Flash News

TREE NEWS update: USDC Treasury minted 250 million USDC on the Solana network at 02:37, worth approximately $250 million. The new issuance brings the total supply of USDC on Solana higher, though the treasury did not disclose the purpose of the mint.

TREE NEWS update: USDC Treasury minted 250 million USDC on the Solana network at 02:37. The newly issued tokens are worth approximately $250 million. The mint was flagged by the on-chain tracking service in a post on X.

TREE NEWS update: Hyperliquid said HIP-3 will support an optional configuration letting deployers run permissioned markets, bundled as HIP-3*, with an on-chain allowlist managed by the deployer or sub-deployers. The add-on is deployer-optional and existing markets are unaffected; a first version is live on testnet and the specification remains preliminary. Kraken parent Payward plans to become the first CFTC-regulated deployer of an HIP-3* market, using Hyperliquid to offer perpetuals to U.S. customers.

TREE NEWS update: Hyperliquid is testing optional on-chain allowlists for permissioned markets, a mechanism that would leave its existing markets unchanged, as part of Payward’s plan to offer US perpetual futures. The proposed US contracts still require regulatory approval before they can launch. The allowlist design would let the platform restrict participation in specific markets without altering the open, permissionless structure of its current offerings.

TREE NEWS update: Aave’s Ethereum USDT pool entered its steeper interest-rate tier after utilization reached 92%, raising borrowing costs for users. The higher rate is designed to give borrowers an earlier incentive to repay or add liquidity, keeping funds available for withdrawals. The change applies to the Ethereum pool and takes effect automatically under the protocol’s rate model.

TREE NEWS reports: A prediction-market account with $1.37 million in weekly profit bought $195,000 of T1-to-beat-CFO shares in the League of Legends S16 World Championship Swiss Stage round-three match, PPP prediction-market monitoring shows. The account, 0x6ac5bb06a9eb05641fd5e82640268b92f3ab4b6e, took 226,173.3 shares at an average entry price of 86.5 cents. The S16 Swiss Stage third round is underway, with every match a best-of-one.

TREE NEWS update: Chainlink rolled out CustodySync, a product letting qualified custodians’ institutional clients lend into DeFi markets while assets stay in custody, with Anchorage Digital as launch partner. The system publishes custody balances on-chain via Chainlink Proof of Reserve and issues restricted-transfer receipt tokens as collateral, while custodians and lending protocols use the same Chainlink Data Feeds and Data Streams prices to calculate LTV, with a designated collateral agent handling sales on liquidation.

TREE NEWS update: Chainlink introduced CustodySync with Anchorage, a system that uses shared price data to align loan valuations while Anchorage retains collateral and manages margin and liquidation. The product links Chainlink’s price feeds with Anchorage’s custody infrastructure to support DeFi borrowing against custodied assets. No launch date or fee terms were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Balancer said a review uncovered more than $500,000 in user assets that had been overlooked. The findings include buffer positions linked to Ethena and Gauntlet, as well as legacy LDO rewards for Gnosis DAO and its stakeholders.

TREE NEWS update: Miden’s partner mainnet is now live and connected to Polygon’s Agglayer cross-chain aggregation layer, Polygon said on October 26. The integration gives the network access to liquidity across the broader blockchain ecosystem. Miden also confirmed that its network is running on the partner mainnet.

TREE NEWS reports: Crypto futures liquidations across exchanges totaled $196 million in the past 24 hours, with long positions accounting for $128 million and shorts $67.57 million, CoinGlass data show. Bitcoin liquidations reached $53.17 million and Ethereum $48.36 million, while the largest single liquidation was a $6.97 million ETHUSDT order on Binance.

TREE NEWS reports: The address tagged as the X100 attacker deposited 821.2 ETH, worth about $1.89 million, into the Tornado Cash mixer, PeckShieldAlert said on October 26. X100 suffered a flash-loan governance attack on October 24, losing roughly $4.75 million. Its X token fell 96% within 24 hours.

TREE NEWS reports: The exploiter behind X100 sent 420.8 ETH to Tornado Cash, with the distributor that made the mixer deposits now nearly emptied. Four holding wallets still hold about 1,602 ETH, leaving most of the funds unmoved. The transfers mark the latest movement of proceeds tied to the X100 exploit.

TREE NEWS reports: Kraken’s Firelight arrangement caps cover at $100,000 per depositor address per period, while buyers who purchase directly from Nexus Mutual choose their own cover amount and must file their own claims. The distinction determines who can claim and how much they can recover under the two access routes to Nexus cover.

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 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 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: 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: 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.