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TREE NEWS reports: Stock derivatives trading on major crypto exchanges reached about $1.75 trillion cumulatively from January to August 25, 2026, up from roughly $11.6 billion in January to over $600 billion in August, RootData data show. Binance led with $853.58 billion, or 61.3% of volume, followed by Bitget at $270.85 billion (19.5%), OKX at $234.39 billion (16.8%) and Bybit at $33.41 billion (2.4%). Stock derivatives accounted for more than 80% of the TradFi segment in July and August.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin sell-side risk has dropped to rare lows as BTC holds most of its August gains, on-chain data shows. Investors are showing little sign of panic selling, with sellers around the $80,000 level fading from view. The reading points to limited profit-taking pressure despite the recent rally.

TREE NEWS update: Unicoin has filed a lawsuit against Uniswap Labs seeking to cancel the registration of the UNI mark. The filing states that Uniswap’s counsel sent three letters ahead of Unicoin’s Sept. 28 launch, and asks the court for declarations concerning Unicoin’s marks and domains.

TREE NEWS reports: Stock derivatives on crypto exchanges reached about $1.75 trillion in cumulative trading volume from January to August 2026, a RootData report shows. Binance led with $853.58 billion, or 61.3% share, followed by Bitget at $270.85 billion (19.5%), OKX at $234.39 billion (16.8%) and Bybit at $33.41 billion (2.4%). Bitget posted the tightest weighted spread at 0.0144%, ahead of Binance at 0.0145%.

TREE NEWS update: Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption has charged a former vice president of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, Tong Po-hang, 39, with failing to comply with a notice issued under the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance. The notice, backed by a court order, required him to submit a statutory declaration of his personal assets as part of an ongoing corruption investigation. He was released on bail and is due to appear in Eastern Magistrates’ Courts on September 11.

TREE NEWS update: 1inch co-founder Sergej Kunz said the DEX aggregator has processed about $809 billion in cumulative token swaps since its 2019 launch but remains unprofitable, as DeFi’s market size is still too small to generate large revenue. Kunz said 1inch is prioritizing infrastructure, launching its shared-liquidity protocol Aqua, which drew roughly $25 million on day one with 10 million 1INCH and 500,000 USDC in incentives.

TREE NEWS reports: The Robinhood-chain memecoin ASTEROID briefly crossed a $10 million market cap, gaining more than 330% intraday, GMGN data showed. It was trading at about $9.5 million at the time of the report.

TREE NEWS reports: Robinhood Chain meme tokens fell sharply as of 14:00 Beijing time on September 10, with PONS down 19.4% in 24 hours to a $460 million market cap, AI down 12.1% to $197 million, CASHCAT down 14.4% to $165 million and MEME down 28.8% to $60.9 million. Chain fee revenue has declined for seven straight days since peaking near $5.6 million on September 4, dropping to about $2.75 million in the past 24 hours.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin has rallied 23% over the past 21 trading days and is pressing against an $83,000-$86,000 resistance band formed by long-term holder cost basis, liquidation heatmaps and spot ETF breakeven, stopping 1.5% below the lower edge. Sell-side risk ratio fell to 7 basis points, less than half August’s 16 bps, while short liquidation fuel between $82,000 and $86,000 expanded 21% since August 19. Core inflation eased to a two-year low of 2.5%.

TREE NEWS update: Singapore Exchange has received CFTC authorization under Regulation 48.10 allowing US institutional investors to trade its bitcoin and ether perpetual futures. SGX launched the BTP and ETP contracts in November 2025; cumulative volume reached $5.8 billion, about 400,000 lots, as of August, with bitcoin at 66% of open interest and 83% of daily volume. US client onboarding takes 2-4 weeks, with service expected to begin in one to two months.

TREE NEWS reports: BSC-based meme coin UPONLY briefly crossed a $4 million market cap, gaining more than 90x intraday and now trading near $3.7 million. The token’s concept traces to CZ’s earlier idea of a stock that never falls, using reserve funds to buy back on each price drop and create a floor.

TREE NEWS update: Arthur Hayes said on X that Flop Labs’ yellow paper code repository is now live, serving as the normative technical specification for FLOP Network and describing the design of its verifiable inference settlement layer. Hayes also said Technocore will launch a poetry contest requiring multiple agents to collaborate, with competition rules and prize details to be announced tomorrow.

TREE NEWS update: Binance will delist all spot trading pairs for stablecoin Pax Dollar (USDP) from 11:00 (UTC+8) on September 24, 2026, and will also terminate USDP-related Trading Bots, Spot Copy Trading, Convert and Gift Card services. USDP services across Simple Earn, Dual Investment, Mining Pool, Loan, Margin, Buy & Sell and Pay will be closed, force-liquidated, redeemed or refunded in phases between September 11 and September 24. USDP deposits will stop being credited after 11:00 (UTC+8) on September 25, with withdrawals supported until 11:00 (UTC+8) on November 24.

TREE NEWS reports: A Bitcoin whale that withdrew about $462 million from Coinbase two years ago still holds roughly $418 million after never selling through a $315 million paper gain and a $100 million unrealized loss in July. Since August the address has moved about $82 million in Bitcoin to Kraken, leaving an overall unrealized profit of about $40 million.

TREE NEWS update: Trezor and BitBox both warned users about fake hardware wallet security alerts, with Trezor confirming a breach at its email service. BitBox said multiple Bitcoin companies appeared to have been targeted through a shared newsletter provider. The two wallet makers urged users to treat unsolicited security messages with caution.