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TREE NEWS update: Bithumb, South Korea’s second-largest crypto exchange, said hackers accessed an internal system and it is checking whether customer data was exposed. Two other financial firms also reported breaches. The exchange did not disclose how many customers may be affected or when the intrusion occurred.

TREE NEWS update: Stader Labs said its discontinued NearX and BNBx products will move from on-chain withdrawals to a verified claim process on Oct 29. Until then, users can still withdraw free of charge via the smart contract. The discontinued MaticX product will keep on-chain withdrawals, with a fixed redemption rate of 1.2002 POL per MaticX.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase denied any breach of its own systems on Oct. 28 after reports that hackers obtained contact information for more than 70,000 users, saying the incident occurred at analytics vendor Amplitude and that no customer funds or passwords were affected. The exchange said it found no evidence of unauthorized access to Coinbase systems and will notify affected customers and regulators. Amplitude had not responded publicly as of Oct. 28.

TREE NEWS reports: The attacker behind the Bloom exploit, which drained nearly $1 million, routed funds through 2,152 distinct intermediary and destination addresses, Specter said. The set comprises 1,326 Solana addresses, 822 EVM addresses and 5 Zcash addresses. Funds were bridged to Zcash, with 26.099 ZEC moved into the Sapling shielded pool, a pattern Specter said points to automated splitting, consolidation and cross-chain tooling.

TREE NEWS update: Gate on Oct. 28 rolled out two flash-swap trading campaigns with a combined 100,000 USDT prize pool, running from 17:00 (UTC+8) on Oct. 28 to 17:00 on Nov. 4. Users who reach 20,000 USDT in cumulative flash-swap volume can claim an 8 USDT BTC reward, capped at the first 300 participants, while tiered volume tasks unlock fee rebate vouchers, position trial coupons and up to 500 USDT in spot token rewards.

TREE NEWS reports: A wallet address starting 0xb15b was liquidated 13 times in nine days after shorting ETH, with a cumulative 18,080 ETH liquidated worth about $43.9 million and losses of $1.14 million, Lookonchain data show. The trader created the wallet nine days earlier, deposited 1.25 million USDC and began shorting ETH.

TREE NEWS update: Itaú Unibanco has become the first bank in Brazil to formally launch cryptocurrency trading and custody services under the central bank’s new regulations. The bank notified the Banco Central do Brasil of the business on Tuesday, ahead of the October 30 deadline. The move makes Itaú the first major Brazilian lender to operate in the crypto market under the new framework.

TREE NEWS update: The Initia Foundation has approved a capital injection to fully restore the 1:1 pegs of Noble USDC, WETH and AUSD0 used as iUSD collateral, which were affected by a security incident on Oct. 23. The injection will cover verified shortfalls of up to 1.08 million USDC, 105 ETH and 1.4 million AUSD0, pending reconciliation and final transfer approval. Initia said the pegs will be fully restored once the chain resumes operation, and that a fix for the vulnerability has been drafted and is being audited by security partners.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase said a breach at analytics vendor Amplitude exposed customer data for a “small subset” of its users, without disclosing how many were affected. The exchange stated that funds were “not impacted” by the incident. Coinbase did not provide further details on the scope of the data exposure or the timing of the breach.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings transferred another 1,000 BTC, worth about $80.66 million, to BitGo roughly nine hours ago. The transfer marks a further move of bitcoin by the mining company to the custody provider.

TREE NEWS update: Binance announced that Predict (PREDICT) token holders must submit their airdrop claim choice by 17:00 (UTC+8) on Nov. 26, with unsubmitted forms defaulting to Option B. Option A delivers 35% of tokens immediately while forfeiting the remaining 65% irrevocably; Option B delivers 100% after a one-year staking lock. Users choosing A and submitting before 17:00 (UTC+8) on Oct. 29 receive tokens on listing day, while later submissions are distributed in batches on Nov. 6, 13, 20 or 27. Each user may submit only once, and choices are final.

TREE NEWS update: BNY has added XRP and RLUSD to its institutional custody platform, the bank that already holds reserves for Ripple’s stablecoin. BNY also plans direct RLUSD minting in cooperation with Ripple. Broader XRP Ledger initiatives and a C2FO trade finance effort remain at an early stage.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin sought to rebuild support at $80,000 on Wednesday as Asian and US tech stocks extended a rebound into key corporate earnings releases. A Morgan Stanley strategist said most of the cryptocurrency’s correction is over, pointing to a possible recovery toward $82,000.

TREE NEWS update: Japan Bitcoin Industry has decided on a private placement to Fulgur Ventures’ Japan entity and ANAP Lightning Capital totaling about ¥800 million, paid entirely in bitcoin, with settlement expected on Nov. 2. The proceeds will fund development of Lightning Network payment infrastructure including aurora, hiring, routing operations and R&D. The company also signed a routing-business framework agreement with ANAP Lightning Capital to use the latter’s bitcoin as Lightning channel liquidity.

TREE NEWS update: South Korea’s National Investigation Headquarters has opened a pre-indictment investigation into hacking attacks on securities firms and a cryptocurrency exchange, Yonhap reported on Oct. 28. Daishin Securities confirmed a breach exposing the personal and credit data of 38,490 customers; Bithumb confirmed employee information was leaked and is checking whether member data was affected; Mirae Asset Asset Management reported some business-system data was exposed with no personal credit information found leaked so far.

TREE NEWS update: Bithumb said an intruder accessed personal data through an internal employee application, with trading unaffected, and the South Korean exchange is still checking whether customer records were exposed. The disclosure came on the same day that Daishin Securities and Mirae Asset also reported data breaches.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase said customer contact data was exposed through third-party vendor Amplitude and that it found no sign of intrusion into its own systems, with funds untouched. The exchange did not disclose how many customers were affected. The disclosure follows a data exposure tied to an outside analytics provider rather than a breach of Coinbase’s own infrastructure.

TREE NEWS reports: Institutional stakers accounted for 35.3% of Ethereum’s staking market by the end of June 2026, up from 25.9% at the start of the year, while total staked ETH rose 19% to 43.1 million. Lido’s own share fell to 21.2% from 23.9%, as Bitmine, Coinbase and Binance reached roughly 11.5%, 10.9% and 7.9% respectively, with Bitmine gaining about 10 percentage points in six months.