Crypto is better than traditional funding. Unlike Swift, which can take days to process payments, newer blockchain networks achieve finality in just a few seconds and has flow sufficient for adoption in the real world. US Treasury Secretary Bessent Projects StableCecoins alone will hit $ 3.7 trillion by 2030. This is equivalent to Germany’s GDP.
Despite its technological edge, Crypto has a major security problem. We are on our way to losing about 4% of the total value locked to hacks in 2025. In H1 alone, the industry alone lost over $ 2 billion. When it is annually, it points to over $ 4 billion that flows into Hacker’s wallets this year.
If these losses were mirrored in traditional funding, the whole system would collapse. Yet, crypto normalizes catastrophic loss rates while wondering why JPMorgan is not moving their balance on the chain.
Hacks cost more than you think
The real injury goes far beyond immediate theft. It is a burden on the entire ecosystem and it is priced in. Hacked protocols suffer the median 52% token price drop over six months, with the majority still showing award oppression six months later.
For an industry that strives to control the wealth of the world, this is an existential problem. No traditional financial market could survive with annual theft rates approaching 4%. To unlock the institutional flood gates and bring the next trillion on chain, we must run hack prices below 1%-now.
The North Koreans are pursuing your development team
The moment a crypto project announces funding, North Korean hackers begin social technical attacks on development teams. They’ve got frighteningly good at it. Look at the brilliant capital hack – $ 50 million away because attackers compromised devices through malware that infected transaction signing.
The most painful part of all this is that we have tools to stop this and they are still getting better. AI-driven monitoring systems can see and solve critical security issues before code is implemented, which captures vulnerabilities that humans miss. Revision services connect projects with Elite Web3 Security Scientists to provide tailor -made security reports. We have the tools, but projects are still sent with single pre-launch revisions and praying. Protocols put rewards for identifying vulnerabilities to 1% of the funds at risk when they were to be 10%. In addition, they skip monitoring because it seems expensive until they explain to users why $ 50 million disappeared.
How to make Krypto ready for Primetime
Reduction of hacking speeds below 1% is a technical challenge we already know how to solve. Protocols must embrace comprehensive security stacks: continuous monitoring, meaningful priced security pay to encourage security researchers, formal verification for critical components and AI-driven threat detection. Costs are trivial compared to the potential losses.
Banks and institutions see these hack prices. They run the math. And they conclude – correctly – that crypto is not ready for prime time.
Defi survived any market junction without systemically poor debt. We solved the technical problems. Security cannot be a reflection. Either we adopt the security tools we have already built or we see institutional capital is deployed elsewhere while hackers finance their operations with our losses.
