DeFi Just Lost $15 Billion in Three Days. Something Deeper Than a Hack Is Behind It

DeFi is having one of its most difficult weeks in recent memory. What started as a single exploit on April 19 has since cascaded into a system-wide liquidity shock that has rattled confidence across the ecosystem and raised questions that go well beyond the incident itself. Related Reading: Another $142M Staked – Bitmine Tightens Its Grip on Ethereum Supply The event began at Kelp DAO, where an attacker identified and exploited a critical flaw in the protocol’s collateral system. To understand w