How should we move users to the “pure DeFi crypto-native experience”, when in 2022 the majority of hacked funds were in DeFi rather than on CEXs?

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How should we move users to the “pure DeFi crypto-native experience”, when in 2022 the majority of hacked funds were in DeFi rather than on CEXs?

Take a look at this Consensys Report for hacks in 2022: https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2022-biggest-year-ever-for-crypto-hacking/

DeFi protocols as victims accounted for 82.1% of all cryptocurrency stolen by hackers — a total of $3.1 billion — up from 73.3% in 2021. And of that $3.1 billion, 64% came from cross-chain bridge protocols specifically.

While I firmly believe in the core values of crpyto and ethereum, it's important to acknowledge the evidence, that currently the money of most people is safer on a CEX than in DeFi protocols.

Sure, we've had CEXs going rouge or being fraud (FTX, Celcius, Mt Gox etc.). However, we also seem to have tons of money hacked by unsuspecting users who either were naive or just didn't know about the complexity of certain projects.

For me, I've stuck to really safe protocols and did extensive DYOR before interacting with serious funds there.

Usually, we say "not your keys, not your crpyto". This is true, but the evidence actually speaks against this.

What do you think about it? How can we make it easier for people to get hacked less frequently in DeFi? Or was this maybe just because defi grew a lot in 2022 and hence people were not as experienced as they are with CEXs?

What do you think?

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