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Custodial Failures Are Rarer, Bigger, and Far More Likely to Be Repaid
Exchange failures are 6.6% of recorded incidents and 26.6% of the money — and 37.9% of what they lose is later returned. For DeFi protocols the…
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Exchange failures are 6.6% of recorded incidents and 26.6% of the money — and 37.9% of what they lose is later returned. For DeFi protocols the…
