Kelp DAO got hacked for $300 million.


That's not the biggest news. The real headline is what happened next: $5.4 billion in funds were pulled from Aave in just a few hours.
A restaking protocol had an issue, triggering a bank run on the largest lending platform in DeFi. What does this tell us? Restaking is no longer a standalone track—it's deeply intertwined with the entire DeFi credit chain.
The EigenLayer ecosystem's TVL once surged to $28.5 billion, and everyone was shouting "too big to fail." Now we know: it's not too big to fail, it's too big to contain.
A vulnerability in a middle-layer protocol can cause top-tier protocol funds to evaporate overnight. This is the real systemic risk.
What decentralized finance fears most has never been regulation—it's the combinability turning into contagion.
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