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TREE NEWS reports: Polymarket traders price a 64% chance Bitcoin touches $80,000 this month and a 68.5% chance it falls to $75,000, with 18 days left before the September 30 deadline. The market, created September 7, resolves yes if any one-minute Binance BTC/USDT candle hits $80,000 by September 30 at 23:59 ET. Total volume is $5.17 million with about $1.46 million in liquidity; Bitcoin’s intraday high of $79,505 is $495 short of the trigger.

TREE NEWS reports: Four unidentified addresses together control more than 20.6 million staked SOL, worth about $2.1 billion, with one address holding 5.6175 million SOL and the other three holding 5.0034 million, 5.0024 million and 5.0024 million SOL respectively. Coinbase stakes roughly 24 million SOL, valued at about $2.45 billion at $101–102 per token, while the Solana Foundation’s staking withdrawal authority holds about 23.7141 million SOL, worth roughly $2.42 billion. Binance’s BNSOL Pool holds about 10.3905 million SOL and the Jito staking pool about 10.2725 million SOL.

TREE NEWS reports: Patrick Witt, executive director of the President’s Council of Advisers on Digital Assets, signaled optimism on the CLARITY Act ahead of an imminent Senate vote, saying it is “not a good day for CLARITY Act skeptics.” Polymarket nonetheless puts the bill’s odds of passing in 2026 at just 20%.

TREE NEWS update: Revolut fulfilled a fraudulent information request sent from a government agency’s own email domain, exposing ID documents and full crypto transaction histories for a limited number of users. The fintech company said the breach affected only a limited number of users, and the incident involved passports and complete Bitcoin transaction histories.

TREE NEWS reports: Revolut processed a fraudulent information request sent from a government agency’s own email domain, resulting in the exposure of identity documents and complete cryptocurrency transaction histories for a limited number of users. The fintech company confirmed that the incident involved passports and Bitcoin transaction records, affecting a limited number of users.

TREE NEWS update: Electrum has released version 4.8.2, fixing a critical backup issue affecting some Lightning wallets that use non-deterministic keys and anchor channels, where channel and full wallet backups could lack the keys needed to move funds on-chain after a remote force-close. Affected users will see a warning on startup and should export new backups, as old ones cannot correctly recover funds in that scenario. The release also strengthens Lightning HTLC validation, rejects malformed xpub/xprv keys, and blocks Android QR screenshot scanning.

TREE NEWS reports: North Korea is using remote IT workers from third countries including Iran and Lebanon to infiltrate US companies, with North Korean personnel typically taking over the position once the interview is passed. US authorities and foreign agencies warned in July of the insider threat, and some third-country IT workers recruited via LinkedIn are paid $500 in crypto monthly as interview helpers. CrowdStrike data puts crypto losses from North Korea-linked hackers in 2025 at over $2 billion, up 51% year on year.

TREE NEWS update: Crypto billionaires Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne have each donated £36 million to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. The donations come as the House of Lords considers a bill that would halt crypto donations and cap overseas giving at £100,000 a year.

TREE NEWS update: Ben Delo, co-founder of crypto exchange BitMEX, donated almost $50 million to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party, with Christopher Harborne matching the sum a day later, bringing the party’s total from the two crypto billionaires to $97 million. No further terms or dates were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Solana Mobile said its third-party marketing email provider Brevo suffered a security incident affecting some customer accounts, including its own. After detecting unauthorized access to its Brevo account, the team disabled the account and is working with Brevo to determine the scope of the information accessed. Solana Mobile said no emails are known to have been sent from its account and reminded users it never asks for seed phrases, private keys or wallet recovery information.

TREE NEWS reports: The meme coin ANTHROPIG has surpassed a $6 million market capitalization on Robinhood. The token was flagged as a trending community pick, with the caveat that meme coins carry high volatility risk. No further details on trading volume or holder count were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto futures liquidations across exchanges totaled $188 million in the past 24 hours, with long positions accounting for $157 million and shorts $31.75 million, CoinGlass data shows. ETH liquidations reached $69.99 million and BTC $42.19 million, while the single largest liquidation was a $10.21 million order on Binance’s ETHUSDT pair.

TREE NEWS reports: A new mod for Grand Theft Auto V adds Flock camera surveillance to Los Santos, letting players locate and demolish the cameras tracking them. The mod brings the real-world privacy fight over automated license-plate readers into the game. No release date or creator details were given in the material.

TREE NEWS update: A new mod for Grand Theft Auto V adds Flock camera surveillance to Los Santos, allowing players to find and destroy the cameras tracking them. The mod brings the real-world privacy battle over automatic license plate readers into the game. No release date or creator information was provided in the material.

TREE NEWS reports: A whale address 0x3305 has bought 358,609 HYPE tokens, worth about $28.8 million, over the past 15 days. The address has been purchasing the token daily throughout the period.

TREE NEWS update: The UK Reform Party received a second £36 million donation within 48 hours, bringing its two-day total to £72 million. Crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne, the party’s largest donor, matched the £36 million given by Ben Delo on Friday. Reform has now raised over £86 million this year, far ahead of the Conservatives’ £10.2 million and Labour’s £7.7 million.

TREE NEWS update: The US House Ways and Means Committee will mark up a package of digital-asset tax legislation on Sept 16, advancing crypto tax bills toward a full House vote. The markup centers on two measures: H.R. 9175, which would let miners and stakers defer tax on newly created tokens until they are sold, and H.R. 9172, which would extend wash-sale and constructive-sale rules to actively traded digital assets.

TREE NEWS update: USDC Treasury minted approximately 111 million USDC on the Ethereum blockchain at 21:25 Beijing time on September 12. The new issuance brings the total freshly minted supply of the Circle-issued stablecoin to roughly 111 million tokens in a single transaction batch. No further details on the purpose of the mint were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Mexican authorities seized an illegal cryptocurrency mining operation in a remote mountain building in Tlaola, Puebla, finding 300 GPUs, 80 medium-voltage terminals and 8 satellite antennas. Officials are investigating whether the site stole power from a nearby hydroelectric plant. It is the fourth such crypto farm found in the area since early last year, with three others discovered near hydroelectric plants in northern Puebla.