🗞 Catch up on the news over the last 24 hours! 🚨 Justin Sun publicly asks the KelpDAO hacker how much they want, offer…
🗞 Catch up on the news over the last 24 hours!
🚨 Justin Sun publicly asks the KelpDAO hacker how much they want, offering to negotiate instead of letting both Aave and KelpDAO go down over the exploit.
🇮🇷 Iran's Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf says, "Vibe-trading digital oil is like vibe-hedging in treasuries during Hormuz risk-off.”
🚨 Aave confirms rsETH on Ethereum mainnet is fully backed but keeps it frozen across V3 and V4 as a precaution.
🚨 Polymarket is in talks to raise $400 million at a $15 billion valuation, per The Information.
🚨 Crypto Fear & Greed Index sits at 29 (Fear) today, recovering from Extreme Fear levels of 12 recorded both last week and last month.
🚨 LayerZero says preliminary indicators suggest the $290M KelpDAO exploit was carried out by North Korea's Lazarus Group via a sophisticated RPC poisoning attack.
🚨 Central bankers warn US stablecoins risk accelerating dollarisation in emerging markets and enabling criminal activity, per FT.
🔥 Digital asset investment products saw $1.4B in inflows last week, marking the strongest weekly total since January.
🔥 Strategy bought 34,164 $BTC for $2.54B. They now hold 815,061 BTC.
🔥 Bitmine added 101,627 $ETH last week, bringing its total holdings to 4.98M ETH, or about 4.12% of the total supply.
🇺🇸 Paul Atkins marks one year as Chair of the U.S. SEC. “We’ve pivoted from the old practice of regulation through enforcement,” he said on CNBC, signaling a friendlier stance toward crypto.
🇺🇸 The CFTC and SEC jointly proposed easing Form PF reporting rules for private funds, raising the filing threshold from $150M to $1B.
🚨 Pavel Durov criticized EU and UK social media regulation, claiming authorities pressure platforms to censor dissent while framing it as child protection.
🇮🇷 Donald Trump says he is under “no pressure” to reach a deal with Iran and expects it to happen relatively quickly, while insisting the U.S. will not rush into terms that are not “right.”
🔥 Amazon plans to invest up to an additional $25 billion in Anthropic as part of an AI infrastructure deal.
🇺🇸 Sen. Tillis urges Senate Banking to push the crypto market structure bill to a May markup to allow more time to finalize a bank-crypto stablecoin compromise, per Punchbowl.
🇺🇸 Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse calls SEC Chair Atkins a "breath of fresh air," contrasting his pro-innovation approach with Gensler's "unlawful power grab" against crypto.
