Aave secures emergency hearing to void ‘catastrophic’ restraining order
By Aleks Gilbert
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Aave has filed an emergency court motion to overturn a restraining order that froze $71 million in cryptocurrency recovered after an April hack linked to North Korean actors. The order was obtained by plaintiffs seeking to satisfy a $330 million judgment against North Korea using the seized assets. Aave argued that the funds belong to protocol users rather than the hackers and that maintaining the freeze threatens the broader DeFi ecosystem.