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TREE NEWS reports: Arbitrum’s active addresses reached 1.09 million on Oct. 28, a 30-day high. Transactions rose far less than addresses over the same period, while user-paid fees stayed close to the preceding week’s median.

TREE NEWS update: Utah Attorney General Derek Brown filed criminal charges against prediction market Kalshi and its executives Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara, alleging they promoted online gambling. The charges target the company and both named individuals over its operations in the state.

TREE NEWS update: Stellar has launched a new execution model called Project Thruput, now live on FutureNet. Early benchmarks show the model processing 7.02 million payments per second by scaling across multiple machines. The figure reflects testnet results rather than mainnet capacity.

TREE NEWS update: Beijing’s Haidian District Market Supervision Administration has fined a technology company 930,000 yuan in the Chinese capital’s first case of assisting a pyramid scheme using blockchain and virtual currency technology. The company, an outsourcing service provider for a public chain, continued to supply technical operations, marketing and exchange access even though it should have known the chain hosted pyramid-scheme applications. The chain ran recruitment-reward programs that paid based on the number of people recruited.

TREE NEWS update: A technology company acting as an outsourced service provider for a public blockchain was fined and had assets confiscated totaling more than 930,000 yuan ($130,000) by the Haidian District Market Supervision Administration in Beijing for providing conveniences to pyramid scheme activities, in the city’s first such case involving blockchain and virtual currency. The blockchain’s “Atomic Plan” and “Hathaway Plan” were pyramid schemes centered on recruitment-based rebates, and public security authorities have criminally detained the organizers.

TREE NEWS update: Sinochem Oil Sales and Shidai Dianfu, a wholly owned subsidiary of CATL, signed a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly develop and operate charging and battery-swap stations. Sinochem Oil Sales will provide sites, government-enterprise coordination and customer resources, while Shidai Dianfu will handle station construction, battery equipment installation and maintenance, and market operations.

TREE NEWS update: Shopify has extended Shop Pay to AI agents and off-platform checkouts, allowing agents to complete purchases at retailers outside Shopify without those merchants adding a new integration. Payments are made using single-use card credentials, the company said. The move lets third-party AI shopping agents transact at external stores through Shopify’s existing payment rails.

TREE NEWS update: Gate US has enabled trading with USD balances and launched USD Wire deposit and withdrawal services, letting users hold dollars in their accounts without converting to stablecoins. Verified users in eligible regions can move large sums via their own US bank accounts using a dedicated reference code, with limits above standard card or in-app transfers. The exchange holds 37 state money transmitter licenses and serves 47 states and territories, though the service is unavailable in Colorado, Hawaii, Missouri, New Jersey, Utah and Wyoming.

TREE NEWS reports: A single whale sold 1.02 million SOL over the past five days, a haul worth $104 million. The size of the disposal makes it one of the larger single-entity SOL sell-downs tracked in recent sessions, though the identity of the wallet was not disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Agent ID registrations tied to Binance’s Agentic Wallet passed 100,000 on Oct. 26, linking on-chain agents to user accounts and opening the door to autonomous trading. Binance’s Agentic Hub now spans infrastructure, on-chain monitoring, automated execution and asset trading, including tokenized securities, prediction markets, x402 payments and DeFi operations. BSC launchpads including Flap, Four.Meme, Pathtrade, Nonce Protocol and gang.fun have rolled out Agent-themed token issuance.

TREE NEWS update: Douyin Group Vice President Li Liang said on Weibo on Oct. 29 that short dramas and traditional film and television differ only in medium and format, not in essence, and that neither is inherently better. He said content quality is the core of short dramas and expressed hope that players can compete in the open.

TREE NEWS reports: Singapore police have recorded at least $2.7 million in losses tied to tampered Ledger hardware wallets, with at least two cases in a reporting window beginning Sept. 10. Ledger issued a public alert about the issue on Oct. 9. The figure covers reported losses from wallets that had been compromised through tampering.

TREE NEWS update: Singapore police say tampered Ledger wallets have cost users in the country $2.7 million, with at least two cases reported as early as Sept. 10 — nearly a month before the wider incident became public. The figure covers losses tied to compromised hardware wallets.

TREE NEWS reports: An exploit on the zkLink Nova bridge drained about $779,000 in a single transaction after a forged batch root enabled unauthorized withdrawals, Blockaid warned. The main Ethereum escrow contract still showed an unpaused status following the alert, leaving the bridge’s escrowed funds exposed.

TREE NEWS update: Wuhan Archimedes Semiconductor Co. added CATL and Hanxing Venture Capital, a Xiaomi-affiliated investment firm, as shareholders in a recent business registration change, corporate registry data from Qichacha shows. The company, incorporated in January 2026, covers integrated circuit design, manufacturing and sales, plus chip design and product manufacturing.

TREE NEWS update: Allium has disclosed a security breach and revoked API keys, the blockchain data platform said. Core services are back online, but access to uploaded data remains disabled and gaps in some data feeds are still being filled. The company did not specify the scope of the incident or how many keys were revoked.

TREE NEWS update: Alipay said it does not support cryptocurrency trading after Peer’s beta launch listed Alipay as a payment method. Peer’s website still displays Alipay as a payment option, while its buyer guide states the two companies have no official partnership. The denial follows the beta debut of Peer, which the payment giant says is not affiliated with it.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin is facing renewed pressure after the Federal Reserve held rates with a hawkish tone, with traders now pricing a 78% chance of a December rate hike. Analysts say Treasury yields, the US dollar and upcoming inflation data will determine Bitcoin’s next move.

TREE NEWS update: Bitcoin Core has released fixes for three bugs, including one that could crash nodes running on non-Linux systems, with patches available in four release branches. A separate low-severity flaw still affects 32-bit systems and FAT32 storage, leaving them exposed. The disclosure did not specify which versions were impacted or when the fixes were published.