Flash News

TREE NEWS update: Ethereum developers have fixed a flaw in the Glamsterdam upgrade that could have let operators claim ETH that staking services deposited to launch new validators. Researcher avsetsin found draft rules might credit both deposits to a builder account if an operator registered as a builder with a specific public key and a staking service later used the same key. The fix, merged Monday, sorts pending deposits by withdrawal credentials so validator deposits stay with validators; no losses were reported.

TREE NEWS update: Binance will lower the maximum leverage on 23 isolated margin trading pairs, including ATOMUSDT, AVAXUSDT, SUIUSDT and TRXUSDT, from 10x to 5x at 08:00 UTC on Nov. 10, 2026. Adjusted risk parameters will apply automatically after the change, and the exchange said users should monitor positions and transfer assets or repay loans in advance to reduce liquidation risk.

TREE NEWS update: Hyperliquid has listed a perpetual futures contract for XTEN, the platform’s native trading venue announced. The listing adds XTEN to Hyperliquid’s on-chain perpetuals market, giving traders a new leveraged instrument on the decentralized exchange. No further details on contract specifications or launch terms were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Gate will launch contract trading, trading bots and copy-trading for five stock contracts — TTMI (TTM Technologies), EIDO (iShares MSCI Indonesia ETF), EQT (EQT Energy), CSX (CSX Transportation) and AXP (American Express) — on October 27, 2026 at 17:00 UTC+8, supporting 1–20x long and short positions. The exchange said it now supports 496 stock contracts.

TREE NEWS reports: Mizuho said Circle faces a 10-20% medium-term downside risk to its reserve revenue as AI agents steer USDC holders toward higher-yielding fiat alternatives. The brokerage’s assessment puts a figure on how autonomous agents could erode the stablecoin issuer’s core earnings stream.

TREE NEWS update: Hongguo Short Drama announced it will further intensify its crackdown on low-quality and homogeneous content, targeting excessive emotional rendering and the repetitive use of plot structures, core premises, key story beats, character relationships and audiovisual elements across micro-dramas. The platform published the commitment in an official notice, without specifying enforcement measures or a timeline.

TREE NEWS update: COSCO Shipping Energy has established two liquefied natural gas companies in Shanghai — Shanghai Jinyulan LNG Co. and Shanghai Shenmingzhu LNG Co. — each with registered capital of RMB 1.274 billion and the same legal representative, Ye Qingpei. Corporate registry data show both entities are indirectly wholly owned by the shipping group. Their business scope covers oil and gas technical services, enterprise management and consulting.

TREE NEWS update: Xiaohongshu announced a full upgrade of its “Future Potato Field Plan,” extending it from online to offline. Over the next year, the platform will partner with museums, zoos and botanical gardens, and sports and outdoor organizations nationwide to jointly organize at least 100 offline events for young people. The company did not disclose the budget or specific dates for the events.

TREE NEWS update: Hackers targeted a Japanese forex trading platform and threatened to leak customer data unless paid a $50 million ransom. GMO Internet Group, the operator, said it will not meet the attackers’ demands and told clients to scan computers for viruses, back up files, disconnect from networks and power down devices before a Tuesday noon deadline set by the hackers. Some customers had already found unauthorized trades in their accounts.

TREE NEWS reports: Stablecoin payments company RedotPay is considering a confidential US initial public offering filing by the end of the year, Bloomberg reported. The company had previously disputed reports that its US listing had been delayed. No further details on the size or timing of the potential offering were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: Galaxy told clients in an Oct. 22 research note that bitcoin’s bear market ended in June and the asset is now in an accumulation phase, calling it a good time to buy and hold. The firm cited the 200-week moving average holding as support, five straight weekly closes above the 50-week average, and a halving of ETF and futures positions by basis traders and macro speculators. Galaxy set a weekly close below $76,540 as a condition that would change its view.

TREE NEWS reports: StoneX lifted its price target on bitcoin treasury company Strive to $43 from $32 and reiterated a Buy rating on the stock. The 34% increase follows a new stock offering that the brokerage said bolsters Strive’s bitcoin strategy.

TREE NEWS update: Deep Blue Aerospace has completed manufacturing of the liquid oxygen and kerosene tanks for the first stage of its Nebula-2 rocket, the company said. The 5-meter-diameter tanks are the largest liquid rocket tanks produced in China’s commercial space sector. The milestone follows completion of the second-stage tanks, meaning production of the Nebula-2’s main body structure is now largely finished.

TREE NEWS update: Ripple has received final approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to launch a national trust bank, bringing its RLUSD stablecoin under federal oversight. The structure places reserve management and custody under federal supervision, while issuance remains with the New York-regulated entity. The approval follows Ripple’s earlier conditional OCC nod.

TREE NEWS update: Keystone has disclosed that hackers stole a key that could let counterfeit wallets pass authenticity checks, deepening a breach first reported as a customer-information leak. The hardware wallet maker had initially disclosed only the leak of customer data before confirming the additional theft of the verification key.

TREE NEWS update: Ripple has secured final approval to operate a national trust bank in the US. The approval clears the way for the company to manage reserves backing its RLUSD stablecoin and to provide digital asset custody services. The decision marks a regulatory green light for the crypto firm’s banking and stablecoin operations.

TREE NEWS update: South Korea is considering imposing an education tax on cryptocurrency exchanges. The plan would apply the levy to digital-asset trading platforms, extending a tax used to fund local education. No rate, timeline or scope for the measure was specified.

TREE NEWS update: Canada opened a 60-day consultation on draft stablecoin rules that would require issuers to hold one-to-one reserves and allow fast redemption, with redemption fees capped at 1%. The draft also keeps a ban on paying interest to stablecoin holders. The consultation gives industry participants until the end of the comment period to weigh in on the proposed regime.

TREE NEWS update: Osmosis has ended OSMO token inflation, removing an estimated two percentage points of issuance-funded staking APR and shifting staking rewards to protocol revenue. The change also freezes about 51.9 million pre-minted developer tokens.