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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.

TREE NEWS update: NFT marketplace Blur will shut down its website and stop issuing new Blend loans next month. The platform is winding down as NFT trading volumes have collapsed from their 2021-2022 peak, with market revenue projected at $318 million this year.

TREE NEWS update: An attacker minted 19 million THEO tokens on the Base chain and swapped them for 700.8 ETH, worth about $1.76 million, then bridged the ETH to Ethereum mainnet, PeckShield monitoring shows. THEO has fallen 92% over the past 24 hours following the incident.

TREE NEWS update: Chinese fraud victims seeking to recover 61,000 seized Bitcoin suffered a legal setback after a UK court ruled that Chinese law governs their claims. The decision determines which jurisdiction’s law applies to the victims’ effort to reclaim the cryptocurrency, which was seized in the UK. The court did not rule that the victims are entitled to the Bitcoin.

TREE NEWS update: Jump Trading has established an internal compute trading desk and acqui-hired Affaan Mustafa and Alejandro Soumah Fernandez, the founding team of Ito Markets, the market maker disclosed. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The move reflects trading firms moving faster into computing power as an emerging asset class amid AI-driven demand for compute resources.

TREE NEWS update: Ledger has detailed how LTE-enabled implants exposed wallet recovery phrases in hardware wallets sold by reseller CryptoBilis. CryptoBilis has halted sales, and Trezor and OneKey have cut ties with the reseller following the disclosure.

TREE NEWS reports: An ETH whale that accumulated 5,147 ETH at an average price of $1,886.7 on August 12-13 transferred 5,170 ETH, worth about $12.82 million, into the mixing protocol Tornado Cash in batches roughly five hours ago. The tokens carry an unrealized gain of about $3.056 million. The purpose of the transfer is not yet known.

TREE NEWS update: Strategy purchased 250 bitcoin last week at an average price of $86,194, spending about $22 million and bringing its total holdings to 848,250 BTC. Bitmine Immersion Technologies said it added 12,532 ETH, lifting its Ethereum holdings to about 6.03 million tokens, roughly 4.9% of total supply, with total crypto, cash and securities holdings of about $16.2 billion.

TREE NEWS update: 21Shares has listed a synthetic exchange-traded product tied to Anthropic on the Vienna MTF, trading under the ticker CLAU. The product holds FalconX notes linked to perpetual futures, and investors pay financing and funding costs on top of its 1% annual product fee.

TREE NEWS update: Huawei invested 121.4 billion yuan in research and development in the first half of 2026, with R&D intensity at 25.9% of revenue, up 25.2% year on year, or more than 670 million yuan a day, terminal BG CTO Li Xiaolong said. Cumulative shipments of Huawei folding phones have passed 20 million units, and the company held over 70% of China’s folding phone market in the period.

TREE NEWS update: Huawei said at its 2026 terminal innovation technology briefing on October 13 that its Kirin 9050 chip series has entered mass production, following the launch of the Mate XT 2 tri-fold phone and Mate90 Pro Max. Xu Songyu, head of wireless terminal chip product management at Huawei’s semiconductor business, said cumulative shipments of Kirin-based terminal products have surpassed 100 million units since 2023.

TREE NEWS update: A7 International is advertising a USDT-to-SWIFT payment service charging a 0.3% fee with payouts in four currencies, despite being under sanctions. The company’s public materials do not name the banks that would execute the transfers.

TREE NEWS update: Ledger says wallet implants sold by CryptoBilis transmit recovery phrases over LTE, while leaving the secure chip and operating system untouched. The company added that its Genuine Check cannot rule out this kind of tampering. The warning concerns hardware modified after the point of sale rather than a flaw in Ledger’s own firmware.

TREE NEWS reports: Hedge funds are actively exploring arbitrage opportunities on crypto trading venues, Binance’s VIP head said, pointing to improved market depth, 24/7 trading and weekend price discovery as reasons the trade has become more relevant. The executive did not name specific funds or disclose the size of the opportunities being pursued.

TREE NEWS update: Blur is shutting down its website, a move that has revived criticism of the royalty policies and token rewards that helped the NFT marketplace overtake OpenSea during the NFT boom but hurt creators. NFT collectors have welcomed the closure. The platform has not given a date for the shutdown.

TREE NEWS update: Binance will discontinue its mining pool and related services on Nov. 10, the exchange said, urging miners to migrate to alternative pools before the shutdown. The move ends Binance Pool’s operation as a mining service provider. No reason for the closure was given.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto trader ‘Realist’ reported being robbed at knifepoint at his home in the UK, valuing the loss at about $800,000. Transaction records show the Solana address he identified received nearly 719,000 USDC, which later moved on.

TREE NEWS reports: A dormant Bitcoin wallet holding 4,582 BTC moved $378 million worth of the cryptocurrency after six years of inactivity, onchain data shows. The wallet originally received the coins in March 2020, when the holdings were worth roughly $40.8 million. The transfer marks the first movement from the address since that initial deposit.

TREE NEWS update: Blur will deactivate its blur.io front-end on Nov 12, 2026, while its on-chain marketplace protocol and BLUR token continue to operate. Blend, Blur’s NFT lending protocol, will stop matching new loans the same day, and existing borrowers must repay before then or face default. BLUR fell as low as $0.014, down 15.31% in 24 hours.