Digital Assets Attract Record $1.4 Billion in Weekly Inflows, DeFi Security Incidents Drive TVL to One-Year Low

BroadChain has learned that at 11:16 on April 21, according to PANews, digital asset investment products recorded approximately $1.4 billion in net inflows last week, marking the strongest weekly performance since January this year and maintaining net inflows for the third consecutive week. Among these, Bitcoin products saw inflows of about $1.116 billion, while Ethereum products recorded inflows of approximately $328 million. The U.S. market experienced inflows of around $1.5 billion, whereas Switzerland saw net outflows of about $138 million. Meanwhile, the DeFi sector has recently witnessed frequent security incidents, with cumulative losses exceeding $600 million over the past three weeks. Among these, the Kelp DAO cross-chain bridge vulnerability incident involved approximately $292 million, causing the total value locked (TVL) in DeFi to drop to a one-year low of about $82.4 billion. The Aave platform may face potential bad debt risks of up to $230 million due to this incident. In other developments, MicroStrategy, led by Michael Saylor, increased its holdings by 34,164 Bitcoins last week, with a total expenditure of approximately $2.54 billion; Bitmine added 101,627 ETH to its holdings; Coinbase is in discussions with Bybit regarding asset tokenization cooperation; the Abu Dhabi platform KAIO completed an $8 million funding round; and the x402 protocol incubated by Coinbase launched the AI agent application store Agent.market. Additionally, the U.S. CFTC and SEC have jointly proposed to raise the reporting threshold for private funds to reduce compliance burdens.