{"id":82895,"date":"2026-04-19T06:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=82895"},"modified":"2026-04-19T06:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:34:13","slug":"whales-are-bailing-why-aave-just-crashed-22-after-the-294m-kelpdao-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=82895","title":{"rendered":"Whales Are Bailing: Why AAVE Just Crashed 22% After the $294M KelpDAO Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The cryptocurrency industry saw the most violent hack of 2026 on Saturday evening when an unknown perpetrator breached KelpDAO\u2019s security and drained almost $300 million worth of its liquid staking token, rsETH.<\/p>\n

They managed to act quickly, depositing the stolen funds into several lending protocols, borrowing money against them, and one of them just experienced a massive investor exodus as its own token crashed hard.<\/p>\n

CryptoPotato<\/em> explained<\/a> in detail the events that took place on Saturday evening from information provided by the security experts at Cyvers. The bad actor compromised KelpDAO\u2019s bridge contract, deposited the stolen rsETH into Aave V3, Compound V3, Euler, and other lending protocols, used it to borrow substantial amounts of WETH, and created more than $236 million in debt.<\/p>\n

Although Aave, alongside SparkLend and a few other protocols, reacted by freezing certain affected markets, it seems investors were more than dissatisfied by the events, especially whales.<\/p>\n

Lookonchain data show that several large market participants holding a sizable portion of AAVE went on a selling spree as the asset\u2019s price started to nosedive. A whale identified as smaugvision sold $2.06 million worth of the token for USDC, another one disposed of $2.05 million, and a third one swapped $1.95 million worth of AAVE for $1.18 million in ETH and 10.11 WBTC.<\/p>\n

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Due to the KelpDAO exploit creating bad debt on #Aave<\/a>, $AAVE<\/a> has dropped over 18% today. \"\ud83d\udea8\"<\/p>\n

Whales are dumping $AAVE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 smaugvision sold 20,015 $AAVE<\/a> for 2.06M $USDC<\/a> at $103 avg.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Whale 0xFC56 sold 20,000 $AAVE<\/a> for 2.05M $USDC<\/a> at $103 avg.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Whale 0xA2E4 sold 19,666 $AAVE<\/a>\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/NUjWxIgdp0<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Lookonchain (@lookonchain) April 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n