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TREE NEWS update: Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed draft rules that would require licensed crypto platforms to restrict stablecoin deposits and withdrawals to a customer’s own verified account or wallet, banning transfers to third-party wallets. The draft sets a daily limit of 5 million baht (about $150,000) per person per platform for both inbound and outbound transactions. The proposal is open for public comment until September 25 and has not yet taken effect.

TREE NEWS reports: Long-term Bitcoin holder activity has risen slightly alongside the recent price rally, analyst Darkfost said, though overall activity through 2026 remains calm. The Coin Days Destroyed heatmap, which tracks how long coins were held before being spent or moved, shows this cycle may be the most active on record for long-term holders, helped by liquidity from spot ETFs and corporate bitcoin treasury reserves. Rising CDD does not only mark market tops and can also reflect capitulation.

TREE NEWS reports: Polymarket traders now put the odds of an OpenAI IPO before March 31, 2027 at 33%, down 18% in a week, while the market for an IPO before June 30, 2027 rose 5% to 55%. The market settles “Yes” only if OpenAI completes an IPO by the specified date, confirmed by an official company announcement and credible news sources, and settles “No” immediately if OpenAI is acquired by a listed company. CEO Sam Altman has said OpenAI will not IPO this year, pushing any listing to at least 2027.

TREE NEWS reports: Uniswap said its trading volume exceeded $70 billion over the past month, citing DefiLlama Research data. The figure is larger than the combined volume of the next three largest decentralized exchanges. The protocol disclosed the milestone in a post on September 13.

TREE NEWS reports: LSK rose 512.7% in 24 hours, peaking at $1.71 before trading at $0.98. Coinglass data shows LSK liquidations hit $38.3655 million over the past 24 hours, the highest of any token, within a total of $126 million in network-wide liquidations.

TREE NEWS update: Solana-based social wallet Hey Wallet announced it is shutting down its product and told users to back up their wallets. The wallet let users send SOL via tweets, tip creators, mint NFTs and trade across X, Discord and Telegram. No reason for the closure or a timeline was given in the announcement.

TREE NEWS reports: Tom Lee said the crypto market will be “extremely bullish” over the next 12 months, citing excessive leverage that was flushed out last October and a four-year cycle set to bottom next month. The Fundstrat co-founder’s call, reported on September 13, points to a cycle trough in roughly one month’s time.

TREE NEWS reports: A wallet tied to trader XXAntiWar has closed three ZEC short positions for a combined $727,000 profit with a 100% win rate, on-chain analyst Ai Yi monitored. A separate 3x short worth $4.5 million remains open, showing an unrealized loss of about $23,000.

TREE NEWS reports: Circle issued roughly $6.7 billion of USDC and redeemed about $6.9 billion in the seven days to September 10, cutting the stablecoin’s circulating supply by around 200 million tokens. Total USDC in circulation stands at $74.1 billion, backed by about $74.2 billion in reserves, including $48.5 billion in overnight reverse Treasury repurchase agreements and $17.1 billion in Treasuries maturing within three months.

TREE NEWS update: Revolut disclosed that sensitive customer information was leaked to an unauthorized third party that filed fraudulent record requests using an email domain impersonating a government agency. The company called it a “sophisticated external impersonation scam,” said it blocked the address once identified, and confirmed its systems and customer funds were unaffected. A limited number of customers were affected and have been contacted directly.

TREE NEWS update: Hunter Biden said the first $LAPTOP airdrop allocated 8% of total token supply to his newsletter subscribers rather than wallets set up solely to farm airdrops. Of the 80 million LAPTOP tokens airdropped, 79 million remain unclaimed. All unclaimed tokens will be burned after October 9.

TREE NEWS update: The US Senate will hold a procedural cloture vote on the CLARITY Act (H.R. 3633) on Sept 15 at 2:15 pm ET, requiring 60 votes to advance the digital asset market structure bill that passed the House 294-134 in July 2025. Circle’s Arc mainnet is set to launch Sept 16 with BlackRock, DTCC and Visa among genesis validators, while the Fed publishes its rate decision on Sept 17.

TREE NEWS update: Trader Bonk Guy said $EMBER has no insider cluster holding over 50% of supply, after Bubblemaps flagged linked wallets. He said the connections in Bubblemaps’ cluster map stem from EMBER’s flywheel mechanism distributing tokens through an externally owned account (EOA) rather than a contract, and that the EOA’s transfers to participating user wallets caused Bubblemaps to group the distribution wallet with all recipient addresses. Bubblemaps advised replacing the EOA with a contract; Bonk Guy urged EMBER’s developers to adopt the change and again denied any link to an insider cluster.

TREE NEWS reports: A whale wallet identified as BS3YsB spent 4.4 million USDC on Sept 12 to buy 15.06 million STONK tokens at an average price of $0.295, on-chain monitoring shows. The single purchase represents one of the larger recorded buys of the token.

TREE NEWS reports: Point Farm Capital holds an unrealized gain of about $10 million on its STONK position after spending 1 million USDC to buy 37.21 million STONK tokens at an average market cap of $21 million, on-chain analyst Ember monitoring shows. STONK’s market cap has since risen to $240 million, putting the trade at roughly a 10x return.

TREE NEWS reports: Nasdaq-listed Newgenivf (NIVF) disclosed its 2025 trading in SOL, BTC, ETH and XRP. It bought 146,432 XRP and sold the entire position for a realized gain of about $10,800, while also trading small amounts of BTC and ETH. The company retained roughly 13,000 SOL, which showed an unrealized loss of about $1.28 million by year-end.

TREE NEWS reports: BlueWallet’s chief technology officer screened 904 iOS apps listed on the App Store as non-custodial crypto wallets, analyzed 494 of them and flagged 45 as having potential severe or high security risks, including 23 rated potentially critical and 22 high risk. The issues cited include suspected uploads of mnemonics or private keys to servers, weak wallet randomness, server-side key storage, hardcoded encryption keys and loading of unsigned JavaScript that can interact with sensitive wallet data. The CTO noted the findings may include false positives and that apps absent from the list are not necessarily safe.

TREE NEWS update: Grayscale has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to rename its Litecoin Trust as the “Grayscale Litecoin Trust ETF” and list it on NYSE Arca under the ticker LTCN. The SEC has received the filing, marking the latest step in Grayscale’s push to convert its single-asset trusts into exchange-traded funds.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin needs to break through resistance starting at $81,700 to confirm a new bull market, CryptoQuant said, with a further band of resistance stretching to $88,700. The on-chain data provider said the outlook for bitcoin remains bullish despite the overhead levels.