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Ryan Sean Adams

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

I'm wondering, how in the world would you explain this to a normie?

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

How would you explain this to your parents or your grandma in terms of what happened?

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

Because something like this is inconceivable in TradFi, right?

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

It's almost like you'd have to explain, you'd have to say, okay, mom, dad, so you want to know what happened to this DeFi?

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

Imagine Bank of America, they have a balance sheet and they have a bunch of

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

mortgage loan obligations.

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

And a nation state like North Korea, Kim Jong-un, was able to reach in there and steal all the houses.

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

And so a portion of their debt on their balance sheet was bad debt, you know, $280 million worth.

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

And that's the problem we're facing.

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

We've got kind of a balance sheet issue.

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

You'd have to explain it like something like that, because this just can't happen in TradFi.

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

I'm almost asking for like, what's your best explanation of what happened to Anormi, Dan?

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

Like, how would you tell this to someone on the street that's just like, oh, I heard there was a hack in DeFi and it was kind of bad.

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

What was it?

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

Can you explain this in simple terms?

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

And that's what I mean by this being inconceivable in TradFi.

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

It's not that fraud doesn't exist or bad assets that aren't really backed in the way that we think they're backed.

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

That stuff all exists in TradFi.

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

What doesn't exist is instant settlement and bearer assets.

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

that once you take them, they're gone.