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TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin rose about 7% on Monday, briefly trading above $97,000 for the first time since late January. The coin climbed 6.97% over 24 hours to $80,587.88 after a short squeeze higher at 16:00 Beijing time, peaking at $87,381.02 and approaching January’s highs. Ether gained 5.96% to $2,776.94, touching $2,806.925 after US market hours.

TREE NEWS reports: Strive has increased its bitcoin holdings by 6,400 BTC over the past month.NET. Its SATA unit raised enough funds on the day to purchase another 316 bitcoin. The additions expand the company’s corporate bitcoin treasury.

TREE NEWS update: ZetaChain’s Proposal 68 passed with 99.4% support and 58% participation, approving the wind-down of its Layer 1 network and the migration of ZETA to Solana. Exchanges must first confirm the swap before a second vote sets the snapshot, claims and shutdown schedule.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase is letting eligible US retail customers request shares at the offer price before trading begins, in a program launched with Oura. Allocations will depend on supply from underwriters and investor demand, the company said. The move gives individual investors access to IPO pricing typically reserved for institutional buyers.

TREE NEWS reports: FalconX transferred 533,250 HYPE tokens, worth roughly $50 million, between its own wallets within minutes, on-chain monitoring shows. The movement was an internal transfer rather than a sale or withdrawal to an external counterparty.

TREE NEWS reports: Kraken co-CEO David Ripley said Europe takes a more pragmatic approach to crypto regulation, with the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework providing clear market rules, while the US environment is more adversarial. Ripley noted the CLARITY Act has advanced slowly over several years and warned the US risks ceding financial innovation leadership to the EU if it keeps delaying crypto legislation. Kraken obtained a MiCA license from the Central Bank of Ireland in June 2025, allowing it to serve all 30 EEA member states.

TREE NEWS reports: Saudi Arabia has withdrawn from mBridge, a cross-border central bank digital currency platform backed by China. The project had drawn scrutiny from US policymakers. No reason for the exit was given.

TREE NEWS update: Circle has opened bitcoin-backed USDC borrowing to its mint clients, routed through Morpho. The cirBTC market on Arc holds $14.3 million of USDC borrowed against 287 cirBTC, up from $1.37 million on Sept. 17. Galaxy and Keyrock supply nearly all the dollars; Circle issues the wrapper and the wallet, while loan terms sit with Morpho.

TREE NEWS reports: Ether rose above 2,800 USDT on OKX, changing hands at 2,800.26 USDT, a 24-hour gain of 6.43%. The move marks the latest leg higher for the second-largest cryptocurrency, with the price level quoted from exchange order-book data.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin broke above 87,000 USDT and was last quoted at 87,010 USDT, up 7.24% over the past 24 hours. The move marks a fresh push higher for the largest cryptocurrency, which has extended its gains over the one-day period.

TREE NEWS update: X has sued two UK-based Bitcoin influencers, accusing them of running six coordinated accounts to extract at least $278,000 from its now-defunct Creator Revenue Sharing Program. The lawsuit alleges the accounts operated as a bot army to inflate payouts from the program, which X has since shut down.

TREE NEWS update: Bank of Russia Deputy Governor Vladimir Chistyukhin said the country’s crypto industry may meet the conditions to operate legally by the end of 2026, with regulation proceeding on schedule. Large-scale secondary rules are being drafted and fine-tuning of internal rules is expected to finish by end-2026. Sberbank plans to launch a bitcoin and crypto wallet and digital asset custody services in December.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase has begun offering IPO shares to eligible US retail traders, with Oura set to be the first listing available through the program. Customers can request shares at the offering price, though the exchange said allocations are not guaranteed. The move gives retail investors a route into new listings that has traditionally been reserved for institutional buyers.

TREE NEWS reports: SlowMist chief information security officer 23pds said attackers are exploiting the Darksword vulnerability to bypass iOS security via Safari, take control of devices and extract private keys and other data from self-custody crypto wallets. The flaw, previously used against users in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Malaysia and Ukraine, was originally disclosed as affecting iOS 18.4 to 18.7; 23pds said it has been adapted to iOS 26.5, though that claim is not officially verified.

TREE NEWS reports: Coldcard white-hat funds consolidated 52.37 BTC from Wave 2, Footprints AA, AU and AX into a new address, which wrote the OP_RETURN message “claim:cryptorecoverytrust dot com” in block 967,948. The white-hat funds represent 2.8% of the funds from the Coldcard vulnerability attack.

TREE NEWS reports: Most of the dollar volume in Kalshi’s ether perpetual futures comes from trades of one repeating size. Kalshi said its incentive programs are filed publicly. The concentration suggests a single participant or strategy accounts for a large share of activity in the contract.

TREE NEWS reports: Venice’s VVV token has climbed from under $1 to an all-time high of $34, a gain of roughly 3,000% in 2026. The token is tied to an AI chatbot that the project says forgets user data as soon as the browser tab is closed. VVV previously traded below the $1 mark before this rally.

TREE NEWS update: World Liberty Financial has opened a WLFI tokenholder vote on a 180-day governance rewards program, with payouts carrying no fixed rate and drawn from a pool funded by the treasury and World Liberty Markets fees. The proposal sets the reward structure but leaves the distribution rate undetermined. Voting is now live for WLFI holders.