KelpDAO sues LayerZero over $292M rsETH exploit

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KelpDAO users and the wider DeFi sector are seeing a court fight rather than another round of public argument. The claim was filed in British Columbia, and it names LayerZero, its Canadian arm, and Bryan Pellegrino as defendants, so the dispute now sits in a court process that can surface new filings and testimony.

The practical change is that LayerZero’s bridge design and prior approvals are now part of a civil claim, not just a technical dispute around the April exploit. Before this filing, KelpDAO says LayerZero had endorsed the bridge setup in writing; now that same setup is being used as the basis for negligence and disclosure allegations in court.

What remains open is how the court will treat the written approvals, the single-verifier configuration, and the security and disclosure claims. The filings do not settle whether those approvals cover the disputed setup or whether the alleged flaws will be accepted as described, and that will depend on the record built in British Columbia.

The move was larger before the first headline than after. That is an observation, not an explanation: the market also moves on things nobody publishes.