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A cross-chain bridge holding nearly a fifth of a restaked ether token’s circulating supply just got drained, and the fallout is moving through DeFi faster than Kelp DAO can pause contracts.An attacker drained 116,500 rsETH (restaked ether) from Kelp DAO’s LayerZero-powered bridge at 17:35 UTC on Saturday, worth roughly $292 million at current prices and representing about 18% of rsETH’s 630,000 token circulating supply tracked by CoinGecko.LayerZero is a cross-chain messaging layer, or the infrastructure that lets different blockchains send verified instructions to each other. Kelp DAO is a liquid restaking protocol, which takes user-deposited ETH, routes it through EigenLayer…

As of April 18, 2026, Polygon (POL) is trading around $0.09, up roughly 6.4% over the past week. The rebound is modest, but it comes at a critical moment. Beneath the surface, Polygon’s fundamentals are strengthening, driven by the rollout of sPOL and continued progress on the AggLayer, yet price action remains compressed within a long-term bearish structure. With the CLARITY Act markup expected in late April and a key FOMC decision days later, the next two weeks may define whether POL transitions into a breakout phase or slips back toward its lows.Technical Analysis: A Compression Ready to ResolveFrom a…

Key Takeaways▸ JD Vance is the clear front-runner (~35–39% across markets), reflecting traditional heir-apparent dynamics more than a wide-open race.▸ Donald Trump trades at low odds (~2–3%) but his shadow will continue to shape the board.▸ Polymarket (~$600M) and Kalshi (~$33M) GOP markets are active, though well behind Democratic volumes (~$1B / $88M).The Republican side of the 2028 presidential race on prediction markets looks much more structured than the Democratic one, because there is already a traditional heir apparent in Vice President JD Vance.Additionally, President Donald Trump keeps hanging over the field, including through hints about a possible third-term run that…

New York City, NY, April 18, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — You’ve done the diets. Probably more than once. You’ve tracked calories, cut carbs, tried intermittent fasting, started gym memberships in January and quietly stopped going in March. And none of it has moved the needle the way you needed it to.Here’s something worth understanding: for many people, that struggle isn’t about willpower. It’s about biology. The human body is built to resist weight loss, hunger hormones ramp up, metabolism slows down, and the brain sends relentless signals to eat more. For decades, conventional dieting tried to override this system through…

The evolution of the digital asset landscape has called for attention towards effective ways to achieve compliance. It is time to move beyond the philosophy of ‘asking for forgiveness rather than permission’ as the digital asset landscape no longer works according to the “Wild West” ethos. You can become a digital assets compliance expert and become the sheriff every organization needs to follow digital asset laws. Digital asset compliance experts bridge the gap between unregulated digital asset innovation and the domain of global financial law. The Digital Asset Forum reported that compliance is one of the key areas where institutions…

In brief GalaxyOne Head Zac Prince said he’s “not particularly excited” about prediction markets when it comes to enabling customers to build long-term wealth. The executive highlighted the retail investment platform’s recent support of Solana staking and associated lending products in the firm’s pipeline. Staking has enabled competitors like Coinbase to diversify revenue, while others like Robinhood have embraced prediction markets as growth drivers. For Galaxy’s retail investment platform, enabling customers to bet on the news isn’t a priority, according to Zac Prince, head of GalaxyOne. Rather, the service that debuted in October is being built in a way that’s…

A recap of a podcast hosted by Alevtina Labyuk, Chief Strategic Partnerships Officer at BeInCrypto, in partnership with The Top Voices — a community-led media platform for early-stage startups and IT talent, backed by a global network of 3,000+ entrepreneurs — featuring Anthony Tsivarev, VP of Ecosystem Development at the TON Foundation. Building a startup inside a large ecosystem can look deceptively simple from the outside. The distribution is already there. The infrastructure is ready. Millions of users are just one click away. But according to Anthony VP of Ecosystem Development at the TON Foundation, this perception is one of…

The MANTRA [Old] (OM) token has experienced a sudden surge of over 424% within the past 24 hours, on April 15, with the price rising from approximately $0.0158 to nearly $0.067. This rally occurred in a very short period and brought the price back to its monthly highs.However, this strong upward momentum was not accompanied by a corresponding increase in trading activity, raising questions about the sustainability of the volatility.Rapid Price Surge Draws Market AttentionAccording to aggregate data on CoinGecko, OM rapidly bounced from the about $0.015 zone to about $0.067, equivalent to a more than fourfold increase in just…

US Senator Elizabeth Warren is demanding answers regarding a forthcoming payments feature on X.”Consumers, our national security, and the stability of the financial system may be at risk,” she wrote in a letter addressed to owner Elon Musk.Warren expressed concern that X could take advantage of a “suspicious carveout” in the Genius Act.A forthcoming payment feature meant to turn X into an “everything app” could threaten national security and the US financial system, Senator Elizabeth Warren warned in a letter to Elon Musk on Tuesday.Her chief complaint was Musk’s controversial management of the social media platform. But Warren also pointed…

In brief Google DeepMind launched Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, an AI model that enables robots to perform industrial tasks through spatial reasoning and embodied intelligence. The model shows 6% text and 10% video improvement in safety hazard identification compared to Gemini 3.0 Flash. Boston Dynamics integrated the technology into its Orbit AIVI-Learning platform, with the update going live for customers on April 8. Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 on Tuesday, an upgraded AI model designed to enable robots to perform complex real-world tasks through enhanced embodied reasoning capabilities. The model specializes in spatial understanding, task planning, and success detection, marking…