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Dan Elitzer

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
264 total appearances

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The $280M DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever | Dan Elitzer & Odysseus

But if anybody had really, really done their job, the damage would have been less than it was.

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The $280M DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever | Dan Elitzer & Odysseus

Well, to be very clear, it released the RS ETH, so the RS ETH could be deposited into Aave.

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The $280M DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever | Dan Elitzer & Odysseus

Yeah, I mean, I think you... Honestly, you really can't.

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The $280M DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever | Dan Elitzer & Odysseus

That's the main issue here.

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The $280M DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever | Dan Elitzer & Odysseus

It's not understandable by normies.

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The $280M DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever | Dan Elitzer & Odysseus

I do want to push back a little bit on the idea that this is inconceivable in TradFi.

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The $280M DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever | Dan Elitzer & Odysseus

We've also seen...

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The $280M DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever | Dan Elitzer & Odysseus

massive levels of fraud in TradFi and even things like the Swift network, right, for transferring money, where we had that case where I think it was the Bank of Bangladesh.

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The $280M DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever | Dan Elitzer & Odysseus

There were all these like fake messages to the Fed trying to transfer like a billion dollars doing that.

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The $280M DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever | Dan Elitzer & Odysseus

It's like we have absolutely seen incredibly large compromises and issues in the traditional financial system as well.

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The $280M DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever | Dan Elitzer & Odysseus

The difference, and I think Odysseus did a great job calling this out, is that

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The $280M DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever | Dan Elitzer & Odysseus

This is fundamentally different in that when we mess up in DeFi, the money is gone.

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The $280M DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever | Dan Elitzer & Odysseus

And, you know, with the possible exception of things like the action the Arbitrum Security Council took where we're able to fight back in some cases, there's, I think, a lot of...

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The $280M DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever | Dan Elitzer & Odysseus

pros and cons to actions like that, that we need to talk about and go deeper on.

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The $280M DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever | Dan Elitzer & Odysseus

But in TradFi, there's potentially at least a window of recovery and correction.

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The $280M DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever | Dan Elitzer & Odysseus

And here where it's also really bad is the trickle through to individual users.

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The $280M DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever | Dan Elitzer & Odysseus

So frankly, we just need to fix this.

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The $280M DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever | Dan Elitzer & Odysseus

We need to, I think every single party involved and not just involved here, across the ecosystem,

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The $280M DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever | Dan Elitzer & Odysseus

Everybody needs to step up their game because, yeah, it was Layer Zero and KelpDAO and Aave involved this time.

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The $280M DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever | Dan Elitzer & Odysseus

There are absolutely things they could do better, but I don't think there's any team in the ecosystem that could say nothing like this could ever happen to us.