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TREE NEWS update: PancakeSwap’s core team, Kitchen, has proposed a governance plan called ‘The Flip’ that would raise the share of trading fees paid to liquidity providers on v3 and Infinity pools to 88% across all 11 supported blockchains. The plan would also cut CAKE daily emissions from 22,500 to 7,000 tokens, a roughly 69% reduction. It is now in community discussion and will go to a Snapshot vote.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin broke above $84,000, trading at $84,005.00, up 0.69% over the past 24 hours. The move marks a fresh push past the $84,000 level for the largest cryptocurrency.

TREE NEWS update: PancakeSwap has put forward a discussion-stage proposal to direct 88% of LP fees to liquidity providers and cut CAKE emissions by 69%. Under the plan, remaining v3 and Infinity fees would go to the treasury, while v2’s CAKE burn mechanism would stay in place. The proposal remains under discussion and has not been put to a vote.

TREE NEWS reports: A TRUMP team distribution address moved $11.78 million worth of TRUMP tokens to a new wallet after 12 days of inactivity, on-chain analyst AI Yi reported. The analyst said the tokens may be deposited into an exchange. Twelve days earlier, the same address sent $8.87 million in TRUMP to wallet 52RDq…rkaD1, which was later deposited into OKX via two addresses.

TREE NEWS reports: OneKey maintainer Yishi published a guide arguing a disconnected iPhone is only one precaution, not a cold wallet on its own. He sets a floor of iPhone 17 or newer running iOS 27 or above, with migration to a newer device every one to two years, citing BFU/AFU key states, USB attack surfaces and forensic vendors. CBP logged 55,318 device searches in fiscal 2025, including 4,396 advanced searches.

TREE NEWS update: Robinhood co-founder and CEO Vlad Tenev said on Oct. 14 that Robinhood Social is now open to all users. The feature began as a way to share verified trading records and now lets users post charts, profit-and-loss figures and portfolio allocations, follow traders they trust, and receive real-time news and company updates.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin’s hashprice stands at $39.05 per PH/s per day with network hashrate around 1,014 EH/s, putting a 270 TH/s Antminer S21 XP at roughly $10.54 in daily gross revenue. mempool.space projects the next difficulty adjustment will rise 4.82% in 552 blocks, trimming that machine’s daily revenue to about $10.04. CoinShares put Q2 2026 listed-miner weighted average cash cost at about $75,500 per bitcoin.

TREE NEWS reports: Nansen CEO transferred three tokens worth $1.41 million into Coinbase about an hour before the on-chain observation. The transfer comprised 382 ETH ($957,000), 1 million LDO ($423,000) and 14 YFI ($33,000).

TREE NEWS update: South Korean crypto exchange Upbit said it will delist BLAST spot trading at 12:00 local time on October 26. The exchange disclosed the planned removal of the token’s spot market on October 14.

TREE NEWS update: South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit said it will delist BLAST spot trading at 12:00 local time on October 26. The exchange announced plans to remove the token’s spot market on October 14.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin fell below $81,000 during Asian trading on October 13 before recovering above $83,000, while South Korea’s KOSPI closed down 5.46% and roughly $800 million in crypto positions were liquidated, 86% of them longs. US spot bitcoin ETFs saw about $681 million in net outflows in the week of October 5-9, and Strategy bought only 250 BTC that week at an average price of $86,194. MSCI’s review of non-operating companies is due by October 16.

TREE NEWS reports: OpenAI is in early acquisition talks with New York-based cybersecurity company Trail of Bits, with no deal value disclosed and no public confirmation from either side. The move would add a security research and engineering team to OpenAI’s business lines. Trail of Bits, founded in 2012 and staffed at around 40 people, has audited smart contracts for Uniswap, Aave, Worldcoin and Arbitrum, and maintains open-source tools including Slither, Echidna and Manticore.

TREE NEWS reports: Hong Kong actor and singer Alex Fong has disclosed that he lost a large amount of money investing in NFTs. Fong, born in Hong Kong on February 26, 1980, was a swimmer before entering the entertainment industry in 2001. He did not specify the size of the loss or which NFT projects were involved.

TREE NEWS update: Starknet has introduced Shadow Accounts, a wallet privacy feature that lets users obscure the connection between their main wallets and their DeFi activity. Transactions remain visible onchain, but the link between a user’s primary wallet and that activity is hidden. The feature is aimed at users who want to keep their DeFi positions separate from their main wallet identity.

TREE NEWS reports: Starknet has introduced ‘Shadow Accounts,’ a wallet privacy feature that lets users hide the connection between their main wallet and their DeFi activity. Transactions remain visible on-chain, but the link between the user’s primary wallet and that activity is concealed. The feature is aimed at users who want to separate their DeFi positions from their main wallet identity.

TREE NEWS update: Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing said its carbon marketplace Core Climate completed its first cross-border pilot for green certificates and carbon emission allowances. The pilot marks an initial step in connecting Hong Kong’s carbon trading platform with cross-border green certificate and allowance settlement. No transaction volume or participant names were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase published its priorities for Bitcoin’s post-quantum transition, calling for early preparation on signature upgrades and fund migration. The exchange said flexible designs should be the key priority as the network weighs how to move existing coins to quantum-resistant cryptography.

TREE NEWS reports: Coinbase has announced its priorities for Bitcoin’s post-quantum transition, urging early preparation for signature upgrades and fund migration. The exchange stated that flexible design should be a core priority as the network examines ways to migrate existing coins to quantum-resistant cryptography.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitwise’s Matt Hougan said nearly every fundamental indicator the firm tracks spiked sharply higher in the third quarter, pointing to what he called a “crypto spring.” The comment came as Bitwise’s Q3 chart data showed broad gains across the metrics it monitors.