2026-01-20 08:31:28

Here's a sobering reality check for the crypto space: roughly 4 out of 5 projects that suffer major security breaches never manage to regain their footing—at least not fully. The culprit behind this? Loss of community confidence, plain and simple.

When a hack happens, it's not just about the stolen funds. The real damage is psychological. Users abandon ship, trading volume dries up, and developers struggle to rebuild what was broken. Even with technical fixes in place, the reputational scar runs deep. Projects that once had momentum suddenly find themselves fighting an uphill battle against doubt and skepticism.

This is why security isn't just a technical issue—it's a market survival issue. The projects that bounce back? They're the ones that own the narrative, communicate transparently, and genuinely earn back trust through actions, not just promises.

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MevWhisperer

· 7h ago

ngl, once it gets blacklisted, it's over. The trust cost in this ecosystem is too high... Much harder to repair than technical fixes.

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DegenDreamer

· 7h ago

Trust, once broken, is broken. No amount of technical patches can fix it.

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AirdropHunterWang

· 7h ago

Really, once your confidence is shattered, it's very hard to regain... After seeing so many projects get hacked once, even if the technology is fixed, there's no turning back.

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DataChief

· 7h ago

Once trust is broken, it's very hard to put back together, and this is the harsh reality of the crypto world. To put it simply, being blacklisted means death, not because the money is gone, but because people's trust has dispersed. No matter how advanced the technology repair is, reputation cannot be fixed easily... Only truly hardcore teams can turn things around through actions. 4/5 of projects are doomed; it seems not all teams understand the principle that "actions > words."

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TokenomicsShaman

· 7h ago

Damn, 4 out of 5 is heartbreaking, once trust is broken, there's no way to fix it.

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PerpetualLonger

· 7h ago

80% of projects being hacked means they'll never recover? Nonsense, I don't believe it. The time to buy the dip has arrived, brothers.

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