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TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin analyst Willy Woo said his Fisher Transform indicator has produced its fourth signal on the chart, after successfully marking bottoms in three previous Bitcoin cycles without false signals since the tool was introduced in 2002. Woo noted the indicator’s turning point does not necessarily mean a trend reversal, and that prices may consolidate before resuming their prior direction. He added that cycle bottoms tend to form when speculators exit and long-term investors return, making them structurally clearer than speculative, noisier tops.

TREE NEWS update: Stablecoin payments company dtcpay has closed a $25 million Series A round that includes an investment from SBI Group. The Singapore-based firm said the fresh capital will be used to scale its product suite and merchant network, including a revamped business portal for enterprise clients.

TREE NEWS update: Zcash is targeting November for its NU7 mainnet upgrade, which will cut block times to 25 seconds while preserving the network’s halving schedule. Testnet activation is planned for Oct. 6.

TREE NEWS update: Input Output Group, the development company behind Cardano, warned users to avoid its YouTube channel after the account began livestreaming a suspected AI-manipulated video of founder Charles Hoskinson promising to “double your wealth.” The company told users to steer clear of the channel while the apparent hijack was addressed.

TREE NEWS update: World is rolling out World Money, a self-custodial app combining stablecoin payments, digital asset rewards and trading, across more than 150 countries. The launch puts stablecoin payments, rewards and trading in a single non-custodial application for users in those markets.

TREE NEWS reports: Polymarket has still not launched its long-promised $POLY token nearly a year after CMO Matthew Modabber confirmed on Oct. 24, 2025 that a token and airdrop were coming. The prediction market’s help center still says no airdrop or token generation event has been announced, while reports say JPMorgan ended its banking relationship in October 2025 over regulatory concerns. Analysts describe the token as indefinitely shelved rather than cancelled.

TREE NEWS update: The US Treasury sanctioned Iranian crypto exchange BitBank, saying it processed payments received through Iran’s Strait of Hormuz maritime scheme. The department also said the exchange helped move hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin to the IRGC.

TREE NEWS reports: Chainalysis says state-backed hackers now account for roughly half of the malicious code written to public blockchains. The operators embed command-and-control server addresses in smart contracts and transaction data, a storage method that no domain registrar or hosting provider can take down. The finding points to a shift in how nation-state groups maintain covert infrastructure.

TREE NEWS reports: North Korea and Iran account for the majority of onchain malware, while Malaysia has been named among the most crypto-curious Islamic nations. The findings come alongside CoinEx’s shutdown. No further details on the exchange closure or the malware data were provided.

TREE NEWS reports: Several listed superhard material companies have announced investments and changes to fundraising plans in recent months to enter the diamond heat-sink sector, with some products already at the sample and small-batch supply stage. As AI model iterations push server chip power higher, traditional copper and aluminum cooling materials are hitting physical limits, making CVD diamond heat sinks a key candidate for high-power chip thermal management. Weak prices in lab-grown and industrial diamond have pressured earnings.

TREE NEWS update: Alipay, JD.com and Meituan customer service said their monthly-pay products such as Huabei, JD Baitiao and Meituan Monthly Pay remain usable, after a claim that platforms would drop the payment option trended on Weibo. The platforms said they will adjust how the checkout page displays the options in line with regulatory requirements. A reporter’s test found the checkout page layout is being split.

TREE NEWS update: S&P Global has agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin, the security firm behind the open source smart contract libraries widely used across DeFi, and will place the business under S&P Global Ratings. The ratings firm cut Tether’s stability grade to its lowest level last year. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: Hyperliquid’s Assistance Fund has burned more than $1.3 billion worth of its native token through cumulative buybacks, on-chain monitoring shows. The fund uses protocol revenue to repurchase and destroy HYPE, permanently removing the tokens from circulation as part of the network’s supply-reduction mechanism.

TREE NEWS update: Blockworks launched Agentic Detection on Thursday within Messari Monitoring, allowing exchange listings and compliance desks to receive alerts the moment Blockworks’ AI agents find a development, before an analyst has reviewed it. Each alert carries a tag identifying whether an agent or an analyst produced it.

TREE NEWS update: Chainflip plans to restart its protocol with Tron paused, converting what its Tron liquidity providers hold into a claim: their balances read zero and what they are owed moves to a separate on-chain record. The protocol says it will make those providers whole, but has not publicly said when or from where the funds will come.

TREE NEWS update: CFTC staff said any provider of “passive software” meeting the conditions of the relief Phantom won in March can now offer regulated perpetual futures without a broker license. One condition requires every registered venue or broker the software plugs into to sign an undertaking accepting joint liability for what the software does.