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TREE NEWS update: Cross-chain protocol Symbiosis said two software flaws in its Bitcoin Bridge were combined in an exploit that let an attacker mint roughly 46.1 billion unbacked syBTC — over 2,000 times bitcoin’s 21 million supply cap. The attacker deposited only 330 satoshis, worth about $0.25, then completed 12 fake deposits across BNB Chain, Ethereum and Rootstock in about four minutes. Initial losses are estimated at about $770,000.

TREE NEWS reports: Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 builder-deployed perpetual markets accounted for 25.8% of perp volume over the 30 days to Sept. 13, down from 57.1% the prior month. Leader Trade[XYZ] traded $64.60B, down 44.2% month on month, with its 7-day average falling from $5.36B to $2.01B. Of ten registered HIP-3 venues, four trade, five halted and one never launched; all non-USDC-settled venues have stopped trading.

TREE NEWS reports: Ethereum and Base are pursuing different account abstraction designs after talks between the two camps failed, Ethlabs researcher Derek Chiang said. The breakdown means the two ecosystems will follow separate technical paths on wallet standards rather than a single shared approach.

TREE NEWS reports: A whale staked another 184,500 SOL, worth about $18.94 million, roughly 16 hours ago. Over the past two months the wallet has withdrawn a cumulative 453,700 SOL from Coinbase, valued at about $46.6 million, and staked all of it.

TREE NEWS update: Binance Wallet said on September 15 that it will support Circle’s Arc Layer-1 blockchain from the first day of mainnet launch, becoming one of the first wallets to do so. The wallet will also launch an Arc Hub, a dedicated in-app portal for funding, discovering assets, finding DeFi yield opportunities and tracking ecosystem activity on Arc, a chain focused on stablecoin-driven financial applications.

TREE NEWS update: Binance will update collateral ratios for cross margin borrowing, transfers, and Unified Account tiers on September 18, 2026 at 06:00 UTC. ARB, TAO and WLD collateral ratios rise to 60% from 50%, while AUCTION, BLUR, GALA, HYPER, S and SYRUP are cut to 10% from 30%. WLFI’s tiered collateral ratio in Unified Account Pro is also adjusted.

TREE NEWS update: The Standard Reserve minted all 1,000 Genesis Charters on Sept. 15, raising 583.594968887 ETH — about $1.47 million — with 601 sold to whitelist users at 0.15 ETH and 399 in a Dutch auction that cleared mostly between 1.23 and 1.25 ETH. The experimental on-chain protocol says 100% of mint proceeds go to initial liquidity and the treasury, with no team allocation. STANDARD’s market cap briefly hit $44 million before rebounding to about $50 million.

TREE NEWS reports: TRON-based gasless transfer service GasFree has processed more than $138.5 billion in cumulative stablecoin transfers and over 8.06 million transactions in its first 18 months, serving more than 450,000 users as of Sept. 14. August volume alone reached $13.62 billion across over 818,000 transactions, and the service added USDD support on Aug. 17 after Binance Wallet integrated its technology on Sept. 7.

TREE NEWS update: Zama has expanded its confidential Morpho lineup on Ethereum after its first vault reached $40 million in deposits. Users now get confidential access to 12 existing Morpho vaults on Ethereum, while four additional vaults have been created as confidential-only products. The company also launched private swaps on Ethereum.

TREE NEWS reports: DEX aggregator 0x said it analyzed 84,163 Uniswap v4 hooks across six chains as of Sept. 11 and found only 19.4% safe, 54.2% malicious and 26.4% suspicious, describing “quote spoofing” that can leave users with up to 50% less than quoted. Uniswap founder Hayden Adams responded on X that malicious hooks are an inevitable byproduct of a permissionless system, and that users trading through Uniswap’s official API and vetted front end never reach those pools.

TREE NEWS reports: A Binance futures smart-money trader known as “Single Wife” topped the 24-hour, 7-day and 30-day profit leaderboards with a long position in LOBSTER, on-chain analyst Ai Yi monitored. The trader has closed part of the position for a $260,000 realized profit and still holds 18.29 million LOBSTER tokens worth $3.2 million, opened at an average price of $0.1316 versus a current $0.1751, for $796,000 in unrealized gains and $1.056 million in total profit.

TREE NEWS update: Ethereum restaking protocol Kelp said it imposed a 24-hour freeze on rsETH transfers to and from a specific address that showed suspicious activity hours after receiving the token. Kelp said its contracts are secure, rsETH remains fully collateralized, and minting, withdrawals and integrations continue normally with no user action required. The move follows a $7.73 million exploit of a user’s Safe multisig wallet on Ethereum.

TREE NEWS reports: Crude oil’s rise pushed CL into Hyperliquid’s 24-hour trading volume top three, behind only BTC and ETH. Address 0x10e…4f4bd opened a 3x long on 90,000 CL contracts at $84.36 on Aug. 3, at one point sitting on an $842,000 unrealized loss, and is now up $1.258 million — the highest unrealized profit of any Hyperliquid account in CL.

TREE NEWS update: Roughly 4,000 BTC — about $320 million at the time — left the Liquid Network federation wallet on Sept. 6 after an attacker exploited a range-proof cache flaw in the Elements node software, minting 3,996 unsupported L-BTC. Eleven of 15 federation signers approved the peg-out, which was processed via SideSwap. The attacker returned 3,400 BTC on Sept. 7 and kept 598.5 BTC; Blockstream publicly refused to pay a ransom for the rest.

TREE NEWS update: An unidentified user’s Safe multisig wallet on Ethereum was attacked, resulting in roughly $7.73 million in rsETH losses. The attacker used a public keeper multicall to introduce a custom Uni V4 LP Safe module into a hook-enabled pool they created; the hook then unwrapped aEthrsETH into rsETH, with Yoink MEV extracting the funds within the same block. Two transactions confirmed the loss.

TREE NEWS update: Balancer has proposed winding down the protocol and distributing its treasury to BAL holders, six months after corporate entity Balancer Labs shut down operations. The shutdown followed a 2025 exploit that drained $128 million from the platform.

TREE NEWS update: Meme coin launchpad Pools said on X that it has partnered with Arc to become the chain’s first launchpad, a post reshared by Arc’s product lead. The announcement comes a day before Arc’s mainnet launch on September 16, which Circle has said will be validated by financial firms including BlackRock and DTCC.

TREE NEWS reports: Coinbase Markets said roughly $16.6 billion in bitcoin and ether options positions are set to expire in the third quarter of 2026. Bitcoin accounts for about $14.73 billion across 186,000 open contracts, with a put-to-call ratio of 0.52, a max pain of $72,000 and the largest call concentration near $70,000. Ether accounts for about $1.92 billion across 756,100 contracts, with a put-to-call ratio of 0.57, max pain at $2,200 and the biggest call cluster at $30,000.

TREE NEWS reports: Balancer is considering winding down after a restructuring that cut costs and shipped new products failed to replace legacy revenue, Marcus Hardt said. The November $128 million exploit continued to weigh on adoption, and the v3 upgrade did not restore the protocol’s prior revenue base.