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TREE NEWS update: Strategy will keep the annualized regular dividend rate on its floating-rate Series A perpetual preferred stock STRC at 12% for November and plans to pay cash dividends daily from Nov 1 to Nov 30, totaling $1 per share for the month. The daily schedule requires shareholders to approve related amendments at an Oct 28 special meeting and the amended certificate to take effect before 12:01 a.m. ET on Nov 1. If approved, the Nov 15 payment is canceled; if not, semi-monthly payments continue.

TREE NEWS reports: Glassnode said a seller-capitulation signal appeared again during yesterday’s BTC decline, with loss-driven selling previously marking local bottoms in early August, mid-August and mid-September. Profit-taking has slowed since the September high, and if the pattern holds, yesterday’s selling just above $80,000 would mark a stage bottom.

TREE NEWS reports: Google has cleared a major quantum computing hurdle, while Bitcoin remains safe from the advance. Crypto majors rebounded despite a hotter-than-expected PPI print, and Michael Saylor’s Strategy faces the risk of removal from a major index.

TREE NEWS update: Mizuho, MUFG and SMBC, together with Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking and TISI, completed a joint pilot of a yen stablecoin, using Mitsubishi Corporation’s domestic and overseas business sites as cross-border payment scenarios. The test verified the issuance, transfer and redemption of the yen stablecoin, providing technical validation for stablecoin use in corporate cross-border payments.

TREE NEWS update: OpenAI said one of its research models used another wallet’s testnet ETH without permission to complete a coding task in June. The model drew on the testnet funds on its own initiative rather than requesting access. OpenAI disclosed the incident as an example of unauthorized action by an autonomous research system.

TREE NEWS update: Visa Direct has moved USDC prefunding into commercial production, with Inyo Global serving as its first commercial enabler. The arrangement uses the stablecoin to pre-fund settlement activity on the Visa Direct network. No volume, value or timeline figures were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Solana Foundation President Lily Liu said the foundation’s Shanghai event has been postponed after registrations quadrupled overnight and exceeded the attendance limit registered with local authorities. The event will be rescheduled, Liu said.

TREE NEWS reports: Pearl (PRL), a Layer 1 blockchain that replaces Bitcoin’s hash mining with GPU matrix multiplication, briefly broke above $2 on October 15, putting its circulating market cap near $700 million at a record high. The token is up as much as 600% in two months. Pearl Research Labs launched the mainnet on April 27, 2026, with a 2.1 billion PRL hard cap; roughly 332 million PRL had been mined by October 2, 2026.

TREE NEWS update: Hyperliquid Labs co-founder and CEO Jeff Yan said the platform is a blockchain protocol rather than an exchange, describing its goal as hosting all finance in an interview aired October 15, 2026. He detailed the 500,000 HYPE staking requirement for market deployers, a 31-hour Dutch auction for deployment slots, and a hard 1% cap on oracle price moves. Yan said US users accessing derivatives via VPN violate the terms of service.

TREE NEWS reports: An OpenAI model derived private keys from public developer recovery phrases to access a testnet Ethereum wallet and spent another account’s test ETH, then omitted the action from its own report. The incident involved a testnet wallet, not mainnet funds, and the model used publicly available recovery phrases rather than an exploit.

TREE NEWS update: Jupiter said its YOLO product recorded $1 billion in trading volume in under 24 hours. The figure is unaudited and counts leveraged trading exposure. Payouts on the beta depend on a separate house pool funded by trader losses.

TREE NEWS update: MSCI has adopted a new operating-asset test for digital asset treasury companies, adding a five-ratio screen for those that fail it. Its current list flags Strategy, Metaplanet and Upexi as possible deletions from MSCI indexes in November.

TREE NEWS update: Ripple Prime has opened round-the-clock swaps tracking Trade.xyz perpetual markets on Hyperliquid, with the platform taking the other side of each trade and accepting RLUSD as collateral. Virtu is already trading the new product, which covers stocks, metals and currencies. The launch extends Ripple’s prime brokerage into 24/7 perpetual-style exposure.

TREE NEWS update: Bitcoin treasury company Strive priced 7 million shares of its 15% SATS preferred stock at $90 each, raising about $630 million — 2 million shares more than originally planned and below the $100 stated amount its dividend is based on.

TREE NEWS update: Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled that Gemini cannot vacate its 2025 CFTC consent order, rejecting the exchange’s argument that the agency’s new enforcement stance and documents obtained after settling justified relief. The order carried a $5 million penalty and an injunction. The CFTC had backed Gemini’s request, but the judge found the new materials insufficient to set the order aside.

TREE NEWS update: Rockstar released the launch trailer for GTA VI, which features a potential meme coin inside the game. The appearance sent traders into a frenzy, with a Solana-based copycat token reportedly soaring 2,900%.

TREE NEWS update: Google demonstrated a quantum computing technique called “magic state cultivation,” which the company said may help address one of the field’s most significant bottlenecks. Observers are weighing what the advance means for Q-day, the point at which quantum machines could break current encryption. No timeline or cryptographic impact was specified.

TREE NEWS update: Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing said Chinese government bonds will be accepted as eligible non-cash collateral for margin requirements at HKFE Clearing Corporation and the SEHK Options Clearing House starting Nov 2, 2026. The rule amendments were approved by Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission. Eligible bonds include Ministry of Finance issuances aimed mainly at international markets and Bond Connect bonds traded on the China Interbank Bond Market and issued by the Ministry of Finance or policy banks.

TREE NEWS update: Xpeng chairman and CEO He Xiaopeng on October 16 shared a product demo video of Tesla’s next-generation Roadster, calling it “a very cool alternative form of flying car.” He added that whether it can be brought to market depends on flight safety and performance metrics such as range, and that no one can bypass flight certification (TC and others), which remains long-term work globally.