Flash News

TREE NEWS update: Ledger has opened reservations for the Atom, a $849 data-only device that runs everyday Android-based apps separated from a secure chip, with delivery estimated for 2027. The hardware wallet maker is positioning the product as a move beyond crypto signing into general-purpose use.

TREE NEWS update: Starknet has opened its first vote on whether the Ethereum scaling network should research a move to its own independent post-quantum Layer 1 chain. STRK stakers and delegators have until Oct. 22 to cast a ballot, though a “Yes” result would not itself approve the switch.

TREE NEWS update: Jupiter Labs launched YOLO, a high-leverage trading product offering 500x to 1000x leverage, co-founder SIONG announced on X on October 15. Positions are settled against real market prices, but profits and losses are real, without executing large leveraged positions in the market. SIONG warned that payouts come from a liquidity pool, so withdrawals may queue if the pool lacks funds; the product remains an early experiment.

TREE NEWS reports: Nearly $1 billion in crypto positions were liquidated as hot inflation data revived Federal Reserve rate-hike bets, whipsawing Bitcoin and punishing leveraged bulls. The liquidation wave followed the inflation print, which shifted rate expectations back toward tightening.

TREE NEWS update: Crypto.com has launched Predict Pro, connecting US traders to OG.com Markets and adding order-book trading alongside sports combinations. Users can combine two to 20 predictions into a single position, with any losing leg making the entire combo a loss. The product marks an expansion of Crypto.com’s prediction-market offering into US-facing sports and event contracts.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin fell below $80,000 after September US producer price inflation overshot expectations by 100 basis points, the largest monthly gain since March 2022. BTC buyers attempted to defend the $80,000 support level following the hotter-than-expected PPI print.

TREE NEWS update: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said CoreWeave’s strength is growing daily and that its cost of capital is “actually falling,” adding that Nvidia does not need to provide support to the company. His remarks came as CoreWeave’s credit risk gauge hit a record in early US trading Thursday, with implied default probability reaching 60%. CoreWeave shares pared losses during Huang’s comments.

TREE NEWS update: Russia’s central bank said that from July 1, 2027, direct peer-to-peer cryptocurrency transactions between individuals will be banned and must be routed through authorized intermediaries. The regulator also said individuals will not be allowed to transfer crypto assets from digital accounts to their own non-custodial or self-custodial wallets.

TREE NEWS reports: Ether rose past $2,400 on October 15, trading at $2,400.52 per coin. The move leaves ETH down 1.21% over the past 24 hours, with the token crossing the round-number level despite the daily decline.

TREE NEWS update: Crypto.com has launched Predict Pro, a prediction market platform, for US users on its exchange. The platform routes through CFTC-registered exchange and clearing house OG.com Markets, offering real-time order book depth, probability charts and multiple order types, and allows users to combine predictions on 2 to 20 different markets into a single trade. Contracts typically settle automatically within one hour of an event’s outcome being determined.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin rose past $82,000, trading at $82,024.30 per coin with a 0.46% gain over the past 24 hours, OKX market data showed on October 15. The move extends the token’s advance above the $82,000 level.

TREE NEWS update: Aztec, the privacy-focused Layer 2, is targeting a full post-quantum migration by the end of 2030. The plan calls for hardened developer libraries in early 2027, and the complete migration also depends on changes to Ethereum itself. The timeline was disclosed without further detail on the specific cryptographic upgrades involved.

TREE NEWS update: CryptoQuant founder and CEO Ki Young Ju unveiled Analyst Consensus, a platform aggregating over 1.3 million opinions from 878 analysts across X, Substack and Seeking Alpha, including 140,000 bitcoin calls. The service uses AI to automatically read each view, tag it bullish or bearish and score it, distilling the analyst crowd’s market stance into a single indicator. Coverage spans major altcoins and some stocks, and access is currently free with no paywall.

TREE NEWS update: OKX opened a beta for onchain spot and perpetuals trading that includes simulated TradFi trading. The launch comes with a points competition sharing a 250,000 USDT reward pool with Outcomes. Funded trading is scheduled to follow after the contest ends.

TREE NEWS update: Polygon Labs released Bor v2.10.3 on October 15, patching two medium-severity denial-of-service vulnerabilities in BlockSTM V2 parallel block execution. The flaws involve an uncapped shared Keccak-256 cache and repeated computation of smart contract code hashes during parallel execution, affecting Bor v2.10.1 and v2.10.2 where BlockSTM V2 is enabled by default. Polygon said neither vulnerability has been exploited on mainnet or the Amoy testnet.

TREE NEWS reports: CoreWeave Inc.’s credit risk hit an all-time high on Oct. 15, with the cost of five-year default protection rising as much as 74.5 basis points to 1,194.5 basis points intraday, the highest on record, ICE Data Services data showed. Credit default swaps now imply a more than 60% probability of default within five years. The AI cloud company’s 2031 bonds due at 9% fell about 3.3 cents to 79.9 cents on the dollar, yielding 15.6%.

TREE NEWS reports: Tether routed payments to a firm tied to Hines during his White House tenure, the Wall Street Journal reported. The Journal said Nxum earned $6.3 million from the arrangement. A firm representative said Hines received no Tether-derived funds while in government.

TREE NEWS update: Starknet on Thursday opened a seven-day poll asking STRK holders whether to research an independent post-quantum Layer 1. The vote concerns a possible new chain designed to address quantum-computing risks. No timeline or technical details beyond the research question were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Russia plans to ban direct peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trades from July 1, 2027. Separate rules already in force prohibit transfers from digital accounts to self-custody wallets. The measure targets direct transactions between individuals, extending the state’s restrictions on moving crypto assets outside regulated venues.

TREE NEWS update: Firelight has added $30.5 million of coverage to the Kraken USDC vault, with payouts to be handled by Sentora rather than guaranteed by Kraken. Depositors face a $100,000 cap per address per coverage period. The coverage applies to the Kraken USDC vault.