News linked to both this project and an event.
According to CoinDesk, Kelp DAO’s LayerZero-based cross-chain bridge was attacked, with the attacker withdrawing 116,500 rsETH—worth approximately $292 million at current prices, or roughly 18% of its circulating supply. This incident has become the largest DeFi attack of 2026 to date. In response, Aave, SparkLend, and Fluid have frozen rsETH-related markets, and Lido Finance has suspended new deposits into its earnETH product. Kelp DAO stated it is jointly investigating the incident with LayerZero, auditing firms, and external security experts.
According to on-chain analyst Yu Jian's monitoring, a whale borrowed 28 million USDT from Aave in February to purchase 12,802 ETH at an average price of $2,187. Following the recent rise in ETH, the whale sold 12,402 ETH at an average price of $2,271, exchanging it back for 28.16 million USDT to repay the loan, netting a profit of 400 ETH.
According to on-chain analyst Ember (@EmberCN), after Lido launched its $LDO buyback program, whales/institutions allegedly followed suit by purchasing 4.5 million $LDO (approximately $1.86 million) and 10,000 $AAVE (approximately $1.15 million) via OTC deals; the tokens originated from Wintermute and FalconX.
According to on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain (@lookonchain), the whale address 0xf0e0 withdrew 3,500 ETH (approximately $8.24 million) from Coinbase and deposited it into Aave, subsequently borrowing $8 million in USDC and repurchasing 3,386 ETH at an average price of $2,363—further expanding its total holdings.
According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), a whale deposited 3,500 ETH—worth approximately $8.26 million—into Aave V3, then borrowed $8 million in USDC and used it to purchase 3,386 ETH at an average price of $2,363, subsequently re-depositing those ETH into Aave V3. The address now holds a total of 6,886 ETH, valued at approximately $16.22 million.
The Aave DAO has approved a governance proposal to provide Aave Labs with a total grant of $25,000,000 in stablecoins and 75,000 AAVE tokens, the latter vesting linearly over four years. The grant includes: 5 million units of aEthLidoGHO flowing from the Collector Contract within six months; 15 million units of aEthLidoGHO flowing from the Collector Contract within twelve months; and 75,000 units of AAVE flowing from the Ecosystem Reserve within forty-eight months. The proposal stipulates that any unspent funds remaining after the twelve-month grant period will be returned to the DAO treasury or otherwise disposed of per subsequent governance decisions.
Castle Labs (@castle_labs) published a post stating that the current crypto market is undergoing a profound paradigm shift—speculative models prioritizing extraction are gradually giving way to investment logic oriented toward revenue generation. The article notes that since 2026, the broader crypto market has performed poorly: most assets have seen sustained price declines, ETF funds have continued flowing out, project shutdowns have intensified, and institutional VC investments have grown increasingly conservative. The key catalysts for this shift were last October’s large-scale liquidation event and the ongoing market reflection triggered by gold consistently outperforming Bitcoin. On the revenue data front, among the roughly 5,700 protocols tracked by DeFiLlama, only 3.5% generated over $100,000 in revenue over the past 30 days—and fewer than 1% actually distributed earnings to token holders. The article focuses on top revenue-generating protocols—including Hyperliquid (HYPE), Pumpdotfun (PUMP), Tron (TRON), Sky (SKY), Jupiter (JUP), Aave (AAVE), and Aerodrome (AERO)—analyzing their price-to-sales ratios (P/S) and token holder return metrics. It argues that protocol revenue—and its capacity to feed value back to token holders—is becoming the core metric investors use to evaluate and select projects. Regarding institutionalization trends, traditional financial giants—including NYSE, Robinhood, BlackRock, and Franklin Templeton—