A ton of this is just completely untrue. 1) Kelp originally used the defaults which were MultiDVN or DeadDVN and manually migrated to a 1/1 config later 2) Almost 100% of the volume on a 1/1 config was rsETH 3) Not using a 1/1 for production applications is mentioned many times in the documentation. The defaults Kelp is referencing in their screenshot were multiDVN or DeadDVN, which force-rejects an application using the defaults at all and requires them to manually set configuration. rsETH was originally configured to use the default LayerZero configuration of a multiDVN setup of LayerZero Labs + Google: Here are the exact transactions where that happens Ethereum → Arbitrum: etherscan.io/tx/0xd7c864adbc… at 2024-02-06 03:09:47 UTC Ethereum → Optimism: etherscan.io/tx/0x7075bfe9a3… at 2024-02-06 03:09:59 UTC KelpDAO then manually changed these to 1/1 configs: For the original Feb 6 Ethereum routes to Arbitrum/Optimism, KelpDAO’s Ethereum contract switched from defaults to manual OApp-scoped config on 2024-04-01: Send-side manual config: etherscan.io/tx/0x7485c16c9b… 2024-04-01 07:12:11 UTC Receive-side manual config: etherscan.io/tx/0x21e967c99a… 2024-04-01 07:12:23 UTC From this point on, Kelp began deploying all of their configurations as 1/1 configs. Here is Kelp’s deployment on Unichain: Unichain → Ethereum was opened on 2025-04-01 18:55:41 UTC. Pathway-open / setPeer tx: uniscan.xyz/tx/0x31ea2b10a73… The manual ULN config followed 6 seconds later in uniscan.xyz/tx/0xd8ef5416a53…. During this time the Unichain -> Ethereum and Ethereum -> Unichain defaults were set to DeadDVN which is a contract which makes it impossible for any application to transact without manually configuring their DVNs, this was not possible on the defaults of this pathway. Here is the code in the DeadDVN (etherscan.io/address/0x747C7…) that specifically prohibits this. (Screenshot 1) This is called out many many times in the docs: 1. Integration Checklist — "Do" list - Last edited: 2025-11-26 (Nazreen) - Content: "Do: … Use more than one DVN for each production pathway instead of relying on a single DVN." - File: v2/tools/integration-checklist.mdx:244 - URL: docs.layerzero.network/v2/to… 2. Integration Checklist — "Don't" list - Last edited: 2025-11-26 (Nazreen) - Content: "Don't: … Configure only one DVN for a pathway and treat it as production‑ready." - File: v2/tools/integration-checklist.mdx:251 - URL: docs.layerzero.network/v2/to… 3. Integration Checklist — Defaults are not safe - Last edited: 2025-09-25 (Tino Martínez Molina) - Content: "Do not assume defaults are safe for production. Always check explicitly: getSendLibrary, getReceiveLibrary, and getConfig. If these resolve to defaults, confirm whether the defaults are valid for the intended pathway. Unintentional fallbacks to defaults are a common cause of blocked or failing pathways." - File: v2/tools/integration-checklist.mdx:126-128 - URL: docs.layerzero.network/v2/to… 4. Integration Checklist — Default fallback warning - Last edited: 2026-02-26 (migration; same wording predates it) - Content: "Warning: If no configuration is set, the OApp will fallback to the default settings set by LayerZero Labs." - File: v2/tools/integration-checklist.mdx:222-238 - URL: docs.layerzero.network/v2/to… 5. ONFT Quickstart — Production guidance - Last edited: 2025-02-20 (Radek Sienkiewicz) - Content: "DVN Settings: Use multiple DVNs in production to ensure message verification is robust." - File: v2/developers/evm/onft/quickstart.mdx:700 - URL: docs.layerzero.network/v2/de… 6. ONFT Quickstart — Strong recommendation to configure - Last edited: 2025-03-10 (Radek Sienkiewicz) - Content: "We strongly recommend reviewing these settings carefully and configuring your security stack according to your needs and preferences." - File: v2/developers/evm/onft/quickstart.mdx:366 - URL: docs.layerzero.network/v2/de… 7. Starknet FAQ — "Should I use multiple DVNs?" - Last edited: 2026-01-21 (Nazreen) - Content: ▎ Should I use multiple DVNs? ▎ Recommended for production. Multiple DVNs provide: ▎ - Increased security (multiple independent verifiers) ▎ - Resilience (no single point of failure) ▎ - Trust minimization - File: v2/developers/starknet/troubleshooting/faq.mdx:290-296 - URL: docs.layerzero.network/v2/de… Here are the exact recommendations we gave KelpDAO when asked about DVNs (typically 2/3) (Screenshot 2) Other LayerZero applications speaking on exactly what is advised by the team xitter.cf/mitchellftracy/status/… xitter.cf/jasperflux/status/2046… For how much volume was actually configured on 1/1 here is the exact data. (Screenshot 3) We will publish a complete post-mortem as soon as the external security firms have completed it.

A global casino is not enough When I first got into this space, it was for the promise of something that gave every single person on the planet an escape hatch. It gave them the option to escape the traditional system of intermediaries and gatekeepers, of corruption, of misplaced trust, of denial of access. It promised to give us nothing more than the simple ability to own what we own. That what’s yours is… yours, and no one can take it from you or deny you access. Beyond my wildest dreams in 2011 (or frankly even in 2024), this has gone from an escape hatch to an escape raft, not for the individuals but for the system as a whole. In the 15 years since I discovered crypto, we’ve seen more corruption than I care to count, banks fail, currencies fail, and even the best of each batch wildly outperformed by this little mathematical experiment called Bitcoin. The image of a decentralized system used by many, owned by all that expands beyond any given jurisdiction, globally available, globally owned, has become increasingly relevant every day as it has outperformed every global asset and is now valued in the trillions. In proving this, the wool was removed from our eyes, and we saw more than just electronic cash, a trustless system bound by math expanded far beyond ‘digital gold’. It became clear that much of the future world, from lending and savings to identity and contracts, could be housed in the same system. Like most new frontiers, though, the dreamers were the minority. "First come the dreamers, then the bankers, then the salesmen, then the sharks, then the desperate, and then the thieves." - Landman And piece by piece, a better system came to mean a better casino. ‘Fast finance’ regardless of the risk, ‘open access’ even if the contracts were upgradable. Scaling via centralization or multisigs, whatever tradeoff could be made for the incremental millisecond to speed up consumer turnover. Social tokens are hailed as the future of community, and memecoins as the future of investing. We’ve lost sight of what we set out to build, and we’ve lost sight of why it actually matters. One by one, the dreamers fell, disillusioned by the misguided focus on scaling via trade-offs or pulled by the token grant to lend their name and credibility to keep building a better casino. Now, don’t get me wrong, at my core, I am a libertarian, and I appreciate the value of free markets. Each of these things should be able to exist; that is the cost of free systems, just as hearing an opinion I don’t value is the cost of free speech. Somewhere along the way though, the dreamers drank the poisoned wine and came to believe that the end we got was the end we set out for. Like the worst possible case of Stockholm Syndrome, they either convinced themselves that what they did was good or quit the game entirely in disgust. Let me remind you why I am here and what this space has meant to me. I grew up in rural New Hampshire in about as peaceful a time and environment as possible. Despite that, I have seen my former profession banned for profit from Las Vegas lobbyists, payment processors unilaterally cancelled, I’ve been debanked, and I’ve been forced out of multiple homes due to uncertain or outright hostile regulation. I’ve seen the economy blow up, and I’ve had my financial institutions blow up. I’ve watched conmen take billions from those who trusted them. And compared globally, I am one of the lucky ones. We deserve a better system and a freer world. There is no reason why someone should not own their own money, have a basic right to privacy, or be trapped in a failing currency or a corrupt system. Zero is a response to what we want to see in the world and what the world has not given us. Zero is a response to those dreamers who let their vision die, or convinced themselves that 15 tps was enough to serve the rich, and left the rest to multisigs. Zero is planting a stake in the ground, picking the torch back up, and marching forward with the ideals we came here for. Zero will propel our values into the world, not because we hope the existing financial system shares them, but because these principles are so powerful they cannot be ignored. We set out not to replace a single piece of the stack or to capture the tiny fraction captured to date. We set out to change the entire system. A new backend. Globally distributed, globally owned. Permissionless and censorship-resistant. A system open to all. A better system, where mathematical proofs reign supreme.