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Thursday2026/04
04-19
Crude oil market sees $800 million in trading as Iran announces Strait reopening
According to Caixin, at 8:24 a.m. Eastern Time on Friday, the crude oil market suddenly surged in volume without any accompanying news, with nearly $800 million traded in a short period, causing a sharp price drop. Twenty-one minutes later, Iran’s Foreign Minister Alireza Araghchi announced that the...
Aave Chan Founder Announces Cancellation of Frontier Plan to Protect wETH Users
According to Huoxing Finance, on April 19, Marc Zeller, founder of the Aave Chan Initiative (ACI), an organization contributing to the Aave ecosystem, announced the immediate termination of the AaveChan Frontier program. Marc Zeller stated, “For years, we have operated ETH staking nodes on behalf of...
AAAI 2026 Pilots AI Review for 22,977 Papers at Under $1 per Review
Is AI-powered paper review reliable?Different people may have different answers, but there is no doubt that acceptance of AI-assisted reviewing is gradually increasing, with some top conferences beginning to move forward under the pressure of massive paper submissions. For example, ICML 2026 has alr...
Musk Responds to Deceased Girl’s ASTEROID Mascot Wish, Meme Coin Surges
On X, in response to a discussion about the late teenager Liv Perrotto’s wish for her design “ASTEROID” to become a SpaceX mascot, Musk replied “Ok.” GMGN data shows that the meme coin ASTEROID, named after the same term, surged briefly, with its market cap rising from $16 million to approximately $...
Aave Chan founder announces termination of the Frontier plan to protect wETH deposit users.
BlockBeats news, on April 19, Marc Zeller, founder of the Aave ecosystem contribution organization Aave Chan Initiative (ACI), announced the immediate termination of the AaveChan Frontier program.Marc Zeller stated, “For years, we have operated ETH staking nodes on behalf of the Aave DAO. Given the ...
Andre Cronje: Aave Has No User Loss Subsidy Mechanism; ETH Withdrawn to Encapsulated Contract
Odaily Planet Daily reports: Andre Cronje, co-founder of Sonic Labs and founder of Flying Tulip, posted on X that his team is continuing to investigate the L0/rsETH incident. Preliminary reports suggest that approximately $200 million in rsETH was stolen due to either a private key compromise or con...
Bankless Co-Founder Warns of Record Hacks in Crypto, Cites AI as 'Dark Superpower'
BlockBeats news, on April 19, Ryan Sean Adams, co-founder of Bankless, posted that "the frequency of cryptocurrency hacks has reached an all-time high. I believe this is related to AI. AI is giving hackers 'dark superpowers.' Defenses must catch up as soon as possible—we are out of time."Previously ...
Aave Core Member Proposes Ending the ACI Frontier Project
ME News reports that on April 19 (UTC+8), Marc Zeller, a core member of Aave, stated on X that a proposal has been submitted to terminate the Aave-Chan Initiative (ACI) Frontier project. He noted that for years, ACI has managed Ethereum staking nodes on behalf of the Aave DAO, but has now decided to...
Aave Founder Halts Frontier Staking Plan, Transfers ETH to Aave DAO for Risk Mitigation
Odaily Planet Daily News: Marc Zeller, founder of the Aave Chan Initiative (ACI), posted on the governance forum that due to risks associated with rsETH potentially causing a wETH shortage and bad debt issues in Aave V3 Core, ACI has decided to immediately terminate the Frontier staking service prog...
AAVE Drops 15% After Kelp Hack, Three Addresses Sell Nearly 60,000 Tokens
According to ME News, on April 19 (UTC+8), Ember Monitoring detected that after hackers illegally minted rsETH via Aave and borrowed large amounts of ETH, multiple whales sold AAVE on-chain, causing AAVE to drop 15% today. The Polymarket address "smaugvision" sold 20,015 AAVE (approximately $2.06 mi...
Hackers exploit Aave using illegally minted rsETH, triggering an AAVE sell-off
Huo Xing Finance reports that on April 19, according to on-chain analyst Yujin, after hackers illegally minted rsETH via Aave and borrowed large amounts of ETH, multiple whales sold AAVE on-chain, causing AAVE to drop 15% today.
- The Polymarket username "smaugvision" sold 20,015 AAVE ($2.06 milli...
Multiple whale addresses sell AAVE on-chain; token drops 15% in a day
According to on-chain analyst Ember (@EmberCN), after the hacker borrowed a large amount of ETH by illegally minting rsETH via Aave, multiple whale addresses sold AAVE on-chain, causing AAVE to drop 15% on the day.
The address with the Polymarket username “smaugvision” sold 20,015 AAVE at an avera...
Bitcoin Four-Year Cycle Still Alive, Says James Lavish
Most analysts had ruled out the ‘4-Year Cycle’ for Bitcoin [BTC], saying the narrative was dead. Among them is James Lavish, a partner at the Bitcoin Opportunity Fund.James Lavish on Bitcoin’s ‘4-Year Cycle’James Lavish claimed last year that a liquidity cycle drove the price, rendering Bitcoin halv...
Aave ETH utilization reaches 100% following KelpDAO incident, whales withdraw ETH
According to on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain (@lookonchain), following the KelpDAO incident, the attacker deposited rsETH into Aave and borrowed ETH, resulting in a bad debt on Aave. As a result, several whales have begun urgently withdrawing ETH from Aave. Currently, ETH utilization on Aave...
DeFi Protocol Fluid Pauses Markets Affected by the KelpDAO rsETH Incident
BlockBeats report, April 19: The DeFi protocol Fluid stated, “Markets potentially affected by the KelpDAO rsETH incident have been suspended. Fluid has no material exposure to rsETH on L2, and no new lending or borrowing activities using rsETH as collateral have occurred since the cross-chain bridge...
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