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TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin ETFs extended their inflow streak to eight straight days on Monday, adding $2.95 billion over the past 30 days. The rebound follows a sell-off tied to the Clarity Act. The funds have now posted consecutive daily net inflows for more than a week.

TREE NEWS update: Privacy chain Zano has deployed a hotfix and rolled its block height back to 3,833,000, erasing 30 days of confirmed transactions after an inflation exploit last Friday. The team said third-party wallets, exchanges and payment providers must update their nodes to the revised chain before ZANO and Zano-issued asset transfers can safely resume. ZANO has fallen 32% this week and 40.6% year-to-date in 2026.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitget CEO Gracy Chen said a group impersonating a well-known investment firm’s team approached her on Monday, shortly after the exchange suffered a hack. Speaking on Unchained, Chen said she caught the scam by verifying with the firm’s leader through a separate channel. She did not name the firm or say whether the approach was tied to the breach.

TREE NEWS update: US Representative James Comer has expanded a congressional probe to Crypto.com, Hyperliquid and PredictIt, seeking records on government insiders, employee trades and suspicious activity referrals. The inquiry focuses on identity checks and suspicious trades at the three platforms. No findings or responses from the companies were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: Prediction market Kalshi is in talks with existing and new investors to raise about $1 billion in new funding at a valuation of roughly $40 billion. The company has not disclosed terms or a closing date. The round, if completed, would mark a sharp jump in Kalshi’s valuation.

TREE NEWS reports: Uphold released research showing 75% of American banks have blockchain finance programs underway, with 22% of projects live or scaling and another 53% piloting or assessing specific use cases. The findings point to rapid adoption of blockchain by US banks seeking faster, cheaper and better financial services.

TREE NEWS update: Bitwise’s spot NEAR ETF began trading on NYSE Arca, the first such US product for the token. The launch comes as NEAR has rallied more than 160% over the past month, with activity on NEAR Intents also growing.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin is up 7.33% in September, edging past 2024 to become the best September on record, with one day left before the monthly candle closes. The gain marks a break from the asset’s historical pattern of September losses, a stretch traders have called the “Red September curse.”

TREE NEWS reports: DeFi researcher Ignas said on X that tokenomics innovation, which he had feared had stalled, is in fact returning as the crypto industry tries to give tokens real value. The analysis, posted on September 30, argues that new designs are being tested rather than abandoned. Ignas did not name specific projects or tokens in the post.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin failed to make another run at $85,000, with sellers holding the line above current levels, while surging US bond yields weighed on stocks and precious metals. Long-term holder supply kept the $85,000 mark out of reach as the advance stalled.

TREE NEWS update: Morgan Stanley has opened a digital asset lab to test DeFi vaults outside its core systems. The executive said DeFi vaults are a focus of the new lab and called the technology too nascent to put on the bank’s platform untested. The lab operates separately from Morgan Stanley’s production infrastructure.

TREE NEWS reports: ITC Crypto founder Benjamin Cowen pushed back on bearish fourth-quarter calls for bitcoin on Sept. 30, noting BTC is now less than 1% below its May high. He said the market’s technical setup favors bulls, and that while past breaks above the 50-week moving average in 2019 and 2023 produced 20%-30% gains within one to two weeks, this cycle has been milder, likely due to seasonality and rising US Treasury yields.

TREE NEWS update: Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission said licensed virtual asset trading platform DFX Labs Company Limited reported four websites, including “dfx[.]cn” and “dfxcn[.]com”, as fraudulent. The regulator has added the sites to its list of suspicious virtual asset trading platforms. The SFC published the notice on September 30.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitget CEO Gracy Chen said she is ‘not very optimistic’ about recovering funds lost in the exchange’s $388 million security breach, noting only a small percentage had been frozen or recovered. Chen cited the 2025 Bybit hack as a ‘good reference point’ for Bitget’s own incident.

TREE NEWS reports: Veteran trader Peter Brandt said bitcoin has likely bottomed for this cycle and entered a new bull market, raising his cycle-top forecast to $300,000-$600,000 by late 2029 from a prior $250,000-$300,000. He said a $500,000 price is “very possible,” but warned of a possible early-October pullback to $65,000-$66,000 to flush out late buyers. Brandt also called XRP a “fool coin,” saying its payment use and Ripple’s bank partners do not guarantee higher value.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin’s weeks-long rally has lost momentum as fresh macroeconomic uncertainty pressures risk assets, after President Trump rejected Iran’s latest proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Markets are also digesting the Federal Reserve’s rate hike and preparing for another possible increase in October. Bitcoin has gained 28% since August 19 and remains on track for its best quarterly performance since the fourth quarter of 2024.

TREE NEWS reports: Jeffrey Huang, known as “Machi Big Brother,” has fully closed his PUMP long position for a profit of about $827,000. 30. His remaining positions are a 25x long on 35,182 ETH with $278,000 unrealized gain, a 40x long on 450 BTC down $347,000, and a 10x long on 225,000 HYPE down $1.255 million.

TREE NEWS update: Alpaca Securities Pte. Ltd., the Southeast Asia headquarters of US brokerage infrastructure firm Alpaca, has received in-principle approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore for a Capital Markets Services license. Once conditions are met and the license is formally granted, the company plans to offer brokerage and custody services in Singapore to financial institutions and fintech firms across Southeast Asia. Alpaca noted the in-principle approval is not a full license and services cannot yet be offered on that basis.

TREE NEWS update: Aztec Labs has relaunched zk.money, a self-custodial privacy wallet, on the Aztec Network. The original zk.money product was discontinued in 2023. The relaunch brings the privacy wallet back on Aztec’s Ethereum Layer 2.

TREE NEWS update: European ETF issuer HANetf has launched the Arrow Bitcoin EUR Hedged ETC (ticker: EBTC), billed as the world’s first euro-hedged bitcoin exchange-traded commodity. HSBC provides the currency hedging, which aims to give euro investors bitcoin exposure while reducing risk from euro-dollar exchange-rate swings. The product was announced on September 29.