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TREE NEWS reports: Bitmine purchased 12,535 ETH last week, bringing its treasury to 6.04 million tokens and its total investment holdings to $15.1 billion. The company did not disclose the purchase price or the source of funds for the acquisition.

TREE NEWS update: Huawei’s Yinwang, CATL and Times Electric Service signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement to jointly build a smart battery-swap ecosystem, targeting a “seamless energy replenishment” experience for the autonomous-driving era. CATL chairman and CEO Robin Zeng, Huawei senior vice president and Yinwang CEO Jin Yuzhi, and CATL market system co-president Yang Jun attended and witnessed the signing.

TREE NEWS update: Gate has completed USDT-denominated dividend settlements for 88 US-listed stocks and ETFs, including Intuit (INTU) and Thermo Fisher (TMO), the exchange announced. Payouts were distributed proportionally to users holding the relevant shares at snapshot time, with no action required. The distribution covers stocks with corporate dividend dates from Oct. 13 to Oct. 16, 2026, spanning sectors from technology and semiconductors to REITs and utilities.

TREE NEWS reports: Machi Big Brother’s Papertrade account held just $5,682 after he nearly depleted the $261,000 deposited the previous day, Lookonchain data shows. Trading losses reached $779,000, partly offset by $394,000 in USDC staking rewards, leaving a net loss of $382,000.

TREE NEWS update: THORChain has kept ZEC swaps halted after a bug triggered a vault slash, with onchain records showing about 140 RUNE deducted from 18 node accounts. A fix is scheduled for the v3.21 upgrade around Oct. 23.

TREE NEWS update: THORChain plans to deploy its v3.21 upgrade at block 28,366,100 around Oct. 23, aiming to fix the exploit that halted the network and restart Rujira. Rujira intends to request a conditional 24-hour liquidation grace period for borrowers as part of the restart. The upgrade and grace-period request are tied to recovery from the exploit.

TREE NEWS update: Strive added 1,223 bitcoin late last week, bringing its total holdings to 36,818 BTC after a 4,045 BTC week. The bitcoin treasury company’s new 15% preferred stock is scheduled to settle on Tuesday as part of a $700 million SATS transaction.

TREE NEWS reports: A single whale is holding $141 million in combined long positions on bitcoin and ether. The position comprises 1,236 BTC worth $102.2 million and 15,928 ETH worth $38.67 million, indicating a heavily bullish bet on the two largest cryptocurrencies.

TREE NEWS update: Binance Alpha opened a second Concrete (CT) airdrop, letting users holding at least 255 Binance Alpha points claim 87 CT tokens on the Alpha event page. The points threshold will automatically drop by 5 every five minutes if the reward pool is not fully distributed. Claiming costs 15 Binance Alpha points, and users must confirm within 24 hours or forfeit the allocation.

TREE NEWS update: Strategy purchased $22 million in Bitcoin and bought back $193 million of its STRC preferred stock, raising its preferred stock buyback cap to $3 billion. The Bitcoin treasury firm now holds 848,517 BTC, acquired at an average price of $75,446.

TREE NEWS reports: Attackers still hold $287 million of crypto stolen across 60 exploits this year, Blockaid found, with funds that cannot be frozen. The security firm said hackers began moving stolen assets a median 17 minutes after each breach, and that less than 1% of the $1.18 billion taken had reached victims by September.

TREE NEWS update: Strategy raised the cap on its preferred-share buyback program to $3 billion after spending $193 million repurchasing STRC shares last week, roughly nine times what it spent on 267 new bitcoin in the same period. The company, chaired by Michael Saylor, disclosed the increased authorization alongside the weekly purchase figures.

TREE NEWS update: Strategy added 267 Bitcoin to its holdings while buying back 1.94 million STRC shares, a repurchase valued at $193 million, and raised its preferred stock buyback program to $3 billion. The company disclosed the Bitcoin purchase and the expanded buyback in the same update.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto markets rebounded on the 39th anniversary of the original “Black Monday” crash, with the material framing the recovery against the question of whether history will repeat itself. The note marks the date of the 1987 market crash and ties it to current crypto price action. No specific price levels, figures or named assets were provided in the source material.

TREE NEWS update: Strategy acquired another 267 bitcoin for $22 million, Michael Saylor’s firm said. The purchase adds to a holding that now equals roughly 4% of total bitcoin supply, with the company sitting on $5.9 billion in paper gains on its position.

TREE NEWS reports: World Liberty Financial’s USD1 stablecoin saw its market capitalization fall by more than $400 million over two weeks amid large redemptions on Ethereum and BNB Chain. The decline reflects sustained outflows from the stablecoin across the two networks.

TREE NEWS update: World, the identity project co-founded by Sam Altman, is extending its proof-of-human IDs to banks, citing a $40 billion AI fraud risk. Bain Capital, VanEck and Pantera Capital are among the design partners for the offering. The product also lets users delegate proofs to AI agents.

TREE NEWS update: The European Securities and Markets Authority added BingX, YouHodler and Banco Santander’s Openbank to its MiCA register in the latest update, bringing the total to 375 unique crypto-asset service providers. The register lists firms authorized to offer crypto services across the EU under the Markets in Crypto-Assets framework.

TREE NEWS reports: Uniswap v4’s upgradeable Hooks have spawned a new industry of tools for customizing trading rules, with v4 pools handling $39.7 billion in volume over the past 30 days — about half of Uniswap’s total and 64% of its fees. On Oct. 14, Uniswap deployed VolatilePair, a Hook charging different fees to buyers and sellers based on recent price volatility, after its StablePair Hook hit $3.1 billion in volume in four weeks. Bitquery found that only about a third of v4 pools on Robinhood Chain carried Hooks in early September, yet those pools generated 74.5% of trading volume.