Tron's active address count increased by nearly 47% in April

According to Forbes, Computershare announced a partnership with Securitize to support US stock companies in issuing on chain stock tokens. Both parties have launched issuer supported tokens IST, which investors can enjoy the same voting rights, legal protection, and shareholder rights as traditional shareholders after holding.

The Avalanche Foundation has launched a research funding program, with a maximum single funding amount of $50000, open for application to academic researchers worldwide. The research focuses on token economics and validator mechanisms, covering areas such as cryptocurrency asset pricing, PoS public chain native asset value accumulation, optimal staking ratio, and non inflationary reward mechanisms.

According to The Block, Standard Chartered reported in a research report that approximately $292 million of KelpDAO rsETH was stolen and flowed into Aave, resulting in a decrease of $17 billion (approximately 38%) in Aave deposits and $5.5 billion (approximately 31%) in active loans. However, the DeFi structure has not been severely affected. Aave founder Stani Kulechov and multiple parties have pledged over $300 million in support to promote the recovery of interest rates and net deposits.

[Standard Chartered Bank: RWA Market Size Could Reach $2 Trillion by 2028] According to The Block, a report from Standard Chartered Bank states that while the theft of KelpDAO's rsETH has impacted the DeFi ecosystem, it will not alter the long-term growth trend of real-world asset (RWA) tokenization. Geoffrey Kendrick, Head of Digital Asset Research at Standard Chartered, remarked that this incident is more akin to DeFi being 'bent but not broken' and could serve as a turning point toward a more resilient industry structure. Standard Chartered predicts that by the end of 2028, the RWA market size will grow from $35 billion in October 2025 to $2 trillion, primarily driven by the expansion of the DeFi banking system and stablecoin liquidity.

According to Nansen's monitoring, Galaxy Digital has transferred ETH to three exchanges in the past 9 days, including $229 million to Bybit, $197 million to Binance, and $9.86 million to OKX. All transfers were completed in a single operation two days ago, with funds coming from the Galaxy Digital main wallet.