TREE NEWS update: KelpDAO has sued LayerZero and co-founder Bryan Pellegrino over the exploit of the rsETH LayerZero cross-chain bridge earlier this year, alleging the incident stemmed directly from LayerZero’s negligence, including failing to disclose inherent technical weaknesses and risks and failing to prevent its security infrastructure from being breached. KelpDAO said LayerZero has publicly blamed it over recent months, but records show LayerZero reviewed and approved its technical deployment and configuration in writing.
KelpDAO Sues LayerZero and Co-Founder Over rsETH Bridge Exploit
The lawsuit shifts a technical failure into a contractual blame dispute over who vetted the bridge's configuration. That matters because cross-chain bridges rely on shared responsibility between protocol teams and infrastructure providers, and a court weighing written approvals against alleged disclosure failures could reset those expectations. For projects building on LayerZero, the open question is whether documented deployment sign-offs become a liability standard, and whether other bridge operators revisit their own review records.
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