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How should crypto systems prepare for attacks and protocol failures?
Prepare for new threats
Crypto systems should migrate toward adaptable cryptography now because AI and quantum threats make inaction risky.
We will see lots of schemes fall over the next five years, both to quantum and AI.
If we build these systems correctly, if we migrate to this new crypto agile world that Alex is referring to, the first scheme we move to certainly won't be the last.
Teams should monitor protocol conditions, detect failures, and improve their ability to react when incidents occur.
I would say if we, if as an industry we had a better way of responding in these instances such that we could secure those freezes more quickly. Actually in this instance we could have saved a lot of money.
That's why we understand that it is extremely important to monitor the state and monitor the invariance and the different condition of the protocol in order to be able to quickly react.
And so really it's like, well, unless you go through these very, very specific steps and add a lot of friction and again, sort of add some protection for yourself, there's not really a way to sort of adjudicate.
Should crypto aim to house finance or complement existing financial systems?
Neutral layer for finance
Crypto can provide a neutral layer on which financial activity happens, while leaving physical settlement an important role.
The tagline or aspirational goal is housing all of finance. And I think the community is serious about that. So we can go into what that means. But the short of it is a neutral layer on which finance can ultimately happen.
I think physical settlement is. Well one is it's always going to have a very important place in society. I think this is kind of like a misconception about perps and honestly just about our general vision. Like we're not trying to displace anything.
Digital assets can serve financial institutions through better collateral mobility and liquidity management rather than displacing existing finance.
Many of these benefits are illustrated through improvements to collateral mobility and liquidity management processes, which I view as the major use case for financial institutions.
I think physical settlement is. Well one is it's always going to have a very important place in society. I think this is kind of like a misconception about perps and honestly just about our general vision. Like we're not trying to displace anything.
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The tagline or aspirational goal is housing all of finance. And I think the community is serious about that. So we can go into what that means. But the short of it is a neutral layer on which finance can ultimately happen.
And the third thing, and I think the biggest thing is that AI is the new UI. Instead of will the wallet integrate with all these different dapps. It's going to happen at like the chain level.
A vision of housing all finance means replacing physical settlement.
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The vision is framed as a neutral layer, while physical settlement is still described as having an important place.
The tagline or aspirational goal is housing all of finance. And I think the community is serious about that. So we can go into what that means. But the short of it is a neutral layer on which finance can ultimately happen.
AI and quantum threats are presented as equally immediate.
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One speaker distinguishes AI risks as more immediate, saying AI is breaking schemes today while production schemes have not yet been broken.
The AI timelines are definitely more immediate than the quantum ones. We're seeing AI break these, you know, break schemes, not break any schemes they use in production yet, but break schemes today.
Monitor protocol conditions and invariants, and build systems to detect failures quickly.
That's why we understand that it is extremely important to monitor the state and monitor the invariance and the different condition of the protocol in order to be able to quickly react.
Build analytical tools around transparent, verifiable onchain data.
This is another nice thing about on chain systems that the data is transparent and verifiable and auditable. So anyone can build these really cool analytic, analytical tools about.