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TREE NEWS update: California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law banning public officials from issuing memecoins and restricting crypto companies from offering certain memecoins tied to public officials to California residents. The ban takes effect for tokens issued from Jan. 1, 2027.

TREE NEWS update: The Zano blockchain has been restarted at the block height immediately before Hard Fork 6, the upgrade that introduced Gateway Addresses, rolling the chain back roughly a month after an exploit tied to the feature. The restart discards all blocks produced since Gateway Addresses went live, returning the network to its pre-upgrade state.

TREE NEWS update: CAS Space and Guangzhou Laboratory are jointly developing space-pharmaceutical payloads and plan to validate the use case in orbit. The first payloads are scheduled to fly in the first quarter of 2027 aboard the Lihong-2 reusable launch vehicle on a suborbital mission, conducting protein and small-molecule drug crystallization experiments and early technical verification of space-pharma equipment.

TREE NEWS update: Nio announced it has signed a definitive agreement with Geely Holding Group covering a strategic transaction in battery-swap and charging operations. The Chinese EV makers did not disclose financial terms or a timeline in the announcement. The deal deepens cooperation between two of China’s largest electric-vehicle players in charging infrastructure.

TREE NEWS update: THORChain has refused to blacklist addresses linked to the Bitget hack, drawing criticism as the exchange’s stolen funds move across the network. Separately, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said Ethereum is evolving from a mere blockchain into a world cryptographic computer.

TREE NEWS reports: An onchain analyst has linked $18.4 million in memecoin extractions on Robinhood Chain to a single rug-pull operation. The creators of 10 Pons V2 launches exempted a set of wallets from Pons’ anti-sniping tax, and those wallets then bought most of each token’s supply.

TREE NEWS reports: Hypurr #9, an NFT on the Hyperliquid-linked Hypurr collection, was sold for 2,222 HYPE, worth roughly $203,800 at the time of the trade. On-chain tracker Onchain Lens flagged the transaction, identifying the buyer as @NMTD8 and the seller as @izebel_eth. The deal is a notable secondary-market sale for the collection.

TREE NEWS update: Privacy blockchain Zano rolled its chain back to block height 3,833,000, undoing roughly a month of transactions, to address an inflation bug tied to Gateway Addresses that allowed unauthorized minting of its native ZANO token and the dollar-pegged stablecoin fUSD. Nodes, miners, stakers and service providers must adopt the update. Freedom Dollar said millions of dollars in project assets had been swapped into counterfeit fUSD and that it will bear the losses, asking fUSD holders to halt activity until the patched chain stabilizes.

TREE NEWS reports: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said he envisions a 2030 Ethereum that relies more on cryptographic proofs and off-chain computation than on every node re-executing the same transactions, with the chain mainly storing and verifying proofs so users can verify results independently. He said the shift would accelerate after the planned Hegotá upgrade, but developers must still cut proof-generation costs substantially and safely coordinate parallel workflows to deliver structural gains in scaling and privacy.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto futures liquidations across exchanges totaled $173 million in the past 24 hours, CoinGlass data shows, with $87.98 million from long positions and $84.53 million from shorts. Bitcoin liquidations accounted for $18.64 million and Ethereum $19.71 million. The largest single liquidation, worth $3.35 million, occurred on the HYPERLIQUID-XRP-USD pair.

TREE NEWS reports: Ethereum gas fees briefly rose to 10.5 Gwei, Etherscan data showed, after Vitalik Buterin said his first original novel, Snowmoon, is now complete. Meme coins tied to the concept emerged on the network, driving the short-lived increase in gas costs.

TREE NEWS reports: SUI rose above 1.2 USDT and was last trading at 1.23 USDT, up 4.65% over the past 24 hours. The move marks the token’s climb back above the 1.2 USDT level.

TREE NEWS update: Vitalik Buterin published a vision for Ethereum in 2030, describing a network that combines blockchain, cryptographic proofs and off-chain computer networks to boost throughput and let users verify independently. Computers could generate short mathematical proofs after processing transactions, letting others verify results without redoing the full computation, while different machines handle tasks in parallel. Buterin said next year’s Hegotá upgrade is expected to be Ethereum’s last regular fork, with later upgrades relying mainly on mathematical proofs, code verification tools and quantum-resistant security.

TREE NEWS reports: Researchers this week reported three advances in defending Bitcoin against quantum computing: a cost breakthrough, a new privacy design, and a custody playbook. The developments signal the field is shifting from theory toward logistics, even as the arrival of “Q-Day” remains hypothetical.

TREE NEWS update: Vitalik Buterin said on X that he has completed ‘Snowmoon’, a 32-chapter science-fiction work he wrote entirely himself, with AI tools Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8 Flash Next used only for editing and consistency checks. The novel is open-sourced under the GPL v3 license, and Buterin said any film or animation adaptation must also open-source its adaptation process. The work incorporates governance concepts such as quadratic voting.

TREE NEWS reports: THORChain has pushed back on Bitget’s demand that it block addresses tied to a hacker, and an address flagged by the exchange completed an XRP-to-bitcoin swap after that request. OKX’s Star Xu challenged THORChain’s comparison of its position with Bitcoin’s. The dispute centers on whether the cross-chain protocol should censor specific wallets at an exchange’s request.

TREE NEWS reports: Vitalik Buterin outlined Ethereum’s direction after the Hegota upgrade, saying its scheduled changes target censorship resistance and wallet flexibility. The broader vision rests on proof aggregation and open research, he said. Buterin framed the end state as a ‘cryptographic world computer.’

TREE NEWS update: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said Ethereum is “really not just a blockchain anymore” and outlined how its design will change by 2030 in a post. Buterin detailed the planned shifts in Ethereum’s architecture over the coming years, framing the network as something broader than a single blockchain.

TREE NEWS update: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said on X that ‘Snowmoon’, his original science-fiction novel, is now complete. The work runs 32 chapters and is Buterin’s first publicly released full-length fictional work. He said it weaves his long-running thinking on Ethereum, mechanism design, privacy technology and pluralistic governance into a narrative framework, though the core remains the open-source sci-fi story itself.