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TREE NEWS reports: The team behind the LAPTOP memecoin blamed sniper bots and thin liquidity for a 99% first-day crash, saying it is now seeding Aerodrome pools and burning 10 million tokens. Bubblemaps found 80% of traders lost money on the launch.

TREE NEWS update: The team behind the LAPTOP memecoin blames sniper bots and thin liquidity for a 99% drop on its first day, saying it is now injecting capital into Aerodrome pools and burning 10 million tokens. Bubblemaps found that 80% of traders lost money at launch.

TREE NEWS update: 1inch co-founder Sergej Kunz said the DEX aggregator has processed about $809 billion in cumulative token swaps since its 2019 launch but remains unprofitable, as DeFi’s market size is still too small to generate large revenue. Kunz said 1inch is prioritizing infrastructure, launching its shared-liquidity protocol Aqua, which drew roughly $25 million on day one with 10 million 1INCH and 500,000 USDC in incentives.

TREE NEWS reports: Robinhood Chain meme tokens fell sharply as of 14:00 Beijing time on September 10, with PONS down 19.4% in 24 hours to a $460 million market cap, AI down 12.1% to $197 million, CASHCAT down 14.4% to $165 million and MEME down 28.8% to $60.9 million. Chain fee revenue has declined for seven straight days since peaking near $5.6 million on September 4, dropping to about $2.75 million in the past 24 hours.

TREE NEWS update: Privy said on X that it has partnered with Stripe to launch a prebuilt card component that lets developers embed a full cardholder experience into their apps with a single integration. Stablecoin card programs can go live in as little as one month, covering more than 25 countries and regions.

TREE NEWS update: Bitcoin ZK rollup Citrea said it has restored cross-chain services for ctUSD, USDC, USDT, WBTC and CTR after a full review, with some Solver-based routes still coming back online gradually. The pause followed a security incident at third-party application Zentra Finance, whose team identified the root cause and halted the affected contracts. Citrea said its protocol and bridge contracts were unaffected and will separately disclose the incident’s impact on ecosystem projects including the ctUSD Earn Vault and on depositors.

TREE NEWS reports: Relayer Capital founder Austin Barack said on Bankless that crypto’s next winners will be applications rather than blockchains, pointing to Venice, Hyperliquid, Pump.fun and ether.fi as tokens whose revenue now flows back to holders through buybacks and burns. He estimated Venice’s annualized revenue at about $107 million as of August 2026, with roughly $8.3 million in annual VVV burns, and a $43.9 VVV target price under optimistic assumptions.

TREE NEWS update: Sui announced on X that agents can now hold independent wallets on the network, self-fund with tokens, and run liquidity positions to earn fees. Agents get scope-limited permissions over the wallet, with gas fees abstracted by the system. WaaPxyz operates on CetusProtocol.

TREE NEWS update: The Arbitrum committee overseeing grant-misuse bounties has recommended permanent bans for Good Entry, Limitless, and APX Finance from all future DAO programs. None of the recipients have responded to the forum thread, and three Snapshot votes could open as early as Sept. 10. The move follows the bounty program’s findings of grant misuse.

TREE NEWS update: world.xyz has launched a fully on-chain prediction market platform on Solana, with over one million users already on the waitlist. Chainlink supports market settlement, and contracts settle in Phantom’s CASH stablecoin, as reported on September 9.

TREE NEWS update: Renzo, a restaking protocol, has expanded beyond restaking with the launch of Renzo Basis on Hyperliquid. The product initially supports BTC and HYPE, allowing users to earn yield from funding rates through automated positions.

TREE NEWS reports: Robinhood Chain’s daily on-chain revenue fell to $1.42 million, down nearly 74% from its September 4 peak of $5.44 million. Meanwhile, Hyperliquid generated $1.8 million and Pump.fun $1.6 million in daily revenue, both surpassing Robinhood Chain.

TREE NEWS reports: Morpho, Jupiter, and Kamino are entering fixed-rate, fixed-term lending, collectively holding $6.83B in active loans. Morpho launched Midnight in July, Jupiter’s Offerbook entered public test in June, and Kamino released a whitepaper for fixed-rate reserves within Kamino Lend. These products aim to address fee uncertainty in DeFi lending.

TREE NEWS reports: PONS reached an all-time high valuation of over $970 million on Friday, with the token up over 200% in the last week. This surge has propelled Robinhood Chain’s daily fees to a record $6 million, as DEX volume on the platform doubles.

TREE NEWS reports: Hyperliquid’s open interest has climbed to $14.3 billion, coinciding with its native token HYPE reaching an all-time high. This marks a significant recovery from October 10, 2025, when OI plunged 56% in a single day, dropping from $14.7 billion to $6.5 billion.

TREE NEWS update: Uniswap founder Hayden announced on X that the Uniswap interface can now instantly route most Hooks. Uniswap has launched a free API to support developers integrating its routing service, along with a public Hooklist repository for classification and security info. The app’s pool creation flow now includes a Hook dropdown, and the Explore page shows Hook metadata. Uniswap Foundation sponsors audits for some advanced customizations.

TREE NEWS update: Cronos erased two hours of transactions to reverse a $111 million DeFi exploit, a rollback that also reversed legitimate activity. The network confirmed that $9.19 million remains unrecovered.