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TREE NEWS update: Bitget has topped up its protection fund back to $200 million, transferring 2,000 BTC worth $166 million from a cold wallet over the past two hours. The fund address now holds 2,484.71 BTC, valued at $206 million.

TREE NEWS update: Telegram’s built-in crypto wallet, Wallet in Telegram, has been renamed Walt and will add a crypto card and AI-driven trading features. The rebrand follows Telegram’s launch of Gram Wallet, aimed at its 1 billion users for buying, sending and transacting in Gram. Gram Wallet targets entry-level daily use, while Walt serves advanced users needing trading, investment, multi-chain assets and cross-chain transfers. No migration of funds, accounts or settings is required.

TREE NEWS update: Kalshi is ending its liquidity incentive program amid wash trading allegations, even as its monthly volume hit an all-time high of $52.98 billion in September as of Sept. 29, with September data still incomplete. The prediction market’s decision follows scrutiny over whether the incentives inflated reported trading activity.

TREE NEWS reports: A whale withdrew another 2,640 ZEC, worth about $3.72 million, from Binance two hours ago. Over the past month the wallet has accumulated 14,190 ZEC, roughly $20 million, through purchases on Binance and Gate.

TREE NEWS update: European stablecoin issuer AllUnity has launched USDAU, a fiat-backed US dollar stablecoin. It is the company’s fourth fiat-backed stablecoin, joining a MiCA-regulated lineup that already covers the euro, Swiss franc and Swedish krona. The launch expands AllUnity’s regulated stablecoin offering in Europe.

TREE NEWS reports: Strive bought 6,106 bitcoin between August 24 and September 25 at an average price of $80,375, spending $490.77 million, on-chain data show. The purchases mark a continued accumulation of the largest cryptocurrency by the company.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin fell below $83,000, trading at $82,986.10, down 0.11% over the past 24 hours. The move marks a fresh intraday low for the largest cryptocurrency.

TREE NEWS update: The SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance published a crypto FAQ on September 25, clarifying how staff applies the March framework to token buybacks, staking receipt tokens, post-launch development and secondary-market platforms. Staff said buybacks announced on a functional network do not constitute a promise of key managerial efforts, but buybacks framed as holder returns on a non-functional network may. The answers are staff opinion, not rules, and carry no legal force.

TREE NEWS reports: Robinhood will offer in-app perpetual futures through its own futures commission merchant via Bitstamp, a move that weighed on Lighter’s LIT token, which is down 22% over seven days. The perps product would run through Robinhood’s own FCM entity with Bitstamp as the venue, putting the US brokerage deeper into crypto derivatives.

TREE NEWS update: Robinhood has launched in-app AI agents that trade crypto and stocks, with trade approvals defaulting to on. A planned Loops feature will let users run recurring strategies around the clock. The company did not disclose a launch date or the models powering the agents.

TREE NEWS update: Omar Kanji, formerly a partner at crypto investment firm Dragonfly, has joined alternative investment manager Brevan Howard as head of growth investments and portfolio manager for its digital assets business, remaining based in New York. Kanji announced his departure from Dragonfly on September 1, ending a four-year tenure there.

TREE NEWS reports: Kalshi is in advanced talks to raise $1 billion at a $40 billion valuation, with Sequoia and Wellington in talks to lead the financing. The round would lift the prediction market’s valuation about 82% above its confirmed May round. No terms have been finalized.

TREE NEWS update: SK Hynix has expanded its outsourced flip-chip packaging of memory semiconductors, adding WINPAC as an OSAT partner after A-PROTECH. WINPAC has completed equipment installation at its P Campus packaging plant and started mass production of DDR4 and DDR5 DRAM. The P Campus line handles DRAM, NAND Flash and eUFS packaging, and recently raised monthly capacity from 44 million to 50 million units.

TREE NEWS update: Former CFTC commissioner Brian Quintenz said the CLARITY Act is not the only path to crypto regulatory certainty, arguing the SEC and CFTC can use their exemptive authority to fill the gap. He made the remarks at Korea Blockchain Week 2026. Quintenz did not specify which exemptions or timelines would apply.

TREE NEWS update: PhotonPay and DFNS announced a partnership on September 30 to upgrade PhotonPay’s global payments infrastructure. The tie-up combines DFNS’s institutional-grade wallet infrastructure and policy engine with PhotonPay’s payment network, letting businesses move between fiat and digital payment rails in cross-border trade. The integration automates the end-to-end transaction lifecycle while maintaining bank-grade security and programmable compliance controls.

TREE NEWS reports: Prediction market Kalshi is in advanced talks to raise a new funding round at a $40 billion valuation, up from the $22 billion it was valued at four months ago. That prior round, which raised $1 billion, had already doubled the company’s valuation from December. No figure for the new raise has been disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: Ethereum co-founder and Consensys founder Joe Lubin said MetaMask is evaluating various paths to issuing a native token, but there is currently no concrete plan for a MASK token. The remarks follow Consensys’s decision to split its operations, separating MetaMask and its institutional business into independent entities.

TREE NEWS reports: Global NFT sales reached about $55.5 million in the seven days to Sept. 26, up 57.17% from $37.54 million the prior week, CryptoSlam data show. Ethereum accounted for over half at $30.33 million, with CryptoPunks the top collection at $8.24 million across 85 sales. Meme-coin trader Ansem said Sept. 28 he is optimistic about an NFT comeback, while Dragonfly’s Haseeb Qureshi argues the 2021 cycle will not return.