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TREE NEWS update: Strive purchased 2,000 bitcoin and now holds 29,462 BTC, the bitcoin treasury company said. CEO Matt Cole said 61.5% of the capital the company raised came from its SATA preferred stock. Strive also disclosed a buyback facility for that preferred stock.

TREE NEWS reports: Tom Lee’s Bitmine added 15,112 ETH in its second straight week of slower ether purchases, bringing its treasury to 6,016,414 ETH — roughly 89,000 short of owning 5% of ether’s supply. Lee pointed to a 21 million share buyback this year.

TREE NEWS update: Tokyo-listed bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet sold and then repurchased its bitcoin, saying the round trip was intended to show credit rating agencies and bond investors that it is willing to sell when needed. The company did not disclose the size of the sale or the price at which it repurchased the coins.

TREE NEWS update: Metaplanet unveiled a revised capital allocation framework that would allow it to commit as much as 15% of total assets to strategic investments, with the proceeds used to fund its Bitcoin accumulation. The Japanese-listed company said the new structure is designed to support its ongoing BTC purchases. No timeline or specific investment targets were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: TSMC shares rose as much as 1.7% to a fresh record high, lifting the chipmaker’s total market capitalization to $2.5 trillion. The intraday gain extended the Taiwanese semiconductor giant’s run as one of the world’s most valuable listed companies.

TREE NEWS reports: Cerebras shares rose 10.8% after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described the company as a close partner of OpenAI. Altman’s remark was the catalyst for the stock move. No further terms or details of the partnership were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: The iShares MSCI Brazil ETF (EWZ) opened 12% higher. The sharp opening gain marks a strong start for the Brazil-focused exchange-traded fund.

TREE NEWS reports: US stocks opened mixed, with the Dow down 0.13%, the S&P 500 up 0.08% and the Nasdaq up 0.13%. Intel fell nearly 3%, while TSMC rose more than 1% after reports it is in talks with Elon Musk’s Terafab over a potential collaboration. Vaxcyte surged 53% after its pneumococcal vaccine met late-stage clinical trial goals.

TREE NEWS reports: US stocks opened mixed on October 5, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.12%, the Nasdaq Composite up 0.06% and the S&P 500 up 0.05%. The modest moves left all three major indexes near flat shortly after the opening bell.

TREE NEWS reports: Brazil’s small-cap stock index surged 9.3%, its largest single-day advance since March 2020. The move marks the sharpest one-day rally for Brazilian small-cap equities in more than five years.

TREE NEWS update: Bitmine purchased 15,112 ETH, Chairman Tom Lee said, noting Ethereum outperformed the S&P 500 by 6,832 basis points in the third quarter. Lee said ether is “dwarfing other macro assets.” The disclosure links the treasury company’s ether accumulation to its chairman’s bullish macro framing.

TREE NEWS update: Strategy purchased 334 Bitcoin for $28.7 million last week, while spending $176.3 million to repurchase roughly 1.77 million shares of STRC, its preferred stock. The company allocated more than six times as much capital to the STRC buyback as it did to adding Bitcoin during the period.

TREE NEWS update: Strategy is proposing to pay daily dividends on its US-listed preferred shares (NASDAQ: STRF, STRC, STRK and STRD) for every calendar day, including weekends and holidays, with payment on the next business day. The proposal is subject to a shareholder vote running from October 5 to October 28. If approved, STRC’s first record and payment dates would be November 1 and November 2, while STRF, STRK and STRD would follow on January 1 and January 4, 2027.

TREE NEWS reports: Strategy reported a $21 billion third-quarter gain and bought another $29 million in Bitcoin, lifting its holdings to a record 848,000 BTC. The company also repurchased $176 million of its STRC preferred stock. The quarterly gain is a fair-value mark that carries $1.88 billion in deferred tax.

TREE NEWS update: Citigroup is cutting its investment banking analyst training program to two years, shortening the traditional stint for junior bankers. The change applies to the bank’s investment banking analysts. No further details on the timing or scope of the rollout were given.

TREE NEWS update: Strategy purchased 334 bitcoin for $28.7 million, bringing its total holdings above 848,000 BTC. The company’s stack accounts for roughly 4% of bitcoin’s 21 million supply cap and is worth about $73 billion.

TREE NEWS reports: Metaplanet sold 10,000 BTC during the third quarter before buying back 11,000 BTC, the company said, a move it framed as a way to ‘demonstrate liquidity.’ The transactions left the Tokyo-listed bitcoin treasury firm with a net addition of 1,000 BTC for the quarter, bringing its total holdings to 44,000 BTC.

TREE NEWS update: Metaplanet sold 10,000 bitcoin and bought back 11,000, CEO Simon Gerovich said, after rating agencies questioned whether a bitcoin company would actually sell when obligations fall due. “We answered by doing it,” Gerovich said. The Japanese bitcoin treasury firm executed the sale and repurchase to demonstrate it can meet its obligations.

TREE NEWS reports: Hong Kong’s stock exchange hosted 115 IPOs in the first three quarters of 2025, raising a combined HK$385.566 billion. That is a 69.12% rise in listing numbers and a 105.18% jump in proceeds year on year, already surpassing all of last year’s total. Hong Kong ranked second globally for IPO fundraising behind Nasdaq, with three new listings among the world’s ten largest this year.

TREE NEWS update: Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich said the company sold bitcoin in the third quarter to retire outstanding principal on bonds, loans and other interest-bearing debt, then repurchased more than it sold for a net increase of 1,000 BTC. As of Sept. 30, Metaplanet holds 44,000 BTC, making it the world’s second-largest listed bitcoin treasury company. The firm also launched a net interest income strategy aimed at building recurring revenue and lowering its cost of capital.