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TREE NEWS update: StarkWare has opened its OffMarket service to the public, letting users trade on Polymarket without publicly linking positions to their existing accounts. The service, in limited early release since August, runs on Starknet’s shared privacy pool and caps single USDC deposits at $1,000. Orders execute on Polymarket at the same counterparties and market prices as regular trades, and OffMarket is fully non-custodial, with users retaining control of their private keys in the browser.

TREE NEWS update: StarkWare has opened OffMarket to the public, letting Polymarket users trade without publicly linking positions to their accounts. The launch gives prediction-market participants a way to keep their trades from being tied to their identities on-chain. StarkWare did not disclose trading volume or fee figures for the new service.

TREE NEWS update: Babylon has advanced a proposal to let Bitcoin be used as native collateral on Aave V4, with WBTC handling settlement of permissionless liquidations. Risk settings and further governance votes are still pending. The plan would keep collateral on Bitcoin rather than bridging it into a wrapped form for the lending market.

TREE NEWS update: Ekubo has added a Shadow Accounts feature for liquidity providers, letting them use existing pools instead of a separate private market. LP positions and transaction details remain visible onchain, the protocol said. The tool is aimed at LPs seeking more discreet positioning without leaving public infrastructure.

TREE NEWS update: Nasdaq-listed treasury company Evernorth will partner with Ripple, Kraken, Coinbase and BitGo to launch institutional XRP yield strategies starting in the fourth quarter. Direct investments in XRP Ledger credit markets will follow as the infrastructure matures, the company said.

TREE NEWS update: DriveWealth will use Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin on the XRP Ledger for settlement, collateral funding and custody, beginning in Europe. The brokerage infrastructure provider said the stablecoin will support cross-border payments. No timeline or volume figures were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: Real Vision founder Raoul Pal argues that most public blockchains are structurally doomed, citing CoinGecko data that over 13 million tokens stopped trading by the end of last year, the vast majority dying in 2025. He says only four survival paths exist: independent economies like Ethereum, Solana and Sui; vertical specialists like Hyperliquid; layer-2 networks; and BNB as a centralized platform token. Pal says only Ethereum, Solana and Sui held user economic density through the drawdown.

TREE NEWS update: Evernorth said it plans a phased move into XRP lending and yield strategies for its $648 million XRP treasury, working with Ripple, Kraken, Coinbase and BitGo. The announcement follows the company’s Nasdaq debut. The partners will help put the treasury to work.

TREE NEWS reports: Eight early-stage projects are building on Uniswap v4 Hooks, the custom-rule smart contracts introduced when v4 launched in January 2025, spanning fee design, arbitrage-profit redistribution, liquidity management and token issuance. Among them, Hookr, What The Hook, The Standard Reserve and Bordrless carry market caps of $26.5M, $6.4M, $26.17M and $6.4M respectively. The report flags smart-contract, liquidity and token-value-capture risks, noting that deploying on Uniswap v4 does not constitute Uniswap endorsement.

TREE NEWS update: Binance opened a new special interest-boost campaign for the $U flexible savings product, running from Oct. 15 08:00 to Nov. 15 07:59 (UTC+8). Regular users earn about 6% annualized on their first 8,000 $U; VIP 1–3 users get about 6% on their first 200,000 $U, while VIP 4–9 users earn up to about 7% on their first 500,000 $U.

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 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 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 reports: Circle minted 250 million USDC on the Solana network at 05:17 UTC, worth about $250 million, with the transaction confirmed on Solscan. It was the third such mint of the day, following 250 million USDC issuances at 00:17 and 05:04. Circle has now minted a total of 750 million USDC on Solana in the past 24 hours.

TREE NEWS update: Pump.fun said its BOOST mechanism has reinjected a cumulative $106 million into its ecosystem in roughly three months since launch. Introduced in July, BOOST is the standard issuance mechanism for all new tokens on the platform, designed to return “dead liquidity” lost during token migrations to every token that completes its bonding curve. Pump.fun has previously said more than $100 million in dead liquidity is lost annually to migrations.

TREE NEWS reports: Jupiter’s JUP token rose 51% over four weeks, outperforming bitcoin and ether, even as fees across the Solana DeFi aggregator’s products fell to $16.82 million in the latest complete 28-day period. The token still posted a 5.6% pullback over the past week.

TREE NEWS reports: Uniswap said v4 now handles nearly half of all trading volume on the protocol, with more than $44 billion processed over the past 30 days. V4 accounted for 49.90% of volume across Uniswap versions in that period, ahead of v3 at 44.90% and v2 at 5.20%.

TREE NEWS reports: Aptos’s APT token has climbed 51% over the past four weeks, outpacing both bitcoin and ether, though its weekly return is now nearly flat. DefiLlama data shows the stablecoin market cap tracked on Aptos has fallen 17.5% over the same four-week period, leaving the rally unsupported by stablecoin inflows on the network.

TREE NEWS update: Base has introduced Earn & Borrow, letting apps embed variable-rate stablecoin lending and crypto-backed loans through integrations with Aave and Morpho. Borrowers using the feature remain subject to the underlying protocols’ liquidation rules. The offering is aimed at developers who want to add on-chain lending and borrowing directly inside their apps.