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According to ChainCatcher, at the "Crypto 2026: From Cryptocurrency to Intelligent Economy" forum held in Hong Kong, Monera Digital co-founder and CEO Gongye Feng delivered a keynote speech titled "AI-Enabled Private Banking for the Intelligent Economy." Feng pointed out that it was not the demand for digital assets that disappeared after 2022, but rather market confidence in the ways capital enters. Monera Digital positions itself as an AI private bank for the intelligent economy, with its core not being to use AI as a trader, but as an accelerator, shortening the cycle of research, testing, and iteration from months to just days. He emphasized that risk control must be institutionalized rather than personal. Monera has built four lines of defense: controlling exposure and collateral at the source, automated liquidation and margin management, full segregation of client assets, and eliminating maturity mismatch while maintaining a liquidity buffer. In addition, AI serves as a 24/7 digital CRO, enabling a leap from passive monitoring to proactive warning. In terms of service model, Monera does not operate as a purely technical platform but adheres to “anti-AI hallucination”, with AI focusing on optimization and efficiency, while trust, responsibility, and continuity of relationships remain the responsibility of humans. Feng believes that the true prerequisite for crypto assets to become configurable assets is translating complexity into clear, continuous, and trustworthy private banking services.

BlockBeats news, on April 19th, according to on-chain analyst Ashes' monitoring, today the amount of funds withdrawn from Aave has reached 6.6 billion USD, with half (3.3 billion USD) being stablecoins. After a large amount of capital was withdrawn, both deposit and borrowing rates soared, with USDT and USDC stablecoins' deposit rates hitting 13.4% and borrowing rates reaching 15%.

Jinse Finance reported that on April 19, SlowMist Cosine posted an initial analysis of the Kelp theft of 116,500 rsETH on the X platform. He pointed out: Kelp used LayerZero cross-chain with a 1/1 DVN configuration, which is the classic "single signature" setup, whereas the official LayerZero documentation recommends a 2/2 DVN configuration by default. This "single signature single point" may have also fallen victim to social engineering (although this is speculation, pending further investigation). The attacker successfully siphoned 116,500 rsETH on the Ethereum chain and in fact attempted twice more to steal an additional 40,000 rsETH but failed. The attacker's gas fees came from Tornado Cash. Currently, the 116,500 rsETH has been laundered and dispersed, passing the risk on to various staking platforms—especially Aave, which now faces a massive amount of bad debt.