Arbitrum DAO faces a U.S. court freeze on $71M ETH
A U.S. court order has placed Arbitrum DAOs planned use of frozen hack funds under legal restraint.A U.S. court has blocked Arbitrum DAO from moving 30,766 ETH tied to the Kelp DAO exploit after plaintiffs linked the funds to North Korea.Lawyers representing terrorism victims have argued the frozen ether can be seized to satisfy over $877 million in unpaid judgments against the DPRK. According to filings authorized by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, plaintiffs served a restraining notice on May 1 through Arbitrums governance forum, blocking any movement of 30,766 ETH, valued at nearly $71.1 million, that had been frozen by the Arbitrum Security Council after the Kelp DAO exploit. Lawyers representing the plaintiffs, identified as victims holding unpaid terrorism-related judgments against North Korea, have argued that the seized ether constitutes property in which the DPRK holds an interest. Their claim rests on allegations that the funds were stolen by the Lazarus Group on behalf of Pyongyang, a link previously attributed by LayerZero in its investigation of the breach. Arbitrum‘s intervention traces back to April 20, when its Security Council moved the assets into a controlled wallet after identifying attacker-linked addresses. In an April 21 update, the