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LayerZero's co-founder refutes KelpDAO's allegations: Most accusations are untrue; key configurations were manually changed by KelpDAO. - CoinFeed
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LayerZero's co-founder refutes KelpDAO's allegations: Most accusations are untrue; key configurations were manually changed by KelpDAO.

May 6, 2026
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CoinFeed reported on May 6th that Bryan Pellegrino, co-founder and CEO of LayerZero Labs, responded to the KelpDAO controversy in an article published on the X platform. He stated that most of the recent allegations surrounding KelpDAO are "completely untrue." Kelp initially used the default MultiDVN or DeadDVN configuration, but on-chain records show that it was manually changed to a 1/1 configuration on April 1, 2024. The official documentation repeatedly recommends using the suggested 2/3 configuration in production environments, and subsequent new deployments (such as Unichain) have continued this configuration. Almost all transaction volume using the 1/1 configuration comes from rsETH. The default configuration (MultiDVN or DeadDVN) itself forces applications to manually set DVN, preventing them from running with default parameters directly. DeadDVN...

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