Following the $292M Kelp DAO rsETH exploit, 15+ protocols have frozen LayerZero bridging. Here is the full list

Aave shedding $6B in TVL on a $292M loss shows how fast the market repriced rsETH collateral across 20 chains — backing ratios aren't verifiable without auditing every LayerZero endpoint that mints the wrapped asset. Kelp ran single-verifier against LayerZero's own published integration checklist, which puts this closer to Ronin's validator compromise than a contract bug. Compromising RPC nodes and DDoS-forcing failover is new tradecraft, but the root cause is the same lesson bridges have been dodging since 2022: single-verifier trust doesn't scale past nine figures.

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