Crypto News. April 13, 2026
Justin Sun accused World Liberty Financial of secretly embedding a blacklist function to freeze user funds claiming he was a victim and demanding accountability while WLFI denied the allegations and said it has evidence to refute them and threatened legal action agent Justin Sun.
Aave’s AWW proposal passed, shifting the protocol to a fully AAVE-centric model where all revenue from Aave App, Pro, Horizon, and Aave Kit flows back to the DAO treasury as additive on top of existing protocol revenue
Polymarket launched pUSD, an ERC-20 collateral token on Polygon backed 1:1 by USDC, replacing the existing deposit system with a more capital-efficient settlement layer
Bitwise filed a second amendment to its Hyperliquid ETF S-1, adding Wintermute and Flowdesk as trading counterparties.
Ether Machine and Dynamix mutually terminated their SPAC merger citing unfavorable market conditions.
ECB endorsed shifting supervision of major crypto firms, trading venues, and clearinghouses from national regulators to ESMA, threatening the MiCA licensing advantages held by Malta, Luxembourg, and Ireland.
Circle is hosting an event in Seoul on April 13 focused on digital dollars and internet-native finance, with a keynote from Jeremy Allaire
US to blockade ships entering or exiting Iranian ports.
World Liberty Finance has pushed WLFI collateral utilization near its 5.1B cap on Dolomite, borrowing ~$40.7M in stables via a USD1–USDC looping structure;
Hackers exploited a Hyperbridge gateway vulnerability to forge messages and mint 1 billion DOT tokens on Ethereum mainnet, netting ~$237K; South Korean exchanges Upbit and Bithumb suspended DOT deposits and withdrawals
Musician G. Love lost 5.9 BTC (~$420,000) after entering his seed phrase into a fake Ledger app downloaded from the Apple App Store; ZachXBT traced the funds being laundered through KuCoin across nine transactions
