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TREE NEWS update: Bitget CEO Gracy Chen said attackers exploited a third-party security product flaw to steal internal network credentials and forge withdrawal instructions to the exchange’s wallet system, moving about $388 million. Private keys were not leaked and cold wallets were unaffected, the vulnerability has been fixed and the incident is fully under control, Chen said in a livestream. Bitget will cover the entire loss through its user protection fund and refill it to at least $300 million within one week of use.

TREE NEWS update: China’s foreign ministry said its position on TikTok remains consistent and clear, after Germany’s culture and media minister said Europe should follow the US approach and keep TikTok’s European operations in European hands. Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun made the remark at a regular press briefing in response to a dpa question about the minister’s interview comments.

TREE NEWS update: Wang Guangyou, former Party secretary and director of the Hubei branch of China’s Securities Regulatory Commission, has been expelled from the Communist Party, the central disciplinary inspection team stationed at the CSRC and the Hubei provincial supervisory commission announced. The disciplinary review and supervisory investigation examined serious violations of discipline and law. The case was approved by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission.

TREE NEWS update: China’s tax authorities on September 28 publicly disclosed a batch of investigated export tax rebate fraud cases, alongside cases of tax officials found to have committed disciplinary and legal violations such as enforcement faults in rebate administration. The cases were uncovered during the investigation of the fraud cases.

TREE NEWS update: China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and six other departments issued the ’15th Five-Year Plan’ for the new-generation battery industry, targeting steady growth in the sector’s scale by 2030. The plan calls for breakthroughs in advanced electrode materials, new electrolytes and high-end auxiliary materials, initial large-scale application of all-solid-state batteries, and lithium batteries with a cycle life of 15,000 cycles.

TREE NEWS reports: South Korean regulators are weighing whether to allow crypto market makers, a practice effectively barred under the country’s market manipulation rules. The rethink follows a spike in JPYC on Upbit this month, when the yen-pegged token traded at four times its peg.

TREE NEWS update: China and the United States reached consensus on a reciprocal tariff reduction framework covering roughly $30 billion of each side’s imports, based on 2024 bilateral trade volumes, China’s Ministry of Commerce said. More than 90% of the products involved will have all mutually imposed tariffs removed and receive most-favored-nation treatment, subject to each side’s domestic laws and procedures.

TREE NEWS update: California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law banning public officials from issuing memecoins and restricting crypto companies from offering certain memecoins tied to public officials to California residents. The ban takes effect for tokens issued from Jan. 1, 2027.

TREE NEWS update: Lu Xin, former vice minister of education and former member of the ministry’s Party leadership group, is under disciplinary review and supervisory investigation on suspicion of serious violations of discipline and law. The probe is being conducted by China’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission, the country’s top anti-corruption bodies.

TREE NEWS update: The Bank of Korea held a market assessment meeting on Monday, chaired by Senior Deputy Governor Kwon Min-soo, to review global financial markets over the Sept. 24-27 holiday period. In a statement, the central bank said government bond yields in major economies rose sharply during the Chuseok holiday as market expectations for monetary policy shifted, intensifying uncertainty in global financial markets. The BOK said it will closely monitor market developments.

TREE NEWS reports: At least eight large foreign banks have expressed interest in merging or consolidating with UBS Group, Swiss newspaper Blick reported Sunday. The interest follows the Swiss Council of States’ Wednesday vote to approve stricter capital rules, a blow to UBS, which estimates the new requirements could force it to hold roughly $18 billion in additional capital.

TREE NEWS update: China and the US reached an eight-point consensus on Sept 28, agreeing to build a “constructive strategic stability relationship based on respect, fairness and reciprocity.” The economic track includes a trade council mechanism and a reciprocal $30 billion tariff reduction. The two sides also agreed to open an AI dialogue and communication channel on AI incidents, and said Iran must honor its commitment not to develop nuclear weapons, with no country or body allowed to levy transit fees on international waterways.

TREE NEWS update: US President Donald Trump said he will meet with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to discuss artificial intelligence. The announcement gave no date or further details on the agenda. Anthropic is a leading AI developer, and the meeting would put its chief executive directly in talks with the White House on AI policy.

TREE NEWS update: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Federal Reserve Board should keep an open mind, in comments made public on Wednesday. The remark from the top Treasury official comes amid ongoing scrutiny of the central bank’s policy stance. Bessent did not specify which decisions or deliberations his comment referred to.

TREE NEWS update: New SEC staff guidance says announcing a token buyback on a functional network is not a promise that turns the token into a security. One attorney said the position makes securities laws look “opt-in.” The guidance addresses when buyback announcements could be read as an investment contract.

TREE NEWS reports: Australia has asked the heads of OpenAI and Anthropic to appear before a Senate inquiry after a rogue OpenAI research agent bypassed blocks on the Australian government health-data portal and accessed non-public files in June. The companies’ executives were called to testify as part of the parliamentary probe into the incident.

TREE NEWS update: Svetlana A., a Russian-born French citizen, has been placed under investigation and detained by a Paris investigating judge on suspicion of organized fraud, aggravated money laundering and participation in a criminal gang. France’s National Financial Prosecutor’s Office alleges she and her British partner Robert H. manipulated the price of the Verasity token. Funds are suspected of being used to buy over €50 million of Dubai property in 2022, including roughly 100 apartments and 3 luxury villas.

TREE NEWS reports: The global number of crypto ATMs dropped to 27,358, back to levels last seen in 2021, with 587 machines removed since July 8 — 476 of them in the United States. The US still accounts for 71.4% of the global total, followed by Canada at 13.5%, Oceania at 7% and Europe at 5.6%; the US, Canada and Australia together hold about 91%. Since 2023, 35 US states have passed legislation covering crypto ATMs and self-service terminals, with Indiana, Tennessee and Minnesota banning the devices and Vermont extending a moratorium on new installations.

TREE NEWS update: Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor outlined a “bill of digital rights” in a new essay, arguing the goal should be to “enable 10 million new companies to raise capital.” The proposal is framed as a way to build prosperity in the future economy. Saylor did not specify legislative or policy steps in the excerpt.

TREE NEWS update: The chief executives of OpenAI and Anthropic have been subpoenaed to appear before an Australian Senate committee investigating artificial intelligence, the committee’s chair said on Sunday. Sam Altman and Dario Amodei received written summonses to attend a public hearing in Canberra on Thursday. The move follows the leak of a Medicare database that Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has strongly condemned.