- After a sharp recovery since last week, the Spark price faced renewed selling pressure at $0.054 resistance, signaling a potential pullback ahead.
- Spark Protocol recorded approximately $2.4 billion in inflows since last week as capital flew away from Aave amid the Kelp Dao exploit.
- According to the Fibonacci retracement level, the $0.04 and $0.035 horizontal levels stand as key pullback support for SPK
While a majority of major cryptocurrencies struggle to drive a sustainable recovery amid geopolitical uncertainty and recent DeFi hack, Spark price emerged as a star performer for crypto investors. Within a week, the SPK price bounced from $0.022 to its current trading value of $0.445, registering a gain of 102%. A primary catalyst for this surge was capital rotation away from AAVE to Sparklend, significantly boosting its network activity and trading volume. However, is the hack-driven rally over Spark price, or does the recovery have more to grow?
Spark Gains $2.4B Inflows as AAVE Struggles With Post-Exploit Fallout
On April 18, 2026, the liquid restaking protocol Kelp DAO faced a significant security breach, which caused a loss of roughly 116,500 rsETH worth about $292 million. Later, these funds were moved to AAVE as security to borrow $190M-$236M of liquid assets. As these unbacked rsETH were worthless, AAVE incurred a high bad debt, which also pushed its ETH pool utilization to 100%, restricting withdrawals for other users.
The resulting liquidity crisis and panic withdrawals triggered a $16.2 billion outflow from AAVE’s total deposit supply. A substantial liquidity shift has occurred since mid-April in the decentralized lending environment as investors withdraw from Aave and deposit into Spark. Inflows to Spark have jumped by $2.4 billion, which represents about 15% of the total outflows from Aave during the same period. This shift is being driven by institutional-level activity, with 20 distinct blockchain addresses holding more than $20 million in Spark’s TVL.
Much of this movement is a result of systemic flows between the two. The Spark PSM stands out as a primary conduit, acting as both a top-tier depositor for Spark and a lead entity in Aave redemptions. Specialised DeFi platforms are also following suit; Mellow Finance has channelled its entire $180 million withdrawal from Aave to Spark, with Instadapp contributing over $88 million.
In addition, a wide range of private “whale” wallets are abandoning Aave for improved efficiency. This movement reflects an enduring demand for sophisticated lending protocols and yield-generating strategies in Spark.
Key Fibonacci Retracement Support to Watch Amid Spark Price Correction
Following a significant price recovery, the Spark SPK-1.61% coin faced an intense supply wall at a multi-month resistance of $0.054. The renewed selling pressure pushed the coin price 15.8% down during Friday’s U.S. market hours to currently trade at $0.043.
However, such post-rally pullbacks are common in financial markets as they allow buyers to recoup the exhausted bullish momentum. According to the Fibonacci retracement level, the price pullback has already dropped below the 38.2% FIB retracement level, and can now chase the next significant support of 50% FIB at $0.04, followed by 61.8% FIB at $0.035.
A pullback to these levels will still maintain the Spark price position above the 200-day EMA slope, maintaining the broader bullish sentiment in price. If the buyers managed to defend the aforementioned support in current market uncertainty, the Spark price could rebound again and rechallenge the $0.054 resistance.
On the contrary, a bearish breakdown below the $0.035 will reflect weakness in buyers’ conviction.
