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TREE NEWS update: Robinhood Crypto said token swaps of more than $0.50 made through Robinhood Wallet on Robinhood Chain will carry no gas fees, with the promotion running until Dec. 31, 2026. Specific eligibility conditions are set out in the official rules. The waiver applies to swaps executed on the company’s own chain via its self-custody wallet.

TREE NEWS update: Project Eleven has acquired Riva Labs, folding Riva’s work on hash-based signatures, MPC and hardware signing into its own operations. The quantum security startup is building tools to move crypto networks onto quantum-resistant cryptography. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is expanding the panel’s prediction-market investigation to Hyperliquid Labs, Crypto.com and PredictIt owner Aristotle Exchange, seeking identity-verification and suspicious-trading records. The request marks a widening of the congressional probe beyond the platforms initially targeted. No response from the three firms was disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has asked Hyperliquid, Crypto.com and PredictIt for records on identity checks and trade surveillance, citing reports of a Hyperliquid short placed before an October 2025 tariff announcement became public. The requests are part of a congressional insider-trading probe into the three platforms.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase has added HYPE and ZEC as collateral for loans of up to $100,000, with the Morpho-powered borrowing product running on Base. The offering is available to eligible US users outside New York.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin traded near $84,000 on Tuesday, sitting close to the price range of Glassnode’s largest long-term holder cost-basis cluster. Analysts said the level is being tested as leverage in the market clears.

TREE NEWS update: Bitwise has launched NRR, the first US spot NEAR exchange-traded product, which charges a 0.75% fee and stakes its NEAR holdings in-house. Staking rewards are passed through to shareholders via net asset value. The listing marks the first US spot ETF tied to the NEAR token.

TREE NEWS update: Sentora has proposed launching Aave V4 markets on Ethereum that would lend RLUSD, PYUSD and OUSD, offering the Aave DAO a 50% revenue share. Under the plan, Sentora would control risk outside the mandate of Aave’s risk service providers.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin traded around $84,000 as US Treasury yields held near multi-year highs, with analysts pointing to elevated crude prices as a cap on non-yielding assets. Spot bitcoin ETFs recorded inflows for an eighth consecutive session.

TREE NEWS update: Modveon has unveiled Sivar, a government-backed app for dollar transfers built on Base, using self-custodial wallets. The app charges a $2 cross-border processing fee, separate from funding and cash-withdrawal charges. The launch puts a state-linked payments product on a public blockchain network.

TREE NEWS update: NEAR Intents said it froze $503,000 in funds tied to the Bitget hack, with roughly $166,000 having already passed through its swap system. Bitget said NEAR Intents waived its share of the recovery bounty. The freeze marks a recovery step in the exchange breach.

TREE NEWS reports: Veteran trader Peter Brandt said Bitcoin could peak between $300,000 and $600,000 by 2029, and described an October pullback as a possible buying opportunity ahead of that cycle top. He also dismissed XRP as a “fool coin.”

TREE NEWS reports: CoinShares said Bitcoin ETF inflows do not necessarily signal institutional bets on rising prices, pointing to IBIT for clues on institutional buying while noting that basis trades can drive flows. The firm said inflows tied to basis trades are not the same as directional demand for Bitcoin.

TREE NEWS update: Cosmos Hub stopped producing blocks for about 25 hours after validators controlling more than one-third of total voting power halted their nodes to stop roughly 1.7 million ATOM linked to a Neutron governance exploit from being swapped cross-chain. The chain froze at block height 33,086,740 on Sept. 22, then restarted Sept. 23 at 12:00 UTC after over 67% of voting power installed Gaia v28.3.0, which moved 1,227,121 ATOM from the attacker’s address into a 4-of-6 community multisig.

TREE NEWS reports: Ondo Perps’ CEO said there is a “huge opportunity” for perpetual futures in the US market, but under a different model. The comment comes as US regulators and several firms test how perpetual futures could enter domestic markets.

TREE NEWS reports: Ondo Perps CEO David Wells said the US perpetual futures market presents a huge opportunity and that exploring it makes sense for Ondo, though he did not confirm whether the company will launch a perpetuals product in the United States. A US-facing perpetuals product could differ from what Ondo offers outside the country, he said.

TREE NEWS update: Taiko released a maintenance update for all node operators, live on both Hoodi and mainnet, covering several core components. The team asked operators to upgrade as soon as possible to avoid potential runtime issues: the execution engine alethia-reth moves to v1.4.1, taiko-alethia-client to taiko-alethia-client-v2.7.0, and simple-taiko-node to v2.6.3.

TREE NEWS update: El Salvador is developing Sivar, a government-backed app built with Modveon that lets users send, receive and hold dollar-pegged stablecoins via Coinbase’s Base network, and also supports remittances. Identity verification is handled through government-issued documents. The move comes five years after bitcoin became legal tender in the country.