Flash News

TREE NEWS update: Arbitrum is replacing Timeboost with per-transaction priority auctions. Under the new mechanism, priority fees and paid Fast Feed subscriptions direct 97% of proceeds to the DAO treasury and 3% to the Arbitrum Developer Guild. The change shifts how transaction ordering revenue is collected and distributed on the network.

TREE NEWS update: U (United Stables) and Binance Wallet launched a pPOLY trading competition running from Sept. 24, 22:00 to Oct. 8, 22:00 (UTC+8), with a 100,000 U prize pool. Users trading the pPOLY/U pair on BNB Chain via Binance Wallet count both buys and sells, and trades on day one earn a 3x early-bird multiplier. Entry is through the Binance App Wallet event page.

TREE NEWS reports: Meter is under an ongoing attack on BNB Chain, with the attacker exploiting Meter Passport to mint large amounts of wrapped MTRG and selling part of the tokens on PancakeSwap. Roughly $2.3 million in unbacked wrapped MTRG has been minted across about two minting transactions, and the attack is still in progress.

TREE NEWS reports: DeFi researcher Ignas said FOMO generated about $320,000 in fees over the past seven days through its Hyperliquid Builder integration, ranking second behind Phantom. Ignas said the figure reflects FOMO’s adoption among retail users and noted he had not previously promoted a FOMO referral link.

TREE NEWS reports: NEAR nearly doubled in a week and is up 178% since mid-August, with NEAR Intents now accounting for about 85% of protocol revenue after the fee switch activated in February 2026. Execution fees fell 83% since January 2025, from $120,000 to $20,000 weekly, while token burns dropped from 100,000 NEAR to 20,000. SwapKit drives 35% of Intents volume but 61% of fees, and NEAR cannot see which wallets the flow comes from.

TREE NEWS update: The European Banking Authority has outlined potential rules for crypto lending and for firms providing access to DeFi protocols, feeding into the European Commission’s review of MiCA. The proposals set out the EBA’s thinking on how lending activity and DeFi gateway services could be brought under the EU’s crypto framework.

TREE NEWS update: Bitget’s on-chain trading arm, Onchain, has integrated Robinhood Chain, letting users trade all Robinhood ecosystem assets directly with the stablecoin U (United Stables) from their spot wallets. The addition brings Bitget Onchain’s supported networks to six: Robinhood, MORPH, ETH, SOL, BSC and Base. Users can access millions of on-chain assets and US stock trading, alongside AI smart-money copy-trading and on-chain limit orders.

TREE NEWS reports: A wallet linked to 58bro.eth (0xc24…FE8d2) withdrew 3,000 ETH from Binance, deposited it into Aave, borrowed $9 million in USDT and used the funds to add to its position, bringing its cumulative long to 7,000 ETH at an average entry price of $2,677.59, on-chain analyst Ai Yi monitored. The address has been looping long ETH over the past 24 hours.

TREE NEWS reports: A whale entity tied to Garrett Jin transferred 147 million USDC from its Hyperliquid address to Binance about half an hour before the report, on-chain analyst Yu Jin monitored. The address, 0x92e…50e9, was left empty after the transfer. The move shifts the entire stablecoin balance off the decentralized perpetuals venue and onto the centralized exchange.

TREE NEWS reports: Roughly $15 billion in bitcoin options are due to expire on Friday, with more than a third of the open interest on Deribit tied to the September 25 expiry. The put-to-call ratio stands at 0.70, indicating a bullish tilt, and the heaviest call strikes sit at $85,000, $90,000 and $100,000 as traders look for signals on whether the rally can continue.

TREE NEWS reports: Multicoin Capital deposited 130,331 HYPE tokens worth $12.15 million into Coinbase Prime, resuming transfers after a one-week pause. Since July 28, the firm has moved a cumulative 4.23 million HYPE, valued at $285 million, into the exchange’s prime brokerage platform.

TREE NEWS update: Genius, an on-chain trading terminal backed by YZi Labs, has pushed back the unlock of 70 million GENIUS tokens from October 25 to February 2028. The project also cut daily Season 2 points to 50,000 from 1.5 million and removed the season’s end date from its documentation, which had listed April 10 to August 10. Some participants are demanding the original unlock schedule or refunds of Season 2 fees.

TREE NEWS update: Perp DEX Variational unveiled VAR tokenomics, allocating 32% of supply to a Genesis Distribution airdrop unlocked at TGE, 18% to the Variational Foundation, and 50% to team and investors locked 12 months then vesting over at least three years. The points program, originally due to end in Q3, now runs to TGE with 150,000 points added weekly, pushing the token generation event to Q4. Polymarket prices VAR’s FDV at roughly $1.53B to $1.85B.

TREE NEWS reports: Trader 0x344 built a $105.39 million BTC long on Hyperliquid over two days at 20x leverage. The position was up $2.44 million in unrealized gains when BTC hit $87,200, but as US Treasury yields reached 5% and BTC pulled back, the trader closed the entire position for a final realized profit of $176,600.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto hedge fund ZX Squared Capital has posted a 229.18% cumulative return since its 2021 founding, against 136.94% for bitcoin over the same period, co-founder and CIO CK Zheng said, an average annualized return of about 30%. The fund holds bitcoin spot, hedges with options, keeps zero leverage and uses Swiss custodian Copper, cutting bitcoin’s 55%-70% volatility to roughly 37% and its 2022 drawdown to about 35% versus bitcoin’s 65%.

TREE NEWS update: Alph Ai launched an upgraded trading terminal on September 18, 2026, consolidating market discovery, on-chain intelligence and trade execution into one interface under the tagline “Trade What’s Next.” The homepage now aggregates 24-hour volume, active wallets, trending new tokens and prediction markets, while token pages pair price charts, liquidity, market cap and holder data with market and limit order panels. Cross-chain transfers are powered by Relay with no added Alph Ai bridging fee; platform trading fees are 0.3%.

TREE NEWS update: Variational will launch its VAR token in the fourth quarter and allocate 32% of the supply as an airdrop, the protocol said. Points distributions will continue at 150,000 a week until the launch, while team and investor tokens are subject to a 12-month lock.