want to be explicit and honest from the start so anyone not interested can skip. I work at Hacken and this Thursday we’re running an online panel with Moody’s on what institutional allocators pay attention at when they review a project. the reason why im writing it here isn’t to promote (but ofc there is a part of it), it’s to try to gather people who are genuiely interested in the topic. i guess it will be more useful for builders and founders specifically.

we’re doing it because, let’s be honest, a standard audit on its own doesn’t hold anymore. In Q2 about $764M was stolen, and 88.3% of that came from compromised keys, signers and infrastructure rather than contract logic. 14 of hacked projects had been audited. Smart contract bugs caused 44 of 67 incidents, but only $87.7M, around 11% of the money. so audits are catching the common failure and missing the expensive one. which is why the badge keeps looking like it works right up until it doesn’t.

and institutions see this, regulators too. an audit is a snapshot of one codebase at one commit. it says nothing about who holds the keys today, who can sign alone, how deployments get approved, or which vendors you depend on, and that’s where most of the money went in Q2.

so that’s what we want to work through on the panel. if an audit alone isn’t enough, what is? we want to land on one concrete, testable thing a counterparty needs to demonstrate to earn institutional trust in August 2026

posting it here rather than anywhere else because this is where the builders are. i can share a link for event in the comments for those who are interested

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