Flash News

TREE NEWS update: Pump.fun will add Elysium trading to its app on Nov. 9, the platform said, following its live Hyperliquid perps rollout. Elysium is a separate rollup that settles to HyperEVM. The addition extends Pump.fun’s push beyond memecoin launches into perpetual and rollup-based trading within its app.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase has listed Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin across its retail, exchange and Prime platforms, with 1:1 USD conversion available on the XRP Ledger, Ethereum and Base. The listing caps a week of major announcements for Ripple. RLUSD is now live on Coinbase.

TREE NEWS update: Avail has launched ShieldTX, a privacy tool for Hyperliquid that creates a separate wallet for each perpetual futures position. The tool is aimed at copy-trading bots that track and mirror traders’ on-chain activity. Avail said the design is intended to shield individual positions from being copied on the decentralized exchange.

TREE NEWS update: Solflare is planning to migrate its Solana validator after its provider reported a key incident, the wallet said. No user funds were affected, but staking rewards on the roughly 1.56 million SOL delegated to the validator are paused until stakers move their stake to a new validator.

TREE NEWS reports: A flash-loan attacker drained about $1 million in USDC from a tranche vault on Avalanche tied to Valinor Digital and Fence, security firm Blockaid said. The attacker used borrowed funds to mint inflated shares and then cashed out the USDC held by the vault.

TREE NEWS update: Phantom has widened its US rollout of Kalshi prediction markets, with trading running through verified Kalshi accounts. The wallet’s regional guide excludes Michigan, Nevada and Washington from the expansion. The rollout gives Phantom users in eligible states direct access to Kalshi’s event contracts through the wallet.

TREE NEWS update: Aave has updated its Ethereum USDT borrowing curve so that rates rise sooner as liquidity tightens. Existing loans keep the interest already accrued, while the new rate applies to how the outstanding balance grows from now on. The change raises borrowing costs for USDT debt on Ethereum at lower levels of available liquidity than before.

TREE NEWS update: Ethena Pay launched Earn+, a vault targeting up to 12% rewards through roughly 11x leverage on Aave, with depositors bearing losses. The product, run via Upshift, has an initial capacity limit of $4.5 million.

TREE NEWS update: Soneium has opened a royalty vault capped at $600,000 for its launch. Holding ipUSD alone provides no royalty exposure; investors receive separate vault shares only after settlement, and standard exits can take months. The structure separates the stablecoin-like ipUSD from the royalty-bearing vault position.

TREE NEWS update: Stader Labs said its discontinued NearX and BNBx products will move from on-chain withdrawals to a verified claim process on Oct 29. Until then, users can still withdraw free of charge via the smart contract. The discontinued MaticX product will keep on-chain withdrawals, with a fixed redemption rate of 1.2002 POL per MaticX.

TREE NEWS reports: The attacker behind the Bloom exploit, which drained nearly $1 million, routed funds through 2,152 distinct intermediary and destination addresses, Specter said. The set comprises 1,326 Solana addresses, 822 EVM addresses and 5 Zcash addresses. Funds were bridged to Zcash, with 26.099 ZEC moved into the Sapling shielded pool, a pattern Specter said points to automated splitting, consolidation and cross-chain tooling.

TREE NEWS reports: A wallet address starting 0xb15b was liquidated 13 times in nine days after shorting ETH, with a cumulative 18,080 ETH liquidated worth about $43.9 million and losses of $1.14 million, Lookonchain data show. The trader created the wallet nine days earlier, deposited 1.25 million USDC and began shorting ETH.

TREE NEWS update: The Initia Foundation has approved a capital injection to fully restore the 1:1 pegs of Noble USDC, WETH and AUSD0 used as iUSD collateral, which were affected by a security incident on Oct. 23. The injection will cover verified shortfalls of up to 1.08 million USDC, 105 ETH and 1.4 million AUSD0, pending reconciliation and final transfer approval. Initia said the pegs will be fully restored once the chain resumes operation, and that a fix for the vulnerability has been drafted and is being audited by security partners.

TREE NEWS reports: Institutional stakers accounted for 35.3% of Ethereum’s staking market by the end of June 2026, up from 25.9% at the start of the year, while total staked ETH rose 19% to 43.1 million. Lido’s own share fell to 21.2% from 23.9%, as Bitmine, Coinbase and Binance reached roughly 11.5%, 10.9% and 7.9% respectively, with Bitmine gaining about 10 percentage points in six months.

TREE NEWS reports: Deribit will settle 135,000 BTC options with a notional value of $10.92 billion at 16:00 Beijing time on Friday, with a max pain price of $78,000 and a put/call ratio of 0.53. ETH options with a notional value of $776 million will also expire the same day, with a max pain price of $2,500 and a put/call ratio of 0.77.

TREE NEWS update: The Ethereum Foundation endorsed Kohaku’s privacy-preserving wallet tools, saying privacy and security should not be treated as separate goals. Setting privacy as a default feature can reduce the risk of attackers exploiting users’ on-chain history, the foundation said, following a week of attacks and exploits. Developer Jordan Enev said Kohaku’s SDK already integrates Railgun, Privacy Pools and Tornado Cash, and called for more wallets to integrate.

TREE NEWS update: Zilliqa’s CEO has stepped down and the board has assumed oversight responsibilities during a security investigation. The X-Bridge is closed in both directions, and PlunderSwap has reported losses across four token pools. No further details on the probe or the bridge reopening timeline were provided.

TREE NEWS update: Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe has proposed halting automatic block-reward allocations to the Zcash Community Grants program, which holds over $125 million, and redirecting the 8% share to the Network Sustainability Mechanism. Tyler Winklevoss and ZODL founder Josh Swihart back deeper cuts, while a counter-proposal would phase developer funding down to zero by 2036. The dispute coincides with Zcash’s tenth anniversary on Oct. 28.

TREE NEWS update: Predict.fun published the tokenomics for its Predict Protocol native token PREDICT, setting total supply at 1 billion tokens, with 51.95% allocated to ecosystem and community, 26.05% to early supporters, 10% to core contributors, 8% to treasury and 4% to liquidity. Sixteen percent of supply unlocks at TGE, while core contributor and early supporter tokens remain fully locked for 24 months before monthly vesting over 36 months, with all tokens unlocked within five years. Season 1 airdrops 70 million PREDICT, or 7% of supply, with claim dates to be announced within 24 hours alongside final Season 1 Predict Points results.