Techub News reports, according to Yu Jin monitoring, affected by the trust crisis triggered by the Kelp DAO security incident, the capital outflow from the mainstream lending protocol Aave is still ongoing. In the past three and a half days, Aave's total deposits have plummeted from $48.5 billion before the incident to $30.7 billion, with an outflow amount as high as $15.1 billion, a decrease of nearly one-third.

Techub News reports that Blockchain.com has officially launched a perpetual contract trading feature in its non-custodial DeFi wallet. This feature is powered by the underlying technical support of the high-performance Layer 1 blockchain Hyperliquid, allowing users to conduct leveraged trading directly within the wallet while maintaining full self-custody of their assets, without the need to transfer funds to third-party exchanges, effectively eliminating friction in traditional derivatives trading. This self-custodial trading interface supports over 190 cryptocurrency markets, offers leverage of up to 40x, and is equipped with real-time pricing and risk management tools..

Techub News reports that Base, an Ethereum Layer 2 network, has officially launched its first independent network upgrade, Base Azul, on the testnet, with the mainnet activation planned for May 13, 2026. This upgrade marks Base's first network-level update independent of the OP Stack, aiming to significantly enhance network security, performance, and developer experience. The core components of the Azul upgrade include enabling a multi-proof mechanism to improve architectural redundancy and establishing base-reth-node as the sole execution client to further optimize processing efficiency.Furthermore, Base will adopt the latest execution layer specification (Osaka) through Azul, ensuring its technical architecture remains highly consistent with the Ethereum mainnet. Officials emphasized that this upgrade is completely transparent to ordinary users, who do not need to take any action to benefit from the enhanced network environment. As a crucial step toward Base's technological independence, the release of Azul signals that the network is gradually building a differentiated competitive advantage among Layer 2 scaling solutions.

Techub News reports, according to monitoring by @ai_9684xtpa, assets of the Venus protocol attacker showed unusual activity 11 hours ago, with 2,301 Ethereum (worth approximately $5.32 million) transferred to an intermediate address starting with 0xa21. Subsequently, the attacker moved all the aforementioned funds in batches into the privacy mixing protocol Tornado Cash for laundering, attempting to obscure the fund flow. The attacker's address currently still holds Ethereum worth approximately $17.45 million.