LayerZero Pledges $23M to DeFi Recovery After Major Exploit.
The firm has pledged over 10,000 ETH, worth approximately $23 million, to an Aave-led recovery initiative. Specifically, half of the amount (5,000 ETH) will be donated directly. Meanwhile, the remaining 5,000 ETH will be used to support liquidity on Aave.
The response follows a $292 million exploit on April 18 involving a sophisticated RPC poisoning attack that compromised LayerZero’s verification system. Attackers exploited the vuln...