Singapore's largest money laundering case suspect Wang Shuiming may be extradited to China, with his accomplice being the mastermind behind the Hong Kong crypto platform scam AAX.

On April 29, Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart noted that the first batch of PredictIt market exchange-traded funds (ETFs) could launch in the U.S. as early as next week. New York-based issuer Roundhill has filed an effective amendment with the SEC under Rule 485(b), setting the effective date for its six PredictIt market ETFs as May 5. The lineup includes a Republican/Democratic 2028 presidential election ETF, plus Senate and House ETFs tied to the November 2026 midterms. Seyffart expects similar products from GraniteShares and Bitwise—both previously filed with regulators—to launch around the same time. The analyst added that this development underscores the ongoing trend of "the financialization of everything and ETF-ization." In March, total trading volume on top prediction market platforms Polymarket and Kalshi hit a record $24.3 billion.

April 29 — April 2026 is shaping up to be the crypto industry’s worst month for losses since the $1.4 billion Bybit hack in February 2025. Data from DeFiLlama shows that as of April 18, 12 security incidents in just 18 days have resulted in over $606 million in losses—3.7 times the total losses reported in the first quarter of 2026. On April 1, Solana-based perpetual contract protocol Drift Protocol suffered a $285 million attack. The attacker infiltrated the team via social engineering starting in fall 2025, building trust with security council members over months to get them to pre-sign seemingly harmless transactions. They then executed two transactions (one second apart) to transfer permissions and drain liquidity. On April 18, the LayerZero cross-chain bridge for Ethereum liquidity rehypothecation protocol KelpDAO was breached, with 116,500 rsETH tokens (worth ~$292 million) stolen. The attacker—linked to the North Korean Lazarus Group’s TraderTraitor subunit—deposited the s

April 29 – According to official data, cryptocurrency exchange aggregator XBIT has claimed the fourth position on Polymarket Builder’s official leaderboard as of April 30, 2026, with a monthly trading volume of roughly $36.12 million. Launched in early April, the platform saw rapid growth shortly after going live and has completed Polymarket’s official Builder audit. Currently, XBIT aggregates two core product lines: prediction markets and perpetual contracts (Perp DEX). Next phase plans include rolling out a leveraged prediction market to further expand its trading ecosystem.

April 29 — Aftermath Finance, a decentralized exchange (DEX) protocol on the Sui ecosystem, announced today that its team has identified a vulnerability affecting the protocol. The team is actively investigating the issue alongside its security partner. As a precautionary measure, the protocol has been paused, and steps are being taken to mitigate potential impacts on user funds.

April 29th — Per LookOnChain monitoring, a crypto whale has opened a 10x leveraged long position worth ~$4.4 million (40 million DOGE) over the past two hours. Notably, the same whale’s account has flipped from a $7.01 million profit (accumulated since last October) to a $13.74 million loss.