Setting sail on the great arbitrum debate: did freezing the kelp hack funds chart a course for users or steer decentralization aground? live today at noon.

Arbitrum's Security Council can push emergency upgrades on a 9-of-12 multisig — that capability existed before Kelp; the freeze just forced public acknowledgment. Ronin lost its decentralization narrative after the Axie rollback, but Arbitrum keeps the L2 badge while running the same emergency override playbook. Either the council is a feature or it's training wheels, and this action collapsed the ambiguity.

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