A certain whale withdrew 98,032 wstETH and 3,000 cbBTC from Aave

April 20: Per HyperInsight monitoring (via https://t.me/HyperInsight), the wallet address starting with 0x004 continued trimming its BTC short position today. As of one hour prior to publication, it wrapped up this round of profit-taking by closing 808.8 BTC—equivalent to roughly $61 million. Subsequently, the address placed a market buy order, with plans to liquidate its remaining $14.88 million position if BTC rebounds to $74,900. Its average entry price for the position is $75,828, and current unrealized profit stands at approximately $280,000 (+38%). Address: 0x004edcd40360e293e4cf260d2ebdf8c7076c1bb8

April 20: LayerZero Labs released an incident report stating KelpDAO was attacked on April 18, leading to losses of roughly $290 million. Preliminary analysis links the attack to North Korea’s Lazarus Group—specifically the threat actor known as TraderTraitor. The attack compromised the downstream RPC infrastructure of the Decentralized Validation Network (DVN). The attacker controlled some RPC nodes, coordinated a DDoS attack to trick the system into switching to malicious nodes, and forged cross-chain transactions. All affected RPC nodes have been taken offline and replaced, and the DVN is now operational again. LayerZero emphasized the incident was isolated to KelpDAO’s rsETH application configuration and did not impact other assets or apps. This stemmed from KelpDAO using a single-DVN (1/1) architecture at the time and failing to implement LayerZero’s recommended redundant multi-DVN setup, leaving it without independent validation nodes to detect forged messages. LayerZero no

April 20th — Per GMGN data (via [link]), Solana ecosystem meme coin BELIEF has seen steady gains since yesterday, peaking at $14 million in market cap. It now sits at $11.8 million, with a 24-hour gain of roughly 64% and a 24-hour trading volume of $1.7 million. The token’s narrative centers on the Proof of Belief (POB) mechanism of Printr V2, a project incubated by Printr (which operates under Bybit Venture Studio). BlockBeats reminds users that meme coins are extremely volatile assets relying heavily on market sentiment and hype—they lack inherent value or real-world use cases. Investors are advised to exercise caution due to these risks.

April 20 — An analyst said intermittent shipping in the Strait of Hormuz underscores the uncertain state of the key global oil and gas chokepoint. One thing is clear, though: even if the conflict subsides, oil flows through the narrow waterway will take months, possibly years, to rebound to pre-conflict levels. The speed of recovery hinges not only on U.S.-Iran diplomatic progress, but also on logistics, tanker insurance availability, freight rates, and whether shipowners are willing to risk transiting the strait. Global tanker fleet rebalancing and a return of Gulf loading operations to pre-conflict levels will be uneven, with at least 8-12 weeks needed even under favorable conditions. (Source: Jinse)

On April 20th, Ember Group monitoring shows that a wallet linked to LayerZero’s “strategic partner” distributed unlocked ZRO tokens to 52 addresses half an hour ago. Total distribution: 1.21 million ZRO (~$1.97 million). The largest single transaction—855,000 ZRO (~$1.42 million)—was sent to Binance. Notably, LayerZero, the cross-chain bridge exploited by hackers in yesterday’s rsETH incident, saw its ZRO token drop 18% yesterday.