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Modern defi really combines the worst aspects of crypto and tradfi security. Crypto inherently removes all the traditional security layers that tradfi offers: - No transaction monitoring - No approvals - No phone calls - No 2FA - No back office risk teams… It replaces all these security layers with a single line of defense: the cryptographic signature. The original promise of crypto was this tradeoff would remove counterparty risk. Crypto was supposed to make us feel confident *my* funds are secured by *my* signatures (and by not anyone else’s). But modern defi doesn’t do this. In fact, it tends to make counterparty risk even more acute. Since defi teams are much smaller than tradfi orgs, funds sitting in smart contracts are really only dependent on the signatures of ~1-3 people rather than a broad org of diffuse responsibility and kafkaesque procedures. The only way forward for defi from here is immutable open source contracts. Otherwise all of this is pointless and basically worse than tradfi.

After further investigation - Carrot has been impacted by the recent exploit on the Drift protocol. We have paused mint/redeem functions at this time until we can gain more clarity and will update with information when we have it. All Boost and Turbo products are unaffected

🚨 INSIGHT: Average memecoin hold time on Solana drops to 58 seconds in 2026, down from 100 seconds in 2025 and one day in 2024, according to Dune Analytics.

Solana will be the prediction markets chain. A lot to come on that front...

"CT is dead." The mines are alive.