TREE NEWS reports: A trader has opened a 20x leveraged long position on SOL worth approximately $10.45 million. This follows the trader’s previous success, having earned over $11 million from a long ETH position.
TREE NEWS update: Moonwell is investigating an exploit in the MAMO market on Base, resulting in a loss of approximately $8.7 million. The team is working to assess the situation and mitigate further damage.
TREE NEWS reports: Lido has revised its EarnETH fee structure, reducing the management fee to 0.2% while increasing the performance fee portion. This change aims to optimize incentives for users and maintain competitive positioning in the liquid staking market.
TREE NEWS update: Robinhood Chain saw its strongest day since mid-July, processing $443 million in DEX volume and over 3 million transactions. The surge is driven by meme coin activity and rising interest in real-world asset (RWA) tokenization on the network.
TREE NEWS reports: GoPlus Security reported that Realio’s signing key was compromised, leading to the transfer of approximately 127.9 million RIO tokens. The incident highlights security risks in tokenized asset platforms.
TREE NEWS update: Revolut has launched its euro stablecoin, EURR, to initial customers in Denmark, Poland, and Portugal, despite only 369 tokens in circulation. With 80 million customers, Revolut’s distribution network could significantly boost the euro stablecoin market.
TREE NEWS reports: Moonwell, a lending protocol on Base, was exploited, resulting in losses exceeding $4 million in cbBTC. The attack targeted the protocol’s cbBTC market, raising concerns about security in DeFi.
TREE NEWS reports: TermMax, a fixed-rate lending protocol, has received a strategic investment from YZi Labs. The funding aims to support the protocol’s development and expansion in the DeFi sector.
TREE NEWS update: Entropy’s HIP-3 prediction market launch has been a success, with Anthropic market open interest surging to nearly $3M. Critics compare it to Ventuals, but Entropy’s design differences, like lower funding rates and better liquidity, may give it an edge. The outcome depends on its ability to build market confidence and compete with Trade in the pre-IPO space.
TREE NEWS update: 1inch published its bug bounty report for the first half of 2026, detailing findings and rewards. The report highlights the protocol’s security efforts and transparency.
TREE NEWS reports: Data shows that the total open interest of ETH contracts across the network has increased by 5.63% in the past 24 hours. This indicates growing market activity and potential volatility in Ethereum derivatives.
TREE NEWS reports: The points season for perpetual DEXs is entering its second phase, with projects like Variational, Extended, RISEx, Lighter, Entropy, and others offering incentives before token generation events. Variational, with $60M in funding, has OTC points trading at $10-20, while Extended has limited points remaining. Entropy, deploying on Hyperliquid, offers near-zero fees via rebates, and Arcus hints at a future token for dYdX community.
TREE NEWS update: According to HyperliquidNews monitoring, the cumulative trading volume of HIP-3 has surpassed $550 billion, marking a new all-time high. This milestone highlights the growing adoption and activity on the Hyperliquid platform.
TREE NEWS update: Huang Licheng, known as @machibigbrother, has suffered a loss exceeding $16 million on his FRIEND token holdings, which are now worth only $500,000. He has offered $1 million to acquire Friend.tech and plans to restart the platform.
TREE NEWS update: Bitget has launched a ‘Simple Earn’ dual-boost campaign offering up to 10% additional interest on USDT subscriptions. The promotion aims to attract users by enhancing yields on stablecoin deposits.
TREE NEWS reports: Lighter, a perp DEX with a former Citadel quant team, sees its LIT token surge nearly 5x from March lows to $3.8, driven by low float, buybacks, and its unique ZK Rollup architecture that encodes exchange rules into circuits, offering verifiable clearing and Ethereum-level security. With TVL exceeding $1.1B, Lighter’s innovative design and Robinhood partnership position it as a leader in the perp DEX market.
TREE NEWS reports: A new wallet deposited 5 million USDC into Hyperliquid and opened short positions on 8,155 ETH and 247.6 BTC. This significant leveraged trade indicates bearish sentiment on major cryptocurrencies.
TREE NEWS reports: TronBid, a peer-to-peer marketplace for TRON energy and bandwidth, has upgraded to a two-sided market allowing users to create buy and sell orders for these resources. It introduces Quick Rent and Flash Recharge features, plus a B2B API for enterprises to automate energy leasing and reduce USDT TRC-20 transaction fees. TronBid has also become a TRON Super Representative partner, joining the DPoS governance ecosystem.
TREE NEWS reports: An address suspected to be associated with a16z has purchased an additional 282,000 HYPE tokens, bringing its total staked amount to 4.679 million HYPE. This move indicates continued accumulation by a major investor in the Hyperliquid ecosystem.
TREE NEWS update: Data shows Hyperliquid platform whales currently hold $7.038 billion in positions, with a long/short ratio of 0.9. This indicates a slight bearish sentiment among large traders on the platform.
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