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266 source posts analyzed· 2026-04-21T04:23:44+00:00JUST IN: Arbitrum freezes 30,766 $ETH worth $71,000,000 linked to suspected AAVE and KelpDAO North Korean exploit.
· 2026-04-21T09:00:07+00:00𝗗𝗲𝗙𝗶's Most Dangerous Prisoner's Dilemma in History $230 million USD in bad debt remains unresolved. The Aave Collector holds over $200 million in liquid assets, and LayerZero just completed a $120 million funding round—both are fully capable of making compensation. Aave has
· 2026-04-21T06:18:16+00:00Update on rsETH incident: WETH reserves on the Ethereum Core V3 market have been unfrozen and users can supply WETH to Ethereum Core V3 again. WETH LTV remains at 0. WETH reserves on Ethereum Prime, Arbitrum, Base, Mantle, and Linea remain frozen. Aave service providers will
· 2026-04-21T02:25:31+00:00Daily Edition: LAZARUS GROUP UP TO $600M STOLEN IN APRIL, AAVE LIQUIDITY REMAINS STUCK This weekend represented a major hit to one of the most battle-tested protocols in DeFi. Currently there is no definitive answer on how they'll move forward from here. We break it down
· 2026-04-21T11:43:15+00:00In 2025, Bybit got hacked for $1.5 billion, and the CEO immediately went live to steady the troops. Other exchanges stepped up with emergency interest-free loans to quickly plug the gap, and in the end, the whole industry pulled through the crisis together. In 2026, AAVE got
· 2026-04-21T09:18:48+00:00What I learned after being in crypto full time for the past 6 years is Almost nothing is truly Decentralized AAVE ? no because my funds are frozen right now Arbitrum ? glad they saved the funds but its not decentralized Drift ? haha even Hyperliquid ? we know its not It
· 2026-04-21T19:46:53+00:00What is the status on AAVE rn? Can people withdraw their stables yet? AAVE really lost 40% of their TVL on this incident. Crazy to think about.
· 2026-04-21T02:35:08+00:00这次kelp事故，损失最大不是aave，也不是kelp，而是layerzero，只是它太短视了，看不到整个事件的本质到底是什么。 这个事件的本质不是证伪了L2（假L2就算了），而是证伪了跨链桥。 关于是否证伪L2这个事情，后续会说下，为什么L2叙事不受影响。
· 2026-04-21T01:21:36+00:00aave报告提到两种“坏账处理方案”： 1. 大家一起扛方案： 所有rsETH持有者一起承担损失，大概每个rsETH贬值15%左右，总坏账约1.24亿刀。 2. 只让L2链扛方案： 只让Arbitrum、Base、Mantle这些L2链上的rsETH承担损失，L2上会贬值73%，总坏账可能到2.3亿刀，但主网L1基本不受影响。
· 2026-04-21T17:45:49+00:00Wallet 0xc4683 is the 4th biggest borrower on Aave, looping USDe against USDT Currently earning -61.62% APY with a health factor of 1.01
· 2026-04-21T11:28:45+00:00aave has decided to unfreeze the Ethereum Core WETH market i find this decision a quite ill considered. in the current conditions/IRM configuration, this basically allows LST/LRT holders to take out extremely profitable looping positions, ensuring that aEthWETH remains illiquid
· 2026-04-21T05:57:42+00:00LayerZero should step up to cover some of the losses. The party with biggest responsibility here is LayerZero. If they don't own up to it and Aave bears most of the cost then ecosystem should start boycotting LayerZero. Ideally, losses should go to all parties LayerZero,
· 2026-04-21T10:42:06+00:00All of @aave 's core markets hit 100% utilization at once, which is the lending protocol equivalent of a full stop. Here's what that actually means: → No liquidity available for withdrawals → Liquidations can't be processed → $3B in USDT and $2B in USDC stuck with no clean
· 2026-04-21T04:02:17+00:00Review: How Justin Sun-Linked Wallet Swiftly Withdraws $274M USDT from Aave After Market Freeze Just 21 minutes after Aave froze the rsETH/wrsETH market on April 18 at 18:52 UTC, the HTX: Recovery wallet — controlled by Justin Sun’s team — executed a rapid exit. Between 19:12
· 2026-04-21T09:08:00+00:00AAVE just presented two potential ways on how to manage the bad debt. Both solutions throw users under the bus with no accountability from AAVE leadership on listing rsETH: Socialize losses, L1 depositors take the biggest hit, including Umbrella depositors L2
· 2026-04-21T03:57:01+00:00[] ARBITRUM FREEZES 30,766 ETH LINKED TO SUSPECTED NORTH KOREAN AAVE, KELPDAO EXPLOITERS:
· 2026-04-21T16:41:22+00:00NEW: @aave TVL DOWN OVER $10 BILLION SINCE BAD DEBT INCIDENT TRIGGERED BY $290M+ $RSETH EXPLOIT ON @KelpDAO SOURCE: defillama.com/protocol/aave? …
· 2026-04-21T00:30:00+00:00The AAVE contagion is spreading. Ethena's USDe market cap is crashing as positions on AAVE unwind and loopers suffer negative ROI after borrowing costs exploded. The flywheel was deposit USDe, borrow USDT/C, deposit more USDe, repeat the cycle. This boosted Ethena's mcap
· 2026-04-21T10:11:56+00:00Funds continue leaving #Aave, with some flowing into #Spark. #Aave's TVL has now dropped to $16.432B, down $9.94B. Meanwhile, #Spark's TVL has risen to $4.552B, up $825M. defillama.com/protocol/aave
· 2026-04-21T08:32:12+00:00AAVE’s TVL plumets from $26bn to $16bn, as investors lose confidence, because @aave 's EU director, @LoryKehoe , decides to speak at an event owned by Calvin Ayre, who financed the litigation against the Bitcoin devs, based on the fraudulent claim that Craig Wright is Satoshi
· 2026-04-21T18:48:57+00:00Aave's stablecoin lending pools are at 100% utilization for ~3 days. Billions withdrawn. LPs can't exit. Borrow won't budge. This isn't the rsETH hack spreading. It's a governance-set rate ceiling like price control, a market failure coded in Solidity. 1/
· 2026-04-21T17:00:47+00:00UPDATE: SparkLend sees $1.4B inflows as Aave faces outflows after rsETH incident, per Blockworks Research.
· 2026-04-21T03:10:04+00:00Recently, DEX incidents have been happening frequently, and the $290 million theft involving @aave and @KelpDAO once again reminds us not to put all our eggs in one basket—otherwise, it'll be less about scrambling for eggs and more about slapping our thighs in regret. Lately, I
· 2026-04-21T06:18:28+00:00Quick reminder that the project that is attacking Aave left and right in these tough times literally has a stacking mechanism that allows people to lend against the founder’s tokens
· 2026-04-21T11:28:57+00:00IS DEFI ACTUALLY DECENTRALIZED? OR HAVE WE ALL BEEN LYING TO OURSELVES? Arbitrum just froze the funds of rsETH exploit attackers. Aave's Guardian froze rsETH markets across 11 deployments in under an hour. Then froze WETH borrowing on 6 more. One multisig. One emergency
· 2026-04-21T02:10:13+00:00另外，他凌晨为了把存在 Aave 上的 1.74 万枚 ETH 取回，通过 Swap 把存款凭证 (aEthWETH) 直接卖成 ETH，损失了 310 枚 ETH ($72 万)。也就是折价了 1.8%。 然后把换回的这些 ETH 转存到了 Spark 上。 debank.com/profile/0xd458 … PS：因为 Aave 目前还是暂停 WETH 的提款的，ETH 想从 Aave
· 2026-04-21T09:43:58+00:00有件事确实还挺吊诡，老外那边一直在为 AAVE 这事恐慌，而中文 CT 这边时间线上歌舞升平，全是开大会的合照 直到昨天看见这条确实慌了一下，因为我还有不少钱存在 OKX 链上赚币的相关池子，于是立刻关注了一下 Morpho & Katana 合作金库情况，目前 vbUSDT 的流动性还有 23+M 询问了一下 OKX
· 2026-04-21T22:04:51+00:00DPRK burnt a 0-day to hack Aave
· 2026-04-21T11:30:57+00:00While $AAVE saw a -44% TVL decline other projects like $ONDO, $CFG and $HYPE benefited from it
· 2026-04-21T07:54:49+00:00Apperently the ETH Foundation deposited $48 million worth of #ETH into #Aave and began bailing out the market A large short squeeze could unfold as the OI grew up by a whooping 56% just in the past 72 hours, especially if unstakers begin to re-stake again.
· 2026-04-21T20:48:20+00:00MEXC is taking massive losses with AAVE, so caution is needed just to be safe.
· 2026-04-21T03:52:45+00:00That’s a W 30.7k/106k eth complete Just another 75.3k to go Coinbase, aave, mantle, zro, kraken - all the best names could be impacted... Or they can come together w a few m each and close this off with 0 losses anywhere
· 2026-04-21T12:22:21+00:00I really feel for the @aave team here because even though they own responsibility in what’s ultimately affecting their users having onboarded rsETH, it all starts with L0 (and Kelp). L0 is a major infra provider, like an electric utility company for DeFi. I have empathy too for
· 2026-04-21T11:11:36+00:00aave took all of the reserve factor revenue, and now is sticking their partners with the bill from poor risk management
· 2026-04-21T04:47:12+00:0030k ETH the exploiter had on the Arbitrum chain was borrowed from Aave Now that Arbitrum has moved those funds to another address 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000DA0 Most likely, this will be returned to Aave users After recovery these funds, Aave will be left with ~52k
· 2026-04-21T10:03:02+00:00Aave royally screwed by its former DAO contributors. Millions in fees and nobody looked at bridge risk? One of the biggest sources of risk in crypto?
· 2026-04-21T05:16:32+00:00Amazing development, Arbitrum froze and took the stolen funds from the KelpDAO exploit affecting AAVE. Good move for the users affected, bad new for decentralization. This sets a precedent where with good justification any assets on Arbitrum can be taken from your wallet.
· 2026-04-21T03:15:52+00:00How to Screen for Monitoring? Today, the high volume zone triggered two alerts. One is $AAVE, one is $RAVE. The left chart below is AAVE's price action. The black arrow in the chart marks the position of the first alert. As you can see, although it broke through the stage high
· 2026-04-21T16:47:18+00:00Mantle is in active coordination and communication with the @aave team and affected protocols on a coordinated recovery plan, including potential treasury participation. We will continue to share meaningful updates as the situation develops. Through moments like these, Web3's
· 2026-04-21T09:30:22+00:00Quick vote $CHZ $AAVE $GENIUS Let’s see the sentiment.
· 2026-04-21T06:47:25+00:00NEW: @aave ANNOUNCES "WETH RESERVES ON THE ETHEREUM CORE V3 MARKET HAVE BEEN UNFROZEN AND USERS CAN SUPPLY WETH TO ETHEREUM CORE V3 AGAIN. WETH LTV REMAINS AT 0. WETH RESERVES ON ETHEREUM PRIME, ARBITRUM, BASE, MANTLE, AND LINEA REMAIN FROZEN"
· 2026-04-21T03:17:30+00:00Bitcoin is currently over 75,500 bucks, and this DeFi drama is getting more and more outrageous with every bite! KelpDAO's cross-chain bridge got straight-up hacked for $290 million in fake rsETH—pure vaporware assets. It all dumped onto Aave, sparking a top-tier bad debt crisis.
· 2026-04-21T00:04:01+00:00rsETH from kelpdao was the only asset with a 1-of-1 config that got exploited because it had the biggest pot that the exploiter could exit with No other asset with large enough bridged supply had as good of an exit path for the exploiter as rsETH did - because of aave v3 market
· 2026-04-21T08:11:40+00:00lido's stETH is embedded in $21b+ of DeFi collateral across aave, maker, and curve. ETH withdrawal queue just went from 1 day to 11 days in one quarter. rsETH blew a $196m hole at $292m scale. stETH operates at 70x that exposure with zero circuit breakers. watch the stETH/ETH
· 2026-04-21T06:46:00+00:00JUST IN: Arbitrum freezes 30,766 $ETH worth $71,000,000 linked to suspected AAVE and KelpDAO North Korean exploit. BULLISH NEWS
· 2026-04-21T16:06:35+00:00Sparklend sees $1.4B inflows while Aave faces outflows after rsETH incident According to Blockworks Research, lending protocols such as Aave saw significant outflows following the rsETH incident, while Sparklend recorded notable inflows over the past two days, with nearly $1.4
· 2026-04-21T07:10:00+00:00HASEEB: AAVE HAS ENOUGH EQUITY AFTER KELPDAO EXPLOIT Dragonfly’s Haseeb Qureshi says Aave may take some debt from the $292M Kelp DAO rsETH exploit but has the equity to pay it off. He adds DeFi has survived shocks like the 2020 liquidation failures, Terra collapse, and the
· 2026-04-21T14:02:38+00:00Ah. That's why nobody noticed the risk. A well known contributor to the Aave DAO invested in Kelp the same month they proposed it be added to Aave v3. And these are the guys who tried to paint Aave Labs as the bad guys.
· 2026-04-21T08:04:11+00:00checked the numbers and if arbitrum spends the seized money giving priority to arbitrum's aave market: - in case of socialization of losses -> no bad debt at all on arb - in case of rsETH on L2s getting rugged -> aave on arbitrum reduces bad debt by 80% ($88M to $17M)
· 2026-04-21T03:51:25+00:00aave's risk advisor tokenlogic was getting paid by kelpdao for treasury management and simultaneously pushed 86% LTV for rsETH as aave collateral. conflict was disclosed. governance passed it anyway with 5-10% voter turnout. spark froze rsETH 3 months before the exploit and grew
· 2026-04-21T13:22:06+00:00The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2101.48, down 0.2% (-4.06) since 4 p.m. ET on Monday. Ten of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: $XLM (+3.3%) and $AAVE (+1.9%). Laggards: $ETH (-0.9%) and $APT (-0.6%).
· 2026-04-21T17:08:17+00:00aave is going to be fine ultimately they can easily raise money to cover the bad debt the lending space will however evolve and become anti fragile
· 2026-04-21T13:27:57+00:00Security must come first. The recent decision of major exchanges to pull out of certain Aave pools following the rsETH incident highlights how quickly risk perception can change. While this is standard risk management on their part, it also demonstrates why @sparkdotfi has
· 2026-04-21T00:10:06+00:00The recent issue between Kelp DAO and LayerZero shows how risky weak setups can be in crypto. A hacker exploited a single verifier system, drained about $290M, and caused panic across DeFi. Funds were moved into Aave, forcing emergency actions and shaking the market. It
· 2026-04-21T17:04:29+00:00NOT JUST TETHER ON ARBITRUM CAN BE FROZEN. BUT ALSO ETHEREUM ITSELF. Arbitrum froze and seized the funds stolen from the KelpDAO exploit that affected AAVE. NOT YOUR PRIVATE KEYS, NOT YOUR COINS. It only works on bitcoin. Not on cRiPtO. After years of telling you, you're finally
· 2026-04-21T02:36:18+00:00AAVE just lost 50% of its TVL in just two months 13.68M ETH to 7.17M ETH
· 2026-04-21T01:09:47+00:00Dear @aave and @kelpdao , How about a more Web3-styled solution? Instead of a permanent haircut, Kelp DAO could issue a "Recovery Token" or "Debt IOUs" to Aave to cover the $123M–$230M gap. Kelp DAO commits a portion of its future staking commission (revenue) to buy back and
· 2026-04-21T04:56:42+00:00MEXC Still Holds $347m USDT Position on Aave v3, Remaining the Largest Known Entity Since 2:23 UTC on April 19, MEXC has been gradually withdrawing funds from Aave in single transactions ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. However, as of 4:00 UTC on
· 2026-04-21T22:11:50+00:00every liquidity strait has its chokepoints introducing Strait of Aave - a real-time v3 radar for every market on every chain util, APYs, and an alert the instant a dry, borrow-enabled reserve reopens straitofaave.xyz
· 2026-04-21T00:54:47+00:00Most exchanges let your trading collateral sit completely idle. @grvt_io flips that. Your deposit earns up to ~11% APY through Aave while staying fully available for trading. You are literally getting paid to hold collateral on a perpdex. And the market is noticing fast.
· 2026-04-21T05:53:18+00:00Dragonfly Partner: Aave Has Enough Capital to Absorb Bad Debt Dragonfly Managing Partner Haseeb stated that DeFi has withstood severe shocks like the 2020 liquidation failures, the Terra collapse, and the 2022 stETH depeg. Through these events, DeFi mechanisms are gradually
· 2026-04-21T04:37:13+00:00. @AAVE Hit Indirectly by @KelpDAO Exploit: A Massive Opening for @Morpho - Morpho Time Is Coming The DeFi space was shaken as KelpDAO got exploited via the rsETH bridge, with losses around $293M. @AAVE wasn’t hacked directly, but it became one of the biggest indirect victims.
· 2026-04-21T15:23:04+00:00People are leaving DeFi for a reason. The @KelpDAO exploit didn't touch Aave smart contracts directly, but it still triggered freezes, bad debt fears, and withdrawals. And on top of that, I don't think ~13% stablecoin APY is bullish tbh. → people pulled money out → borrowing
· 2026-04-21T23:48:02+00:00For now, successfully evacuated from DeFi Tried putting $100 into Aave as a test, and I couldn't actually withdraw it, lol
· 2026-04-21T07:08:12+00:00当时起Restake这个分红拆分盘的盘主，并不是AAVE，而是以太坊基金会 AAVE的角色相当于代投或者社区长，是帮盘主收钱的 现在出事了盘主隐身了，都在骂社区长 如果你是这个社区长，你会怎么做？
· 2026-04-21T08:59:20+00:00Thinking from Aave's and Kelp's perspective on why they were more inclined towards rsETH on Ethereum having the full backing. It's not that they don't care about L2 users but rather it allows all the blame to go to LayerZero (who really fucked up here). Tokens on L2s are minted
· 2026-04-21T00:16:10+00:00wild aave weth is still frozen
· 2026-04-21T13:27:39+00:00Congrats to Aave, arbitrum, LZ and Kelp for this, solving this part of the puzzle makes everything a lot easier and makes it a lot more likely DeFi returns to normal quickly and trust can be rebuilt
· 2026-04-21T03:51:52+00:00按照LZ和Kelp的尿性… aave估计要一家默默承担所有了 话说黑客谈判一点进展没有嘛？！
· 2026-04-21T01:05:54+00:00Heads up because a serious mess is coming. Is the brilliant idea of some Illuminati now that the ETH deposited by users in other L2s within @aave gets used to help cover a debt created by third parties? Are we crazy or what the hell is this? It's like the bank comes and tells
· 2026-04-21T06:42:59+00:00something that happened this morning and a first in defi history. april 18. an attacker found a vulnerability in kelpdao's layerzero bridge. minted 116,500 fake rseth tokens. deposited them as collateral on aave. withdrew real eth. 292 million dollars. the biggest defi attack
· 2026-04-21T01:59:05+00:00While Kelp and LayerZero are still pointing fingers, LlamaRisk dropped the only serious report so far with actual numbers. Now everything depends on which path Kelp takes. If losses are spread across all rsETH holders, Aave faces ~$124M bad debt. Treasury and Umbrella can
· 2026-04-21T05:46:37+00:00Binance will remove the $AAVE/ETH leveraged trading pair and others Binance's reaction speed is still fast; this trading pair must be delisted.
· 2026-04-21T11:38:18+00:00I feel like if @Marczeller were still around he wouldn’t just accept AAVE holding the bag due to the negligence of other parties, but would be strongly advocating for redress through whatever means possible. AAVE holders are victims but it seems like they are being portrayed as
· 2026-04-21T20:46:33+00:00Aave has seen approximately ~$11.7B of net outflows since the rsETH exploit The three days that followed are now the three largest single-day outflows in Aave's history At peak, over $1.95B left the protocol in a single hour on Apr 18 19:00 UTC
· 2026-04-21T08:59:18+00:00The exploit that broke Aave wasn't really about Aave. 23.5 Degrees unpacks the exploit chain reaction today at 1 PM UTC. @ben_solstice and @RyanDay are joined by @WCTNoah ( @WhaleCoinTalk ), @mauricedotxyz ( @solflare ), and @snj_peters ( @Xerberus ). Set your reminder below.
· 2026-04-21T07:12:36+00:00AAVE blows up, L2 blows up, Binance blows up—these three big bombs go off, and basically this cycle hits rock bottom. Pardon SBF, let him out to flex his muscles big time. Swap in CZ and He Yi to take his place, make 'em face the wall and reflect real good. That way, the next
· 2026-04-21T00:49:50+00:00A whale holding AAVE for over a year transferred its 32,415 $AAVE ($3.01 million) to Binance 4 hours ago, incurring a loss of $1.85 million (-38%). This ETH was withdrawn from Binance a year ago at an average price of $150. Selling today at $93 results in a $1.85 million loss.
· 2026-04-21T15:17:40+00:00Folks holding USDe/sUSDe, please take note. Related redemption requests are continuing to accumulate, with a total outflow of nearly 1B over the past three days, accounting for 16% of the original supply. Even worse, Ethena currently has about 280M in stablecoins stuck in AAVE
· 2026-04-21T22:48:03+00:00After the dust settles with the rsETH hack, the question for me is what is the fair value for $AAVE - TVL has fallen significantly, dropping from over $36B in mid-January to under $17B today. - Weekly protocol revenue has plunged 62% before rsETH liquidations temporarily
· 2026-04-21T02:48:07+00:00Kelp DAO shifts blame to LayerZero for $292 million exploit; Aave examines bad debt scenarios
· 2026-04-21T02:04:28+00:00WENDYO is not affected by the rsETH/Aave/LayerZero/KelpDAO incident. Not all routes are fully operational because I’m poor.
· 2026-04-21T04:23:27+00:00ETH Breaking News: Due to the impact of the massive KelpDAO hack, Aave's impaired ETH has been frozen on Ethereum L2 Arbitrum—30,765 ETH, equivalent to 11.13 billion yen. This freezing of the affected ETH was carried out based on information provided by law enforcement agencies.
· 2026-04-21T00:31:19+00:00Look, fact is if we can raise the money ourselves the whole problem goes away: Kelp is made whole, rsETH holders suffer no losses, Aave has no bad debt, umbrella is not slashed, aWeth is unpaused, and crypto is saved. I've got $60. Who's with me?
· 2026-04-21T01:05:29+00:00"DeFi Is Dead" "Congestion" " $AAVE Is Dead"
· 2026-04-21T17:20:23+00:00Aave will be fine
· 2026-04-21T02:20:05+00:00is we getting aave back
· 2026-04-21T16:21:37+00:00Came to Hong Kong for a meeting this morning and missed out on Prime's pool Feels like I lost out on so much In the blink of an eye, it's already been a year since I met Richard I've been holding Huma for a year too In an industry where all sorts of thefts happen, even AAVE has
· 2026-04-21T07:03:34+00:00$6.2 billion left Aave in a single day Not because Aave was hacked Not because the code failed Because people panicked And in DeFi, panic is always rational Because there is no safety net
· 2026-04-21T00:21:29+00:00Whale "0x8Ad" withdrew 18,300 $ETH ($42.18M) from #Binance. Of that, 12,000 $ETH has already been sold to repay a loan on #Aave. The whale still holds 6,315 $ETH ($14.62M) and is likely to sell soon. Address: 0x8Ad459048c798b7435887184D81d7Dd8CF2Ab818
· 2026-04-21T12:42:19+00:00. @ethereum ecosystem looks like more united than what we think. @aave ’s debt should be resolved soon with a lot of white knights.
· 2026-04-21T17:52:46+00:00Sized in hard to aave sub $100 during all the DAO drama these last 2 months. It was high conviction long for me and all was going according to plan and then the Kelp/L0 exploit happened. Still walked away with a profit, but it's very frustrating that a thesis I was optimistic
· 2026-04-21T02:05:21+00:00i knew infinifi is taking due diligence of new protocols it deploys to seriously but even i am impressed how quickly they reacted in both the resolv and kelp hack to remove balance sheet risk of protocols they had already deployed to (aave, morpho etc.) building a lot of trust
· 2026-04-21T17:18:00+00:00【Breaking News】Aave's TVL Drops Over $10 Billion (Approx. 1.6 Trillion Yen) After KelpDAO's $460 Million Fund Outflow Incident
· 2026-04-21T11:54:05+00:00According to the official announcement, OKX will delist the USDT and USDC AAVE (Avalanche network) on-chain Earn products on April 21, 2026. New subscriptions for the related products have been suspended and removed from the product list. Starting from April 21, 2026, users will
· 2026-04-21T14:08:11+00:00Spark Strategy's head of strategy, monetsupplyeth, stated that Aave's recent unfreezing of the Ethereum core WETH market, under the current interest rate model, may provide high-leverage looping opportunities for LST/LRT assets, thereby exacerbating liquidity strain on aWETH. The
· 2026-04-21T01:19:28+00:00Dragonfly Partner: DeFi Learns and Improves Through Repeated Failures, Aave Has Sufficient Capital to Absorb Bad Debts Dragonfly Managing Partner Haseeb stated that DeFi learns from failures—from the Terra collapse, the auction failures on Black Friday in 2020, to the stETH
· 2026-04-21T08:13:57+00:00Arbitrum would be reluctant to return fund to Aave since Aave showed the intention that they prioritize L1 over L2 Arb would want to check opinions from Aave, Kelp, and other chains before they decided through governance
· 2026-04-21T21:46:03+00:00Probably worth noting that Spark themselves pulled ~$285mm from aave and deployed it to their own platform via the spark liquidity layer (see for yourselves: 0x730292ff8c7d854e7d4267d88980dd734d3320b30396026e4aef15a42625d681 ) not to take away from the fact that spark served
· 2026-04-21T06:38:28+00:00This AAVE incident is pretty serious Not only are users facing massive difficulties withdrawing funds, with stablecoin pool utilization nearing 100% (6 billion U stuck and can't be withdrawn for now) If ETH keeps dropping, it'll trigger even more liquidation risks More
· 2026-04-21T08:13:25+00:00Hot take: Risk management should never be outsourced. By outsourcing their risk, Aave is equally at fault here. Why outsource a core competency anyway? You wouldn’t outsource dev work and risk management is the most critical component of a lending platform. With what they
· 2026-04-21T16:47:18+00:00since this happened, defi has lost 15% of it's tvl with aave losing 40% of theirs in the same timeframe how long before things return to normal
· 2026-04-21T13:58:32+00:00Wu Shuo has learned that, according to Blockworks Research data, following the rsETH security incident, major lending protocols such as Aave experienced significant capital outflows. However, Sparklend saw notable capital inflows over the past two days, with net inflow deposits
· 2026-04-21T10:35:55+00:00Very strange things are happening. A stock exchange hinted to hackers who stole money from $aave and kelp dao to launder your money with us.
· 2026-04-21T13:10:47+00:00AAVE's been hacked. Forget about AAVE, I've got something to tell you. I've been saying this for years, but I'll say it again. DeFi is a beautiful invention. But in terms of "reaching the people, being used by the masses," it's got way too much friction. Because
· 2026-04-21T15:52:21+00:00"Are we an industry of clowns?" That’s how Curve founder Michael Egorov summed up DeFi’s latest security crisis after the $292M Kelp DAO fallout. Aave TVL plunged Bad debt fears spread Bridge risk hit the whole stack Security standards now under fire It's been a
· 2026-04-21T14:43:46+00:00Day 3 of waking up without AAVE, LayerZero and Kelp sorting out their shit: nobody wants to own the blast radius, feels like everyone is lawyered up, moving at a pace that is completely tone deaf with the scale of what is currently happening across all of DeFi. Dissapointed.
· 2026-04-21T14:56:11+00:00Recent DeFi market data shows significant divergence: Aave's TVL has been steadily declining Meanwhile, @protocol_fx TVL has surged 50% against the trend Smart money always leans toward the moat of higher-quality, safer assets
· 2026-04-21T10:55:00+00:00Still in this after a bit of a squeeze yesterday and earlier this morning. Hanging on, no changes. $AAVE
· 2026-04-21T05:52:22+00:00LATEST: Arbitrum freezes 30,766 $ETH worth $71 million linked to suspected AAVE and KelpDAO North Korean exploit.
· 2026-04-21T12:20:14+00:00No more buying me followers from now on Got criticized by DeFi believers and value investors But bro, I get your anger After all, your AAVE went from 386 down to 90 Every day, just like the Manchu bannermen propping up the Qing dynasty Waking up and dying to kowtow to
· 2026-04-21T04:13:42+00:00All major core markets on @aave have now reached 100% utilization, meaning users can barely withdraw their funds. According to the latest data: > USDT Core Market: Reserve size $3.03B, but available liquidity is only $4,762 → 100% utilization > USDC Core Market: Reserve size
· 2026-04-21T18:21:34+00:00The @aave situation isn't good. LSTs & LRTs have always had a massive liquidity issue, it just hasn't been tested. To make matters, @Balancer was hacked in November which is where many of these staked ETH derivatives held their liquidity. Painful unwind is incoming.
· 2026-04-21T13:49:49+00:00also these spark people are talking about risk this risk that aave this aave why cant they just say "outside of mainnet all other deployments are effectively deployment fee/incentive farms" isnt that the message anyways
· 2026-04-21T00:36:08+00:00Losses should be socialized across anyone who tweeted “just use aave”
· 2026-04-21T15:31:09+00:00Let’s break down what just happened to $AAVE. What went wrong what held up and what matters next Post-mortem time.
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· 2026-04-21T11:50:03+00:00As much as I agree with the fact that Aave has some responsibility in what is happening, people from Sky are in no capacity to give them lessons on risk But I guess it’s good business as Spark got a 25% bump in its TVL because of this
· 2026-04-21T09:15:23+00:00THE HACK ON AAVE AND KELP DAO MIGHT BE THE END OF DEFI AS WE KNOW IT THIS HAS JUST EXPOSED A VERY SIGNIFICANT IN THE WAY A MAJORITY OF THE DEFI PLATFORMS OPERATE
· 2026-04-21T18:43:56+00:00I find it wild that opportunists and pseudo-intellectuals are spending all of their time blaming kelp, lz, and aave, instead of blaming the actual perpetrators: North Korea you guys are getting psyop'ed by Kim
· 2026-04-21T11:04:58+00:00Whale Accumulation Amid the Storm: Is AAVE's Panic Bottom Already In? “Historically, this is precisely when the smart money has acted. The pattern doesn't guarantee a bottom, but it demands attention.” – By @MorenoDV_
· 2026-04-21T05:17:25+00:00#Breaking: Arbitrum freezes 30,766 ETH coins worth 71 million dollars, linked to a suspected exploit carried out by North Korean entities against AAVE and KelpDAO. #ETH
· 2026-04-21T13:11:30+00:00Welcome to our live show! ► Arbitrum Gets $70M of the hacked funds back ► Yields are very high ► What's safe to lend to, what isn't ► The aavethena loops, are they okay? ► And so much more Join us now:
· 2026-04-21T09:50:08+00:00Unwinding AavEthena Loops during a storm tl;dr • No TAU vaults had exposure to rsETH • No user funds were at risk at any time • Increase in the USDe borrow rate turned looping APY negative • We adjusted entry and exit fees to account for the higher slippage for sUSDe swaps
· 2026-04-21T12:42:11+00:00The coins saw outflows from Binance are $ENJ, $AMP, $COMP, $FET, $BTC, $LINK, and $SLP. Outflows from exchanges are a bullish signal. On the other hand, $MATIC, $JASMY, $AAVE, $CHZ, and $SAND saw more inflows.
· 2026-04-21T00:37:01+00:00Actually think there could be a lot more contagion that we don’t know about yet If AAVE WETH gets slashed it could get very ugly for those that thought this was the safest place in defi for their ETH
· 2026-04-21T11:48:30+00:00USDe lending rates on aave core down to 4% Liquid leveragoors (long usde+susde / short usdt) in heavy negative apy territory Aggressive USDT repays from unwinding whales Mexc still pulling their USDT from aave, maybe if they are done we can see some relieve in USDT rates
· 2026-04-21T11:40:03+00:00I would have handled things very differently but I’m no longer management in aave in any capacity. Stani wanted full control, he has it but it comes with all weight of outcomes.
· 2026-04-21T19:08:24+00:00Still no solution for @aave . Time feels long really. Come on @LayerZero_Core @KelpDAO @aave . Find a common ground
· 2026-04-21T16:36:00+00:00aave USDC pays 15% APY what’s going on
· 2026-04-21T11:33:58+00:00The Morning Minute (4.21) Powered by @yeet Top News: -Crypto majors continue grind up, led by Bitcoin; BTC +2% at $76,720 -Saylor buys $2.54B in BTC, 3rd biggest buy ever; 85% powered by STRC -AAVE publishes full incident report; losses range $120M-$230M -Curve founder
· 2026-04-21T03:13:20+00:00If your stake on a protocol you trust got slashed to cover a hack on a different protocol you've never used, would you still stake? that's the live debate at @aave right now. full thread below.
· 2026-04-21T08:00:17+00:00DeFi capital has pulled back hard… TVL went from ~$90B in Oct 2025 to under ~$50B now That’s a big drop But when I look underneath it’s not dead • ~$41.5B still in lending • ~$31.8M weekly fees • ~$3.7M revenue And $AAVE still leading with ~$6B TVL So capital left but
· 2026-04-21T16:12:13+00:00While $AAVE is dying, you have the best yields here
· 2026-04-21T06:12:23+00:00INSIDER NEWS $AAVE team will announce this week that they sold and will sell more $AAVE to cover last week hack.
· 2026-04-21T06:14:28+00:00Remember WazirX 2024? $230M hacked 2000 crore wiped out Entire CT demanding justice Fast forward to 2026: Kelp → $AAVE chaos $293M gone $6B TVL vanished overnight And suddenly… silence? Crypto memory is shorter than ever Are WazirX victims still waiting… or has
· 2026-04-21T13:38:22+00:00One the one hand glad to see spark get the attention and Liquidity it deserves On the other hand maybe @MonetSupply doesn’t need to be openly sharing profitable trading strategies that directly harm Sparks competitor Aave
· 2026-04-21T17:44:03+00:00I feel bad for @Aave honestly. The exploit did not start on Aave. And they still got stuck with ~$195M in bad debt because rsETH broke before it reached them. That is the ugly part of DeFi. You can have clean contracts, solid audits, good risk controls, and still get hit
· 2026-04-21T08:22:20+00:00Custom Aave Rebalancer (sAVAX leverage) - Loss ~$65.4K (2026-04-17) Type: Arbitrary External Call / Credit Delegation Abuse A user-owned "sAVAX rebalancer" held MAX borrow-delegation of WAVAX from the victim EOA on Aave V3. The rebalancer's public function b2a13230(amount,
· 2026-04-21T17:14:44+00:00Bitcoin maxis screaming "ETH can rollback" over the Aave/Arbitrum drama Meanwhile.. Gemini: $BTC has done it two major times to fix critical failures.
· 2026-04-21T00:11:01+00:00AAVE Position Statement Released - L2 rsETH Holders Solely Bear Loss or Everyone Shares the Loss How much loss must the WETH deposited in AAVE bear?? AAVE has posted an article including analysis of this incident + future resolution plans, etc. AAVE Llama Risk Governance
· 2026-04-21T07:50:13+00:00People are choosing @sparkdotfi While Aave lost 7.52% in TVL last 24h and in a bad debt, Spark gained +8.52% Why? Spark is the decentralized lending arm of @SkyEcosystem (formerly MakerDAO). It has quickly become a top-10 DeFi protocol with ~$4.4B TVL. ➊ Sky Eco Moat Spark
· 2026-04-21T19:09:50+00:00Spark TVL is up by ~$1B in past 2 days, biggest gainer from Kelp hack. After Aave, Morpho is the biggest loser in terms of USD flows.
· 2026-04-21T00:30:43+00:00The recent KelpDAO/LayerZero/AAVE hack drains liquidity from crypto and undermines trust. That likely weighs on crypto in the short term. Positioning more defensively here probably makes sense.
· 2026-04-21T07:11:02+00:00Aave is down 19%. Exploit of US$292 million triggered a liquidity crisis. Here's what happened: Someone found a bug in Kelp protocol, a liquid restaking platform. Liquid restaking differs from traditional staking like this: If you stake your tokens, say ETH, you get another
· 2026-04-21T23:12:44+00:00If Aave doesn't work, then Spark, or something like that...
· 2026-04-21T02:30:00+00:00USDT borrow rates on AAVE just violently spiked from 3% to 14% — the highest stress level since December 2024 This kind of algorithmic interest rate explosion creates a highly fragile hyper-leveraged environment — consequences of recent incident at AAVE
· 2026-04-21T01:18:20+00:00KelpDAO Hacked The DeFi hit hardest is Aave The peanut gallery Spark actually benefited Only deposited 174 million, Brother Sun, step it up a notch $SPK If it doubles again, I'll break even
· 2026-04-21T08:01:01+00:00AAVE price drops 26% after $292M Kelp DAO hack; $9B in net outflows reported.
· 2026-04-21T06:11:06+00:00Top Trending Coins (Today) 1. RAVE 2. AAVE 3. ASTEROID 4. PENGU 5. ZRO 6. MON 7. WOJAK 8. BTC 9. GUN 10. TAO 11. ETH 12. VVV 13. SPK 14. XRP 15. WLD
· 2026-04-21T04:14:24+00:00Frozen Ethereum from AAVE Leak While the centralization of L2 will likely face criticism, isn't it fine to use it as a lesson for next time? Conclusion first, you know.
· 2026-04-21T06:11:07+00:00After the last update from @aave I can tell #AAVE is fine until now At least it's not a team problem What is next @aave x.com/i/status/20463 …
· 2026-04-21T06:58:32+00:00We removed those loops from aave tvl some time ago already
· 2026-04-21T10:35:08+00:00I'm rooting for big players success: Pudgy, BAYC, Punk, Birbs, AAVE, etc We need winners to be able to onboard people to use our fancy techs That's how you make it go mainstream: by having winners!
· 2026-04-21T09:30:39+00:00Giga Bullish Altseason Watchlist – April 2026 Edition $SOL $AVAX $LINK $ONDO $NEAR $WLD $IMX $GALA $CORE $SUPRA $MNT $PI $DEFI $PENGU $PROPC $SUI $RENDER $TAO $ETH $BNB $XRP $ADA $DOT $ARB $OP $INJ $PEPE $SHIB $TON $APT $SEI $FET $AAVE $UNI $MKR $HYPE $ZRO $JUP The crypto
· 2026-04-21T07:08:48+00:00Top 7-day drops: * @Aave −$7.7B (−30.5%) * @SentoraHQ -$786M (−40.0%) * @MapleFinance −$289M (−16.1%) * @EulerFinance −$230M (−44.1%) Total outflow: $10B+ in 7 days.
· 2026-04-21T12:33:17+00:00Today’s market news: • Crypto majors continue grind up, led by Bitcoin; BTC +2% at $76,480 • Saylor buys $2.54B in BTC, 3rd biggest buy ever; 85% powered by STRC • AAVE publishes full incident report; losses range $120M-$230M • Curve founder pushes for shared security
· 2026-04-21T10:21:58+00:00Aave's Billions in Funds in Wild Exodus Turning Around to Pile Into Spark in a Frenzy Is the Veteran Leader DeFi Finally About to Step Down from Its Pedestal? Is It That the Old Platform's Dividends Have Completely Peaked, Or Is the New Track the Real Wealth Opportunity
· 2026-04-21T00:51:04+00:00#aave Without the determination to backstop users, when problems arise, it gives people a sense of "storm clouds gathering, winds howling through every building"! Opening a bank like this, leaving people with zero sense of security—it's basically ruined! Without the
· 2026-04-21T19:00:59+00:00NOT JUST TETHER ON ARBITRUM CAN BE FROZEN. BUT ALSO ETHEREUM ITSELF. Arbitrum froze and seized the funds stolen from the KelpDAO exploit that affected AAVE. NOT YOUR PRIVATE KEYS, NOT YOUR COINS. It only works on bitcoin. Not on cRiPtO. After years of telling you, you're finally x.com/arbitrum/statu…
· 2026-04-21T20:53:02+00:00Btw, this purely personal view that I’m sharing in the spirit of open discussion and debate in DeFi to strengthen the ecosystem. Pls let me know if I’m incorrect in my analysis or want to discuss. Aave and other lending protocols work as intended. In this case, it’s not a run as
· 2026-04-21T01:57:33+00:00To all the people asking us about Aave - it will be covered in depth tomorrow on DeFi Education For now I will simply leave you with this: Owl’s Mansion Indicator remains undefeated
· 2026-04-21T04:03:30+00:00great to see multiple partners together to support aave users and global defi. @0xfluid @LidoFinance @ether_fi @1inch @0xProject @KyberNetwork
· 2026-04-21T17:33:52+00:00You’re about to find out how many protocols are basically just Aave wrappers with extra steps.
· 2026-04-21T13:20:10+00:00aave is known to be the most trusted defi protocol but rsETH got exploited and investors funds were in danger given this incident, investors will second guess their decision to deploy funds on any defi protocol i am curious, what could possibly make people trust defi again ?
· 2026-04-21T15:19:09+00:00KelpDAO Attack Could Lead to Over $300 Million in Aave Bad Debt, MicroStrategy Holdings Surpass IBIT to Become World's Largest Bitcoin Holder - 0421 Crypto Research Weekly Report Key Events This Week DeFi Chain Reaction Explosions! Drift Incident Losses $200 Million, KelpDAO
· 2026-04-21T08:10:11+00:00AAVE - Keplr - Layerzero Two giants involved with a 290M$ hole Is this the bottom for DeFi?
· 2026-04-21T12:03:16+00:00O cara que se intitula "Research Crypto" e dizia que AAVE era seguro agora:
· 2026-04-21T16:16:02+00:00Revised 4/21 The path forward is still generally what I've outlined in the prior tweet... "Aave" liquidates/takes over the positions with bad debt with loaned funds so they can get the protocol operational again. KelpDAO should work towards winding down the protocol and
· 2026-04-21T01:01:38+00:00yeah, reactively at least Arbitrum DAO moved $15M out of Aave (10M ETH, 5M stables) into Morpho after Kelp Stake DAO and Avant both cut their frxUSD vault exposure too
· 2026-04-21T09:01:11+00:00The $293M DEFI Hack That Left $5 Billion Frozen On AAVE WATCH NOW youtu.be/14FhcpKo-WM
· 2026-04-21T11:58:50+00:00I really feel for the @aave team here because even though they own responsibility in what’s ultimately affecting their users having onboarded rsETH, it all starts with L0 (and Kelp). L0 is a major infra provider, like an electric utility company for DeFi. I have empathy too for
· 2026-04-21T08:57:16+00:00What Happened Last Week in DeFi? KelpDAO Exploit Key Summary: - KelpDAO rsETH exploit drains $292M via bridge flaw - Aave faces ~$177M bad debt exposure - $5.4B exits Aave as utilization spikes - 20+ protocols pause LayerZero bridges - YO pauses yoETH vault over exposure
· 2026-04-21T06:51:09+00:00$AAVE has $284m in revenue and $2.1B in fees collected but can't save itself. TVL on Aave should continue to drop.
· 2026-04-21T16:03:16+00:00Selected as Ambassador for @proofoftalk 2026 Louvre Palace, Paris. June 2-3. 2,500 attendees : capped, curated. Who's in the room: ➫ Jenny Johnson (CEO, Franklin Templeton) ➫ Stani Kulechov (Founder, Aave) ➫ Tom Zschach (CIO, Swift) ➫ Carlos Domingo (CEO, Securitize) ➫
· 2026-04-21T09:02:45+00:00Arbitrum Security Council has saved $70M ETH for Aave ETH depositors instead of getting stolen by DPRK. To reiterate, security council is a decentralized 12-member committee elected by the Arbitrum DAO. You can debate the level of decentralization but there is always a tradeoff
· 2026-04-21T06:26:00+00:00First step in getting the DeFi contagion getting cleaned up Aave ETH deposits have resumed
· 2026-04-21T00:22:04+00:00if you told someone eth would be up 1.5% with couple hundred million of bad debt on aave and frozen a month ago they’d think your insane
· 2026-04-21T04:24:39+00:00JUST IN: Arbitrum freezes 30,766 $ETH (~$71M) tied to a suspected exploit involving Aave and KelpDAO
· 2026-04-21T08:34:04+00:00Michael Egorov, the founder of Curve, has called for industry wide DeFi security standards. He emphasized the need to address recent preventable hacks caused by centralized points of failure. Incidents involving Aave and rsETH were cited as examples. Egorov suggested that
· 2026-04-21T07:06:03+00:00A Whale Withdraws 18,300 ETH from Binance and Sells 12,000 ETH - Sold 12,000 ETH to Repay Aave Loan - Currently Holding 6,315 ETH ($14.62M)
· 2026-04-21T16:29:24+00:00Welcome to Absolute Decentralization $ARB | $AAVE
· 2026-04-21T07:58:09+00:00As a long-time critic of endogenous collateral, I fully agree with you that its bad. But last I checked Aave also supports AAVE as collateral, with cap sitting >10% of total supply. Maybe work on fixing what you can control first.
· 2026-04-21T06:57:12+00:00DeFi this cycle is actually pretty interesting. Looking back at the 1.0 phase, the core was just one thing: lowering the barrier to entry. Uniswap, Aave, Compound let regular people trade and borrow without KYC, GMX let retail folks play with leverage too, and with liquidity
· 2026-04-21T00:06:51+00:00ETH Daily Brief: KelpDAO and LayerZero exploit, Aave markets freeze, Fluid aWETH redemptions.
· 2026-04-21T02:23:38+00:00Regarding the Kelp DAO incident, both @KelpDAO and @LayerZero_Core bear responsibility, while Aave is essentially the scapegoat. 1. Kelp DAO claims that this attacked single-validator (1/1) configuration was the default setup from LayerZero's official guide, not their own
· 2026-04-21T18:48:49+00:00kelp bridge exploit aftermath and dvn configs $292m gone, half of layerzero using the same 1-of-1 setup that got rekt. aave lost $8b tvl in 48 hours, protocols still freezing bridges security infrastructure matters more than narrative right now
· 2026-04-21T05:34:18+00:00rate volatility on aave been messing with planning lately, borrow cost flips before you even adjust position fixed-rate just hits different when you can lock terms until maturity and actually model your pnl been testing @TermMaxFi , marketplace sets the rate upfront so no
· 2026-04-21T08:05:26+00:00absolute chaos unfolded on Aave, @aave , the leading DeFi lending protocol, way 3 days back faced a major incident involving the rsETH asset that led to market freezes &potential bad debt exposure on april 18 at 17:35 utc an attacker forged a layerzero packet across kelps
· 2026-04-21T02:00:03+00:00The Market Prophit Top 50 The Cryptos that have the largest social awareness and their sentiment. Updates every day at 9:00 p.m. EST. Go to marketprophit.com/#top50 and check it out. $X $BTC $RAVE $AAVE
· 2026-04-21T01:13:24+00:00- **Step 1: The hacker first steals money from Aave (hack completed).** Thanks to the bridge error in Kelp DAO, they mint fake rsETH tokens. They deposit these into Aave and in return borrow **real ETH** (worth about 300 million dollars). So, they end up with clean, real
· 2026-04-21T15:32:59+00:00POV me while thinking about how $292 of rsETH was released from KelpDao which led to a $6.6B drain from Aave: Short version of what happened: 1. Kelp's bridge used LayerZero. LayerZero's default config is a 1-of-1 DVN setup, meaning a single verifier signs off on a cross-chain
· 2026-04-21T21:28:24+00:00#Arbitrum recovered 70.9M$ of the more than 200M$ "stolen" from #AAVE after being minted without backing on the #Kelpdao bridge. Is it really positive and/or negative?
· 2026-04-21T11:53:55+00:00This isn't panic selling. Aave's WETH pool hit 100% utilization — depositors couldn't exit normally. Euler lost 44% because the attacker opened positions before the freeze. Bridge protocols took the biggest % hits — the market is repricing DVN config risk across the board.
· 2026-04-21T04:00:21+00:00With this, if kelp cries, AAVE's non-performing loans will be pretty much saved, right?
· 2026-04-21T14:55:10.187089+00:00A Key Figure in the DeFi Sector Issues a Critical Call to Ethereum and Solana! “Get Involved!” The DeFi sector is experiencing one of its worst periods since the 2022 crash, most recently with the KelpDAO attack resulting in losses of $290 million. While the KelpDAO attack has shaken t
· 2026-04-21T10:09:15+00:00𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗿'𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗺𝗮 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗙𝗶 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆. $230M in bad debt, unresolved. Aave's Collector holds over $200M in liquid assets. LayerZero Labs has raised $300M+ at a $3B valuation, backed by a16z, Sequoia, and Tether. Both
· 2026-04-21T04:24:26+00:00If $AAVE go down because exploit Exploiters exploited makes $AAVE go up? Let’s see
· 2026-04-21T12:38:25+00:00You were all wrong. That’s why TVL left Aave.
· 2026-04-21T06:26:32+00:00Key Updates You Need to Know $BTC #BTC $PROS $POLY $OPG $ETH #ETH $PIEVERSE $INJ $AAVE $RAVE
· 2026-04-21T17:58:48+00:0016% APY for staking $USDC on Aave. show me safest earning return on this bear market.
· 2026-04-21T16:08:35+00:00Just checked my defi positions on AAVE
· 2026-04-21T07:02:28+00:00rsETH exploit was a live stress test for every DeFi lending protocol. $292M drained, Aave's ETH market frozen, $200M in bad debt left to absorb. Maple on the other hand had zero exposure to this and is completely operational @maplefinance operates as an institutional credit
· 2026-04-21T13:08:51+00:00I still find it hard to believe that approx $300M of value was placed in the hands of DAO with a 1-of-1 DVN and arguably worse still, AAVE governance were aware of this and still decided to onboard/extend rsETH. Governance clearly isn't enough. One would hope anyone choosing to
· 2026-04-21T11:38:23+00:00next time maybe they will demand larger compensation (current is ~2.5% APY) to become the Junior Tranche (first to eat bad debt) This is precisely why my fund didn't deposit into the Aave Umbrella module The Risk:Reward was quantifiably unfavorable, it was that simple.
· 2026-04-21T01:44:38+00:00KelpDAO rsETH exploited for $292M, affecting Aave and Compound Find the full details, latest updates, and solutions on today's letter:
· 2026-04-21T03:03:21+00:00Bad Debts, Bad Debts... - What u gonna do? What u gonna do when we coming for u Meanwhile, over $10B was withdrawn from $AAVE protocol
· 2026-04-21T16:33:10+00:0031 protocol ratings on xerberus. and look who's at the very bottom... spending the night disputing the subscores and gates to ensure there are no mistakes. with the recent srETH , Kelp and AAVE drama, i think this could be an interesting rating to check for many.... if you
· 2026-04-21T00:51:59+00:00Aave just wiped out $8.45B in TVL within 48 hours — accounting for most of the $13.2B drop across DeFi. Liquidity is leaving faster than expected. Without a strong catalyst, a broader panic sell and #DeFi bank run isn’t off the table. In a weak market, anything can happen.
· 2026-04-21T01:59:54+00:00Capital efficiency isn’t just leverage, it’s about managing risk variables. Rate volatility on protocols like Aave often triggers unnecessary liquidations. Fixed-rate borrowing on @TermMaxFi removes that layer of uncertainty. I’m farming RWA Season — lending SPYon, borrowing
· 2026-04-21T08:13:43+00:00As the second quarter of 2026 begins, DeFi has already lost over $16 billion. @KelpDAO was just drained of $294 million, and @aave has also suffered losses. Don’t talk about “normal fluctuations”; this is structural. Hackers’ groups have turned DeFi into a cash dispenser,
· 2026-04-21T07:38:20+00:00ETH → stETH → rsETH → Aave → Each layer added yield and risk both.
· 2026-04-21T07:10:00+00:00JUST IN: Arbitrum freezes 30,766 $ETH worth $71M linked to suspected AAVE and KelpDAO North Korean exploit.
· 2026-04-21T03:54:08+00:00Relying on L0 is impossible, relying on AAVE is even more impossible, relying on Circle is also impossible, relying on the ETH Foundation—forget about it. In the end, it's still Arbitrum's Security Council that's reliable. Back then, the biggest airdrop was also from Arb. By the
· 2026-04-21T05:19:14+00:00gQuip Very unlikely we see crypto being pushed mainstream with the constant news of hacks and exploits In just the first 4 months of 2026, we’ve seen exploits of multiple Dapps and Defi protocols including AAVE. To move forward there needs to be better security infrastructure
· 2026-04-21T07:38:21+00:00What users were doing: • Staking $ETH via $Lido • Restaking via EigenLayer • Using KelpDAO for liquid restaking • Looping on Aave for extra yield Everything worked… until it didn’t.
· 2026-04-21T13:40:04+00:00The DeFi market has suffered significant losses, exceeding $600M. Even the most trusted and reliable DeFi protocols, Aave, was affected due to its exposure to the root class of an exploited token on KelpDAO. It’s important to note that no protocol is completely risk free but
· 2026-04-21T06:25:12.227083+00:00Kelp DAO Hack Update: LayerZero and Kelp Trade Blame LayerZero said the attack involved compromised RPC nodes and criticized Kelp DAO’s 1-of-1 DVN setup as a single point of failure. Kelp responded that the configuration was LayerZero’s documen
· 2026-04-21T07:15:06.957920+00:00Billionaire Justin Sun officially announces Tron as most decentralized Tron founder Justin Sun said on Monday night that Tron is the most decentralized blockchain in the world. “Ok. I’m officially announcing: the most decentralized blockchain in the world is Tro
· 2026-04-21T01:22:54+00:00the kelpDAO hack and resulting bad debt aave situation just reminded me of how 3 years ago people were voicing concerns around eigenlayer and the systemic risk introduced by restaking i guess we can at least be thankful this is the worst that happened?
· 2026-04-21T14:29:37+00:0080% of @aave WETH first-loss capital was already in the 20-day exit cooldown BEFORE the hack If the KelpDAO exploit had hit 21 days later, Aave primary safety buffer for its largest asset reserve would have been structurally empty. The hack arrived inside the window where the
· 2026-04-21T01:41:35+00:00Most DeFi lending platforms (like Aave, Compound, and the like) pool user assets into one big fund, so users actually have no clear idea where their yields specifically come from or what the underlying collateral is. TermMax's selling point: They use an "independent market"
· 2026-04-21T12:52:36+00:00DeFi just got hit harder than most people realize KelpDAO got drained for $290M Aave lost nearly $10B in TVL overnight AAVE token down 18% Arbitrum had to freeze $71M in ETH And the hackers? Already laundering across chains North Korea is eating DeFi alive and this is the
· 2026-04-21T01:56:25+00:00Variable borrow rates are the main reason leveraged strategies break over time. Locking a fixed rate until maturity gives you actual control over PnL. @TermMaxFi does this via a marketplace where rates are set upfront, not floating like Aave. I’ve been using one-click looping
· 2026-04-21T12:35:04+00:00This, This was AAVE’ primary job. To protect its users from systemic risk from ANY assets onboarded to AAVE. Looks like Arbitrum has saved them from insolvency, but it is going to be a very long road to rebuild trust. In comparison, Sky is looking prescient here.
· 2026-04-21T18:34:18+00:00Big one from this weekend. @KelpDAO exploited for $292M via a @LayerZero_Core bridge vulnerability. Lazarus Group linked. $15B left DeFi in 48h, @aave facing up to $230M in losses From the institutional marketing side: the TVL damage is real, but the LP relationship damage
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· 2026-04-21T09:14:55+00:00Does @LineaBuild has anytying to say regarding the @aave bad debt on the L2 caused by @KelpDAO and @LayerZero_Fndn incident?
· 2026-04-21T11:05:51+00:00In today's @Unchained_pod Daily newsletter: Aave faces up to $230M in bad debt — and its treasury barely covers it Kelp says LayerZero's own systems caused the $290M disaster Arbitrum froze $71M of the stolen funds in a rare emergency action Read today’s must-know
· 2026-04-21T11:57:12+00:00I really feel for the @aave team here because even though they own responsibility in what’s ultimately affecting their users having onboarded rsETH, it all starts with L0 (and Kelp). L0 is a major infra provider, like an electric utility company for DeFi. I have empathy too for
· 2026-04-21T14:28:50+00:00JUST IN: 350,000 AAVE were sent to exchanges in a single day after the Kelp DAO hack.
· 2026-04-21T23:21:22+00:00Aave labs built aave v3
· 2026-04-21T09:51:39+00:00CEX Net Inflows in the past 24 hours: #UNI : $2,657,237 #AAVE : $2,098,719 #COMP : $717,484 #DENT : $671,743 #GRT : $631,003 #HFT : $445,727 #SAND : $439,604 #LDO : $433,791 #BAT : $408,823 #AUCTION : $389,718
· 2026-04-21T02:16:16+00:00huma 有东西啊 aave 事情人人自危 huma额度还抢那么快
· 2026-04-21T15:19:16+00:00$290 Million DeFi Disaster @kelpdao / @aave / @LayerZero_Core DeFi's Darkest Hour: What Is the Ultimate Solution?
· 2026-04-21T04:11:03+00:00Arbitrum has blocked 30,766 ETH connected to suspected North Korean hackers involved in the Aave and KelpDAO hacks.
· 2026-04-21T15:54:27+00:00Well said! Originally, most L2s only have one sequencer anyway. Actually, recovering some funds and preventing some crypto funds from flowing out is clearly a good thing! I don't even have money in AAVE or on-chain, but I'm still hoping to get it back, preferably all of it.
· 2026-04-21T05:58:03+00:00Yeah, I feel the same—AAVE might kick off a proposal to use the treasury or protocol revenue to cover some of the losses. Feels rough for Umbrella stakers, but at least letting deposit users withdraw would be something. Those two are still over there bickering about whose fault
· 2026-04-21T07:17:36+00:00Now comes the tricky part (& which is why I say to get lawyers involved early) is asset distribution. Do the hacked funds go to the victim (asset issuer) or the secondary victims (AAVE)? Mind says it goes to asset issuer & reduces socialised losses for every1 (prev at 18%)
· 2026-04-21T03:17:37+00:00我也是这五个徽章 还是看MP 有多少份额吧 现在行情感觉又要不行了 特别是 aave
· 2026-04-21T03:18:48+00:00是的 鸡蛋不能放一个篮子 谁能想到龙一aave 会出这么大的事情 哎 太难了 希望能解决
· 2026-04-21T16:57:12+00:00We asked SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce about the KelpDAO exploit, spillover effects on $AAVE, and what it all means for regulating DeFi: "It sometimes can be tempting for us to be very prescriptive but... "
· 2026-04-21T03:42:32+00:00Aave got hacked on the bridge, Nasun guards the territory (L1) @Nasun_io 1/4 The information gap is the profit gap, the Pado app is the answer Did you see today's Nasun Pado app? The answer lies within the carefully selected articles pouring in, 20 a day. Adding
· 2026-04-21T11:27:04+00:00Now do you understand what I mean? You think your cold or hot crypto wallets can save you. But even multi-million dollar companies like AAVE and KelpDao experience exploits and hacks. And you think your system is flawless. In their case, Arbitrum did freeze those $71 million.
· 2026-04-21T06:49:21+00:00Actually, AAVE is taking the blame, the real issue is kelp and L0
· 2026-04-21T02:25:40+00:00不知道aave的危机能不能解决，不然爆大雷了我去
· 2026-04-21T01:06:01+00:00just use aave
· 2026-04-21T20:03:39+00:00The vector matters. LayerZero allowed sending a "mint" message to the destination chain WITHOUT the corresponding burn on the origin. 116,500 rsETH appeared out of nowhere. They were sold in the deepest pool: Aave.
· 2026-04-21T07:00:26+00:00Users pulled roughly $6.2 billion from Aave, causing its TVL to drop from $26.4 billion to nearly $20 billion. @aave Full Details: bitpinas.com/go/aave-kelpdao
· 2026-04-21T22:11:36+00:00just wanted to underline this can be used by any Aave user we support EOA positions, Safe positions, dsproxy positions, summerfi proxy positions, and Instadapp/Fluid DSA positions, too p.s. both @defi_milos and me are available for assistance wherever needed
· 2026-04-21T07:17:36+00:00Restoring the peg, maximizing repayment & processing liquidations became priority number 1 for everyone. A 172M dollar hole can be covered by the rest of industry. What AAVE need to do is disable zap features & withdrawals, allow for collateral deposit & repayment of debt only.
· 2026-04-21T05:22:08+00:00มัวแต่โทษตัวเอง แล้วเมื่อไรคนอื่นจะผิด วันก่อน @KelpDAO โดนแฮ็คไป ~116,500 rsETH ผ่าน LayerZero Bridge เสียหาย ~$292m ลาม Aave เสี่ยง Bad Debt ถึง $230m มหกรรมการโยนขี้แห่งชาติ @LayerZero_Core โทษ Kelp ว่าเลือกใช้ DVN แบบ 1-of-1 (Validator เดียวอนุมัติการ Cross-chain
· 2026-04-21T03:23:25+00:00AAVE的处理方式再次证明远离Defi： 方案一：rsETH全链均匀分担 112,204个无支持rsETH在全链（主网+所有L2）均匀稀释，rsETH整体贬值15.12%。Aave产生坏账约1.237亿美元，所有rsETH持有者公平承担损失 方案二：让L2链一起承担 仅L2
· 2026-04-21T21:48:08+00:00Aave, Arbitrum, et al developed centralized apps because they knew they'd break. They didn't trust their own work (rightfully so). Despite this, they asked the world to entrust hundreds of billions in value to their apps. They never properly disclosed all risks. Not once.
· 2026-04-21T08:31:03+00:00Following @KelpDAO exploit, @aave is facing up to a $300M bad debt hole. Importantly, aave itself wasn't hacked or compromised, but the incident triggered a massive liquidity outflow. As a result, yields have spiked in some interfaces to as high as 13%, levels we haven’t seen
· 2026-04-21T11:45:02.988055+00:00Exclusive: 1inch co-founder has blunt advice for Aave users The crypto industry faced the largest shock of 2026 last weekend when the Kelp protocol got hacked for approximately $293 million on Apr. 18. The hackers then used the stolen funds as collate
· 2026-04-21T11:45:02.988077+00:00Aave Outlines 2 Bad Debt Scenarios Linked to Kelp DAO Hack A fresh incident report has pushed one of DeFi’s biggest lenders back into the spotlight after a bridge exploit tied to Kelp DAO left markets trying to price risk in real time. The stolen rsE
· 2026-04-21T11:55:05.552946+00:00Arbitrum locks $71M in ETH linked to Kelp DAO exploit Arbitrum has moved to lock down a large portion of funds tied to the Kelp DAO exploit, stepping in as the fallout from the cross-chain breach continues to spread. Summary Arbitrum’s Security
· 2026-04-21T19:25:10.253689+00:00Aave’s WETH unfreeze hands leverage to whales and illiquidity to everyone else Spark’s MonetSupply says Aave’s decision to unfreeze its Core WETH market lets LST/LRT whales farm ~45% weETH loops while aEthWETH sits at 100% utilization, trapping regular users. Summary Sp
· 2026-04-21T12:52:41+00:00Aave is built for risk management. Protecting users is the core.
· 2026-04-21T13:05:03.726098+00:00Whales Circle AAVE Amid Chaos: Is This Another Market Bottom Signal? AAVE is undergoing one of its most volatile periods in recent history following the April 18 exploit of KelpDAO’s rsETH bridge. Attackers used the stolen assets as collateral on Aave V3, borr
· 2026-04-21T14:15:09.239016+00:00AAVE Is Still Standing After Major Exploit, But Something Important Is Already Gone AAVE price dropped more than 23% between Friday and Monday. The decline came after a series of events that have tested the protocol from multiple directions at once. Aave still runs, transact
· 2026-04-21T16:55:09.025238+00:00Aave users withdraw $6.6B as USDT and USDC pools freeze One of the largest decentralized lending protocols, Aave, has been gripped by panic as users find themselves unable to withdraw billions of dollars in crypto assets after liquidity in all maj
· 2026-04-21T18:34:06.563701+00:00Aave Under Strain as KelpDAO Exploit Disrupts DeFi Lending Markets KelpDAO exploit moved 116,500 rsETH, enabling over $200M in ETH borrowing on Aave. Liquidity dropped as users withdrew funds and stablecoin supply caps were reached. Recovery plans may split
· 2026-04-21T02:35:24.866949+00:00Crypto Whale Triggers Major 12,000 ETH Sale to Settle Aave Debt, Sparking Market Analysis BitcoinWorld Crypto Whale Triggers Major 12,000 ETH Sale to Settle Aave Debt, Sparking Market Analysis A significant cryptocurrency transaction has captured market attention as an anonymous w
· 2026-04-21T11:45:02.988071+00:00Aave At $93: Why DeFi Lending Is Back As Ethereum Recovers Aave (AAVE) is trading near $93 on 21 April 2026, with a market cap of $1.41B and $615M in daily trading volume. The token appeared in the CoinGecko trending list this morning. Its volume-to-