rsETH protocol operations have fully resumed.
- The exchange rate was updated at 16:45 CET today, reflecting all staking rewards accrued during the pause.
- EIGEN claims are now distributable to rsETH holders for the full pause window.
- Deposits and withdrawals are live on mainnet and L2’s
- rsETH backing is fully restored.
Details below. 🧵
Kelp and Aave have successfully completed a series of steps for rsETH backing, including burning the exploiter’s rsETH on Arbitrum.
117,132 rsETH will be progressively refilled from Aave Recovery Guardian and Kelp Recovery Safe into the LayerZero OFT adapter on mainnet over the next two weeks. rsETH on Mainnet and L2s remains fully backed at all times.
Kelp will unpause withdrawals, tentatively within 24 hours, after the first tranche to the LayerZero OFT adapter. All rsETH operations - deposits, redemptions, bridging, and claims - will resume as usual after contracts are unpaused.
Last week, we completed a security hardening pass across all LayerZero bridging configurations: verification now requires 4 independent attestors, block confirmations have been raised from 42 to 64, and all L2-to-L2 routes have been deprecated. These changes have been audited by BailSec. We are in the process of migrating to CCIP for further strengthened cross-chain bridging.
Thanks to the @aave team and our DeFi United partners for being the cornerstone of this recovery.
Update on the rsETH recovery.
Judge enabled the Arbitrum recovered funds to be moved to Aave LLC address.
Next steps of the recovery starts by backing the rsETH bridge.
ETH LTV moving back to normal.
Aave never stops fighting for the users and for DeFi.
DeFi United.
Aave service providers have published an Aave DAO governance proposal to contribute 25,000 ETH to the ongoing DeFi United effort.
Aave DAO's ETH contribution would go towards the plan to restore rsETH's backing to try and normalize market conditions as quickly as possible.
DeFi United.
https://t.co/h4LXUqedpP
Another great Aave ecosystem partner, @Mantle_Official, proposes to participate in DeFi United to their DAO.
We look forward to continued collaboration with Mantle and their community.
DeFi United.
Aave is my life's work and we're working nonstop to find the best possible outcome for users.
I’m personally contributing 5000 ETH to DeFi United as we continue working together with partners on formalizing more commitments. I’m working to see this resolved and market conditions normalized as soon as possible.
DeFi United.
The Arbitrum Security Council has taken emergency action to freeze the 30,766 ETH being held in the address on Arbitrum One that is connected to the KelpDAO exploit. The Security Council acted with input from law enforcement as to the exploiter’s identity, and, at all times, weighed its commitment to the security and integrity of the Arbitrum community without impacting any Arbitrum users or applications.
After significant technical diligence and deliberation, the Security Council identified and executed a technical approach to move funds to safety without affecting any other chain state or Arbitrum users.
As of April 20 11:26pm ET the funds have been successfully transferred to an intermediary frozen wallet. They are no longer accessible to the address that originally held the funds, and can only be moved by further action by Arbitrum governance, which will be coordinated with relevant parties.
Update on rsETH incident:
@LlamaRisk has published a report outlining the rsETH incident, the immediate actions taken, its impact on Aave, and potential paths forward.
All service providers have been working to assess the two potential bad debt scenarios on the Aave protocol.
Aave DAO service providers are also leading an effort with ecosystem participants to address any bad debt. This effort already has several indicative commitments from various parties and we are grateful for the strong support we have received so far.
We will share further updates as we have them.
In the meantime, the full report can be read here: https://t.co/jy3BHZCa7b
Earlier today we identified suspicious cross-chain activity involving rsETH. We have paused rsETH contracts across mainnet and several L2s while we investigate.
We are working with @LayerZero_Core, @unichain, our auditors and top security experts on RCA.
We will keep you posted as we learn more about this situation. Please follow only the official @KelpDAO handle for the updates.