{"id":587713,"date":"2026-04-22T14:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/aave-deposits-fall-by-15b-as-kelp-exploit-sparks-flight-from-defi-lender\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:54:07","slug":"aave-deposits-fall-by-15b-as-kelp-exploit-sparks-flight-from-defi-lender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/aave-deposits-fall-by-15b-as-kelp-exploit-sparks-flight-from-defi-lender\/","title":{"rendered":"Aave deposits fall by $15B as Kelp exploit sparks flight from DeFi lender"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Aave<\/p>\n

Aave\u2019s supplied balance has tanked since the Kelp DAO bridge exploit, as users pull funds amid uncertainty over how much of the rsETH-linked shortfall the protocol will ultimately absorb.<\/p>\n

Aave, the largest decentralized lending protocol, has seen around $15 billion in deposits withdrawn since the Kelp Dao exploit on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Total value supplied to Aave fell from $45.8 billion on Saturday to $30.8 billion on Wednesday, according to Aavescan data<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The decline followed an attack that drained about 116,500 restaked Ether (rsETH<\/a>), worth roughly $293 million, from Kelp DAO\u2019s LayerZero-powered rsETH bridge. The exploiter then used part of the stolen funds to borrow on Aave<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Aave\u2019s supplied balance has tanked since the Kelp DAO bridge exploit, as users pull funds amid uncertainty over how much of the rsETH-linked shortfall the protocol will ultimately absorb. Aave, the largest decentralized lending protocol, has seen around $15 billion in deposits withdrawn since the Kelp Dao exploit on Saturday.\u00a0 Total value supplied to Aave […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":587714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-587713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}