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TREE NEWS update: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed its crypto asset rulemaking with the White House for review, moving ahead without Congress. The agency sent the proposal to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the final step before a rule can be formally published. The filing signals the CFTC is pursuing its own crypto oversight path rather than waiting on legislation.

TREE NEWS update: Ethereum Institutional has signaled support for Ethlabs’ motion to reduce Ethereum block times, pointing to growing institutional activity moving onto the smart-contract network. The non-profit’s backing adds weight to the proposal, which targets faster block production on Ethereum. No timeline or specific block-time target was given in the material.

TREE NEWS update: HYPE set a record high of $90.92 after Hyperliquid launched manual borrowing, a feature that lets users take out stablecoin loans against HYPE and Bitcoin collateral. The new facility expands the protocol’s lending options beyond its existing automated market. The token’s move to a fresh all-time high came alongside the product launch.

TREE NEWS reports: Dragonfly’s Haseeb Qureshi has called for winding down the Zcash development fund after 2028, as industry watchers debate the fund’s future. The discussion follows a ZEC rally that pushed the fund’s value above $95 million. No decision on the fund’s structure beyond 2028 has been announced.

TREE NEWS update: CATL bought back 1,512,610 A-shares on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on September 18, 2026, at prices between RMB 300.89 and RMB 302.63 per share, for a total outlay of RMB 456,361,160.73. The repurchased shares are intended for cancellation rather than being held as treasury stock.

TREE NEWS reports: BlackRock’s US equity ETF head Jay Jacobs said bitcoin volatility has compressed from about 80 to 35-40, a shift he calls structural as ETF and options markets broaden participation. In a podcast aired September 17, 2026, he said physical redemption minimums for IBIT have fallen to roughly $1.5 million, with financialization, not custody safety, driving large holders to convert coins into ETF shares.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin’s Fisher Transform indicator has logged a bullish crossover for only the fourth time in the cryptocurrency’s history. The rare signal adds to bull-market hopes for the largest digital asset.

TREE NEWS update: The US Treasury has sanctioned the Iranian crypto exchange BitBank, saying it moved hundreds of millions of dollars in bitcoin to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Treasury also said the Tehran-based exchange handled fees collected from tankers buying passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

TREE NEWS reports: ZEC rose more than 40% over the past week and broke above $1,500, setting a new all-time high, as attention shifted to Zcash’s early-stage NFT ecosystem. zkSNARKs, a privacy identity NFT collection, closed its blind auction on September 18 with 16,971 bids; the top 8,000 winners each paid a uniform 1.5 ZEC, for total volume of 25,305 ZEC. Its secondary marketplace Zilkroad opens September 19.

TREE NEWS reports: Kevin O’Leary said he is buying crypto again, calling a major stock exchange’s adoption of a blockchain network the “watershed moment” to watch. The investor did not specify which exchange or network he is monitoring, or the size of his renewed purchases.

TREE NEWS update: Authorities in the UAE and Sweden arrested seven people over a crypto money-laundering network that moved $7.1 million, investigators said. Tracing the network’s crypto transactions exposed links to organized crime and murder-for-hire, they added.

TREE NEWS reports: An address placed an order at $78,000 to open a long position of 2,450 BTC, worth $190 million, on-chain analyst Yu Jin monitored. The order represents a leveraged bet on Bitcoin’s price rising above that level.

TREE NEWS reports: Whale entity Garrett Jin (0x92ea…050e) sold 35,000 ETH at $2,500 for $87.5 million, roughly 10 minutes after withdrawing the tokens from Binance. The entity then added margin to its ZEC short, lifting the liquidation price from $2,631 to $4,738. The ZEC short is currently down $30 million.

TREE NEWS update: NEAR Protocol said perpetual futures trading on its network now has privacy protection enabled by default, letting users open positions with their existing accounts without others being able to identify who holds them. The feature is powered by Hyperliquid, NEAR announced on X.

TREE NEWS reports: OKX’s US stock-related products recorded $71.917 billion in trading volume over the 30 days to September 17, 2026. Stock perpetuals accounted for $70.379 billion USDT, while spot volume reached $1.538 billion USDT. SNDK, SKHYNIX and SPCX were the most-traded names over the period, with memory storage remaining the hottest sector.

TREE NEWS reports: A whale that accumulated 1 million UNI between September 2025 and February 2026 at an average cost of $5.59 per token sold 500,000 UNI over the past four hours, its first sale, for a profit of about $1.502 million. The buys ranged from $9.23 to $3.19 per token. The wallet still holds roughly 50% of its UNI position.

TREE NEWS update: NYSE Arca filed a rule change with the US SEC to list binary KPI options, all-or-nothing cash-settled contracts tied to companies’ key financial-report metrics. The first batch covers 23 companies, including Coinbase’s transaction revenue, trading volume and subscription revenue, plus Marathon Digital Holdings’ bitcoin production, holdings and hashrate. The mechanism resembles prediction markets.