According to a post by Arkham on Saturday on X, the biggest decentralized finance (DeFi) exploit of the year left Aave with $200 million in bad debt, and the platform has raised around $160 million to pay it.
Arkham stated:
“AAVE have so far raised $160M to cover the bad debt from the Kelp DAO Exploit, at defiunited.eth. The largest contributors are Mantle and AAVE DAO, who together raised 55,000 ETH or $127M.”
Following a devastating security breach that exposed $292 million, the biggest lender in the crypto borrowing sector—Aave—announced last week a joint recovery effort to stabilize the DeFi markets. The Aave service providers’ DeFi United initiative aims to bring back support for rsETH, the exploit’s central yield-bearing derivative token of ether (ETH).
Coordinated Rescue to Recapitalize rsETH
In an effort to strengthen their partnerships, Aave’s creator Stani Kulecho has announced that he would be contributing 5,000 ETH to DeFi United. At the present price of around $2,346 per ether, his individual contribution is valued at $11,730,000.
Someone managed to create 116,500 rsETH tokens without backing them up, and it all started with a KelpDAO integration issue with LayerZero. Lenders fled Aave, leaving the company with defective collateral; as a result, $10 billion was withdrawn in a run on deposits. Stabilizing the system via a coordinated rescue to recapitalize rsETH and limit losses is the primary goal of the endeavor to eliminate the bad debt.
Attackers siphoned at least $270 million from the Drift Protocol on Solana in late March, the second-largest vulnerability this year. They did it by misusing a lawful feature called ‘durable nonces,’ instead of a coding fault or stolen keys.
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