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TREE NEWS update: Anthropic has deployed a fix after investigating authentication problems affecting users logging into Claude.ai and Claude Code. The company said it is now monitoring system recovery. No cause or scope of the disruption was disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: MANTRA has suspended all unstaking transactions for seven days after hackers, exploiting a Web3Auth and Keplr wallet private key leak, drained users’ liquid assets and then unstaked their pledged MANTRA tokens without consent. Unstaking already in progress is unaffected, but users must redelegate before the eight-day unbonding period ends to prevent the hackers from claiming the assets. MANTRA had previously frozen several hacker wallets via governance proposal 41.

TREE NEWS update: Binance Futures plans to revise the estimated share count of its ANTHROPICUSDT pre-IPO perpetual contract from 1 billion to 13,116,075,288 shares, based on Anthropic’s S-1/A-2 filing submitted on Nov. 10. The figure comprises 13,086,672,593 shares of common stock outstanding after the offering and concurrent private placement, plus shares added after Sept. 30 from acquisitions of private companies and related issuances. The adjustment will occur before Anthropic’s official listing, with timing to be announced separately, and the contract will be renamed ANTUSDT, with existing positions unaffected.

TREE NEWS update: Chinese Premier Li Qiang issued written instructions on advancing farmland water conservancy and high-standard farmland construction, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The State Council held a video conference on winter-spring farmland water conservancy and high-standard farmland construction on Nov. 13. Li said such construction is a key lever for consolidating the foundation of national food security and has played a critical role in boosting grain output and agricultural disaster resilience.

TREE NEWS update: President Trump nominated former CFTC Commissioner Kristin Johnson and three other candidates — two Democrats and two Republicans — for seats at the SEC and CFTC, sending the picks to the Senate. One of the seats is the one previously held by Hester Peirce, and two of the nominees helped shape the Clarity Act.

TREE NEWS update: Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on November 13 that the next round of trilateral negotiations will be held soon. He also said Russia hopes to carry out a humanitarian operation in Kostiantynivka under the leadership of the two countries’ relevant commissioners and with media oversight, and that Russia is ready to begin demining there, which would take five days.

TREE NEWS update: Balaji Srinivasan called on Nvidia employees, shareholders, partners and customers to pressure the board to remove directors who voted to oust Jensen Huang and reinstate him as CEO. Nvidia said on Nov. 12 that Huang had resigned as CEO and left the board, with CFO Colette Kress named interim CEO. Srinivasan warned of staff departures and fiduciary-duty lawsuits if the directors do not resign, and proposed first establishing each director’s vote.

TREE NEWS reports: A single wallet withdrew a further 742.5 BTC, about $51.48 million, from Binance, bringing its total withdrawals from the exchange to 1,042.5 BTC, roughly $72.89 million, over the past 19 hours. The wallet now holds about 1,410 BTC, valued at approximately $97.81 million.

TREE NEWS reports: An attacker transferred 1,529 ETH, worth about $2.98 million, into a new wallet on November 13, which then deposited roughly $2.7 million into the mixing service Tornado Cash. The attacker has been laundering funds for several weeks. The latest move routes a large share of the freshly moved ETH through the sanctioned privacy tool.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin broke below $70,000, triggering more than $1 billion in forced crypto position closures within 12 hours. The drop swept through leveraged long positions, forcing traders to exit en masse. The move marks a sharp break for bitcoin, which had been trading above the $70,000 level.

TREE NEWS update: CATL unveiled its “Chocolate Battery Manager” on Nov. 13, a battery visualization and full-lifecycle inspection system offering 53 on-vehicle self-checks and 66 deep checks at swap stations. The company pledged lifetime monitoring, warranty, and free repair or replacement for batteries in its network. CATL plans to have 6,000 Chocolate battery-swap stations built by 2027, covering 297 Chinese cities.

TREE NEWS update: Trump submitted four nominations to the Senate on Nov. 12 for SEC and CFTC commissioner seats, one Republican and one Democrat for each agency. Both CFTC picks, Nathan Anonick and Matthew Rowland, worked on crypto market structure legislation including the CLARITY Act. SEC nominee Kristin Johnson previously backed CFTC enforcement against three DeFi operators. If confirmed, SEC would rise to four commissioners and CFTC to three.

TREE NEWS reports: Amazon is considering launching a project to scrape product data from across the web. The reported initiative would involve collecting product information from sites beyond Amazon’s own marketplace. No timeline, scope or implementation details were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Demingli announced it will invest about 400 million yuan in Shenzhen Hongqixin Technology, valuing the target at 2.47 billion yuan pre-money and giving Demingli a 7.055918% stake without control or consolidation. Related parties Du Tiejun and Shenzhen Minghong will take 1.763979% and 1.786911% respectively, bringing the combined stake to 12.628993%. The target develops and industrializes new-type memory and companion select devices, and the parties plan a 10-year strategic cooperation agreement that has not yet been signed.

TREE NEWS update: China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology launched the establishment of an industrial operating system standards working group during the 2026 Industrial Operating System Conference held in Shanghai on November 12-13. The group will advance standards development and application validation in key areas including reference architecture, interconnection, compatibility and adaptation, and testing and evaluation, aiming to resolve issues such as incompatible interfaces, data incompatibility and inconsistent evaluation criteria.

TREE NEWS update: Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott has asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to testify on Dec. 3 and Dec. 10, respectively, over U.S. chip export controls to China. Lutnick has agreed to appear; the committee said it may subpoena Huang if he does not. Three House committee chairs also requested closed-door interviews with Huang and Nvidia general counsel Tim Teter on Dec. 1-2. The probe focuses on Nvidia’s Singapore customer Megaspeed.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin dropped 5% on Friday, falling below $69,000. The decline was triggered by a “concentrated liquidation” and “weakening” demand, market observers said. The move marked a sharp pullback for the largest cryptocurrency.

TREE NEWS reports: Gemini’s third-quarter loss narrowed, though revenue fell 19% to $40.9 million and trading volume remained 73% below year-earlier levels, the Winklevoss-founded exchange reported. Volume rose from the second quarter, but crypto price marks accounted for much of the improvement in the loss figure.

TREE NEWS reports: Nvidia’s US pre-market gain widened to 3% on November 13, while Nasdaq 100 futures turned positive and were last up 0.15%. The moves were reflected in market data tracked by Binance.

TREE NEWS update: US Fifth Fleet commander Vice Adm. Curt Renshaw ended a visit to Israel on 13 January, the Israeli Defense Forces said in a statement. Renshaw met Israeli Navy commander Vice Adm. Eyal Harel and other senior naval officers at Harel’s invitation to discuss naval operations across theaters, fleet coordination, strengthening partnerships and sharing technical knowledge. The IDF said the visit strengthened maritime partnership between Israel and the United States.