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April 20th: Per LookOnChain monitoring, a crypto whale—who previously acquired 163,405 ETH (~$440 million) and 4,000 cbBTC (~$296 million) via over-the-counter (OTC) trades—withdrew 98,032 wstETH (~$272 million) and 3,000 cbBTC (~$221.6 million) from Aave. Due to the KelpDAO rsETH cross-chain bridge exploit, the whale was unable to withdraw ETH. Instead, they swapped 7,438 aEthWETH (~$16.83 million) for 1,930 stETH and 5,272 ETH, incurring a $540,000 (~237 ETH) loss. As of now, the whale still holds 10,000 ETH (~$22.8 million) on Aave.

April 20 — The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) gateway eth.limo was briefly hijacked at its domain registrar Friday night, according to The Block. In a post-incident analysis report released Saturday, the project team attributed the breach to a social engineering attack. Per the post-incident report and a separate blog post by Mark Jeftovic, the attacker impersonated an eth.limo team member on April 17 at 7:07 p.m. Eastern Time to trick domain registrar EasyDNS into initiating an account recovery process. Timeline details: - 2:23 a.m. April 18: The attacker switched eth.limo’s domain servers to Cloudflare, triggering an automatic downtime alert that notified the eth.limo team. - 3:57 a.m.: Domain servers were switched back to Namecheap. - 7:49 a.m.: EasyDNS restored the team’s account access. Eth.limo is a free, open-source reverse proxy service that lets users access ENS-linked content (hosted on IPFS, Arweave, or Swarm) by appending “.limo” to any .eth domain — enabling ac

April 20th – Per GMGN monitoring (link: https://gmgn.ai/sol/token/i_m4TE56o8_5UUH9RTDiSpq6HKS6bp4NdU9PNJpXRXuiw6ShBTBhgH2), Solana-based meme coin TROLL saw a sharp surge in market cap this morning. It jumped from $16.6 million, breaking above $22 million, and is now trading around $21 million—representing a 33% 24-hour gain, with $2.4 million in trading volume over the same period. BlockBeats notes that meme coins are highly volatile, often driven by market sentiment and hype, with no underlying value or use case. Investors should be aware of the associated risks.

April 20th — Per HyperInsight monitoring (https://t.me/HyperInsight), the largest ETH whale at Matrixport added to their bullish positions in the past 3 hours. They opened a long position of ~44,000 ETH (total value: $101 million) at an average entry price of $2,289. In the past half-hour, one address (0xa5b...) partially closed some long positions at $2,291, locking in a modest $120,000 profit. The position was previously valued at ~$10.02 million. The other sub-address (0x6c8...) still holds a ~$91 million ETH long position, with an unrealized loss of $480,000 (-10%). Addresses: 0x6c8512516ce5669d35113a11ca8b8de322fd84f6 0xa5b0edf6b55128e0ddae8e51ac538c3188401d41

April 20th — On-chain data analyst Murphy noted that Bitcoin (BTC) has begun filling a gap, and this cycle features a "cursed" range in BTC’s on-chain structure: $72,000 to $80,000. This range has been quickly crossed during both the 24-year bull run and 26-year bear market, leaving incomplete on-chain reshuffling and a fracture in BTC’s on-chain structure. Amid recent price swings, BTC’s gap has narrowed to $78k–$80k, with nearly 200,000 BTC traded in the $76k–$77k range between April 17–18. Inflows at this level signal a gradual recovery in market confidence. A full reshuffling would evenly distribute holdings across price levels, accelerating the formation of a bottom structure. During recent volatility, the $63k–$68k accumulation zone held, and the upper gap was filled — inadvertently boosting the odds this range becomes the market bottom.

April 20: Solana-based DeFi protocol Meteora stated it is aware of recent developments surrounding the security incident at cloud hosting platform Vercel. Its team rotated environment keys immediately 12 hours ago, checked logs, and confirmed everything is normal. The team will continue monitoring the situation to safeguard Meteora and its users.