Major DeFi hack becomes the largest of 2026 yet - AOL The breach at Kelp DAO pushes the total number of attacked crypto businesses and protocols to at least 12 since the beginning of the month What happened with Kelp DAO?
Kelp Exploit Post-Mortem: Three Treasury Risk Blind Spots Behind the . . . Over the past 48 hours, DeFi saw its largest security incident of 2026: Kelp DAO lost assets equivalent to over 100,000 ETH via a cross-chain bridge exploit The impact rapidly spread to Aave’s lending markets, dragging stablecoin pool liquidity along with it On the surface, this looks like an LRT (liquid restaking token) incident with no direct bearing on institutional treasury operations
How to restake ETH - blogs. kerneldao. com What is Kelp? Kelp is a protocol that specializes in liquid restaking It provides a user-friendly interface for crypto enthusiasts to easily restake their ETH, ETHx, and Lido staked ETH to maximize their yields Kelp aims to simplify the restaking process while offering competitive yields and maintaining robust security measures
The Rise of KernelDAO | Messari The KernelDAO ecosystem consists of three core products—Kernel, Kelp, and Gain—each serving distinct roles in optimizing asset utilization and staking benefits KernelDAO holds a combined TVL of over $2 billion, positioning it as the 19th largest DeFi protocol by TVL and has been steadily growing despite market conditions
KelpDAO Loses $290 Million in Cryptocurrency to Hack, Incident Linked . . . Experts believe that North Korean hackers from the Lazarus group are behind a major crypto heist: around 290 million USD worth of rsETH tokens were stolen from the KelpDAO DeFi project The incident also affected the lending protocols Aave, Compound, and Euler KelpDAO is a DeFi project built around liquid restaking on the Ethereum network Users deposit ETH, the project directs it into
Aave’s TVL Falls $8B After $293M Kelp DAO Hack - Cointelegraph Aave’s total value locked fell by nearly $8 billion after the Kelp DAO hackers posted the stolen funds on Aave as collateral to borrow wrapped Ether, triggering precautionary withdrawals