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Every week, millions vanish on-chain. Not because DeFi’s broken but because humans are. It's getting scary how normalized hacks are becoming. Wake up > See another millions vanished post > Scroll (My TL lately) In the last few days alone: • Hyperliquid: $21M vanished — not a protocol exploit, just a trader’s compromised wallet. No bug, no hack. Pure negligence. • Paxos: Accidentally minted 300 trillion PYUSD and burned it in 22 minutes. A literal fat-fingered apocalypse that somehow didn’t collapse the stablecoin market. • LuBian Hack Wallet: Dormant since 2020, suddenly moves $1.3B BTC hours after DOJ announces a $14B seizure. Imagine sitting on billions for years and then panic-moving it because the feds blinked. None of this is “DeFi being unsafe.” It’s people being sloppy. The systems get stronger — audits, firewalls, hardware wallets — but users keep cutting corners. We built crypto to eliminate human error from money. Yet almost every hack today traces back to the same problem: human overconfidence. Too many people think their cold wallet is safe forever. They reuse seed phrases, trust random bridges, websites, APIs, multisigs, or apps that were never properly tested. The blockchain never forgets mistakes. It only records them. If you’ve ever been liquidated, rugged, or hacked, you know the feeling of silence, shock, and regret. That’s why experienced traders get paranoid. They double-check every transaction, keep air-gapped setups, and never use wallets carelessly. This market rewards caution and punishes comfort. Stay sharp, protect your keys, and never think it won’t happen to you. Someone else said that yesterday and lost everything.
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