TREE NEWS reports: The Liquid Network’s L-BTC reserve gap narrowed to 550 BTC following a 50 BTC transfer, bringing reserve coverage to roughly 87.07%. User swaps remain available, while normal federation peg-outs stay restricted.
TREE NEWS update: The Federal Reserve held its benchmark interest rate at 3.75%-4%, with Lisa Cook and Beth Hammack dissenting in favor of a quarter-point increase. The decision follows September’s unanimous rate hike. Bitcoin gave back a brief gain after the announcement.
TREE NEWS update: Strategy, the largest Bitcoin treasury company, has won shareholder approval to pay dividends daily on four preferred securities. Daily payments on STRC begin in November, with the three other preferred stocks following in January 2027. The change shifts the company’s preferred dividend schedule from periodic to daily payouts.
TREE NEWS update: Osmosis has fully restored backing for AllBTC after covering a 17.19 BTC-equivalent shortfall using seized tokens and community funds, the Cosmos-based DEX said. App deposits and withdrawals were still awaiting reopening at the time of the disclosure. The shortfall was absorbed by community funds.
TREE NEWS reports: Bernstein said Robinhood’s crypto business is shifting toward infrastructure as products such as prediction markets and perpetual futures gain ground, even after the brokerage posted an earnings miss and crypto weakness. The firm maintained a bullish outlook on Wall Street despite the results.
TREE NEWS update: The US Federal Election Commission reported an “electronic filing system outage” on Tuesday. The disruption comes as political groups are expected to ramp up spending before the midterm elections, potentially obscuring crypto PAC expenditures. The FEC did not say what caused the outage or when the system would be restored.
TREE NEWS update: Strategy shareholders approved daily dividends on its preferred stock, with 99.3% voting in favor. STRC will begin paying dividends for every calendar day from November, with STRF, STRK and STRD following in January.
TREE NEWS update: Robinhood has added eight new stock and ETF tokens to its blockchain, where stock tokens already support trading and collateralized borrowing. DefiLlama tracks $246.7 million in real-world assets deployed in DeFi on the network. The expansion deepens Robinhood’s tokenized-equity offering on its own chain.
TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin failed to break above its 50-day simple moving average, with the price bounce rejected as market participants awaited the outcome of the FOMC meeting and key tech earnings. The 50-day trend line acted as resistance for the largest cryptocurrency.
TREE NEWS update: Phantom has launched prediction markets for its US users through an integration with Kalshi, offering CFTC-regulated event contracts inside the crypto wallet. The rollout comes as prediction markets face growing legal challenges in the United States. The wallet’s users can now access the regulated contracts directly through the Phantom interface.
TREE NEWS update: Aptos advisor “Buzz” has left the crypto project and is shifting his attention to Meta, the parent company of Facebook. The former advisor is moving his meme-fueled campaign to the social media giant’s stock. No further details on the departure or the campaign were provided.
TREE NEWS update: Pump.fun will add Elysium trading to its app on Nov. 9, the platform said, following its live Hyperliquid perps rollout. Elysium is a separate rollup that settles to HyperEVM. The addition extends Pump.fun’s push beyond memecoin launches into perpetual and rollup-based trading within its app.
TREE NEWS reports: Nine hedge funds and banks reduced their spot Bitcoin ETF exposure by 68,000 BTC as the cash-and-carry trade dried up, Galaxy Research found. Wealth platforms and sovereign funds added to their positions over the same period, shifting the investor base of US spot Bitcoin ETFs.
TREE NEWS reports: Bitwise raised its long-term bitcoin price target to $1.6 million by 2036, projecting 34% annualized returns over the decade, the asset manager said. Its bear case puts bitcoin at $130,686 by 2036, while the bull case reaches $3.67 million over the next ten years.
TREE NEWS update: Coinbase has listed Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin across its retail, exchange and Prime platforms, with 1:1 USD conversion available on the XRP Ledger, Ethereum and Base. The listing caps a week of major announcements for Ripple. RLUSD is now live on Coinbase.
TREE NEWS update: The US Treasury has added eight Ethereum and Tron addresses to its Specially Designated Nationals list, targeting crypto facilitators linked to North Korean IT worker schemes. One address appears under both Russian intermediaries. The sanctions designate the wallets as SDN entries, barring US persons from transacting with them.
TREE NEWS update: The Federal Reserve will announce its interest-rate decision today at 2 p.m. ET, with traders pricing a hold as near certain. The outcome is being watched for its implications for Bitcoin and stock markets.
TREE NEWS update: Strategy shareholders approved daily dividend payments on the company’s four preferred stocks, STRC, STRF, STRK and STRD. STRC will move to a daily record date on Nov. 1, with STRF, STRK and STRD following on Jan. 1, once the amended share terms are filed and take effect.
TREE NEWS update: Seven more companies, including JPMorgan Chase, Coca-Cola and Dell, have objected to the trading of their shares on the planned OKX-ICE tokenized stock venue, bringing the total number of objecting companies to 33. The objections target the proposed platform that would offer tokenized versions of publicly traded equities.
TREE NEWS update: Avail has launched ShieldTX, a privacy tool for Hyperliquid that creates a separate wallet for each perpetual futures position. The tool is aimed at copy-trading bots that track and mirror traders’ on-chain activity. Avail said the design is intended to shield individual positions from being copied on the decentralized exchange.