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TREE NEWS update: D3 has tied its HYPE vault, built by Upshift, to early access for new domain name registrations, with Hyperion DeFi as launch partner. Deposits into the vault earn Frontier Points that grant priority for future registration, though domain purchases require separate funds.

TREE NEWS update: Decrypt is integrating Jupiter-powered trading into The Information Exchange, letting readers trade directly where they consume news, the crypto media outlet said. The feature is framed as part of a destination where readers can discover, understand and trade the news. No launch date, fee terms or supported assets were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: Circle minted $1.5 billion USDC on Solana in the past 24 hours through six transactions of $250 million each. Year-to-date in 2026, Circle has minted a cumulative $110.51 billion USDC on Solana. The minting reflects continued issuance of the stablecoin on the Solana network.

TREE NEWS update: Uniswap Labs launched Aggregator Hooks, giving Uniswap v4 aggregation capability that wraps external liquidity sources into v4 pools, live on the web app and API across Ethereum mainnet, Base and Robinhood Chain. Seven external sources including Curve, Fluid and PancakeSwap are supported on day one, with more networks to follow. Each block routes the best path between Uniswap pools and external sources and settles in a single transaction without new approvals; swaps pay a protocol fee used for UNI burns.

TREE NEWS update: Uniswap Labs launched aggregator hooks, enabling Uniswap v4 to route trades through liquidity held on external platforms. The feature went live on Ethereum, Base and Robinhood Chain. The hooks let the protocol tap outside liquidity sources rather than relying solely on its own pools.

TREE NEWS update: DFINITY founder Dom Williams alleged on X that NEAR Intents uses proprietary DFINITY technology, including a threshold ECDSA algorithm for cross-chain asset custody and transaction signing that he said is about three times faster than alternatives. He claimed NEAR deployed the technology on eight servers without delivering the promised decentralization and security, and said GitHub records show NEAR recently sought to downgrade to a roughly three-times-slower scheme. The allegations have not been independently verified.

TREE NEWS reports: Coinbase’s European policy head Katie Harries warned that the UK’s planned 2027 crypto rules risk creating a de facto ban on regulated firms offering access to DeFi. The rules, as currently framed, could leave regulated providers unable to route clients into decentralized finance, she argued, calling for a workable route to regulated DeFi access.

TREE NEWS update: Dune has launched real-time onchain trading data feeds covering trade data from more than 200 onchain venues across 12 blockchain networks. The new market feeds arrive as tokenized markets continue to expand.

TREE NEWS update: Some Kalshi Prime clients can now fund margin on the prediction market’s perpetual futures using loans from a lending affiliate, secured by Bitcoin and Ether held in BitGo custody. The arrangement lets eligible clients post crypto as collateral for margin without selling the underlying assets. Kalshi Prime is the exchange’s offering for professional traders.

TREE NEWS update: OKX has opened its Exchange OS Open API, giving developers and professional traders access to on-chain spot and perpetual contract trading interfaces, the exchange said on October 22. Developers can connect trading bots, terminals and other systems to fetch market data, manage orders and execute on-chain strategies, with trades self-custodied and verifiable on-chain. The API also supports the third season of its prediction campaign during public beta.

TREE NEWS update: Cysic has offered a settlement to the attacker who unauthorizedly minted 10 million CYS tokens, demanding the return of 275.872 ETH — about 90% of confirmed ETH proceeds — to a designated Cysic Foundation address within 72 hours of an on-chain notice. The attacker may keep the remaining roughly 30.652 ETH as a bug bounty. Cysic said it has reconstructed the key attack steps and retained technical and on-chain evidence, and will escalate to law enforcement for a full criminal investigation if the funds are not returned by the deadline.

TREE NEWS update: The NEM token contract NemTokenV2 was exploited for about $821,920, SlowMist said. The attacker moved tokens into a liquidity pool and repeatedly executed skim() and flushLpSellRecycle() 42 times, steadily depressing pool reserves before selling the remaining NEM at an inflated price for USDT. The attack involved the PancakeSwap USDT/NEM pair, and SlowMist published the attacker, attack contract and vulnerable NemTokenV2 addresses.

TREE NEWS reports: Twenty crypto trading frontends each booked at least $100,000 in revenue over the past 30 days, with six exceeding $1 million, as third-party frontends’ share of perpetual futures volume climbed from under 1% in early 2025 to about 20% by August. Phantom led the group at more than $7 million, followed by MetaMask at about $3.72 million and Trust Wallet at about $1.93 million, data through Oct. 21 shows.

TREE NEWS reports: Roughly 400,000 retail wallets that connected to Hyperliquid through six consumer apps have lost about $280 million in aggregate, with more than half of that total consumed by trading fees. About $126 million of the losses occurred after Nov. 10, 2025, during a rapid expansion of Hyperliquid’s consumer apps, and new traders show a three-month retention rate of about one in seven. Hyperliquid has bought back and burned more than $4 billion of HYPE using protocol fees.

TREE NEWS update: Starknet (STRK) token holders voted with more than 93.5% of voting power to support a research proposal exploring converting the network from an Ethereum Layer 2 into an independent, quantum-resistant Layer 1. StarkWare plans to publish a draft whitepaper in November to further study the technical path. The vote only backs research into the transition and does not formally approve it; any move would require further governance approval.

TREE NEWS reports: MAGMA rose more than 70% on October 22, with two traders opening 2x leveraged long positions on Aster DEX that together hold 1.5 million MAGMA, built at a value of about $775,000. The two positions now show combined unrealized profit of roughly $340,000, with a peak return of 105.84%.

TREE NEWS reports: Layer 2 scaling solutions are processing transactions off-chain and posting data or proofs back to Ethereum, easing pressure on the main network’s limited blockspace. Rollups, the dominant design, bundle transactions for cheaper and faster execution while still relying on Ethereum for settlement, security, data posting or verification. The approach keeps users from being priced out when base-chain fees climb.

TREE NEWS reports: Fourteen of 19 top DeFi tokens that distribute revenue to holders outperformed Bitcoin between Aug. 22 and Oct. 20, with Raydium up 178% and the group’s median gain at 12.9%, more than double Bitcoin’s 5.6% advance. Tokens in the dividend-growth group rose a median 18.3% versus 6.9% for the rest. Hyperliquid distributed $146.9 million to holders over the period, 59% of the sample total, yet its token gained just 6%.