The real damage from this Aave hack isn’t to Aave—it’s to ETH. The foundational DeFi narrative has collapsed. I recently spoke with a friend who has built projects in both AI and crypto. His advice: “Stay away from DeFi for the next year. Right now, hackers are using AI to exploit vulnerabilities across DeFi protocols—no one knows which protocols might be compromised.” Previously, when chatting with friends in person, I always said ETH was the asset I wanted to heavily accumulate at this bottom (because I believed its holder distribution was cleaner than BTC’s, and Wall Street has a strong need to break even). Now, I’m seriously reconsidering. Sigh—now it’s not just political instability; technology is advancing at breakneck speed (anyone building in AI knows this best—your product or business model could be replaced or invalidated by Claude tomorrow). So who the hell can predict what’s coming next? I’ve even accepted the possibility that BTC could be hacked and go to zero.