Flash News

TREE NEWS update: NEAR Intents has halted services after a $3.8 million exploit. The contract flaw has been patched, but deposits and withdrawals remain disrupted across 11 networks. The protocol said it will fully compensate affected users.

TREE NEWS update: World Liberty Financial has launched staking for its WLFI token, requiring holders to lock tokens for 180 days and cast governance votes to claim rewards, with no fixed payout rate. The program includes a $1.25 million USD1 pool. The launch ties reward eligibility to participation in protocol governance.

TREE NEWS update: NEAR Intents said it has patched a contract-side flaw that let an attacker drain about $3.87 million in USDT from a contract it uses on BNB Chain over roughly six hours, and the cross-chain protocol pledged full compensation to affected users. Blockchain data shows the funds leaving the contract in that window.

TREE NEWS update: The Monad Foundation said StraitsX plans to natively deploy its Singapore dollar stablecoin XSGD and US dollar stablecoin XUSD on Monad in early 2027, and to explore using the network for stablecoin payments and financial services. The deployment remains subject to technical, regulatory, compliance and partner requirements and has not yet gone live.

TREE NEWS update: NEAR Intents has suspended services after reporting a $3.8 million loss, pledging full compensation to affected users. Deposits and withdrawals across 11 networks will remain halted longer while infrastructure repairs continue, the protocol said.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto security losses hit $1.26 billion in Q3 across 247 incidents, with September alone accounting for roughly $769 million. The total was driven past the $1 billion mark by a $388 million hack at the exchange Bitget. The figures cover the third quarter of the year.

TREE NEWS reports: A Latin American stablecoin ecosystem report found that only 16 of 494 companies focus primarily on wholesale liquidity, treasury and credit, warning that “fragility in the system is concentrated in its thinnest layer.” The finding points to a narrow provider base underpinning regional stablecoin liquidity.

TREE NEWS update: Lloyds settled $750,000 of payment obligations with Visa using USDC over a seven-day live cross-border pilot. The trial used the dollar-pegged stablecoin to move real payment flows between the bank and the card network. No further terms or settlement timing were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: The MyDoge team has opened the public testnet of DogeOS, a zero-knowledge rollup that gives Dogecoin an EVM application layer for DeFi and games, with DOGE used to pay fees. The rollup currently relies on a permissioned sequencer, pending a proposed Dogecoin upgrade that remains unimplemented.

TREE NEWS update: The authors behind the proposal to burn Ethereum staking rewards have withdrawn it and will pursue issuance policy through a separate process, citing objections over validator economics and how the change was being considered. Lido was named among those offering to help with the new effort.

TREE NEWS update: MetaMask has exited its Lido validators following an infrastructure security incident, the wallet said, adding it found no immediate threat to user wallets. The ETH it is withdrawing from Lido could take up to 45 days to be returned.

TREE NEWS reports: CertiK tallied $766.4 million in losses from exploits and phishing in September, with Bitget and Liquid Network accounting for the largest share of the damage. Recovered and frozen funds substantially reduced the net impact of the month’s incidents.

TREE NEWS update: Marinade’s council vetoed two proposals within six hours in what the Solana staking protocol described as a blocked attempt to take over its DAO. No funds moved and Marinade’s staking services were unaffected, the protocol said. The council acted on the two governance proposals before either could take effect.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto hacks totaled more than $768 million in September, the worst month of 2026, led by a $388 million breach at Bitget and a $320 million exploit on Liquid Network. More than $270 million of the Liquid Network funds was later returned, leaving the month’s net losses well below the headline figure.

TREE NEWS reports: Sentora’s vaults on Morpho have seen sharp outflows following a MetaMask staking incident, with the RLUSD vault holding about $8.46 million and the PYUSD vault about $2.38 million in available liquidity. The withdrawals mark a pullback from the lending protocol’s vaults tied to the affected staking episode.

TREE NEWS update: MetaMask has exited its Ethereum validator operations following an undisclosed security incident. The wallet provider said it is investigating the threat internally and has found no immediate threat to its wallets. No further details on the nature of the incident or the number of validators affected were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: DogeOS, a Dogecoin application-layer project, has opened its public testnet as a rollup network running independently of the Dogecoin main chain, EVM-compatible and built on zkVM. Testnet transaction fees are paid in DOGE, with a faucet dispensing 42.069 test DOGE daily. Superposition Finance, Derps, USDoge, Snag and game publisher PlaysOut are building lending, perpetual futures, a CDP stablecoin, prediction-market aggregation and mini-games on the network. No mainnet launch date has been announced.

TREE NEWS reports: Standard Chartered projects Ethena’s synthetic dollar USDe will scale to $40 billion and its ENA token will rise roughly sevenfold to $2 by the end of 2028. The bank ties the forecast to USDe’s growth and an increase in token buybacks.

TREE NEWS update: Uniswap Labs is planning a rewards hook for liquidity providers on OUSD, the stablecoin it backs. OUSD is already live across Uniswap’s protocol, apps and API, while the planned rewards mechanism has yet to be fully designed. No launch date or further details were given.

TREE NEWS reports: The attacker behind the $387.5 million Bitget heist has begun hiding about $3.8 million in ZEC inside Zcash’s Ironwood privacy pool, after Near Intents rejected the swaps. The move marks a shift by the hacker toward privacy tools to obscure the stolen funds following the refusal by the Near-based swap service.