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The KelpDAO exploit allowed an attacker to siphon unbacked rsETH tokens and deposit them into Aave, triggering one of the sharpest...
Following a breach by suspected North Korea-backed hackers, KelpDAO’s liquid restaked token, rsETH, depegged from ether. Flare CPO...
Gordon Liao, Circle’s Chief Economist, submitted a governance proposal on April 22, 2026, calling on Aave to raise USDC borrow rat...
DeFi is having one of its most difficult weeks in recent memory. What started as a single exploit on April 19 has since cascaded i...
The wallet linked to the Kelp DAO exploit appears to have laundered most of the $175 million worth of stolen Ether, while another...
The wallet linked to the Kelp DAO exploit appears to have laundered most of the $175 million worth of stolen Ether, while another...
CertiK has urged crypto users not to overlook basic security practices as major crypto hacks spiked in April.
CertiK has urged crypto users not to overlook basic security practices as major crypto hacks spiked in April.
John Bollinger, the creator of Bollinger Bands, used a sharply worded post on X on April 21 to argue that Bitcoin, XRP and the bro...
Aave’s supplied balance tanked after the Kelp DAO bridge exploit, as users pulled funds amid uncertainty over how much of the shor...
Volo Protocol, a liquid staking and BTCFi platform on the Sui blockchain, confirmed a $3.5 million security exploit this week, tie...
Aave’s supplied balance tanked after the Kelp DAO bridge exploit, as users pulled funds amid uncertainty over how much of the shor...
DPRK-linked crypto theft topped $578M in April after the Kelp DAO exploit, as attacks continue to expand across protocols, compani...
Volo Protocol has confirmed a $3.5 million exploit affecting select vaults, adding that it has frozen assets and started fund reco...
Blockchain analyst Wenzhao Dong observed that the Lazarus Group demonstrated a sophisticated grasp of market liquidity. Rather tha...
Arbitrum’s Security Council has frozen 30,766 ETH tied to the KelpDAO exploit, moving the funds out of an address on Arbitrum One...
A cross-chain message forgery drained 116,500 restaked ether from KelpDAO on April 18, triggering what Cardano founder Charles Hos...
North Korea’s Lazarus Group is preliminarily attributed with draining approximately $292 million in rsETH from KelpDAO on April 18...