In less than 24 hours, DeFi was rocked by its largest hack of 2026: the Kelp DAO exploit. Using a fatal flaw in a LayerZero bridge, hackers siphoned $293 million in rsETH—then triggered a $10 billion ecosystem-wide bank run. Guy unpacks how a single validator setup put your crypto at risk and how blue-chip protocols like Aave and Compound were blindsided in minutes.
If you use DeFi, you cannot afford to miss the hard truths revealed by this attack: why composability cuts both ways, which protocols are exposed, and how fast a bridge failure can nuke an entire market. Watch now to see the play-by-play, what failed, and what every smart user must know before the next big hack.
00:00 – $293M DeFi Hack Explained: Largest Exploit of 2026 00:38 – $10B Wiped: Aave Bank Run & DeFi TVL Collapse 01:35 – What is rsETH? Liquid Restaking Risks Explained 02:03 – LayerZero Flaw: How a Single Validator Broke DeFi 05:27 – Exploit Strategy: Turning Fake Tokens Into Real ETH 08:21 – Aave Crisis: Bad Debt, Liquidations & Systemic Risk 11:48 – The Real Problem: DeFi’s Fatal Design Flaw Exposed (Not a Bug)
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