One morning I woke up and saw the news that KelpDAO’s rsETH was hacked, and nearly 300 million USD was directly pocketed. My first reaction was, it’s over—another chain reaction is coming. Sure enough, once the news broke, the entire LayerZero ecosystem panicked.

Look—protocols like Ethena and Lombard that we usually hear about all immediately and urgently paused LayerZero’s cross-chain bridge. Even big-name platforms like Aave and Lido directly froze the rsETH-related markets. The official said users’ money is fine—just a precaution—but with this kind of situation, who wouldn’t be scared?
Honestly, every time I see news like this, I feel both angry and helpless. DeFi has been hyping decentralization, security, and transparency for so long—yet once it comes to cross-chain bridges, it’s just like paper. It tears the moment something happens. In this attack on rsETH, at its core, hackers exploited a vulnerability in the cross-chain bridge, directly increased the token supply, and transferred the tokens out. It’s basically like printing money and running away—how absurd is that, right?
What’s even more frightening isn’t just the money being gone, but this kind of chain reaction. When one protocol has an issue, the whole ecosystem scrambles to hedge—everyone stops functions, freezes assets, and in the end, it’s still ordinary users like us who get hurt. Cross-chain was meant to make things more convenient, but now it’s become the biggest ticking time bomb.
I know many people who trade crypto are always thinking about high returns, chasing “tu dogs,” and doing cross-chain stuff, believing they won’t step on a landmine. But every incident like this reminds us: no matter how high the returns are, you still have to survive and get the gains into your hands first. Nothing beats the saying, “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”
I hope the official can quickly patch the vulnerability this time, so users don’t have to suffer along with it. And it’s also a reminder to everyone—over the past stretch of time, if you can avoid touching LayerZero’s cross-chain bridge, don’t touch it. Just observe for now. Safety first—don’t end up going against your own money.
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