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BlockBeats News, April 25, according to monitoring by EmberCN, starting yesterday the Balancer hacker has been swapping ETH for BTC via THORChain, and has cumulatively exchanged 14,300 ETH for 419.3 BTC (approximately $32.51 million).Currently, the hacker's address holds 7,700 ETH on the Ethereum chain and 419.3 BTC on the Bitcoin chain, with a total value of $50.4 million. This hacker stole assets worth $98 million in November last year, when the price of ETH was about $3,600.

According to Odaily, Onchain Lens monitoring shows that as APE surged by more than 110% in a short period, a suspected insider trader profited over $2.27 million by simultaneously opening both long and short positions. On-chain data reveals that the address initially deposited 75 ETH (approximately $174,000) as margin and opened both long and short positions on APE. Subsequently, they bought 1,027 ETH (about $2.37 million) on the HyperLiquid platform and completed a withdrawal. In addition, they purchased another 26 ETH on-chain, for a total of 1,053 ETH acquired, ultimately achieving a profit of 978 ETH, equivalent to approximately $2.27 million. Due to the precise timing and abnormal returns, this activity has sparked widespread suspicion of insider trading within the community.

```htmlJinse Finance reported that on April 25, Aave, the lending platform directly affected by the rsETH incident, covered 25,000 ETH ($57.75 million) of bad debt itself. The total bad debt deficit amounts to 75,081 ETH. Aave coordinated the establishment of the "DeFi United" initiative to receive aid funds to compensate, and has already secured pledged aid of 69,576 ETH (including loans and donations), leaving only a shortfall of 5,505 ETH.```