According to CoinShares' latest weekly report, digital asset investment products recorded a net inflow of about 1.4 billion dollars last week, marking the strongest weekly performance since January this year, marking the third consecutive week of net inflow, accounting for approximately 0.91% of the total assets under management of 155 billion dollars. Among them, Bitcoin products saw a net inflow of about 1.116 billion dollars, driven by its brief surge past 76,000 dollars, breaking out of a nearly two-month consolidation range; Ethereum products recorded an inflow of about 328 million dollars, with a cumulative net inflow of about 197 million dollars for the year. By region, the United States saw inflow of about 1.5 billion dollars, Germany 28 million dollars, while Switzerland experienced a net outflow of about 138 million dollars, the largest single-week outflow since November last year, showing a divergence from the overall recovery in risk appetite.
OKX delists USDT AAVE (ETH network) on-chain earning product
The platform has delisted the USDT - AAVE v3 (ETH network) on-chain earning product based on prudent risk control principles, and has suspended new subscriptions, removing it from the product list. Related funds were fully redeemed on-chain before April 20, 2026, 18:00 (UTC+8). The principal and accumulated profits will be automatically transferred to users' capital accounts without any additional actions needed. The USDT and USDC on Avalanche (AVAX) network AAVE on-chain staking products are not part of this adjustment.
Coinbase will launch Based perpetual contracts
Coinbase will launch Based (BASED1) perpetual contract trading on April 20. The official stated that the BASED1-PERP market will open in regions where liquidity conditions are met and local regulations permit.
Binance Wallet will launch the 46th exclusive TGE project: OpenGradient (OPG)
Binance Wallet will launch the 46th exclusive TGE project OpenGradient (OPG). The subscription period is from April 21, 17:00 to 19:00 (UTC+8), and users need to use Binance Alpha points to participate and meet corresponding qualifications. The official stated that OPG tokens will be available for collection and trading at 19:00 (UTC+8) on the same day, and an additional 23,000,000 OPG tokens are reserved for future activities, with specific rules to be announced later.
Michael Saylor's Strategy Inc increased its holdings by 34,164 Bitcoins during the period from April 13 to April 19, with a total expenditure of about 2.54 billion dollars and an average purchase price of approximately 74,395 dollars. As of April 19, the company held a total of 815,061 BTC, with a total cost of about 61.56 billion dollars and an average cost of about 75,527 dollars; the funding primarily came from ATM stock issuance.
Bitmine increased its holdings by 101,627 ETH last week, with total holdings nearing 5 million ETH
According to New York Stock Exchange-listed company Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), the company increased its holdings by 101,627 Ethereum (ETH) in the past week, marking the fastest pace of accumulation since the week of December 15, 2025. Currently, it holds 4,976,485 ETH, accounting for approximately 4.12% of the total Ethereum supply, of which 3,334,637 ETH are already staked, valued at about 7.7 billion dollars at a rate of 2,301 dollars each. The company's total crypto assets, cash, and "moonshots" amount to approximately 12.9 billion dollars, including about 112 million dollars in cash, 199 BTC, and equity investments totaling 307 million dollars in Beast Industries and Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS). Bitmine stated that it will continue to promote the "Alchemy of 5%" through its own MAVAN staking platform and partners to acquire 5% of the ETH supply.
U.S. Vice President Vance and the U.S. delegation will arrive in Islamabad in a few hours
U.S. Vice President Vance and the U.S. delegation will reach Islamabad in a few hours. U.S. President Trump stated on Monday that he would be willing to meet with Iranian leaders if negotiations made progress. Trump said, "We should be negotiating. So I think no one is playing tricks right now." He did not address any doubts about the possibility of negotiations breaking down. Trump confirmed that the U.S. delegation—including Vice President Vance, envoy Witkoff, and advisor Kushner—has already set off for Islamabad to participate in the next round of negotiations. "They are now hurrying there," Trump said shortly after 9 a.m. Eastern Time on Monday (9 p.m. Beijing Time). "They will arrive tonight (Islamabad time)."
Coinbase is discussing collaboration with the crypto trading platform Bybit on the tokenization, custody, and global distribution of U.S. stocks and Pre-IPO stocks. Sources indicate that the collaboration focuses on offering U.S. assets in token form to global users, including those in Asia, without involving equity acquisition or assisting Bybit in entering the U.S. market. Bybit plans to enter the U.S. separately through a new entity led by former co-CEO Helen Liu, which will collaborate with local compliant licensed partners, with Bybit providing technology, products, and liquidity. Both Coinbase and Bybit declined to comment on this.
Abu Dhabi's regulated tokenization platform KAIO announced the completion of 8 million dollars in strategic financing, led by Tether and several crypto and institutional investors, bringing total financing to 19 million dollars. KAIO builds infrastructure to support asset managers to tokenize and distribute funds from institutions such as BlackRock, Brevan Howard, Hamilton Lane, with a minimum investment threshold of about 100 dollars for qualified investors. The company plans to expand into credit, structured products, and ETFs, and launch on-chain funds with Mubadala Capital while bringing USDT liquidity into compliant investment products. Currently, KAIO manages about 100 million dollars in assets and has processed transactions exceeding 500 million dollars.
Kelp DAO attributes the recent 290 million dollar rsETH cross-chain bridge attack to LayerZero's default "1/1" single-validator configuration and the breach of its own infrastructure. The attacker infiltrated two servers used for validating cross-chain transactions on LayerZero and launched a DDoS attack on a standby server, redirecting DVN traffic to controlled nodes and withdrawing approximately 116,500 rsETH from Kelp's LayerZero bridge. Kelp stated that it has maintained communication with LayerZero since July 2024, but has not received explicit requests to change DVN configurations, and both LayerZero's documentation and GitHub examples defaulted to 1/1, with about 40% of connected protocols using the same structure. Kelp emphasized that the core restaking contract was unaffected, and this attack was limited to the bridging layer.
Sonny Wu deposits over 55 million USDC into Spark again, totaling approximately 179 million dollars
Sonny Wu's address withdrew around 55.01 million USDC from HTX, subsequently depositing it all into the lending protocol Spark. Following the suspected bad debt risk at Aave, he had previously deposited 53,665 ETH (approximately 124 million dollars) that he had withdrawn to Spark, making his total deposited funds in the protocol approximately 179 million dollars.
The U.S. CFTC and SEC have jointly released a proposal to reduce the reporting burden on small private equity fund managers by amending the confidential reporting form Form PF for private equity funds. The proposal aims to raise the asset management size threshold for all reporting managers' private equity funds from 150 million dollars to 1 billion dollars, exempting about half of the currently reporting entities while still covering over 90% of the total assets of private equity funds. For hedge fund managers, the proposal aims to raise the "large hedge fund manager" reporting threshold from 1.5 billion dollars to 10 billion dollars, and remove quarterly and "current report" obligations for small hedge fund managers, reducing some detailed reporting requirements, which is expected to significantly lower the compliance burden for about two-thirds of the quarterly reporting entities. The proposal has been opened for public comments, with a comment period of 60 days following publication in the Federal Register.
Aave's incident report indicates that the Kelp DAO cross-chain bridge vulnerability has led to approximately 190 million dollars in loans being used without collateral, putting Aave at potential bad debt risk. The report from Aave Labs and LlamaRisk points out that attackers released 116,500 rsETH from the Ethereum side bridge by forging cross-chain messages, subsequently depositing 89,600 rsETH into Aave as collateral, borrowing approximately 190 million dollars in ETH and related assets. Aave has frozen the rsETH market within hours and set the loan-to-value ratio to zero. The final loss will depend on how Kelp DAO handles the gap: if the loss is shared among all rsETH holders, rsETH is expected to depeg by about 15%, leading to about 123 million dollars in bad debt for Aave; if the loss concentrates on the Layer 2 network, bad debt will rise to about 230 million dollars, primarily affecting networks like Arbitrum and Mantle. After the incident, Aave's total locked value saw approximately 6 billion dollars withdrawn. Aave DAO's treasury holds around 181 million dollars in assets and is in discussion with ecosystem participants to mitigate potential losses.
Recent occurrences of multiple DeFi security incidents in the past three weeks have resulted in industry losses exceeding 600 million dollars, with the Kelp DAO vulnerability incident (loss of 292 million dollars) further exacerbating the downtrend, driving DeFi's TVL down to about 82.4 billion dollars, the lowest level in a year, a decrease of 25% from the 110 billion dollars at the beginning of the year 2026. The day after Kelp DAO suffered a 292 million dollar attack, DeFi saw a single-day retracement of approximately 5.6%; the losses were most evident in the lending market, where TVL dropped by about 13%, whereas liquid staking fell by about 3.4%. Decentralized exchanges and derivative protocols also experienced declines of 2% to 3%. Aave has frozen rsETH to limit risk exposure, causing liquidity shortages in some stablecoin markets, locking billions of dollars in deposits. Arkham Intelligence analyzed that if Kelp DAO cannot raise external funds, alternative options include sharing about 16% of the losses among all rsETH holders or prioritizing Ethereum mainnet holders while allowing L2 users to bear most of the losses, the latter of which would expose Aave's rsETH holders to losses of about 267 million dollars. Kelp DAO, Aave, and LayerZero have been shifting responsibility amongst themselves, while core developers from Yearn stated that all parties have hired lawyers and entered into "everyone against each other" mode.
Coinbase incubated x402 protocol launches AI agent application store Agent.market
The x402 protocol foundation incubated by Coinbase has launched a unified platform called Agent.market, described as the “application store for AI agents.” This platform aggregates hundreds of tools and services accessible via internet-native payment protocols, covering seven major categories: reasoning, data, media, search, social, infrastructure, and trading. Launch partners include OpenAI, Venice (reasoning), Bloomberg, CoinGecko (data), LinkedIn, X, AgentMail (social), AWS Lambda, QuickNode, Alchemy (infrastructure), and Bankr, Coinbase RAT (trading), among others. Erik Reppel, founder of the x402 protocol, stated that x402 and the broader agent economy open up new business lines for online service providers. Most services on Agent.market are paid, and some services charge agents a "usage premium" per use.
Federal Reserve nominee Waller commits to maintaining the independence of monetary policy
The U.S. Congress will hold the first confirmation hearing for Federal Reserve Chairman nominee Waller on Tuesday local time, where Waller will pledge to Congress members to maintain strict independence in interest rate issues. According to the opening remarks obtained by Politico, Waller states that interest rate decisions must be strictly independent of political considerations, and monetary policy should not be a tool for short-term political goals while emphasizing that the Federal Reserve's credibility comes from institutional constraints and policy discipline. Waller states that central banks should listen to different opinions, and the views of politicians on interest rate issues are not a real threat; rather, it is the Federal Reserve's own discipline and seriousness that maintain its independent position, emphasizing that price stability is the Federal Reserve's shield, committing to take full responsibility for it, "not seeking any excuses, not shifting any blame." Regarding the phenomenon of the Federal Reserve's functions expanding continuously post-crisis, Waller also warns against extending its reach into areas of fiscal or social policies where it lacks statutory authority. The U.S. Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing on Waller's confirmation nomination at 10 p.m. Beijing time on April 21.
Lido stated on platform X that the previous Kelp DAO cross-chain bridge attack resulted in the theft of about 116,500 rsETH (approximately 292 million dollars), leading to the freezing of rsETH markets on lending platforms such as Aave. The EarnETH treasury under Lido directly holds about 9% of rsETH exposure (approximately 21.6 million dollars) through Aave's rsETH/ETH leveraged position. The EarnETH team is actively deleveraging and reducing various strategic risks, with the final outcome of the rsETH position depending on the decisions made by Kelp, LayerZero, and Aave. The 3 million dollar "first loss protection mechanism" provided by the Lido DAO treasury will be used to cover treasury losses if required. Currently, EarnETH's deposits and withdrawals have been paused to ensure fair handling. Lido's core staking protocols, stETH and wstETH, remain unaffected.
Trend Research has acted again after more than a month, transferring 5.41 million UNI and 228,000 COMP to a new address 0xfa9…FEB58, totaling 23.32 million dollars, with the address ownership not yet determined.
Paradigm unstakes 2.14 million HYPE, approximately 88 million dollars
Paradigm unstaked 2.14 million HYPE (approximately 88 million dollars) yesterday evening, involving multiple addresses.
Coinbase will launch CHIP (CHIP) and Opengradient (OPG)
Coinbase will launch CHIP (CHIP) and Opengradient (OPG). Users can now generate recharge addresses for CHIP and OPG on coinbase.com, the Coinbase App, and the Coinbase exchange (in regions that support trading). The recharge functionality for CHIP and OPG will be available once the issuers open the transfer capabilities.
Russell Thompson, Chief Investment Officer of crypto asset management company Hilbert Group, stated that global liquidity is expected to tighten by 20% to 25%, putting short-term pressure on Bitcoin. Even if the Iran issue is resolved quickly, it will be difficult for risk assets to continue rebounding without external policy support. Thompson expects U.S. policymakers will take countermeasures, including reforming supplementary leverage ratios, significantly utilizing funds from the Treasury General Account, and a series of interest rate cuts under the new Federal Reserve Chair. He maintains a bullish long-term outlook, expecting Bitcoin to "rise significantly" by the end of the year and to set a new historical record around 2027 as liquidity bottoms out. Thompson also anticipates progress in crypto regulation before the summer recess, with the Federal Reserve's balance sheet accelerating expansion due to deflationary pressures.
A certain whale sells 12,000 ETH after withdrawing 18,300 ETH from Binance to repay Aave loans
A whale, known as "0x8Ad", withdrew 18,300 ETH (42.18 million dollars) from Binance. Of this, 12,000 ETH has been sold to repay loans on Aave. The whale still holds 6,315 ETH (1.462 million dollars), potentially preparing to sell soon.
Slow Mist: Claude Desktop secretly writes browser backdoor files
Slow Mist's Chief Information Security Officer 23pds reminded on platform X that Claude Desktop has been reported to secretly write browser backdoor files. When users install the Claude Desktop application, the application writes a special file to all Chromium-based browsers on their computer without any knowledge of the users. This file acts as a pre-authorized backdoor, which, when used in conjunction with specific browser extensions, can gain full control over the user's browser.
Apple announces leadership change: Ternus takes over as CEO, Cook transitions to Executive Chairman
Apple (AAPL.O) announced on Monday that John Ternus will replace Tim Cook as CEO starting September 1, with Cook transitioning to Executive Chairman. Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering Ternus will join Apple's board of directors upon becoming CEO. Apple's non-executive chairman, Art Levinson, will also become chief independent director on the same day. In a press release, Apple stated, "Cook will continue to serve as CEO throughout the summer, working closely with Ternus to ensure a smooth transition." This marks the first CEO transition at Apple since Cook succeeded Steve Jobs in 2011. Cook took over shortly before Jobs passed away. Under Cook's leadership, Apple's market value has increased by approximately 24 times, reaching 4 trillion dollars at Monday's close.
Sonic Labs proposes quantum-resistant PoS upgrade path without redesigning consensus
Sonic Labs outlined its path to migrate to a quantum-resistant PoS network, claiming that its DAG-based SonicCS protocol can upgrade to post-quantum signatures without redesigning the consensus mechanism.
Analysis: Approximately 47% of the 2665 OApp contracts on LayerZero use the 1/1 DVN configuration
Dune Analytics posted on platform X that, in response to the KelpDAO security incident, it has publicly analyzed the DVN security configurations of all active OApps on LayerZero over the past 90 days. Among approximately 2665 independent OApp contracts, 47% utilize the 1-of-1 DVN security configuration (that is, only one validator, with KelpDAO's rsETH belonging to this category), 45% use a 2-of-2 configuration, and about 5% employ a 3-of-3 or higher configuration.
Curve founder Michael Egorov posted on platform X to share his views on recent attacks within the DeFi space. He stated that these avoidable attacks stem from centralized failure points, which harm the entire industry. Egorov cited Aave as an example, indicating that users could not withdraw due to the rsETH attack, yet parties shifted responsibilities—Aave claimed the protocol was functioning normally, rsETH stated the code was secure but the bridge was attacked, and LayerZero claimed everything was fine. Egorov emphasized that all such issues should be prevented before occurring rather than remedied afterward, should reduce rather than increase single points of failure, and when failure points are unavoidable, trust should be decentralized. He called for all parties to collaborate on establishing DeFi security standards, including how to construct securely and verify security, and suggested convening ecosystem projects with the Ethereum Foundation and Solana Foundation to establish principles, rules, and recommendations for secure construction.
A certain whale moves the final 2,000 cbBTC to Coinbase, overall profit of 5.37 million dollars
The "whale/institution that spent 500 million dollars to bottom out BTC and ETH in early February", transferred the last 2,000 cbBTC (151 million dollars) into Coinbase in the early hours. The average cost for 4,000 cbBTC purchased in early February was 73,837 dollars, now all have been transferred to Coinbase at an average price of 75,181 dollars, making a profit of 5.37 million dollars.
Pharos reveals token economics: PROS total supply is 1 billion, airdrop proportion 6%
Layer 1 public chain Pharos disclosed its token economics for PROS, with a total supply of 1 billion. The initial supply allocation is as follows: treasury accounts for 16%, Lab Co. treasury accounts for 9%, team accounts for 20%, investors account for 20%, ecology and community account for 21% (including a 6% community airdrop: 1% unlocked at TGE, 5% for future community growth and airdrop incentives), nodes and liquidity incentives account for 14%. Both the core team and private investors have a lock-up period of 12 months with a linear release over 36 months, while some treasury and incentive allocations extend to 48 to 60 months. PROS is used for transaction fees, PoS staking, validator participation, governance, ecological incentives, and potential specific uses for RWA. The staking issuance policy adopts a phased approach: the inflation rate is 0% for the first six months after the mainnet launch, and from the seventh month onward, the annual inflation rate will be 5%, which can be dynamically adjusted by the foundation according to network operational status.
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Kimi K2.6 released, enhancing programming capabilities
The release data of Kimi K2.6 (2.5M views, 12.1K retweets) shows its popularity is high. After the advantage of long text, the Dark Side of the Moon chose to enhance programming capabilities to enter the developer market, which is a typical path for domestic models seeking differentiation and practicality.
Claude can now generate real-time data dashboards in Cowork
Anthropic announced that Claude can now create real-time data dashboards in its Cowork collaboration platform. This is a step towards deeply integrating Claude into enterprise workflows. By embedding data analysis and visualization capabilities directly into the collaboration environment, it aims to transform AI from a "chat advisor" to a "workspace-native partner," enhancing user stickiness and usage depth.
The article interprets Jensen Huang's perspective on the need to solve "anti-common sense" issues such as energy and electrician shortages for AI development. Huang's core prediction is that the ultimate bottleneck for AI is not chips, but energy and the grid and electricians that can "turn electrons into Tokens." This directly points to the underlying infrastructure crisis under soaring computing power, requiring investment logic to extend from GPUs to upstream power, cooling, and talent training.
Amazon has invested 5 billion dollars in Anthropic, while Anthropic commits to spending 100 billion dollars on AWS in the future. This is a typical "deep binding" deal: Amazon has locked in future 100 billion dollars in cloud revenue commitments with 5 billion in cash upfront. For Anthropic, in a phase where annual revenue reaches 30 billion dollars and there is an urgent need for computing power expansion, trading future expenditures for current massive cash and stable computing power supply is a cost-effective deal.
NSA spies reportedly ignore ban and continue using Anthropic's Mythos model
Despite disagreements between the U.S. Department of Defense and Anthropic, the National Security Agency (NSA) is still secretly using its restricted Mythos AI model. This news reveals the real value of AI models in national security and the disconnect between policy contradictions. Even if there is an official "blacklist," top intelligence agencies will still adopt the most effective tools privately. For Anthropic, this is both an endorsement of its model's capabilities and brings geopolitical risks.
The Microsoft Fairwater AI data center has been operational ahead of schedule, deploying hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GB200 super chips, claiming to achieve ten times the computing power of the world's fastest supercomputer. The scale of deployment of hundreds of thousands of GB200 raises Microsoft's computing power arms race to new heights. This is not only to serve OpenAI or its own Copilot but also to seize the high ground in enterprise AI cloud services in the coming years. Computing power is power, and Microsoft is solidifying its underlying foundation for the "AI era Windows."
AWS announced the availability of G7e instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell server GPUs on Amazon SageMaker AI, supporting the hosting of large open-source models.
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