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TREE NEWS reports: Wallets associated with early Bitcoin advocate and ShapeShift founder Erik Voorhees spent $97 million to buy 48,647 ETH over the past four days at an average price of $1,994. The wallets still hold $78.68 million in stablecoins and may continue buying.

TREE NEWS reports: Chengdu ranked first among popular destinations in flight orders for travel between Nov. 14 and Nov. 20, Meituan data showed, making it the top choice for family autumn-break trips nationwide. The ranking covers bookings for that travel window. No booking volumes or year-on-year comparisons were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Italy’s data protection authority fined Meta €805 million over the alleged use of Android users’ videos and photos without consent. The regulator announced the penalty against the platform, citing privacy violations tied to the handling of user media. Meta has not commented on the decision in the material provided.

TREE NEWS update: Kava said on November 14 that recent on-chain activity involving cross-chain transfers and sales of KAVA tokens on BSC was not infinite minting, describing the incident as isolated and contained within Kava Lend. Partner exchanges have suspended deposits and withdrawals as a standard precaution, with more information to be released.

TREE NEWS update: Kava said it is tracking abnormal behavior originating from a decentralized application within its ecosystem and has opened a high-priority investigation, with an official update to follow soon. The KAVA token was trading at $0.03679, down 46.51% over 24 hours.

TREE NEWS update: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said its aerospace force air-defense systems intercepted and destroyed a US MQ-1 drone over Qeshm Island on the afternoon of November 14 local time. The IRGC announced the interception on Thursday, giving no further details on the drone’s mission or the circumstances of the engagement.

TREE NEWS update: Thailand launched a new payment app called WORPT that lets foreign tourists convert cryptocurrency into Thai baht and pay at shops and restaurants by scanning locally used barcodes, without opening a Thai bank account. The app was developed by Wipay and Waan Exchange, the latter founded by Chaval Jiaravanon of the Chearavanont family, and operates under the TouristDigiPay regulatory pilot launched by Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission.

TREE NEWS reports: FortiGuard Labs has disclosed an attack campaign targeting internet-exposed Microsoft SQL Server databases, in which attackers brute-forced weak passwords and misconfigurations to gain entry, then enabled xp_cmdshell to plant two payloads: a Monero miner disguised as MicrosoftEdgeUpdate.exe and a Gh0st RAT variant with keylogging and screenshot capabilities. Both payloads persist via registry and scheduled-task modifications. The campaign has been active since early October 2026; victim counts are unconfirmed and no attribution has been made.

TREE NEWS reports: President Donald Trump has told senior advisers he may hold off on a military strike against Iran if the United States is not subjected to any new provocation from Iran or Yemen’s Houthi forces, people familiar with the matter said. The reported guidance indicates the decision remains conditional on whether Washington faces fresh hostile action.

TREE NEWS reports: Goldman Sachs expects the MSCI Asia ex-Japan Index to return 19% in US dollar terms next year, driven by corporate earnings growth even as uncertainty in artificial intelligence may increase market volatility. The bank upgraded China H-shares and Indian equities to overweight while maintaining overweight views on South Korean and Japanese stocks.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto venture capital has been in a slump for nearly two years and is close to a standstill, a decline that Compound general partner Michael Dempsey traces back to 2024. In an Empire podcast interview, Dempsey said developers who once pursued crypto have moved to artificial intelligence, with funding following them, and contrasted the current climate with 2021, when tech founders rushed into crypto. He also flagged structural problems with token incentives, saying tokenization has real potential but token incentives struggle to align long-term interests.

TREE NEWS reports: Santiment ranked Dash first, Chainlink second and HOPR third among privacy-focused crypto projects by GitHub development activity over the past 30 days, in a ranking published on Nov. 13. Zama, NYM, Zcash, Monero, Dusk, Aztec and Anyone completed the top ten. Santiment marked Dash and HOPR as rising from the prior update and Chainlink as slightly lower. The ranking tracks commits and pull requests to measure engineering output.

TREE NEWS update: Strive Inc. (ASST) CEO Matt Cole said on the Pomp Podcast Thursday that the company could survive even if bitcoin fell to one cent, because it carries no debt that could force it to sell its bitcoin. Cole said Strive raised capital only through preferred stock, so there is no price at which its bitcoin would be forcibly liquidated, unlike leveraged bitcoin buying. Strive issues two preferred shares: SATA paying a floating dividend of about 13%, rising to 13.25% in December, and SATS paying a fixed 15% dividend.

TREE NEWS update: Injective’s Veyra mainnet upgrade proposal has drawn support from more than 99% of staked INJ voters, the project said on November 14. If the current trend holds, the proposal will pass in two days. The vote opened earlier, and the upgrade is scheduled for execution on November 24 if approved.

TREE NEWS update: Cloudflare on Nov. 13 open-sourced Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents that runs on Cloudflare Workers without a traditional browser container, the company announced. Kitesurf handles HTML parsing, CSS application, in-page JavaScript execution and webpage screenshot rendering, and supports the Chrome DevTools Protocol so users can drive it with existing tools. It requires no Chromium process or container underneath.

TREE NEWS update: Microsoft confirmed it resolved a global outage that it attributed to a network capacity upgrade issue, stating the disruption was unrelated to cyberattacks or AI agents. The company did not disclose the number of users or services affected or the duration of the incident.

TREE NEWS update: Cursor has published a security incident report on a supply-chain attack that affected up to about 5,000 users. Attackers began with an access key Cursor issued to Fireworks that was later exposed on Fireworks’ side, then moved into some of Cursor’s SaaS and internal systems and poisoned the distribution cache of the Claude Code extension, collecting host information and implanting an SSH backdoor.

TREE NEWS update: Ukraine said it attacked an oil pumping station in Russia’s Samara region. The statement gave no details on damage, casualties or which facility was hit, and Russia has not commented. The claim is the latest in a series of Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy infrastructure.

TREE NEWS update: The National Meteorological Center renewed an orange fog alert at 6 p.m. on Nov. 14, warning of heavy to dense fog across parts of nine provinces and regions including Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Jiangxi and Guangxi from the night of Nov. 14 into the morning of Nov. 15. Visibility in some areas could drop below 50 meters, the center said.