Aave Secures Nearly 80% of Required Funds to Offset Bad Debt from Kelp DAO Breach
Aave, a lending platform, has successfully raised approximately $160 million to address the $200 million in bad debt resulting from the year's most significant DeFi exploit, as reported by Arkham on Saturday. The analytics platform stated, 'So far, AAVE has raised $160M to cover the bad debt from the Kelp DAO Exploit, at defiunited.eth. The largest contributors, Mantle and AAVE DAO, have together…
April 26, 2026, 4:21 p.m.