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.

Narrative-driven tokens are catching bids again as the broader memecoin sector attempts to recover from a bruising 2025.

Morpheus Research's report alleges that the $7.7B fintech is exaggerating its use of blockchain technology, while Figure and asset manager Van Eck dispute the findings.

The bank says it plans to add other stablecoins across multiple blockchains to the service.