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TREE NEWS reports: NEAR rose nearly 80% over a week as NEAR Intents recorded $29.3 billion in cumulative volume, including swaps involving Zcash. The protocol also expanded privacy features for traders. The token’s advance and the volume figure were reported together.

TREE NEWS reports: smartestmoney.hl (0x082e…ca88) still holds a long position of 1.38 million HYPE tokens worth about $132 million, with unrealized profit rising from $54.97 million to $78.94 million. Total profit stands at $71.56 million, with an entry price of $38.68 against a current price of $95.88 and a liquidation price of $73.26.

TREE NEWS reports: Decentralized stablecoin USDD grew its market cap by $12.8 million on Sept. 20, the third-largest single-day gain among stablecoin issuers behind Ethena ($35.8 million) and StablR ($18.7 million). USDD’s circulating supply now stands at $1.54 billion, ranking 10th among all stablecoins, with protocol TVL at $2.29 billion.

TREE NEWS reports: Machi Big Brother is running three leveraged long positions worth more than $123 million combined. The largest is a 25x ETH long valued at about $88.39 million with $4.595 million in unrealized profit. He also holds a 40x bitcoin long worth roughly $26.1 million, up $950,000, and a 10x HYPE long valued at about $8.81 million, up $287,000.

TREE NEWS update: PancakeSwap’s first Pre-Access offering, pPOLY, sold out shortly after subscriptions opened at 17:00 Beijing time on September 21. The sale offered 309,677.42 pPOLY tokens at $15.5 each, raising roughly $4.8 million and implying a valuation of $15.5 billion.

TREE NEWS update: Hyperliquid said its perpetual futures market now supports trailing stop orders. The trigger price adjusts with the mark price as long as the move favors the position, and a market order fires when the mark price retraces a set distance or percentage from its best level — the highest mark price since activation for longs, the lowest for shorts. Users can set an activation price to decide when tracking begins; without one, tracking starts immediately at the current mark price.

TREE NEWS reports: Hyperliquid has generated $429 million in revenue year to date, the highest of any project tracked by CoinGecko, with Pump.fun second at $322 million. Axiom followed at $132 million, Sky at $130 million, GMGN at $126 million and Polymarket at $115 million. The remaining top-10 entries were WLFI at $95 million, Paxos at $88 million, edgeX at $84 million and Titan Builder at $83 million.

TREE NEWS reports: Meme launchpads on Circle’s Arc chain are generating almost no revenue five days after the network’s Sept. 16 mainnet launch, with Solon at $503, ARK Launch at $180, Tolly at $171, Wonk Fun at $69.6 and AKA at $66.87 over 24 hours, while UBI.fun, Sashimi.fun and CircleWarp each earned less than $1. Arc app net revenue was about $1,191 and DEX volume fell nearly 70% from a Sept. 17 peak of $131 million to roughly $41 million on Sept. 20.

TREE NEWS reports: SlowMist said a Solana, Ethereum and TRON wallet-monitoring app called FomoPeek carried malicious apptrace and libapptracecore modules in versions 1.1 and 1.2, added on Sept. 9 and Sept. 12, 2026, after its Aug. 29 launch. The modules could reach a remote control server, attempt kernel exploits and sandbox escapes, decrypt Keychain data and harvest 19 wallets including MetaMask, OKX Wallet, Trust Wallet, imToken, TokenPocket and TronLink. One attacker address took in 579,984.34 USDT from Sept. 15.

TREE NEWS reports: A whale sold 1,107 BTC worth $86.76 million on Hyperliquid over the past five days, then bought 34,422 ETH worth $86.50 million and staked the entire amount. The rotation was tracked by Lookonchain. The identity of the wallet was not disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto sectors rose broadly, with Layer 1 tokens leading on a 2.70% 24-hour gain. NEAR Protocol climbed 16.44%, Avalanche 15.37% and Sui 9.78%, while Bitcoin added 0.25% after briefly topping $81,000 intraday and Ethereum rose 2.08%, touching $2,700. The MAG7.ssi index gained 0.90%, DEFI.ssi 2.76% and MEME.ssi 1.63%.

TREE NEWS update: RippleX engineering head Ayo Akinyele said 30 of 35 tracked XRP Ledger validators now back the Batch V1.1 amendment, above the 28 votes needed to start the activation countdown, which began Sept 15 at 14:06:41 UTC. If support stays at 80% or higher through the 14-day window, the feature is expected to activate around Sept 29. Batch V1.1 bundles up to eight transactions into a single all-or-nothing operation for delivery-versus-payment settlement.

TREE NEWS reports: Wintermute’s wallet (0xecb…2b00) is holding $160 million in perpetual futures shorts against an unrealized loss of $3.57 million. The position includes $53.05 million short ETH, $26.66 million short BTC, $17.84 million short SOL and $11.62 million short HYPE, with 30-day trading volume of $16.91 billion.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto futures liquidations across major exchanges totaled $316 million over the past 24 hours, CoinGlass data shows, with $183 million in long positions and $133 million in shorts liquidated. Bitcoin accounted for $56.88 million of the total and Ethereum $55.30 million. The largest single liquidation, worth $5.34 million, occurred on Binance’s ETHUSDT contract.

TREE NEWS update: ZetaChain’s proposal 68 passed with 99.4% support and 58% participation, above the 40% quorum, converting ZETA 1:1 into a Solana-native SPL token with the total supply unchanged. A second proposal will still set the migration mechanics, including snapshot height, claim process and L1 shutdown timeline. Private AI app Anuma, which has over 300,000 users, will migrate to Solana alongside ZETA.

TREE NEWS reports: Meme trading platform gmgn transferred 23,550 BNB, worth about $17.34 million, in fee revenue to the Pionex exchange over the past week, on-chain analyst Yu Chen said on September 20. The transfers were made in batches across the seven-day period. gmgn is a meme coin trading platform; Pionex is a crypto exchange.

TREE NEWS reports: SlowMist and OKX’s security team traced a wave of wallet drains to FomoPeek versions 1.1–1.2, a meme-monitoring app that bundled iOS kernel exploit code to escalate privileges, escape the app sandbox and decrypt the system keychain. The malware silently exfiltrated plaintext private keys and scanned other wallets and memos on the same device, with no phishing site or malicious signature involved. The teams’ joint review followed reports of assets being emptied without unusual user interaction.

TREE NEWS update: The attacker behind the earlier Fetch.ai and NuNet exploits minted 260 million AGIX and 53.838 million WMTX without authorization on Ethereum by exploiting a SingularityNET vulnerability. The hacker now holds roughly $16.77 million in crypto assets, including 198.3 million AGIX worth about $14.42 million, 649 ETH worth about $1.67 million, and 33.538 million WMTX worth about $627,400.

TREE NEWS update: CoinW has listed AINVDA perpetual futures with leverage of up to 25x. AINVDA is a meme token focused on the intersection of AI, Nvidia and on-chain culture, built around the Artificial Inu dog mascot and a narrative tied to growing demand for AI compute, GPUs and Nvidia-related infrastructure. CoinW said it has no affiliation with any listed company mentioned and that the service may not be available in some jurisdictions.

TREE NEWS reports: Ethena has generated $1.04 billion in cumulative revenue since launch, including $284 million over the past 12 months, but ENA holders have received none of it. A September 2 governance vote passed a fee switch that will route 95% of revenue to open-market ENA buybacks once USDe’s 14-day average supply tops $7.5 billion. USDe currently sits at $4.75 billion, 58% below the threshold.