TREE NEWS update: CoinW has launched a multi-agent AI investment advisory tool called “AI Think Tank,” now live on its web platform. The tool deploys 13 AI agents to simulate an institutional research team, handling data collection, investment debate, strategy formulation, risk review and post-trade analysis. It generates a confidence-scored, fully traceable report and trading strategy that users can copy to the trading panel, covering more than 20 assets including BTC, ETH, popular US stocks, ETFs and commodities.
TREE NEWS update: Blast has reached its withdrawal interface deadline with roughly $40 million still locked in its bridge. The network has published contract-level exit guides, but users withdrawing funds still need to submit proofs, wait one day, and for USDB make a separate DAI claim. The milestone marks the end of the planned withdrawal window for the layer-2 network’s bridge.
TREE NEWS update: Ethereum Layer 2 network Soneium announced plans to issue a native ecosystem token, SONEIUM, connecting creators, IP holders, developers, fans and investors, with token details and a token generation event to be disclosed later; the token has not yet been issued. Soneium also outlined an on-chain entertainment economy, with Soneium Portal as the discovery and participation platform for IP tokenization projects, starting with Japanese character Moriusa, followed by IP Vault for royalty assets and tokenized IP bonds backed by entertainment businesses, plus a partnership with DayOneDream to bring K-pop concert royalties on-chain.
TREE NEWS update: Blockchain game project ArchLoot said it will permanently burn 44,583,346 locked AL tokens, about 4.46% of the token’s maximum supply, drawn from its ECO Pool (30 million), Treasure Pool (roughly 10.417 million) and Reserve Pool (roughly 4.167 million). The tokens will no longer be unlocked, distributed or circulated after the burn. ArchLoot said it will publish the on-chain transaction hash for community verification once the burn is complete.
TREE NEWS reports: Dianping is beta-testing a new user growth system called “Life Expert” in selected cities. The system is being trialed with a limited user group ahead of any wider rollout. Dianping has not announced a launch date or the full list of cities involved.
TREE NEWS reports: A crypto address identified as 0x129…72EbE added $2.7 million to its altcoin position over the past ten days, bringing total accumulation to $10.79 million. The wallet, which began buying in early October, now shows a cumulative unrealized loss of $1.904 million. Holdings include 2.55 million ZRO, 6.3 million WLD, 5.77 million BAT and 20 million CHIP.
TREE NEWS update: Consensys has warned Ethereum operators that eMudhra signing tools carry risks tied to vulnerable Java trust stores and configuration-dependent exposure. Default setups are unaffected, but some Web3Signer deployments require immediate access-control changes, the teams said. The advisory identifies the affected trust stores and the deployment configurations that leave operators exposed.
TREE NEWS update: Paradigm chief technology officer Georgios Konstantopoulos said on X that the company will release Solar’s EVM code generation feature this week. The codegen is more than 100 times faster than solc and produces more gas-efficient bytecode without requiring any assembly code, he said.
TREE NEWS update: Foundation, the maker of the Passport wallet, has traced phishing emails sent to its users to a backend breach, CEO said attackers entered through a self-hosted app and likely reached the customer support inbox. The company initially pointed to compromised Cloudflare API keys before revising its assessment. Foundation has promised to publish a report on the incident.
TREE NEWS reports: US spot Bitcoin ETFs ended the week with $301 million in net inflows, breaking a two-week run of outflows. A strong three-day start to the week was followed by heavy withdrawals in the remaining sessions, leaving the group with a modest positive total.
TREE NEWS update: Ethereum DeFi project X100 was hit by a governance attack on Oct. 24, with roughly 4.85 million USDT stolen. The attacker used an Aave flash loan of about $1.94 million to buy X tokens and seize two of the three Senate governance seats, then passed a malicious proposal selling 400,000 X into a self-created PancakeSwap pool for about $35.68. The X token’s market cap fell from about $760 million to $24 million, a single-day drop of over 96%.
TREE NEWS reports: Trader Kimchi re-added Pump.fun to his personal bio three days after removing it, sending the $Kimchi token up more than 150% at one point, on-chain tracker Lookonchain reported on Oct. 26. Hours before the change, trader ja2trader spent $28,900 to buy 4.61 million $Kimchi tokens and now holds a $11,000 profit, the tracker said.
TREE NEWS reports: Trader ‘Mk4’ is sitting on a $12.15 million unrealized profit from a long NEAR position, on-chain data from Arkham shows. The position is now worth more than $25 million, down from roughly $20.88 million in paper gains two weeks ago when NEAR traded near its high. Mk4 also holds $13.1 million in short positions across BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, BNB, ADA and AVAX.
TREE NEWS update: Eliza Labs (ai16z) founder Shaw said on October 25 that he has reverse-engineered about 90% of Pump.fun’s smart contracts and expects to finish the rest that night, publishing a GitHub repository with on-chain deployment evidence for Pump, PumpSwap, Pump Fees and Mayhem. The repo marks full byte-level reconstruction of all four core programs as incomplete. Shaw said the goal is a byte-identical rebuild, not a functional clone, and tied the effort to slop.cash, a new project he is building on Umia Finance.
TREE NEWS update: Binance will list a USDC/AED spot trading pair on October 28, 2026 at 16:00 (UTC+8), the exchange said in an official announcement. Spot algorithmic order trading bots will also be enabled for the new pair. The listing adds a direct market between USD Coin and the UAE dirham on the exchange.
TREE NEWS update: China’s National Medical Products Administration approved the world’s first Factor XI inhibitor for marketing in China on Wednesday. The drug uses a new mechanism and target and can be combined with existing standard stroke treatments to prevent recurrence in patients, the regulator said. It is described as valuable for long-term stroke management.
TREE NEWS update: Binance said it will open USDC/AED spot trading on Oct. 28, 2026, at 08:00 UTC, adding a direct pair between the stablecoin and the UAE dirham. The exchange will also enable its spot algorithmic order trading bots for the new market. The listing expands Binance’s fiat-quoted stablecoin pairs tied to Middle East currencies.
TREE NEWS update: Strive (NASDAQ: ASST) raised about $630 million by pricing 7 million shares of its 15% fixed-dividend perpetual preferred stock SATS at $90 per share on Oct. 15, settling Oct. 20. The Dallas-based bitcoin treasury company bought 7,356 BTC over two weeks, lifting holdings to 36,818 BTC and past MARA Holdings to fourth among public companies. CEO Matt Cole targets second place behind Strategy by year-end.
TREE NEWS update: Huobi HTX listed PG/USDT and ABBV/USDT perpetual contracts on October 26, offering 1x to 20x leverage for both long and short positions. The exchange also launched a new-contract trading competition running through October 29 at 15:00 (UTC+8), with a total prize pool of 1 billion HTX tokens and 5,000 USDT in contract trial funds for users who register and meet specified trading thresholds.
TREE NEWS update: Arthur Hayes said on X that Flop Labs will open its Devnet in the coming days, allowing anyone to join as a miner or validator, or to connect an agent to the network. Participation in the Devnet will not count toward any token allocation, and the network will be used for public testing before the project moves to a Testnet phase and an airdrop.
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