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TREE NEWS reports: The Crypto Fear and Greed Index has dropped to 56, down from an August peak of 82, as oil prices, bond yields and ETF outflows weighed on Bitcoin in October. The reading marks a return to pre-rally August lows for the sentiment gauge.

TREE NEWS update: Ledger said all confirmed cases in a suspected $87 million drain are tied to reseller CryptoBilis, adding that its own systems and direct sales are unaffected. The wallet manufacturer also said CryptoBilis has stopped selling hardware wallets.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin fell 2.2% after failing to hold above $84,000 into the Wall Street open, pressured by rising oil prices as strikes involving Ukraine and Iran pushed crude toward a one-month high. The largest cryptocurrency stayed rangebound through the session, with the geopolitical escalation in energy markets weighing on risk assets.

TREE NEWS update: Ledger says all confirmed cases of the theft trace back to reseller CryptoBilis, and gave no total loss figure. Onchain trackers put the theft between $93.2 million and $103.4 million, while Bitquery says the thief moved USDC out of five wallets before any freeze took effect.

TREE NEWS update: The Derive Foundation has proposed treasury funding for a push into US-regulated derivatives, a plan that would give it authority to pursue regulatory approvals and to establish or acquire entities. The proposal sets no spending amount and no launch date, leaving the scope of the funding and the timing of any US-regulated derivatives offering undefined.

TREE NEWS reports: Tom Lee’s Bitmine Immersion Technologies bought 12,532 ether last week, its third straight weekly decline in purchases, bringing its holdings to just under 5% of Ethereum’s total supply. The company’s total ether position fell to $16.2 billion as the price of ether declined.

TREE NEWS update: ENS Labs has posted an executable proposal to the Ethereum Name Service DAO asking it to switch on ENSv2 and temporarily freeze new .eth registrations on v1. Under the plan, .eth sign-ups would pause for what Labs expects to be a few hours before reopening on ENSv2, while existing names keep working with no action required from holders.

TREE NEWS update: Strategy repurchased $192 million of its Stretch preferred stock, about nine times the amount it spent on bitcoin last week, leaving $354.8 million remaining of its $2 billion buyback authorization. The company, led by Michael Saylor, has been raising capital through preferred stock sales while continuing to accumulate bitcoin.

TREE NEWS reports: NEXTPredict paid $12,000 to hedge its conference on a prediction market, shifting its focus to flight cancellations rather than scrapped shows and what happens inside the venue. The company used event insurance via prediction market to cover the risk.

TREE NEWS reports: An integer overflow in the XRP Ledger’s payment engine, dormant since 2015, could have allowed an attacker to mint spendable XRP beyond the token’s total supply. The flaw affected the ledger’s core payment processing code. No exploit of the bug has been disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Sui is backing DATA with $30 million as the network plans to retire its own chain, with DATA balances set to carry over one-for-one onto Sui. Support for validator staking and smart contracts on the chain formerly known as Story will wind down. No timeline for the migration was given.

TREE NEWS reports: THORChain’s seven-day fee total has climbed back above its pre-surge week, but remains 84% below the September peak. Fees had plunged 91% during Oct. 2–8. The rebound leaves the protocol’s revenue well short of its prior high.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto futures liquidations across exchanges totaled $348 million in the past 24 hours, with $195 million in long positions and $152 million in shorts, CoinGlass data shows. Bitcoin liquidations reached $83.56 million and Ethereum $76.46 million. The single largest liquidation was a $4.89 million HYPERLIQUID-BTC-USD order.

TREE NEWS update: Pando will list its spot Solana ETF in Hong Kong on Oct. 13, charging a 0.60% annual management fee. The fund adds another option alongside ChinaAMC’s Solana ETF, which held $8.58 million at the end of August.

TREE NEWS update: SkyAI is selling half of its SOL treasury and plans a $201 million cash buyback. The proposed $3-per-security offer targets 95% of eligible shares and warrants, with a condition that SOL’s closing price stays above $100 during the offer period.

TREE NEWS reports: A buyer has reported a second tampered Ledger device, this one purchased from MediaMarkt, and is calling for a recall. The buyer named distributor Aqipa and said the device is being sent to Ledger for analysis. Ledger Support maintains that confirmed cases so far involve CryptoBilis.

TREE NEWS reports: DeFi Development Corp. added 22,070 SOL last week, lifting its total holdings to 2.59 million SOL, a 12% increase. The company’s CHAD preferred stock hit record highs despite a broader selloff.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin broke below its roughly $82,500 box lower boundary on Oct. 8, touching a low of $80,400 before rebounding above the support on shrinking volume. The rebound is being treated as a pullback confirmation, with the Sept. 21 high of $87,399 likely marking the end of the five-wave bounce. HYPE also fell 4.82% on Oct. 8, breaking its two-month rising channel.

TREE NEWS update: Nasdaq-listed TROOPS Inc. (TROO) said it signed a conditional share purchase agreement to acquire EFFORCE Group, a blockchain, digital asset and sustainability firm founded by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Wozniak will retain an equity stake in EFFORCE as a shareholder after the deal closes. TROOPS said the combination will build a digital asset infrastructure platform spanning technology, regulatory compliance, business development and market channels.

TREE NEWS reports: Trader Killa said Bitcoin bulls need to step in around the $80,000 area, warning that a failure to hold the level could send BTC down to $76,000-$78,000. The coin had broken above its trading range and is now retesting that structure; a drop back below without recovery would signal a failed breakout and structural damage. Roughly $2 billion in liquidations have already occurred, so another sharp sell-off would point to weakness rather than a healthy correction.