Oleksii Trofimchuk filed a lawsuit on September 8 in Santa Clara County Superior Court against Lido and Stakefish after his wallet was compromised. Wang Chun said competing MEV (maximal extractable value) bots used high-priority-fee transactions to obtain the associated ETH first. He argued that Stakefish, acting as a validator, must include valid transactions under Ethereum’s protocol rules and cannot determine ownership of off-chain assets or resolve disputes between claimants. Requiring validators to recover rewards based on off-chain legal claims, he said, would create a dangerous precedent by forcing them to filter transactions according to ownership assertions they cannot independently verify. Wang Chun said that would expose staking rewards to legal uncertainty and damage Ethereum’s decentralization and trusted neutrality.