XRP gained about 10% this week, rising from $1.33 to $1.47 and outpacing BTC, ETH, and SOL. On April 15, Rakuten Wallet added XRP as a payment option for roughly 44 million users across Japan, in what is described as the largest real-world payments integration Ripple has secured so far. Spot XRP ETFs extended their streak to three straight inflow days: $1.46M on Monday, $11.2M on Tuesday, and $17.6M on Wednesday—the largest daily intake since February 6. Total XRP ETF assets under management are now around $1B. On-chain data showed whale accumulation reaching a 10-month high over the same period. Price action is also pressing against the $1.45 level, a resistance zone that has stalled every rally so far this year. Markets are watching two near-term catalysts: the Senate Banking Committee's CLARITY Act markup window in late April and the April 22 expiration of the Iran ceasefire.

225,835,797 USDT (US$225,897,902) was transferred from an unknown wallet to Spark.

TRON DAO's native token $TRX, with a market capitalization of more than $31 billion, is now available for trading on Binance.US, expanding direct access to the asset for the exchange's large centralized user base. The listing offers a boost for the Tron community after Tether said its new Wallet product will not support Tron at launch, despite the network hosting significant amounts of $USDT.

Odaily Planet Daily cited on-chain data suggesting Kelp DAO's LayerZero-based rsETH bridge may have been exploited, with 116,500 rsETH reportedly drained, valued at about $292 million. Kelp DAO said it has identified suspicious rsETH cross-chain activity and has paused rsETH contracts on mainnet and multiple Layer 2 networks. The team is working with security specialists and said it will share further updates soon.

RaveDAO said it was not involved in the recent pump in the RAVE token, rejecting any role in the price move. Binance and Bitget have opened investigations into the trading activity surrounding the spike.

Aave has frozen rsETH on both Aave V3 and Aave V4 and set its borrowing power to zero, according to Stani. The move is a precaution tied to a KelpDAO bridge exploit that occurred outside of Aave. Stani added that neither Aave V3 nor Aave V4 has any further exposure to rsETH.

Blockchain data shows 116,200,079 USDC, valued at about US$116,165,451, was transferred from an unidentified wallet to Aave.

On-chain data shows an "Unknown Whale 1" address transferred 103,135,228 USDC, valued at about US$103,099,646, to an unidentified wallet.

On-chain data shows a transfer of 103,135,228 USDC, valued at USD 103,103,617, from Aave to an unidentified whale wallet.