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TREE NEWS update: Liquid staking protocol Kinetiq has opened its Elysium testnet, publishing a chain ID, RPC endpoint and block explorer for the Arbitrum Orbit network. The launch comes a month after the project said HyperEVM’s throughput leaves little room for sustained high-frequency activity. Elysium is aimed at Hyperliquid-focused DeFi applications.

TREE NEWS update: CME Group will list Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures on Oct. 19, expanding its single-token crypto contract lineup to eleven. Seven of those eleven contracts have been added this year, the exchange group said.

TREE NEWS update: Circle sold Binance 1,237,011 shares at $80.84, a 5% discount to the Sept. 17 close, giving the exchange a stake worth about $100 million, an SEC filing shows. The two also renewed an agreement under which Circle keeps paying Binance a monthly fee tied to USDC balances.

TREE NEWS reports: U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs drew nearly $1 billion in net inflows on Monday, more than the entire previous week combined, when the funds recorded the weakest weekly net inflow in their history. The rebound in flows came as the average bitcoin ETF holder returned to profit.

TREE NEWS update: OPPO launched its Find X10 series of smartphones, with pricing starting at 5,499 yuan. The Pro Max model runs on a 2nm Dimensity 9600 Pro chip and debuts a triple 200-megapixel camera array, supporting 8K 30fps Log cinematic video capture across all focal lengths.

TREE NEWS reports: The over-the-counter whale address “0x8c58” bought another 4,500 ETH for about $12.38 million, bringing its total holdings to roughly 37,000 ETH acquired at an average price of about $1,922 for a total cost of around $71.13 million. The position’s unrealized gain now exceeds $30 million.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase has rolled out fixed-rate USDC loans collateralized by bitcoin through an integration with Morpho Midnight, letting borrowers lock in both the rate and a repayment maturity date. The product runs alongside Coinbase’s existing floating-rate lending on Morpho Blue, which carries over $1.4 billion in outstanding loans and about $3 billion in collateral. Morpho said Midnight is deployed on Base with roughly $30 million in deposits; Coinbase offers end-of-this-month and end-of-next-month maturities.

TREE NEWS update: Stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK, acquired by Mastercard for up to $1.8 billion, has added the Stellar network as a payment rail. The company said the integration is live across its more than 130 markets, with more Stellar-native assets to follow.

TREE NEWS update: Pyth Network has become an external distributor of Nasdaq Basic, Nasdaq’s core US equities data product, and will distribute its real-time quotes and trade data through the Pyth Data Marketplace. Nasdaq Basic covers best bid and offer prices and sizes for all securities listed on US exchanges, plus latest trade prices and volumes and Nasdaq’s official open and close prices. Pyth said the arrangement extends institutional-grade US equities data to software and blockchain-native applications via a single API.

TREE NEWS update: CME will add Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures, offering standard and Micro contracts sized at 250 BCH and 25 BCH, and 10,000 UNI and 1,000 UNI respectively. The listing expands the exchange’s crypto derivatives lineup as demand for regulated digital-asset futures grows.

TREE NEWS reports: Researchers have traced an estimated 1.1 million BTC to a distinctive early Bitcoin mining operation, according to an analysis of the question of whether that miner was Satoshi Nakamoto. The harder question, the research notes, is whether the operator behind that mining output was actually Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator. No conclusion on the identity was stated.

TREE NEWS update: Wonder Festival 2026 Shanghai, hosted by Bilibili, will run Oct. 3-4, 2026 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre, with organizers reporting record scale. The event spans five halls displaying over 100,000 figures and mecha models, drawing more than 400 corporate exhibitors and 2,700-plus individual creators. In the first ticket round, Bilibili premium-member presale sold out in 10 seconds and day-one tickets in 2 minutes 30 seconds.

TREE NEWS update: Binance has taken a $100 million stake in Circle and agreed a five-year deal to promote USDC on its platform. The exchange said it will expand its existing USDC partnership with the stablecoin issuer, pushing the token across its trading and payments services. Terms beyond the stake size and the five-year term were not disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Binance paid $100 million for Circle stock priced about 5% below Circle’s Sept. 17 close, making the exchange a Circle shareholder under a deal tied to USDC. The shares are locked up for two years, and the agreement replaces a two-year marketing arrangement with one running five years.

TREE NEWS reports: TypeSafe AI’s new JEV model, a low-latency AI that returns only buy, sell or hold calls in 70 to 500 milliseconds, has triggered a wave of crypto projects since going viral over the past week. Developers have built open-source trading bots on Monad and Hyperliquid, sentiment and token-safety tools, and prediction-market pricers, while JEV-themed tokens and vaults have appeared on Robinhood Chain, BSC and Solana. None are official TypeSafe releases.

TREE NEWS update: Circle sold Binance $100 million in stock and agreed to pay monthly incentives as part of an expanded five-year partnership to promote USDC. The agreement deepens ties between the stablecoin issuer and the world’s largest crypto exchange, with Binance receiving equity in Circle alongside recurring payments tied to USDC promotion.

TREE NEWS reports: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said crypto will beat sports as the dominant category in prediction markets, arguing renewed interest in the sector is drawing attention back to digital assets. The call comes as prediction-market volumes have been driven largely by sports contracts, and Tenev’s bet implies crypto-linked markets will take a larger share. No timeline or specific market was given.

TREE NEWS update: Binance has invested $100 million in Circle, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin. The investment links the world’s largest crypto exchange with the second-largest dollar-pegged stablecoin. No further terms were disclosed.