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TREE NEWS reports: Lisk business development lead Leon Waidmann said on X that BTC and ETH exchange supply trends are sharply diverging. BTC’s exchange supply share stands at 16.5%, while ETH has fallen below 12.7%, a gap of nearly 4 percentage points. BTC’s exchange holdings have stayed relatively stable while ETH continues to flow out of exchanges, pointing to a structural tightening of ETH’s liquid supply on trading venues.

TREE NEWS update: Gate has launched USDT-settled perpetual futures for CATE, offering leverage of up to 20x. The exchange also rolled out trading bots and copy-trading for the CATE contract at the same time. The listing gives traders leveraged exposure to the token on Gate’s derivatives platform.

TREE NEWS update: Bitcoin Suisse will cut up to 60 jobs at its Zug headquarters, moving the roles to Bratislava or Vietnam as the Crypto Valley pioneer pivots from a Swiss crypto specialist into a global wealth manager. The up-to-60 figure represents as much as half of its Swiss workforce.

TREE NEWS update: Bitcoin Suisse will cut up to 60 jobs in Zug, moving the roles to Bratislava or Vietnam as the Crypto Valley pioneer pivots from a Swiss crypto specialist into a global wealth manager. The cuts amount to as much as half of the firm’s Swiss workforce.

TREE NEWS reports: Abraxas Capital’s two linked addresses added $7.29 million and $10.97 million to their short positions today, bringing combined holdings to $973 million. Address 0x5b5d…c060 holds about $600 million in contracts with $43.16 million in unrealized losses, while 0xb83d…6e36 holds $373 million with $39.72 million unrealized losses. Their four core shorts in ETH, BTC, SOL and HYPE account for $48.22 million and $37.96 million of the losses respectively.

TREE NEWS reports: HYPE spot ETFs recorded a net outflow of $26.42 million in the trading week of Sept. 7-11, led by Bitwise’s BHYP with $20.13 million in weekly redemptions, followed by 21Shares’ THYP at $6.29 million. BHYP’s cumulative net inflow stands at $146 million and THYP’s at $50.29 million. Total net assets of HYPE spot ETFs reached $430 million, with cumulative net inflows of $330 million.

TREE NEWS update: Unipcs, known as Bonk Guy, said on X that he published content about the Arc ecosystem without being paid and before doing sufficient research, and now considers the ecosystem more developed than he first thought. He said he has not profited from any Arc-related activity, that all Arc tokens he bought have been moved to his FOMO wallet, and that he will not touch them until integration features go live.

TREE NEWS update: A petition seeking a fourth postponement of South Korea’s planned tax on digital asset gains has reached the 50,000-signature threshold required for an official government response. Investors are pressing for another delay to the levy, while regulators have stood firm on the scheduled implementation. No date for the tax’s introduction was changed in the material.

TREE NEWS reports: Solana recorded more than 1.49 million token issuances over the past seven days, a new all-time weekly high for the network. The figure marks the busiest week for token creation on Solana to date.

TREE NEWS reports: Circle’s Arc chain will open its public mainnet on September 16, and a launchpad race is already underway on the network, which uses USDC as native gas with sub-second finality. Tolly leads with about $1.8 million in cumulative volume and a peak $2.47 million market cap for its $TOLLY token, while Warp has drawn roughly $1.5 million. One Arc launchpad promoted by trader Bonkguy was identified as a scam.

TREE NEWS reports: Maelstrom CIO Arthur Hayes said on The Rollup podcast that bitcoin may break its all-time high before year-end as Japan unwinds the world’s largest yen carry trade and AI capital misallocation forces the Fed to create more dollar liquidity. He flagged EUR/JPY as the leading indicator and said ether is Maelstrom’s larger position for the coming liquidity rally.

TREE NEWS reports: US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $463 million in net weekly outflows, reversing their recent inflow streak, with ARKB, GBTC and IBIT leading the withdrawals. Ether ETFs moved the other way, posting $197 million in net weekly inflows, driven by BlackRock’s ETHA.

TREE NEWS update: BYD executive vice president Li Ke said fuel-powered cars have no future in China as BYD’s fast-charging technology spreads, calling the conclusion “very clear.” She said electrification in other regions may take several years but will end the same way. Li also said BYD plans to launch models equipped with solid-state batteries in 2027.

TREE NEWS update: China Mobile’s research team has fabricated high-dimensional multipartite entangled states on a silicon photonic chip, setting a new record for scale in the field. The company said the advance addresses the bottleneck in scalable fabrication and lays the groundwork for applying high-dimensional quantum technology to quantum communication, quantum computing and quantum precision measurement.

TREE NEWS reports: A dormant Ethereum address that received 1,500 ETH in September 2021 at $3,159.27 per coin moved 1,250 ETH — worth $3.14 million — to MAX Exchange two hours ago, on-chain analyst Ai Yi reported on September 14. The address, 0x08E…03e6b, had never transferred or sold the coins in the interim. A sale at current prices would lock in a loss of more than 20%.

TREE NEWS update: French bitcoin treasury company Capital B confirmed it purchased 4 BTC for €270,000, bringing its total holdings to 3,525 BTC. The company reported a year-to-date BTC yield of 2.19%. The disclosure was made on September 14.

TREE NEWS reports: Wintermute holds about $102.1 million in perpetual futures short positions and is depositing more funds to increase its short exposure, on-chain data show. Its total exposure stands at $122.23 million, with unrealized gains of roughly $928,400, a 30-day loss of $12.04 million and cumulative historical profit of about $176.88 million. The largest position is a short of 15,330 ETH worth about $38.47 million.

TREE NEWS reports: Machi is actively closing his HYPE long position, holding 86,000 HYPE worth about $6.84 million at 10x leverage. His total perpetual contract exposure stands at $150.85 million, all long: 39,800 ETH (~$99.91M), 569 BTC (~$44.1M) and 86,000 HYPE (~$6.84M). Unrealized profit is roughly $1.05 million, while cumulative historical losses on perpetual trading remain $29.43 million.

TREE NEWS update: US Senator Cynthia Lummis said the CLARITY Act is ready after a year of bipartisan negotiations and now incorporates more than 120 Democratic demands. She said President Trump agreed to new ethics provisions placing all federal elected officials, judges and their spouses under the strictest ethics constraints in US history. A no vote on Tuesday would cede US leadership in digital assets to competitors, she said.