Kraken’s kBTC and other major protocols are abandoning LayerZero after the Kelp DAO exploit, shifting over $2.5B in TVL to Chainlink’s CCIP for stronger, enterprise-focused cross-chain security.

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116,500 rsETH left the adapter because the verifier saw poisoned RPC state, so cross-chain due diligence now has to price RPC diversity, DVN quorum, and invariant monitors alongside audits. kBTC moving under CCIP gives Kraken a cleaner story for wrapped BTC collateral on Ink, Ethereum, Unichain and Optimism, but it also centralizes distribution around a smaller set of infra vendors. Aave’s rsETH freeze across five deployments is the scar: once a bridge accounting invariant breaks, lending markets become the place losses get warehoused.

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Kraken’s kBTC and other major protocols are abandoning LayerZero after the Kelp DAO exploit, shifting over $2.5B in TVL to Chainlink’s CCIP for stronger, enterprise-focused cross-chain security.

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Kraken’s kBTC and other major protocols are abandoning LayerZero after the Kelp DAO exploit, shifting over $2.5B in TVL to Chainlink’s CCIP for stronger, enterprise-focused cross-chain security.

More on LayerZero

Aave details April's rsETH bridge exploit that forged a LayerZero message, releasing 116,500 unbacked rsETH and triggering a DeFi-wide recovery effort that secured over $300M in commitments

Aave reveals KelpDAO has transferred the second-to-last rsETH batch to the LayerZero lockbox, with full collateral backing expected to be restored Monday

LayerZero publishes a detailed April 18 incident post-mortem with Mandiant and CrowdStrike, hardens partner security, highlights continued usage and TVL, and doubles down on modular, app-controlled security.

Frax expands frxUSD across Tempo and Aave as Morpho vault tops $1M and LayerZero security work advances

Irys queues Ethereum-Irys bridge transfers while LayerZero update adds verification layers

Lombard moves $1B in BTC-backed assets to Chainlink CCIP as LayerZero exodus hits $4B

Aave details April's rsETH bridge exploit that forged a LayerZero message, releasing 116,500 unbacked rsETH and triggering a DeFi-wide recovery effort that secured over $300M in commitments

Aave reveals KelpDAO has transferred the second-to-last rsETH batch to the LayerZero lockbox, with full collateral backing expected to be restored Monday

LayerZero publishes a detailed April 18 incident post-mortem with Mandiant and CrowdStrike, hardens partner security, highlights continued usage and TVL, and doubles down on modular, app-controlled security.

Frax expands frxUSD across Tempo and Aave as Morpho vault tops $1M and LayerZero security work advances

Irys queues Ethereum-Irys bridge transfers while LayerZero update adds verification layers

Lombard moves $1B in BTC-backed assets to Chainlink CCIP as LayerZero exodus hits $4B

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