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TREE NEWS reports: Borrowing against cirBTC on Morpho has topped $190 million, with about 97.4% of supplied USDC borrowed in the main market. That compares with an 8.1% utilization rate when Circle Mint opened access on Sept. 21. The jump reflects tightening liquidity on the Arc market as demand for the stablecoin-denominated pool outpaces fresh supply.

TREE NEWS update: Borrowing against cirBTC on Morpho has surpassed $190 million, with roughly 97.4% of supplied USDC borrowed in the main market. This contrasts with the 8.1% utilization rate when Circle Mint opened access on September 21. The surge reflects tightening liquidity in the Arc market as demand for stablecoin-denominated pools outpaces new supply.

TREE NEWS reports: cirBTC-collateralized borrowing on Morpho has surpassed $190 million, with roughly 97.4% of the USDC supplied in the main market having been borrowed. This contrasts with an 8.1% utilization rate at the time Circle Mint opened access on September 21. The surge reflects tightening liquidity in the Arc market as demand for stablecoin-denominated pools outstrips fresh supply.

TREE NEWS reports: Loans collateralized by cirBTC on Morpho have surpassed $190 million, with roughly 97.4% of the USDC supplied to the main market consumed by borrowing. This contrasts with the 8.1% utilization rate on September 21, when Circle Mint opened access. The surge shows liquidity in the Arc market tightening as demand for stablecoin-denominated pools outpaces new supply.

TREE NEWS update: Mezo has set Oct. 13 as the bridge-out deadline for swBTC and USDe, with deposits already suspended for all four tokens. SolvBTC and xSolvBTC withdrawals will close on Oct. 29, the protocol said. The deadlines mark the wind-down of bridging and deposit activity for the four assets on the network.

TREE NEWS update: Circle minted 250 million USDC on the Solana network at 00:17, worth about $250 million, with the transaction confirmed on Solscan. The mint follows a separate 250 million USDC issuance by Circle on Solana on October 13 at 05:49. Whale Alert flagged the latest mint in a post on X.

TREE NEWS update: Ripple has partnered with Stripe-owned Privy to let developers build embedded wallets directly into apps on the XRP Ledger. The integration supports XRP, the RLUSD stablecoin, AI agent payments and the x402 payments protocol. Developers can now offer in-app XRPL wallets without building custody infrastructure themselves.

TREE NEWS update: Lending protocol Zest has set an Oct. 23 deadline for users to exit the aeUSDC position on its Stacks Market V1, saying bridge provider Allbridge will shut its aeUSDC bridge to Stacks on Nov. 3. The protocol’s one-transaction migration path to V2 does not include aeUSDC, so holders must act before the deadline.

TREE NEWS update: ENS is seeking DAO approval to activate an upgraded Ethereum naming system that would pause new .eth registrations for hours during the transition. Existing domain holders would be able to renew their names without migrating. The vote would authorize the switch to the new registry.

TREE NEWS reports: A trader identified as 0x45bd opened a 4x leveraged long position on Aster DEX worth about $238,000, holding 130,578 BTW tokens. The position is currently showing roughly $151,000 in unrealized profit, a 253.40% return on investment, and remains open.

TREE NEWS update: Solana-based DEX Jupiter has opened claims for its third-quarter Active Staking Rewards (ASR), distributing 50 million JUP tokens weighted by time-staked amount. Users can add claimed rewards directly to their staking balance. The claim window closes on January 12, 2027.

TREE NEWS reports: Macro economist Ren Zeping’s WeChat blog “Zeping Macro” published a piece saying Hyperliquid, founded in 2022 with a core team of about 11 people, posted more than $900 million in net profit last year, a per-head output it said exceeds Apple, Nvidia and OpenAI. The article said the NYSE CEO has noted Hyperliquid’s trading volume is approaching Nasdaq levels.

TREE NEWS update: Autheo’s THEO token fell 92% after a suspected bridge exploit on Base involving a 19 million-token mint and subsequent sales. The project urged users not to buy, sell or bridge THEO. The incident follows the unauthorized mint and selling of the tokens on the Base network.

TREE NEWS update: An attacker minted 19 million THEO tokens on the Base chain and swapped them for 700.8 ETH, worth about $1.76 million, then bridged the ETH to Ethereum mainnet, PeckShield monitoring shows. THEO has fallen 92% over the past 24 hours following the incident.

TREE NEWS reports: An ETH whale that accumulated 5,147 ETH at an average price of $1,886.7 on August 12-13 transferred 5,170 ETH, worth about $12.82 million, into the mixing protocol Tornado Cash in batches roughly five hours ago. The tokens carry an unrealized gain of about $3.056 million. The purpose of the transfer is not yet known.

TREE NEWS update: Blur will deactivate its blur.io front-end on Nov 12, 2026, while its on-chain marketplace protocol and BLUR token continue to operate. Blend, Blur’s NFT lending protocol, will stop matching new loans the same day, and existing borrowers must repay before then or face default. BLUR fell as low as $0.014, down 15.31% in 24 hours.

TREE NEWS reports: Papertrade distributed $23.9 million to stakers in its first eight hours after launch, then only $2.4 million over the following 37 hours. Real traders on the platform posted $32.4 million in net losses, of which $26.3 million went to PAPER stakers and $4.3 million stayed in the LP pool. Address 0x35b2 traded $10.1 billion, lost $979,000, but holds 252 million PAPER, roughly 4% of all staked supply.

TREE NEWS update: NFT marketplace Blur said it will deprecate its blur.io frontend on Nov 12, 2026, with its Blend lending protocol halting new loan originations the same day. Existing borrowers must repay before the deadline or face default and liquidation. BLUR dropped below 0.015 USDT, a 24-hour loss of more than 16%, though the on-chain protocol and token holders’ fee switch control remain in place.

TREE NEWS reports: NEAR Intents general manager Alex Shevchenko said part of the $3.8 million stolen in an exploit on the protocol has been returned in Monero. The remaining stolen funds had been traded into XMR, which NEAR Intents is now working to convert after refilling its contracts from its own funds, Shevchenko said.