{"id":83297,"date":"2026-04-20T06:46:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=83297"},"modified":"2026-04-20T06:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:46:32","slug":"crypto-billionaire-proposes-straight-talks-with-suspected-north-korea-linked-hacker-behind-290-million-defi-exploit-how-much-you-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=83297","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Billionaire Proposes Straight Talks With Suspected North Korea-Linked Hacker Behind $290 Million DeFi Exploit: &#8216;How Much You Want&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Tron <\/strong><a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"TRX\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/TRX-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/trx\/usd\">TRX<\/a>) founder <strong>Justin Sun<\/strong> proposed on Sunday a negotiation with the hacker behind the $290 million exploit of <strong>KelpDAO\u2019s<\/strong> liquid restaking protocol.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sun Attempts Direct Communication With Hacker<\/h2>\n<p>Sun addressed the KelpDAO hacker directly on X, asking, \u201cHow much you want? Let&#8217;s just talk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cryptocurrency billionaire contended that it\u2019s unwise to let KelpDAO and other decentralized finance platforms, such as <strong>Aave <\/strong><a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"AAVE\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/AAVE-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/aave\/usd\">AAVE<\/a>), collapse from the hack. They also told the attacker it is not easy to spend or move loot on that kind of scale.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OK \u2014 Kelpdao hacker, how much you want? Let&#8217;s just talk. With KelpDAO&#8217;s help, of course. It&#8217;s simply not worth it to sacrifice both Aave and KelpDAO and let them go down over this hack. You can&#8217;t spend $300 million anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 H.E. Justin Sun \ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83d\ude80 \ud83c\udf1e (@justinsuntron) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justinsuntron\/status\/2045781043526148368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Really Happened?<\/h2>\n<p>The hacker targeted a cross-chain bridge, powered &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/04\/51905163\/crypto-billionaire-offers-talks-north-korea-linked-hacker-290m-defi-exploit?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Crypto\" billionaire proposes straight talks with suspected north korea-linked hacker behind million defi exploit: much you want>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tron (CRYPTO: TRX) founder Justin Sun proposed on Sunday a negotiation with the hacker behind the $290 million exploit of KelpDAO\u2019s liquid restaking protocol. Sun Attempts Direct Communication With Hacker Sun addressed the KelpDAO hacker directly on X, asking, \u201cHow much you want? Let&#8217;s just talk.\u201d The cryptocurrency billionaire contended that it\u2019s unwise to let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-83297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}