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TREE NEWS reports: Hyperliquid’s priority fees reached an all-time high of more than $264,900 on September 15. The figure marks the highest daily level recorded for priority fees on the decentralized perpetuals exchange.

TREE NEWS update: Polygon is preparing a permissionless burn of 100 million POL tokens, with contracts already deployed on testnet and awaiting final Security Council signatures, co-founder Sandeep Nailwal said. Later base-fee burns are set to become community-callable each quarter.

TREE NEWS update: The CFTC filed a crypto market rulemaking with the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs on Sept. 17, covering “Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions and Regulation Crypto Asset Markets” under RIN 3038-AF80. OIRA lists the filing at the prerule stage, not as a proposed rule. The submission came two days after the Senate blocked the CLARITY Act.

TREE NEWS reports: Coinbase shares closed 12% higher, while online brokerage Robinhood rose 9.1% in the same session. The two crypto-exposed US equities led gains as of the close.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase has filed to offer perpetual futures on individual US stocks, seeking to bring 24/5 trading to retail investors. The proposed contracts are now awaiting regulatory approval. If cleared, the products would extend Coinbase’s derivatives lineup beyond crypto into single-name equity exposure.

TREE NEWS reports: The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission reported that bitcoin net long positioning stood at 2,468 contracts for the week of September 15. The figure reflects the net bullish positioning of traders in CFTC-regulated bitcoin futures markets for that reporting week.

TREE NEWS update: Binance will list a USD/BRL USDT-margined perpetual contract on September 21, offering up to 100x leverage and 24/7 trading. During regular forex hours the contract tracks a third-party data provider’s weighted index; on weekends and public holidays it uses an order-book-based index weighted moving average pricing mechanism instead of external price sources. Bybit previously launched 24/7 perpetuals for the euro, pound and yen against the dollar.

TREE NEWS reports: Zcash developers are proposing a network upgrade that would cut the blockchain’s block time from 75 seconds to 25 seconds. The change would also rewrite how the network pays for its own security after 2031. No timeline for the upgrade was given.

TREE NEWS update: Binance has launched around-the-clock foreign exchange perpetual futures, introducing a weekend pricing system for the products. The move makes the exchange the latest crypto platform to offer 24/7 FX exposure through perpetual futures. Binance did not disclose further terms of the offering.

TREE NEWS reports: Kevin O’Leary said Bitcoin could reach $1 million if the crypto industry solves its quantum computing problem, and explained why he is moving away from Ethereum. The investor’s comments tie his long-term bitcoin price target to the sector’s ability to address the threat quantum computing poses to cryptographic security.

TREE NEWS reports: Coinbase, Strategy and other crypto-linked stocks rallied Friday, recovering from a selloff tied to the CLARITY Act, as the CFTC and SEC moved ahead with crypto-related actions under existing authority. The rebound followed the earlier drop in crypto equities.

TREE NEWS update: Neutrl opened NUSD redemptions at 51 cents, with Strata scheduling a 48-hour valuation update that would write its junior tranche jrNUSD to zero. Withdrawals from Strata’s senior tranche settle in sNUSD at revised share values.

TREE NEWS update: Sui said its confidential transfers feature lets payment amounts stay private while issuers and compliance teams retain visibility, with settlement completed on a public blockchain. The network argued that if payment amounts are public, businesses will not put payroll or supplier payments on-chain. The announcement was made on X.

TREE NEWS reports: Blockchain analytics firm TRM traced 274.60 ETH to six operator addresses after 224 victims were tricked into signing and funding malicious contracts themselves between February and August. The scheme used fake AI bot tutorials to lure users into deploying their own drainers, a technique that shifts on-chain blame onto the victims and complicates recovery efforts.

TREE NEWS reports: Chainalysis reports a 420% increase in blockchain dead drop attacks, in which state-linked hackers hide command data in public blockchains. North Korean operators use Tron, Aptos and BNB Smart Chain as redundant command paths, while suspected Iranian actors encode routing data in Bitcoin transactions.

TREE NEWS reports: XRP climbed 6.9% as Bitcoin rebounded back above $800,000, reopening the possibility of a golden cross for the token. Chart signals remain mixed for traders following the move.

TREE NEWS reports: Galaxy research head Alex Thorn said bitcoin’s move above its 50-week moving average has historically been a key signal that a bear market low has formed. If BTC closes the week above that level on Sunday, it would further confirm the trend, Thorn wrote on X. He said bitcoin’s current momentum looks “real” and its price action is strong.

TREE NEWS reports: Galaxy research head Alex Thorn said bitcoin’s current rally looks “real” after the price climbed above its 50-week moving average. He noted that breaking that level has historically been a key signal that a bear-market low has formed. A weekly close above the 50-week average on Sunday would further confirm the move, he added.

TREE NEWS reports: Ether rose above 2,600 USDT, trading at 2,600.7 USDT with a 24-hour gain of 5.26%. The move marks a fresh push past the 2,600 level for the second-largest cryptocurrency.