THORChain (RUNE) was exploited on May 15, with losses exceeding $10 million across Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, and Base. More than 36.75 BTC (over $3 million) and $3.54 million in ETH were reported lost, while the attacker reportedly consolidated assets by swapping tokens into ETH and sending them to one wallet. After the incident, the protocol paused trading via an emergency halt, and RUNE fell over 15%, with market cap dropping by more than $27 million to around $182 million.

RIVER climbed more than 15% over the past 24 hours, lifting its market cap back above $140 million and pushing to an intraday high of $7.77. The move followed a breakout from a month-long range after a drop to a year-to-date low of $4.33, with $7 now acting as a key area for bulls to defend. Derivatives and on-chain metrics pointed to both short-covering support and rising sell activity that could set up a pullback if price slips back below $7.

LAB is under renewed scrutiny after about 100 million LAB—valued at $480.33 million—was distributed across 10 wallets from Bitget, representing over 32% of circulating supply. The team-linked wallets are said to control around 98% of circulating supply while more than 19K holders share roughly 2%, as LAB hit $6.63 ATH and a $1.61 billion market cap before a ~42% cap drop followed comments from ZachXBT.

The NFT sector posted a sharp rebound in the last 24 hours, with market capitalization up by more than 15% to $4.312 billion. Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) topped a 10.88 ETH floor price and saw trading activity increase, alongside broader gains in several collections and marketplaces. Weekly sales count jumped from 6,360 to 10,371, even as weekly sales volume slipped 11.43% to about $16.80 million.

Morpho’s total value locked climbed to $11.78 billion, positioning it as the second-largest DeFi lending protocol as users reassessed risk following KelpDAO’s hack. Aave was left with $200 million in bad debt while Morpho’s exposure was $1 million across two isolated markets, alongside Morpho metrics including $4 billion in active loans and $175 million in annualized fees.

DeepBook (DEEP) led gains among the top 200 crypto assets, rising more than 23% over the last 24 hours while the broader market was up about 0.70%. The move followed DeepBook's launch of its prediction-market product, Predict, alongside a waitlist release. Daily trading volume surged by 976% to above $60 million, even as whale profit-taking and concentrated token ownership raised caution.

World Liberty Financial (WLFI) bounced from its all-time low of $0.0512 after a major governance proposal passed with 99.9% voting YES and plans to restructure and unlock over 62 billion tokens. The token now faces key resistance at $0.0744 and $0.0824, while ongoing exchange distributions and reported selling activity could weigh on whether the uptrend can hold.

Centrifuge (CFG) rose 12% over the past 24 hours after the project said it would expand to Base Chain and enable trading of tokenized S&P 500 exposure as a new asset class. Price moved from $0.14 to $0.172, while on-chain indicators also strengthened, including TVL rising to $1.6 billion from $1.2 billion and total holders reaching 9,111.

Chainlink [LINK] saw the count of whales holding well over 1 million LINK increase from 100 in April 2025 to 125 in April 2026, even as price action stayed bearish. The Chainlink Reserve added 137,004 LINK (worth $1.17 million) and reached 2.93 million LINK valued at $25.6 million, while LINK has ranged since early February and could revisit 2025 highs near $27 if it breaks above resistance.