Flash News

TREE NEWS update: PancakeSwap has floated a proposal to hand liquidity providers 88% of swap fees while cutting daily CAKE issuance by roughly 69%. The plan is still open for forum discussion, and early replies show holders concerned about the token’s burn. No vote or implementation date has been announced.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto trader Ansem said the market’s first major pullback since its late-June low has mainly flushed out leveraged longs without breaking the macro uptrend, in a Market Bubble podcast published Oct. 15, 2026. He said he keeps 70% of his portfolio in core spot assets including BTC and SOL and 30% for high-beta trades, and named STRK, PUMP, HYPE and GRASS as undervalued.

TREE NEWS update: Lido has added direct ETH staking from four Layer 2 networks to its interface, letting users stake without first bridging to Ethereum mainnet. Users receive wstETH from local liquidity pools, while the ETH is bridged to Ethereum for staking and the pools are replenished in the background.

TREE NEWS update: A HashKey Chain administrator moved 142,818 USDT through a temporary contract swap, with the original deposit code restored roughly six minutes later. A three-of-five multisig retains immediate upgrade powers over the chain, meaning the same authority could repeat the operation without delay.

TREE NEWS update: BVNK has launched a global money platform connecting stablecoins to Mastercard payment rails, with Nuvei and Marqeta named among the first planned integrators. Local-payout coverage is expected to expand in 2027.

TREE NEWS update: Starknet has opened a vote among STRK holders on whether to explore becoming an independent layer-1 blockchain, citing the need to reduce its dependence on Ethereum’s quantum-security upgrade timeline. The proposal asks token holders to decide whether the network should pursue a path away from Ethereum. No timeline or binding commitment has been set.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto hacks in the third quarter of 2025 drove losses toward $1.2 billion, with exploits at Bitget and Liquid among the incidents, Hacken said. Compromised suppliers, developer tools and infrastructure components sitting outside security audits accounted for about 77% of the quarter’s total losses.

TREE NEWS update: Babylon’s proposal to bring native Bitcoin collateral to Aave V4 has entered a new governance stage. Further votes and security reviews are still required before the integration can launch. No date has been given for the remaining steps.

TREE NEWS reports: Arthur Hayes bought about $888,000 worth of tokens through FalconX and Flowdesk, on-chain tracker Onchain Lens shows. The purchases comprise 5.466 million AERO (roughly $459,800), 120,000 PENDLE (about $231,600) and 3 million ZAMA (around $196,700). The three assets are Aerodrome, Pendle and Zama.

TREE NEWS update: Perpetual futures DEX StandX said on October 15 it will not issue a token and will wind down operations, replacing its planned TGE with a one-time DUSD airdrop. Two days earlier the project debuted on Aspecta’s pre-market at an implied fully diluted valuation near $350 million; its pre-market price then fell about 98.8%. CEO AG said TVL peaked at $200 million without outside capital but fell short of a top-three position.

TREE NEWS reports: HEX fell 31% on the Ethereum network following reports that its founder, Richard Heart, had been detained. A Uniswap pool handling roughly $703,000 in daily HEX trading held only $354,000 in liquidity, adding execution risk for sellers. The token’s price decline and thin pool depth came alongside the detention reports.

TREE NEWS update: UNCX’s Vesting V2 contract has suffered a security attack across multiple chains, affecting 10 tokens on four networks: six on Ethereum (pepecoin, EDGEN, ZC, X, LO0P, PAAL), one on Base (IMO), one on BNB Chain (BTCLE) and two on Robinhood Chain (CASHCAT, RKST). UNCX said it imposed a fixed fee of over 1,000 ETH per lock, removed all fee-bypassing client and contract interactions, and raised the token fee to the contract’s 5% cap. LP locks and legacy vesting contracts were unaffected.

TREE NEWS reports: An address with cumulative profits exceeding $25.79 million raised its SKHX short position from about $15.39 million to roughly $27.04 million between 08:06 and 09:00 on October 15, 2026, opening and adding about $12.58 million in shorts while closing $59,000 for a $5,050 profit. It also cut its SP500 short, closing about $3.18 million and opening roughly $400,000, realizing $6,277. Its SP500 short is now worth about $2.46 million, down from $5.24 million.

TREE NEWS reports: Machi (@machibigbrother) has been continuously closing positions to cut losses and avoid liquidation as the market declines, with his account balance now down to $129,000, on-chain data from Lookonchain shows. The trader’s steady deleveraging comes amid a broad market slump that has pressured leveraged positions across the board.

TREE NEWS update: Stellar announced native Chainlink data services for DeFi applications, giving developers on the network access to Chainlink’s oracle feeds. The news did not lift the token: XLM dropped 4% and its seven-day loss reached 7.85%, lagging both Bitcoin and Ether.

TREE NEWS update: Rocket Pool token holders voted to enable rETH withdrawals while retaining the 4 ETH bond requirement for node operators, opting for random megapool exits and deferring an onchain governance expansion. The decisions cover parts of the Saturn 2 upgrade package, which still requires full ratification.

TREE NEWS reports: Blockchain analytics firm Bubblemaps alleges that wallets linked to Anglio traded ahead of Pump.fun token calls, estimating $50,000 in trading profits and $80,000 in callout rewards. The allegations come as Pump.fun shifts its payout model toward followers’ returns.

TREE NEWS reports: Blockaid says the UNCX vesting pool was exploited for about $86,000, with the attacker’s transaction draining five different tokens. The affected Ethereum contract still held roughly $3.25 million in assets at the time.

TREE NEWS update: Uniswap has launched an ETH/USDC pool using a new VolatilePair Hook that charges separate fees for buys and sells. The hook adds temporary charges on trades that reverse large price moves, aiming to retain more arbitrage value for liquidity providers.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto futures liquidations across all exchanges totaled $314 million over the past 24 hours, with long positions accounting for $257 million and shorts $56.5 million, CoinGlass data shows. Bitcoin liquidations reached $69.05 million and Ethereum $63.11 million. The single largest liquidation was a $7.03 million ETHUSDT position on Binance.