The DeFi Investor 🔎|Apr 02, 2026 16:27
Drift lost $280M to an admin key exploit.
A big issue is that most 'DeFi protocols' are not actually decentralized at all.
Wanted to give a shoutout to the teams that take decentralization seriously:
Liquity - Liquity V2 is one of the only stablecoin protocols with fully immutable code and no admin keys
Uniswap - Uniswap AMM smart contracts have been immutable from the very beginning
Aave - Aave uses a 5-of-9 multisig wallet that can pause the protocol in case of an emergency, but only AAVE DAO can approve a code change
Curve - Curve Finance is controlled by Curve DAO and is one of the very few protocols that use decentralized oracles
Sky - All major changes to Sky have to be voted by the DAO and they are enforced only after a mandatory delay that acts as a safety checkpoint
I am sure there are also others, but those are a few well-known examples.(The DeFi Investor 🔎)
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