$WSTETH Catalyst Posts
April 18, 2026Single-day social intelligence recap and verified catalyst posts · ← Back to $WSTETH Profile · Market Rankings
💬 Curated Viral Posts & Community Evidence
8 source posts analyzed· 2026-04-18T21:25:40+00:0018% unbacked rsETH entered circulation after being stolen from the team from a bridge's mint/burn holdings. The bridge itself appears unaffected. This makes rsETH roughly 84% backed. The rsETH was lent on Euler, Aave, and Compound and ETH, wstETH, and WBTC were borrowed
· 2026-04-18T23:02:45+00:00SparkLend 107% APY on ETH rn - super safe, only Lido wstETH exposure.
· 2026-04-18T21:37:02+00:00$200M was drained from Aave's rsETH markets following an exploit of Kelp's LayerZero bridge earlier today. The exploiter deposited rsETH, and borrowed 83,427 WETH and wstETH from Aave. The breakdown of extracted assets across Aave instances is: Ethereum 52,834 WETH Arbitrum
· 2026-04-18T20:57:20+00:00stETH and wstETH are unaffected by the rsETH incident. This issue does not impact the Lido staking protocol.
· 2026-04-18T23:50:29+00:00Update: @anthiasxyz has temporarily reduced borrow caps to 0.01 for wstETH, weETH, and rETH Core Markets on Base and OP Mainnet. This is a precautionary measure while the @KelpDAO rsETH exploit is assessed. Caps will be restored once the full impact is understood.
· 2026-04-18T21:04:39+00:00So @LidoFinance just issued a statement: $stETH and $wstETH are unaffected by the $rsETH incident. This issue does not impact the Lido staking protocol.
· 2026-04-18T13:15:00+00:00Several people are asking us why we don't accept yield-bearing tokens like wstETH as collateral. We have nothing against it, or other external assets. Our basic reasoning is that any external dependency becomes a variable that cannot be fully controlled. This is manageable at a
· 2026-04-18T21:01:55+00:00The following Euler Prime pairs have been identified as potentially impacted: rsETH/wstETH rsETH/wETH rsETH/wBTC Origination of new loans using rsETH as collateral has been disabled.