🚨 CRYPTO HACKER RETURNS 90% OF STOLEN FUNDS
Renegade says a whitehat hacker returned 90% of funds stolen from its Arbitrum dark pool.
The exploit originally drained around $209K across 27 ERC-20 tokens.
Renegade sent an onchain message asking the...
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5/9/2026 18:41
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Arbitrum is still one of Ethereum’s strongest Layer 2 ecosystems.
But in 2026, the story is no longer just “lower fees.”
It is Arbitrum One, Nova, Nitro, Stylus, Orbit, BoLD fraud proofs, deep DeFi liquidity, ARB unlocks, and a much tougher L2 race...
5/8/2026 15:58
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Very strong brief from Aave arguing that SDNY restraining notice on Arbitrum DAO wrongly freezes recovered user funds from the rsETH exploit on the theory that stolen assets briefly held by a suspected North Korean hacker became North Korean property...
5/4/2026 15:34
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🚨KELP’S STOLEN ETH IS NOW PART OF A NORTH KOREA DEBT FIGHT
U.S. law firm Gerstein Harrow has filed a restraining notice to stop Arbitrum DAO from returning 30,766 $ETH ($73M) frozen from the Kelp exploit.
The Kelp DAO hack was tied to North Korean...
5/4/2026 09:00
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🚨ARBITRUM COMMITTEE MOVES TO UNFREEZE $71M IN ETH
An Arbitrum governance committee has proposed unfreezing about $71 million in $ETH to help limit losses tied to Kelp DAO.
The move follows an earlier emergency freeze and will now proceed for appro...
5/3/2026 05:15
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if you want some more info on the Arbitrum legal action, here's the actual court order (yes, there is a real court order, not just 'a letter from a lawyer') and a Claude summary
TLDR, the plaintiffs' lawyers did indeed effectuate a facially *legally...
5/2/2026 12:57
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This is why the Arbitrum Security Council was not kind to the DAO. Lawyers for DPRK victims have now found a large pile of DPRK assets to seize to make good on a 2015 judgement against DPRK.
It appears a restraining order prohibiting the transfer of...
5/2/2026 02:04
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In today's Unchained Daily newsletter:
🏎️ MegaETH's MEGA token went live on 13 exchanges at once, hitting a $1.6B FDV on day one
🔥 The U.S. Senate unanimously banned its members and staff from using prediction markets — effective immediately
🔒 Arb...
5/1/2026 12:01
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How Arbitrum Froze DPRK's Stolen Funds Without Affecting Other Users
I know @griffgreen from writing about the original DAO hack, and now he was involved again in a pivotal DAO rescue.
On @unchained_pod he explains how the Arbitrum freeze worked te...
4/26/2026 21:04
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the craziest thing I learned about arbitrum is that the Security Council--unlike users--has a guaranteed timelock before any change that can rug them, they can also counterattack any such attempt...also, supervoting thresholds higher than any other D...
4/26/2026 15:02
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what bothers me about Arbitrum funds confiscation is not that it was done (it had to be done under the circumstances), but that the circumstances enabling it--9 people controlling all money on a blockhain--are terrible and unsustainable, as well as b...
4/26/2026 11:34
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Arbitrum’s security council froze $70M of DPRK funds by doing something no L2 has done. 😮
@kaiynne, @LucaNetz, @tayvano_ and @odysseas_eth explain exactly how, and why it may be the most important governance event in DeFi history.
New Uneasy Money...
4/25/2026 13:00
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"It also exposes some of the tricky things about decentralized finance, which is what are the levels of decentralization v. centralization, such that users feel comfortable interacting with the protocol" - @MiguelMorel on the Arbitrum freeze of the K...
4/23/2026 17:07
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WHEN CODE IS LAW: ARBITRUM FREEZING FUNDS FROM DPRK’S HACK
Not your keys, not your multisig.
In an incident, somewhat foreseeable, Arbitrum’s Security Council managed to freeze the stolen ETH loot from the LayerZero hack.
Decentralisation puritan...
4/23/2026 10:59
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On the Arbitrum security council's decision:
@griffgreen tweeted: “We did not make this decision lightly… all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing, so today, we decided to do something.”
@kaiynne: that says it all 🔥
https://...
4/22/2026 21:07
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How Arbitrum took the stolen funds from DPRK:
"The sequencer listens to events. They upgraded the L1 that force-included/spoofed a transaction as if the hacker were sending the transaction, which sent the funds to the rescue address." 😮 -- @odyssea...
4/22/2026 21:02
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About how Arbitrum surprisingly (and controversially) voted to freeze the DPRK stolen funds from KelpDAO:
"Something has changed in the DeFi zeitgeist. We thought we were getting better and hacks were going down, and we've just been run over by a b...
4/22/2026 20:52
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The Arbitrum KelpDAO thing is pretty simple to me.
North Korea hacked $292 million.
$71 million of it was sitting on Arbitrum.
The Security Council, 9 out of 12 elected members, froze it before the hacker could bridge it back to mainnet.
And now p...
4/22/2026 17:38
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The Daily Degen - Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
Launches, Frameworks, Debates, Returns, Macro, Videos, + New Projects! + $CHIP, $BTC, $AAVE, $ARB, and more!
Shout-out to brilliant accounts mentioned with <10k followers (make sure to give them a f...
4/22/2026 15:24
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Arbitrum froze funds after the exploit. @odysseas_eth says they were right to do it because everyday people's money was at stake.
But the next time rollups argue they're decentralized under the Clarity Act, regulators will point to this moment.
Th...
4/21/2026 19:48
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Arbitrum made the right call on seizing the 31K ETH
As goes the saying - finder's keepers - I would expect Arbitrum users to be made 100% whole, and others to now bear the brunt
The odds of losses being concentrated on Aave mainnet pools just wen...
4/21/2026 17:46
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For everyone complaining about the Arbitrum 9-of-12 security council being too centralized
Consider the fact the LayerZero bridge that was exploited & caused this mess was a 1-of-1 setup
Also consider that ~90% of LayerZero OApps & messagin...
4/21/2026 17:10
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How much glue do you have to sniff in order to fud Arbitrum for freezing North Korean hacker funds?
They reduced knock on effects at the heart of some of the most critical DeFi infra in existence
User funds are more important than your performative...
4/21/2026 15:41
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users who want reversibility against hacks will realize their preferences are even better served by embracing an even stronger version of it (get fraud protection/insurance for everything like paypal)...hence arbitrum/other < stage 2 rollups will ...
4/21/2026 09:26
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Arbitrum freezing funds protects L2 users from being treated as second-class in the Kelp recovery.
Kelp prioritizing mainnet over bridged assets sets a risky precedent with little upside. Freezing helps rebalance things by showing hacked L2 assets c...
4/21/2026 09:08
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BREAKING: KELPDAO HACKER ON THE MOVE
Arkham has flagged the KelpDAO attacker moving $175.41M to new Ethereum addresses.
The move comes just hours after Arbitrum's Security Council froze 30,766 ETH (~$71M) tied to the $292M exploit.
Laundering phas...
4/21/2026 08:30
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So many fucking retards on this app
Arbitrum freezing hacked funds means its up to DAO vote what happens to them.
That IS decentralisation.
The folks here who try to keep up theatrics by letting DPRK continue to steal millions are complicit.
In w...
4/21/2026 05:37
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Couple of questions on the Arbitrum recovery:
1) Are all future hacks on Arbitrum open to being frozen and moved to the DAO address?
2) Are past hacks eligible for fund recovery by the security council?
3) What’s the dollar cut off for the involve...
4/21/2026 05:05
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🚨NEW: ARBITRUM FREEZES 30,766 ETH LINKED TO KELPDAO EXPLOIT
Arbitrum Foundation has frozen 30,766 ETH tied to suspected North Korean actors behind the Aave and KelpDAO exploits, marking the first coordinated fund seizure tied to the recent wave of ...
4/21/2026 04:57
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Description
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Arbitrum is a protocol that offers layer 2 scaling for Ethereum using optimistic rollups. Arbitrum processes transactions on its own sidechain and relays them to Ethereum mainnet, while ensuring security and compatibility with Ethereum smart contracts.
| Sector: | Layer 2 |
| Blockchain: | Arbitrum |
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Social media metrics tracking this token's online presence. Mindshare shows the percentage of crypto discussion focused on this token. Momentum indicates trend direction (rising or falling). Net Sentiment measures overall community sentiment (positive, negative, or neutral) based on the difference between positive and negative mentions.
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