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@GAmitej This guy’s negligence lost defi $280M & now he’s trying to shift blame. This exact person threatens people’s family if they dare talk about Kelp. He switched from a 2/2 DVN to a 1/1 bc he was too cheap to pay the extra $0.50 / transaction. Public lawsuit coming next week, join in

Two weeks ago, a forged transaction on infrastructure we trusted cost our users 116,500 rsETH. I'm not going to pretend that doesn't stay with me. Earning users' trust takes years. Watching it get tested like this is something I wouldn't wish on anyone. We paused the contracts. We flagged the breach. We coordinated recovery. We documented everything. And we didn't speak until we had something worth saying. I want to thank everyone who showed up for DeFi these past two weeks. Every team that prioritized the ecosystem over everything else. That solidarity is what this industry is built on. We have always chosen our users over the noise. But silence isn't the same as having nothing to say. Here's what happened. Here's what the facts show.

With @Chainlink, hemiBTC price feeds on Ethereum reach the protocols that power most of DeFi. Learn more: hemi.xyz/blog/hemi-adop…

If you take $70,000 from the paycheck of a hard worker and give $10,000 to 7 lazy people, you lose one vote but gain 7. That’s how the west works now.

PROOF OF CROWD ⚡️

Shai's post with Dillon Brooks 😅 (via shai/IG)

@RenzoAI @aave Respect to @Cryptoski Kelp literally copy/pasted Renzo. But they’re so incompetent that they get hacked monthly on L2s, while Renzo never has such issues. “A lion doesn’t worry about sheep” type of move

The past week has been a true test for the DeFi ecosystem. To support healthy liquidity across DeFi, we’ve supplied $10m+ of the Renzo treasury to @aave V3 stablecoin markets. DeFi United 🤝

@aave Will rsETH be delisted, or will there be no repercussions? Surely by now you’ve seen how many times they’ve had similar issues on L2s, but threaten lawsuits to keep protocols quiet

🇺🇸 BlackRock CEO said, “If every millionaire in the U.S. asked their financial advisor to get them 1 Bitcoin, there wouldn’t be enough.”

A photograph from the Oklahoma City Thunder championship parade represents the story of the city so much, it literally hangs in a museum. 📺 Watch "The Oklahoma Standard” April 26 at 11 AM ET on ESPN and the ESPN App.

This DeFi united is the first time I donated money to someone richer than me that could afford figuring things out without my money.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander made 15 of his 18 field-goal attempts (83.3%) today. He's the first NBA player to make 15+ field goals with that high of a field-goal percentage in a playoff game since Michael Jordan in Game 2 of the 1991 NBA Finals against the Lakers.

The Oklahoma City Thunder have now played 16 games since March 17. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has missed ONE Q4/OT shot over that span.

If the greater NBA community is honest with itself, Shai is the closest thing we’ve seen to MJ.

@0xgank @KelpDAO @grok Why do people keep referencing their treasury? Like why do yall think that any non-major DeFi protocol is going to disclose their treasury? They have a ton of money, look at how much they made dumping $KERNEL on their own users during TGE

@CryptoSooners @KelpDAO They probably don’t even have more. Their revenue generated is around $5M. Its sad and funny. @grok how much Funds does @KelpDAO have in their treasury?

We have been working closely with Aave to protect rsETH holders and stabilize the broader DeFi ecosystem. We are glad to share that we have reached a clear path forward. The above two mission statements have been the only things on our minds this week. As part of that commitment, we are contributing 2,000 ETH from our treasury directly to DeFi United. 71,700+ users stood up apart from DeFi partners across the board. Thank you to @aave, @EtherFi, @ethena, @Mantle_Official, @bgdlabs, @LidoFinance, @arbitrum, @inkonchain, @StaniKulechov, @The3D_, @eboadom, and everyone else who showed up. We are genuinely humbled. @aave and us are aligned on execution of the next steps. The final recovery plan, user instructions, and timing will follow shortly. DeFi United.

@MattLGov They’re not. They raised $10M a year ago and made 8 figs dumping $KERNEL on the market during their Binance listing

kelp is bankrupt bro?

@simonc11 @KelpDAO @aave @ether_fi @LayerZero_Core @Compound_xyz @arbitrum They’re not. They raised $10M a year ago and made 8 figs dumping $KERNEL on the market during their Binance listing

@CryptoSooners @KelpDAO @aave @ether_fi @LayerZero_Core @Compound_xyz @arbitrum They likely are insolvent

Kelp, alongside @aave, @ether_fi, @LayerZero_Core, @Compound_xyz, and others, has submitted a proposal to @arbitrum to release the ETH frozen after the April 18 incident into DeFi United, our coordinated recovery initiative. Every ETH released moves rsETH holders closer to whole. The proposal is live and open for the Arbitrum community's feedback.

Ken Griffin is the American story. A kid trading out of a dorm room, who went on to build Citadel LLC into a global powerhouse. He didn’t inherit it. He built it. Took risk. Won. And what’s the result? More than 2,500 jobs in New York City. Over $2.3 billion in taxes paid to New York. Over $650 million in philanthropic contributions tied to this city. Thousands more jobs coming from major development projects. That’s not rhetoric. That’s impact. But instead of learning from that success, some politicians would rather demonize it. Because tearing people down is easier than building anything yourself. So let’s be very real: If Ken Griffin and firms like his leave New York… who replaces 2,500 high-paying jobs? Who replaces billions in tax revenue? Who funds the services you claim to care about? A government-run grocery store? That’s not economic policy. That’s fantasy. And to @ZohranKMamdani What have you actually built? How many jobs have you created? How many people depend on you for a paycheck? What real risk have you ever taken? We need builders. Not people who attack them.