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TREE NEWS update: eMudhra disclosed that a certificate-key flaw went undetected through two independent audit cycles, prompting emergency trust updates. One recovered private key was just 4, the company said. The weak keys affect certificate trust and have triggered urgent remediation across relying parties.

TREE NEWS update: California’s financial regulator said the SEC’s proposal to exempt certain digital asset issuances from securities registration would undercut states’ ability to protect investors. In a comment letter to the SEC, officials said the plan would give federal rules precedence and displace state registration requirements, leaving investors without protection against fraudulent or abusive offerings. The letter was shared with Bloomberg Law ahead of the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation’s statement on Wednesday.

TREE NEWS update: Matter Labs has made Prividium Commander generally available at launch, a control plane for bank digital-asset operations. CEO Alex Gluchowski said revenue from the product goes to Matter Labs rather than ZKsync tokenholders.

TREE NEWS update: Kazakhstan’s Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) regulator will serve injunctions against Coinbase, HTX and four other unlicensed platforms to Apple and Google after a court declined to order the tech companies directly. The injunctions were won against the six platforms for operating without a license. The regulator is now turning to the app store operators to enforce the orders.

TREE NEWS update: Mastercard has opened its Agent Pay for Machines pilot to developers, adding buyer- and seller-side APIs, a toolkit and a sandbox for testing. The program, which lets autonomous AI agents transact on behalf of users, remains a noncommercial pilot. The developer tools are meant to extend testing of machine-to-machine payments ahead of any commercial rollout.

TREE NEWS update: Yuga Labs launched Mudwater trading-card NFTs on Solana, with each Bored Ape qualifying for 10 packs and each Mutant Ape for two. OpenSea reports 78.3 ETH in pack trading volume.

TREE NEWS update: The U.S. Department of Justice has restrained $938 million in a nationwide crackdown on crypto scams, Attorney General Todd Blanche said, describing an initiative that deploys dozens of prosecutors across all 94 U.S. Attorneys’ Offices. President Donald Trump touted the enforcement push. The figure covers funds restrained under the scam prosecution effort.

TREE NEWS update: Tether has invested in Bolivian fintech Peso to support its expansion across four Latin American markets, where the company connects stablecoin payments to merchant services and local banking networks. The investment will back Peso’s push to link USDT payments to food delivery and banking services. Tether did not disclose the size of the investment.

TREE NEWS reports: Tesla reported third-quarter revenue of $28.05 billion, essentially flat year over year, with adjusted earnings per share of $0.48 beating the $0.45 consensus. GAAP net income fell 43% to $787 million and operating income dropped 56% to $718 million, while free cash flow came in at $1.53 billion against expectations of negative $4.921 billion. The company did not sell any bitcoin in the quarter and still holds 11,509 BTC, including $288 million in unrealized gains on the holdings in its GAAP net income.

TREE NEWS update: US President Donald Trump did not use the word “crypto” once during a White House roundtable on cybercrime, detailing numerous schemes defrauding Americans but referring only to “cybercurrency” in connection with scams. The remarks came at an event focused on online fraud. The material did not specify the date of the roundtable or which other participants attended.

TREE NEWS update: Binance excluded a nearly three-hour window from one funding settlement for its US equity perpetual futures after intermittent network connectivity issues at a large US overnight trading system, Blue Ocean. The exchange adjusted the funding calculation to account for the outage period. The incident affected Binance’s US stock perpetual contracts.

TREE NEWS reports: All three major US indexes closed higher on October 22, with the Dow up 0.42%, the Nasdaq up 0.41% and the S&P 500 up 0.22%. Among key names, SPCX rose 7.64%, Strategy (MSTR) gained 7.62%, BitMine (BMNR) added 5.26%, Circle (CRCL) climbed 4.53%, and MARA and Coinbase (COIN) each rose 4.07%.

TREE NEWS update: Dolomite has added $100 million in Bitcoin-backed collateral from Concrete, allowing Concrete to borrow against Bitcoin held at BitGo. Liquidations require offchain custody settlement rather than an instant onchain sale, meaning positions cannot be closed immediately through a decentralized exchange.

TREE NEWS reports: Krak and PayPal support personal payments between the US and UK, while Cash App requires US residency. Conversion terms and bank withdrawal conditions determine the total cost of a transfer beyond the in-app fee.

TREE NEWS reports: A hypothetical 100-contract trade bought at 40 cents and sold at 60 cents yields nearly identical taker profits on Polymarket US and Kalshi. The analysis found that resting orders and the method used to fund an account can change the comparison between the platforms.

TREE NEWS reports: JPMorgan Asset Management has for the first time included bitcoin in its long-term capital market assumptions, forecasting a 10% annualized return over the next decade that could beat stocks, bonds and gold. The firm assumes 55% annualized volatility for bitcoin, more than three times that of U.S. large-cap stocks, and said it has not yet added bitcoin to its main portfolio models because its correlation with other assets is unstable.

TREE NEWS update: Microsoft said that in September 2026 the hacking group Storm-0940 used an artificial intelligence framework called Artex to launch automated attacks against hundreds of organizations worldwide. In several cases the Artex-driven attacks gained privileged cloud access in under three hours. Storm-0940 is assessed to be behind the recently disclosed ConnectWise multi-tenant application supply-chain attack, and its password-spraying campaign targeted 327 accounts at eight organizations between October 10 and 14.