Building @openforage and reading the myriad hacks of DeFi protocols have put the fear of "state actors" in me. They are sophisticated, well-resourced, and play the extreme long game; super-villains singularly focused on combing every crevice of your protocol and infrastructure for exploits, while your average protocol team has their attention split six ways running the business. I don't pretend to be a security expert, but having led teams in high-stakes environments (both in the military and in high finance with large sums of money), I am a seasoned operator in thinking about and planning for contingencies. I truly believe only the paranoid survive. No team ever sets out thinking "I am going to be careless and lackluster about my approach to security"; and yet hacks happen. We need to do better.