TREE NEWS update: Google has formed a partnership with Nevoya and GMA, as announced by the company. The collaboration aims to leverage combined capabilities, though specific details of the partnership were not disclosed in the announcement.
TREE NEWS update: Robinhood has taken stakes in Crypto.com and OG.com as part of a deal to expand its prediction markets business. The company will route event contracts through OG.com’s CFTC-regulated infrastructure. This move integrates traditional brokerage services with crypto and prediction markets.
TREE NEWS update: MU has generated over $1 million in revenue for tradexyz, accumulating $2 million in trading fees, with $1 million earmarked for an aid fund. It becomes the 10th trading asset to reach this revenue milestone. Currently, one asset has exceeded $10 million in fees, three over $5 million, 12 over $1 million, and 19 over $500,000.
TREE NEWS reports: Loracle, the largest on-chain short seller of CASHCAT, increased its 3x leveraged short position by 36.3 million tokens over the past hour, now holding 36.3 million CASHCAT with unrealized profit of $530,000. The average entry price is $0.207. Meanwhile, its PONS short position is currently losing $5.2 million, entered at an average price of $0.665.
TREE NEWS update: Strategy launched a $250 bitcoin-themed Air Jordan 1 sneaker, now available in its official store. However, checkout only supports bank cards and Apple Pay, not bitcoin payments, drawing community criticism. The firm, which holds about 845,000 BTC, has yet to enable crypto payments for its merchandise.
TREE NEWS update: Nasdaq-listed Datavault AI announced it will launch its asset tokenization platform, Information Data Exchange (IDE), on September 15, 2026. The platform will support identification, certification, scoring, valuation, tokenization, and monetization of data and other real-world assets (RWA), while allowing data owners to retain ownership and control of underlying data. CEO Nathaniel Bradley said “tokenization itself does not create a market,” aiming to build complete infrastructure covering asset identification, certification, valuation, tokenization, trading, and settlement.
TREE NEWS update: Visa is integrating blockchain-based lending with its VisaNet settlement data as stablecoin payment volume on its network surges nearly 200% year over year. The move brings onchain credit to its growing stablecoin card business, combining traditional payments infrastructure with decentralized finance.
TREE NEWS reports: BSC’s 24-hour DEX trading volume reached $1.327 billion, surpassing Ethereum’s $1.3 billion. It trails Solana ($2.872B) and Robinhood Chain ($1.512B). BSC revenue hit $1.99M. CZ’s tweet about IPOs moving on-chain and Four.meme’s stock token BNC4 boosted BSC meme coin activity.
TREE NEWS update: Hyperliquid has launched USELESS perpetual futures on its platform, supporting up to 3x leverage, following community requests. The exchange cautioned that listing does not imply endorsement of the project and reminded users to understand the asset and trading risks before participating.
TREE NEWS reports: Huang Licheng, known as ‘Mach Big Brother’, has again opened a 40x leveraged bitcoin long position, now holding 200 BTC worth $15.75 million, with unrealized gains of $48,000. On-chain data monitors reported the move on September 9.
TREE NEWS reports: Cobo co-founder and CEO Shen Yu recalled that in 2016, when ZEC mainnet launched, BitMEX set a price cap of 10 BTC, which became ZEC’s all-time high. That night, shortly after mining began, a lightning strike hit the graphics card farm’s transformer. He said his personal wallet has never held ZEC since.
TREE NEWS reports: Ethereum (ETH) broke above $2,500 on Sept. 8, trading at $2,500.53 per coin, up 1.22% intraday.
TREE NEWS update: Robinhood will expand its prediction markets ahead of the NFL season through partnerships with Crypto.com and OG.com, also acquiring equity stakes in both companies. The stakes will be valued based on Crypto.com’s recent $20 billion valuation. Financial terms for the OG.com stake were not disclosed.
TREE NEWS update: Circle’s Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) now supports prepaid fees for fast transfers, allowing developers to quote and charge fees on the source chain using native gas tokens or USDC before execution. Previously, fees were deducted from USDC amounts on the destination chain. The feature is available for all EVM chains supporting CCTP, but not for transfers originating from Solana, though transfers to Solana remain supported.
TREE NEWS update: The Ethereum Foundation has set a 2029 quantum target and narrowed the scope of its Hegotá initiative. FOCIL and Frame Transactions are the two must-ship proposals. A tapered issuance burn and a mandatory burn of execution rewards were declined, as the cluster determined issuance and reward policy belong in a broader ecosystem process.
TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin fell with US stocks on Tuesday’s Wall Street open, with analysts warning that BTC price support at $78,300 must hold. The decline comes as US crude oil hit a three-month high, adding to market pressure.
TREE NEWS update: Harmony has proposed sunsetting its network and moving ONE to Ethereum to focus on an AI video business. The plan would snapshot ONE at the final block and redirect emissions to the new venture. Users are urged to exit smart contracts before Sept. 10, as onchain apps and liquidity pools will not migrate.
TREE NEWS update: Trezor hardware wallets now support ‘Clear Signing’ through the ERC-7730 standard, making transactions more readable and understandable on the device, the Ethereum Foundation announced on X on September 8. The initiative, part of the foundation’s ‘Trillion Dollar Security Initiative’, aims to reduce losses from blind signing and encourages more wallets and dApps to participate.
TREE NEWS reports: Trader Bonk Guy reported on X that PONS has seen sustained revenue growth, with daily revenue mostly between $1.3M and $2M over the past week, never falling below $1.1M. The buyback wallet has accumulated nearly $3M for TWAP buybacks, with fee income replenishing faster than buyback spending. About 30% of supply has been burned via buybacks, putting actual circulating market cap at ~$515M vs $736M FDV at $0.736.
TREE NEWS reports: Crypto liquidations totaled $265 million in the past 24 hours, with long positions accounting for $183 million and shorts $81.4 million. BTC liquidations reached $78.9 million, ETH $45.1 million. The largest single liquidation was a $2.96 million BTCUSDT order on Binance.
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