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According to Gate market data, the three major U.S. stock indices rose before the market opened, with the Nasdaq up 0.51%, the Dow up 0.26%, and the S&P 500 up 0.34%.The seven major tech stocks rose before the market opened, with Apple (AAPL) up 0.22%, Microsoft (MSFT) up 0.74%, Alphabet (GOOGL) up 0.23%, Amazon (AMZN) up 0.53%, Nvidia (NVDA) up 0.43%, Tesla (TSLA) up 0.4%, and Meta (META) up 0.6%.

According to monitoring by Hyperinsight, in the past two hours, the main short seller on the Hyperliquid platform, "Abraxas Capital," has increased its BTC long positions by 54 units (approximately 4.2 million USD), bringing its total long position size to 5 million USD, with an average price of 77,450 USD.After completely taking profits on BTC short positions on April 12, this address began to test long positions with a small initial investment when the BTC price was around 74,000 USD, and has initiated rolling positions for the first time today, continuing to build positions as of the time of publication.

Kim Hyun-jung, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea's Digital Assets Special Task Force, stated that they plan to submit the basic law on digital assets related to stablecoins (Phase Two legislation) after the local elections and simultaneously advance the review of the bill in the subcommittee.He pointed out that there are still differences regarding issues such as the shareholding restrictions for major shareholders of exchanges, which need further discussion. At the same time, he believes that, in the context of the Bank of Korea Governor Shin Hyun-sung's positive attitude towards stablecoins, relevant legislation is expected to progress. In addition, the task force is considering meeting with him after the elections to advance the design of the CBDC and the Korean won stablecoin system.

Market news: Security personnel disclosed a critical vulnerability in Cosmos CometBFT 0-day, which may cause block synchronization phase stagnation affecting over $8 billion in assets.

According to the official disclosure from the CFTC, Unit Labs (the parent company of Unitxyz and Tradexyz) applied to meet with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on April 7.

DefiLlama founder 0xngmi posted on platform X, stating that after verifying the data, if the funds seized by Arbitrum are prioritized for use in the AAVE market on Arbitrum, Aave will have no bad debt on Arbitrum under the condition that all rsETH share the depreciation.In a scenario where only the value of the mainnet rsETH is guaranteed (ignoring the value of the mapped version of rsETH on Layer 2), Aave will reduce bad debt on Arbitrum by 80%, from $88 million to $17 million.

According to SoSoValue data, the cryptocurrency market sector has seen a slight rebound, with the NFT sector performing outstandingly, leading with a 3.8% increase in 24 hours, among which Blur (BLUR) rose by 13.35% and Pudgy Penguins (PENGU) rose by 7.5%. At the same time, Bitcoin (BTC) increased by 1.73%, returning above $76,000; Ethereum (ETH) rose by 1.28%, breaking through $2,300.It is worth noting that MAG7.ssi rose by 1.75%, DEFI.ssi rose by 0.54%, and MEME.ssi rose by 2.15%. In other sectors, the SocialFi sector increased by 5.63% in 24 hours, with Toncoin (TON) and Chiliz (CHZ) rising by 5.62% and 12.54% respectively; the Meme sector rose by 1.66%, with Binance Life increasing by 10.37%; the Layer2 sector rose by 1.53%, with ImmutableX (IMX) rising by 7.38%; the PayFi sector rose by 1.42%, with Safe (SAFE) rising by 7.91%; the CeFi sector rose by 1.39%, with Gate (GT) rising by 2.79%; the Layer1 sector rose by 1.16%, with Canton Network (CC) rising by 5.06%; the DeFi sector rose by 0.4%, with Curve DAO (CRV) rising by 4.1%.The cryptocurrency sector indices reflecting the historical market performance show that the ssiSocialFi, ssiNFT, and ssiRWA indices rose by 6.3%, 4.23%, and 3.24% respectively.

Kelp DAO officially stated in a post on X regarding the theft incident that the cause of the theft was the compromise of two RPC nodes hosted by LayerZero, while a third RPC node suffered a DDoS attack. This was an attack targeting LayerZero's infrastructure, and Kelp's own system was not involved in the construction or operation of that infrastructure.The 1/1 DVN configuration is the scheme recorded in LayerZero's documentation and is the default setting for all new OFT deployments. Kelp has been operating on LayerZero's infrastructure since January 2024 and has maintained open communication with the LayerZero team. During Kelp's expansion to Layer2, the DVN configuration issue was discussed, and at that time, the default configuration was explicitly confirmed to be appropriate. Kelp's current top priority is to safeguard user interests and prevent risks from spreading within the DeFi ecosystem. The team is collaborating with various parties within the ecosystem to analyze the impact, seek support, and explore all possible mitigation solutions.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), Trend Research has operated again after a month. 50 minutes ago, 5.41 million UNI and 228,000 COMP were transferred to the new address 0xfa9...FEB58, with a total value of 23.32 million USD, and the ownership of the address has not yet been determined.

According to Bloomberg, the SEC and CFTC jointly proposed to reduce the reporting requirements for hedge funds, intending to eliminate the reporting obligations for smaller advisors and raise the Form PF reporting threshold for private fund managers' assets from $150 million to $1 billion.The two agencies stated that the data collected from Form PF will be used confidentially for inspections and investigations of private fund advisors.

According to official news, the AINFT platform announced today the official integration of Trust Wallet.Through the Trust Wallet web plugin, users can now log in and connect to cutting-edge AI models with one click on the TRON and EVM networks; mobile users can also access it anytime on the EVM network through the built-in browser in the app.This integration further enhances the flexibility of Web3 identity and AI service interaction, making decentralized intelligent creation easily accessible. New users can receive a benefit of 10,000 points upon logging in.

Crypto market analyst Axel posted on social media that the BTC futures market saw a daily liquidation of approximately $526 million in shorts, and the open interest (OI) did not rebuild leverage after reaching a peak of 319,499 BTC, instead falling back to 293,045 BTC.The liquidation dominance indicator has turned positive after being in negative territory for two consecutive weeks, indicating the end of the systemic short squeeze phase. The current price remains stable in the range of 75,000-76,000 while OI contracts, forming a constructive structure of "cooling after a short squeeze," rather than a new round of overheating. The next focus will be whether OI will return above 300,000 BTC when the price attempts to break through.

SuperEx will launch the MSFTUSDT and AVGOUSDT U-based perpetual contract trading pairs on April 20, 2026, at 14:00 (UTC). The above contract trading pairs support full position, isolated position, and split position modes. Users can trade through the web or the app.

According to Jinshi reports, the VIX index, after experiencing a decline for eight consecutive trading days, has turned to rise, currently up 2.43 points at 19.91 points, reaching a new high for the week.

LayerZero Labs released an incident report stating that KelpDAO suffered an attack resulting in a loss of approximately $290 million. Preliminary assessments indicate that the attacker is the Lazarus Group, which has ties to North Korea (more specifically, TraderTraitor). The attack was executed by poisoning the downstream RPC infrastructure relied upon by its decentralized verification network (DVN). The attacker controlled some RPC nodes and, in conjunction with a DDoS attack, induced the system to switch to malicious nodes, thereby forging cross-chain transactions.All affected RPC nodes have been taken offline and replaced, and the DVN has now resumed operation. LayerZero emphasized that this incident was limited to the rsETH application configuration of KelpDAO and did not affect other assets or applications. The reason is that KelpDAO was using a single DVN (1/1) architecture at the time and did not utilize the multi-DVN redundancy mechanism that is officially recommended for long-term use, resulting in a lack of independent verification nodes to identify forged messages.LayerZero pointed out that there were no vulnerabilities in its protocol itself, and applications with multi-DVN configurations were not affected, meaning there is no contagious risk in the system. LayerZero stated that it will urge all projects using single DVN configurations to migrate to multi-DVN architectures as soon as possible and has suspended providing signature and verification services for 1/1 configuration applications. Meanwhile, the company is cooperating with global law enforcement agencies to investigate and assist industry partners in tracking the stolen funds. LayerZero noted that this incident highlights the value of modular security architecture and also reminds the industry to pay attention to the potential security risks of RPC verification links.

Ethena stated that it has not yet received a satisfactory root cause analysis of the rsETH incident and will extend the temporary suspension period of the OFT bridge. While this may be frustrating, it is a prudent measure to ensure the safe cross-chain transfer of user assets.Ethena has released a new proof of reserves, verified by independent third-party verification agencies (Chainlink, Chaos Labs, LlamaRisk, and Harris & Trotter), confirming that the collateral support ratio for USDe remains above 100%.

According to Caixin, the one-month public consultation for the "Financial Law of the People's Republic of China (Draft)" ended today (April 19). This is the first overarching law in China and the world with "finance" in its name. The expansion of "quasi-judicial powers" for financial regulation is a topic of great concern in the market.According to Article 55 and related provisions, financial regulatory authorities have the right to access and copy property rights information, communication records, and transaction records of relevant entities and individuals when investigating financial violations. They can directly freeze or seal assets if there is evidence suggesting the transfer or concealment of illegal funds and securities. They can even decide that individuals suspected of violations cannot leave the country during the investigation.In addition, Zeng Gang, chief expert and director of the Shanghai Financial and Development Laboratory, believes that the "Financial Law" should also strengthen its focus and coverage on emerging financial formats. Topics such as AI-driven financial decision-making, the legal status of digital currencies, and the regulatory boundaries of crypto assets have sparked widespread controversy globally, but the draft addresses them very little. How to maintain a dynamic balance between lawful regulation and inclusive innovation is a problem left to be solved by legislation.