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breakingApr 30, 2026, 6:02 PM GMT+2

Wasabi Protocol reportedly drained across four chains. Upgrade-key exposure is the real attack surface.

Wasabi is paused, the investigation is live, and the multi-chain blast radius is telling you something about how this protocol managed its upgrade keys.

Dev Patel·1min·🚨👀📊

breakingApr 29, 2026, 9:38 PM GMT+2

Warsh advanced. A Fed chair with two dozen crypto bets is a governance first.

The person who may soon set U.S. interest rates reportedly holds stakes in Compound, dYdX, and Solana. That's not a neutral credential.

Lucia Moreno·2min·🚨👀📊

briefApr 27, 2026, 1:00 PM GMT+2

Hyperliquid's largest traders are long at $80K. Funding says the crowd is still short.

Negative funding and aggressive whale longs running together since February is the textbook contrarian-bullish setup. It also fails 30% of the time, which is why it's called contrarian.

Liv Bergman·2min·🚀🐂👀

explainerApr 27, 2026, 12:39 AM GMT+2

The KelpDAO bridge lost $292M. The smart contracts were fine.

Bridge security has always been a bet on whoever runs the verification infrastructure. Audited contracts mean nothing if the verifier is compromised.

Dev Patel·3min·📊👀🧠

briefApr 26, 2026, 11:21 PM GMT+2

DeFi United raised $222M to rescue rsETH. Most of it hasn't cleared governance yet.

The rsETH bailout is a live test of whether protocol treasuries can act as a collective lender of last resort. Three governance votes are the critical path.

Dev Patel·2min·📊👀🧠

briefApr 26, 2026, 1:30 PM GMT+2

ETH/BTC is at a three-month high. Unusually, fees led the rally.

Ethereum has posted two failed recoveries against Bitcoin this cycle. The difference this time is that network activity moved before the price ratio did.

Dev Patel·2min·📊👀🧠

briefApr 25, 2026, 6:00 PM GMT+2

LayerZero's $40M unlock hit the same week KelpDAO's bridge did. Silence is a choice.

Two things happened to ZRO on April 25. One was on the calendar. The other required a response that hasn't come.

Dev Patel·2min·🐻👀💀

briefApr 24, 2026, 7:10 PM GMT+2

$1.6B out of Ethereum DeFi in one day. The 200-day average is now the line.

April 24 handed Ethereum DeFi its worst single-day outflow of 2026. One number tells you what happened; a different one tells you whether it matters.

Dev Patel·2min·📊👀🧠

briefApr 24, 2026, 2:20 PM GMT+2

Solana Foundation switches to 24/7 monitoring. For Lazarus, that's table stakes.

The Foundation closed the off-hours gap state-funded attackers exploit. Whether $10M buys you real coverage is a different question.

Dev Patel·2min·📊👀🧠

briefApr 22, 2026, 10:15 PM GMT+2

$606M gone in April. Lazarus Group is running a production-grade extraction operation.

North Korea's state hacking unit accounts for 95% of April's crypto losses. The structural gap that made both attacks possible hasn't been patched.

Dev Patel·2min·🐻👀💀

breakingApr 22, 2026, 4:10 PM GMT+2

Aave's USDC pool ran dry. Circle's fix is a rate hike into an empty room.

Stablecoin issuers don't normally rewrite lending protocol parameters. When Circle does it, the liquidity crisis is already past the rate model.

Dev Patel·2min·🐻👀💀

breakingApr 21, 2026, 6:05 PM GMT+2

Justin Sun sues World Liberty Financial. A $75M backer doesn't litigate over strategy.

When the person who wrote the biggest check sues before the product ships, the problem predates the product.

Lucia Moreno·2min·🚨👀📊

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The stream

Wasabi Protocol reportedly drained across four chains. Upgrade-key exposure is the real attack surface.

Warsh advanced. A Fed chair with two dozen crypto bets is a governance first.

Hyperliquid's largest traders are long at $80K. Funding says the crowd is still short.

The KelpDAO bridge lost $292M. The smart contracts were fine.

DeFi United raised $222M to rescue rsETH. Most of it hasn't cleared governance yet.

ETH/BTC is at a three-month high. Unusually, fees led the rally.

LayerZero's $40M unlock hit the same week KelpDAO's bridge did. Silence is a choice.

$1.6B out of Ethereum DeFi in one day. The 200-day average is now the line.

Solana Foundation switches to 24/7 monitoring. For Lazarus, that's table stakes.

$606M gone in April. Lazarus Group is running a production-grade extraction operation.

Aave's USDC pool ran dry. Circle's fix is a rate hike into an empty room.

Justin Sun sues World Liberty Financial. A $75M backer doesn't litigate over strategy.

DeFi 🏦

The stream

Wasabi Protocol reportedly drained across four chains. Upgrade-key exposure is the real attack surface.

Warsh advanced. A Fed chair with two dozen crypto bets is a governance first.

Hyperliquid's largest traders are long at $80K. Funding says the crowd is still short.

The KelpDAO bridge lost $292M. The smart contracts were fine.

DeFi United raised $222M to rescue rsETH. Most of it hasn't cleared governance yet.

ETH/BTC is at a three-month high. Unusually, fees led the rally.

LayerZero's $40M unlock hit the same week KelpDAO's bridge did. Silence is a choice.

$1.6B out of Ethereum DeFi in one day. The 200-day average is now the line.

Solana Foundation switches to 24/7 monitoring. For Lazarus, that's table stakes.

$606M gone in April. Lazarus Group is running a production-grade extraction operation.

Aave's USDC pool ran dry. Circle's fix is a rate hike into an empty room.

Justin Sun sues World Liberty Financial. A $75M backer doesn't litigate over strategy.

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