The whole OKX 'security gate' drama is just the surface—it's actually the self-inflicted backlash of the 'traffic is everything' culture that CEXs have long worshipped. When CEXs go all out chasing user growth, using overwhelming marketing campaigns and KOL-driven traffic to grab market share, they unknowingly push themselves into a dangerous attention trap. The more a platform relies on traffic, the more likely it is to be hurt by it. Things like open-source code and a 10 BTC bounty for technical proof seem powerless in the midst of this frenzy of public opinion. Because whether blinded, pretending not to understand, or deliberately scheming, the so-called 'general public' isn't really after the 'truth.' CEXs should be well aware of this: those VIPs who bring you thousands of users will, at some point, for the sake of new traffic, unhesitatingly nail you to the cross of public opinion.