KelpDAO Hack Exposes DeFi’s Urgent Maturity Gap
The $293 million KelpDAO hack shows why DeFi is finally being forced to grow up
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- What happened: the exploit vector, scope, timeline, and confirmed on-chain impact
- Why it matters: security and risk-management implications for restaking/LRT and DeFi composability
- Broader context: how this fits into current DeFi security practices (audits, bug bounties, monitoring, and incident response)
