Hyperliquid hitting a 6.9% OI share vs CEXs is a new high and a clear continuation of the same trend.

We last saw this level in August 2025, but the difference now is structural. Liquidity is deeper, execution is tighter, and traders are more comfortable holding risk on-chain.

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General
➖ Crypto.com: Research Roundup Newsletter (April 2026)
➖ Crypto.com: Crypto Card Consumer Spending Insights 2025
➖ Binance: Navigating Crypto: Industry Map
➖ Galaxy: Weekly Top Stories - 04/10/26
➖ Galaxy: Beyond the Flywheel: How DATs Can Reinvent Themselves

Market
➖ CoinShares: Market update | April 10th, 2026
➖ CoinShares: Equities update | April 13th, 2026
➖ CoinShares: Digital Asset Fund Flows | April 13th, 2026
➖ Crypto.com: Market Update (March 2026)
➖ CoinGecko: Spot CEX Report 2026
➖ Glassnode: BTC Market Pulse: Week 16

DeFi
➖ DL Research: The SlowFi Thesis: Why Bitcoin’s friction could power the next DeFi summer
➖ Binance: The Convergence of DeFi, TradFi and CeFi

Blockchains & networks
➖ 4pillars: Monthly EIP - Mar 2026 (ft. Ethereum’s Unforkable Identity)

There's been a regime shift in prediction markets.

Polymarket dominated for most of 2024, but now we're seeing Kalshi steadily gaining market share. What's most notable about this is Opinion's sudden growth spurt, which seems to have come out of nowhere.

ETH spot ETFs finally printing inflows again after five straight months of outflows, with +$118M in April breaking a $2.8B bleed.

It is not a massive number, but the shift in direction still matters. With $11.68B cumulative inflows and nearly $13B in assets, the base is already there. Institutional demand paused, and now it is starting to come back.

AAVE is down ~11.5% over the past month, but DACM keeps accumulating into weakness instead of de-risking.

They pulled another 2.39K AAVE off Binance, bringing the position to ~13.7K with zero sells across both wallets.

I see the deliberate positioning. When a player keeps moving assets off exchange during drawdowns, it usually signals conviction and a longer time horizon.

RWAs crossed $20B outstanding, but only ~9% actually gets used inside DeFi.

Most pools sit underutilized, with tight risk parameters and thin liquidity keeping borrowing activity low. The mismatch is structural. DeFi rails were built around assets like ETH and BTC, where pricing, liquidation, and liquidity are continuous. RWAs come with slower settlement, offchain dependencies, and legal constraints that do not fit that model cleanly.

Until those frictions get abstracted away, RWAs will keep growing on paper faster than they get used onchain.

If you live in the EU and have ever tried to bridge between crypto <> fiat, you'll understand what I'm talking about.

You wire money to an exchange via SEPA, wait a few days to finalize the transaction, buy your tokens, and then withdraw them to your own wallet. Fees at every step, multiple days before you actually hold anything. The same goes for offramping, often even worse & longer.

WeChangeApp is here to make fiat <> crypto bridging as seamless as possible. You KYC once, pick what you want to buy, and once your wire clears, the crypto goes straight to your wallet in minutes.

It's fully noncustodial, so no platform is sitting on your funds in between.

It's fully regulated in the EU with an MiCA license. The infrastructure itself runs on Bridge for payment rails and Fireblocks for security.

If you're in the EU and the current system annoys you, worth a look.

Lighter is moving beyond being a venue and opening up its rails to other builders.

The Partner Attribution program already has a real use case with Wallet in Telegram plugging into its backend for perps. Liquidity is being subsidized aggressively. $250K a week going to market makers on RWA books shows where they want depth, especially in commodities and equity perps.

What matters now is distribution. If more apps route flow through Lighter, it starts looking like shared infrastructure rather than a standalone exchange.

Arbitrum Timeboost has pulled in over $6M in fees, so the mechanism is clearly getting used. It is doing its job on congestion and MEV, but the demand side is still narrow.

Most of the auction wins come from just four entities. That points to a market where speed and infra still matter more than open participation.

More players will show up once the edge compresses. Right now it still pays to be early and well-equipped.

Tokenized equities on Solana jumped from ~$2.5M to $22M+ daily since January, with ~$630M in March.

That pace usually shows a new flow finding a home. What stands out is where this activity lands. Solana keeps absorbing anything that needs speed and tight execution, from memes to perps and now equities.

Feels like traders are not switching venues for each category anymore. They are staying in one place and trading everything there.

Ondo picking up momentum on BNB Chain is showing up directly in the numbers.

Tokenized equities there are up close to 10x YTD, and CRCLon already crossed $130M, which is meaningful for a single name on a newer venue. BNB Chain tends to attract more retail flow and faster rotation, so equities there behave closer to tradable assets than long-term allocations.

Looks like tokenized stocks are starting to fragment by user base. Ethereum holds deeper liquidity, Solana captures flow, and BNB Chain is carving out a more trading-heavy niche.

PANW operating income up 59% YoY and the trend is still pushing higher.

That kind of growth at this scale usually means pricing power is holding and demand isn’t slowing. Cybersecurity keeps behaving like a non-cyclical spend. Companies cut elsewhere, but not here.

Grvt going from negligible share to ~3.1% of perp DEX OI with a 26x jump while the market itself only did 4x stands out.

That kind of divergence usually means one thing: they found a pocket of demand others were not serving well. Either UX, liquidity routing, or a specific trader segment clicked.

Still early. 3% share is meaningful growth, but the real signal is whether they can hold it once competitors react and liquidity spreads back out.

BTC funding just pushed to its most negative levels since 2023.

That usually means positioning is heavily skewed short and traders are paying to stay there.

In past cycles, extremes like this lined up with local lows. Not every time, but often enough to watch closely.

Aave hitting 100% utilization across core markets is what a real liquidity crunch looks like.

Roughly $5B in USDT and USDC can’t be withdrawn after whales pulled billions post-rsETH exploit, leaving late depositors stuck while exit liquidity vanished in hours.

At full utilization, liquidations break down. If prices move, the protocol cannot unwind positions, which increases the chance of new bad debt on top of the ~$200M already in question.

This changes how risk gets priced in DeFi. Yield no longer compensates only for smart contract risk, it now includes liquidity lock risk, governance decisions, and how fast large players can drain a market.

That map shows where tokenization is actually sticking.

Stablecoins and commodities are still dominated by a few names, mostly USDT, USDC, and gold wrappers. Funds and equities look very different, the capital is spreading across many issuers, strategies, and rails.

Once distribution fragments, competition moves from liquidity to product design and access. That is where most of the next growth will come from.

Stacks has distributed over 3,600+ BTC to users stacking $STX.

Stacks has been running ~10% APY BTC rewards through its Stacking mechanism (lock STX, earn BTC) for 131 cycles, and now they're heading into something bigger.

They're building the first Self-Custodial Bitcoin Staking infrastructure:

You hold your BTC, earn yield in BTC. The more STX you commit to staking, the higher your BTC yield.

This way, STX becomes the access pass to BTC yield without giving up custody. The first clear demand driver for the asset that actually ties back to Bitcoin.

There's no need to "wait for traction" cause it's already there:

→ $500M+ sBTC TVL at ATH
→ Near ATH monthly transactions
→ February 2026 hit the highest new accounts since 2023
→ Ecosystem apps like Bitflow, Zest, and Hermetica are actively building on top of Stacks

2026 hacks so far:

• April
KelpDAO: $290M
Drift: $285M
Hyperbridge: $2.5M

• March
ResolvLabs: $25M
Sillytuna: $24M
Kraken whale: $18M
Venus: $2.18M

• February
IoTeX Bridge: $4.4M

• January
Trezor victim: $284M
Step Finance: $30M
Truebit: $26.4M
SwapNet: $13.4M
SagaEVM: $7M
MakinaFi: $4.1M

Total sits around $1B. The scale explains why security is now priced into everything from yields to collateral choices.

Korea still trades a different market.

Around 30% of global volume comes from there, and ~85% of it is in altcoins, with BTC and ETH barely taking share.

That kind of skew changes how flows behave. Price action in alts often starts there, driven by retail rotation and local narratives, then spills into global markets.

After the $292M rsETH exploit, liquidity left Aave fast, but the more telling signal sits in the health factor distribution.

A large share of debt is still clustered around 1.1–1.5, with thinner buffers closer to 1.0 than you would want after a shock.

That means the system stabilized on the surface, but not fully reset underneath. It would not take a large move in collateral to push a meaningful portion of positions into liquidation range. The cascades come from how much leverage is left sitting near the edge afterward.