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TREE NEWS reports: Arthur Hayes transferred 8,012 ETH, valued at $19.41 million, to a new wallet address 0x6cd66DbdFe289ab83d7311B668ADA83A12447e21, on-chain monitor Onchain Lens shows. The destination wallet had no prior transaction history at the time of the transfer.

TREE NEWS update: UNCX’s Vesting V2 contract has suffered a security attack across multiple chains, affecting 10 tokens on four networks: six on Ethereum (pepecoin, EDGEN, ZC, X, LO0P, PAAL), one on Base (IMO), one on BNB Chain (BTCLE) and two on Robinhood Chain (CASHCAT, RKST). UNCX said it imposed a fixed fee of over 1,000 ETH per lock, removed all fee-bypassing client and contract interactions, and raised the token fee to the contract’s 5% cap. LP locks and legacy vesting contracts were unaffected.

TREE NEWS reports: An address with cumulative profits exceeding $25.79 million raised its SKHX short position from about $15.39 million to roughly $27.04 million between 08:06 and 09:00 on October 15, 2026, opening and adding about $12.58 million in shorts while closing $59,000 for a $5,050 profit. It also cut its SP500 short, closing about $3.18 million and opening roughly $400,000, realizing $6,277. Its SP500 short is now worth about $2.46 million, down from $5.24 million.

TREE NEWS reports: Machi (@machibigbrother) has been continuously closing positions to cut losses and avoid liquidation as the market declines, with his account balance now down to $129,000, on-chain data from Lookonchain shows. The trader’s steady deleveraging comes amid a broad market slump that has pressured leveraged positions across the board.

TREE NEWS reports: A whale withdrew 1,100 ETH from OKX at $2,516.77, worth about $2.77 million, 20 hours ago, then added 2,188 ETH at $2,416.89, worth about $5.29 million, an hour ago. The 3,288 ETH carried an average price of $2,450.

TREE NEWS update: Polygon has gained US payments licenses after completing its acquisition of Coinme. The deal hands Polygon 37 money transmitter licenses plus 11 state exemptions, expanding its regulated payments footprint across the United States. The company did not disclose the value of the transaction.

TREE NEWS update: OneKey founder Yishi said the company developed and funded “Yishi Jianbao,” a website that verifies hardware wallets by analyzing photos of a device’s mainboard. Users dismantle the device and upload a photo, which is resized to 2048 pixels with GPS metadata stripped, then analyzed by Claude’s vision model for chip model, matching with the device model and anomalies such as extra chips, modules, antennas or jumper wires. Rules are identical for Ledger, OneKey and Trezor, with results labeled “not worrying” or “very worrying.”

TREE NEWS reports: US spot HYPE exchange-traded funds recorded a combined net outflow of $4.95 million on October 14 (US Eastern Time), data from SoSoValue shows. Bitwise Hyperliquid ETF (BHYP) saw the largest daily outflow at $1.82 million, followed by Grayscale Hyperliquid Staking ETF (HYPG) at $1.73 million. Total net assets of the spot HYPE ETFs stood at $431 million, with cumulative net inflows of $329 million.

TREE NEWS update: VanEck has asked the U.S. SEC to withdraw the registration statement for its proposed VanEck Lido Staked ETH ETF, saying it no longer intends to proceed with the offering. The registration never took effect and no shares were issued or sold. The fund was designed to hold Lido’s liquid staking token stETH; VanEck filed its S-1 in October 2025 and was the first issuer to seek a U.S. ETF tied to stETH. VanEck did not disclose a reason for the withdrawal.

TREE NEWS update: The US SEC has approved Cboe to list binary options contracts tied to listed companies’ key performance indicators, covering more than 100 metrics across 23 companies, including Coinbase trading volume, MARA bitcoin production and Robinhood customer counts and revenue. Robinhood expects to be the first broker to offer the product to retail investors and said it will waive commissions through year-end. Cboe and Robinhood had planned an October launch; no specific date has been announced.

TREE NEWS reports: A US index tracking crypto and crypto-related equities closed down 8.06% at 59.99 points. Over the past 24 hours, spot bitcoin fell 2.04% to $81,658.81, turning lower after US CPI inflation data was released. Spot ether dropped 3.81% to $2,412.308.

TREE NEWS update: Marc Vanlerberghe has resigned as Algorand’s marketing chief, following the departures of the blockchain network’s CEO and CTO. The exit comes as new CEO William Herkelrath reviews initiatives and partnerships with the aim of making Algorand self-sustaining.

TREE NEWS update: Industry-aligned organizations are pushing for summary judgment on the merits against Illinois’ 0.2% tax on crypto assets, after state officials already agreed to a six-month pause on implementation. The groups argue the merits of the case rather than the delay. No ruling date was given.

TREE NEWS update: Patrick Witt has left his position as the White House’s top crypto adviser, ending his tenure in the administration’s digital-asset policy role. The departure comes as the Clarity Act, a market-structure bill for digital assets, remains stalled. No successor or effective date was disclosed in the material.

TREE NEWS update: Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, has agreed to acquire Lithuania’s Saldo Bank, which reported €196.9 million in assets at the end of June. The deal is expected to close in 2027, subject to regulatory approval. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: Payments through Coinbase’s x402 protocol surged from about 1,500 in mid-2025 to more than 138 million by Q3 2026. U.S. wallets dominated spending on AI models, and most transactions were tiny. The data marks a sharp jump in machine-to-machine payments settled on-chain.

TREE NEWS update: Stellar announced native Chainlink data services for DeFi applications, giving developers on the network access to Chainlink’s oracle feeds. The news did not lift the token: XLM dropped 4% and its seven-day loss reached 7.85%, lagging both Bitcoin and Ether.

TREE NEWS reports: US stocks closed lower on October 15, with the Dow down 0.13%, the Nasdaq down 1.85% and the S&P 500 down 1.07%. Crypto-linked names led the decline: MARA fell 10.16%, Riot Platforms (RIOT) 10.05%, Robinhood (HOOD) 8.76%, SKHY 6.01%, Strategy (MSTR) 5.92% and AMD 5.73%.

TREE NEWS update: Patrick Witt has left his role as executive director of the White House crypto council after his secondment term expired, the White House confirmed by email. An official thanked Witt for his contributions to the Trump administration and wished him well. The confirmation followed three unanswered inquiries over the past week about whether Witt still held the post.

TREE NEWS update: Sberbank has won approval to trade Bitcoin under Russia’s new crypto law, holding both custody and exchange status. The state-owned lender plans to bring Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT to apps used by 110 million retail clients.