Swell Freezes swETH and rswETH Withdrawals to Correct Exchange Rates

Swell's decision to halt redemptions exposes a familiar tension in liquid staking: when contract-reported rates diverge from secondary-market pricing, freezing withdrawals protects the protocol from arbitrage at the expense of holders who now face a one-way market. The gap between inflated contract rates and depressed DEX prices is the real signal here — it suggests the market had already priced in doubt about the reported values before the freeze. Whether the correction restores parity between contract and market rates, and how long redemptions stay closed, is the open question for swETH and rswETH holders.