The SEC is positioning its first year under Paul Atkins as a turning point toward clearer regulation and stronger markets. The SEC Chair described it as a historic year, stating the agency delivered on its promises.

U.S. crypto legislation faces rising pressure as Senate leaders are urged to move market structure rules forward. The Digital Chamber argued further delay could stall momentum and weaken Washington’s push for clearer digital asset oversight.

An incident report published by Llamarisk to the Aave forum explains that a bridge exploit targeting KelpDAO’s Layerzero V2 rsETH route on Saturday allowed an attacker to extract 116,500 rsETH from Ethereum’s OFT adapter without burning any tokens on the source chain. Llamarisk’s report notes that this incident exposed Aave V3 markets to potential bad debt ranging from $123.7 million to $230.1 million, depending on how losses are allocated.

Security trade-offs in cross-chain infrastructure are drawing sharper scrutiny as operational shortcuts threaten to undercut protections built into bridge designs. Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz’s latest remarks tied those risks to RLUSD-related evaluations and broader collateral concerns.

A $292M DeFi exploit is intensifying concerns over hidden vulnerabilities in cross-chain systems. The incident underscores how flawed trust assumptions can allow manipulated inputs to bypass safeguards and trigger undetected, large-scale asset issuance.

Following the KelpDAO exploit that resulted in the loss of nearly $300 million, the decentralized finance ( DeFi) ecosystem has experienced a cascading wave of withdrawals, affecting not only Aave but a wide range of other major DeFi protocols.

Tether, the issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin USDT, led an $8 million strategic institutional funding round for KAIO, an Abu Dhabi-regulated tokenization firm building onchain infrastructure for real-world assets.

Polymarket is in advanced talks to raise approximately $400 million in new funding at a post-money valuation of roughly $15 billion, according to a report published by The Information.

Bitcoin remained relatively stable around $75,500 despite a volatile geopolitical backdrop. While the digital asset faced minor fluctuations and a $50 billion decline in market capitalization from its Friday peak, it maintained a 0.7% gain over a 24-hour period.

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Crypto-backed borrowing is gaining traction as Coinbase extends a proven U.S. lending model into the U.K. The move broadens access to on-chain liquidity and signals wider international growth for Coinbase’s credit strategy.

In a move that has the crypto world exhaling a collective sigh of relief, SEC Chairman Paul Atkins officially declared that the era of “regulation by enforcement” is hitting the scrap heap in favor of a proactive “ACT” strategy.

The week of April 13 to 17 marked a decisive shift for crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Bitcoin ETFs led with nearly $1 billion in inflows, ether extended a strong recovery, and both XRP and solana posted solid gains.

Bitmine has added more than 100,000 ETH in its largest weekly purchase in four months, bringing its holdings above 4% of the total supply. The move underscores its aggressive strategy to dominate ethereum treasury holdings.

DeFi bridge security is under sharper pressure after a major exploit exposed structural weaknesses in verifier design and infrastructure dependencies. The fallout is widening accountability questions for Layerzero Labs and reinforcing concerns about concentrated validation models.