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TREE NEWS reports: An ENA whale deposited 30 million ENA worth $6.98 million to Binance via BitGo after more than a year of inactivity, on-chain tracker Lookonchain said on October 3. The same wallet still holds 157.55 million ENA, valued at $36.74 million.

TREE NEWS reports: Andrew Tate deposited 20,950 HYPE worth $1.87 million to Binance on October 3, on-chain tracker Lookonchain reported. He bought 122,827 HYPE about two years ago at an average price of $4.48, then worth $550,000, and still holds 63,550 HYPE valued at $5.62 million. His total profit on HYPE stands at $7.24 million, a 1,317% return.

TREE NEWS reports: Trader Killa said Bitcoin’s high for the year is $97,000, with prices likely to chop below that level for the rest of 2026. He called the $80,000-$83,000 range critically underappreciated support; a clear break below it could open the way to $74,000-$77,000, the likely capitulation bottom before a run to $97,000. If momentum holds, any pullback may only reach the low $80,000s.

TREE NEWS reports: Solana processed a record 14.2 billion non-vote transactions in the third quarter, up 45% from the second quarter. The figure marks the highest quarterly count of non-vote transactions on the network to date, with the quarter-over-quarter increase reflecting continued growth in on-chain activity.

TREE NEWS update: Genius said Season 2 has officially ended, with 173 million GP distributed against a planned 200 million. Users who opt for a refund will receive 100% of the fees they paid to Genius and forfeit the GP earned during Season 2, and the corresponding GENIUS tokens bought back will be permanently burned. The refund window runs from 00:00 on October 7 to 00:00 on October 12.

TREE NEWS reports: A decline in PUMP eight hours ago triggered liquidations of 707.6 million PUMP tokens across two traders, worth about $3.61 million. The liquidation came as the token’s price fell, forcing the two positions to be closed.

TREE NEWS update: Aave Labs has published an ARFC on the Aave governance forum to establish the Aave Foundation, a Cayman Islands foundation company with no members, that would hold legal title to the Aave trademark, core domains and protocol codebase IP. The foundation would have an independent director and supervisor, with directors appointed and removed only via AIP; DAO decisions on listings, parameters and budgets remain unchanged.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase Chief Accounting Officer Jennifer Jones notified the company on September 29 of her decision to retire. Jones will remain in her role until a successor takes over, and Coinbase has begun a search for her replacement.

TREE NEWS reports: The largest short position on ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) was fully closed 10 hours ago, realizing a loss of $10.98 million. The whale opened the short at $6.5 the day before CXMT’s listing, betting on a decline, but held the position for two months as the price stayed firm and finally exited at $8.5. Of the total loss, $5.18 million came from funding fees and $5.8 million from price movement.

TREE NEWS update: A federal judge ruled that Illinois state licensing rules likely conflict with federal derivatives law in the case brought by Kalshi and Coinbase over sports event contracts. The court left the question of transaction fees unresolved and ordered the parties to propose injunction terms.

TREE NEWS update: WWW AI token launchpad reported that some browsers went intermittently offline while part of its backend was restarted amid a running malfunction and a front-end private key exposure dispute. All browsers are now back online, and Symbients are gradually waking as browser sessions reconnect, the team said on X.

TREE NEWS update: The US Securities and Exchange Commission has approved 3x long ETPs on bitcoin, ether, gold, silver, crude oil and natural gas under the Securities Act of 1933, Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas said in a post on X. The approval covers leveraged long products across the six assets.

TREE NEWS update: Microsoft’s official X account was briefly compromised on Thursday, following an account promoting an unofficial meme coin, reposting its tweets and swapping its avatar to Clippy. The posts were deleted about 30 minutes later and Microsoft confirmed the account was secured, saying it never authorized anyone to use its intellectual property, including Clippy, to promote tokens and plans legal action. The token, CLIPPY, was promoted by the account Clippy MSFT, which touted a liquidity pool worth over $200,000.

TREE NEWS update: Apple is urging iPhone 18 Pro Max users on U.S. carrier AT&T to download a system update. The company issued the call to owners of the device on the AT&T network, directing them to install the update. No further details on the update’s contents or the reason for the carrier-specific notice were provided.

TREE NEWS update: Arbitrum has paused new Stylus contract activations in an emergency security action, while existing active contracts can still run and renew. A new BoLD guard could delay unconfirmed withdrawals if contradictory proofs are accepted.

TREE NEWS update: The Independent Community Bankers of America has sued the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency over its crypto trust chartering regime. The complaint targets Protego’s conditional approval and seeks to block the agency from granting charters under the disputed rule and guidance.

TREE NEWS reports: Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas said on X that Canary has again amended its Pepe ETF filing, calling it another sign the crypto winter may be over. A few months ago the market would not even consider launching a Pepe ETF, but testing the market now feels safer, he said.

TREE NEWS update: USDC Treasury minted 250 million USDC on the Solana blockchain at 00:23:40 Beijing time. The fresh issuance brings the total supply of the Circle-issued stablecoin on Solana higher. No further details on the purpose of the mint were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Bitpanda co-CEO Christian Trummer said most European crypto users now have more confidence in regulated market participants and compliant platforms following the implementation of the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation. He called for stronger MiCA enforcement, saying some firms still serve European clients without holding the required licenses, putting compliant businesses at a competitive disadvantage. The transition period for existing crypto service providers ends July 1 at the latest.