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When 200 would not make you happy and when peace of mind were above 250
… cause what is this?
Claude explains the $71M @arbitrum clawback:
What this transaction is
Tx: 0x5618...0f6b on Arbitrum, block 454686044, April 21, 2026 03:35 UTC
From: 0x5d39...7Ccc — labeled on Arbiscan as “Kelp DAO Exploiter 1”
To: 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000DA0 — a special system/recovery sink (not the normal 0x...dEaD burn address)
Value: 30,765.667 ETH (~$71M) — effectively the entire Arbitrum-side balance of the attacker’s hub wallet
Tx type: ArbitrumUnsignedTxType (EIP-2718 type 0x65 / 101)
The “type 101” is the key. That is not a user-signed transaction — a normal EOA physically cannot produce one. ArbitrumUnsignedTxType is an ArbOS system transaction that only the chain itself (via the sequencer / ArbOS upgrade path controlled by the Arbitrum Security Council) can inject. It bypasses the attacker’s private key entirely.
The remediation (this tx): Arbitrum’s Security Council used its emergency powers to inject an ArbitrumUnsignedTxType that forcibly moved the attacker’s full 30,765 ETH from the hub address into a protocol-controlled recovery sink (0x...0DA0).
Why it’s “extraordinary”
Arbitrum did not perform a reorg or historical rewrite — the chain’s ordering is intact. Instead, the Security Council used a privileged state-override transaction type that is part of ArbOS but has essentially never been used before. It is functionally a state-level clawback: the attacker’s private key still signs txs, but that address’s ETH was moved by the chain itself.
This is the mechanism Arbitrum’s progressive-decentralization docs reserve for “catastrophic” emergencies (12-of-N Security Council action), and this is one of the clearest public demonstrations of it being invoked. Note that it only recovered the Arbitrum leg of the theft — the ~75,700 ETH on Ethereum is outside Arbitrum’s control and remains with the attacker, which is why Aave is still facing up to ~$230M of potential bad debt on the Ethereum side.
Sources:
Arbiscan tx: https://t.co/gP9TxztB86
Arbitrum Docs — ArbOS / Sequencer forced inclusion: https://t.co/tLra60c8rC
Arbitrum Foundation — progressive decentralization & Security Council: https://t.co/nNGfC4l37M
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Oooh, ghost l2's would now have a way hold access to life support.
This makes me believe chains were never meant to compete for users in the first place.
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Agent payments will soon overtake human payments on the internet. The Machine Payments Protocol (@mpp) is a new open standard co-authored by @stripe and @tempo.
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someone just swapped $50m for $36k on cowswap through aave's frontend, effectively losing 50m
if you try to make this swap on llamaswap the UI won't let you at all, buttons get locked
we've spent years building a price API with the highest coverage of defi tokens to avoid this
With this iran conflict, there’s a lot of news everywhere I think grok could be really useful here. To auto comment on news related posts, so you immediately know if it’s fake news once you open the comment instead of typing “grok is it true”
Well at some point things have to change, if people protest against change then they have no business clamoring for it in the future.
It may put hundreds of informal drivers off the road. But Lagos could start a reabsorption system that diverts people to a different industry.