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TREE NEWS update: Metaplanet plans to issue $329 million in zero-interest convertible bonds with a five-year maturity, aimed at improving its debt structure and reducing reliance on Bitcoin-collateralized loans without selling its holdings. The Tokyo-listed Bitcoin treasury company said the bonds will also fund share buybacks and repay existing debt.

TREE NEWS reports: Saidou Technology’s AIVA brand expects its second vehicle model to be an SUV and is considering a battery-swapping solution, a person familiar with the matter said. Whether it will partner with CATL’s Chocolate battery-swap service has not been finalized, the person added. Saidou Technology, formerly Chongqing Landian Technology, is backed by state capital, Seres, CATL and other industrial investors.

TREE NEWS reports: Bits + Bips host Austin Campbell said self-custody users should prioritize simplicity, arguing that setups built on vendors and devices individuals cannot vet are where people got hurt in the Ledger reseller hack. Co-host Chris Perkins countered that intermediaries “may be wanted.” The remarks followed the breach of a Ledger reseller that exposed customer data.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin clawed back about $2,500 overnight to trade near $83,700 following a $771 million crypto liquidation wave. The rebound came as Korean chipmakers dragged the KOSPI below 6,000, one day before the U.S. releases its September inflation data.

TREE NEWS reports: The Financial Stability Board told G20 finance chiefs that cross-border rules for handling a stablecoin failure remain unsettled and flagged heightened run risk in coins issued by affiliated companies across several countries. The warning was delivered in a note to the group’s finance ministers and central bank governors. The FSB did not name specific issuers.

TREE NEWS update: Blur will retire its blur.io interface on Nov. 12, the NFT marketplace said. The marketplace protocol will remain live onchain, while the BLUR token retains control of its fee switch.

TREE NEWS reports: European retailer MediaMarktSaturn has pulled Ledger products from sale as the hardware wallet maker investigates reports of device tampering beyond CryptoBilis in Southeast Asia. The retailer did not say how long the products would remain off shelves. Ledger has not disclosed the scope of its probe or which markets are affected.

TREE NEWS reports: European retailer MediaMarktSaturn has suspended sales of Ledger products as the hardware wallet maker investigates reports of device tampering, in addition to CryptoBilis in Southeast Asia. The retailer did not say how long the products would be kept off shelves. Ledger has not disclosed the scope of the investigation or the markets affected.

TREE NEWS update: Metaplanet plans to raise ¥52 billion through a bond sale, using the proceeds to replace some Bitcoin-collateralized borrowing with unsecured debt and to fund up to ¥28.3 billion in share repurchases. The Tokyo-listed Bitcoin treasury company is restructuring its debt away from crypto-backed loans toward unsecured borrowing.

TREE NEWS reports: Liquid Capital founder Yi Lihua said Bitcoin’s 400-day moving average near $81,000 forms strong support, with past pullbacks to that level followed by rapid rebounds. He put nearby resistance at the 20-day MA around $84,000, and said a fast break above would force a retest of the $86,500 level, which he has repeatedly flagged as the $86,000 pullback point. Yi said Bitcoin remains in a bull uptrend on the larger cycle and called the current move a mid-rally pullback, which he said underpins his ‘bearish but not short’ stance.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin liquidity kept BTC below $84,000 as a sell-off in South Korean technology and semiconductor stocks deepened, weighing on the KOSPI. The resistance level held as Korean tech shares extended losses.

TREE NEWS reports: A trader identified as 0x45bd opened a 4x leveraged long position on Aster DEX worth about $238,000, holding 130,578 BTW tokens. The position is currently showing roughly $151,000 in unrealized profit, a 253.40% return on investment, and remains open.

TREE NEWS update: Metaplanet’s board approved a buyback of 96,934,800 common shares — about 7.1% of shares outstanding excluding treasury stock as of Sept. 30, 2026 — at ¥261 per share, the Oct. 13, 2026 closing price. The Japanese bitcoin treasury company will place the buy order through the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s ToSTNeT-3 off-auction mechanism at 8:45 a.m. on Oct. 14, with total consideration of roughly ¥25.2999 billion. The number of shares to be repurchased will not be adjusted, and final results will be disclosed after the session.

TREE NEWS update: Solana-based DEX Jupiter has opened claims for its third-quarter Active Staking Rewards (ASR), distributing 50 million JUP tokens weighted by time-staked amount. Users can add claimed rewards directly to their staking balance. The claim window closes on January 12, 2027.

TREE NEWS reports: K33 Research said the US government’s recent transfer of 17,733 BTC to Coinbase Prime is a custody arrangement rather than a sell signal. The moved coins include 12,267 BTC tied to the Bitfinex hack, which remain under the custodian’s control, with only about 1,200 BTC potentially eligible for sale.

TREE NEWS reports: Macro economist Ren Zeping’s WeChat blog “Zeping Macro” published a piece saying Hyperliquid, founded in 2022 with a core team of about 11 people, posted more than $900 million in net profit last year, a per-head output it said exceeds Apple, Nvidia and OpenAI. The article said the NYSE CEO has noted Hyperliquid’s trading volume is approaching Nasdaq levels.

TREE NEWS update: Autheo’s THEO token fell 92% after a suspected bridge exploit on Base involving a 19 million-token mint and subsequent sales. The project urged users not to buy, sell or bridge THEO. The incident follows the unauthorized mint and selling of the tokens on the Base network.

TREE NEWS update: Binance has launched its 2026 Global Blockchain Top 100 Creator Awards, an initiative recognizing influential blockchain content creators for knowledge sharing and quality content. The program is open to the global community, which is invited to nominate candidates. It runs through four stages: public nomination, community voting, results announcement and an awards ceremony.

TREE NEWS update: Ledger co-founder Thomas Karpelès said a Ledger Flex wallet bought at an airport contained a spy implant, with buyer Ben Yorke identifying the retailer as Metapod. Ledger said verified fund losses in its investigation remain tied to wallets sold by CryptoBilis.

TREE NEWS reports: Tesla still holds roughly 8,430 bitcoin, worth about $960 million. The company bought $1.5 billion of bitcoin in February 2021, sold about 4,670 BTC between March and April 2021 for a gain of roughly $100.2 million, and moved about 30,690 BTC to Coinbase during the May 2022 LUNA collapse, when the market widely assumed it had sold most of its holdings. Tesla did not further reduce its bitcoin position during the FTX collapse in 2022.