KelpDAO is shutting down rsETH bridging support across 19 networks, urging users to return assets to Ethereum mainnet before the June 15 deadline

Six Aave deployments got WETH LTVs back to pre-incident levels while Kelp is cutting the long-tail rsETH routes, which is the cleanup pattern: keep collateral usable where lending depth exists, kill everywhere else. After 116,500 forged rsETH forced a 117,132 rsETH refill into the LayerZero OFT adapter, every bridge route became an insurance line against another verifier/RPC failure. The $100 post-deadline recovery fee will make dust balances sell locally, so rsETH/ETH basis on deprecated L2 pools is the thing to watch before June 15.

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