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Artificial Superintelligence Alliance You picked the regulated platform. You chose the one with the verified team, the compliance badge, and the two-factor authentication. You did everything right.
And yet, that’s exactly where the money disappeared.
Most beginners assume DeFi is where hacks happen — anonymous protocols, unaudited contracts, wild west territory. But Q1 2025 told a different story. The biggest breaches weren’t in the shadows. They happened inside the platforms with customer support lines.
Here’s why. Centralized exchanges hold keys. All of them. One compromised internal system, one phished employee, one misconfigured API — and billions move in minutes. DeFi can be messy, but its risk is spread. A CEX concentrates everything into one target.
“Institutional security doesn’t mean invincible — it means a bigger, more attractive target. The more assets concentrated in one place, the more sophisticated the attack that follows. Spread your exposure before the market forces you to.”
That’s not a design flaw. That’s a business model risk nobody puts in the terms and conditions.
The traders who lost the most weren’t reckless. They were trusting. And trust, without verification, is just an assumption with a better name.
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