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Liquid, the always-on trading platform backed by Paradigm, closed an $18M round led by Left Lane Capital and Neo to expand cross-asset coverage and U.S. distribution.
Aave-led DeFi United relief fund crossed $300M Monday after Consensys and Joseph Lubin pledged 30,000 ETH. Lido is sending up to 2,500 stETH, Compound up to 3,000 ETH, EtherFi 5,000 ETH — all to restore rsETH backing after Kelp DAO's $292M exploit.
Gemini opened its trading APIs to AI agents Monday via Anthropic's MCP open standard, letting Claude and ChatGPT autonomously place trades, monitor markets, and manage risk. Gemini calls it the first agentic trading tool through a regulated US exchange.
An LBS + Yale study of 1.72M Polymarket accounts finds just 3.14% are skilled winners — they capture 30%+ of all gains, while 67% of accounts absorb every aggregate loss in the system across 98,906 events and $13.76B in trading volume.
DeFi TVL dropped $13B in 48 hours after Kelp DAO's $292M exploit, but most of that wasn't real capital leaving — it was looping strategies unwinding. Spark TVL meanwhile jumped from $1.8B to $2.9B, suggesting capital rotation, not abandonment.
Anthropic's Mythos model can chain small protocol weaknesses into autonomous, multi-step exploits, and CoinDesk reports both Coinbase and Binance have approached the lab to stress-test their stacks.
Fluent activated its Ethereum Layer 2 mainnet on April 24 alongside the BLEND token and USDnr stablecoin, opening with $50 million in day-one liquidity and a 'blended execution' environment that runs apps written for different virtual machines inside one chain state.
AWS Marketplace now lists three Chainlink services — Data Feeds, Data Streams, and Proof-of-Reserve — alongside reference architectures for stablecoin reserves and prediction-market trading. Chainlink says its services have secured $29 trillion across 80+ chains since 2019.
Codenamed 'Timeless,' Kalshi's new product uses the CFTC margin-trading license it recently won. Launch event April 27 in New York; first contracts tied to Bitcoin and other major tokens.
AG Letitia James filed parallel suits April 21 in Manhattan state court, seeking at least $2.2B from Coinbase and $1.2B from Gemini. Claim: prediction markets are unregulated gambling.
No blog post, no Altman tweet. API telemetry flagged a new model running at production scale — and crypto prediction markets are already betting on the release date.
A compromised third-party AI tool gave attackers access to Vercel's internal systems and customer environment variables — sending Web3 teams scrambling to rotate API keys and exposing a new class of supply chain risk hiding in plain sight.