TREE NEWS update: Blockstream has refused a ransom demand for the remaining 600 BTC tied to the Liquid exploit and said it will not pay. Liquid has resumed transactions, but peg-outs remain disabled as recovery work continues. The identity of the attacker and the amount of the ransom demand were not disclosed.
TREE NEWS reports: Standard Chartered forecasts the Sky token will reach $0.325 by 2028, a fivefold increase from current levels, as USDS adoption and borrowing capacity continue to expand. The bank expects Sky to pass five times as much value to token holders by that year.
TREE NEWS update: Senate Republicans released a revised version of the Clarity Act that adds CFTC registration requirements for DeFi protocols deemed not truly decentralized, ahead of a cloture vote. The new text leaves the ethics section untouched, which Democrats have been holding out for.
TREE NEWS reports: A new launchpad on Robinhood Chain, Commodity Market Exchange, has pushed its native $CME token above a $15 million market cap with daily volume near $10 million. The platform lets memecoins pair against 94 synthetic ERC-20 commodity tokens — gold, crude, corn, milk, even Big Macs and Pokémon cards — priced via oracle reference feeds. It routes 40% of fees to holders as commodity tokens and 30% to permanent $CME buybacks and burns.
TREE NEWS reports: Solana ranked sixth among public blockchains by 30-day revenue, or fifth excluding Canton, with income roughly one-tenth that of Robinhood Chain. The remaining top-10 revenue chains are Robinhood Chain, Base, Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, BSC, Hyperliquid L1 and Arbitrum. The analysis argues Solana must build its own path in asset issuance, partnerships and competition as it trails BSC, Base and Robinhood Chain.
TREE NEWS update: Solana-based perp DEX BULK launched its mainnet in invite-only mode on September 5, ending its pre-deposit campaign and converting users’ deposited USDC into trading margin. The project is now in a Genesis phase running through October 5 with zero maker fees and AURA points. BULK had raised an $8 million seed round led by 6th Man Ventures and Robot Ventures.
TREE NEWS update: Trade.xyz formally launched its prediction market product, named Events, on the Hyperliquid mainnet, covering sports, politics, economics and financial markets. The project charges Hyperliquid spot rates — 0.07% taker and 0.04% maker, falling to 0.025% and 0% at the top volume tier, with up to 40% off for staking HYPE. On a $100 taker trade at 50% odds, Polymarket’s fee could run 14 to 25 times higher, though its maker rebates and probability-linked pricing reverse that edge near-certain outcomes.
TREE NEWS update: MetaMask announced on September 11 that it now supports connecting to TRON decentralized applications, opening a further multi-chain entry point. The first DApp Spotlight selection covers AI, DeFi and file storage: AI agent infrastructure B.AI, liquidity platform SUN.io, lending platform JustLend DAO and peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol BitTorrent. Users can access these dApps directly through MetaMask.
TREE NEWS update: BIT (formerly Matrixport) published version 2.0 of its Trust Whitepaper, outlining a layered security model in which identity, permissions, operations and asset custody are separated. The disclosure follows a September breach on the Bitcoin sidechain Liquid Network in which an attacker exploited a validation flaw in Elements software to move roughly 4,000 BTC, worth about $320 million at the time, even though PAK and Federation keys were not compromised.
TREE NEWS reports: Global digital financial services platform BIT (formerly Matrixport) has released the “BIT Trust Whitepaper” V2.0, disclosing its security system that establishes multiple layers of isolation between identity, permissions, operations, and assets: critical operations require the joint participation of at least two authorized personnel, the majority of digital assets are stored in cold wallets, and the security team holds veto power over major risks. Earlier in early September, the Bitcoin sidechain Liquid Network suffered an attack in which the attacker exploited a verification vulnerability in the Elements software to transfer out approximately 4,000 BTC, worth about $320 million at the price at the time of the incident, while the related PAK and Federation keys were not compromised.
TREE NEWS reports: Solana’s network recorded more than 263,000 new SPL tokens issued in a single day, an all-time high, up sharply from the 40,000 to 50,000 daily average during the December 2024 memecoin cycle peak. Of the 40,400 tokens launched through launchpads that day, Pump.fun accounted for 34,200, roughly 85%.
TREE NEWS reports: Solana’s network recorded more than 263,000 new SPL tokens issued in a single day, an all-time high, up sharply from the 40,000 to 50,000 daily average during the December 2024 memecoin peak. Of the 40,400 tokens launched through launchpads that day, Pump.fun accounted for 34,200, or roughly 85%.
TREE NEWS update: Cross-chain protocol Symbiosis said on September 11 that its Bitcoin-related swap function is temporarily unavailable while the team deploys an update, adding that other swaps and protocol operations remain live. Web3 security firm Blockaid had flagged an attack on Symbiosis on BNB Smart Chain, where an attacker used a signed BridgeV2 receive operation to mint roughly 2^62 raw units of syBTC to a new address. The same beneficiary then sold about 4.39 WBTC on Ethereum’s Uniswap V4, cashing out roughly $336,000.
TREE NEWS update: Cross-chain protocol Symbiosis said on September 11 that bitcoin-related swap functions are temporarily unavailable while its team deploys an update, with other swaps and protocol operations still running. Web3 security firm Blockaid flagged an attack on Symbiosis on BNB Smart Chain, where an attacker used a signed BridgeV2 receive operation to mint roughly 2^62 raw units of syBTC to a new address; the same beneficiary then sold about 4.39 WBTC on Ethereum’s Uniswap V4, cashing out roughly $336,000.
TREE NEWS update: A revised version of the CLARITY Act would target “non-decentralized” DeFi operators, with the bill’s ethics section left largely unchanged despite being a main point of contention ahead of a pivotal Senate vote. The measure is being finalized as lawmakers prepare for the vote.
TREE NEWS reports: Cross-chain protocol Symbiosis is under an ongoing attack on BNB Smart Chain, with the attacker using a signed BridgeV2 receive operation to mint roughly 2^62 raw units of syBTC to a new address, a nominal value of about $46.1 billion at 8 decimals. The same beneficiary address then sold about 4.39 WBTC on Uniswap V4 on Ethereum, realizing roughly $336,000 in WBTC proceeds.
TREE NEWS update: Cross-chain protocol Symbiosis is under active attack on BNB Smart Chain, with the attacker using a signed BridgeV2 receive operation to mint roughly 2^62 raw units of syBTC — a nominal value of about $46.1 billion at 8 decimals — to a new address. The same beneficiary address then sold about 4.39 WBTC on Uniswap V4 on Ethereum, realizing roughly $336,000 in WBTC proceeds.
TREE NEWS update: Huobi HTX listed CIFR/USDT, APD/USDT and ASX/USDT perpetual contracts on September 11, offering 1x to 20x leverage for both longs and shorts. The exchange is also running a new-contract trading competition from September 11 until 15:00 (UTC+8) on September 15, with a total prize pool of 1 billion $HTX for users who register and meet specified trading thresholds.
TREE NEWS update: Huobi HTX listed CIFR/USDT, APD/USDT and ASX/USDT perpetual contracts on September 11, offering 1x to 20x leverage for both longs and shorts. The exchange also launched a new-listing futures trading competition running through September 15 at 15:00 (UTC+8), with a prize pool of 1 billion $HTX tokens for users who register and meet designated trading thresholds.
TREE NEWS update: The Standard Reserve, an on-chain reserve protocol, said it will launch on September 14, with two security audits finding no critical vulnerabilities and audit reports to be published before launch. The protocol, which mints tokens from ETH capital flows using an OHM-style reserve-currency mechanism and calls itself a “sovereign on-chain central bank,” has a hard cap of 1 billion $STANDARD tokens and will open only 1,000 “Founding Charters” slots.