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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.

TREE NEWS reports: Gold (XAU) traded at about $4,021.5 on Oct. 26, up 0.57% in 24 hours, while silver (XAG) stood near $54.35, up 1.34%, as both metals rebounded modestly. Gate’s XAU perpetual futures volume reached about $179 million, up 124.59%, and its XAG contracts totaled roughly $123 million, up 189.21%, with both ranking second globally by turnover, CoinGlass data show. Open interest stood at $446 million for XAU and $163 million for XAG.

TREE NEWS update: OKX has launched prediction events tied to this week’s earnings reports from Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Robinhood, Strategy, SK Hynix and SanDisk, the exchange said. Users can bet on whether results beat expectations and on the direction of each stock’s move on the first full trading day after the report. The events are part of OKX’s third season of earnings-season predictions, with a total prize pool of $250,000.

TREE NEWS update: Neutral Trade announced the airdrop distribution for its TermMax private credit vault, following delays to the TermMax token launch and renegotiated yield terms. The airdrop consists of TMX tokens valued at a $60 million FDV, to be sold and distributed to depositors pro rata based on a Sept. 25, 2025 snapshot. Payouts begin this week, with 50% released one month after launch and 12.5% weekly over the following four weeks.

TREE NEWS update: Guangzhou WeRide Technology Co. increased its registered capital from 450 million yuan to 500 million yuan, a roughly 11% rise, in a business registration change dated Oct. 23. The adjustment raises the autonomous-driving company’s registered capital to 5 billion yuan.

TREE NEWS update: Flap said it has expanded the blockchains, trading pairs and toolkit it supports over the past 30 days. Users on the platform can now create tokens paired with stocks, lock tokens, gift trading fees and build full applications, the project said on X. The announcement did not specify which blockchains or trading pairs were added.

TREE NEWS update: Bitcoin hardware wallet maker Foundation said spam emails were sent through its official domain after one or more Cloudflare API keys were compromised. The affected keys have been revoked and the malicious domain used in the emails taken down. Foundation said funds stored in its Passport devices remain safe and the hardware itself was not compromised.

TREE NEWS update: A phishing campaign targeting Passport users has been linked to compromised Cloudflare API keys, the Foundation said. Recipients reported that the messages exposed personal and purchase details, while the company maintained that Passport hardware and funds were safe. The incident follows reports of users receiving fraudulent emails that appeared to come from the Foundation.

TREE NEWS update: BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes sold about $26 million of tokens on Oct. 24, including 8,000 ETH at $2,369.18, 14 million ENA at $0.191 and 323,000 UNI at $6.85, after saying he had closed his directional portfolio. Onchain Lens data showed Hayes had received a total of $49.24 million in USDC following the sales. The move came roughly a week after he publicly advocated long BTC and ETH positions.

TREE NEWS update: Nasdaq-listed Solana Company has been designated a strategic enterprise in Hong Kong and plans to establish Solana validator operations there, the firm said. The designation gives the company a formal foothold in the city as it builds out blockchain infrastructure tied to the Solana network. No timeline or investment figure was disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: An engineer applied aerospace failure-mode analysis to three common Grok Bot memecoin trading architectures, warning that position-sizing rules determine losses when a trade goes wrong. In a worked example, a $1,000 account using a fixed 2% position size ended near $1,002 after a rug pull, while one raising size after wins fell about 12% to $883. The analysis also flags copy-trading delays and token-issuer cost risks.

TREE NEWS update: Keystone disclosed that a breach of its website exposed the shipping addresses of hardware wallet buyers, prompting a security researcher to warn that the leaked details could expose crypto holders to targeted scams and physical attacks. The company confirmed the exposure but did not say how many customers were affected or when the breach occurred.

TREE NEWS reports: Bitcoin closed below its 50-day moving average for the first time since August, ending a 66-day streak above the line, with the price near $80,600 and still about 10% above its 200-day average. US spot bitcoin ETFs saw $137.9 million in net outflows on Friday, a second straight day of outflows after Thursday’s $635.6 million, the largest single day since June, for a two-day total of about $773.5 million.

TREE NEWS update: Anchorpoint, the stablecoin joint venture of Standard Chartered and Animoca Brands, is not rushing to open to retail users, its CEO said, declining to reaffirm a previously targeted timeline of as early as the end of 2026. The venture had earlier pointed to retail access by that date.

TREE NEWS reports: Ethereum researchers have set up an AI agent message board to help rescue the Glamsterdam fork, mirroring the approach used in the Hugging Face hack response. The effort comes as a separate site called ‘Steal My Bitcoin’ was successfully hacked. The digest did not specify the date of the Glamsterdam work or the amount involved in the Bitcoin site breach.

TREE NEWS update: South Korea’s presidential office is leaning toward postponing the virtual asset income tax, originally set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2027, which would mark its fourth delay. A presidential official said the tax would move toward postponement in party-government consultations, though the office said in a written response that the matter is still under review and no decision has been made. Ruling Democratic Party lawmaker Park Min-kyu has proposed an amendment to delay taxation until 2029, with the opposition People Power Party also backing a delay. The current plan would tax gains from virtual asset transfers and lending at 22% after a 2.5 million won basic deduction.

TREE NEWS update: CoinDCX has confirmed a $16 million loss tied to retired wallets, days after CEO Sumit Gupta told X users that early reports of a breach sounded like “a false alarm.” The exchange acknowledged the loss on [date], reversing its earlier public dismissal of the incident.

TREE NEWS reports: A prediction-market account with $1 million in weekly profit bought $57,000 on G2 defeating TES in the third round of the League of Legends S16 World Championship Swiss stage. The account, 0x6ac5bb06a9eb05641fd5e82640268b92f3ab4b6e, opened the position at an average price of 51.6 cents for 110,839.9 shares. The Swiss stage’s third round consists entirely of best-of-one matches.

TREE NEWS update: Circle minted 250 million USDC on the Solana network at 01:44 UTC+8, worth approximately $250 million. The mint transaction was successfully confirmed. The issuance adds to the stablecoin supply on Solana.

TREE NEWS update: Uniswap’s executed funding proposal illustrates the distinction between a sentiment poll, a binding governance vote and the contract authorized to release tokens from the DAO treasury. The process shows how an approved proposal translates into an on-chain transfer once the authorized contract is triggered. The vote and subsequent execution are dated events in the DAO’s governance record.