KelpDAO unpaused rsETH withdrawals, bridging, and claims as part of a coordinated restart following the protocol's recovery from the April 18th exploit. Exchange rates will be updated around 4:30 pm CET on May 15th, at which point accrued staking rewards for rsETH holders during the pause will be reflected. rsETH is now fully backed thanks to funds raised from DeFi United.

Aave has simultaneously unpaused rsETH across its Ethereum Core, Arbitrum, Base, Linea, and Mantle markets. Deposits remain closed pending a brief stabilization window, and the remaining rsETH tranches will be sent over to fully refill the LayerZero lockbox. Utilization rates across affected markets remain elevated.

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Kelp and Aave have burned the exploiters rsETH on Arbitrum, which was seized during the controlled liquidation of the attacker's rsETH collateral positions on Aave. KelpDAO says the 117,132 rsETH deficit is being progressively refilled from Aave's Recovery Guardian and Kelp's Recovery Safe into the LayerZero OFT adapter on Ethereum mainnet.

Kelp expects to unpause rsETH withdrawals within 24 hours of the first tranche hitting the adapter, after which deposits, redemptions, bridging, and claims will resume as normal. The goal is to ensure rsETH remains fully backed across Ethereum and L2s. On the security side, Kelp has deprecated all L2-to-L2 routes as it migrates to Chainlink CCIP for cross-chain bridging.

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Aave Labs, KelpDAO, LayerZero, EtherFi, and Compound filed an amended Constitutional AIP seeking to update the execution path for the previously approved transfer of 30,765 ETH frozen by the Arbitrum Security Council following the April 18 rsETH exploit. The amendment comes after a May 8th court order, which authorized the onchain transfer but required the ETH to move to a wallet controlled by Aave LLC rather than the originally proposed 3-of-4 Gnosis Safe.

The amendment only changes the recipient address and custody mechanics. The recovery objective remains the same: restoring rsETH's backing within the Kelp protocol. Aave LLC will need to hold the ETH under the terms of the restraining notice from Kim v. DPRK and cannot use the funds until the court rules further. Arbitrum delegates can now vote on the amended proposal onchain.

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