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According to reports, on May 7, Aave liquidated all 116,500 rsETH positions held by the Kelp DAO attacker. As part of the recovery plan, Aave temporarily manipulated the oracle price through a governance vote to complete the forced liquidation. The collateral from the liquidation will be transferred to the Recovery Guardian multi-signature address managed by DeFi United and used to restore the rsETH asset backing and compensate affected users. Currently, DeFi United has raised more than $320 million. On April 28, suspected North Korean hackers exploited a vulnerability in the LayerZero bridge to mint 116,500 rsETH and conducted cross-protocol lending arbitrage.

Golden Ten Data, May 7 – An Axios reporter has denied allegations of collusion between Axios and market insiders. The accusations claim that before Axios published reports on the "US-Iran agreement" and the "14-point agreement," short positions in crude oil had already been established on the CME. As oil prices plummeted due to this news, those positions turned out to be highly profitable.

At Consensus 2026, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson stated that AI agents will dominate internet search, commerce, and activities by 2035, disrupting the core business models of Google, Amazon, and Facebook. He pointed out that AI agents will not click on ads or have brand loyalty, and will also handle crypto tasks such as due diligence, trade execution, and DeFi interactions. He called on crypto users to directly control their data, identity, and assets, and criticized ecosystem fragmentation and poor user experience, while also mentioning that institutions such as JPMorgan adopting blockchain demonstrates signs of industry maturity.