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TREE NEWS update: Japanese discount retailer Mr. Max Holdings said on the 6th that its servers were illegally accessed, putting the data of about 1.73 million members at risk. The exposed information includes membership numbers, names, email addresses and phone numbers, affecting its official app and e-commerce site. The breach is the latest in a wave of personal data leaks in Japan spanning retail, food service, finance, education and logistics.

TREE NEWS update: On-chain investigator ZachXBT said he fronted $349,700 posing as a client to infiltrate alleged Chinese money launderers tied to North Korea’s Lazarus Group and the $1.5 billion Bybit hack. The intelligence he gathered helped freeze funds linked to the hack, he said.

TREE NEWS update: The U.S. Department of Justice filed a new brief targeting Roman Storm’s venue challenge, while his motion for acquittal remains pending and a retrial is scheduled for April 26, 2027. The filing comes as FinCEN drops its proposed rule on crypto mixers. Storm, co-founder of Tornado Cash, was previously convicted on one count of operating an unlicensed money transmitting business.

TREE NEWS update: China Telecom’s key account division said former employee Zheng Jiyan was dismissed on August 31, 2026, after 635 days of unexplained absence starting in 2023, responding to his public实名 accusation against several executives. The division said a 2024 internal review found his claims about an industrial internet big data center project did not match the facts.

TREE NEWS update: The Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ) has executed its first atomic cross-chain L1-to-L2 transaction on mainnet. The milestone marks an initial live implementation of atomic interoperability between Ethereum’s base layer and a Layer 2 network. No further transaction details or figures were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: OKX launched OKX Money, a standalone app for transfers, spending, savings and asset custody, at its OKX NOW summit in Singapore. Built on X Layer with self-custodial smart accounts and round-the-clock digital asset transfers, it is live in more than 30 countries. European users get Aave-backed Pay Boost, which lets funds earn yield while staying spendable.

TREE NEWS reports: US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $90 million in net outflows, reversing two consecutive days of inflows, as Bitcoin fell below $86,000. The largest cryptocurrency is trading roughly 32% below its October 2025 all-time high.

TREE NEWS update: Japan’s cabinet approved additional sanctions on Russia, banning services including operation, maintenance, insurance and financing for 35 vessels in Moscow’s “shadow fleet” used to secretly transport crude oil. Tokyo also added 33 Russian military-related organizations and 9 individuals to its asset-freeze list, including groups involved in using crypto assets to evade financial sanctions.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto analyst Darkfost said Bitcoin has closed above its capital cost basis of about $80,400 for several consecutive weeks, a shift from late August when BTC was still struggling around that level. The metric weights realized price by dollar volume, giving more weight to coins bought at higher prices. Most capital in the market is now slightly profitable, which Darkfost called a positive signal during the current sideways consolidation.

TREE NEWS update: South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb will list the BR and POD tokens on its Korean won market, with trading expected to open at 19:00 local time. The exchange announced the listing in an official notice. No further details on the tokens or trading pairs were provided.

TREE NEWS update: Crypto mining firm Fortitude has secured priority allocation for Bitmain’s next-generation Zcash miners under a non-binding commitment with a potential purchase value of up to $100 million. Delivery of the machines is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2027, subject to final product specifications and pricing arrangements.

TREE NEWS update: An EEZ contributor executed a 0.001 ETH atomic cross-chain transaction, testing a framework designed to connect Ethereum mainnet with its rollups. The test marks a step toward unifying Ethereum’s layer-1 and layer-2 environments under a single transaction flow.

TREE NEWS update: OKX Web3 said at its OKX NOW summit in Singapore that X Layer’s DeFi TVL grew roughly 11x this year and hit a record high in September. Its ExchangeOS product packages matching, risk control, margin and settlement into modular components, and a new proposal, XIP-Exchange OS, will let developers plug into shared trading infrastructure and liquidity. On-chain spot and perpetual markets built on ExchangeOS are set to enter public beta.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto analyst Axel Adler says bitcoin long-term holders have been reducing their positions for seven consecutive weeks as BTC’s price rises, with new demand still absorbing the released supply. The current distribution remains modest next to the roughly 1.07 million BTC long-term holders shed in November 2025. If reductions again reach hundreds of thousands of BTC while prices stall, it may signal weakening absorption capacity.

TREE NEWS update: Arc has open-sourced a USDC borrowing demo application built on its Borrow Kit, letting developers add crypto-collateralized lending to Arc-based apps without writing custom smart contracts or maintaining direct integrations with lending protocols. The demo walks through the full lending flow: discovering markets, sizing a loan, depositing cirBTC as collateral, borrowing USDC, monitoring position health, repaying, and closing the position.

TREE NEWS reports: A whale withdrew 8,088 AAVE, worth $1.46 million, from Coinbase and deposited the tokens to FalconX, on-chain tracker Onchain Lens reported on October 6. The transfer to the institutional trading platform suggests the holder may be preparing to sell the position.