September 20, trading at $2,598.64 per coin, a 1.61% decline over the past 24 hours. The move marks a fresh intraday low for the second-largest cryptocurrency as selling pressure persists.

TREE NEWS reports: Bankless co-founder David Hoffman said on September 18 that altcoin season has begun and will arrive sooner than expected. Bitcoin broke above $81,000 and ETH topped $2,600, with UNI jumping nearly 35% in a day while ARB and NEAR gained over 20%. Hoffman disclosed he sold his ETH in May and rotated into VVV, NEAR, ZEC, HYPE and LIT, all of which have since outperformed ETH.