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The European Union has approved the 20th round of sanctions against Russia, marking one of the largest measures in nearly two years, including the first comprehensive restrictions on the crypto industry, such as banning Russian crypto service providers and platforms, blocking the digital ruble and stablecoin RUBx, and prohibiting EU entities from trading with Russian and Belarusian crypto and DeFi platforms. At the same time, the sanctions also target 20 Russian banks and related financial institutions, with the EU stating that Russia is increasingly relying on crypto assets to evade sanctions

Aave DAO community initiates an ARFC proposal to officially suspend AAVE token buybacks.
Previously, on April 18, Kelp's LayerZero rsETH bridging vulnerability caused uncollateralized rsETH to flow into multiple Aave V3 markets across chains, and the protocol has taken risk control measures such as freezing related assets.
The proposal states that, until the loss distribution and potential bad debt are clarified, buybacks will be suspended to preserve funding flexibility.
The suspension has been in effect since April 19, and the resumption time will be determined after further assessment

According to the announcement from the National Development and Reform Commission, the Office of the Working Mechanism for Foreign Investment Security Review has lawfully and regulatively made a decision to prohibit investment in the Manus acquisition project, requiring the parties involved to revoke the transaction. Previously, the artificial intelligence platform Manus was high-profile acquired by Meta for 2 billion USD. At the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Commerce of China focused its review on whether the transaction involved export control violations and whether the transfer of

QCP Capital noted that, due to renewed obstacles in the US-Iran talks and sudden security incidents, short-term volatility in the crypto market has intensified. BTC and ETH briefly broke above $79,000 and $2,400, respectively, during the Asian session before pulling back. Bitcoin is up about 14% this month; ETFs have seen net inflows for 9 consecutive trading days totaling about $2.1 billion. The options market indicates that capital has been reallocated to the upside, while the funding rate remains negative; $82,000 is a key resistance level.

Luxor Technology announces expanded partnership with MicroBT, committing to purchase $100 million worth of MicroBT's WhatsMiner mining machines and to extend its LuxOS firmware support for this model; as part of the deal, MicroBT has signed an investment letter of intent with Luxor through its investment management firm Inflection Technology Ltd., with the amount undisclosed.

According to CoinShares, digital asset investment products recorded approximately $1.2 billion in net inflows last week, marking the fourth consecutive week of capital inflows, with total assets under management rising to $155 billion. Bitcoin attracted $933 million in inflows, Ethereum recorded $192 million, maintaining high levels for three consecutive weeks; meanwhile, blockchain stock ETFs saw a record $617 million in cumulative inflows over the past three weeks.

Wu says that, according to DeFiLlama data, the losses caused by hacking incidents in April 2026 have exceeded $620 million, marking the third-highest single-month loss in crypto history, with the $293 million loss from the KelpDAO incident ranking as the tenth-largest loss event in crypto history.

Blue-chip NFTs like Pudgy Penguins and BAYC have recently increased in value, with Pudgy Penguins' floor price rising above 5 ETH, up over 20% in the past week; BAYC's floor price increased 81% over the past 30 days. However, data from CryptoSlam shows that global NFT sales dropped from approximately $304 million in February to about $175 million in April, with both transaction counts and active users decreasing by nearly half. NFT trading activity is now concentrated among a few blue-chip series, with wash trading still accounting for roughly 50% of total trading volume, and some rebounds dri

Western Union CEO and President Devin McGranahan stated during the Q1 earnings call that its Solana-based USD-pegged stablecoin USDPT has entered the final preparation stage and is expected to launch next month. McGranahan said that USDPT will not be launched as a consumer-facing stablecoin but rather as a company’s current alternative to settle with agents via the SWIFT network, initially used for on-chain settlements with selected countries and major agent partners. Western Union will also launch the Digital Asset Network, connecting crypto wallets to its existing retail and agent network, w

Wu said that, according to SoSoValue data, last week's trading days (Eastern Time April 20 to April 24) saw a net inflow of $824 million into Bitcoin spot ETFs, marking four consecutive weeks of net inflows. Ethereum spot ETFs had a net inflow of $155 million, marking three consecutive weeks of net inflows. SOL spot ETFs had a net inflow of $9.44 million. XRP spot ETFs had a net inflow of $15.74 million.

According to monitoring by @ai_9684xtpa, the ETH leveraged whale that previously generated a profit of 44.61 million USD over the past two months now has its remaining 20,000 ETH long positions once again in floating profit of 2.134 million USD; this position previously had an unrealized loss of 1.227 million USD, and the current floating profit fluctuation range relative to that loss reaches a difference of 3.361 million USD. The whale’s average opening price for this position was $2,287.2, and it reduced its position on April 20 and April 21, respectively, for a total realized profit of 1.04

According to Insight Korea, South Korea's internet bank K Bank announced that it has established a strategic partnership with Ripple, utilizing Ripple's global payment network and infrastructure to verify the potential improvements in speed, cost, and transparency of blockchain-based overseas remittances.
The two parties will work together on digital wallet technology verification, joint development of overseas remittance models, and expansion of digital asset collaborations. Currently, they are in the second phase, testing on-chain fund transfers in markets such as the United Arab Emirates

Wu Shuo learned that the Solana ecosystem DeFi platform Jupiter Lend announced on Twitter that the borrowing limit for JLP/JupUSD has been increased from 25 million USD to 40 million USD, adding 15 million USD in capacity.
Users can borrow up to 85% LTV or cycle operate JLP.

Wu Shuo learned that Solana posted on Twitter that AAVE has launched on the Solana network via Sunrise. Aave is a non-custodial liquidity protocol where users can supply assets to earn interest or borrow using collateral.

According to @EmberCN monitoring, whale pension-usdt.eth at the beginning of the month shorted $110 million worth of BTC and ETH at the bottom of the price with 3x leverage.
As the prices rebounded in April, the current unrealized loss on this short position is $15.25 million.
Among them, they shorted 1,000 BTC at $67,992 each, with an unrealized loss of $10.57 million, and a liquidation price of $99,394;
shorted 20k ETH at $2,132 each, with an unrealized loss of $4.68 million, and a liquidation price of $3,400.

Wu reported that Curve Finance founder Michael Egorov submitted a proposal on the Curve governance forum stating that the CRV-long LlamaLend market incurred bad debt after the market crash on October 10, 2025, with approximately 70% of the related treasury assets backing it, and a shortfall of about $700k. Egorov proposed opening a treasury token exchange through a special liquidity pool based on LlamaLend's internal mechanism to clear under-collateralized loans and restore bad debt in a free market manner; this mechanism is fully permissionless, requires no behind-the-scenes agreements, and C