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#949 - Aave Restores V3 WETH Markets, Carl Beek Departs The EF

Aave restores WETH markets, sGHO upgrades to ERC-4626, ETHGlobal opens a Continuity Track, and Carl Beek departs the Ethereum Foundation.

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May2026
News

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#947 - CLARITY Act Clears Senate Banking

Senate Banking advances the CLARITY Act 15-9, Lido plans a 98% validator consolidation, and KelpDAO resumes rsETH withdrawals.

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2026
May2026

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#951 - LayerZero Publishes KelpDAO Post-Mortem, Devcon 8 Tickets Open

LayerZero full post-mortem on rsETH bridge exploit, Devcon 8 Early Bird tickets go on sale, and Toni Wahrstätter explains BALs.

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2026
May2026

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L2BEAT Independently Verifies Lighter Escape Hatch

L2BEAT confirmed that Lighter's emergency withdrawal mechanism works, after independently regenerating and verifying all ZK circuits used by the rollup.

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Blocknative Team Joins Deloitte, Sunsets APIs

Blocknative joins Deloitte to focus on enterprise blockchain and agentic workflows, and will shut down its APIs and Gas Network on June 19, 2026.

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Aave Pro Adds Wallet Monitoring

Aave Pro now supports a read-only view of Aave V4 positions, balances, and activity for any Ethereum address.

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Defi
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LayerZero Publishes Full Post-Mortem On $292M KelpDAO Exploit

LayerZero Labs traces the $292M April 18 attack on KelpDAO's rsETH bridge to TraderTraitor, a developer machine compromise, and poisoned internal RPC nodes.