$AAVE Catalyst Posts
April 20, 2026Single-day social intelligence recap and verified catalyst posts · ← Back to $AAVE Profile · Market Rankings
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451 source posts analyzed· 2026-04-20T20:14:14+00:00Update on rsETH incident: @LlamaRisk has published a report outlining the rsETH incident, the immediate actions taken, its impact on Aave, and potential paths forward. All service providers have been working to assess the two potential bad debt scenarios on the Aave protocol.
· 2026-04-20T12:56:26+00:00The Kelp hack wasn't just $292M gone. It was one exploit spreading through four protocols across 20 chains. rsETH drained → used as collateral on Aave → markets frozen → $6.6B in deposits fled. The risk in DeFi is rarely where the yield is. It's in the infrastructure
· 2026-04-20T02:57:15+00:00Update: Aave's TVL has dropped to $17.947B, down $8.45B over the past 2 days. The total TVL of all DeFi protocols across all chains has also dropped from $99.497B to $86.286B, a decline of $13.21B.
· 2026-04-20T09:45:16+00:00> be in defi > put usdc on aave at 3% apy > "safe yield. lowest-risk play." > can't withdraw because kelpdao got drained > because kelpdao used layerzero > because layerzero trusted 3 rpc servers > because north korea ddos'd 3 rpc servers > layerzero: "the protocol worked as
· 2026-04-20T15:33:11+00:001/ On April 18, an attacker drained 116,500 rsETH (~$292M) from Kelp's cross-chain bridge. rsETH markets on Aave and other lending venues were frozen shortly thereafter.
· 2026-04-20T05:35:47+00:00Many people still haven't realized just how bad @aave 's situation is right now All core markets' utilization rates have already maxed out at 100%, including the stuck 3 billion USDT and 2 billion USDC This means you can't withdraw your own money at all Let me break it down in
· 2026-04-20T14:27:00+00:00AAVE's in trouble, and Brother Sun's getaway speed is nothing short of remarkable. The official team started freezing all deployed rsETH/wrsETH markets on Aave at 18:52 UTC on April 18. The HTX Recovery address then initiated 5 consecutive withdrawals from the Aave Pool V3 at
· 2026-04-20T03:37:35+00:00While you all trying' to get out of @aave , I deposited 50k to earn 15%
· 2026-04-20T13:21:52+00:00i predict that the run on Aave is the beginning of the end of (non-bitcoin) defi contracts
· 2026-04-20T00:09:34+00:00Why would anyone deposit on Aave with 2-3% yield? How on earth does this ever justify the exploit risk
· 2026-04-20T08:45:00+00:00AAVE DOWN 19% AFTER A $292M EXPLOIT TRIGGERS A LIQUIDITY CRISIS
· 2026-04-20T04:05:12+00:00Live evidence for the @aave x @KelpDAO x @LayerZero_Core governance war room on second-order risk. @avantprotocol is currently running a single $156M sUSDe looping position on Aave Mantle. $140M USDT0 + $20M USDC borrowed against it. Net APY -135% (net of sUSDe embedded yield
· 2026-04-20T00:26:33+00:00It seems the rsETH incident's impact on Aave may be more severe than everyone imagined: Because funds on Aave are still continuously outflowing, from the early morning incident yesterday until now, $10.1 billion has already flowed out (total deposits dropped from $45.8 billion
· 2026-04-20T00:37:35+00:00POV - you tell your wife about losing money in the Kelpdao Aave hack
· 2026-04-20T01:04:55+00:00A near 40% increase in OI on the news of the $AAVE exploit, with negative funding suggesting shorts are the aggressors (which is a logical expectation given the circumstances) but still no lower low and chart looks like this. Potential short squeeze in the making...
· 2026-04-20T07:34:48+00:00After Aave got bad debt --> normal users rushed to withdraw ETH/stables --> pools slammed to 100% utilization = no one can get out. Stuck depositors realized they couldn’t withdraw but could still borrow --> they maxed their credit, yanking out as much stables as possible via
· 2026-04-20T11:01:48+00:00we should get layerzero, kelp, aave into a room to figure things out between them. so far things are not looking good, everyone has lawyered up and going full pvp on each other.
· 2026-04-20T01:29:06+00:00Based on nothing but vibes, we’re going see an announcmeng from LayerZero, Aave, and Kelp this week where they share that they’ve found a large investor to backstop the missing funds in return for some guarantee shares of revenue from the protocol until funds are returned.
· 2026-04-20T04:52:28+00:00If Aave can unilaterally freeze your assets, it’s not decentralized. Decentralization matters. Without it, you’re trusting a bunch of clowns you’ve never seen or heard of instead of JPMorgan.
· 2026-04-20T02:49:32+00:00The OTC whale who previously bought 163,405 $ETH($440M) and 4,000 $cbBTC($296M) has withdrawn 98,032 $wstETH($272M) and 3,000 $cbBTC($221.6M) from #Aave. Affected by the KelpDAO rsETH bridge exploit, he was unable to withdraw $ETH, so he directly swapped 7,438 aEthWETH($16.83M)
· 2026-04-20T14:54:13+00:00LATEST: Aave's TVL dropped nearly $8 billion after attackers used $293 million in stolen Kelp DAO tokens as collateral, creating $195 million in bad debt, according to Lookonchain.
· 2026-04-20T22:17:28+00:00$AAVE - This is why so many get turned off from crypto. Finally start playing some charts, up 20% going into the weekend and 24 hours later there's a 300 million dollar exploit and the entire move retraced.
· 2026-04-20T23:02:55+00:00Lido reports $21.6M rsETH exposure, may deploy $3M loss buffer Lido stated that its EarnETH product has approximately 9% exposure to rsETH (~$21.6 million) via leveraged positions on Aave following the April 18 Kelp DAO incident. Loss outcomes depend on actions by Kelp,
· 2026-04-20T10:29:06+00:00Calling all ETH lenders locked on Aave. We have built a way to exit to any token. While Fluid provides redemption to wstETH/weETH, via our Pathfinder algorithm, you can swap aEthWETH directly into the asset of your choice. aWETH → any token on 1inch.com/swap?src=1:aEt … in one
· 2026-04-20T04:20:32+00:00NOW: Aave's TVL has plunged $8.45B to $17.947B in just 2 days, while total DeFi TVL across all chains dropped $13.21B to $86.286B amid the KelpDAO exploit fallout.
· 2026-04-20T20:47:17+00:00BREAKING: AAVE @aave governance post details the amount of bad debt it has under 2 scenarios: Scenario 1 (uniform socialization of rsETH) produces $123.7M in bad debt, concentrated on Ethereum Core (Aave deployment on Eth mainnet) in absolute size terms and most acute on
· 2026-04-20T00:40:32+00:00UPDATE: Aave confirms rsETH on Ethereum mainnet is fully backed but keeps it frozen across V3 and V4 as a precaution. WETH reserves remain frozen across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Mantle, and Linea.
· 2026-04-20T05:32:03+00:00I've accumulated $AAVE during the panic. And I'm going to explain why I didn't sell. Since the Kelp DAO exploit, CT has been predicting the end of $AAVE. Markets at 100% utilization, bad debt, contagion. Everyone's getting out. Everyone's panicking. That's exactly when I look at
· 2026-04-20T06:58:00+00:00sooo which one are you MOST bullish for Q1?? 1. $RAVE 2. $ASTEROID 3. $QUBIC 4. $URANUS 5. $MOMO 6. $TAO 7. $HYPE 8. $AAVE 9. $PENGU 10. $BERT
· 2026-04-20T21:21:51+00:00More than 80% of Umbrella depositors are trying to exit the Umbrella module now that there's a real chance of getting slashed. Aave is freezing the module in case resolution takes longer than the withdrawal cooldown (20 days) to ensure these users are fully slashable if needed.
· 2026-04-20T15:44:42+00:00The most dangerous thing about the Aave $8B deposit flight isn't the number. It's who left. MEXC: $431M gone. Abraxas Capital: $392M gone. Whales, not retail. And the loudest "DeFi is dead" takes are coming from inside the house. Ledger's CTO. Curve's Egorov. People who built
· 2026-04-20T08:43:25+00:00-Bankrun on Aave -Max capacity everywhere -15% APR on USDC, USDT Except for one chain: MegaETH Still a ghosttown. Still 0.01% on stables.
· 2026-04-20T05:30:00+00:00UPDATE: Aave's TVL has collapsed $8.45B in 48 hours, now at $17.9B. DeFi-wide TVL fell from $99.5B to $86.3B in TWO DAYS. Aave alone represents 64% of the entire DeFi drawdown. The largest lending protocol just shed the equivalent of an entire L1 ecosystem in under a week.
· 2026-04-20T20:25:02+00:00A good update from Aave's side showing us some numbers on 2 different scenarios. Which scenario of the two (if any) materializes depends on how Kelp decides to realize the losses as far as I can understand.
· 2026-04-20T18:44:07+00:00Kelp hack could leave Aave on Arbitrum with bad debt and make rsETH worthless if only mainnet rsETH is backed. But the Arbitrum DAO was quick enough to withdraw its assets from Aave after the hack. They had $10M in ETH and ~$5M in stables on Aave, earning yield via the Treasury
· 2026-04-20T17:00:01+00:00Nothing to do; my power of 3 on $AAVE has been compromised after attackers used drained rsETH as collateral to borrow wrapped ether, leaving Aave to quantify how much bad debt it’s now carrying. Not much to do here—better to watch developments from the sidelines.
· 2026-04-20T14:28:15+00:00Anyone have an idea of when we can expect an unfreezing of the Aave WETH markets???
· 2026-04-20T17:08:15+00:00Whale 0x8Ad4 withdrew 12,000 $ETH ($27.6M) from #Binance over the past 3 hours to repay loans on #Aave. intel.arkm.com/explorer/addre …
· 2026-04-20T09:24:25+00:00Many people still haven't realized... just how bad the situation is for @aave . Currently, the main pools like ETH, USDT, USDC have all been fully utilized (utilization = 100%). → Which means: Right now, you can't withdraw your own funds. Is aave the Luna / FTX of this
· 2026-04-20T00:50:28+00:00KelpDAO dismantled the lock on its own door, LayerZero is selling the kind of door where you can pick the lock yourself, and Aave assumed the neighbor's door was definitely locked tight, so it confidently took the neighbor's key as collateral. The best outcome is to negotiate
· 2026-04-20T02:35:01+00:00the funny thing is this is like 80% layerzero’s fault but layerzero has a lot of allies and paid enough kols and kelp/aave are unknown/hated so ct sentiment will just start pointing fingers elsewhere
· 2026-04-20T14:47:51+00:00There is one path forward for @aave and @KelpDAO 1. Aave teams "liquidates" the rsETH/wETH position, assuming the rsETH tokens and paying the wETH debt. This gets Aave back online and functioning normally. So it can move forward and avoid any further disruption. 2. Kelp will
· 2026-04-20T17:00:27+00:00KELPDAO EXPLOIT: DOES AAVE HAVE BAD DEBT OR NOT? On Saturday, an attacker that Layerzero identified as Lazarus Group exploited KelpDAO’s bridge to mint ~$300M rsETH, and took $228.21M ETH from AAVE/Compound. What happened? and what should you do if you have funds stuck in AAVE?
· 2026-04-20T14:08:51+00:00HOT TOPIC: DeFi just bled $13B in 48 hours. One exploit on KelpDAO's bridge drained $292M. Contagion hit $AAVE hardest: $9B outflows, 33% TVL gone, bad debt stacking. 2026's biggest hack. Still unfolding. What's next for DeFi? Drop your take: coinmarketcap.com/community/topi …
· 2026-04-20T09:30:00+00:00PANIC SELLING HITS AAVE HARD Aave saw over 236,000 $AAVE (~$21M) rush into Binance in a single surge. That's over 7.5x higher than the ~31K monthly average, signaling extreme sell pressure after the rsETH exploit.
· 2026-04-20T10:28:20+00:00Aave is just like Dubai—once you've been screwed over once, you're basically done for. Whatever you do after that doesn't really matter much anymore.
· 2026-04-20T21:09:03+00:00Aave is considering 2 bad debt scenarios from rsETH. TLDR: Scenario 1 (all rsETH takes the hit) - 112,204 unbacked rsETH dilutes the full supply equally - rsETH depegs 15.12% and every rsETH retains 84.89% of oracle value on every chain - applied to 119 user positions, most
· 2026-04-20T15:09:15+00:00On @aave now, two groups of users are sitting on opposite sides of the same pool: - wstETH holders are running a looping strategy — deposit wstETH as collateral, borrow ETH, swap the ETH back into more wstETH, repeat. A leveraged bet on staking yield. - aWETH holders are the
· 2026-04-20T22:54:32+00:00If aave is bricked for 20 days at these rates….
· 2026-04-20T05:15:54+00:00【二次被害予想】weETHがAave上で8B以上が担保として運用されておりました。AaveのWETHは100%利用率が1日半継続中。被害がゼロということにはならないでしょう。少なくともAave 上の weETH 関連ルーピング戦略の間接損失:$20-30M Cash Card ユーザー Aave 金利急騰による影響:$3-5M Liquid vault
· 2026-04-20T09:50:46+00:00UPDATE: Aave TVL reportedly declined by $7B while $AAVE fell 15%, following the rsETH exploit, per CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost.
· 2026-04-20T19:09:22+00:00The DeFi ecosystem is undergoing a liquidity test that began with the use of 116,500 rsETH stolen from the Kelp DAO bridge as collateral on $AAVE and has deepened into a $200 million debt crisis. In this turbulent process, where Aave has suffered a sharp 32% loss in TVL-based
· 2026-04-20T15:30:29+00:00What kind of a discount are ETH deposits in AAVE trading at now? What about stablecoin deposits? Are people trying to sell these somewhere?
· 2026-04-20T03:40:13+00:00看一篇就够了 | Aave 出事。但这事真不怪 Aave KelpDAO 有个跨链桥被人钻了空子，凭空铸出来 11.65 万枚 rsETH，差不多 2.92 亿美元。 攻击者手快，立刻拿着这堆“假币”跑到 Aave，存进去当抵押品，借走了 8.26 万枚真 ETH，1.95 亿。等 Kelp 反应过来按下暂停键，46 分钟过去了。 Aave
· 2026-04-20T17:59:09+00:00Update for Tangem Yield Mode users: Some of you may have noticed errors on swaps or sends for stablecoins on Yield-mode enabled accounts, especially with larger amounts, due to a liquidity issue on Aave’s side following the Kelp DAO rsETH incident. This is not related to
· 2026-04-20T03:13:32+00:00Aave TVL Drops $8.45B in 2 Days as DeFi Loses $13.2B Aave’s TVL has dropped to $17.947 billion, down $8.45 billion over the past two days; meanwhile, total DeFi TVL across all chains declined from $99.497 billion to $86.286 billion, a decrease of $13.21 billion.
· 2026-04-20T06:31:26+00:00When meme coins double, DeFi infrastructure bleeds $AAVE down 12.7%. $ZRO down 11.2%. $MON down 7.1%, this is rotation, not collapse
· 2026-04-20T00:38:41+00:00In the end, the game is over the moment an attachment frenzy breaks out. It's the same whether it's a bank or DeFi. Aave and private credit are essentially the same at their core: they often "run smoothly in normal times but aren't designed to withstand crises." High yields
· 2026-04-20T20:55:00+00:00tl;dr the situation is still unresolved, but: - Aave is prepared to use treasury funds (up to $181M) to help plug to hole - Various external parties have made commitments to help - User haircuts will depend on how KelpDAO handles losses: - if socialized across all holders,
· 2026-04-20T15:34:53+00:00So let me get this straight. Layerzero blames Kelp. Kelp blames layerzero. Aave is silent. And seems like all 3 are not communicating. I urge all 3 parties to get a grip. If you are all worried about liability so much, inaction also carries liability. The handling of this
· 2026-04-20T12:11:34+00:00It's not just Aave facing a run—other places are too. Looks like everyone's really panicking.
· 2026-04-20T18:07:40+00:00We finally convinced Vitalik to put the Ethereum Foundation's ETH in AAVE and then we rugged it.
· 2026-04-20T23:20:13+00:00UPDATE: USDT borrow rates on Aave surged from 3% to 14%, the highest since December 2024, as liquidity tightened.
· 2026-04-20T02:45:20+00:00- Aave wasted $2.4 million per year. - To pay Choas Labs to be their risk manager - Is DeFi a joke?
· 2026-04-20T07:00:00+00:00Most Decentralized Crypto Projects • $BTC $1.49T (Bitcoin) • $ETH $274B (Ethereum) • $DAI $5.36B (Dai stablecoin) • $DOT $2.12B (Polkadot) • $UNI $2.08B (Uniswap) • $AAVE $1.40B (Aave) • $ICP $1.34B (Internet Computer) • $KAS $934M (Kaspa)
· 2026-04-20T07:19:17+00:00RECAP: @KelpDAO 's LayerZero-powered bridge is drained of 116,500 $rsETH worth ~$292M, roughly 18% of circulating supply, in the largest DeFi exploit of 2026, triggering emergency freezes across @AaveAave , SparkLend and Fluid.
· 2026-04-20T08:51:40+00:00$AAVE JUST CRASHED 19% DUE TO A $292M EXPLOT TRIGGERING A LIQUIDITY CRISIS. This does not look good.
· 2026-04-20T03:57:16+00:00AAVE HIT BY $9.5B TVL DROP AFTER $292M COLLATERAL EXPLOIT SHOCK Aave’s total value locked plunged by around $9.5 billion, over the past two days, according to DeFiLlama, following a major exploit involving $rsETH. Attackers used $292 million in stolen rsETH from Kelp’s bridge
· 2026-04-20T05:12:11+00:00From a purely third-party perspective, the responsibility allocation for this incident: LayerZero -45%, responsibility: self-operated DVN was attacked; kelpdao -45%, responsibility: using a single DVN, L0's self-operated DVN; Aave -10%, responsibility: discovering the issue
· 2026-04-20T02:09:22+00:00For those whose $ETH supplied (as collateral) to AAVE v3 has been frozen and cannot be withdrawn, you can use Fluid's aWETH redemption protocol. fluid.io/lite/aave-v3/e … This converts the collateral from ETH → wstETH or weETH. This mechanism works because Fluid itself
· 2026-04-20T18:02:03+00:00Aave getting hacked is out of the question. Maybe the most innocent thing in this whole mess is Aave. It worked just as it was supposed to. Someone minted coins out of thin air, dumped them into Aave, and took out a loan. That's the whole story. Aave's stupidity is accepting
· 2026-04-20T18:52:59+00:00PANIC Hits Crypto!! Interview w/ @HugoPhilion @FlareNetworks WATCH NOW youtu.be/pnrzO_Zu9U0 $ETH $AAVE $XRP $FLR
· 2026-04-20T06:08:10+00:00$AAVE is down this week. The funds holding it haven't moved. 10 fund wallets currently holding: Multicoin, DACM, Maven11, Crypto.com Capital, QCP Capital, AU21 Capital - collectively hold $32.6M in AAVE. Zero sells across any of them. Multicoin alone: 338K AAVE
· 2026-04-20T11:35:49+00:00It shocks me that most of CT is focused on the attack vector itself, LZ and rsETH's security model. As an @aave creditor, all my rage is on their curators for not assessing this risk correctly. This is their only task and this is where our trust in the protocol lies.
· 2026-04-20T15:27:17+00:00aave was a fairly central part of the defi ecosystem, so there are various secondary impacts to other protocols from the current crisis one of the largest is probably Ethena USDe, via the Aavethena partnership in practice how this has worked is: 1) Aave lists Ethena USDe and
· 2026-04-20T12:29:59+00:00escape routes for trapped aave users
· 2026-04-20T07:34:20+00:00The APR on Aave V3 is skyrocketing due to a shortage of stablecoins. Well, of course it is.
· 2026-04-20T13:32:33+00:00fun fact: the rsETH token permits blacklisting and even *seizure* by the issuer luckily, @KelpDAO has already specified @aave as permanent exempt, preventing such seizure. same for 6 other addresses, including respective markets on @SparkDao , @compoundfinance , and @pendle_fi
· 2026-04-20T06:52:53+00:00The attacker deposited $269.74M of RSETH to AAVE and Compound, withdrawing a total of $228.21M of WETH and wstETH from these DeFi protocols. He also swapped a total of $15.34M RSETH to $14.51M ETH using Kyberswap, Euler Finance and Wintermute. He now holds $242.18M ETH.
· 2026-04-20T03:19:55+00:00The $AAVE incident will make 2026's $ETH even tougher.
· 2026-04-20T19:29:00+00:00Milady convinced Vitalik to put the Ethereum Foundation's ETH in AAVE and then rugged it. We can fix this. Rock the BAYC.
· 2026-04-20T15:37:14+00:00Are u helping @aave & @KelpDAO ? @tether
· 2026-04-20T06:05:37+00:00AAVE is about to lose over $10 billion in TVL within 48h since the rsETH exploit. Only the core USDT market lost $2 billion. The longer its markets are stuck, the more liquidity will leave as debt repayments take place.
· 2026-04-20T04:53:02+00:00散户这时候最容易做的动作，FOMO 冲进去。 心想 $Aave 崩了 $Spark 就是未来 但 Spark 不是 Aave 的替代，Spark 跟 Aave 共用同一套 LRT 底层风险（SparkLend 今天也冻结了 rsETH 市场） 真要出大事，没谁是避风港 每次 DeFi 出事， 倒下的是老大，跟着涨的是他儿子，
· 2026-04-20T12:01:35+00:00well not a financial advice but stablecoin APY looking good here on Aave
· 2026-04-20T10:56:08+00:00If even Aave, the blue chip of defi lending, gets hit with over +200 million dollars in bad debt from a poisoned bridge exploit, what defi protocols can be considered low risk?
· 2026-04-20T04:21:32+00:00. @aave has $200M in bad debt & $50M in insurance. Who's paying the other $150M? nobody knows yet lol TL;DR → Aave's insurance auto-covers ~$50M. The hole is ~$196M. so already not great → The remaining ~$146M? no automatic path. needs a governance vote → The voters are
· 2026-04-20T15:35:01+00:00Too scared to hold DeFi now? But Brother Sun is still leading the charge 5 minutes ago, Brother Sun withdrew 55.01 million USDC from #HTX, then deposited it into Spark; from the suspected bad debt incident at Aave until now, he has cumulatively deposited funds worth $179
· 2026-04-20T09:53:21+00:00$AAVE been bleeding for months lower highs every time i see. Now we finally tapped that trendline again quick rejection, but this is the level so i am watching here closely. If this flips i am expecting a move could be violent. If not, just another LH in the downtrend, not
· 2026-04-20T13:10:04+00:00Risk-return in a bull market might be returns, but in a bear market, risk-return is just risk! The recent explosions of two hot spots—RAVE and AAVE—are both like this. The difference is that the former was an active ambush, and traders' losses are likely sunk costs. The latter
· 2026-04-20T14:03:07+00:00Meanwhile on Aave :(
· 2026-04-20T15:03:48+00:00Aave saying only rsETH on Ethereum is 100% backed. LayerZero saying everything worked as expected. KelpDAO saying LayerZero's fault. Looks like blame game instead of collaborative effort to help users.
· 2026-04-20T20:43:13+00:00"This effort already has several indicative commitments from various parties" Have a feeling we're about to see a lot more USDT on AAVE Currently outstanding on AAVE Ethereum: $3.36B USDT $2.43B USDC The two stablecoins combine for 43% of total outstanding debt
· 2026-04-20T08:02:17+00:00Crypto Watchlist Week of Apr 21, 2026. Here's what's moving the market this week: → $AAVE: "Aave Will Win" governance vote passed ~ all revenue redirects to DAO treasury. KelpDAO rsETH exploit April 19 triggered -20% price drop and $177-200M in bad debt → $LINK: ~19M LINK
· 2026-04-20T06:49:41+00:00The rsETH pools. A truly wretched outcome. Liquidity pools have stablecoins nowhere in sight. What the hell is $2146? Aave folks, please replenish 150M for them~
· 2026-04-20T15:58:18+00:00LZ blaming Kelp. Kelp blaming LZ. Aave saying their hands are tied. In truth nobody escapes blame. Kelp should have required more DVNs, or rate limits, or both. LZ should have not let their DVN get pwned. Aave should not have onboarded a poorly secured token as collateral.
· 2026-04-20T07:43:27+00:00With $AAVE leading the charge, DeFi tokens are crashing hard, but even so, $HYPE and $EDGE are holding steady around their ATHs, so it looks like this trend of products that actually make money and buy back to return value to holders being the way to go will probably stick around
· 2026-04-20T04:32:04+00:00Confidence in DeFi is getting shaken harder than ever Kelp DAO hack just hit the market like a reality check, total DeFi TVL dropped ~12% to $86.275B in just 24h. – @LidoFinance : -2.26% – @Aave : -21.54% – @eigencloud : -2.42% – Binance Staked ETH: -2.27% – @Morpho : -7.51% –
· 2026-04-20T13:45:00+00:00Strc is ex dividend Mstr is above nav propping us up rn Miners and OGs are selling Retail and funds got flushed on kelp, aave, drift etc Who do you think will be the marginal buyer here?
· 2026-04-20T04:53:03+00:00The KelpDAO $290 million theft incident is just the beginning. Since AAVE's bad debt incident, TVL has dropped from $26.39B on the 18th to just $17.8B today, with nearly $8.59B lost, down nearly 32%. Meanwhile, the accelerating loss of the only remaining DeFi TVL in the $ETH
· 2026-04-20T02:55:00+00:00JUST IN: Aave sees $6B+ in deposits leave after the Kelp hack exposed structural risks, with markets pricing in potential bad debt exposure.
· 2026-04-20T15:42:38+00:00It is imperative we get a plan announced to move forward with Aave ETH lenders asap. I know making the most strategic move here is top priority but this market is not going to wait for your lawyers to fight for many more days. Study the speed, comms, and decisive action of
· 2026-04-20T13:22:45+00:00[New Video] A bug in Kelp DAO allows the minting of $280M, affecting @aave . "Bad debt" of ~$200M, ETH vault frozen, stablecoins locked. 6.6 billion leaves the leading lending platform in just a few hours. Link: youtu.be/xsgW-7qQIN4 We break down the situation
· 2026-04-20T17:52:53+00:00AAVE, LayerZero and Kelp when it's time to describe how big their responsibility was:
· 2026-04-20T01:32:08+00:00I have no idea what's going on with my mainnet ETH deposits in AAVE and at this point I'm afraid to look.
· 2026-04-20T22:39:54+00:00What AAVE tells us is that now the ball is in Kelp's court regarding how (and who) is going to bear the consequences of what happened with rsETH. Basically, all the rsETH on the Ethereum network is fine. For every rsETH, there is ETH backing it. But that's not the case on the
· 2026-04-20T18:15:00+00:00WHALE MOVES $27.6M ETH OFF BINANCE Whale 0x8Ad4 withdrew 12,000 ETH ($27.6M) from Binance over the past 3 hours to repay loans on Aave, according to Lookonchain.
· 2026-04-20T16:39:34+00:00Comfy Sunday Spaces v28 9pm EST 4/26 with my cohost @SoskaKyle Covering: AAVE and credit DeFi rate followup from last show Q&A with listeners See you there!
· 2026-04-20T08:24:43+00:00Aave in Crisis: rsETH Exploit Sparks $7B TVL Collapse and -15% Drop Amid Inflow Surge. “Cumulative inflows across exchanges exceeded 355,000 AAVE, or approximately $32M. Against this backdrop, the AAVE token experienced a sharp correction of around -15% on the day,reflecting
· 2026-04-20T20:40:15+00:00With the size of the respective treasuries, if they spread evenly then shared the burden among AAVE, L0, Kelp, the L2s they could clear all the bad debt and not even touch umbrella. Imo that'd be the best outcome
· 2026-04-20T07:28:19+00:00I believe many friends have encountered this situation: you deposit 10,000 USDC into Aave or Compound, and yesterday you could still get an 8% APY, planning to use those earnings to supplement your living expenses or continue investing. But the next day, as utilization drops,
· 2026-04-20T12:11:33+00:00the unofficial aave rescue stack, last 24h: - 100% WETH utilization — depositors were trapped - @0xfluid : aWETH → wstETH/weETH direct swap against own looped positions - @1inch : aWETH → any token via pathfinder aave itself still has withdrawals paused, but the ecosystem has
· 2026-04-20T09:21:35+00:00Looping stress isn’t isolated to Avant. @YuzuMoneyX (managed by @OuroborosCap8 ) runs a $57M USDe/sUSDe loop on Aave Core at HF 1.01, -93% net APY, 100% borrow power. Core is protected even if the war room throws L2s under the bus. But -90% APY carry is still bleeding.
· 2026-04-20T13:39:28+00:00The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2085.29, down 3.6% (-78.65) since 4 p.m. ET on Friday. None of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: $BNB (-2.3%) and $BTC (-2.5%). Laggards: $AAVE (-22.9%) and $ICP (-7.9%).
· 2026-04-20T09:38:06+00:00DeFi will be back. Drift will be back. Aave will be back. KelpDAO will be back. LayerZero will be back. Yield farming will be back. Your portfolio will reach new all-time highs. Manifest it.
· 2026-04-20T10:18:18+00:00There seems to be a lack of coordination between affected parties and more of a blame game and liability defense. That's very bad for everyone involved. Hope I am wrong. LayerZero focusing only on restoring its own protocol was the wrong move. Aave is the most important
· 2026-04-20T17:15:50+00:00Interesting that the people responsible for the situation at Aave rn are the same ones who rage quit the DAO.
· 2026-04-20T17:37:17+00:00Getting attacked in DeFi isn't scary; the negative spillover is manageable too. What's truly terrifying is the story of the three monks. One monk carries water to drink, Two monks carry water to drink, Three monks have no water to drink. ┈➤AAVE has not yet launched a
· 2026-04-20T18:07:11+00:00also, this is my personal opinion on aave’s risk i also thank them for doing this it was very profitable to be on the winning side of the trade for about a year
· 2026-04-20T21:57:45+00:00LlamaRisk, an Aave DAO Risk Service Provider, released its rsETH Incident Report, quantifying the potential bad debt impact on Aave under two scenarios: 1. Uniform loss socialization across all rsETH ~15.12% haircut, resulting in approximately $123.7 million in bad debt, with
· 2026-04-20T18:02:13+00:00HyperLend has completed it's upgrade to Aave v3.6 as per our agreement with the Aave DAO. The v3.6 upgrade centres around e-mode, allowing the protocol to offer more optionality to its users in this mode in the future. This upgrade also includes multiple security hardening
· 2026-04-20T12:57:13+00:00Just look at the perfection of this $AAVE chart Pure strength. 1500$
· 2026-04-20T10:44:49+00:00GM BenjiAI’s been in the charts before you even woke up. On the radar: $BTC, $ETH, $AAVE, $RAVE, Kelp DAO, and rsETH situation... Big week. A lot moving. Worth a read before you make any moves. @BenjiValeAi × @Griffin_AI
· 2026-04-20T06:50:13+00:00WHALE WATCH: $Aave just lost $8.4b in two days. The protocol shed a massive chunk of its TVL and it accounts for most of the total DeFi drawdown. It is basically the size of an entire L1 ecosystem vanishing in 48 hours. Liquidity is tightening fast. Are you moving your
· 2026-04-20T10:30:00+00:00INSIGHTS: The Aave exploit didn't just create $280M in bad debt. It created doubt. In every DeFi user. In every institutional investor watching. Yesterday was a moment of panic. Users were unsure whether to pull their staked assets or hold. That feeling is exactly why
· 2026-04-20T15:33:13+00:003/ The EarnETH team and subvault curators are actively working to deleverage where possible and reduce risk across all strategies. The outcome for the rsETH position is dependent, among other things, on decisions and actions by Kelp, LayerZero, and Aave, specifically how losses
· 2026-04-20T20:44:14+00:00ur fave KOL was probably not impacted by the AAVE/LZO/KelpDAO situation because they don't actually ever use crypto
· 2026-04-20T06:05:06+00:00Aave didn't get hacked. A bridge it trusted did. $293 million gone. $8 billion in TVL evaporated. Not bad code. Unaudited trust. The strongest protocol in DeFi got Rekt by a dependency it never stress tested. Same thing happens to people. Like i said. Audit your bridges.
· 2026-04-20T07:32:31+00:00Purely personal opinion: From the AAVE bank run incident, it's clear that when trouble strikes, everyone scrambles to "clarify" their responsibilities, leaving the situation hanging for 24+ hours, and the ones who suffer are the general public chasing those tiny 3% APY gains. If
· 2026-04-20T08:57:57+00:00Liquidity crunch on WLFI market again. USD1 borrow cap maxed. USDC utilization at 98% and only ~11M left to withdraw. Not sure if this has something to do with rsETH or Aave, but if you have USDC deposited there, pull it while there's still room. No announcement from Dolomite
· 2026-04-20T03:41:16+00:00I'd like to keep dealing with cryptocurrency as a lifelong source of income if possible, but I don't instantly get the positioning of something like AAVE's successor, and as expected, staying at the cutting edge is tough.
· 2026-04-20T11:37:57+00:00Stuck in a situation where my WETH is locked in AAVE and I can't withdraw without repaying $30,000 I'm a full-on crypto bro, I ain't got no dollars Of course, all I got in yen is just enough for living expenses How the hell am I supposed to scrape together 5 mil to unlock
· 2026-04-20T01:42:34+00:00This has already become a systemic black swan event. DeFi's total TVL dropped by 10% within a single day, with some locked funds queuing up to wait. Additionally, the amount of funds that cannot be freely withdrawn is quite substantial. A rough estimate shows that Aave WETH is
· 2026-04-20T04:11:07+00:00To avoid any hindsight bias, back when it was called AAVETHENA, Aave was recklessly expanding the USDe quota, even going so far as to hardcode the stUSDe oracle price. It was a business success, but I haven't used it since. I think the fact that we avoided a major disaster on
· 2026-04-20T05:36:36+00:00Rate volatility is the silent killer in DeFi lending — one week you’re farming 12%, next week it’s 3% on Aave Fixed-rate lending actually matters if you’re planning around predictable yield, not just chasing spikes @TermMaxFi flips this with a maturity-based marketplace: you
· 2026-04-20T00:52:04+00:00The biggest DeFi hack of the year, @KelpDAO got drained of $292M yesterday. $AAVE wasn't affected, their contracts are still solid. But someone used the stolen rsETH as collateral on Aave to borrow wETH, and now Aave is stuck with $196M in bad debt. Overall, the market's still
· 2026-04-20T04:17:10+00:00Less than twenty days after the last Drift theft, KelpDAO was hit hard again yesterday, losing nearly $300 million. Hackers seem to treat DeFi like an ATM, acting with complete impunity. Massive funds panicked out of AAVE, but borrowing demand remains strong. Spark's ETH deposit
· 2026-04-20T10:02:56+00:00DeFi is suffering @aave loses 30% TVL in last 7 days. Whales pulled deposits en masse, some stablecoin pools hit 100% utilization and panic spread. This is a major stress test for Aave model: Pooled liquidity = systemic risk → One poisoned collateral (unbacked $rsETH) created
· 2026-04-20T09:26:00+00:00Right now AAVE is not in a good spot. People are sending their tokens to exchanges → which usually means they are selling. There was a $292M exploit and about $200M of that turned into bad debt. Because of this a lot of money left the platform around $6.6B AAVE is still a
· 2026-04-20T17:34:48+00:00On April 18, KelpDAO's rsETH bridge was exploited for ~$292M. rsETH markets on Aave and other lending venues were frozen shortly after. The Lido's EarnETH MetaVault on Mellow has exposure to rsETH through a leveraged Aave position – approximately $21.6M, ~9% of the vault.
· 2026-04-20T05:14:55+00:00ok it is getting worse the more I look into this the AAVE DAO discussion thread for this proposal (one that enabled this rsETH-induced "bank run" on AAVE) basically didn't mention ANY bridging risks, rsETH depegging risks, or 1/1 LayerZero DVN risks, AT ALL. the one report that
· 2026-04-20T03:24:23+00:00You heartless bunch What's wrong with lending a hand to AAVE in tough times? If even AAVE dies, is there any hope left on-chain? You all want to see our blockchain get debunked, don't you?
· 2026-04-20T00:34:38+00:00New Bitcoin Live Member report posted for $BTC "Cryptocurrency Market Update - Apr 19th 2026" $ETH $ZEC $TRX $XMR $SUI $AAVE $SOL $DOGE $XAU $XAG $TRX $SUPER $XRP $BNB $SUPER $PEPE $HYPE $LINK Member link: bitcoin.live/video/sunday-c … Free report: bitcoin.live/video/cryptocu …
· 2026-04-20T17:00:28+00:00The attackers stole 116,500 rsETH from the bridge adapter contract, submitting a fake transfer to LayerZero’s verifiers. They cashed out by providing rsETH to AAVE as collateral and borrowing over $200M of ETH. This was a considerable portion of rsETH supply, almost 20%.
· 2026-04-20T16:45:26+00:00Another bankrun. People over-panic about @aave . Even the $ETH in aave now - which is the source of all fear - it's priced at 1.2% discount only. Aave is trying hard to avoid a haircut by arguing Layerzero should be largely liable (no one cares about Kelp as it has no money).
· 2026-04-20T15:40:42+00:00Do not lock up/stake your coins for yield Just don´t - We saw it again with aave this weekend - As a survivor of luna, anchor, ftx, and countless other incidents, it is almost a miracle i did not loose more - I helped countless people that lost it all in protocols or exchanges
· 2026-04-20T15:48:29+00:00➥ Be @Aave in 2026 – @bgdlabs (core dev behind V3) left due to strategic disagreements. – ACI shut down after conflicts with Aave Labs. – “Aave Will Win” controversy & power grab accusations. – @chaoslabs (the most critical risk manager) has now also exited. – Stani called this
· 2026-04-20T19:49:31+00:00In lending, the biggest protocol following #aave is #morpho. Morpho is also AAVE's direct competitor. Not Lido, Pendle, etc... With the recent outflows, Aave's TVL has naturally dropped quite a bit. I wouldn't be surprised if Morpho's TVL surpasses AAVE one day in the future.
· 2026-04-20T08:55:52+00:00Despite the sharp pullback of $AAVE after the hack, $MORPHO is showing strong resilience on the charts. $MORPHO is leading the next-gen DeFi wave in decentralized lending. My bias is that modular > monolithic in the long run, especially as DeFi becomes more regulated and
· 2026-04-20T03:09:37+00:00. @smykjain sent me a voice note at 11pm on a potential way for us to help people stuck in aave. by 5am, we had our first user. 2 all nighters in a row for the squad. - stay in aave (not a vampire attack) - swap weth to wstETH or weETH - have immediately liquidity - reduce future
· 2026-04-20T18:44:18+00:00As I predicted yesterday, AAVE is fine.
· 2026-04-20T15:51:42+00:00aave: its not our fault its kelpdao and layer 0 kelpdao: its not our fault its layer 0 L0: its not our fault its kelpdao's
· 2026-04-20T08:03:52+00:00North Korea cracks #Aave - Biggest crypto hack 2026 - #DeFi loses $10 billion - $AAVE loses $300 million in $ETH Is this the #FTX moment for #Ethereum?
· 2026-04-20T10:29:10+00:00AAVE token down 20%. Everyone thinks that’s the market pricing $196M in bad debt. It’s not. It’s the market pricing who pays for that bad debt. The answer is: stkAAVE holders. Here’s what Aave’s safety module actually does, and why this event is different from anything that’s
· 2026-04-20T14:52:28+00:00ONE EXPLOIT JUST BROKE DEFI A $290M rsETH bridge hack created $200M+ bad debt on $Aave, triggered a multi-billion dollar bank run. Now the contagion is spreading: $WLFI / $USD1 • Borrow cap maxed out • 98% utilization • Liquidity nearly drained $ENA/ $USDE • Rates
· 2026-04-20T13:55:33+00:00$AAVE potentially revists 2022 lows and possibly channel lows (30's) in next major leg down. fyi - this is not exploited related. I warned of revisting 2022 lows (or lower) months ago.
· 2026-04-20T09:19:51+00:00One of the benefits of CeFi or semi-CeFi is that when something goes wrong, you know exactly who to hold accountable for recourse—it won't be like AAVE, L0, KelpDAO, where everyone just points fingers at each other. @UnitasLabs If something goes wrong, I'll go after
· 2026-04-20T05:42:16+00:00People saying the Aave issue is a FTX level crisis are simply retarded. Issue is isolated, unwind will occur and this gets priced and forgotten about pretty quickly.
· 2026-04-20T21:49:13+00:00So yeah basically person 1 would lend USDT on aave. Then person 2 would come and borrow that to buy half usde and half susde (liquid leverage, subsidized by Ethena). Then person 3 would come and borrow the usde and put it in pt-susde. The USDT that person 2 put in Ethena is
· 2026-04-20T19:32:08+00:001/ Kelp's rsETH bridge was drained for $292M on Apr 18. Aave and other lending markets saw heavy withdrawals as users assessed contagion risk. But markets won't tell you when stress actually reaches the system. These 4 metrics will
· 2026-04-20T02:41:59+00:00ETH whales saw what happened on AAVE and said “yeah I think these memecoins are actually a safer investment”
· 2026-04-20T16:21:39+00:00There are 3 responsible parties for 3 different things: 1. Kelp is responsible for a weak rsETH configuration. 2. LayerZero, for missing guardrails around a setup where a single DVN can authorize asset release. 3. Aave/ChaosLabs, for listing rsETH as collateral without fully
· 2026-04-20T00:45:54+00:00受rsETH事件影响，Aave资金流出已达101亿美元 据链上分析师余烬分析，从昨天凌晨出事以来，Aave上的资金持续流出，总存款量从458亿美元降至357亿美元，已流出101亿美元。
· 2026-04-20T17:36:53+00:00Safety first, always! Recently we’ve seen some major exchanges withdrawing from specific Aave pools following the weekend’s rsETH breach. While these adjustments are part of "prudent risk management" for them, it’s also a timely reminder of why @sparkdotfi chooses a more
· 2026-04-20T10:24:26+00:00The Kelpdao, Aave issue highlights that bundling collaterals together is risky. Especially in DeFi where a hack can make backed collateral go to zero overnight. P2P loans would let lenders choose their exposure. You need onchain credit ratings which AI could verify in realtime
· 2026-04-20T13:48:26+00:00So almost 1/3 of TVL has left Aave, and that's with the largest markets frozen? That's really not good... A huge black eye to DeFi
· 2026-04-20T19:13:09+00:00If you are fudding Aave - screenshots have been taken
· 2026-04-20T19:55:54+00:0020% ETH price drop from a full-blown defi liquidation cascade WETH, USDC, USDT on aave mainnet and most chains all at 100% utilization. almost zero available to borrow. aave governance froze WETH to stop the bleeding. stablecoin borrow rates blew past 13%. every lender is in a
· 2026-04-20T03:32:02+00:00A $20M project just stress-tested billions in DeFi It started with KelpDAO… Now the fallout is everywhere: • Aave TVL: $17.9B (↓ $8.4B in 48h) • $290M rsETH drained • $200M bad debt building • $10B+ liquidity pulled Markets reaction: • $AAVE -25% • $ZRO -31% •
· 2026-04-20T13:36:31+00:00Update: Aave v3 TVL is down another 12% over the last 24 hours Rates are still elevated, but some markets (like USDT) are seeing liquidity return which looks promising
· 2026-04-20T00:44:50+00:00Also remember all these accounts FUDing $AAVE just to get views. It won't end well.
· 2026-04-20T16:41:48+00:00. @aave liquidity drawdown over the past weekend. 1. Ethereum -32% (rsETH collateral base) 2. Base -36% (Mostly retail Liquidations) 3. Mantle -69% (Near total exit) 4. Arbitrum -20% (L2 liquidity deleveraging) 5. Plasma –29.3% (Slower bleed) Overall, Aave TVL dropped by about
· 2026-04-20T10:41:20+00:00Kelp has had another incident, Aave has had another incident, other chains seem to have been getting hacked all year long, but TRON seems like we haven't really heard much about any hacking incidents, have you guys heard of any? @justinsuntron really protected everyone very
· 2026-04-20T16:55:00+00:00$AAVE Currency After the recent crisis, the price has reached a very, very important area in the currency's history: the POC level at $87. This is the level where the most trading of the currency has occurred, and the price is likely to fluctuate around it for weeks. But now,
· 2026-04-20T04:13:27+00:00However, Aave is the foundation of composability, and I think DeFi's stability would be quite precarious without it here. Even if Aave were to fail, you wouldn't just switch to using Morpho or Euler or Fluid, right?
· 2026-04-20T07:53:32+00:00Aave was trash-talking other lending protocols for having USR as collateral and now this happened to them a month later. Quite comical.
· 2026-04-20T05:03:52+00:00Just went offline for one single day… and came back to absolute chaos > Kelp DAO Exploit - the biggest DeFi hack of 2026, with ~$293M rsETH drained. Came right after the Drift exploit of ~$285M. > The contagion hit DeFi hard. Multiple protocols, especially Aave, had to
· 2026-04-20T00:13:07+00:00Billions frozen in Aave DeFi and in “the most reliable financial network. Earn, borrow, save, and swap” . “"October 10 was a CEX-driven collapse, this is an epic-scale DeFi risk mitigation failure." Complexity increases the risk surface. These types of exploits are going
· 2026-04-20T21:07:08+00:00reading up incident reports from chaos labs, kelp, aave, layerzero and their conclusion is… it’s absolutely NO ONE’S FAULT? surely someone should bear SOME responsibility
· 2026-04-20T16:20:09+00:00DeFi TVL Growth in 2026 : ONDO ▲ 83% CFG ▲ 48% HYPE ▲ 12% INJ ▲ 4% ENA ▼ 3% AERO ▼ 24% SOL ▼ 32% ETH ▼ 32% ASTER ▼ 37% SYRUP ▼ 37% SUI ▼ 38% AAVE ▼ 44% NEAR ▼ 48% SEI ▼ 62% Do you see the pattern?
· 2026-04-20T11:07:16+00:00@aave on track to lose over $10B in TVL within 48h of the rsETH exploit. Whales withdrew billions almost immediately, instantly draining liquidity across ETH, USDT, USDC and other core markets.
· 2026-04-20T03:03:12+00:00Blame ranking: 1. Layer Zero (looks like their centralized thing is what got exploited) 2. Kelp rsETH (trusted centralized Layer Zero) 3. L2 rsETH users (chose to use trustful L2s with trustful bridge) 4. AAVE (allowed dogshit rsETH as collateral)
· 2026-04-20T23:04:47+00:00The DVN compromise is LayerZero's fault. The insecure DVN config is KelpDAO's fault. The contagion is Aave's fault. Hope this helps
· 2026-04-20T18:15:45+00:00aave was one of the only apps that the few non crypto natives left were actually still using this is the exact audience we cant afford to lose right now
· 2026-04-20T20:46:48+00:00TLDR on the kelpdao exploit and what it means for AAVE lazarus group forged a cross-chain message on april 18, exploiting kelpdao’s layerzero bridge which was running a 1-of-1 DVN config they released 116,500 rsETH from the ethereum adapter without burning a single token on the
· 2026-04-20T03:23:18+00:00$AAVE is mired in massive bad debt to the point that whales are starting to flee with huge sums of money. This event is even worse than Drift. Because any collateral asset on AAVE that runs into problems could drag things into an even more dire situation.
· 2026-04-20T14:02:09+00:00The Interest Rate Models on AAVE need to change. Crazy that 100% utilization only yields 14% with all the risks. Optimal usage, 92%, at 4% APY is crazy low even. The risk reward is all wrong.
· 2026-04-20T13:09:59+00:00knowing what we know now, why did @Aave allow this LST held together by a toothpick 1/1 to be used as collateral for $250M+ in ETH? @StaniKulechov
· 2026-04-20T15:17:09+00:00The next stage of this crisis is some sort of mutual hostage negotiation between Ethena and Aave, as their once symbiotic relationship turns hostile Have you ever heard the story about the scorpion and the frog?
· 2026-04-20T22:39:54+00:00Aave doing risk analysis on what happens if ETH dumps No one doing benefit analysis on what happens if ETH pumps instead
· 2026-04-20T15:57:30+00:00Three years ago, the @harmonyprotocol bridge was hacked, causing a massive depeg of assets, and leaving a ton of bad debt on @aave as well. Over the past three years, the Harmony Foundation has repeatedly initiated proposals hoping that the AAVE DAO would join in compensating
· 2026-04-20T16:07:55+00:00Borrow rates for USDT on AAVE spiked from 3% to 14%, the highest since December 2024, as liquidity dries up.
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· 2026-04-20T00:19:41+00:00Lotta distractions and bad news this weekend. Whenever the news cycle calms down, and hopefully we get resolution soon on Aave/LayerZero/rsETH, I implore you to check out @AlchemixFi V3 which just went live. We'll have a convo to publish this week with @scupytrooples but been
· 2026-04-20T02:58:00+00:00ALERT: Stablecoins lending is not safe now After the bank-run on AAVE (users rushing to withdraw and getting stuck) and the KelpDAO exploit, I’m pulling all my stables on Monad back to self-custody. Capital preservation is important than chasing yield. Right now, my only
· 2026-04-20T19:03:08+00:00hello my name is Ben Pasternak and I exploited AAVE and Layer Zero.
· 2026-04-20T02:44:13+00:00The DeFi disaster at the start of 2026—gains are slim but losses are huge In February, got stuck with #zero for 3 weeks before I could withdraw In March, got stuck with #sake for 2 weeks before I could withdraw In April, got stuck with #aave—who knows how it'll turn out?
· 2026-04-20T17:14:22+00:00In the last 3 months, $AAVE has dropped 50%. LayerZero's $ZRO, on the other hand, has been almost at the same levels as 3 months ago... After the recent events, I'm not seeing anything positive at all.
· 2026-04-20T15:26:27+00:00$8M wiped from @aave 's @Aptos market after the kelpDAO × layerzero bridge exploit. meanwhile aave is left with $290M+ in bad debt and ~10B in withdrawals. ethereum, plasma, and multiple markets are running dry on stablecoin liquidity. on aptos too, almost nothing left to
· 2026-04-20T08:17:24+00:00AAVE's bad debt has had such a massive impact that it's triggered a full redemption in Solana's lending markets, causing yields to spike, and we're just caught in the crossfire... @solana @Solana_zh Kamino @kamino pools are all at near-full utilization Loopscale @Loopscale
· 2026-04-20T23:46:50+00:00eth mooning while everyone is locked in and levered on aave would break the curse
· 2026-04-20T17:00:29+00:00When people realized that this was happening, there was a bank run on AAVE, with users pulling their crypto and stablecoins out of the protocol. This caused AAVE’s stablecoin supply caps to max out, with currently very low liquidity for USDC/USDT.
· 2026-04-20T14:24:48+00:00USDD Latest Update—Official Announcement!! (Regarding ETH Liquidity) Based on AAVE's @KelpDAO being blown up last night, causing on-chain staking users to rush to redeem their funds. I've noticed that USDD's PSM liquidity on Ethereum is below normal levels. Actually, you can
· 2026-04-20T20:20:26+00:00TL;DR The report also notes that the Aave DAO treasury is strong, with about $181 million in assets as of April 20, and says ecosystem participants are working on possible coverage solutions. So to people out there: stop panicking. Get some fresh air and relax.
· 2026-04-20T03:18:14+00:00can i check if any of these chains were affected by the Kelp DAO / AAVE situation? they seem to be paying out users with negative revenue
· 2026-04-20T11:02:08+00:00BREAKING: Aave hit 100% utilization - $5B stuck across core markets Roughly $5B in USDT and USDC is stuck on Aave - users can't withdraw after whales pulled billions post-rsETH exploit, leaving late depositors trapped while exit liquidity vanished in hours. Main Points: •
· 2026-04-20T00:37:45+00:00If Aave had a hard policy of only accepting collateral assets whose bridging/issuance relies exclusively on native Rollup bridges: • rsETH would not have qualified for listing (Kelp never used native bridges for rsETH; it relied on LayerZero OFT from the start). • The
· 2026-04-20T18:51:52+00:00average european fund manager with funds stuck in aave due to a threeway feud and dprk
· 2026-04-20T18:48:08+00:00SparkLend TVL up 25% in the past 2 days. Billions in liquidity available at ~4.3% to those who want to refinance their Aave loans.
· 2026-04-20T14:40:10+00:00Yesterday: how is a normal user supposed to price this risk if the biggest lending protocol in crypto can’t? Today: @LayerZero_Core ’s statement confirms the part users should care about: the warning existed. Kelp ran the 1-of-1 DVN anyway. @Aave listed rsETH as collateral
· 2026-04-20T13:02:35+00:00$AAVE is showing clear stress after the recent chaos. Funding flipped heavily negative across exchanges with sharp spikes during the drop That tells you one thing: shorts piled in aggressively Price dumped & positioning got crowded, now funding is trying to normalize This is
· 2026-04-20T13:03:21+00:00thousands of NPC crypto employees will wake up today and ask what’s going on with AAVE. they don’t really know what AAVE is, and they certainly weren’t online this weekend. i kinda wish i was one of them rn.
· 2026-04-20T03:45:10+00:00The TVL of @aave has dropped to $17,947B, a decrease of $8.45B in just 2 days. The total TVL of all DeFi protocols across chains has also fallen from $99,497B to $86,286B, a 13.3% decline.
· 2026-04-20T18:40:00+00:00no babe, we aren't broke, our life savings are in a quantum superposition on aave
· 2026-04-20T17:52:26+00:00Three tiers of lending architecture: • Global pool: lenders at mercy of one bad asset (Aave) • Curated pools: lenders at mercy of one bad curator (Morpho) • Order books: lenders define their own eligible collateral ( @Loopscale ) DeFi needs real markets. DeFi needs Loopscale.
· 2026-04-20T15:10:11+00:00KelpDAO, LayerZero, Aave publishing postmortem’s on this weekends hack.
· 2026-04-20T07:02:55+00:00JUST IN: Aave TVL crashes $8.45 billion in 48 hours as DeFi bleeds over $13 billion across chains. This comes after the $290M+ KelpDAO rsETH exploit triggered panic, liquidity outflows, and forced DeFi deleveraging across major protocols.
· 2026-04-20T12:01:12+00:00Breaking down the Aave incident. What went wrong and what matters next Then my view on $AAVE from here.
· 2026-04-20T02:18:35+00:00Its affect on Aave was a DeFi vulnerability.
· 2026-04-20T07:09:53+00:00WEB3 Average Joe Slapdash Operation The current situation is that Rseth has been hacked, KelpDAO is blaming LayerZero, AAVE is accusing KelpDAO of not handling security properly, users are cursing AAVE for failing in its oversight duties, and in the end, users' money gets
· 2026-04-20T14:52:25+00:00Mayan is not affected by the rsETH/Aave/LayerZero incident. All routes are fully operational. Cross-chain transfers on Mayan are powered by Wormhole message-passing, secured by 19 independent Guardians with a 13-of-19 supermajority requirement on every message.
· 2026-04-20T09:10:21+00:00TODAY'S UPDATE ON THE KELPDAO HACK INCIDENT - Aave's Total Value Locked (TVL) has plummeted to 17.947 billion USD, losing 8.45 billion USD in just 2 days. - Massive capital outflows (around 6.6 billion USD in 1 day) have left many liquidity providers worried they won't be
· 2026-04-20T15:22:45+00:00Aave will face a choice here pretty soon. They need to freeze borrows and allow interest rates to go higher in order to have stablecoin supply flood in. Maybe that isn't even possible at this stage. The problem with this is that Ethena loopers get destroyed in the process, and
· 2026-04-20T06:08:13+00:00Track $AAVE:
· 2026-04-20T02:22:05+00:00Decentralization makes it, decentralization breaks it Though it's always been called the cornerstone of DeFi, to be honest, I've never understood who actually uses Aave—its annualized yield has long been below 5%, not even matching exchanges, let alone dollar money market
· 2026-04-20T16:20:00+00:00AAVE has lost about $9B in total volume locked(TVL) since the exploit happened Down from $28B to about $17B within just two days The price is also down from $111 to $92 Other Defi protocols are also affected by this exploit
· 2026-04-20T17:42:09+00:00Honestly disgusted by how much PvP this industry has turned into. As a builder I can deal with actors trying to steal users or spreading FUD to pump their bags. But as a user it’s absurd that I need to PvP my way into recovering funds from an exploit just because I used Aave on
· 2026-04-20T08:35:55+00:00under discussed second order effect: many teams probably have a big chunk of their treasury on aave either stuck or frozen for now = runway compressed again
· 2026-04-20T20:51:35+00:00JUST IN: Aave outlines two options to allocate losses #1 - Socialize losses: $123.7m est. bad debt —Ethereum: 1.54% shortfall —Mantle: 9.54% shortfall —Arbitrum: 3.11% shortfall —Base: 3.00% shortfall #2 - Isolate losses to L2s: $230m est. bad debt —Ethereum: no shortfall
· 2026-04-20T02:32:16+00:00Took two days off over the weekend, and the market saw AAVE in trouble, $ASTEROID surging wildly, the Strait of Hormuz opening and closing again, and the Hong Kong conference buzzing with excitement. But the AAVE blowup really froze DeFi to a standstill, with new on-chain
· 2026-04-20T09:42:11+00:00I’ve talked about the risks in DeFi before and this is exactly what I meant. Just recently, DeFi lost a huge amount of money. Aave lost $8.45B in just 48 hours, and over $13B left DeFi across different chains. It all started after the $290M+ KelpDAO exploit, which caused panic
· 2026-04-20T19:08:56+00:00This is why I’m NOT giving up on $AAVE despite the panic Look, we’ve heard this song before. Back in 2022 everyone was screaming that DeFi was dead. >Terra Luna wiped out billions >FTX blew up People were calling it the end of Defi both times And back then AAVE didn’t just
· 2026-04-20T17:44:22+00:00> For example we found that ethena was depositing its collateral into aave and people were looping it, which actually led to tvl increasing from loops. A good example of the games being played with TVL.
· 2026-04-20T02:36:02+00:00UPDATE: Even better solution now available from @0xfluid for anyone who needs immediate liquidity on Aave but holds aWETH.
· 2026-04-20T17:58:09+00:00$AAVE has never been hacked. Polkadot $DOT has never been hacked. Bitcoin $BTC has never been hacked. This is a very bullish sign for the long term. Security and stability are key for continued growth.
· 2026-04-20T06:42:01+00:00So after so many people tweeting about aave. I still dont know if we are getting back our ETH. 1 : 1 or with some haircut. My ETH is on v3 core market. @aixbt_agent share some advice sir.
· 2026-04-20T11:26:40+00:00In today's @Unchained_pod Daily newsletter: North Korean state actors likely behind the $292M Kelp DAO exploit — DeFi's biggest hack of 2026 Aave lost $6.6B in TVL as stolen rsETH was used as collateral to borrow WETH Vercel confirms breach, $2M ransom demanded — Web3
· 2026-04-20T11:05:18+00:00With all do respect After the $290M+ LayerZero bridge exploit hit KelpDAO & froze rsETH on Aave #Polkadot connects parachains with shared security from the Relay Chain + native XCM messaging. No configurable single points of failure Safer foundation, just $DOT
· 2026-04-20T11:45:17+00:00Things are bad at @aave right now!!! Aave core markets are at 100% utilization including $3 bil in USDT and $2 bil in USDC stuck! That means you CAN'T WITHDRAW your money! When the rsETH exploit happened and AAVE incurred bad debt, whales like Justin Sun, MEXC, and others
· 2026-04-20T11:12:00+00:00Plot twist: $AAVE ends the world before the war does
· 2026-04-20T06:57:15+00:00Turns out E-Mode on AAVE was a very bad idea...
· 2026-04-20T16:11:45+00:00AAVE's been charting like this, lol w
· 2026-04-20T15:51:22+00:00RT if someone needs it ETH utilization on Aave hit 100% and lenders cant withdraw while liquidation risk is building. @0xfluid built the aWETH Redemption Protocol for this. ETH lenders can now swap into wstETH or weETH regain liquidity, reduce risk and stay on Aave if theyd
· 2026-04-20T11:09:46+00:00This sucks. DeFi TVL is down 50% since 10/10. What is happening on Aave with the Kelp collateral will set us back years. However, it's a wake up call about resilience. We've accepted too many compromises over the past few years. Time to go back to fundamentals
· 2026-04-20T22:17:22+00:00suddenly every account on CT is an Aave and DeFi expert
· 2026-04-20T11:12:37+00:00➥ $800M+ just walked out of crypto within weeks $BTC hanging at $74K, fear index at 27 while 73% of top 100 alts trading under their 20-day MAs Trending coins & searches right now: → @KelpDAO / @aave = 2026's biggest DeFi hack - $ZRO bridge flaw let attacker drain 116,500
· 2026-04-20T18:35:52+00:00Although the hack isn't directly related to $AAVE, it damaged the most critical thing. “Just use Aave.” This wasn't just a slogan. It was the embodiment of the brand that made people feel safest in DeFi. It was what enabled it to reach a massive TVL value compared to its
· 2026-04-20T02:05:02+00:00The KelpDAO / Aave incident isn’t a one-off. It’s a warning shot. Frontier AI models (like Anthropic’s) are about to massively amplify offensive capabilities. They aren't just scanning for bugs anymore—they are reasoning across systems, simulating attack paths, and exploiting
· 2026-04-20T17:51:01+00:00Is our money safe? Following the situation that occurred on Aave, there has been an outflow of approximately $10B from DeFi protocols from yesterday to today. Still, when I look at past TVL figures, there have been times when even larger outflows happened for no apparent
· 2026-04-20T12:35:58+00:00we should get layerzero, kelp, aave into a room to figure things out between them. so far things are not looking good, everyone has lawyered up and going full pvp on each other.
· 2026-04-20T02:56:10+00:00You probably don't realize how catastrophic the situation at $AAVE is right now. 5 billion dollars is stuck. People literally cannot withdraw their money. I watched this unfold in real time and it's terrifying how fast things collapsed. After the rsETH exploit created 200
· 2026-04-20T13:30:22+00:00If anyone has funds stuck on @aave i'd suggest using @CoWSwap to swap your Aave wrapped asset ie: aUSDC, aUSDT to swap for something like $eth or $wbtc (wherever there is the most liquidity and least slippage). You will lose maybe %1 due to slippage but better than being stuck
· 2026-04-20T16:46:34+00:00AAVE Hack Issues Continue! The attack on KelpDAO's LayerZero bridge in recent days has spread fear across the market. $292 million ($rsETH) was stolen As a result, $9 billion was withdrawn from Aave, which accounts for 30% of its TVL. The impact of this event wasn't just
· 2026-04-20T10:36:40+00:00kelp exploit cascading through layerzero bridges, $200m drained across aave/compound/euler. protocols freezing everything. classic contagion panic
· 2026-04-20T13:20:15+00:00LayerZero is in contact with Kelp and AAVE. No pvp
· 2026-04-20T16:12:08+00:00At @ethena , the largest Cryptocurrencies protocol is now almost out of deposits on Aave, except for Mantle, where they have US$ 268 million stuck and subject to a partial cut, along with a US$ 140 million deposit in USDtb on Aave Core, which Ethena inexplicably isn't withdrawing,
· 2026-04-20T21:04:09+00:00Hot take from Aave's KelpDAO report: crypto has a class system for tokens. Same price, completely different risks. First world: native tokens on mainnet. Backed by real assets. Third world: bridged versions on L2. Backed by reserves in a bridge adapter that can disappear in one
· 2026-04-20T21:55:14+00:001/ It was a matter of time for the Aave markets to crack because of a toxic collateral. The core market lists too many assets. Users are right to be frustrated that they can't access their funds because of an asset they never heard of, but this is the mechanism of shared pools...
· 2026-04-20T13:07:57+00:00Hackers Norte-Coreanos Roubam U$292M, e Ataque Afeta Aave U$15B saíram de protocolos DeFi nos últimos 2 dias...
· 2026-04-20T17:46:19+00:00. @Mantle_Official went from $160M TVL in September to $755M by March. 230% growth. Cold market. No narrative tailwind. Just infrastructure doing what it was built for. $1.34B in lending and borrowing on Aave in just over a month, 3rd largest market globally behind Plasma and
· 2026-04-20T14:34:00+00:00Reality Check: Even this wouldn’t save $AAVE. It’s bad.
· 2026-04-20T12:46:13+00:001inch e Fluid aliviaram o problema da Aave.
· 2026-04-20T06:31:00+00:00Haseeb dropped an honest TLDR. Kelp basically looks like a random target that trusted infra a bit too much (fair enough, LZ is core crypto infra). But serious question: if this was 2/2 or 3/3 DVN instead of 1/1.. does this even happen? And AAVE… impressive. Biggest protocol
· 2026-04-20T21:16:09+00:00Aave just released a report on what happened, in summary, Scenario 1, losses in WETH socialized across all networks. Scenario 2, losses in WETH only on the L2s. Catastrophic in my opinion and positions L2 as Junior Tranche, which goes against Kelp's own terms and regulations
· 2026-04-20T01:02:00+00:00LATEST: Aave suffers over $6 billion TVL drop after bad debt from the $290M+ rsETH exploit on KelpDAO
· 2026-04-20T15:32:20+00:00On Saturday, Kelp DAO's LayerZero bridge was hacked for about $292M. On Sunday, Aave stablecoin net borrow flows got hit for -$763.5M, according to our stablecoin dashboard. Despite not even being hacked, Aave was one of those that got hit the hardest. Here’s why: The attacker
· 2026-04-20T12:07:14+00:00Aave's TVL is now at $17.302B, down from $26.396B on April 18. That's over $9B (-34%) of TVL gone. Almost $14B in total DeFi TVL lost since the Kelp DAO exploit.
· 2026-04-20T14:51:00+00:00上周末发生的一起黑客攻击从一个加密项目中窃取了近3亿美元，引发了DeFi（去中心化金融）投资者的信心危机，导致用户从最大的DeFi借贷平台撤出数十亿美元。 由于担心抵押品可能变得毫无价值，Aave自上周六以来出现约90亿美元的净流出，平台上的总锁仓量（TVL）暴跌逾三分之一，降至175亿美元。 该事件凸显了DeFi领域的安全漏洞（用户在没有中央中介的情况下进行交易、借贷和出售加密货币），并引发了更广泛的连锁反应，所有DeFi借贷协议的总锁仓量在48小时内下降约130亿美元。
· 2026-04-20T06:03:28+00:00ใครที่ ETH ติดอยู่ใน Aave (ถือ aWETH อยู่) เอาไป redemption กับ Fluid ได้นะครับ move นี้ของ Fluid ดีมากๆ fluid มันมี ETH loop vault ซึ่งเป็น weETH/wstETH collateral และ debt คือ WETH บน Aave เราเอา aWETH collateral ของเรา ไป swap กับ WETH debt ของ Fluid vault ได้เลย (inverse
· 2026-04-20T07:20:16+00:00One bridge fk up...half of DeFi lines up to exit Frozen / paused: > $Aave V3 V4 rsETH frozen, $6- 8B exits > SparkLend rsETH market frozen > Fluid rsETH activity frozen > Compound V3 rsETH frozen > Euler rsETH frozen > Morpho ~$1M isolated exposure > Pendle PT YT tied to rsETH
· 2026-04-20T03:25:14+00:00On Saturday, an attacker printed $292M worth of rsETH from thin air. Same strategy your central bank uses. Aave wasn't hacked. So why are Aave depositors facing ~$196M in bad debt? Here's every move the attacker made and why DeFi's composability made it possible.
· 2026-04-20T07:18:05+00:00nowhere is completely safe but direct staking or protocols with isolated markets (morpho, some newer platforms) carry less contagion risk than shared pools fluid's aWETH redemption gives you an exit if you're stuck in aave core
· 2026-04-20T03:13:19+00:00Monday Morning Stream @ 10am EST - NFTs are BACK - Bored Ape Yacht Club - Asteroid - ETH vs SOL memes - Rave pump and dump - Aave hack - Trump Mar-a-Lago event & more BE THERE
· 2026-04-20T07:31:22+00:00North Korean hackers behind KelpDAO hack, DeFi custodial assets total plummets over 2 trillion yen Approx. 46.4 billion yen in rsETH illicitly outflowed Major protocols like Aave hit emergency pause coinpost.jp/?p=703383
· 2026-04-20T12:30:00+00:00Kelp DAO was attacked due to a vulnerability in cross-chain bridge configuration parameters. Hackers exploited the 1-of-1 setting in the LayerZero DVN network to forge messages, stealing $293 million in assets and cashing out through protocols like Aave @aave . Aave's single-day
· 2026-04-20T17:06:54+00:00obviously what we need is aave v3 classic
· 2026-04-20T21:08:01+00:00. @thelordofentry is looking to send $AAVE to zero ENTRY: 93.4 - 94.5 SL: 95 (1hr candle close above) TP1: 90 TP2: 87 TP3: 82 TP4: 41
· 2026-04-20T00:40:35+00:00the main reason I’ve never lost real money in defi exploits like what happened with aave (or any of the other hundred) is because I’d never ever put any meaningful amount of money into a defi protocol because the only reason you do that is greed we have enough opportunities to
· 2026-04-20T09:01:06+00:00Đecentralized Člub Short-Term Watchlist Here’s my Top 50 Coins to watch for potential moves in the next 2–8 weeks (April–June 2026): $BTC $ETH $SOL $XRP $BNB $SUI $AVAX $NEAR $HYPE $TAO $TON $HBAR $DOT $ADA $KAS $LINK $UNI $AAVE $PENDLE $JUP $RAY $ONDO $ARB $MNT $TIA $INJ
· 2026-04-20T17:12:16+00:00would you rather have your money in AAVE or attempt to cross the strait of hormuz?
· 2026-04-20T16:55:15+00:00Sunrise-listed assets on Solana are not impacted by the recent rsETH/Aave situation. We support any cross-chain framework the original token issuer prefers, including NTT, CCIP, and Hyperlane. In light of recent events, we are actively discussing next steps for teams that use
· 2026-04-20T12:17:52+00:00Layerzero, Aave and Kelp rn
· 2026-04-20T08:06:18+00:00Definitely what’s happened warrants shared blame by Keplr, L0, and AAVE It’s worse than I thought on layerzeros end, however I do think they’ll come out of it stronger and should act as a huge Inflection point for security standards across their interop stack
· 2026-04-20T13:18:01+00:00have not heard a peep about layerzero, Kelp, morpho, aave, nothing on LinkedIn about any of this at all
· 2026-04-20T11:46:47+00:00Do Not Buy The Dip On $AAVE
· 2026-04-20T17:10:44+00:00Over $14B has left the onchain lending space since the KelpDAO exploit on Friday, including $10B from Aave alone. Total deposits are down 17% across the board, their lowest levels since May 2025, while $2B in active loans have been closed out (-7%). data: @tokenterminal
· 2026-04-20T04:49:00+00:00The guys at @aave that allowed the onboarding of rsETH as a collateral should be fired. More so, it was idiotic to allow a high cap in the hundreds of million for such a risky asset. "Just use AAVE" turned into "Never use AAVE".
· 2026-04-20T06:41:39+00:00Who would have thought it would be AAVE this time? Looking at this problem, it feels utterly unsolvable.
· 2026-04-20T17:00:21+00:00The @aave total market size on @arbitrum has shrunk by $200M, going from $1.4B to $1.2B post @KelpDAO 's rsETH incident. Despite the exploit being mostly contained in Aave, the general sentiment has shifted and many users are adopting a risk-averse position. A
· 2026-04-20T23:01:58+00:00DEFI DEBACLE » A Nearly $300 Million Exploit Leaves @KelpDAO , @LayerZero_Core , And @aave Pointing Fingers! Here’s what could happen next:
· 2026-04-20T07:48:46+00:00If you want to have a chance of understanding AAVE, it’s here:
· 2026-04-20T15:25:00+00:00SHOWTIME. Live at @TheChartHackers Youtube $BTC $ETH $SOL $AAVE $TAO ...
· 2026-04-20T01:56:53+00:00It would be a huge step up if the Monad Foundation cooperates with major native Monad DeFis to reduce any risks, like the Aave and KelpDAO cases, as much as MF can
· 2026-04-20T16:06:42+00:00$AAVE is going straight to $20
· 2026-04-20T06:40:56+00:00Even AAVE ain't cutting it anymore (though it's just the aftermath), and that kind of sadness seems to be enveloping DeFi users. In that case, the appeal just... fades, y'know.
· 2026-04-20T23:00:33+00:00LayerZero, KelpDAO, Aave Incident reports for each have all been released.
· 2026-04-20T15:59:29+00:00defi isn't dead we just need one 10000000000% APR ponzi and we will be so back aave is for boomers anyway
· 2026-04-20T03:04:44+00:00IMF's funds safe from AAVE/rsETH exploit, customer safety is our no. 1 priority.
· 2026-04-20T05:18:29+00:00Market conditions are driven by smart players reallocating money on meaningful developments. Midwits realizing 3% Aave yield was actually a poor choice is not going to trigger a bear market.
· 2026-04-20T16:41:39+00:00A note on "slashing" on @aave . First, it's important to understand COLLATERAL DOES NOT GET SLASHED. I.E., there is no risk to sUSDe or syrupUSDC or any other collateral asset of being slashed. Only staked Aave gets slashed. Staked GHO slashing has been disabled for a while,
· 2026-04-20T19:03:28+00:00Here's a clear demonstration of how the market is behaving… All 4 tokens are from lending protocols, with the situation at Kelp to Aave already having lost more than 10B in TVL and the token dropping 20% Other lending protocols seem to be capturing a portion of this exodus
· 2026-04-20T19:23:16+00:00Hey @HyperliquidX -- @chameleon_jeff I've been in crypto and DeFi since 2020. In those six years, one of the biggest use cases that genuinely changed my life, and the lives of many people in the Brazilian community I work with, was lending. AAVE was the protocol that made it
· 2026-04-20T17:20:32+00:00The severe problems currently facing AAVE: 1-TVL has sharply declined by approximately $10 billion (-36%), and at the same time: 2-The rsETH and WETH lending pools involved are disabled (frozen) 3-Borrowing of weETH is prohibited (Borrowing is disabled) 4-The main
· 2026-04-20T09:37:38+00:00PTSD LEVELS RISING FAST $292M exploited from @KelpDAO via @LayerZero_Core . Collateral damage spread to @aave users who can't withdraw their funds. Capital is running out of DeFi as crypto bros realise their funds are NOT SAFU.
· 2026-04-20T17:03:05+00:00ARE WE BACK? $RAVE rug pull $AAVE trouble $BTC breakout? Oil and stocks? $CL $SPY $SPX $QQQ
· 2026-04-20T19:11:43+00:00Am dat drumul la DCA pe @aave
· 2026-04-20T09:58:14+00:00I feel really sad about the DeFi ecosystem… I just hope we can see the good old days again soon. @aave $45.35b to $17.52b
· 2026-04-20T10:05:03+00:00. #Sui The zwbtc on top is also bridged over from layer0, with a small volume, and currently no redemption discount. But considering the thorny issues currently faced by @aave and @LayerZero_Core , @Scallop_io has already suspended zwbtc deposits as collateral yesterday, just in
· 2026-04-20T19:32:32+00:00I've seen very few things more foolish than Solana fanboys trashing Ethereum at every opportunity, and Ethereum fanboys doing the same to Solana. It's amusing to approach this with the flavor of football hooliganism. Attacking $ETH through AAVE is the same level of nonsense as
· 2026-04-20T01:08:42+00:00rate volatility on aave has been brutal lately, hard to plan any real yield strategy when borrow costs keep shifting that’s why fixed-rate lending locked until maturity on @TermMaxFi hits different. you know your cost, your spread, no surprises mid-position their
· 2026-04-20T15:58:23+00:00Europe dominates DeFi Aave, Morpho, Lido to name a few... Did the US fumble the bag?
· 2026-04-20T11:07:19+00:00after everything that happened, Aave is still #3 by fees generated, with $670K in revenue in the last 24h
· 2026-04-20T00:08:19+00:00Time to move to @LOAN_Protocol Aave TVL last 24H 26,6 B ------> 18,6B A drop of 30% Crazy times... $AAVE $LOAN $XPR
· 2026-04-20T20:06:16+00:00Try bankr if aave web app isn’t working for you
· 2026-04-20T10:35:41+00:00the past week kinda shows what this space is really like • on one side $aave: $292m exploit, liquidity crisis, withdrawals almost getting locked. also defi tvl dropped from $100b to $85b • on the other side $rave: a brutal drop from $28 to $0.5 in just 48h basically
· 2026-04-20T06:03:37+00:00aave vs kelpdao vs layerzero on who broke ethereum defi
· 2026-04-20T11:30:51+00:00$1M in DeFi won’t magically retire you. Kelp’s bridge got exploited, fake $rsETH was minted, pushed into $AAVE as collateral, and real liquidity was borrowed out. In 46 minutes, the damage was done and DeFi lost $13B+ in TVL. That’s the lesson: DeFi yield is not passive income.
· 2026-04-20T12:16:50+00:00The Morning Minute (4.20) Powered by @yeet Top News: -Crypto majors fall then rebound as Iran tensions escalate; BTC at $75.1k -ETFs see $1.4B in inflows on the week, 2nd biggest week of year -DeFi TVL falls by $13B as KelpDAO exploit fallout worsens; AAVE -25% -Vercel CEO
· 2026-04-20T18:11:00+00:00Those who have experienced a bull market will remember it. The last bear market was marked by the FTX Black Swan and the LUNA Black Swan. Could the bear market of 2026 be $Aave $Uni $Comp and $Crv these veteran DeFi black swans?
· 2026-04-20T17:35:18+00:00Safety first, always! Recently we’ve seen some major exchanges withdrawing from specific Aave pools following the weekend’s rsETH breach. While these adjustments are part of "prudent risk management" for them, it’s also a timely reminder of why @sparkdotfi chooses a more
· 2026-04-20T11:49:41+00:00$AAVE should be a lesson to all of blockchain to realize that it should stop ignoring the banking industry and realize it has a lot to learn from banks. For example, how to avoid bad debt.
· 2026-04-20T14:19:28+00:00Not all lending protocols, and not even all Aave forks, carry the same risks. It’s not just reserve parameters, it’s the broader strategy: how liquidity is directed, how behavior is incentivized, and how markets are structured to absorb shocks.
· 2026-04-20T10:41:44+00:00AAVE HACKED FOR $292M! ANOTHER DEFI HACK PUTS CRYPTO ON ALERT WATCH LATEST CRYPTO AND MACRO ANALYSIS youtu.be/q-JOxkwbPzE
· 2026-04-20T11:07:22+00:00Kelp DAO Got Hacked for $293M, Aave and DeFi Lending Market ROCKED Early April 19, a major exploit hit Kelp DAO. Hackers successfully tricked the platform's bridge, leading to the unauthorized release of 116,500 rsETH. This staggering amount, equivalent to approximately
· 2026-04-20T09:54:32+00:00DeFi industry is a clown show rugs 50% gas fees and protocols that vanish overnight Only one protocol actually works @LOAN_Protocol on @XPRNetwork Zero gas Borrow BTC/ETH/SOL without selling Get paid rewards while you borrow The rest Pure comedy This isthe only serious one Aave
· 2026-04-20T15:37:00+00:00TOP 5 Trending Coins on @Coingecko Today: 1. $RAVE ( @RaveDAO ) 2. $AAVE ( @aave ) 3. $WOJAK ( @wojak_cto ) 4. $ASTEROID ( @elonmusk ) 5. $PENGU ( @pudgypenguins ) Are you holding any of these?
· 2026-04-20T18:03:18+00:00Every time I open my feed, it’s the same story: another DeFi project got hit. The names change – Drift, Aave, LayerZero, and others – but the plot stays the same. People are stressed, everyone’s talking about losses and risks. Lately I’ve started noticing a difference. Up on
· 2026-04-20T14:19:31+00:00Today’s top news: • Crypto majors fall then rebound as Iran tensions escalate; BTC at $75.4k. • ETFs see $1.4B in inflows on the week, 2nd biggest week of year. • DeFi TVL falls by $13B as KelpDAO exploit fallout worsens; AAVE -25%. • Vercel CEO says “highly sophisticated”
· 2026-04-20T14:07:15+00:00You would see a massive bank run in $AAVE if users could sell… But they can’t & as of now the moment any new liquidity is provided a bot instant bank runs with it. For this reason we declare, stay away from $AAVE.
· 2026-04-20T13:16:32+00:00RAVE's price crash, AAVE's bad debts, yet there's absolutely no whiff of such risks in the atmosphere at the venue.
· 2026-04-20T00:20:43+00:00Can't believe there are so many markets to sell frozen aave ETH. The future is so bright and beautiful it almost hurts to look
· 2026-04-20T09:38:00+00:00$292M vanished. $6B fled in hours. #Aave didn’t get hacked — it got drained. How the rsETH (KelpDAO) incident nearly triggered a #DeFi bank run
· 2026-04-20T20:36:56+00:00Regardless who you blame for the recent DeFi exploit, both @aave and @LayerZero_Core have released long-form statements delving into the rsETH situation. It looks very poor that's its been over 48 hours and it's mostly silence from @KelpDAO .
· 2026-04-20T02:58:33+00:00When it’s time to get up after monitoring the AAVE Kelp DAO situation all weekend
· 2026-04-20T11:36:41+00:00@KELPDAO EXPLOIT BIGGEST TVL DROPS #Aave #Sentora #Maple #Euler #Tydro #Reservoir #VaultBridge #Treehouse #Dolomite #Seamless
· 2026-04-20T17:00:48+00:00Prea multa emotie legata de @aave Personal n am emotii. Aave o sa fie ok
· 2026-04-20T06:51:20+00:00If Fear and Greed is at 51 with the AAVE situation What does that tell about the industry?
· 2026-04-20T20:06:39+00:00Kelp just punched back at LayerZero. They claim that the 1/1 DVN setup is LayerZero's own default in the quickstart docs and GitHub config. Dune researched it and says that 47% of all OApps are under the same risk because of this.... Aave froze rsETH markets fast, but the
· 2026-04-20T23:45:41+00:00gotta say, blast radius would have been much lower if aave had responsible supply caps for rseth. Think nobody is blameless here
· 2026-04-20T21:21:42+00:00Aave Models $124M to $230M in Bad Debt From Kelp Exploit In an incident report, Aave service providers quantified the protocol's exposure for the first time and outlined two scenarios depending on how Kelp DAO allocates the loss: Scenario 1 = $123.7M in bad debt, Scenario 2
· 2026-04-20T00:32:45+00:00Maybe it's the recent AAVE hack or maybe its the price on things going down for about half a year But i'm starting to think this industry is a bit untrustworthy
· 2026-04-20T14:42:15+00:00layerzero, kelp and aave not already being in the room together.
· 2026-04-20T17:34:51+00:00Withdrawals are paused to ensure fair treatment of all depositors. Lido's first-loss protection mechanism applies on EarnETH depositors. Final impact depends on actions by Kelp, LayerZero, and Aave governance. Mellow is coordinating directly with all relevant parties.
· 2026-04-20T12:28:12+00:00almost 50 protocols have been hacked in 2026 Here are some of them : Kelp : $293m Hyperbridge: $2.5m BSC TMM/USDT: $1.67m Silo V2: $392,000 Drift Protocol: $285m Cyrus Finance: $5m Resolv: $24.5m Aave V3: $862,000 IoTeX: $8m Step Finance: $40m DeFi is dead and everyone is
· 2026-04-20T22:30:58+00:00Aave and LlamaRisk have jointly published a detailed analysis report on this incident. Key technical facts ・Bridge Adapter balance: 40,373 rsETH ・Total remote-chain rsETH issuance: 152,577 rsETH ・Unbacked: 112,204 rsETH ・Ethereum mainnet rsETH is backed by Kelp's
· 2026-04-20T02:13:34+00:00Kelp got hacked. Aave didn't but still lost nearly $6B in TVL and is holding $200M in bad debt. The hack took 46 minutes. The contagion took seconds. Every protocol is building their own authorization logic, their own velocity limits, their own checks, their own perimeter.
· 2026-04-20T14:52:59+00:00Layerzero “Our protocol worked as designed” Aave “Our system was never compromise” Kelp
· 2026-04-20T11:46:51+00:00Hey @aixbt_agent I think it's time to make money by betting on $LDO,What di you think,since AAVE got hit tvl is being dropped massively ??
· 2026-04-20T01:45:52+00:00Guy who never used Aave & just ripped a gacha spin for a modern era PSA 9 Pokemon card he’s convinced to HODL, that’s being stored digitally with GameStop, has a repost for you to see about DeFi being dead and quantum killing crypto Make sure to pay complete attention to HIM
· 2026-04-20T16:17:49+00:00gMaple everyone and welcome to weekly ecosystem recap with @maplefinance This past week Maple Finance crossed $1 billion in total inflows on @aave , integrated with @lifiprotocol Earn to expand distribution across every chain Don’t miss @syrupsid speaking at Consensus 2026
· 2026-04-20T16:23:18+00:00Unfortunately the aave of today is not the aave of a few months ago.
· 2026-04-20T11:47:56+00:00lido providing the exit liquidity infrastructure for aave's frozen collateral is decent thesis. wstETH redemption protocol with $1B capacity just launched for this exact scenario. momentum's there but remember the entire sector just took an $13B TVL hit so contagion risk isn't
· 2026-04-20T19:44:37+00:00Twice in the last year I’ve avoided a stressful ‘funds locked up’ situation by sheer luck Last week I withdrew everything from Aave to pay taxes Last year withdrew from Maple BTC fund right before it locked up Using crypto investment products is getting pretty scary
· 2026-04-20T15:35:06+00:00Aave in crisis after the Kelp DAO hack USD $300 million in loans and a $292 million exploit rock DeFi. Aave's TVL drops $8 billion. 116,500 rsETH without backing are released, triggering liquidity pressure. The AAVE token plummets 15% in a single day. Containment measures
· 2026-04-20T04:30:17+00:00Trust between Kelp’s bridge & Aave
· 2026-04-20T16:52:49+00:00the real stress test is internal, not iran watch aave liquidity crunch cascading through ethena positions. $268m stuck on mantle, negative apys on loopers. layerzero pauses across 15+ protocols after kelp exploit spark absorbing the outflow. sky ecosystem with 8yr no exploit
· 2026-04-20T00:52:09+00:00AAVE dropped 20% since the rsETH exploit at KelpDAO. Did you buy the dip on AAVE yet? Find the best route to ape into AAVE using our meta aggregator here
· 2026-04-20T09:16:51+00:00Si el DEFI "tradicional" te "traiciona" ... muévete a metamask > @webauthwallet ethereum > @xprnetwork uniswap > @metalxapp usdc > @metaldollarxmd aave > @loan_protocol Sigue las señales
· 2026-04-20T12:25:12+00:00That's some clickbait headline, boss. This case only caused bad debt on Aave of about $195M, and Aave still has its treasury. As for FTX, that was because the exchange owner withdrew $10B to let Alameda gamble with it.
· 2026-04-20T03:53:45+00:00DeFi is truly in peril Aave's TVL has plummeted sharply to $17.95B, with $8.45B evaporating in just 2 days. It's not just Aave; the entire DeFi space is facing significant liquidity withdrawals. Total TVL across all chains has dropped from $99.5B to $86.3B, meaning a loss of
· 2026-04-20T13:17:43+00:00Things here are already a complete mess. The US and Iran are flip-flopping between saying they're talking and saying they're not, RAVE is dumping hard, AAVE has bad debts. You've totally given up over there, huh.
· 2026-04-20T23:33:05+00:00LAZARUS IS BACK: KELP-AAVE CONTAGION AND DEFI IN PANIC
· 2026-04-20T14:14:07+00:00Bitcoin Pulls Back and Falls Below USD $75,000 Traders are observing a 3.8% bullish gap in CME. A $292 million exploit in Kelp DAO's rsETH is raising concerns in DeFi, drastically impacting Aave's TVL. Funding rates are negative, reflecting greater demand for protection.
· 2026-04-20T16:03:39+00:00DeFi has always been a worthless grift. When you see things like the recent Aave situation, it is a good reminder why we don't need DeFi on bitcoin.
· 2026-04-20T21:46:50+00:00The current rsETH scenario choices proposed by Aave is literally a $100 million question.
· 2026-04-20T12:20:14+00:00Something feels off Aave borrowing surged by $300 million after the KelpDAO exploit, putting pressure on protocol liquidity. Full Article:
· 2026-04-20T15:30:20+00:00The Aave and rsETH situation exposes a key design vulnerability in decentralized finance. DeFi protocols allow many types of assets to become collateral, with no robust process to filter out high-risk ones. /1
· 2026-04-20T15:36:26+00:00Proud of the team on this one. Zyfai is protecting your capital 24/7 and proved it 3 times (Stream, Resolv, Kelp/AAVE).
· 2026-04-20T05:11:38+00:00gm neighbor kelp exploit bleeding across defi, aave sitting on 146m uncovered debt, layerzero bridges paused everywhere but wojak's up 210% and apes are moving again. two different markets rn
· 2026-04-20T12:45:10.940321+00:00Aave Sees $32M Exchange Inflows as TVL Drops $7B and Price Falls AAVE inflows spike as investors react to collateral risk concerns TVL drops sharply as users withdraw funds following exploit incident Market sentiment weakens as $32M inflows signal rising s
· 2026-04-20T04:00:06+00:00JUST IN: Major DeFi platform FREEZES funds as new exploit triggers bank run-level liquidity crunch. Full Details: bitpinas.com/go/aave-kelpdao
· 2026-04-20T14:46:17+00:00$ZEC is the last one Top Do you really think DeFi is a safe haven? The collapse of @KelpDAO has directly torn apart the veil of mutual protection agreements, all of which have backfired! Look at this terrible bill: AAVE is in bad debt, LayerZero runs cross-chain and runs out
· 2026-04-20T11:55:39+00:00: Warning I see bad debt piling up on @solana just like it did on $AAVE.
· 2026-04-20T10:34:22+00:00LayerZero has linked the attack to North Korea's Lazarus Group, blaming Kelp's single-verifier bridge configuration for a $292 million drain that cascaded across nine DeFi protocols and wiped $6. 6 billion from Aave's TVL. | $AAVE | $ZRO
· 2026-04-20T10:40:58+00:00kelp exploit triggered defi contagion, $6B pulled from aave, every protocol pausing layerzero bridges classic single point of failure moment
· 2026-04-20T19:21:21+00:00就和昨天说的一样，鱼死网破一定是 Aave 最惨，到时候 Kelp 双手一摊没钱，把 RsETH 赎回 ETH 通道打开让用户压力 Aave 解冻市场，最狠毒的是无视冻结的市场，直接放弃旧的 RsETH 发个新的映射，让 Aave 坏账级别扩大到 50 万个 ETH，逼 Aave 来承担部分损失。 Aave
· 2026-04-20T16:44:58+00:00Tune in or drop out (4/20): - @Bitmine buys 101k ETH - @Strategy 34k BTC haul - @KelpDAO $290M exploit - @aave TVL tanks $8B - @vercel hack hits devs - @udiWertheimer triggers Bitcoiners with quantum callout
· 2026-04-20T06:21:21+00:00Either the actual attack surface was not considered by Aave apart from suggesting more than 1/1 DVN or it was assumed a Decentralized Verifier Network actually does verify more than "RPC told us so".
· 2026-04-20T11:19:15+00:00who is they? Layerzero? So there is a war room with only aave + kelp and not layerzero?
· 2026-04-20T05:43:40+00:00【 #Cryptocurrency #CryptoAssets Latest News】 ETH Falls Below $2,300 Due to Aave Exploit──Coinbase Executive Proposes AI Defense Measures【Price Analysis】 ・An exploit that occurred in Aave (Aave) caused a liquidity shock in the DeFi (Decentralized Finance) market, and
· 2026-04-20T09:01:23+00:00what makes you think they didnt track this? the whole purpose of rseth is to be looped, and Aave's success the last four years is built on winning the big looping trades
· 2026-04-20T00:27:26+00:00aave owner made billions, why cant he put it back?
· 2026-04-20T22:30:08+00:00DeFi Protocols Launch Joint Escape Hatch for Aave ETH Lenders and Loopers @0xfluid 's aWETH Redemption Protocol, launched with @LidoFinance , @ether_fi , @1inch , 0x and Kyber, has processed $136M out of Aave's frozen WETH pool in 48 hours. READ MORE HERE:
· 2026-04-20T15:45:17+00:00aave needs less meetings more moves rn
· 2026-04-20T10:45:10+00:00If we're talking about damage, it won't be enough to break the chain, boss. The Aave treasury will step in, and the big players will lend a hand to save it too. Even CRV back then didn't die, man. The market's panicking way too much, or if we're going full conspiracy, maybe
· 2026-04-20T19:33:25+00:00DeFi can be legitimately scary Protocols like Aave may not have specific bugs but can be collateral damage to hacks in related protocols/assets/bridges I’ve been in this space a very long time. The logical conclusion I reached is ironic because it is the oldest saying in
· 2026-04-20T07:23:54+00:00Man that’s a huge loss for $AAVE It’s TVL shed caused all this
· 2026-04-20T04:46:48+00:00also stuck with sake and now aave
· 2026-04-20T14:08:41+00:00PANews Original | KelpDAO’s $300M Exploit Is Triggering Bad Debt at Aave; Is This DeFi’s Black Swan Moment? @KelpDAO suffered a nearly $300 million exploit, exposing a single-point validation vulnerability in @LayerZero_Core cross-chain bridge architecture. The incident has
· 2026-04-20T13:20:01+00:00Congrats @katiabanina You're a top Market Prophit for your call on $AAVE Go to marketprophit.com and check out sentiment, buzz, and other crypto data.
· 2026-04-20T18:18:23+00:00Following the rsETH/KelpDAO/LayerZero incident, the market has finally begun to properly assess the risk in @aave . Previously, the yields there made it seem as though the risk was practically zero. Now the APY is higher - because keeping money in a lending protocol with a host
· 2026-04-20T22:42:45+00:00LlamaRisk, an Aave DAO Risk Service Provider, broke down the rsETH incident impact on Aave: Two scenarios: • If losses are shared across all rsETH → ~15% haircut, ~$123.7M bad debt • If losses are isolated to L2s → ~73.5% haircut, ~$230.1M bad debt (mainly on Mantle &
· 2026-04-20T22:16:10+00:00The premium in Aave (and other protocols) in L2s is much bigger exactly due to the L2 risk. They had bigger returns by providing liquidity in an L2 but they also took a bigger risk. Though it's definitely not an easy or clearcut situation.
· 2026-04-20T20:55:03.891968+00:00Defillama’s founder pushed back on claims that Aave TVL figures are inflated The recent $292 million KelpDAO exploit has the DeFi industry searching for answers, and some fingers are pointing at one of the most trusted data providers in the space, DefiLlama, claiming
· 2026-04-20T20:55:03.891965+00:00Aave and Kelp are working on bailout options as losses keep piling up Aave is currently locked in a tight situation in the KelpDAO hack that Cryptopolitan reported on April 18, where an attacker drained 116,500 rsETH, worth about $292 million, from Kelp’s cross
· 2026-04-20T12:25:10.388526+00:00Funds flow into RWAs as DeFi security risks lead to capital flight DeFi is losing capital, after a month with two major exploits and general distrust in Web3 protocols. Some of the funds are redirected to still viable crypto use cases, especially RWA tokens.
· 2026-04-20T10:05:18.917300+00:00Spark’s January rsETH delisting protects users as Aave hits 100% ETH utilization Spark, a DeFi lending protocol built on Ethereum, removed rsETH and several low-utilization assets from its platform in January 2025. The decision was made months before rsETH became the subj
· 2026-04-20T07:45:03.740989+00:00KelpDAO Bridge Exploit Drains $13B from DeFi Markets in Two Days Key Takeaways KelpDAO’s bridge suffered a $292–$293 million security breach that resulted in a $13.21 billion decline in total value locked across DeFi markets within 48 hours Attackers extra
· 2026-04-20T06:45:02.950733+00:00292 million dollars lost in massive Kelp DAO hack LayerZero has released new details about the recent large-scale cyberattack targeting Kelp DAO, clarifying how the incident unfolded. Technical analysis suggests that the North Korea-linked L
· 2026-04-20T06:45:02.950727+00:00Intricate Cyber Heist on Kelp DAO Reveals Security Shortfalls You can also read this news on BH NEWS: Intricate Cyber Heist on Kelp DAO Reveals Security Shortfalls LayerZero has disclosed intricate details regarding the recent cyber heist on Kelp DAO, h
· 2026-04-20T05:57:13+00:00This reads that we are not responsible for anything. It was Kelp's fault all along, and we warned them. #Aave #KelpDAO #DeFi
· 2026-04-20T15:32:22+00:00$292 million stolen from @KelpDAO . $196 million in bad debt on @aave . $13.2 billion wiped from defi in 48 hours. and the code was fine. every line of it. here is what actually happened.
· 2026-04-20T10:06:07+00:00GM CT - KelpDAO $292M gone - Drift $285M gone - RaveDAO insider dump exposed - Aave pools locked at 100% utilization and it's only April stay safe out there
· 2026-04-20T14:11:14+00:00$AAVE has a multi-billion dollar gap caused by the hack but that gap is growing by billions due to bad debt. It’s the single handed biggest mess I ever seen in crypto. I see only one solution… Massive, reckless, idiotic, masochistic, relentless DEGEN aping. Nothing else
· 2026-04-20T12:00:27+00:00In just a day, large holders and whales dumped millions of dollars worth of AAVE tokens. Full Details: bitpinas.com/go/aave-kelpdao
· 2026-04-20T16:41:46+00:00I will say the liquidity issues on AAVE are concerning.
· 2026-04-20T12:31:19+00:00Aave deposits stuck because of 100% utilization High utilization spikes higher APY for lenders (around 15% on stables currently) This number will keep increasing until people pay off their loans, or the high APY attracts more depositors Working as intended
· 2026-04-20T06:40:23+00:00Probably, the second-order effect with Aave and all related protocols.
· 2026-04-20T14:01:36+00:00Ethena We're actively pushing the white-label hard Created a stablecoin supply dashboard related to it whitelabel.ethena.fi/transparency Regarding this AAVE rsETH exploit incident, Ethena was not exposed, Currently, no clear root cause analysis has come out regarding the OFT bridge So
· 2026-04-20T07:00:26+00:00The DeFi space is currently on a rock and roll due to an incident that started on April 18. Here's what happened so far. Full Details: bitpinas.com/go/aave-kelpdao
· 2026-04-20T23:00:01+00:00We have published a research article by our representative Arai @cry_curr_ar on the largest DeFi hacking incident involving KelpDAO and Aave. It’s packed with insights and analysis, clocking in at over 15,000 characters for the main text, so if you don’t have time to read it
· 2026-04-20T10:27:07+00:00Aave lost $6 billion in deposits one of the best defi's is going through one of its worst times
· 2026-04-20T12:54:29+00:00AAVE's moat of being the standard of safety/never been exploited "just use aave" is dead and it's a good thing. The moat was undeserved, they almost got completely wiped out a few times and got lucky (and arrogant) until the kelp fiasco. They also got greedy with all the lst
· 2026-04-20T13:20:12+00:00The $292M Kelp DAO exploit , draining 116,500 rsETH, is a stark wake-up call for cross-chain security in Web3 . Funds stranded across 20 chains. Emergency freezes hit Aave, SparkLend & others swiftly. Vigilance is key to safeguarding digital assets . #KelpDAO
· 2026-04-20T03:56:34+00:00I support bro, help help AAVE
· 2026-04-20T03:15:24+00:00I went overboard with AAVE; if I don't die, it should bounce back to 110.
· 2026-04-20T07:48:11+00:00rsETH / @MapleFinance syrupUSDC and syrupUSDT have zero exposure to the rsETH exploit. All capital was removed from @aave v3 mainnet before any impact. No exposure remains. @maplefinance has no loans backed by rsETH.
· 2026-04-20T11:51:27+00:00If you hold $AAVE, they lent out all your money & didn’t even take time to know who they lent your money too. It’s a mess.
· 2026-04-20T06:41:46+00:00Strongly agree! KelpDAO only used one node, but that node is the official LayerZero one. AAVE was slightly negligent in screening during fund inflows.
· 2026-04-20T18:30:38+00:00JUST IN: $7 billion flowed out of DeFi in one day after the Kelp DAO hack, the Kelp DAO hack triggered a run on the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector and left Aave without ether liquidity.
· 2026-04-20T00:30:07+00:00aave owner made billions, why cant he put it back?
· 2026-04-20T11:42:04+00:00In the last month only, 3 major projects (at least) sucking liquidity: WLF, DOT, AAVE Thanks for playing
· 2026-04-20T15:56:44+00:00Aave V4 has a lot to prove
· 2026-04-20T06:51:10+00:00Aave TVL has fallen to $17.53B, dropping over $8.5B in just a couple days.
· 2026-04-20T10:56:02+00:00Aave's in trouble again, back to this... Tron still protects users pretty well.
· 2026-04-20T05:16:44+00:00Yes - but SOC compliance wouldn't' save you. AAVE had theirs concluded very recently (~this would have fallen under third party risk - where KelpDAO config would be under consideration, as well require RPC infra to be in technical scope too under an updated threat model)
· 2026-04-20T16:33:32+00:00I think this is just fhe first phase, we will see more volatility with Aave and broader DeFi protocoal
· 2026-04-20T00:19:33+00:00Hashbrown is not affected by the recent rsETH/Aave/LayerZero incident and will continue operating on @base
· 2026-04-20T12:08:38+00:00Seeing a lot of takes that assume that defillama's aave TVL is inflated by looping That's NOT the case, because borrowed coins are removed from TVL Imagine the case: 1. A deposits 1m eth -> tvl = 1m 2. B deposits 1m steth and borrows 1m -> +1m - 1m -> tvl = 1.2m 3. final tvl =
· 2026-04-20T15:11:05+00:00good evening afee
· 2026-04-20T21:08:51+00:00Spotty here. In light of the recent rsETH exploit on Aave → ~$290M bad debt crisis Stay safe, bros — Spotty is always on guard Even though we’re from TON, we stand with every chain. Stay sharp, stay secure
· 2026-04-20T22:07:52+00:00This is my proposal for what DeFi compliance should start looking like if we’re serious about avoiding systemic failures like the @KelpDAO rsETH / @aave / @LayerZero_Core incident. For me, the conversation should go well beyond who’s to blame, imo what matters is whether the
· 2026-04-20T10:48:32+00:00bad debt is killing aave liquidity
· 2026-04-20T15:30:13+00:00kelp exposure finally biting aave
· 2026-04-20T05:47:26+00:00The crypto world is still reeling from the massive $292 million exploit that hit Kelp, a leading liquid restaking protocol, over the weekend. The breach not only drained a huge sum in digital assets but also triggered fallout across DeFi, including $AAVE as stolen funds moved
· 2026-04-20T04:35:32+00:00Bankrun is happening on @aave ! Withdraw your fund and thank me later!
· 2026-04-20T22:15:17.421728+00:00Chainalysis Flags Burn-Verification Blind Spot After $292M DeFi Exploit Chainalysis has flagged a burn-verification blind spot in the aftermath of a $292 million DeFi exploit, raising questions about whether blockchain forensics tools can reliably confirm when st
· 2026-04-20T12:45:10.940348+00:00AAVE After the Crash: $21M Exchange Inflows Raise Doubts Over Recovery Aave price has stabilized after its recent shock, but the real problem may still be unresolved. While price has attempted a recovery, deeper signals suggest the market is still dealing with t
· 2026-04-20T12:15:02.962567+00:00‘Aave Will Win’ Explained: How the AWW Framework Changes Revenue, Governance, and the AAVE Token The Aave DAO has approved the "Aave Will Win" (AWW) proposal with nearly 75% of votes in favor, directing 100% of revenue from all Aave-branded products back to the community treasury and mar
· 2026-04-20T11:15:17.627425+00:00LayerZero says Kelp setup caused exploit, as Aave loss questions mount Interoperability protocol LayerZero claims that an inadequate setup tied to Kelp’s decentralized verifier network (DVN) enabled malicious actors to steal $290 million from Kelp DAO, adding th
· 2026-04-20T10:35:13.662035+00:00Aave price drops to $90 after Kelp DAO exploit, derivatives hint at potential rebound Aave price plummeted nearly 20% to around $90 by Monday morning following a massive exploit at Kelp DAO that left the protocol saddled with roughly $196 million in bad debt. Summary Aave fell
· 2026-04-20T10:35:13.661927+00:00OTC Whale Loses $540K Amid KelpDAO Exploit An OTC whale has recently experienced notable losses due to the market uncertainty amid the exploit of the DeFi protocol KelpDAO. Particularly, the whale has incurred a $540K loss as a result
· 2026-04-20T10:35:13.661878+00:00Aave under pressure as full utilization sparks risk debate Aave, the leading lending protocol, drew attention to its liquidity profile. Recent research showed major Aave vaults were at 100% utilization, meaning a virtual inability to withdraw funds.
· 2026-04-20T10:15:02.550067+00:00Strategic Prudence Shields Spark Users from Volatile Markets You can also read this news on BH NEWS: Strategic Prudence Shields Spark Users from Volatile Markets In a proactive decision earlier this year, Spark, a prominent DeFi lending protocol on Eth
· 2026-04-20T10:05:18.917273+00:00Spark’s Early rsETH Delisting Shields Protocol as Aave Faces ETH Liquidity Crisis TLDR: Spark delisted rsETH in January 2025, months before a security incident involving the asset emerged. Aave’s ETH markets on Mainnet, Arbitrum, Plasma, Mantle, and Base are now running at
· 2026-04-20T09:45:16.766230+00:00Spark Defends Conservative ETH Risk Model as Aave Markets Hit Full Utilization Spark says its stricter ETH risk settings helped preserve withdrawal liquidity while Aave’s ETH markets became locked at full utilization. The statement came from monetsupply.eth, who argued
· 2026-04-20T07:45:03.740971+00:00Aave TVL Plunges $8.45B as rsETH Crisis Deepens Aave TVL fell $8.45B in two days as rsETH exploit triggered panic withdrawals and liquidity outflows. Over $250M exploit created bad debt risk, while AAVE price dropped amid heavy exchange in
· 2026-04-20T06:45:02.950743+00:00Vercel confirms a security incident affecting some of its customers A hack has just been reported in the tech world, and this shake-up is no ordinary hallway incident. First, Vercel is not a small lost piece in the digital workshop, but a hinge for many moder
· 2026-04-20T05:44:02.373863+00:00The Expected Bullish BTC Signal Comes From Bitcoin Bull Michael Saylor! Michael Saylor added a new post to his Bitcoin investment news, signaling a buy. The founder of Strategy, in a social media post, used the phrase “Think Bigger,” drawing attention back to his
· 2026-04-20T03:45:15.883523+00:00Aave's TVL tanks $8B a day after $293M Kelp DAO hack Total value locked on decentralized lending protocol Aave dropped by nearly $8 billion over the weekend after hackers behind the $293 million Kelp DAO exploit borrowed funds on Aave, leaving
· 2026-04-20T02:25:13.743766+00:00Critical Kelp DAO Hack: $292M rsETH Exploit Forces Three Painful Recovery Options BitcoinWorld Critical Kelp DAO Hack: $292M rsETH Exploit Forces Three Painful Recovery Options The decentralized finance sector faces another severe test following a devastating $292 million