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According to data from Trader T (@thepfund), yesterday’s Ethereum spot ETFs recorded net inflows of $96.43 million. Among them, BlackRock’s ETHA saw net inflows of $53.59 million, and Fidelity’s FETH saw net inflows of $40.62 million—combined accounting for approximately 98% of the day’s total inflows. Grayscale’s mini-ETH (ETH) recorded net inflows of $11.37 million, while Grayscale’s ETHE experienced net outflows of $9.15 million. All other funds reported zero net inflows.
According to the Aave Governance Forum, Gordon Liao, a Circle team member, has submitted an ARFC proposal recommending a two-step adjustment to the USDC interest rate model parameters on Aave v3 Ethereum Core to address the current liquidity shortage in the USDC pool. Current context: Following the rsETH incident on April 18, the USDC pool utilization has remained persistently near 100%, with available liquidity falling below $3 million. The borrowing rate has been stuck at the 14% cap for an extended period, and the pool’s total supply has contracted by approximately $60 million over the past 24 hours. As a result, the market is unable to clear via price mechanisms. The proposal’s core measures are as follows: Step 1 (to be executed immediately by Risk Administrators): Increase Slope 2 from 10% to 40%, decrease the optimal utilization rate from 92% to 87%, and temporarily suspend the Slope 2 risk oracle for USDC. Step 2 (to be completed within 5–7 days via governance vote): Further increase Slope 2 to 50% and reduce the optimal utilization rate to 85%. The proposal argues that many current borrowers are insensitive to interest rates and primarily borrow to bypass withdrawal queues and exit positions. Active leverage, meanwhile, is key to attracting new suppliers. Raising the maximum supply rate to the 40%–50% range is expected to draw in USDC liquidity within hours, driving utilization below the kink point and restoring the market’s normal clearing functionality.
According to on-chain analyst Yujin (@EmberCN), the KelpDAO hacker, over a period of approximately one and a half days, has converted nearly all 75,700 ETH (valued at roughly $175 million) on Ethereum into BTC—primarily via the cross-chain protocol THORChain. This money-laundering activity generated approximately $800 million in trading volume and $910,000 in platform fees for THORChain.
According to on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain (@lookonchain), a newly created wallet, 0xf860, withdrew 18,000 ETH—worth approximately $43.22 million—from Binance one hour ago and subsequently transferred the funds to BitGo.
Odaily According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a DeFi whale (0x8ad...b818) withdrew 19,300 ETH from an exchange on April 21 at an average price of $2,304, valued at approximately $44.47 million. Of these, 14,062.14 ETH have been requested for redemption. Two hours ago, the whale deposited 6,300 ETH, which had not been staked into ether.fi, into Binance. If sold, this would yield a profit of about $570,000. The portion of the position opened by this address yesterday currently has a floating profit of $1.453 million.
According to on-chain analyst PeckShield (@PeckShieldAlert), the KelpDAO attacker has transferred ETH from Ethereum to Arbitrum via the Across Protocol, swapped it for USDT, and then routed the funds to TRON DAO via LayerZero.
According to on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain (@lookonchain), a whale with the wallet address starting with 0xD91D created a new wallet (address starting with 0xEb2a) and deposited 9,500 wstETH into Spark. Subsequently, this address borrowed 9,500 ETH (valued at approximately $22.68 million) and sent it to Binance for sale. Later, the whale withdrew USDE from Binance to repay the loan on Aave.
Odaily News According to Lookonchain monitoring, a whale spent 1.9 ETH ($3,941) on April 18, 2023, to purchase 44.03 billion FLORK, which is now worth over $350,000. However, the wallet address of this whale has been inactive for 976 days.
According to on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain (@lookonchain), an address has sold all 2.79 billion ASTEROID tokens, receiving 503 ETH ($1.17 million) and realizing a $1.17 million profit. This address grew $575 into $1.17 million in just five days—a return of over 2,000x.
According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, the Venus attacker transferred 2,301 ETH (approximately $5.32 million) to address 0xa21…23A7f 11 hours ago. Subsequently, the funds were laundered in batches via Tornado Cash. Currently, there is still $17.45 million worth of ETH remaining on-chain.
Odaily News According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale liquidated 2.9 billion ASTEROID and exchanged it for ETH and BNB worth $1.17 million, making a profit of $1.16 million.Another whale liquidated 3.39 billion ASTEROID, exchanged it for ETH worth $935,000, making a profit of $865,000.
According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin, the KelpDAO hacker began laundering and transferring ETH yesterday afternoon, and by now should have laundered 34,500 ETH (worth $80 million).Most of this ETH was cross-chain swapped into BTC via THORChain, which consequently earned a significant amount in "toll fees":1. THORChain's trading volume surged to $360 million over the past 24 hours, compared to an average daily volume of only $20 million previously.2. THORChain's platform fee revenue reached $420,000 over the past 24 hours, whereas its daily fee income was only $5,000 before.
According to on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain (@lookonchain), the Solana wallet “fent.sol” purchased 5.66 million SPIKE tokens five hours ago. This address is suspected to be linked to the well-known on-chain whale “dimethyltryptamine.eth.” Notably, “dimethyltryptamine.eth” previously acquired 5.9 trillion PEPE tokens for just 0.125 ETH (approximately $251), later selling 3.94 trillion of them at the peak for $5.74 million. The remaining 1.97 trillion PEPE tokens are currently valued at approximately $7.5 million, yielding an overall return of up to 52,600x.
Odaily News According to Lookonchain monitoring, five hours ago, the Solana chain wallet "fent.sol" associated with the suspected whale "dimethyltryptamine.eth" bought 5.66 million SPIKE. This whale previously achieved a 52,600x return from investing in PEPE.
According to on-chain analyst Specter (@SpecterAnalyst), the North Korean hacking group TraderTraitor began laundering stolen funds from KelpDAO at approximately 3 a.m. Beijing time today—just three hours after the Arbitrum Council froze 30.7 ETH (approximately $71 million). The attackers split the remaining funds across three wallets, holding roughly 25,000 ETH (~$57.6 million), 25,700 ETH (~$59.2 million), and 25,000 ETH (~$57.9 million), respectively. The third wallet immediately initiated laundering operations and now holds only about 3,800 ETH (~$8 million). The majority of the funds were bridged to the Bitcoin network via THORChain, with approximately 99% flowing through this protocol. As a result, THORChain’s daily trading volume surged to $211 million—more than ten times its 30-day average—and generated roughly $189,000 in fees. During this laundering process, the illicit proceeds were also commingled with funds stolen in the BTC Turk (2025) and Bybit (2025) hacks. To date, approximately 442 BTC (~$33 million) linked to these incidents have been traced on the Bitcoin network, and over 400 addresses have been utilized throughout the entire laundering operation.
According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), Bitmine has staked another 61,232 ETH, valued at $142 million. To date, Bitmine has staked a total of 3,395,869 ETH, valued at $7.9 billion, and may continue staking going forward.
According to on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain (@lookonchain), a newly created wallet withdrew 35,000 ETH—worth approximately $80.7 million—from Binance within the past two hours and subsequently transferred the funds to BitGo.
Odaily News According to monitoring by crypto analyst Ai Yi @ai_9684xtpa, the KelpDAO attacker has transferred 50,700 ETH to 2 new addresses, valued at approximately $118 million.
According to on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain (@lookonchain), Tether minted an additional 2 billion USDT on Ethereum over the past three days.
According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), Tether minted 1 billion USDT on Ethereum 8 minutes ago.