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Ronghui Gu says the cost gap is structural: attackers lean on AI to scan operational and supply-chain gaps faster than white-hat budgets can keep up, while the Arbitrum freeze fallout threatens…
The $148B in DeFi still locked isn't shrinking because AI broke smart contracts — it's shrinking because the attacks are now cheaper, faster, and increasingly aimed at the operational layer around…
The bombshell isn't the quote — it's the source. OpenZeppelin audits Aave, Compound, MakerDAO, Uniswap and Coinbase, so its co-founder telling family to exit DeFi is a signal the audit industry…
OpenZeppelin's CEO says coding agents have flipped the asymmetry on smart contract security — and $1.1B in 12-month hack losses plus a $20B+ TVL drop make the warning impossible to wave off.
When the lead author of the contracts the space audits itself against tells you to leave Aave, MakerDAO, and Compound too, the warning is structural — not protocol-specific.
The Mythos tier is the headline, but the auto-routing layer that funnels cyberattack and code-extraction queries down to Opus 4.8 is what DeFi teams will be reading closely.
Brazilian savers in Recife now earn Aave yield on USDC, and Mexican and Argentine holders borrow against BTC and ETH without selling — DeFi stops being a niche experiment when the on-ramp stops being…
The verdict challenges whether DeFi still delivers durable financial utility, liquidity and user demand, putting the sector’s builder-led growth narrative under pressure.
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