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A $300 million borrowing spike on Aave signals liquidity crunch after KelpDAO exploit
The aftershocks of the Saturday's KelpDAO hack are spreading through stablecoin markets in ways that were not immediately obvious.
Bitcoin, ether, solana slide, oil jumps on renewed U.S.-Iran war risks
Bitcoin traded at $74,335 after Iran reimposed controls on the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, with the modest 1.6% pullback standing out against a 5.7% jump in Brent and a 1.2% drop in European equity futures.
LayerZero blames Kelp's setup for $290 million exploit, attributes it to North Korea's Lazarus
LayerZero said the attackers compromised two RPC nodes the company's verifier relied on and DDoS'd the rest, with the attack working only because Kelp had ignored multi-verifier recommendations.
Aave sees $6 billion deposit drop as Kelp hack exposes structural risk for DeFi lender
The AAVE token fell 16% and deposits fled the protocol after attackers used drained rsETH as collateral to borrow wrapped ether, leaving Aave to quantify how much bad debt it is now carrying.
RaveDAO's RAVE token collapses 90% in a day as exchange probes widen
The token traded at $1.15 on Sunday, down from a $27.33 peak on Friday, wiping out more than $5 billion in market cap as investigations into Binance and Bitget advance.
2026's biggest crypto exploit: $292 million gets drained from Kelp DAO with wrapped ether stranded across 20 chains
An attacker drained 116,500 rsETH, roughly 18% of circulating supply, from Kelp's LayerZero-powered bridge on Saturday, triggering emergency freezes across Aave, SparkLend, Fluid and Upshift.
Bitcoin 'plebs eat first' mining pool Parasite finds its second BTC block
Parasite Pool, which pays 1 BTC to the block finder and splits the rest among all participants, mined block 945,601 on Friday, about 48 days after its first.
Wrapped XRP goes live on Solana, broadening DeFi access for Ripple-linked token
Wrapped XRP on Solana lets XRP holders access Jupiter, Phantom, and Meteora without selling the asset, the latest step in Hex Trust's multi-chain wXRP rollout first announced in December.
Bitcoin falls back to $76,000 as Iran shuts Hormuz again
One of the biggest short liquidations 2026 wiped $593 million in bearish bets overnight. Saturday afternoon as Iran reportedly reversed the Hormuz reopening.
XRP leads majors with 8% weekly outperformance, what next after breakout
Token edges ahead of bitcoin and ether over seven days, though thinning participation keeps the move in consolidation territory.
