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Lazarus Group fingered in $620M April hack wave — Drift and Kelp DAO drove 95%
April crypto theft hits roughly $620M, with two North Korea-linked exploits accounting for about $577M of the stolen funds.
Why it matters: DPRK is now harvesting crypto faster than US sanctions can squeeze it, signaling DeFi's human-layer is the new attack surface.
- •Drift Protocol lost $285M on April 1 after attackers spent months posing as a trading firm to social-engineer internal teams.
- •Kelp DAO drained for $292M on April 18, stranding wrapped ether across 20 chains in 2026's worst DeFi exploit.
- •April is the worst single hack month since Bybit's February 2025 incident, per Phemex and Live Bitcoin News tallies.
Strategy buys 34,164 BTC for $2.54B — biggest haul since 2024, hoard hits 815K
Michael Saylor's Strategy added 34,164 bitcoin for $2.54 billion, its largest single acquisition since 2024.
CLARITY Act timeline slips into May as Tillis dashes Senate's April hopes
Senator Thom Tillis told reporters the Senate market-structure compromise will not clear in April, pushing the bill into May.
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Bhutan moves 250 BTC; 2026 outflows top $240M as treasury drops 73% from peak
Bhutan moved another 250 BTC on April 13, pushing 2026 outflows above $240 million from its sovereign mining stash, per Arkham data.
Vercel breach sends crypto devs scrambling to rotate API keys
A security incident at hosting provider Vercel forced crypto teams to audit and rotate exposed API keys and deployment secrets across DeFi front ends.