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TREE NEWS reports: Pump.fun’s 30-day revenue surpassed Hyperliquid’s, placing it third among protocols at roughly $55.5 million, Defillama data show. The figure covers the trailing 30-day period as of October 4.

TREE NEWS reports: Whale ‘netherlol’ bought 383.34 million PUMP tokens worth about $2.4 million after more than a year of inactivity, on-chain tracker Lookonchain said on October 4. Separately, a newly created wallet, GnZqfY, withdrew 189.22 million PUMP, worth roughly $1.18 million, from MEXC seven hours earlier.

TREE NEWS update: Brazil holds its presidential election on October 4, with the outcome set to shape crypto policy in the world’s top-ranked country for adoption. Incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva faces Flavio Bolsonaro, son of the former president. A Lula win is expected to bring tighter regulation and compliance, with the central bank already intensifying exchange oversight and a possible tax on stablecoin transactions that was shelved during the campaign.

TREE NEWS reports: DWF Labs managing partner Andrei Grachev said that if Trump wins the midterm elections and distributes $5,000 to every adult, the payout would equal 150% of the pandemic-era helicopter money. Some of that money would certainly flow into crypto markets, potentially producing a bull run similar to 2021, he said on October 4.

TREE NEWS update: AQAv2’s treasury wallet made its first payment to Hyperliquid on Oct. 4, paying $14.58 million for the platform’s USDC reserves held over the past 30 days, with the funds directed to the assistance fund to buy HYPE. The payment marks a new revenue stream for Hyperliquid, which now earns from user deposits regardless of trading activity. From Jan. 1 to Sep. 30, Hyperliquid’s perpetual trading volume reached $2 trillion, protocol fee revenue hit $493.3 million, and open interest rose from $7.72 billion to $16.4 billion.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase’s chief commercial officer said the company is working with advisers to six global systemically important banks to increase their bitcoin exposure, seeing it as a way to broaden the market and give individuals more ways to access bitcoin. Global systemically important banks are designated by the Financial Stability Board as institutions whose failure would significantly impact the global financial system.

TREE NEWS update: Porsche announced on October 1 that it is ending its Web3 project and PIONEERS CIRCLE. The PORSCHE 911 NFTs remain in holder wallets and on-chain, the PIONEERS Discord server will become a read-only archive, and the @eth_porsche account has stopped posting. The collection, planned at 7,500 pieces, minted at 0.911 ETH each in January 2023 and ultimately issued 2,363 NFTs. Porsche has announced no burn, buyback, migration or redemption plan; cumulative trading volume is close to $20 million.

TREE NEWS reports: Arkham said it has now identified about 78% of the 847,700 bitcoin held by Strategy, with labeled on-chain assets worth $40.28 billion and another $15.5 billion tagged as held by Fidelity Custody. In that snapshot, Strategy’s bitcoin reserve is valued at $71.4 billion. Arkham first labeled most of the holdings in May 2025; the remainder has not been identified, and Michael Saylor has previously said he would not disclose the addresses.

TREE NEWS update: The SEC is proposing a new rule under the Investment Company Act of 1940 that would allow investment advisers to hold bitcoin and other digital assets directly when no qualified custodian is willing to take them. The agency said traditional custodians typically refuse to custody such assets, leaving a compliance gap in the existing framework. The proposal will open a 60-day public comment period once published in the Federal Register.

TREE NEWS reports: Polymarket’s bitcoin 2026 price prediction market has reached $72.6 million in trading volume, with a reference price of about $84,950. Implied odds put bitcoin’s chance of touching $90,000, $95,000 and $100,000 before 2027 at 73%, 54% and 39%. Kalshi’s year-end bitcoin close market shows roughly $39.5 million in volume and a $86,240 forecast.

TREE NEWS update: Core Lightning says attackers are targeting nodes still running version 26.06.7 or earlier. The 26.06.8 patch, released September 22, fixes a channel-closing issue that could put funds at risk as well as bugs causing crashes and memory exhaustion. The project has not disclosed the name of the exploited vulnerability and has not reported any stolen funds.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin broke above $85,000, changing hands at $85,015.80 per coin. The move represents a gain of 0.18% over the past 24 hours. The world’s largest cryptocurrency by market value crossed the threshold in recent trading.

TREE NEWS reports: Solana’s SOL token broke above 120 USDT and was quoted at 120.01 USDT, up 0.54% over the past 24 hours. The move puts the token just past the 120 USDT level on the exchange’s price feed.

TREE NEWS reports: Chainalysis said it used in-house AI to trace funds stolen in the Sept. 24 Bitget breach, a $387 million hack it attributes to North Korea, tracking the assets across four blockchains. The firm said the incident pushed North Korea’s 2026 crypto haul past $1 billion.

TREE NEWS update: Worldwideweb said cumulative fundraising across its platform’s launches has topped $300,000, with the next phase aimed at tying protocol revenue, agent compute resources and tokens more closely together. Creator fees now fund the continuous operation of its Symbients agents, which the project wants to let hold balances, allocate capital, pay for services, trade, buy back and burn their own tokens. The goal is a network of autonomous artificial lifeforms that fund and manage their own existence.

TREE NEWS reports: Long-dormant Bitcoin addresses transferred 5,419.45 BTC, worth about $457 million, across 94 transactions in September. The total was below August’s 6,427.59 BTC but above July’s, with wallets created in 2016 moving 1,556.53 BTC in 13 transactions and wallets from 2013 moving roughly 888.91 BTC across 26 transactions. About 57 transfers involved coins dormant for 12 to 16 years, and Sept. 6 saw the largest single-day movement at 1,620.39 BTC.

TREE NEWS update: The TRUMP meme coin project is inviting its top 185 holders to a gala dinner with President Trump on Nov. 22. The event comes two weeks after ethics disputes over Trump’s crypto interests helped stall the Clarity Act in the Senate.

TREE NEWS update: NEAR Intents has recovered the entire $3.8 million stolen from the protocol after the exploiter returned the full sum. The funds came back after the exploiter was identified and given 48 hours to respond to an ultimatum. No further details on the attacker’s identity or how the return was arranged were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Pons’s founder said the project’s new buyback mechanism will draw down funds every seven days, with the repurchase and burn completed over the following seven days. The disclosure came alongside a claim that 1.49 billion dollars in TRUMP tokens remains held, while the TRUMP team has cashed out 249 million dollars over eight months. Separately, an analyst flagged bitcoin’s stalled push toward 87,000 dollars, with 82,500 dollars as near-term support.