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Written by: a16z crypto
Translated by: AididiaoJP, Foresight News
AI Agents are rapidly evolving from auxiliary tools into genuine economic participants at a pace far beyond other types of infrastructure.
Although Agents can now carry out tasks and execute trades, they still lack standardized ways across environments to prove “who I am,” “what I’m authorized to do,” and “how I should be paid.” Identity can’t be migrated, payments aren’t yet inherently programmable by default, and collaboration is still siloed.
Blockchain is solving these problems from the infrastructure layer. Public ledgers provide audit-ready proof for every transaction that anyone can verify; wallets give Agents portable identities; and stablecoins become another settlement layer. These are not concepts of the future—they are already available today and can help Agents operate permissionlessly as true economic participants.

Written by: Liam 'Akiba' Wright
Translated by: Saoirse, Foresight News
The theft of $292 million worth of rsETH from KelpDAO occurred at a highly unfavorable time for the DeFi industry. Prior to this, the market confidence had already been severely damaged by the security breach of Drift Protocol on April 1 and the collapse of the Venus lending protocol in March. After this incident, approximately $10 billion in funds withdrew from the DeFi sector over the entire weekend.
The stacking of multiple crises has made the difficulties faced by DeFi increasingly unavoidable. Although the open-source decentralized financial system still exists, it is gradually losing its core position as the default on-chain financial gateway. Stablecoins, tokenized government bonds, and compliant settlement channels continue to expand rapidly, but

STRC has fallen below its $100 face value since April 15, which may weaken the ability to continuously buy BTC through share issuance. Bitcoin faces the risk of dropping below $70,000. Of the latest 34,164 BTC purchased, approximately 86% came from STRC financing, and during historical pauses in buying, Bitcoin has averaged a decline of about 30%. If the technical flag pattern's lower boundary is broken, the price could fall to $67,000–$69,000; if the 20-day and 50-day EMAs hold, it could rebound to resistance at $78,000.

Author: Ada, Deep Tide TechFlow
On April 20, Fermi’s stock price stalled at $5.4.
Six months ago, this figure was about $37. And it only just IPO’d last October.
A company less than 12 months old—zero revenue, zero tenants, and no standout products to speak of—yet raised $785 million on Nasdaq, with a market cap once reaching $12.5 billion.
But on the same day, the CEO and CFO both stepped down; construction halted; insiders sold $68 million worth of shares; short-selling institutions released reports accusing it of fraud; and a securities class action has already been filed.
This is the first major collapse of the AI power narrative.
“World No. 1” in the Texas wilderness
Fermi’s story began in early 2025.
Former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick P

According to CoinDesk, Fireblocks will be responsible for issuing and distributing the Qivalis consortium's euro stablecoin, which is scheduled to launch in the second half of 2026, regulated by the Dutch Central Bank, and compliant with MiCAR requirements. Qivalis members include 12 European banks such as BBVA, BNP Paribas, ING, and UniCredit. The global stablecoin market is primarily dollar-based, with euro stablecoins totaling approximately $650 million. Qivalis aims to enhance the application of euro stablecoins in institutional scenarios through compliant products.

Ripple XRPL announces a four-phase roadmap for quantum security, with a full transition to backward-compatible quantum signatures by 2028 at the latest. This includes Q-Day emergency migration, quantum risk assessment and NIST testing in 2026, Devnet integration of candidate post-quantum signatures, and XRPL Amendment to promote network-wide switch. Testing and wallet prototype development have been conducted in collaboration with Project Eleven. Currently, assets do not face immediate risk, but there is a "collect now, decrypt later" risk.

Last week, KelpDAO was hacked for approximately $292 million.
The Arbitrum Security Council, without knowing the hacker's private key, urgently upgraded the Inbox bridge to initiate cross-chain transfers in the hacker's name, transferring $70 million into a frozen address before downgrading to the original version.
It takes nine signatures to activate, and subsequent governance will be handled by the DAO.
This move exposed the common emergency permissions present in Layer 2 solutions and sparked decentralization debates;
The hacker is believed to be North Korea's Lazarus Group, and DeFi attacks are ongoing.

Mantle provides an update on the KelpDAO rsETH incident: the underlying network, official bridge, and core assets remain secure, and the vulnerability is limited to the rsETH configuration, not affecting Mantle contracts or the market. Partial liquidity pressure was caused by cross-chain vulnerabilities, and protective measures will be lifted as appropriate. Since April 18, approximately $204 million of core USD assets have flowed back within 48 hours, and liquidity is gradually recovering. Mantle is collaborating with Aave and other parties on recovery plans and exploring treasury participation, continuously providing substantive progress updates.