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TREE NEWS update: Ethereum developers canceled the Glamsterdam upgrade’s Hoodi testnet activation, which had been scheduled for Oct. 26, after ChainSecurity flagged gas-related risks. The early-December mainnet candidates for the upgrade had depended on the Hoodi test running smoothly. The fork was pulled days ahead of its planned activation.

TREE NEWS update: Pump.fun has added take-profit and stop-loss order functionality for trades on EVM chains, including Robinhood, BSC, Base, HyperEVM, Arc and Ink. The rollout extends tools that have been available on Solana since September to those networks, giving traders automated exit orders on the added chains.

TREE NEWS update: Underdog has partnered with zerohash to enable crypto deposits for its prediction markets, offering eligible users 24/7 digital asset funding. The new deposit option is expected to launch later this year. The integration lets users fund accounts around the clock rather than through traditional banking hours.

TREE NEWS update: Fireblocks has called a report that Visa is in late-stage talks to acquire the crypto custody firm for $2.5 billion “not true.” The denial follows an earlier report that the two companies were in advanced negotiations. Fireblocks provides digital asset custody and infrastructure for institutional clients.

TREE NEWS update: Lightning Labs is urging users to update immediately after new binaries were released to block trust in compromised eMudhra certificate keys. The company warned that updating Go on a host alone does not patch software already installed, meaning affected binaries must be replaced directly.

TREE NEWS update: Smart ring maker Oura said its subscriber count has surpassed 6 million, following the company’s decision to postpone its planned initial public offering. The figure marks the latest growth milestone for the wearable health-tracking firm. No timeline for the delayed IPO was provided.

TREE NEWS update: Digital security firm eMudhra is exiting its global website digital certificate issuance business, including for India’s tax portals, after major browser vendors blocked its certificates over a security vulnerability. The flaw had raised cybersecurity concerns worldwide, prompting the company to withdraw from the market.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin’s hashrate has reached a seven-month high, with mining difficulty rising even as the industry shifts toward AI. Smaller mining operators may absorb equipment abandoned by larger competitors as competition intensifies.

TREE NEWS update: The Central Bank of Ireland has fined Coinbase Ireland $3.6 million for oversight and safeguard failures, the regulator said. Coinbase Ireland has agreed with the facts of the enforcement action and will be subject to the fines and sanctions upon approval by a high court.

TREE NEWS update: StarkWare and the Starknet Foundation will jointly study whether Starknet should leave Ethereum’s layer 2 model and move to layer 1, following a poll in which 93.5% of voters backed the research. The poll commits Starknet to nothing yet, and the effort targets quantum safety by 2027.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin fell 3.7% to test $81,500, a level corresponding to Glassnode’s estimated ETF holding cost last dated Oct. 19. That cost basis acted as support in October after capping bitcoin’s May rally.

TREE NEWS reports: Spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted about $1.07 billion over three sessions, flipping October flows to a net gain of roughly $460 million, even as Bitcoin and Ethereum prices slipped. The three-day inflow streak erased the earlier October outflow and left the month positive.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin extended daily losses to 3% as US stocks came under pressure from President Donald Trump’s comments on Iran military action. The cryptocurrency was circling its ETF cost basis near $81,500, a level that has served as a reference point for ETF holders. The move came as equity markets reacted to the geopolitical remarks.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase’s Irish e-money unit admitted holding 30 institutional clients’ dollars in Coinbase Inc. accounts for 19 months and falling short on safeguarded cash every day for at least a year and a half. The unit accepted a $3.64 million penalty over the breaches. Coinbase said no customer lost money.

TREE NEWS update: Uniswap has added Aggregator Hooks to v4, routing swaps on Ethereum, Base and Robinhood Chain through seven external liquidity sources. Trades executed via those hooks now pay Uniswap protocol fees, with the revenue directed to the UNI burn.

TREE NEWS reports: Neoclouds such as CoreWeave and Nebius rent Nvidia GPUs to AI labs, and several of these GPU cloud providers began as crypto mining operations. The model has become a key source of compute for the AI boom, with crypto-native infrastructure evolving into AI cloud capacity.

TREE NEWS update: Ethereum developers have canceled the Glamsterdam upgrade scheduled for October 26 on the Hoodi testnet, telling node operators to run software without the fork. Mainnet activation of the upgrade remains undecided. The decision removes the planned testnet activation date while leaving the mainnet timeline open.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto trader Ansem said the bigger opportunity lies in building businesses around speculative trading rather than predicting the next meme coin to capture market attention. He noted that younger traders are increasingly accustomed to trading assets driven by internet culture, with behavior patterns that differ markedly from traditional investors. While hype around individual meme coins may keep rotating, demand for trading such assets is likely more durable, he added, saying he focuses on how developers can turn that persistent activity into sustainable business models and long-term value.