TradFi tokenization has single points of failure. DeFi hack shows why that matters
On Saturday the KelpDAO protocol suffered a $292 million hack by actors linked to the DPRK, with the vulnerability involving a cross chain exploit and around 77% of the unbacked tokens deposited as collateral with lending pool Aave.
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The commentary draws on the $292 million KelpDAO exploit, where Lazarus-linked attackers compromised two RPC nodes feeding LayerZero's DVN, showing how off-chain verifier dependencies become single points of failure for tokenized assets too.
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