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One thing I struggled with early on was controlling my emotions while trading. I would react too quickly or hesitate too much, which affected my decisions. Over time, I learned that emotional discipli

One thing I struggled with early on was controlling my emotions while trading. I would react too quickly or hesitate too much, which affected my decisions. Over time, I learned that emotional discipline is just as important as strategy. Once I started staying calm and following a plan, everything felt more manageable. CAMILAHFX on T£L£GRA.M emphasizes that balance, and it helped me improve.

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On April 20, Mizuho Financial Group, Nomura Holdings, Japan Securities Clearing Corporation, and Digital Asset initiated an empirical experiment for the digital collateral management of Japanese Gover

Multiple Institutions in Japan Launch Digital Collateral Management Experiment for JGB on Canton Net

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Bitcoin drops from recent highs as traders watch CME gap, DeFi hack fallout


The crypto market is trading back in familiar territory following a short-lived spike to its highest point since early February on Friday.

Bitcoin is trading a hair under $75,000 while ether ($ETH) is at $2,300, both significantly lower than Friday's highs of $78,300 and $2,460.

One reason for traders to be bullish is that the bitcoin futures market on the CME, a venue favored by institutions, closed at $77,540 on Friday and opened at $74,600 to create "CME gap" that spans 3.8% to the upside. A similar gap occurred last week and was filled before the end of the day on Monday.

The first steps have been taken: Bitcoin's gained 1.5% since midnight UTC, suggesting sentiment is warming following a volatile weekend.

The market tumbled over the weekend as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz came to a halt after opening on Friday. The renewed closure led to a jump in the price of crude oil from $78 to $88 per barrel.

This weighed on risk assets, with Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 futures both down by 0.59% since midnight.

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Marketwide, crypto open interest (OI) held steady near $120 billion over the past 24 hours. Trading volume, in contrast, jumped 30%, suggesting a surge in activity without a corresponding increase in new positions. That potentially points to increased turnover, short-term positioning or traders rotating risk rather than deploying fresh capital.

OI in solana (SOL), bitcoin , ether ($ETH) and $XRP ($XRP) held largely steady. OI in HYPE futures declined by 3% alongside as the price fell, pointing to capital outflows. Elsewhere, OI in AVAX and SP 500 perpetuals rose by 6% to 10%, respectively.

OI in $AAVE futures surged to a record high of 3.46 million tokens as collateral damage from the weekend exploit of KelpDAO led to rapid withdrawals of from the Aave l

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Altcoin rotation favors throughput over ‘clever’ DeFi narratives

2026’s altcoin rotation is skipping meme narratives and flowing into $XRP, $BNB, Solana, TRON and Hyperliquid, as traders pay for throughput and real volume.

Altcoin flows in 2026 are starting to look less like a classic “altseason blow‑off” and more like a cold‑eyed rotation toward tokens that do real transactional work. Across derivatives desks and spot venues, liquidity is clustering around payment rails, centralized‑exchange ecosystems, high‑throughput base layers and perpetuals platforms, while complex DeFi experiments and bridge‑dependent tokens lag on both volume and depth.

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On April 18, 2026, Kelp DAO's liquidity restaking protocol was compromised by an attacker who siphoned 116,500 rsETH (equivalent to approximately $293 million at the time) from the cross-chain bridge 

On April 18, 2026, Kelp DAO's liquidity restaking protocol was compromised by an attacker who siphoned 116,500 rsETH (equivalent to approximately $293 million at the time) from the cross-chain bridge within hours. The entire process was unusually efficient, from forging cross-chain messages to distributing the stolen funds across three lending protocols—Aave V3, Compound V3, and Euler—to lend out real assets. The attackers withdrew with $236 million worth of WETH that same day. Aave, SparkLend, and Fluid subsequently froze the rsETH market.

This was the largest DeFi attack of 2026 to date.

However, one thing distinguished this attack from most hacks: Kelp DAO's smart contract code contained no vulnerabilities.  Security researcher @0xQuit, who participated in the investigation, wrote on X, "From what I currently understand, this is a combination of two problems: a 1-of-1 DVN configuration, and the DVN node itself being compromised." LayerZero's official statement also didn't mention the contract code, characterizing the problem as an "rsETH vulnerability" rather than a "LayerZero vulnerability."


$293 million isn't in any line of code. It's hidden in a misplaced configuration parameter during deployment.


The general logic of DeFi security auditing is: find the contract, read the code, find vulnerabilities. This logic works quite smoothly when dealing with code logic vulnerabilities; tools like Slither and Mythril have mature capabilities for detecting known patterns such as reentrancy attacks and integer overflows. LLM-assisted code auditing, which has been heavily promoted in the past two years, also has some capability against business logic vulnerabilities (such as flash loan arbitrage paths).


However, two rows in this matrix are red.

 Configuration-level vulnerabilities are a structural blind spot in tool auditing. The problem with Kelp DAO

On April 18, 2026, Kelp DAO's liquidity restaking

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U.S. crypto adoption is rebounding, bitcoin still dominates, Deutsche Bank saysCrypto adoption in the U.S. has staged a comeback, even as sentiment around prices remains cautious, according to German lender Deutsche Bank (DB).

In a new retail survey spanning 3,400 consumers across the U.S., U.K. and EU, the bank said U.S. participation rebounded to 12% in March from a February low of 7%, returning to levels last seen in July 2025. The report's data suggested adoption has not topped 14% in the survey's history, dating back to 2023.

Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw a resurgence in March, attracting roughly $1.3 billion in net inflows, the report said, signaling renewed institutional demand after a weak start to the year.
"After steadily declining since July 2025, U.S. crypto adoption rates recovered in March," wrote analysts Marion Laboure and Camilla Siazon in the Monday report.

Crypto prices have shown signs of stabilization after a volatile start to 2026, with last month marking a tentative rebound driven by renewed institutional demand and geopolitical tailwinds.

Bitcoin rose roughly 9% in March, recovering toward the $70,000 level after earlier declines, though it remains down more than 20% year-to-date and well below its late-2025 peak above $120,000. More recently, prices have pushed higher into the mid-$70,000s, briefly topping $77,000 amid easing geopolitical tensions and improving risk sentiment.

U.S. crypto adoption is rebounding, bitcoin still

Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX DAO's First Hackathon Launches!Post To Earn Bonus A $300 million borrowing spike on Aave signals liquidity crunch after exploit The aftershocks of the Saturday





A $300 million borrowing spike on Aave signals liquidity crunch after exploit


The aftershocks of the Saturday's KelpDAO hack are spreading through stablecoin markets in ways that were not immediately obvious.

Int he first 24 hours post the attack, users on Aave borrowed approximately $300 million against their tether deposits of stablecoin tether on the platform, according to Chaos Labs data.

The borrowing spike isn’t a sign of demand; it is a sign users can’t withdraw. With stablecoin pools maxed out, depositors are taking loans against their own funds at a loss just to access liquidity.

Think of it this way: Imagine a bank refusing to process customer fiat deposit withdrawal requests. So, out of desperation, customers take out loans on these deposits. This credit creation isn't healthy, but a desperate move for liquidity.

"We're now seeing some negative secondary effects of illiquidity in Aave stablecoin markets," said monetsupply.eth, the pseudonymous head of strategy at Spark, a rival DeFi lending platform. "Because users can't withdraw due to 100% utilization, there has been a ~$300 million increase in borrowing with $USDT collateral in just the past day since the rsETH exploit."

To understand how a single exploit on KelpDAO ended up locking every stablecoin exit on Aave simultaneously, you need to understand how the system is supposed to work — and exactly where it broke.

What is Aave and how it's supposed to work

Aave is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that enables users to lend and borrow cryptocurrencies without intermediaries. Think of it as a bank, except it runs entirely on code on a public blockchain, with no human gatekeepers.

Users deposit assets into lending pools and earn interest. Others borrow from those same pools by posting crypto assets as collateral, which exceeds the loan amount. The system is designed to self-correct automati

A $300 million borrowing spike on Aave signals

Digital asset investment products recorded $1.4 billion in net inflows last week, marking the strongest weekly total since January, according to CoinShares.  Summary Crypto investment products recorde

Crypto funds pull $1.4B in biggest weekly inflow since January: CoinShares report Bitcoin leads week

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DefiLlama founder 0xngmi addressed the Aave TVL controversy in a post on platform X. He stated that the current market view that Aave's TVL is overstated due to looping is not accurate. When calculati

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