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TREE NEWS update: Binance Alpha has opened a second airdrop of Unitas (UP) tokens, letting users with at least 244 Alpha points claim 197 UP on a first-come, first-served basis, Binance Wallet said on October 28. The points threshold will drop by 5 every five minutes if the reward pool remains unallocated. Claiming costs 15 Alpha points, and users must confirm on the Alpha activity page within 24 hours or forfeit the claim.

TREE NEWS update: Predict Points (PP Points) holders can now view their points and choose how to claim the PREDICT airdrop through the Binance App’s prediction account or the Binance Wallet Predict dApp, Binance Wallet said on Oct. 28. Claimants may take 35% immediately, forfeiting the remaining 65%, or stake for one year to receive 100%. To get tokens on PREDICT’s listing day, the form must be submitted by 17:00 Beijing time on Oct. 29; the final deadline is 17:00 Beijing time on Nov. 26, after which the one-year staking option applies by default.

TREE NEWS update: Huawei Terminal BG CEO He Gang announced that the Mate 90 series will be the industry’s first phone line to support four cards on three active lines, via an OTA update by year-end. The Mate 90 Pro Max debuts the feature, supporting up to two physical SIMs and two eSIM profiles — four numbers total — with three cards able to stay online, call, browse and text simultaneously.

TREE NEWS reports: Deribit will settle 135,000 BTC options with a notional value of $10.92 billion at 16:00 Beijing time on Friday, with a max pain price of $78,000 and a put/call ratio of 0.53. ETH options with a notional value of $776 million will also expire the same day, with a max pain price of $2,500 and a put/call ratio of 0.77.

TREE NEWS reports: US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $286 million over two days, narrowing October’s net outflows to $26 million, as BTC rebounded above $80,000. Daily inflows climbed to $176 million, while the Crypto Fear & Greed Index remained neutral. The figures mark a partial recovery in ETF demand after early-month withdrawals.

TREE NEWS update: The Ethereum Foundation endorsed Kohaku’s privacy-preserving wallet tools, saying privacy and security should not be treated as separate goals. Setting privacy as a default feature can reduce the risk of attackers exploiting users’ on-chain history, the foundation said, following a week of attacks and exploits. Developer Jordan Enev said Kohaku’s SDK already integrates Railgun, Privacy Pools and Tornado Cash, and called for more wallets to integrate.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase said an incident at analytics vendor Amplitude exposed some customers’ contact data, but the exchange found no evidence of unauthorized access to its own systems. The company denied that its systems had been breached, attributing the exposure to the third-party vendor.

TREE NEWS update: Zilliqa’s CEO has stepped down and the board has assumed oversight responsibilities during a security investigation. The X-Bridge is closed in both directions, and PlunderSwap has reported losses across four token pools. No further details on the probe or the bridge reopening timeline were provided.

TREE NEWS update: Binance founder CZ appeared at Nasdaq on Oct. 26 alongside management of BNB Standard (ticker: BNC) for a bell-ringing ceremony. The company, formerly a vaping business called VAPE, raised about $500 million in August 2025 to build a BNB treasury and now holds over 510,000 BNB, making it the largest listed BNB holder. Alex Odagiu, a former YZi Labs investment partner, formally became CEO on Oct. 19 and plans to operate BNB Chain validator nodes.

TREE NEWS update: Binance Wallet will launch a Prime Sale Pre-TGE event for predict.fun (PREDICT) on October 29 from 16:00 to 18:00 Beijing time, the exchange’s wallet unit said. Eligible users must use Binance Alpha points to participate in the subscription. Full Pre-TGE details and the event page will be announced separately via Binance Wallet’s official X account.

TREE NEWS update: U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said digital assets can help reinforce the dollar’s global dominance, speaking Tuesday at Ripple’s Swell conference with CEO Brad Garlinghouse. He said more than 90% of stablecoins are backed by the dollar and issuers often hold U.S. government securities as reserves, creating a growing funding source for the Treasury. Bessent called Congress’s failure to pass the Clarity Act disappointing but said the Treasury can work with the SEC and CFTC on regulation.

TREE NEWS update: Huawei has released its Enjoy 100 series, comprising the Enjoy 100, Enjoy 100 Pro and Enjoy 100 Pro Max. The phones run the HarmonyOS 7.0 operating system and feature Kirin 8-series chips, Huawei’s Whale large battery and HarmonyOS Star Shield anti-fraud functions. Pricing starts at 1,399 yuan.

TREE NEWS reports: US spot ether ETFs recorded a net outflow of $60.22 million on October 27 (US Eastern time), with BlackRock’s ETHA alone seeing $93.28 million exit. Fidelity’s FETH took in $28.58 million and Grayscale’s Ethereum Mini Trust ETH added $4.48 million. Total net assets stood at $14.18 billion, with the ETF net asset ratio at 4.95% of ether’s market cap and cumulative net inflows at $12.57 billion.

TREE NEWS reports: US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $176 million in net inflows on October 27 (US Eastern Time), with BlackRock’s IBIT leading at $151 million, bringing its cumulative net inflow to $66.395 billion. Fidelity’s FBTC followed with $24.54 million, for a cumulative $10.363 billion. As of press time, total net assets of spot Bitcoin ETFs stood at $103.943 billion, with a net asset ratio of 6.4% and cumulative net inflows of $57.469 billion.

TREE NEWS update: Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe has proposed halting automatic block-reward allocations to the Zcash Community Grants program, which holds over $125 million, and redirecting the 8% share to the Network Sustainability Mechanism. Tyler Winklevoss and ZODL founder Josh Swihart back deeper cuts, while a counter-proposal would phase developer funding down to zero by 2036. The dispute coincides with Zcash’s tenth anniversary on Oct. 28.

TREE NEWS update: Moody’s has assigned Ripple USD (RLUSD) an A2 long-term and P-1 short-term deposit rating. The agency said the strong ratings reflect the stablecoin’s reserve coverage, liquidity and redemption arrangements.

TREE NEWS update: Yinchuan LONGi Silicon Materials Co. increased its registered capital from 1 billion yuan to 3.4 billion yuan, a 240% rise. The company, founded in November 2009 and led by legal representative Hao Kai, is wholly owned by LONGi Green Energy Technology Co. Its business scope covers road freight transport and the manufacture and sale of special equipment for semiconductor devices.

TREE NEWS reports: Three whale wallets deposited 6,168 bitcoin, valued at $498.5 million, into Coinbase Prime six hours ago, on-chain tracker Lookonchain reported. The transfer moves a large block of BTC to the exchange’s prime brokerage service, a venue typically used by institutional clients. No further details on the wallets’ identities or the purpose of the deposits were given.

TREE NEWS update: South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service has launched an investigation into Bithumb and financial institutions following hacker attacks, Bloomberg reported. The probe targets the crypto exchange and the financial firms hit in the incidents. No further details on the scope of the investigation or the losses involved were given.

TREE NEWS update: trade.xyz has listed RELIANCE with 10x leverage, available for trading around the clock, every day of the year. The platform announced the listing in a post on X. The venue did not disclose additional contract specifications or launch timing beyond the immediate availability.