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On April 28th, Loopscale, a modular DeFi lending market constructed on Solana, announced today that the hacker had responded at 3:52 pm (US Eastern Time), expressing their willingness to return the exploited funds and receive a bounty. The team will disclose the withdrawal recovery plan and a comprehensive post-incident analysis in the forthcoming days. BlockBeats had previously reported that Loopscale was attacked at 12:30 am (Beijing Time) on April 27th. The attack manipulated the RateX PT token pricing function, leading to the theft of approximately 5.7 million USDC and 1200 SOL, accounting for about 12% of the platform's total funds. Loopscale is willing to offer the hacker a white hat agreement in exchange for 90% of the exploited funds (35,527 SOL).

On April 28th, based on Token Unlocks data, this week UDS, VENOM, and MURA will experience a one-time large token unlock event. The details are as follows: IOTA (IOTA) will have 15.16 million tokens unlocked on April 30th at 8:00, with a value of approximately $3.28 million, accounting for 0.41% of the circulating supply. Optimism (OP) will have 31.34 million tokens unlocked on April 30th at 8:00, worth approximately $24.32 million, accounting for 1.89% of the circulating supply. Sui (SUI) will have 74 million tokens unlocked on May 1st at 8:00, with a value of approximately $259 million, accounting for 2.28% of the circulating supply. ZetaChain (ZETA) will have 44.26 million tokens unlocked on May 1st at 8:00, worth approximately $11.1 million, accounting for 5.67% of the circulating supply. dydx (DYDX) will have 8.33 million tokens unlocked on May 1st at 8:00, worth approximately $5.35 million, accounting for 1.09% of the circulating supply. Ethena (ENA) will have 40.63 million token

On April 28th, based on official WLFI sources and the content posted on social media by CZ, the three co-founders of WLFI, Zach Witkoff, Zak Folkman, and WatcherChase, met in Abu Dhabi today with Binance founder CZ to discuss ways to expand global adoption, establish new standards, and advance cryptocurrency to the next level.

On April 28th, Hunter Horsley, the CEO of Bitwise, posted on social media that the current price of Bitcoin is $94,000. Nevertheless, Google searches for "Bitcoin" are approaching a long-term low. This implies that Bitcoin's current price movement is not being fueled by retail investors. Institutions, advisors, corporations, and countries have all entered this field. The investor base purchasing Bitcoin is expanding.

On April 28th, as monitored by on-chain data analyst Yu Jin, the 1inch team investment fund. After selling a certain amount of WBTC the day before yesterday, it started buying 1INCH again. Within just over a day, it purchased 5,498,000 1INCH through limit orders at a price of $0.199, spending 1,094,000 USDC. Previously, BlockBeats reported that the 1inch team investment fund sold 70.76 WBTC on April 26th.

On April 28th, based on market data, ALPACA witnessed a short-term 53% price decline in the early morning. It is now trading at $0.1781. According to Coinglass data, in the past 12 hours, the entire ALPACA network had a liquidation of $5.89 million, with $2.05 million in long liquidations and $3.84 million in short liquidations. During the same period, the total BTC liquidation across the network was $7.11 million. Currently, major CEXs exhibit a bearish sentiment in the ALPACA perpetual contract funding rate. The total open interest for ALPACA contracts across the network is $47.21 million, and the 24-hour trading volume for ALPACA contracts across the network has reached $3.188 billion.