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TREE NEWS reports: VanEck said Metaplanet’s executive equity exposure remains well above that of its digital asset treasury peers, even after the company reduced its potential share pool by 41%. The asset manager’s criticism centers on dilution risk tied to executive compensation at the Bitcoin-accumulating firm. Metaplanet has not publicly responded to the assessment.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin rose 24.6% over five days in August even as active leverage declined, with short positions accounting for 89% of every liquidated dollar. The findings indicate the rally was driven almost entirely by short liquidations rather than fresh leveraged demand.

TREE NEWS update: Circle’s Arc blockchain launched agentic payments on September 19, with its Facilitator Service offering x402 developers a hosted integration path that accepts USDC and settles on-chain across Arc, Base and Polygon. The route removes the need for a relayer key or a separate gas wallet.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto futures liquidations across the market reached $294 million in the past 24 hours, with short positions accounting for $229 million and long positions $65.54 million, CoinGlass data show. Bitcoin liquidations totaled $60.04 million and Ethereum $76.83 million. The largest single liquidation order was an ETHUSDT position on Binance worth $4.37 million.

TREE NEWS reports: Visa is moving to close a memecoin rewards loophole tied to Crossmint, with its grace period expected to end next week. The Crossmint-powered memecoin sales remain live on both apps for now. The change follows an investigation into how the rewards mechanism was being used.

TREE NEWS update: Jito Labs chief operating officer and chief legal officer Rebecca Rettig said banks can operate compliantly on permissionless blockchains, arguing in an a16z crypto piece that the Bank Secrecy Act and sanctions rules require risk-proportionate controls rather than zero risk or control of underlying infrastructure. She noted the OCC confirmed in November 2025 that banks may pay network fees on blockchains and hold related crypto assets, and said zero-knowledge proofs and confidential transfers let institutions prove compliance without disclosing client positions.

TREE NEWS update: Grayscale is splitting the shares of its Zcash ETF three-for-one after the fund drew more than $233 million in under a month. The move makes the product more affordable for investors as Wall Street demand for crypto’s hottest privacy trade keeps rising.

TREE NEWS update: Bitcoin Lightning Network wallet Blink Wallet has suspended services on its platform while it investigates a security incident in which attackers accessed some custodial accounts and withdrew funds. The wallet said the vast majority of funds are safe and that non-custodial wallets are unaffected.

TREE NEWS reports: Hyperliquid bought back and burned 26,310 HYPE at an average price of $91.86 over the past 24 hours, worth about $2.42 million. Cumulative burns have reached 48.76 million HYPE, roughly $4.5 billion and 4.88% of the maximum supply. The protocol recorded $64.34 million in revenue over the past 30 days and $1.26 billion cumulatively.

TREE NEWS update: Ripple said asset managers and other business projects are preparing to use the XRP Ledger’s Batch V1.1 upgrade, which bundles up to eight transactions into a single atomic operation so all succeed or all are cancelled. RippleX engineering lead Ayo Akinyele said this matters for use cases where asset and payment must settle together. The amendment has 30 of 35 tracked validators’ support, above the 28 needed for the activation countdown, which began September 15 at 14:06:41 UTC and would activate around September 29 if support stays above 80% for 14 days.

TREE NEWS reports: A trader opened a long position on 9,810 ZEC at $517.68 about a month ago and is now sitting on an unrealized profit of $9.98 million, on-chain monitoring shows. The same trader also holds a short position of 3,550 ETH that is underwater by $2.6 million.

TREE NEWS reports: ZachXBT has accused the newly launched Zcash NFT project zkSNARKs of being an eight-figure cash grab, saying its blind auction raised $17 million with no utility. He said the team secured a 10% allocation and 5% royalty for roughly $2,000 in minting costs, and compared the sale to earlier Ordinals scams.

TREE NEWS reports: CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost said Bitcoin’s market behavior has shifted from panic selling to dip buying, describing it as a real threshold crossed in investor behavior. Drawdowns that previously triggered panic selling are now treated as buying opportunities. As a result, further sharp declines in Bitcoin have become harder to achieve and the position of short sellers more complicated, the analyst said.

TREE NEWS reports: B2 rose 120% from $0.41 to $0.90 on the afternoon of September 19, on-chain analyst Yu Jin reported. Its proactive market maker moved 13 million B2 tokens, worth $10.44 million, into Binance Alpha through multiple wallets about half an hour earlier. The tokens were withdrawn from Bitget and Gate a month ago at $0.47, booking a $4.27 million profit. One receiving wallet is linked to an address that previously ran SIREN.

TREE NEWS update: Elon Musk said X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has reached an all-time high in usage. The statement was made without a specific figure or a date attached to the record. No further details were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Turkish authorities have ordered the arrest of Turhan, chairman of Pusula. The detention was reported on T24. No further details on the charges or the timing of the arrest were immediately available.

TREE NEWS update: Solana’s block times fell 17% in its latest speed upgrade, the network’s clock speeding up again. The added speed delivers fresher data rather than more transaction capacity, meaning throughput is unchanged. No date or version number was disclosed in the material.

TREE NEWS reports: Strategy founder Michael Saylor pushed back after investor Jason Calacanis dismissed bitcoin as “boring” during its rebound to $80,000 on Friday, calling the rally a “dead cat bounce” and questioning what bitcoin is after 17 years. Saylor said bitcoin is now a successful project with a $1.6 trillion market cap and the world’s most valuable digital asset.

TREE NEWS update: A research group led by Professor Wang Maojun at Huazhong Agricultural University published findings in the journal Cell on September 16, identifying for the first time that the three-dimensional structure of chromosomes is a new target for cotton variety improvement. The work addresses gaps in cotton breeding theory and technology and opens a research direction for enriching cotton genetic resources and developing high-quality, high-yield varieties.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto analyst Ali Charts said in a post on X that whale activity on the XRP network surged over the past 96 hours, with large holders accumulating roughly 1.54 billion XRP — worth about $2 billion. The reported accumulation is the analyst’s on-chain observation; no source or wallet addresses were disclosed.