Tag: Aave
The $292M KelpDAO hack erased $13 billion from DeFi – and Strategy bought $2.54B in Bitcoin while it burned
$292 million. That’s what the KelpDAO hack drained from a single cross-chain bridge in one transaction on Friday afternoon – making it 2026’s largest DeFi exploit and one of the biggest in crypto history. But the theft wasn’t the real story. What happened next was. Within 48 hours, DeFi protocols hemorrhaged $13.2 billion in total…
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Fewer Than 20 Wallets Control Aave, Uniswap, and MakerDAO – ECB Just Proved It
A new ECB working paper found that top-100 holders control over 80% of governance tokens across four major DeFi protocols – and one-third of the biggest voters can’t even be identified. So much for decentralization. The European Central Bank dropped a working paper on March 26 that examined governance structures inside Aave, MakerDAO, Uniswap, and…
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Gold Lost the War – Tokenized Gold Won It
Physical bullion crashes 23% while XAUT futures volume explodes 402,000% in three months. The safe-haven trade just moved on-chain. The world’s oldest safe-haven asset is getting destroyed during an actual shooting war. And the replacement? It lives on Ethereum. Gold has crashed 23% from its January 29 all-time high of $5,595, bleeding down to $4,428…
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DeFi Didn’t Flinch: $97.6B in TVL While Bitcoin Bleeds 20% and Fear Hits Rock Bottom
Fifty-three million dollars. That’s the total liquidation exposure sitting within 20% of current prices across all of DeFi right now, according to on-chain data from DefiLlama and Aave risk dashboards. For context, that same number was $340 million in February 2025. An 84% drop – during a nastier market. Bitcoin’s down 20% year-to-date. The Fear…
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