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TREE NEWS update: Alibaba Cloud will adjust the official annual and multi-year discount rates for its ApsaraDB for ClickHouse and ApsaraDB for SelectDB prepaid products starting at midnight Beijing time on December 1, 2026. The new discounts apply to one-, two-, three-, four- and five-year orders, including new purchases, renewals and configuration changes. Products within the adjustment scope will be billed at the new rates once they take effect.

TREE NEWS update: Binance’s hot wallet was hacked for $6.3 billion in the early hours of Oct. 30, with roughly $3 billion of affected assets frozen but about $3.3 billion still freely transferable by attackers. An initial investigation points to a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop used to access service containers and submit unauthorized withdrawal transactions. The breach came the night after Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin warned on a podcast that centralized defenses are more fragile than decentralized ones.

TREE NEWS update: Crypto liquidations exceeded $1.54 billion on Friday morning after an attack on Binance triggered a market-wide selloff, with long positions accounting for about $1.29 billion, or more than 80% of the total. Binance said attackers stole roughly $6.3 billion, with the investigation pointing to a compromised laptop belonging to a DevOps engineer. Bitcoin fell to $76,320 before rebounding to $78,400, still down 2% over 24 hours and 5% below its level at the start of the month.

TREE NEWS reports: An address closed long positions in 1,000 BTC and 10,000 ETH after holding them for four months, booking more than $20 million in profit. The same address then opened a 20x short position on 13,000 ETH worth $29 million, reversing its directional bet on the asset.

TREE NEWS reports: Tron’s total transaction count has passed 16 billion, reaching 16,007,883,862, TRONSCAN data show. Nansen research cited in the announcement put Tron’s stablecoin settlement volume at $2.21 trillion in the third quarter of 2026, up 5.1% quarter-on-quarter. The network now has 411 million total accounts and more than $27.7 billion in total value locked.

TREE NEWS update: Cursor AI identified a security incident involving a modified Claude Code VS Code extension distributed through the Cursor IDE extension marketplace, affecting no more than 5,000 users. The malicious version was not developed by Anthropic. Cursor has delisted the extension, worked with service providers to remove the malware, and the marketplace is back online.

TREE NEWS reports: Trader dimethyltryptamine.eth (0x4a2C…0614), who spent 0.125 ETH ($251) to buy 5.9 trillion PEPE — a position worth $100 million at its peak — has bought another 45.08 billion PEPE worth $206,500 after a Binance hacker finished selling PEPE, on-chain tracker Lookonchain shows. The new purchase adds to one of the most profitable memecoin trades on record.

TREE NEWS reports: A Bitcoin short position worth $13.74 million was liquidated during a market rebound, involving 174.86 BTC, on-chain data from Lookonchain shows. The liquidation adds to a wave of short squeezes as BTC prices recovered.

TREE NEWS update: Trezor said its security team received a responsible-disclosure report alleging that a Trezor Safe 5 purchased from Southeast Asian distributor CryptoBilis contained a hardware trojan. The device, bought via Tokopedia in August 2026, reportedly had an extra circuit board with a cellular module and antenna between the motherboard and screen that could read the display and transmit data over mobile networks when powered on. Trezor has not physically verified the device but deemed the report credible and issued the warning; it removed CryptoBilis from its official reseller list on October 9.

TREE NEWS update: Trezor has advised buyers of its Safe 5 hardware wallet purchased through CryptoBilis to move their funds following a report of an implant. The company said it has not yet examined the Safe 5 device in question and that no CryptoBilis buyer has reported losing funds.

TREE NEWS reports: The market capitalization of JAGENT, a meme coin on the BNB Smart Chain, surpassed $8 million, GMGN data showed. JAGENT is a fair-mint meme coin built around Binance’s AI Agent ID ecosystem. The token’s rise comes as meme coins tied to AI-agent branding continue to draw trading interest on BSC.

TREE NEWS update: Uniswap v4 launched aggregator Hooks on October 22, packaging external liquidity sources into standard v4 pools across Ethereum mainnet, Base and Robinhood Chain. The feature supports seven external sources including Curve, Fluid and PancakeSwap, and Uniswap says it now covers over 90% of DEX activity on those chains. Trades routed through wrapped pools still incur fees used for UNI burns, though data shows $2.85 billion routed since April generated just $2,059 in fees, 85% from Sky’s LitePSM at zero fee.

TREE NEWS update: Upbit will terminate trading support for Blur (BLUR) at 14:00 on November 30, the South Korean exchange said. The notice did not give a reason for the delisting. BLUR holders on Upbit have until that time to adjust their positions.

TREE NEWS reports: Alphabet fell 12.64% to $283.82 on Thursday, erasing $482 billion in market value after third-quarter revenue missed estimates, while Amazon and Intel also disappointed after the bell and Nasdaq futures dropped 1.88%. Binance said $6.3 billion in assets were affected in the largest crypto attack on the exchange, with withdrawals briefly suspended and BTC falling below $77,000 before trading at $78,329. Strategy reported $20.9 billion in third-quarter operating profit, all from bitcoin fair-value gains, as its BTC Yield fell 3.7% year-to-date and CFO Andrew Kang departed.

TREE NEWS update: Bithumb said it will terminate trading support for Blur (BLUR) and Core (CORE) on Nov. 30, 2026, at 15:00 KST, with withdrawal support ending Dec. 30, 2026, at 15:00 KST. The exchange said BLUR’s submitted materials did not adequately resolve issues tied to its designation as a trading-warning asset, while CORE was delisted because the reasons for its trading-warning designation were not resolved. API trading will stop and open orders will be canceled after delisting.

TREE NEWS update: Michael Saylor said Strategy could create up to $30 billion in digital credit without new common-stock fundraising or further Bitcoin price gains, as the company plans additional BTC purchases. The remarks point to the firm’s capacity to keep expanding its Bitcoin holdings through credit instruments rather than equity issuance.

TREE NEWS reports: TRM Labs has attributed the $6.3 billion Binance hack to North Korea’s TraderTraitor group with high confidence, the blockchain analytics firm said. Separately, on-chain investigator ZachXBT identified stolen funds from the Binance and Bitget hacks converging at the same address, linking the two incidents.

TREE NEWS update: Sunwoda said its all-solid-state battery has completed product design and process validation and is now being sent to customers for sample testing, the Chinese battery maker disclosed on an investor interaction platform. The company did not specify which customers are involved or provide a timeline for the testing phase.

TREE NEWS update: Binance has suspended all deposit and withdrawal functions after suffering a $6.3 billion hack, described as the largest in crypto history, the exchange said. Binance pledged to absorb all losses from the breach. The incident comes as global tech stocks fell, with Nasdaq futures down 2% and Asian chip shares sharply lower.

TREE NEWS update: Binance confirmed a $6.3 billion hack and said it has frozen about $3 billion of the stolen assets. With its SAFU insurance fund holding 15,000 BTC worth roughly $1.157 billion, the exchange faces a remaining shortfall of about $2.14 billion. That equals roughly 1.65% of its $129.4 billion in customer assets and about 12.6% of its estimated 2025 revenue.