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According to Jinshi News, Asian stock markets are expected to perform weakly when they open on Tuesday, as investors turn their attention to the earnings reports of U.S. tech giants with a total market capitalization of nearly $16 trillion. Walter Todd, president and chief investment officer of Greenwood Capital Associates, stated that the U.S. stock market has rebounded to historical highs, seemingly ignoring the ongoing geopolitical risks, mainly due to upward revisions in earnings expectations and improved market sentiment. He warned that any cracks in optimistic expectations could pose significant risks to market trends.

Bitget officially launched the "Blockchain4Youth Learning Center" with its first course, aimed at providing a systematic blockchain learning path for young people and further connecting knowledge learning with career development. After completing the course and passing the assessment, students will receive a certificate of completion issued by Bitget's Chief Marketing Officer Ignacio Aguirre Franco, serving as an official certification of their Web3 capabilities. Certificate holders can gain more industry exposure and priority employment opportunities among the partner employers of the Blockchain4Youth Talent Alliance.To bridge the gap from learning to employment, Bitget has partnered with the Web3 recruitment platform Bondex to provide students with a transparent job-seeking channel and a talent pool connection mechanism. Bondex co-founder Ignacio Palomera stated that the project aims to address the real issues faced by learners, such as "lack of industry connections after completing the course, insufficient effective certification, and unclear job-seeking paths," building a more direct bridge between young talent and recruiting companies.So far, the Bitget Blockchain4Youth series of projects has attracted over 15,000 young participants. Bitget CMO Ignacio Aguirre Franco pointed out that the goal of the learning center is to transform young people's interest in Web3 into a tangible entry path. As the program continues to advance, Blockchain4Youth is gradually evolving from a single event project into a long-term infrastructure focused on Web3 education, career guidance, and talent development.

The newly appointed chief economist of New Fire Group, Fu Peng, stated on Twitter that the underlying business model of Bitcoin perpetual contracts is essentially the same as the "rollover fee/overnight fee" in traditional finance's gold and industrial commodity spot exchanges.Fu Peng pointed out that back in the day, gold exchanges settled through daily forced liquidation, with longs and shorts paying each other rollover fees. When retail investors held a large number of high-leverage long positions, the rollover fee became the most stable and hidden source of income for the platform. Nowadays, Bitcoin spot platforms mainly rely on perpetual contracts, with both sides settling the funding rate every 8 hours. When longs dominate, retail investors holding long positions continuously pay funding rates to shorts.Although the platform does not directly collect this fee, it significantly enhances trading activity, open interest, and liquidity, indirectly generating a large amount of fee income and forming a stable and substantial cash flow. Essentially, it is a business model where large players/institutions "collect rent" from long-term holdings, retail investors pay for leverage to go long, and the platform indirectly takes a cut.

According to official news, Gate will launch a special celebration event for joint earnings from April 24 at 12:00 to May 13 at 12:00 (UTC+8), with a total prize pool of 1,000,000 USDT. During the event, users can open exclusive red envelopes and invite friends to register. After friends complete identity verification and designated tasks, both parties can share cash rewards, with a maximum of 100 USDT per instance. The more invitations sent, the more rewards earned, with no cap on individual earnings.In addition, Gate will launch the second phase of the weekend arena battle event from April 24 at 16:00 to April 27 at 16:00 (UTC+8), with a total prize pool of 3,348,000 PENGU. During the event, users who invite friends to register and complete a cumulative trading volume of ≥ 200 USDT will be considered valid invitations and unlock multiple rewards. The milestone rewards can be stacked up to a maximum of 7,800 PENGU, and there will also be a popularity ranking reward, with the top 3 able to share an additional 128,000 PENGU. Additionally, invited friends can receive a 260 PENGU newcomer reward after completing tasks.

The founder of the Aave Chan Initiative (ACI), Marc Zeller, stated in a post that instead of initiating donations, it would be better to adopt the following plan:Establish a deposit vault named "DeFi United ETH"; transfer Aave's wETH income into this vault, with an annual yield cap set at 5%; tokenize and make the vault deposit certificates tradable, named "AaveETH"; gradually repay the gap through interest and principal.He suggested allowing users to deposit funds and setting the vault capacity to the worst-case gap size. Zeller indicated that if this plan had been adopted at the time, sufficient funds could have been raised as early as last Saturday. He believes that Aave itself has ample income, and both Aave DAO and Labs have several hundred million in reserves, which can ultimately resolve the issue and avoid market panic. He added that he would also deposit most of his ETH into this vault.

Lido has released the latest developments regarding the Kelp security incident, stating that its Earn series vaults are working with the management to address the issues, which involve two major risk points: the rsETH exposure and the liquidity tension in the lending market. Lido emphasizes that the core staking protocol has not been affected, and both stETH and wstETH remain safe and stable.Currently, only the EarnETH vault has an approximately 9% TVL exposure to rsETH, and related deposits and withdrawals have been suspended by the management, awaiting a solution. Approximately $70 million in ETH has been recovered from the previous attack, and the subsequent asset recovery and loss distribution are still in progress. In response to liquidity pressure, the management has reduced leverage and optimized the position structure, significantly decreasing the wETH debt exposure. If losses ultimately occur, EarnETH will activate a $3 million "first loss protection mechanism" (funded by the DAO). As for other vaults, DVV and EarnUSD have not been affected and are operating normally; the GGV sub-vault is currently experiencing negative returns due to the combination of circular staking strategies and rising lending rates, but adjustments are ongoing. Withdrawal requests submitted by users will be processed based on valuations prior to the incident.

Coinbase stated that it is optimizing the rule creation process in its anti-fraud system by integrating machine learning models with a rules engine, achieving more efficient risk management. It also proposed a dual-track strategy of "models responsible for long-term defense, rules responsible for rapid response," and built a unified framework to create a feedback loop between the two: rules are used to capture new types of fraud and train the model in reverse, thereby continuously enhancing overall defense capabilities.In terms of specific optimizations, Coinbase has transformed the previously manual rule creation process into a data-driven and automated recommendation system by restructuring data, automating schema evolution, and introducing notebook-based analytical tools, significantly improving efficiency. Among these improvements, the performance of rule backtesting has increased by more than 10 times, and the overall response time has been reduced from several days to a few hours. Additionally, the new system uses machine learning to recommend parameters, helping to reduce false positive rates while combating fraud and minimizing the impact on normal users. Coinbase indicated that the next step will be to advance event-driven automatic rule generation and explore the "one-click conversion" of efficient rules into model features, further moving towards an automated risk management system.

The Spark strategy chief monetsupply.eth tweeted criticism of Aave's decision to unfreeze the core Ethereum WETH market, arguing that this decision is poorly considered under current conditions. After the unfreezing, it will allow LST/LRT holders to establish extremely high-yield looping positions, resulting in continuous liquidity shortages for aEthWETH, making it difficult for ordinary users to withdraw normally.Taking weETH looping as an example: weETH is currently trading at a 0.5% discount, and if it returns to par within a month, the implied yield is about 6%. Combined with the basic staking yield, the total yield can reach 8%. Meanwhile, the maximum borrowing rate for core ETH on Aave is 5.15%, allowing loopers to earn an additional 2.85% yield; weETH can be leveraged up to 14 times, resulting in a maximum annualized yield of about 45%.He believes that this essentially provides LST/LRT loopers with a "free lunch," while further deteriorating the user experience for aWETH holders and stablecoin borrowers.

OKX will delist the USDT and USDC AAVE (Avalanche network) on-chain earning products on April 21, 2026. New subscriptions for related products have been suspended and removed from the product list. Starting from April 21, 2026, users will gradually redeem their principal and accumulated earnings, which will be returned to their funding accounts. The redemption may need to be completed in batches.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, the "leverage giant whale with a profit of 44.61 million dollars in two months" closed a long position of 4000 ETH in the afternoon, making a profit of about 144,000 dollars.In addition, another address 0x6c8...d84f6 took profit again in the past half hour by selling 20,000 ETH, with a transaction amount of about 46.33 million dollars, making a profit of about 551,000 dollars, and currently still holds about 20,000 ETH, with an unrealized profit of about 296,000 dollars.

The Solana ecosystem perpetual contract trading platform Pacifica announced that the Vaults feature has officially launched on the testnet. Users can browse existing vaults and deposit funds to follow strategies for returns, or they can create their own vaults, set deposit limits, profit and loss distribution ratios, and manage trades.In addition, the official statement indicated that all Pacifica users included in the snapshot on April 18 can enjoy a 3x points loyalty bonus each week. Currently, the platform has issued approximately 333 million points, with a weekly trading volume of $2.455 billion.

OKX will delist the USDT AAVE (ETH network) on-chain earning product on April 20, 2026. The related funds have been fully redeemed in advance from the on-chain, and the expected arrival date is before 18:00 on April 20, 2026 (UTC+8). Users' principal and accumulated earnings will be automatically redeemed to their fund accounts without any additional action required.

According to market news, Silicon Valley's Chuan sold 233,296 $HYPE at an average price of $41.46, totaling $9.67 million $USDC, with a profit of over $1.18 million. He currently still holds 8,529 $HYPE (worth about $349,000).

Lido posted on platform X that the team is aware of the developments regarding the Kelp DAO security incident. Due to the current exposure of the earnETH product to rsETH, they have proactively suspended new deposits to earnETH and are working with relevant partners to assess the situation. More information will be disclosed based on future developments. Lido added that stETH and wstETH have not been affected by the rsETH incident, and this security issue does not involve the Lido staking protocol itself.

Bitget launches AIA Simple Earn, with a maximum of 25% APR. Users can go to the corresponding section to subscribe, and the event ends on May 16 at 18:00 (UTC+8). For more product details, please check the official Bitget platform.

The enterprise digital asset infrastructure platform Fireblocks has launched a new feature called Earn, allowing institutional clients to allocate stablecoin balances to on-chain lending strategies through products supported by Aave and Morpho, in order to enhance the efficiency of idle capital utilization.The product is initially integrated with the Morpho vault and Aave stablecoin lending market, curated by Sentora, and is now open for Early Access to Fireblocks clients. Fireblocks stated that the earnings are generated by the underlying protocols, are variable returns, are not guaranteed, and may be 0. Data shows that Aave and Morpho are currently the top two decentralized lending protocols by total locked value.