TREE NEWS reports: A newly created wallet, 0xb15b, was liquidated multiple times over the past 10 hours, with a cumulative 8,163 ETH worth $19.78 million liquidated. The repeated liquidations hit the single wallet within a 10-hour window.
TREE NEWS reports: Deposits in cryptocurrency “vaults” have grown from $4 billion at the start of last year to more than $10 billion, with fintech firms, digital-asset treasury managers and hedge funds as the main depositors. The vaults run on smart contracts on DeFi platforms, each overseen by a manager who selects lending strategies, sets risk limits and charges fees. Yields typically range from 3% to 10%, with riskier strategies reaching 20% or more, exposing depositors to collateral, liquidity and smart-contract risks.
TREE NEWS update: Zcash builder Zakura has proposed a design that assigns a separate viewing key to each shielded address used in a NEAR Intents swap, so a future quantum attacker who breaks one key would see only that single swap. The proposal is still under review. It aims to close a quantum privacy gap in shielded transactions routed through NEAR Intents.
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 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: 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: 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 reports: A wallet opened 10 hours ago shorted 13,826 ETH with 25x leverage, a position worth $33.5 million, and was partially liquidated as ETH price rebounded. The address still holds a short of 8,849 ETH worth $21.4 million, with a new liquidation price of $2,430.28.
TREE NEWS reports: Crypto attacks caused $1.18 billion in losses in the third quarter, with about 77% of the damage linked to issues including insufficient audit coverage. The figure underscores persistent security weaknesses as losses mount across the sector. Separately, 10x Research said the altcoin rebound has faded, with tracked tokens falling an average of 14% last week.
TREE NEWS reports: The crypto industry suffered 107 security incidents and $1.18 billion in losses in the third quarter of 2026, up 55% quarter over quarter. About $906.8 million of the losses stemmed from compromised vendors or developer tools, unpatched known vulnerabilities and components left outside the scope of the latest audits. The largest single incident was an attack on Bitget that cost at least $352 million.
TREE NEWS update: Qubic froze its blockchain after an attacker drained 1,400 wallets by exploiting weak seed phrases, the project said. 87.1% of the stolen funds remain onchain and the rest were frozen at crypto exchange MEXC, it added, as network validators prepare to vote on a recovery plan.
TREE NEWS reports: An address shorted 13,830 ETH at $2,366 late Tuesday, a position worth $32.72 million. When ETH rebounded to $2,409 at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, 2,765 ETH of the position was liquidated at a value of $6.66 million. The remaining 11,061 ETH short, worth $26.64 million, carries a liquidation price of $2,419, just $9 above the current price.
TREE NEWS update: Cysic has suspended its bridge after an attacker minted 10 million CYS tokens and bridged roughly $727,000 in proceeds to Ethereum. The funds were moved through Mayan, deBridge and SWFT’s Bridgers, the project said. The suspension follows the unauthorized mint, which let the attacker extract value across chains.
TREE NEWS reports: Crypto futures liquidations across the market totaled $355 million in the past 24 hours, with long positions accounting for $278 million and shorts $76.96 million, CoinGlass data shows. BTC liquidations reached $48.26 million and ETH $80.58 million, while the largest single liquidation, worth $7.27 million, occurred on Binance in the SOXSUSDT pair.
TREE NEWS update: Qubic halted its network after a wallet drain of $1.3 million, the project said. 87.1% of the drained QU remains immobilized on its network, while MEXC froze the account receiving the remainder.
TREE NEWS reports: PAPER briefly broke above $0.035 before retreating to $0.02743. The token’s perpetual futures are now live on Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 market with up to 3x leverage.
TREE NEWS reports: Hyperliquid bought back and burned about 11,340 HYPE tokens over the past 24 hours at an average price of $78.55, worth roughly $890,900, while platform fee revenue for the same period was estimated at about $764,900. Cumulative HYPE burns now total about 49.63 million tokens, valued at roughly $3.9 billion and equal to 4.96% of the 1 billion maximum supply. Hyperliquid’s revenue over the past 30 days was about $69.94 million.
TREE NEWS reports: Hyperliquid bought back and burned 11,340 HYPE in the past 24 hours at an average price of $78.55, worth $890,900. The protocol has now burned a cumulative 49.63 million HYPE, roughly $3.9 billion, equal to 4.96% of its 1 billion maximum supply. Estimated fees over the past 24 hours were $764,900, with revenue of $69.94 million over the past 30 days.
TREE NEWS reports: Crypto losses from 107 security incidents reached $1.18 billion in the third quarter of 2026, up 55% quarter-over-quarter. About $906.8 million of the total involved compromised vendors or developer tools, unpatched known vulnerabilities, and components outside the scope of the latest audits. Hacken said some derivatives trading platforms and prediction markets rely on inadequate key management, though no actively exploited vulnerabilities were found at those platforms.