$292 million, another nine-figure amount.

Kelp DAO's rsETH cross-chain issue, LayerZero and Unichain all paused, security experts intervened urgently. This process has become so familiar it’s like a template—

Detect anomaly → Pause contract → Joint investigation → Tweet reassurance → Wait for autopsy report.

Ryan Sean Adams said, "Hacker attack frequency has reached an all-time high, AI has given hackers dark superpowers"—the statement is a bit sensational, but not without reason.

AI is indeed changing the landscape of offense and defense:

Offensive side: AI can automatically scan smart contract vulnerabilities, generate attack vectors, simulate transaction paths, compressing what used to take top security researchers weeks to discover into a few hours.

Defensive side: Audit processes have not kept pace. Contract deployment cycles, the complexity of cross-chain bridges, the fragmentation of L2 ecosystems—each layer is a new attack surface.

Cross-chain bridges are the hardest hit, and this isn’t the first time. Ronin, Wormhole, Nomad, Multichain… behind each name are losses of hundreds of millions of dollars.

rsETH is a re-staked token; cross-chain itself is a high-risk operation—staking an already staked asset across chains adds layers of protocol risk.

$292 million.

It’s not the money of individual retail investors, but the funds of all users within the protocol.

DeFi’s “trustless” system ultimately still relies on trusting the code. And code, there will always be someone who finds vulnerabilities before you do. #Gate13周年 $RAVE