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TREE NEWS update: Threshold said its tBTC bridge has resumed onchain operations, but the application remains paused while it waits for more operators to reconnect. Aave’s $119.9 million Ethereum Core tBTC reserve remains frozen in the meantime.

TREE NEWS reports: US nonfarm payrolls rose 165,000 in October, far exceeding expectations, and the unemployment rate fell to 4.1%, lifting market bets on a 25-basis-point December rate hike to 80%. The dollar surged on Friday while the Nasdaq rebounded 1% and chip stocks staged a technical rebound. China’s central bank added 830,000 ounces of gold in October, extending its buying streak to 24 months.

TREE NEWS reports: Onchain data reviewed by two experts does not strongly support an insider-trading theory behind “suspicious” election bets reported by The New York Times, casting doubt on the claim that the wagers involved foul play. The review of the blockchain evidence found the transactions did not indicate improper advance knowledge of the election outcome.

TREE NEWS reports: Nasdaq 100 futures fell 0.8% in early Asian trading on Monday, while S&P 500 futures slipped 0.2%. The declines in US equity futures came as the new trading week opened in Asia.

TREE NEWS reports: Vitalik Buterin is pushing Ethereum to embrace a store-of-value narrative, a shift that has drawn criticism from Bitcoin maximalists. The crypto industry faces an uncertain future following the US midterm elections, with market sentiment suffering in the aftermath.

TREE NEWS reports: European natural gas prices rose as much as 2% in early trading on Monday. The move marked a higher open for the region’s gas benchmark at the start of the week. No further details on the drivers were provided.

TREE NEWS update: Reserve Bank of Australia Assistant Governor Hunter said the pass-through of artificial-intelligence demand to the consumer price index is fairly limited, and that AI’s boost to productivity will take several years to materialize. Hunter did not give a timeline for the productivity effect or specify which CPI components are most exposed.

TREE NEWS reports: Between Oct. 1 and Nov. 8, 288 foreign institutions conducted 1,237 research visits to A-share companies, focusing on computing hardware, power-grid equipment, testing services, energy storage and high-end equipment. JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and UBS have issued bullish views on the A-share market, while BlackRock and Franklin Templeton appeared on research lists for multiple A-share companies. Institutions focused on earnings delivery and valuation attractiveness after pullbacks.

TREE NEWS reports: Companies on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange disclosed 305 buyback and share-purchase filings in November so far, including 35 new buyback plans with a combined maximum value of 7.666 billion yuan and 16 new insider-buying plans capped at 2.588 billion yuan. The exchange also recorded 238 buyback progress announcements and 16 insider-buying updates, as firms moved to signal confidence with cash.

TREE NEWS reports: AVAX dropped 28% over the past four weeks, underperforming bitcoin’s 11.3% decline and ether’s 16% drop over the same period. The move reverses AVAX’s earlier relative outperformance against the two larger tokens.

TREE NEWS update: Meta plans to launch its Muse AI assistant in the UK within the coming weeks and will announce partnerships with several retailers, with Meta executives flying to the UK for the launch event. The company did not specify a launch date or name the retail partners.

TREE NEWS reports: Forty-eight Hong Kong-listed companies have granted underwriters greenshoe options so far this year, with net proceeds from over-allotment totaling 28.47 billion yuan, Wind data show. That exceeds the full-year 2025 figure, when 45 companies used the mechanism and raised a net 24.198 billion yuan. The greenshoe, or over-allotment option, lets underwriters stabilize post-listing prices by selling extra shares.

TREE NEWS reports: Chinese banks are launching a wave of green credit products including carbon-reduction loans and climate loans, using carbon-efficiency data, weather assessments and ecological asset quantification to bypass traditional collateral requirements. The products offer differentiated credit lines and preferential pricing to mobilize low-carbon and ecological resources, shifting the focus of green finance from scale expansion to quality improvement.

TREE NEWS update: China releases October CPI and PPI at 09:30 Beijing time, the first in a day of global economic indicators. Germany posts September trade data at 15:00, followed by the eurozone’s November Sentix investor confidence index at 17:30. In the US, September wholesale sales are due at 23:00, alongside remarks from Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee; New York Fed one-year inflation expectations follow at midnight, with Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin and Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey speaking early Wednesday.

TREE NEWS update: The National Meteorological Center maintained a blue cold wave alert for Nov 9-10, 2026, with temperatures in eastern Hunan, most of Jiangxi, southeastern Anhui, northeastern Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, southern Sichuan, most of Yunnan, eastern and western Guangxi, Guangdong and Fujian expected to drop 6-8°C. Parts of eastern Jiangxi, southern Zhejiang and Fujian will see 8-10°C declines, with local drops of 10-12°C. The 0°C minimum-temperature line will push south to southern Shaanxi, southern North China and southeastern Huang-Huai by the morning of Nov 10.

TREE NEWS reports: Chinese listed companies have scaled back their overall purchases of wealth management products this year, while the allocation mix is shifting away from structured deposits toward yield-enhancing tools such as broker-issued income certificates. Industry participants describe the change as a move from passive savings toward active allocation, rebalancing across safety, liquidity and return. The overall subscription scale has contracted, with structured deposits — previously the anchor holding — shrinking markedly.

TREE NEWS update: The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant lost all external power on the 8th after the Ferroalloy-1 transmission line was damaged, forcing it to switch to emergency diesel generators. Repair crews restored the line the same day, and external power supply to the plant has been reconnected.

TREE NEWS reports: Explosions were heard in southern Iran’s Qeshm Island and other areas on the evening of the 8th local time. Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported that Qeshm Island was attacked by US forces that night, while blasts in Bandar Abbas and Sirik were unrelated to the strike and tied to Iranian actions to maintain security and exercise legitimate management rights over the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian officials have not yet responded.

TREE NEWS reports: New private securities fund registrations in China surpassed last year’s full-year total by the end of October, rising more than 20% year on year. Stock-strategy products accounted for 66% of new registrations, while private funds bought over 2.5 billion yuan of their own products as of November 8.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto futures liquidations across major exchanges reached $745 million in the hour to 06:21, with long positions accounting for $715 million and shorts $29.62 million, CoinGlass data show. About 137,000 traders were liquidated in the past 24 hours, with ETH and BTC losses at $343 million and $229 million respectively. The largest single liquidation was a $48.16 million ETH/USDT order on Binance, as BTC fell 1.52% to $74,643 and ETH dropped 4.52% to $2,132.8.