The attacker of KelpDAO transferred part of the stolen funds across chains to Arbitrum, exchanged them for USDT, and flowed into the Tron ecosystem
By: www.chaincatcher.com|2026/04/22 11:47:37
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According to monitoring by Shield, the KelpDAO attackers have begun to transfer the stolen assets: they transferred some of the stolen ETH from the Ethereum mainnet across to Arbitrum via the Across Protocol, then exchanged it for USDT, and routed it to the TRON DAO ecosystem through LayerZero.
This path shows that the attackers are diversifying and laundering funds through multi-chain bridges and stablecoin conversion methods, and the subsequent flow of funds still needs to be continuously tracked.
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