On April 19, 2026, Eastern Eight District Time, Alex Thorn, the research director at Galaxy Digital, disclosed a set of data regarding the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Bitcoin addresses: **518 addresses**, which have cumulatively received **249,814 BTC**, sent **239,708 BTC**, and currently still hold a net amount of **9,306 BTC**, estimated to be about **707 million dollars** at that day's value. This scale makes it abstract.

In the early morning of April 19, 2026, East Eight District Time, the Kelp DAO’s rsETH cross-chain bridge based on LayerZero experienced a breach during a carefully exploited contract call, becoming the center of attention across the network. The attacker made an abnormal call to the **lzReceive** function in the LayerZero Endpoint V2 contract, “minting” approximately **116,500 rsETH** out of thin air on the target chain, resulting in an accounting loss of up to **$292–293 million**. This regulation

On April 19, 2026, at East Eight Zone time, a previously obscure Ethereum-based meme coin **ASTEROID** was ignited by a wave of emotions after Elon Musk's statement on social media expressing agreement to make it the mascot of SpaceX. Public data statistics showed that ASTEROID reached a surge of **400%-519%** within 24 hours, with its market capitalization briefly rising to the **130-160 million dollar range**, followed by a slight decline, currently hovering.

Trump stated that U.S.-Iran dialogue is positive, Bitcoin fell to $76,000 due to the situation in the Middle East, the United States sanctioned 518 Bitcoin addresses, the Polish parliament did not overturn the president's veto on the crypto bill, and Japan included digital assets in financial instruments.

An attacker drained 116,500 rsETH, roughly 18% of circulating supply, from Kelp\\\'s LayerZero-powered bridge on Saturday, triggering emergency freezes across Aave, SparkLend, Fluid and Upshift.

Parasite Pool, which pays 1 BTC to the block finder and splits the rest among all participants, mined block 945,601 on Friday, about 48 days after its first.

PANews, April 18 news, on-chain detective ZachXBT previously stated that the "Pump and Dump" behavior of the RAVE token originates from three cryptocurrency exchanges. In response, Binance co-CEO Richard Teng stated on the X platform: "Thank you, ZachXBT, for reporting this matter to Binance. We are currently investigating and will always fulfill our duties to investigate all market misconduct."

The company also disclosed a 4,500 BTC wallet that it can\\\'t access due to missing private keys linked to a former CEO, who\\\'s now missing.

PANews news on April 18 reports that U.S. President Trump stated that there are very good dialogues with Iran, and we are talking with them. They want to close the Strait of Hormuz again, but Iran cannot blackmail us, and there will be some information before the end of today.

Truss criticized central banking and defended her mini-budget, suggesting bitcoin and a CPAC UK conference could help push for economic reform.

PANews April 18 news, in the past week, the market's expectations for the United States and Iran to end the conflict through negotiation have continued to rise. On Friday, after the Iranian Foreign Minister announced the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, market risk appetite further soared. As the temporary ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran is about to expire, the geopolitical situation in the Middle East remains a core variable for the market. Market attention will also focus on the nomination hearing for Federal Reserve Chairman candidate Waller next week, as well as economic data such as U.S. retail sales data and the preliminary value of the manufacturing PMI for April in the U.S. and Europe.

PANews April 18 news, according to Jin Shi reports, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Seyyed Khatibzadeh stated that Iran will never accept the blockade of its ports by the United States or any other "orders" issued by the United States. "There will never be any blockage in the future," he said. "The era of colonialism must end," he added. The United States "cannot issue orders to other countries." In addition, the UK Maritime Trade Operations Office reported that the captain of a tanker reported being approached by two Iranian Revolutionary Guard patrol boats. The patrol boats of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard opened fire on the tanker, which and its crew reported being safe. Three maritime security and shipping sources indicated that at least two commercial vessels reported being shot at while attempting to traverse the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, and the impacts of the gunfire have not yet been clarified.

PANews April 18 news, blockchain analysis platform Arkham announced on the X platform that it has identified the on-chain wallet address of the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust (MSBT), the spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund under Morgan Stanley, becoming the first platform to publicly identify the on-chain BTC holdings of this ETF, allowing users to track the inflows and outflows of funds in real time. According to reports, the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin ETF was listed on NYSE Arca on April 8, with Coinbase and BNY Mellon serving as custodians. According to Arkham's tracking data, it currently holds 1,348 BTC, worth approximately $10.392 million.