Bitcoin hit its highest price since early February after President Trump announced an open-ended extension of the US-Iran ceasefire at the request of Pakistani mediators, keeping hostilities on pause.
Arkham Intelligence tracked 75,701 ETH moving into freshly created wallets on April 21 as the suspected Lazarus Group actors behind the $292 million Kelp DAO exploit began routing stolen funds through THORChain and Umbra.
Kalshi is reportedly launching crypto perpetual futures and Polymarket announced the same product the same day, putting both prediction market giants in direct competition with established crypto exchanges.
Justin Sun filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump-linked World Liberty Financial project, alleging it froze his $75 million WLFI stake, stripped his governance rights, and threatened to burn his tokens to coerce further investment.
Kelp DAO says the 1-of-1 verifier configuration that enabled the $290 million rsETH exploit was LayerZero’s own documented default, not a rogue configuration choice made against expert advice.
Arbitrum’s Security Council froze 30,766 ETH worth $71 million linked to the Kelp DAO exploit, recovering roughly a quarter of the $292 million stolen, pending a governance vote on the funds’ fate.
Ripple’s four-phase plan targets full post-quantum cryptography on the XRP Ledger by 2028, with a Quantum-Day contingency already in place and NIST-standard testing underway in 2026.
An Aave Labs and LlamaRisk incident report puts bad debt exposure at $124 million to $230 million depending on how Kelp DAO socializes losses from its $292 million bridge exploit.
North Korea’s Lazarus Group likely stole $292 million from Kelp DAO’s rsETH bridge by exploiting a single-verifier configuration that LayerZero says it had warned against.
After the Kelp DAO exploit, the attacker used $292 million in stolen rsETH as collateral on Aave V3, generating roughly $196 million in bad debt and triggering a $6.6 billion TVL collapse.
