Odaily News Galaxy Digital's retail platform GalaxyOne has launched a crypto portfolio credit line, allowing qualified customers to borrow cash using Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and staked SOL as collateral without selling their assets. This product supports combining multiple crypto assets as collateral, offering loans in USD or USDC through a single revolving credit line with no fees and an annual interest rate of 8.99%. It does not involve collateral re-staking and is initially available in 40 U.S. states. Zac Prince, Managing Director of GalaxyOne, stated that the product leverages Galaxy's institutional-grade infrastructure.

Odaily News: Ethereum treasury company Sharplink (Nasdaq: SBET) announced it will stake $200 million worth of ETH through Lido, Ethereum's largest liquid staking protocol, to enhance returns on its ETH holdings.Sharplink stated that following this staking, the company will receive wrapped staked ETH (wstETH), which represents staked ETH and its rewards, with institutional-grade digital asset custodian Anchorage Digital responsible for custody. This allocation will further expand Sharplink's existing ETH staking and restaking strategies.Lido is currently one of Ethereum's largest liquid staking protocols, with approximately $16.5 billion in ETH staked on the platform. Its wstETH token has been integrated by over 100 protocols, with roughly $10 billion currently used as DeFi collateral. While holding wstETH, users' underlying ETH continues to accrue staking rewards and can still be utilized within the Ethereum DeFi ecosystem.Sharplink CEO Joseph Chalom stated that introducing Lido will further enhance the productivity of the company's ETH assets, leveraging wstETH's composability while maintaining institutional-grade risk management standards. This collaboration will strengthen the diversification of the company's treasury strategy and provide access to one of the most liquid and widely used assets in the Ethereum DeFi ecosystem.Vasiliy Shapovalov, Executive Director of the Lido Labs Foundation, stated that Sharplink's increased use of Ethereum's native staking protocols and DeFi ecosystem reflects its support for the Ethereum application ecosystem. (Globenewswire)

Odaily星球日报讯 Ether.fi has removed the restaking feature from its main token weETH, making it a standard Ethereum staking token, and has transferred the restaking function to the new token weETHs. Following the adjustment, users can choose to earn standard staking rewards through weETH or gain exposure to higher-yield, higher-risk restaking through weETHs. This change comes as Ethereum researchers have proposed a plan to reduce staking rewards to zero once staking participation exceeds a certain threshold, and the founder of Ether.fi has stated that the proposal would impact small stakers and staking-based products.

Odaily Odaily reports that according to Onchain Lens monitoring, after making over $1 million in profit today, a whale has re-staked 115,000 HYPE. The address holds 115,000 HYPE staked, a balance of 100,000 HYPE, and $1.1 million USDC; today, it closed a short position of $3.5 million MU, profiting $439,100, and closed a short position of $2.42 million SKHX, profiting $581,900. Address: 0x7fa9a4ab0849063241c757394b74f55f61a0211b.

Odaily, Mitchell Amador, CEO of bug bounty platform Immunefi, stated at the WAIB Summit that new AI models such as Claude Opus 4.8 and ChatGPT 5.5 are shifting the balance of cybersecurity offense and defense in favor of attackers, leading to a resurgence in crypto hacks in 2026. Data from DefiLlama shows that in April 2026, illicit actors stole over $634 million from crypto platforms, the highest monthly total since the Bybit hack in February 2025 drove losses of approximately $1.4 billion.Amador stated that the crypto industry is in a critical survival period for the next three to four years until security teams leverage similar AI models to build codebases that attackers cannot breach; if the industry adopts more crowd-sourced security solutions, this timeline could be shortened to within two years. The latest Claude Mythos model, Fable 5, from AI company Anthropic, previously raised concerns about accelerating the ability to exploit crypto vulnerabilities.Anthropic stated that Fable 5 has safeguards in place that will redirect topics related to cybersecurity and similar fields to Claude Opus 4.8. On April 19, an attacker transferred approximately 116,500 restaked Ethereum (rsETH) from Kelp DAO's LayerZero-based rsETH bridge, valued at around $290 million to $293 million at the time. Cross-chain protocol LayerZero stated that the 1/1 decentralized verification network configuration of Kelp DAO relied on a single verification path for processing cross-chain messages, creating a single point of failure. (Cointelegraph)

According to Odaily, crypto analyst EmberCN (@EmberCN) reported that 11 hours ago, Kraken redeemed 50,600 ETH from the restaking project EigenCloud (formerly EigenLayer), valued at approximately $107 million.EmberCN noted that the total TVL in the restaking sector has dropped from approximately $31 billion in August 2025 to the current level of around $11 billion. Among them, EigenCloud, as the sector leader, has also seen its TVL decline from about $22 billion to $5.5 billion.

Odaily reported that mETH Protocol has announced it will gradually wind down operations of its liquid restaking token (LRT), cmETH, in order to refocus on the long-term direction of the protocol. According to the official statement, aside from cmETH, all other mETH Protocol products will continue to operate normally. cmETH holders can still proceed with redemptions and cross-chain operations, while mETH stakers do not need to take any action.Official disclosures reveal that since its launch, cmETH had grown to become one of the most integrated LRTs, with a peak TVL of $620 million. However, after reassessing the current development of the restaking sector, the team believes that shutting down cmETH is a more prudent choice. The timeline is as follows:Starting May 7, 2026, the cmETH minting function has been disabled;Around mid-June 2026, the final EigenLayer reward distribution will take place;On November 7, 2026, the window for claiming historical cmETH activity rewards will officially close.

Odaily reports that Kelp DAO has announced the migration of its restaking token rsETH to Chainlink CCIP, citing enhanced security as the reason for this move. Previously, a cross-chain bridge built by Kelp DAO on LayerZero was attacked on April 18, with hackers stealing approximately 116,500 rsETH, valued at around $292 million, and using the assets as collateral to borrow WETH on Aave v3.Regarding the cause of the vulnerability, LayerZero previously stated that the issue stemmed from Kelp DAO using a single DVN verification path configuration rather than multiple independent verifications. Kelp DAO responded that this configuration was the default setting and that LayerZero had confirmed its security without flagging any related risks. LayerZero CEO Bryan Pellegrino subsequently denied this claim, stating that Kelp DAO had proactively modified the default multi-DVN configuration. Both parties continue to dispute responsibility for the incident. (Cointelegraph)

Odaily reported that according to Lookonchain monitoring, Bitmine, under Tom Lee, restaked 98,352 ETH, worth approximately $229 million, 4 hours ago.Currently, Bitmine has staked a total of 3,587,821 ETH, valued at approximately $8.35 billion, accounting for 72.1% of its total holdings.

Odaily News, Spark's strategy lead monetsupply.eth posted on X, stating that as the stablecoin market begins to face a liquidity shortage, the situation is entering a more dangerous phase, in my opinion. Approximately 16.5% of the ETH market is backed by rsETH. If losses on rsETH-backed loans are shared across the mainnet and external chains, they could face a 10% to 15% cut in emode, with the remaining 2% to 3% cut left for ETH suppliers to flatten the umbrella structure. ETH suppliers naturally tend to exit as soon as possible to avoid this risk, so utilization is locked at 100%, and the borrowing rate is insufficient to incentivize the repayment of unrelated LST loops (wstETH, weETH) to release liquidity. Since ETH cannot be withdrawn, users who borrowed stablecoins like USDT using ETH as collateral cannot close their positions even when stablecoin borrowing rates rise, which cuts off the typical incentive mechanisms that maintain market health. Currently, there are two unhealthy incentives causing market utilization to be locked at 100%:1) ETH holders cannot close positions to maintain a healthy LTV, and liquidators cannot atomically withdraw or sell collateral. A drop in the ETHUSD price could lead to bad debt.2) Users supplying USDT, in order to exit their holdings, tend to maximize borrowing of other stablecoins. This position is currently generating positive yield (temporarily), so the exit cost is low; if conditions worsen, they can recover at least 75% of the position's value.The bottom line is that for these pooled/restaking lending markets to function properly, liquidity must be maintained at all costs. The recent weakening of the slope2 for Aave's maximum borrowing rate is having a negative impact and significantly increasing the risk of cascading market failure.