In a detailed incident report, Aave service providers quantified the protocol's exposure for the first time and outlined two scenarios depending on how Kelp DAO allocates the loss. LayerZero and Kelp continue to blame each other for the compromised bridge configuration.

Analysis of 2,665 LayerZero OApp contracts shows nearly half rely on single-validator security configurations, the same setup that exposed KelpDAO's rsETH to exploitation.

Tangem Pay lets users spend USDC directly from their self-custodial Tangem wallets, settling all transactions on Polygon.

AAVE, ZRO, LDO, and ENA tokens plunged 10–22% as market repriced risk across DeFi protocols exposed to a bad debt event, with LayerZero priced as equally culpable as the originating lender.

North Korea's Lazarus Group exploited a single-verifier LayerZero setup to drain $290M in rsETH on April 18 by compromising RPC infrastructure and poisoning the bridge's data feeds.

Mizuho, Nomura, and Japan's central clearing house are launching a blockchain-based proof-of-concept for collateral management of Japanese government bonds.

Attacker minted unbacked rsETH through Kelp's LayerZero bridge, then borrowed WETH on Aave V3 and V4 before markets could freeze.

Solana announced wXRP is live on Titan Exchange, Real, Phantom, Jupiter, and Meteora, expanding cross-chain asset availability on the blockchain.

X's new cashtags trading pilot for stocks and crypto reached an estimated $1 billion in volume within days of its Tuesday launch.

A geopolitical breakthrough and strong ETF inflows converged to lift crypto markets on Friday.