Grayscale filed an S-1 with the SEC on Feb 13, 2026, to convert its AAVE Trust into an ETF, competing with Bitwise. The ETF would list on NYSE Arca, with Coinbase as custodian, charging a 2.5% sponsor fee paid in AAVE. AAVE market cap ~$1.8B.
Grayscale updated its assets-under-consideration list on April 10, adding more than 20 tokens across smart contracts, DeFi, infrastructure and AI, including TON, HYPE, ENA and MON. The firm said inclusion does not guarantee a future investment product.
Crypto market cap slips to $2.59T; BTC down 1.4%, ETH down 2.6%. The rsETH hack pulls over $5.4B from Aave, prompting bridge suspensions. Pieverse jumps 80%; Fear & Greed edges up to 29.
A Beyblade officially priced at NT$295 was resold for as much as NT$2,500 in Taiwan, as shortages, purchase limits, and adult collectors turned the toy into a fast-moving resale market.
Standard Chartered initiates coverage on Aave with a $3,500 price target by 2030, implying a 50x upside. The bank highlights Aave's recovery from a hack and its exposure to the RWA tokenization trend.
An attacker exploited Kelp DAO's LayerZero bridge, stealing 116,500 rsETH (≈$292M, 18% of supply). Fake cross-chain messages triggered the release. Aave, Lido, Ethena froze or paused related markets. The exploit is the largest DeFi hack of 2026 so far.
An Aave user received only 324 AAVE after confirming a $50 million USDT swap with a 99% price impact. Aave said it will return about $600,000 in fees and contact the user.
Aave founder Stani Kulechov announced that the AWW proposal passed governance voting by a landslide, redirecting all application-layer product revenue to the DAO and positioning AAVE as the sole core asset, targeting growth from $40B to $1T in protocol scale.
