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TREE NEWS reports: Ether rose above $2,600 on September 19, trading at $2,600.70 per token with a 0.64% gain over the past 24 hours. The move marks a fresh push past the round-number level for the second-largest cryptocurrency.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin is approaching a thickening liquidation zone where concentrated short positions sit between $83,000 and $86,000, Glassnode said on September 19. If BTC reaches that range, forced short covering could push the price quickly through it, the on-chain data provider added. Those short positions have been building for weeks.

TREE NEWS update: The CFTC has submitted a prerule on crypto asset transactions and markets to the White House for review, moving ahead with a derivatives framework under its own authority. The step follows the collapse of the Clarity Act, which had left Congress stalled on crypto market structure legislation.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitmine chairman Tom Lee said the crypto market can continue to rise even if the CLARITY Act fails to pass, arguing market demand matters more than any single bill. The legislation would have established a clearer regulatory framework for the crypto industry and given the CFTC more explicit oversight. Lee noted the SEC and CFTC would remain the primary federal regulators, and cited prediction and sports markets growing despite regulatory uncertainty.

TREE NEWS update: The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has submitted a new crypto market regulatory action to the White House for review. The filing comes days after the Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act, leaving the market-structure bill stalled in Congress. The submission places the proposal under executive branch examination before any formal adoption.

TREE NEWS reports: A crypto whale known as “先定10个大目标” on Sept 19 reposted an early-September post predicting bitcoin would hold $80,000 and target $100,000, adding “I told you so.” The original post had described the moment as “the last chance to get on board.” The repost was made on X.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitmine chairman Tom Lee said in an interview that the crypto market can continue to rise even if the CLARITY Act fails to pass, arguing market demand matters more than any single bill. The legislation would have established a clearer regulatory framework for the crypto industry and given the CFTC more explicit oversight duties. Lee noted that even without it, the SEC and CFTC remain the main federal regulators, and cited prediction and sports markets as sectors that kept growing amid regulatory uncertainty.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin whale “先定 10 个大目标” on Wednesday reposted a tweet from early September that said bitcoin would hold $80,000 and target $100,000, adding “I told you so.” The repost revives a bullish call made before bitcoin’s run toward six figures.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin rose to $81,000 at the start of Friday’s Wall Street trading session, gaining swiftly as US 30-year bond yields began climbing again. The move came against a backdrop of global oil-market woes that pushed long-dated Treasury yields higher.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto futures liquidations across exchanges totaled $514 million over the past 24 hours, with short positions accounting for $458 million and longs $56.08 million, CoinGlass data shows. Bitcoin liquidations reached $236 million and Ether $89.03 million. The largest single liquidation order, worth $8.53 million, occurred on HYPERLIQUID-BTC-USD.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin climbed back above $80,000, with Solana and Hyperliquid also rallying, even as the Clarity Act stalls in the Senate. The SEC and CFTC are continuing to advance crypto-related rulemaking despite the legislative holdup, a factor markets appeared to shrug off.

TREE NEWS update: Crypto technology provider Haruko suffered a cyberattack earlier this week that affected 15 clients, with some small hedge fund customers potentially losing assets, three people familiar with the matter said. The breach exposed clients’ read-only exchange API credentials and trading data. Haruko said it has fixed the vulnerability and rotated server-side keys; the incident stemmed from its use of bare-metal servers rather than cloud services such as AWS.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin rose 5.88% in a single trading session, climbing back toward its 2026 highs. The move has triggered a fresh short squeeze, with chart signals confirming the rally while also suggesting price has run ahead of itself.

TREE NEWS update: Samsung Electronics’ US arm is recruiting a senior manager in New York to lead business development for Samsung Wallet payments. The role covers the wallet’s vision, strategy and execution, and lists payment partnerships spanning card issuers, general payment services and fintech partners, explicitly including stablecoins and buy-now-pay-later services. Duties include negotiating and closing partner contracts on commercial terms, data use and product requirements, and working with product teams on new features.

TREE NEWS update: Grayscale’s Zcash ETF (ZCSH) is planning a 3-for-1 share split after a $233 million inflow surge, with assets nearing $890 million. The move follows a rally in ZEC that has pushed mining competition to record highs.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin broke above $81,000, trading at $81,009.20 per coin with a 5.51% gain on the day. The move marks a fresh push past the $81,000 level for the largest cryptocurrency.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto KOL Ansem said on September 18 that the market has already bottomed after its worst cross-asset performance on record, when equities were rising parabolically and industry sentiment hit multi-year lows. He said veteran traders waiting for a ‘four-year cycle’ bottom will have to chase the rally, and that crypto is becoming an attractive momentum trade for TradFi investors seeking diversification and a long-term hedge against US fiscal irresponsibility.

TREE NEWS reports: Coinbase (COIN) shares rose 10.00% intraday on September 18, trading at $191.02. The move marks a sharp single-session gain for the US-listed crypto exchange’s stock.

TREE NEWS update: Dinglong Co. has sent multiple optical communication material products to downstream customers for sample validation, the company said during an institutional research session, with some products expected to secure orders within the year. The company said it is among the few Chinese platform firms mastering high-end wafer photoresist, packaging photoresist and display photoresist, and is transferring those underlying technologies into optical communications, extending photoresist know-how to fiber coatings, applying powder technology to thermal gels and using polymer synthesis capabilities to support optical coupling adhesive R&D.

TREE NEWS reports: Banks have roughly doubled their presence on the European Securities and Markets Authority’s MiCA register since late June and now account for nearly one in four crypto providers on the list, or about 23%. The shift marks a growing bank footprint in the EU’s newly licensed crypto sector.