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TREE NEWS update: Gate on Sept. 22 at 18:00 (UTC+8) opened the 144th round of its contract points airdrop, split into two pools. Users holding at least 40 Gate contract points can claim a 100 USDT position trial voucher for 20 points, while those with 120–90 points under a declining threshold can claim 0.016 QQQG for 15 points. The QQQG pool uses a descending threshold, giving higher-point users earlier claim eligibility.

TREE NEWS reports: Three projects are scheduled for token unlocks: Plasma will release 1.77 billion tokens worth about $160 million, Humanity Protocol 270 million tokens worth about $20.46 million, and SoSoValue 23.49 million tokens worth about $6.79 million. The XPL unlock exceeds 60% of its circulating supply. Plasma is a Layer 1 blockchain built for global stablecoin payments, Humanity Protocol is an anti-Sybil identity network, and SoSoValue is an AI-driven investment research platform.

TREE NEWS update: TapeOut, an on-chain hardware manufacturing infrastructure that turns digital logic elements into blockchain assets, opened its Proof of Design (PoD) mining on August 21, 2026, the same day its $BEM token launched on BNB Chain with a total supply of 21 million. The protocol, launched on August 15, 2026 by developer Blonskr, lets users assemble NAND and LATCH components in a Canvas, tape out circuits into Circuit NFTs, and register verified circuits as miners to earn $BEM.

TREE NEWS reports: NEAR rose from about $2.3 to above $3.9 over the past week, a gain of more than 50%, as the network shifted its focus from sharding to cross-chain trading, privacy and derivatives. NEAR’s NEAR@3.33 milestone program triggered its first snapshot on Sept. 17 after privacy-account assets on near.com reached $70 million, unlocking a 333,333 NEAR pool worth about $1.11 million if NEAR’s three-day volume-weighted average price holds at or above $3.33.

TREE NEWS reports: Bankless co-founder David Hoffman said on September 18 that altcoin season has begun and will arrive sooner than expected. Bitcoin broke above $81,000 and ETH topped $2,600, with UNI jumping nearly 35% in a day while ARB and NEAR gained over 20%. Hoffman disclosed he sold his ETH in May and rotated into VVV, NEAR, ZEC, HYPE and LIT, all of which have since outperformed ETH.

TREE NEWS update: Cross-chain asset protocol Universal announced it will wind down operations, with normal service maintained for 60 days until Nov. 17, after user adoption over the past two years fell short of what was needed to sustain the protocol long term. Existing infrastructure and the underlying asset backing for uAssets are unaffected. During the wind-down, users can sell uAssets through the Universal app or redeem them directly for underlying assets via the mint and redeem interface, with large redemptions handled by contacting the team.

TREE NEWS reports: Wallet iseewhy.eth (0x8434…6577) completed 632 trades on Hyperliquid over the past 30 days, generating $136 million in volume, an 82.86% win rate and $281,000 in profit, on-chain tracker Onchain Lens shows. The address is currently short ZEC, USELESS and PONS, with all three positions in profit.

TREE NEWS update: JPYC, Japan’s first licensed yen stablecoin, listed on South Korean exchange Upbit on September 17, opening at a reference price of 8.81 KRW per JPYC before spiking to 35.7 KRW and touching roughly 37 KRW, above 3 yen. The token minted 1.687 billion yen that day, with circulating supply rising from about 1.9 billion yen to more than 4.2 billion yen within roughly 48 hours. Price then returned toward its 1:1 yen peg as new supply entered the market.

TREE NEWS update: Circle’s Arc blockchain launched agentic payments on September 19, with its Facilitator Service offering x402 developers a hosted integration path that accepts USDC and settles on-chain across Arc, Base and Polygon. The route removes the need for a relayer key or a separate gas wallet.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto futures liquidations across the market reached $294 million in the past 24 hours, with short positions accounting for $229 million and long positions $65.54 million, CoinGlass data show. Bitcoin liquidations totaled $60.04 million and Ethereum $76.83 million. The largest single liquidation order was an ETHUSDT position on Binance worth $4.37 million.

TREE NEWS update: Bitcoin Lightning Network wallet Blink Wallet has suspended services on its platform while it investigates a security incident in which attackers accessed some custodial accounts and withdrew funds. The wallet said the vast majority of funds are safe and that non-custodial wallets are unaffected.

TREE NEWS reports: Hyperliquid bought back and burned 26,310 HYPE at an average price of $91.86 over the past 24 hours, worth about $2.42 million. Cumulative burns have reached 48.76 million HYPE, roughly $4.5 billion and 4.88% of the maximum supply. The protocol recorded $64.34 million in revenue over the past 30 days and $1.26 billion cumulatively.

TREE NEWS reports: Robinhood Chain’s daily fees fell 97% from their early-September peak to about $230,000 on September 16, while transaction volume slipped only 32%, to 8.9 million transactions, suggesting the decline came from lower fee rates rather than reduced activity. At the peak, the network collected roughly $8 million in daily fees across 13.1 million transactions, averaging 64 cents each, versus 2.6 cents by September 16. Capital has not left in size: DEX volume over the seven days to September 16 was about $13 billion, up 5% week over week, and stablecoin supply dipped 1% to about $1 billion.

TREE NEWS reports: USDC Treasury minted another 250 million USDC on Solana at 19:13 Beijing time on September 19, bringing total new issuance on the chain to 500 million USDC within roughly 40 minutes. The mints add to the stablecoin’s circulating supply on Solana.

TREE NEWS reports: USDC Treasury minted 250 million USDC on the Solana blockchain at 18:36 Beijing time on September 19. The mint adds to the stablecoin’s circulating supply on Solana, one of the networks where USDC issuer Circle has expanded issuance.

TREE NEWS reports: Jeffrey Huang, known as Machi Big Brother (@machibigbrother), holds long positions worth $131 million across three tokens: 32,600 ETH valued at $85.73 million, 495 BTC valued at $40.26 million, and 55,500 HYPE valued at $5.06 million. The liquidation prices for the ETH, BTC and HYPE positions stand at $2,517, $73,501 and $18.7 respectively.

TREE NEWS reports: Hyperliquid’s open interest reached $16.36 billion, setting an all-time high for the decentralized perpetuals exchange. The figure surpasses the platform’s previous peak set on September 18, 2025. The record reflects rising leverage and trading activity on the on-chain derivatives venue.

TREE NEWS reports: An entity represented by Garrett Jin that accumulated 100,800 BTC at an average of about $7,242 in May-June 2018 saw a 213,000 ETH long on Hyperliquid liquidated in early February 2026 as ETH fell from $3,000 to $1,800, losing roughly $230 million in margin. The entity has sold about 89,000 BTC since August 2025 and bought about 900,000 ETH at an average cost above $3,500.

TREE NEWS update: Cronos community has opened a governance proposal to use all revenue from Ult and Cronos Launch to buy back and burn CRO monthly on-chain, publishing each transaction hash. Operating, infrastructure and growth costs would be covered by existing funds, with a strategic reserve backing future Cronos POS staking rewards. The proposal is still in the proposal stage, with voting running until October 3.