Scroll cuts costs after losing top protocol to Optimism, triggering $160M TVL outflows and $13M revenue hit as DAO moves to dissolve security council

85% TVL concentration in one protocol was always a single point of failure — but what happened after ether.fi left is worse than the exit itself. Scroll cranked its gas oracle L1 fee multipliers 1,280x, extracting $50K in excess costs from remaining users before quietly rolling it back on April 9. That's not cost normalization after losing a subsidy anchor — it's squeezing the last drops from a chain now doing $370/day in fees with under 4K daily actives. Dissolving the security council to hand upgradeability back to an internal team while framing it as "governance streamlining" is the kind of move you make when there's nobody left to object.

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