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TREE NEWS reports: A new report from Rootstock argues that putting institutional Bitcoin holdings to work through lending, collateral and financing could create demand beyond Bitcoin’s store-of-value role. The report says these yield-generating use cases may drive the next wave of institutional interest in the asset.

TREE NEWS update: Curve Finance went live on the Stellar mainnet on Oct. 29, marking its first native deployment outside the EVM ecosystem. Users can create pools, swap assets and provide liquidity. Curve also plans to add an FXSwap feature, pending audits, for trading stablecoins pegged to different currencies.

TREE NEWS update: Curve Finance has launched on the Stellar mainnet, marking its first native deployment outside the Ethereum Virtual Machine ecosystem. The decentralized exchange protocol is now live on Stellar, extending its footprint beyond EVM-compatible chains.

TREE NEWS reports: Solidus Labs identified two Hyperliquid accounts that placed over $170 million in anomalous oil orders from March 8 to 10, withdrawing about $30 for every $1 executed, and netting roughly $119,000 after fees over three days. The accounts, 0xc926…98d3 and its sub-account 0x2577…4897, repeatedly posted and pulled large sell orders while buying about $458,000 and $18,000 of contracts respectively during a sharp drop in Brent from about $83.06 to $81.42. Solidus described the pattern as having characteristics of spoofing.

TREE NEWS reports: A trader with a 100% win rate opened a 25x leveraged long position on 19,491 ETH, worth $45.34 million, one hour before the report. The position, held by address 0xe813, is currently showing an unrealized profit of $315,000. The trader has completed five prior trades, all profitable, for cumulative gains of $4.6 million.

TREE NEWS reports: SparkLend has about $11.95 million in USDT available as pool utilization holds near 96%, with suppliers earning roughly 6.9% APY and borrowers paying about 7.70% APR after liquidity tightened earlier this week. The narrow gap reflects the protocol’s rate model at high utilization, where most of the supplied USDT is already borrowed.

TREE NEWS reports: A contract account at address 0xfc667adba8d4837586078f4fdcdc29804337ca06 has accumulated roughly $30.4 million in profit. The account closed an approximately $3.82 million XYZ100 short position and then reopened a short of about $3.69 million on the same asset.

TREE NEWS reports: Arbitrum’s active addresses reached 1.09 million on Oct. 28, a 30-day high. Transactions rose far less than addresses over the same period, while user-paid fees stayed close to the preceding week’s median.

TREE NEWS reports: An exploit on the zkLink Nova bridge drained about $779,000 in a single transaction after a forged batch root enabled unauthorized withdrawals, Blockaid warned. The main Ethereum escrow contract still showed an unpaused status following the alert, leaving the bridge’s escrowed funds exposed.

TREE NEWS update: Diva has cancelled its mainnet launch and told early stakers to withdraw their funds, with its two pre-launch vaults holding roughly 654.5 ETH in assets. The shutdown statement offered no replacement DIVA distribution, leaving stakers without a stated path to receive tokens.

TREE NEWS update: Ripple expects its stablecoin to reach Robinhood app users later this year, the company said. Robinhood is also moving its treasury operations onto Ripple software and bringing the stablecoin into institutional settlement on the XRP Ledger. The timeline and integration plans were announced without further financial details.

TREE NEWS update: BitGo has added Jupiter, operator of a $993 million Solana validator, to its custody staking options for institutional clients. Jupiter becomes the fourth named Solana validator partner for BitGo, joining SOL Strategies, Helius and HashKey Cloud. Neither firm disclosed what the new staking option costs.

TREE NEWS update: Privacy Pools v2 has deployed on BNB Chain, supporting BNB and stablecoins including USDT, FDUSD and U. The upgrade adds shielded payments and yield features, but private spending still requires deposit-screening approval from 0xbow. The deployment brings privacy-focused transaction tools to one of the largest smart-contract networks.

TREE NEWS update: Pump.fun’s app has launched Hyperliquid perpetual futures trading, letting users trade more than 300 crypto, stock and commodity markets directly with in-app USDC or SOL balances without cross-chain transfers. BTC supports up to 40x leverage, ETH up to 25x, stocks including TSLA and Nvidia up to 20x, and the S&P 500 up to 50x, with isolated margin and take-profit/stop-loss orders. The app also added Arbitrum network support for trading any token on Arbitrum using USDC balances.

TREE NEWS update: Pump.fun has integrated Hyperliquid perpetual futures trading into its app, letting users trade more than 300 Hyperliquid markets covering crypto, stocks and commodities using in-app USDC or SOL balances without cross-chain steps. Leverage runs up to 40x on BTC, 25x on ETH, 20x on stocks such as TSLA and NVDA, and 50x on the S&P 500, with isolated margin and take-profit/stop-loss orders. Pump.fun also added Arbitrum support for trading any token on that network with USDC balances.

TREE NEWS update: Aave has raised borrowing limits for bitcoin and ether collateral across its V3 and V4 deployments, giving core WBTC and cbBTC borrowers roughly 11% more borrowing capacity against the same collateral. The higher ceiling leaves less buffer for a price drop once borrowers draw the new maximum.

TREE NEWS update: Yield Basis has disclosed a fee-bypass route and proposed a policy adding a debt-ratio check for deposits alongside Pyth-linked swap fees. Voting on the proposal is scheduled to end Oct. 29. The WETH fix is aimed at closing the bypass.

TREE NEWS reports: The Liquid Network’s L-BTC reserve gap narrowed to 550 BTC following a 50 BTC transfer, bringing reserve coverage to roughly 87.07%. User swaps remain available, while normal federation peg-outs stay restricted.

TREE NEWS update: Osmosis has fully restored backing for AllBTC after covering a 17.19 BTC-equivalent shortfall using seized tokens and community funds, the Cosmos-based DEX said. App deposits and withdrawals were still awaiting reopening at the time of the disclosure. The shortfall was absorbed by community funds.

TREE NEWS reports: A hypothetical $200 liquidity pool position grows to $400 before fees, while simply holding the same assets reaches $500 at identical final prices. The comparison illustrates impermanent loss, the divergence between a two-asset pool’s value and the value of the unchanged holdings, which can leave an LP position lagging a buy-and-hold strategy even after fee income.