Odaily Planet Daily reports that LayerZero Labs stated on the X platform that KelpDAO suffered an attack on April 18th, resulting in losses of approximately $290 million. The initial assessment identifies the attacker as Lazarus Group. The attack was achieved by poisoning the downstream RPC infrastructure upon which KelpDAO's decentralized verification network (DVN) relies. The attackers controlled some RPC nodes and, in conjunction with a DDoS attack, induced the system to switch to malicious nodes, thereby forging cross-chain transactions. Currently, all affected RPC nodes have been taken offline and replaced, and DVN has resumed operation. LayerZero emphasizes that this incident was limited to KelpDAO's rsETH application configuration and did not affect other assets or applications. KelpDAO's use of a single DVN architecture without multi-DVN redundancy mechanisms prevented it from identifying forged messages. The LayerZero protocol itself did not have any vulnerabilities, and applications with multi-DVN configurations were unaffected. LayerZero will drive the migration of all single-DVN configuration projects to a multi-DVN architecture and has suspended signing and verification services for 1/1 configuration applications, while assisting law enforcement agencies in tracking stolen funds.

Odaily Planet Daily reports: U.S. Central Command: U.S. Marines, transported by helicopter from the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli (LHA 7), crossed the Arabian Sea, boarded and seized the M/V Touska. The Marines rappelled onto the Iranian-flagged vessel on April 20 after the guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance disabled the Touska's propulsion system for six hours after the merchant ship failed to heed repeated warnings from the U.S. military. (Jin Shi)

According to an official announcement, Binance Futures updated the leverage and margin tiers for QQQUSDT, SPYUSDT, EWYUSDT, and EWJUSDTU-margined perpetual contracts on April 21, 2026 at 15:30 (Beijing time). Existing positions will be affected, and running futures grids may also become invalid due to the updated leverage and margin tiers. Users are advised to take appropriate action before the update.

According to an official announcement, BitMart will launch perpetual contracts for ABTUSDT, PEPONUSDT, and MAONUSDT on April 20, 2026 at 16:00 (UTC+8), supporting leverage up to 50x.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, based on monitoring by on-chain analyst Yu Jin, LayerZero's strategic partner wallet (0x637...F7BF) distributed 1.21 million ZRO tokens, worth $1.97 million, to 52 addresses half an hour ago. The largest single transaction of 855,000 ZRO tokens, worth $1.42 million, has been transferred to Binance. ZRO's price fell 18% yesterday due to the rsETH vulnerability incident.