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TREE NEWS reports: Hyperliquid held as much resting liquidity as the median of Binance, Bybit and OKX on four of five crypto assets and cost less to trade. The remaining execution gap sits in how venues price stocks and commodities when the underlying market is closed.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin has entered October, historically its strongest month, following a record-pace September. A Federal Reserve rate hike and 5.3% Treasury yields are now testing bullish sentiment. The month is colloquially known as ‘Uptober’ among traders.

TREE NEWS update: Ethereum Improvement Proposal 8363, which would have burned staking rewards, has been withdrawn from the Hegota upgrade, co-author Jérôme de Tychey said. De Tychey said industry participants and core contributors convinced him that a scoping process was the wrong venue for an issuance change.

TREE NEWS update: The SEC proposed new rules and amendments to create a tailored framework for the custody of crypto assets by registered investment advisers and regulated funds, including registered investment companies and business development companies. The proposal sets out how those entities could hold digital assets under the federal securities laws.

TREE NEWS update: Drift has opened claims for DFX, with a recovery pool covering roughly 1% of losses. Redeeming burns the tokens and ends holders’ claim on future deposits. Holders can instead wait for revenue-funded recovery or sell their DFX.

TREE NEWS update: New York and Wyoming state regulators signed an agreement to coordinate oversight of digital asset firms. The pact lets the two states share supervisory information, streamline licensing reviews and coordinate examinations and enforcement actions involving crypto companies. The arrangement links New York’s established crypto regime with Wyoming’s crypto-friendly framework.

TREE NEWS update: NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin said NEAR Intents and near.com have been restored after a roughly $3.8 million attack, though a few affected networks remain restricted. The exploit stemmed from a vulnerability in the interaction between Omni deposit and withdrawal infrastructure and NEAR Intents smart contracts, with losses confined to USDT on BSC. NEAR’s core protocol, the NEAR token and other applications were unaffected, and affected users will be fully compensated.

TREE NEWS reports: US bond yields fell sharply around Thursday’s Wall Street open, pulling back from new 24-year highs. Bitcoin price action sought to preserve a local trend of higher lows during the same session, with the cryptocurrency fighting to keep its short-term uptrend intact. No specific price levels or yield figures were given.

TREE NEWS update: Polymarket introduced a suite of user-protection and responsible-trading tools, including voluntary self-exclusion and deposit limits, the prediction market said on October 1. Users can opt out of the platform for 30 days, one year or permanently, while US users can set daily, weekly or monthly deposit limits. Polymarket also launched a Trust & Safety Center and will expand the team behind community rules, content moderation and market safety.

TREE NEWS update: Arkham said it has labeled Robinhood’s wallets across 12 blockchains, including the Bitcoin network and Robinhood Chain, holding roughly $24.96 billion in crypto assets. The holdings include 185,185 BTC worth about $15.59 billion and roughly $2.88 billion in DOGE. The disclosure, dated October 1, covers the exchange’s on-chain addresses identified by the analytics platform.

TREE NEWS reports: Visa said roughly 17% of its stablecoin-linked card transaction volume in fiscal 2026 to date comes from business and commercial card programs. The payments giant now supports more than 160 stablecoin-linked card programs, with related payment volume up nearly 200% year over year. Visa said businesses are exploring stablecoins for settlement, treasury management, payouts and cross-border commercial transactions.

TREE NEWS update: NEAR Intents has suffered a $3.8 million exploit stemming from a bug affecting deposits and withdrawals, the platform said, following its assistance with the Bitget breach. NEAR Intents said it will compensate users affected by the hack.

TREE NEWS update: Near Intents halted its cross-chain swaps after a bug allowed an attacker to drain about $3.8 million, the project said days after it denied claims that a North Korea-linked hacker tied to Bitget was involved. The company said it will repay every affected user. No further details on the exploit or a timeline for repaying users were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Reddit will shut down RSS feed support on November 13, saying RSS has become a common entry point for large-scale scraping and automated abuse. The company also plans to close its public API in March 2027, pushing developers and third-party apps to migrate to its Developer Platform. Reddit said it will gradually limit new public API requests to tighten control over data scraping and abuse.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto futures liquidations across exchanges totaled $164 million over the past 24 hours, with long positions accounting for $107 million and shorts $57.4 million, CoinGlass data show. Bitcoin liquidations reached $23.94 million and Ether $21.34 million. The largest single liquidation order was a $3.14 million HYPERLIQUID-ZEC-USD position.

TREE NEWS update: Monad released a teaser video on Oct 1 saying “Privacy is coming,” hinting at a privacy-related service launch on Oct 6. The token MON rose more than 17% intraday to about $0.0324 following the teaser.

TREE NEWS reports: The attacker behind the NEAR Intents security breach has transferred about $3.865 million in stolen funds to KuCoin and swapped them cross-chain into BTC, PeckShield monitoring shows. PeckShield said the attack address has been identified and a related address is flagged as suspected of ties to North Korea’s Lazarus Group. NEAR Intents previously disclosed preliminary losses of about $3.8 million, which it will fully reimburse.

TREE NEWS update: Shareholders of Armada Acquisition Corp. II approved the merger with Evernorth, clearing the XRP treasury company’s path to a Nasdaq debut. Evernorth expects to hold roughly 473 million XRP. The deal is valued at $1 billion.