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TREE NEWS reports: Moonrock Capital founder Simon Dedic said the Senate vote on the Clarity Act is expected in about 10 hours, with Democrats rejecting the Republican draft over “ethics concerns” and Polymarket odds having collapsed. Dedic said that if the bill fails, the SEC will instead provide pro-crypto regulation of comparable strength, and warned that any further inaction would cede US leadership in frontier finance and push top companies offshore.

TREE NEWS update: Tongding Interconnection has established Tongding Precision Technology (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd., a wholly indirectly owned subsidiary, with registered capital of 20 million yuan and legal representative Liu Dongyang. Its business scope covers wire and cable manufacturing, optoelectronic device production and sales, optical communication equipment, optical fiber manufacturing and AI application software development.

TREE NEWS reports: Matrixport moved 1,400 BTC, worth $108 million, into Binance while withdrawing 10,000 ETH, valued at $24.67 million. The transfers were made from wallet address 0x480…ad4e, with the BTC deposit and ETH withdrawal occurring in the same transaction flow.

TREE NEWS update: US prosecutors are seeking $61.19 million in USDT that Tether froze across 10 Tron addresses in 2025, alleging the funds were connected to black-market Iranian oil proceeds. The seizure target ties the stablecoin issuer’s freeze to a sanctions enforcement case. Tether has not commented on the action.

TREE NEWS update: Xiaohongshu released its first Community Finance Ecosystem Pact, setting out eight categories of banned content including illegal stock recommendations and regulating financial marketing on the platform. The company said financial content averaged nearly 2 million posts and about 12 million comments a month over the past year, with 75% of finance monthly active users searching and finance-related search terms up over 110% year on year. Since launching a finance ecosystem cleanup this year, it has removed more than 1.01 million violating posts, 157,000 accounts and over 4.77 million comments in roughly six months.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto-linked US equities fell in pre-market trading, with Circle (CRCL) down 5.59%, Coinbase (COIN) down 4.72%, BMNR down 4.63%, MicroStrategy (MSTR) down 4.59%, SBET down 4.14%, PURR down 3.15% and Robinhood (HOOD) down 2.75%.COM data. MSX is an RWA trading platform that has listed hundreds of RWA tokens, including tokenized US equities and ETFs such as Nvidia, GOOGL, MSFT, AMZN, META, TSM and AMD.

TREE NEWS update: Solana raised the maximum transaction size on its mainnet from 1,232 bytes to 4,096 bytes, with the upgrade going live at roughly 1:00 UTC Tuesday at the start of epoch 1035. The change introduces the v1 transaction format while remaining fully backward compatible, so existing apps and wallet providers can keep using the old format. The Solana Foundation said the added capacity supports more complex operations in a single transaction, including zero-knowledge proofs, multisig transactions and new on-chain signature schemes.

TREE NEWS update: Solana raised its transaction size limit to 4,096 bytes via a mainnet upgrade, more than tripling the previous cap and giving developers more room for zero-knowledge proofs and transactions carrying multiple signatures. The change expands the amount of data that can be packed into a single Solana transaction.

TREE NEWS update: Chongqing Fumin Bank said it is urgently repairing a system fault that has prevented customers from repaying loans taken through a lending platform, and that automatic deductions will resume once maintenance is complete. The bank told callers that affected borrowers need only keep sufficient funds in their deduction cards, adding that the failure was not caused by borrowers and will not affect their credit records. No cause or restoration timeline was given.

TREE NEWS update: The Standard Reserve minted all 1,000 Genesis Charters on Sept. 15, raising 583.594968887 ETH — about $1.47 million — with 601 sold to whitelist users at 0.15 ETH and 399 in a Dutch auction that cleared mostly between 1.23 and 1.25 ETH. The experimental on-chain protocol says 100% of mint proceeds go to initial liquidity and the treasury, with no team allocation. STANDARD’s market cap briefly hit $44 million before rebounding to about $50 million.

TREE NEWS update: CoinEx announced it will cease operations, starting an orderly wind-down on September 15 and closing withdrawals on December 22, 2026, the ninth anniversary of its launch. The exchange holds about $430 million in wallet assets with all major coin reserve ratios above 100%, and said no insolvency or withdrawal freeze occurred. Founder Yang Haipo cited shrinking trading volume, weak liquidity and rising compliance costs.

TREE NEWS reports: TRON-based gasless transfer service GasFree has processed more than $138.5 billion in cumulative stablecoin transfers and over 8.06 million transactions in its first 18 months, serving more than 450,000 users as of Sept. 14. August volume alone reached $13.62 billion across over 818,000 transactions, and the service added USDD support on Aug. 17 after Binance Wallet integrated its technology on Sept. 7.

TREE NEWS update: Zama has expanded its confidential Morpho lineup on Ethereum after its first vault reached $40 million in deposits. Users now get confidential access to 12 existing Morpho vaults on Ethereum, while four additional vaults have been created as confidential-only products. The company also launched private swaps on Ethereum.

TREE NEWS reports: DEX aggregator 0x said it analyzed 84,163 Uniswap v4 hooks across six chains as of Sept. 11 and found only 19.4% safe, 54.2% malicious and 26.4% suspicious, describing “quote spoofing” that can leave users with up to 50% less than quoted. Uniswap founder Hayden Adams responded on X that malicious hooks are an inevitable byproduct of a permissionless system, and that users trading through Uniswap’s official API and vetted front end never reach those pools.

TREE NEWS reports: CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost said Binance’s 7-day average of altcoin inflow transactions rose to 31,800, nearly four times July’s 8,300, ahead of Tuesday’s US Senate procedural vote on the Clarity Act and Wednesday’s FOMC rate decision. Coinbase’s average climbed to 4,700 from 2,200 in July, while Bybit rose to 2,700. The increase follows bitcoin’s more than 30% gain in a few days and may signal selling pressure.

TREE NEWS reports: Global listed companies excluding miners net-sold $21.63 million worth of bitcoin in the week to 8:00 a.m. ET on September 14, 2026, down 108.1% from the prior week. Strategy bought no bitcoin for a second straight week, while Metaplanet extended its pause to nine weeks. Strive bought 469 BTC for about $36.56 million at $77,954, lifting holdings to roughly 25,000 BTC; KULR sold its final 764 BTC at $76,633.

TREE NEWS reports: A Binance futures smart-money trader known as “Single Wife” topped the 24-hour, 7-day and 30-day profit leaderboards with a long position in LOBSTER, on-chain analyst Ai Yi monitored. The trader has closed part of the position for a $260,000 realized profit and still holds 18.29 million LOBSTER tokens worth $3.2 million, opened at an average price of $0.1316 versus a current $0.1751, for $796,000 in unrealized gains and $1.056 million in total profit.

TREE NEWS update: Crypto exchange CoinEx said it will shut down after nine years of operation, blaming a prolonged market slump, shrinking trading volume and liquidity, and rising regulatory and compliance costs. The exchange announced the closure without giving a specific date for when services will end.

TREE NEWS update: Ethereum restaking protocol Kelp said it imposed a 24-hour freeze on rsETH transfers to and from a specific address that showed suspicious activity hours after receiving the token. Kelp said its contracts are secure, rsETH remains fully collateralized, and minting, withdrawals and integrations continue normally with no user action required. The move follows a $7.73 million exploit of a user’s Safe multisig wallet on Ethereum.