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TREE NEWS update: The Arbitrum Foundation announced the Arbitrum Security Program on September 29, offering smart contract audit subsidies to teams building on Arbitrum. The program covers applications on testnet, mainnet projects, projects migrating from other blockchains, and dedicated Arbitrum chains.

TREE NEWS reports: Trader Bonk Guy said the crypto market may be nearing a turning point, with the worst case being several more weeks of declines or choppy trading before a sustained rally. He said investors bullish on a token’s fourth-quarter performance should buy dips, arguing the risk-reward favors accumulation, and that the biggest risk is missing the next move due to bearish Crypto Twitter sentiment.

TREE NEWS update: F2 AI, a company developing artificial intelligence for the credit sector, disclosed a $5 million investment from private credit manager Golub Capital. As part of the equity investment, Golub Capital gains access to F2 AI’s AI agent suite for screening private credit investments, conducting due diligence, underwriting deals and monitoring its portfolio. The two sides did not disclose the valuation the investment implies for F2 AI.

TREE NEWS update: Bitcoin miner Hut 8 has obtained a $1.07 billion senior secured revolving credit facility with a four-year term. The company said the funds will support its liquidity needs as well as energy and digital infrastructure projects.

TREE NEWS update: Revolut has received approval from Argentina’s central bank to acquire Banco Cetelem Argentina, the French bank BNP Paribas’ local unit. Following completion, the entity will be renamed Revolut Bank Argentina S.A.U. and operate as a licensed bank, though it will not initially offer products or services to the public until remaining regulatory and operational requirements are met. Revolut says more than 150,000 people have joined its Argentina waitlist.

TREE NEWS reports: Ether.fi is winding down its core restaking business and pivoting to a crypto neobank model as restaking yields dry up and smart-contract risk rises. Restaking protocols held about $10.02 billion in deposits on September 8 but generated only roughly $99,977 in fees over the past week, versus $51.87 billion and $27.35 million for liquid staking. Excluding ether.fi, five liquid restaking protocols posted combined gross profit of about $953,000 in Q2 2026, down from $2.18 million across the prior three quarters.

TREE NEWS reports: Glassnode data shows altcoin spot trading volume has climbed to nearly four times that of bitcoin, the highest level since September 2025, as spot traders rotate into altcoins. The analytics firm noted that similar surges in demand for higher-risk assets have historically coincided with interim bitcoin tops.

TREE NEWS reports: PUMP broke above 0.0055 USDT and was last quoted at 0.005509 USDT, a 24-hour gain of 12.25%. The move marks a double-digit advance for the token over the past day.

TREE NEWS update: Vitalik Buterin outlined a plan to turn Ethereum into a ‘cryptographic world computer,’ arguing that the upcoming Hegota fork will be Ethereum’s last ‘normal’ fork. Everything built afterward would rest on recursive STARKs and formal verification, he said. The proposal reframes Ethereum’s roadmap around cryptographic proof and verifiable computation rather than conventional fork upgrades.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin broke above $84,000, trading at $84,038.20, up 0.80% over the past 24 hours. The move marks a fresh push past the level for the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.

TREE NEWS update: Polymarket vice president Josh said the team is building a full central limit order book (CLOB) in Rust, which it calls the root of most of the platform’s current problems. In October it plans to complete a full order lifecycle in a test environment; in November all production traffic will be mirrored to the new trading cluster for result comparison, with market makers given test access and two full migration rehearsals before the official switch.

TREE NEWS update: Aave founder Stani posted on X that the Aave App now lets users deposit assets directly from the Ethereum mainnet, and released a Ghost Pass code for early access. The announcement was made on September 29. No further details on supported assets or rollout timing were given.

TREE NEWS reports: Major US exchanges are drawing up plans to extend stock trading beyond traditional hours, potentially opening the way to round-the-clock US equity trading. The New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq already offer pre-market and after-hours sessions, but volumes there are typically thin. The push follows the growth of 24-hour crypto and stock trading platforms and all-hours prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi, plus rising demand from non-US investors for round-the-clock liquidity.

TREE NEWS reports: BlackRock withdrew about $126.95 million in crypto from Coinbase Prime over 40 minutes. The transfers comprised 1,150 BTC worth roughly $95.43 million and 11,840 ETH worth about $31.52 million. The withdrawal was reported on September 29.

TREE NEWS reports: DeFi researcher Ignas said fewer than 20 crypto projects have holders earning more than $50,000 in daily revenue, making the pool of tokens with genuine income support unusually thin. After factoring in valuation, token unlocks and revenue sustainability, the list shrinks further, he said, noting that some tokens with unappealing market-cap-to-fully-diluted-valuation ratios are better suited for trading than long-term holding. Ignas added that most tokens still trade on narrative and sentiment, and that recent DAO dissolutions show “decentralization” accountability remains weak.

TREE NEWS update: Strive raised its bitcoin holdings to 27,462 BTC after a $94.5 million purchase, with SATA supplying 85% of the company’s latest capital. The acquisition lifts the firm’s total bitcoin position above 27,400 BTC.

TREE NEWS update: Bitget’s attacker executed two small test transfers roughly 30 minutes before draining $388 million from the exchange, CEO Gracy Chen said. The preliminary transfers suggest the exploiter probed the platform’s risk controls before carrying out the larger theft, Chen said.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin extended last week’s pullback after President Trump rejected Iran’s ceasefire plan, pushing oil above $100 and bond yields higher. The move comes ahead of Wednesday’s PCE inflation report, with crypto trading softer as traders weigh the inflation and geopolitical backdrop.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitmine, the Ethereum treasury company chaired by Tom Lee, added 17,362 ETH last week, pushing its stash past 6 million tokens. It was the smallest weekly purchase since the firm’s Aug. 17 update, leaving Bitmine roughly 104,000 ETH short of its stated goal of owning 5% of ether’s supply.