On May 6, PANews reported 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 multiple locations for production environments. Subsequent deployments (such as Unichain) have also continued this configuration mode. 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 to avoid running with default parameters directly. The DeadDVN mechanism will directly reject transaction paths that have not been configured with DVN.

Bryan Pellegrino added that the LayerZero team had previously given KelpDAO clear usage recommendations and would release a full analysis report after the external security company completed the relevant confirmation.