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TREE NEWS update: A US House committee advanced a bill to establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve, passing it on a party-line split. A substitute text adopted before the vote stripped out Federal Reserve funding routes and thinned the transparency rules. The measure now moves forward with narrower financing and disclosure provisions.

TREE NEWS update: The House Financial Services Committee voted 28-21 to advance the American Reserve Modernization Act, a bill that would write President Trump’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve into law. The legislation mandates a 20-year bitcoin lockup and places custody of the reserve with the Treasury. It now heads to the House floor.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan has revised his outlook on the Clarity Act, saying the crypto bull market may continue even without the legislation passing. Hougan noted bitcoin climbed above $80,000 in early September despite declining odds of the bill passing this year.

TREE NEWS update: Revolut said it has received no direct contact from hackers despite competing breach claimants issuing separate ransom demands of $3 million in Monero and 10,000 Bitcoin. The fintech’s statement follows the public demands, which it said did not come through direct channels. No further details on the claims were provided.

TREE NEWS update: The UK Financial Conduct Authority, working with HM Revenue & Customs and the Metropolitan Police, raided three suspected illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading venues across London and issued cease-and-desist notices ordering the operators to stop unregistered crypto activity immediately. The FCA said anyone conducting commercial P2P crypto buying and selling in the UK must complete anti-money-laundering registration, and that no P2P crypto trading business is currently FCA-registered.

TREE NEWS reports: South Korean police referred 18 Polymarket users to prosecutors as part of a gambling probe covering 26 people and $12.7 million in bets. The referral escalates a case testing how prediction-market platforms are treated under the country’s gambling laws.

TREE NEWS reports: The Federal Reserve raised rates 25 basis points on September 16, lifting the federal funds target range to 3.75%-4.00%, with markets expecting another 75 basis points of tightening over the next six months. Bitcoin is about 40% below its roughly $126,000 high from last October, mirroring its 40% drawdown from the November 2021 peak of about $69,000 when the Fed first hiked in March 2022. After that hike, bitcoin rebounded about 18% in 12 days before falling a further 50%.

TREE NEWS update: Ripple added support for the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) and an open wallet standard to version 1.1 of its XRP Ledger AI Starter Kit, letting AI agents pay for data and compute services in XRP and RLUSD. MPP was developed jointly by Stripe and Tempo. RippleX product lead Jazzi Cooper said the goal is to make XRP and RLUSD first-class options for developers. The software remains in testing, with no commercial MPP customers or payment volumes disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: A smart-money address (0xa23…CF98) that built a 475,000 LIT position at $1.56 three months ago moved the entire stake to Lighter at $4.75 five hours ago, on-chain analyst Ai Yi reported. The wallet withdrew the tokens from Bybit in June 2026 at a value of $2.257 million. The position shows a 204% return over three months, implying a $1.512 million profit if fully sold.

TREE NEWS update: The Moscow Exchange will list five crypto index perpetual futures on Sept 22, 2026, covering BTCUSDF, ETHUSDF, SOLUSDF, XRPUSDF and TRXUSDF. The contracts are cash-settled with no physical delivery, priced in US dollars and settled in rubles, and open only to qualified investors. More than 72,000 qualified investors have traded its crypto futures since the first batch launched last summer, with cumulative volume above 600 billion rubles.

TREE NEWS update: Binance Alpha will list apM Fashion (APM) and open trading on Sept. 17, 2026, at 21:00. Users holding at least 235 Binance Alpha points can claim a 5,000 APM token airdrop on the Alpha activity page on a first-come, first-served basis. If the event has not ended, the points threshold will automatically drop by 5 points every five minutes.

TREE NEWS reports: A long-dormant whale closed a 15,108.3 ETH long position at an average price of about $2,450.6, netting roughly $1 million on the single trade. The position was opened early on Sept. 16 at an entry price of about $2,382.4, with a size of about $35.995 million, and was held for roughly 36 hours. Since resuming trading in early September, the whale has completed six rounds — four profitable and two losing — for cumulative net gains of about $3.839 million.

TREE NEWS reports: Corporate bitcoin treasuries bought only 5,900 BTC over the past three months, as the price fell below $80,000 and fresh capital inflows dwindled. The companies remain underwater on their holdings, sitting on unrealized losses. The slowdown marks a sharp pullback in accumulation by public-company holders that had been steady buyers.

TREE NEWS update: Zhongding Group said on September 17 at the 2026 Anhui listed-company investor reception that it is building a dedicated Token Factory team as part of its push to industrialize AI computing. The company plans a ten-thousand-card GPU cluster and AI data-center thermal management, targeting compute leasing, private large-model deployment and AI inference for government and enterprise clients. It has signed strategic cooperation agreements with Unicom Green Computing and Tencent Cloud.

TREE NEWS reports: US pre-market trading showed broad gains across crypto, optical module and memory stocks. Crypto names advanced, with Circle up 3.65% at $83.39, Bitmine Immersion up 3.02% at $23.50, Strategy up 2.58% at $129.44 and SharpLink up 2.36% at $8.168, while Bullish was flat at $32.08. Optical module stocks also rose, led by Applied Optoelectronics up 3.21% at $99.847, and memory stocks gained, with Western Digital up 2.05% at $425.5.

TREE NEWS update: A saucer-shaped manned eVTOL aircraft resembling a sci-fi UFO is on sale in Yiwu for 800,000 yuan, with a flight ceiling of about 30 meters and 15 minutes of endurance. The craft has obtained a special flight permit for civil unmanned aircraft from the Civil Aviation Administration of China. It drew wide attention from domestic and overseas buyers and last year booked an order worth 120 million yuan for more than 100 units at once.

TREE NEWS reports: North Korean hackers have upgraded their infiltration playbook by recruiting third-country IT workers — including from Iran and Lebanon — via LinkedIn and paying them about $500 a month in cryptocurrency to sit interviews on their behalf, then taking over the hired remote roles themselves. The tactic, detailed in a July 31 joint advisory by the US State Department and FBI with 11 allied nations, lets them steal crypto assets, code and sensitive data while routing salaries back to Pyongyang.

TREE NEWS update: The Moscow Exchange, Russia’s largest stock exchange, will launch perpetual futures contracts tied to indexes of BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP and TRX on September 22. The contracts will be available only to qualified investors, the exchange said.

TREE NEWS reports: SYN rose more than 100% on September 17. One address opened a 4x leveraged long of 3.25 million SYN, worth $588,000, on Aster DEX and is now sitting on an unrealized profit of $304,000, a 207% return.

TREE NEWS reports: Circle’s stablecoin-focused public chain Arc saw its meme-token market collapse within a day of launch, with liquidity fragmented across more than 50 launchpads identified before the chain went live. Arc product team member Rachel Mayer posted a dog image captioned ‘Arc’s duke is here,’ which drew mockery rather than buying, and a team livestream was likened to a Fed meeting. Traders said Arc’s first-day playbook mimicked Robinhood’s chain without its retail trading gateway.