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TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin’s long-term on-chain trend remains bullish, but short-term indicators are flashing caution, with a widely followed trend model’s stop line at $79,654 — less than 3% below current prices. September CPI rose 3.7% year-on-year, the 10-year Treasury yield has hovered near 5.2%, and miners holding nearly 1.8 million BTC may sell reserves to fund AI data-center expansion. Futures price a near-90% chance of a December rate hike.

TREE NEWS update: Initia said it will migrate its USDC from Noble to Injective as Circle prepares to discontinue USDC on Noble. Initia Labs has built a redemption vault so users need not act: new USDC deposits will arrive as USDC.inj, while existing USDC.n remains usable and is automatically converted to USDC.inj on transfer. Users can also convert 1:1 via Initia Wallet. After January 12, 2027, Circle will redeem only Noble USDC held in wallets.

TREE NEWS reports: CoreWeave’s 9.75% 2031 bonds briefly yielded 15.70%, with the spread over Treasuries widening to a peak of 1,071 basis points from 472, Goldman Sachs strategist David Curtin noted. The company’s five-year credit default swaps closed at a record 1,117 basis points, implying about a 63% probability of default within five years. France’s 30-year yield rose roughly 130 basis points at its peak since the Iran war began, with the OAT-Bund spread touching 142 basis points.

TREE NEWS update: Aster bought back 2.72 million ASTER tokens between Oct. 5 and Oct. 19 (UTC), using 99% of daily fees for the repurchase, and burned an equal amount from the team allocation, the platform said. Since its tokenomics upgrade on June 17, Aster has burned about 32.31 million ASTER, with total burn plans having destroyed roughly 210 million ASTER. Estimated staking yields stand at 4.53% for a 26-week lock and 24.8% for a 208-week lock.

TREE NEWS update: South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb will list the CT token on its Korean won market, with trading scheduled to open at 19:00 local time on Oct. 19. The exchange announced the listing in an official notice. No further details on the token were provided.

TREE NEWS update: Datagroup said on 19 May that a Russian ballistic missile strike destroyed its data center in Kyiv, disabling all equipment and infrastructure. The facility cannot be repaired or returned to operation, the Ukrainian company said, adding that no employees were injured. Datagroup said it will continue serving customers through backup sites.

TREE NEWS update: Cysic Foundation said its cross-chain bridge was attacked on Oct. 17, when 10 million CYS were minted without authorization on BNB Chain, representing 1% of the token’s 1 billion supply. The attacker sold about 7.2 million CYS within roughly 28 minutes, netting about $727,000 via 306.6 ETH after bridging proceeds to Ethereum. Cysic has suspended the bridge and said the mainnet and user wallets were not directly affected.

TREE NEWS update: Elon Musk said on X that next year he will give one SpaceX share he owns to every child in the United States, calling it “the first of many” steps. The post, dated October 19, gave no further details on eligibility, timing or how the shares would be distributed.

TREE NEWS update: Elon Musk said he will give one share of SpaceX from his personal holdings to every child in the United States next year. The pledge, announced without further detail on eligibility, timing or mechanics, would distribute shares of the privately held rocket company to minors. SpaceX is not publicly traded, and no information was given on how the transfer would be structured or valued.

TREE NEWS reports: US spot Ether ETFs have recorded about $955 million in net outflows so far in October, while Bitcoin funds extended their weekly withdrawal streak to two weeks. Combined, Bitcoin and Ether ETFs shed $549 million. The figures point to sustained investor withdrawals from US spot crypto exchange-traded funds.

TREE NEWS update: AlphaEngine (熵简科技) announced on Oct. 19 that it closed a Series C funding round led by Ant Group, with Dongfang Guoxin and Qiaobei Capital participating. After the round, Ant Group and AlphaEngine will deepen cooperation in AI financial agent development and training domain-specific AI financial models.

TREE NEWS update: South Korean crypto exchange Upbit will list the CT token on its KRW, BTC and USDT markets, with trading set to begin at 18:00 local time on Oct. 19. The listing gives the token access to Upbit’s Korean won, bitcoin and tether trading pairs.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin broke above $83,000 on October 19, trading at $83,036.60 per coin. The move marks a 2.29% gain within the day.

TREE NEWS update: IoTeX activated its Zanzibar hard fork on mainnet at block height 53,533,081. Under IIP-59, voter rewards are now calculated and distributed on-chain each reward era, removing off-chain services and intermediaries, with the first on-chain payout due the following day. The upgrade also adds proof-of-possession checks on delegate keys to strengthen consensus and prepare for BLS signature aggregation; node operators must upgrade to iotex-core v2.5.1 without config changes or resyncing.

TREE NEWS reports: Three addresses believed to belong to the same entity redeemed assets from Ethena and deposited 18.085 million ENA, worth about $3.64 million, into Binance within one hour, on-chain analyst Ai Yi monitored on October 19. The deposits were made at an average price of $0.2013 per token.

TREE NEWS update: Galaxy Space (Beijing) Technology Group acquired a 3.5% stake in Beijing Shengfan Technology, a satellite flexible solar wing developer. Shengfan was founded in November 2024 with registered capital of 7.524 million yuan and legal representative Wang Ju. The company focuses on the R&D and production of flexible solar wings for satellites.