Gate News message, April 23 — WBTC announced it is upgrading its cross-chain DVN (Decentralized Verification Network) configuration in response to the recent rsETH incident. The project stated the adjustment is a precautionary measure designed to strengthen security standards for cross-chain

Gate News message, April 22 — Volo Protocol, a yield vault operator on Sui, announced yesterday (April 21) that it has begun freezing stolen assets following a $3.5 million exploit. Hackers looted WBTC, XAUm, and USDG from Volo Vaults, marking the latest major DeFi security breach in a

A coordinated Ethereum phishing attack drained $585,000 from four victims, exploiting user permissions through a deceptive link. This incident highlights the rapid loss of funds via social engineering, even under the guise of legitimacy.

Gate News message, whale address 0x4553 conducted a swap transaction 2 hours ago, exchanging 24,564 ETH valued at $58.34 million for 775.56 WBTC worth $57.73 million and 9.18 cbBTC valued at $683,000.

Gate News message: On April 14, according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi monitoring, four addresses that are suspected to belong to the same whale or entity bought 112.86 WBTC, worth $8.09M, at an average cost of $71,655. The execution times, buying methods, and fund source address operation techniques of these four addresses are highly similar.

Gate News message. On April 11, according to on-chain analyst Ai Aunt monitoring, this morning a bullish whale address 0x0EA...34a54 opened a position at a cost of 72,720.78 USD with $4.7 million worth of WBTC, and has already liquidated and exited about 4 hours ago. At the $72,536 price level, the address sold 64.7 WBTC, incurring a loss of $12,000.

Gate News message, April 11, on-chain data shows that whale traders who “set 10 major targets in advance” have accumulated a WBTC position of $4.7 million since yesterday (April 10), with an average cost of $72,720.78. This address (0x0EA…34a54) previously placed a heavy bet of $270 million to go short; this time is its first position-building operation in about a month.

Gate News message. On April 8, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin’s monitoring, a DeFi whale repaid a 4.14 million DAI loan on Spark about 9 hours before an Israel-Iran ceasefire proposal was agreed upon, then retrieved 264.4 WBTC worth of collateral and transferred it to a certain CEX to sell at a price of about $67,990 per WBTC, for a total value of approximately $17.98 million. Six hours later, the Israel-Iran ceasefire proposal was agreed upon; as a result, the BTC price rose 5%, causing the whale to miss out on about $1 million in potential gains.

Gate News message, April 3, according to Gate market data, as of the time of writing, YB (Yield Basis) is trading at $0.1398. Within the past 24 hours, it has risen 40.20%, with a high of $0.1486 and a low of $0.09923. The total 24-hour trading volume reached $1.2116 million. The current market cap is approximately $12.2908 million. Yield Basis is a DeFi protocol that uses leveraged liquidity and Curve’s crvUSD to increase the returns of BTC and ETH holders, while also aiming to eliminate impermanent loss. The protocol’s total value locked (TVL) currently stands at $170.44 million. It supports multiple markets, including cbBTC, tBTC, WBTC, and WETH,

Gate News message, April 1, the DeFi protocol Spark announced that its lending platform SparkLend has added support for wBTC (Wrapped Bitcoin, a tokenized form of Bitcoin on Ethereum) as collateral. Users can now use wBTC to borrow and lend on the SparkLend platform.