{"id":616074,"date":"2026-07-14T11:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/?p=616074"},"modified":"2026-07-14T07:59:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T11:59:27","slug":"hack-sizes-are-declining-why-a-vc-firm-downplays-defi-security-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/hack-sizes-are-declining-why-a-vc-firm-downplays-defi-security-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hack sizes are declining&#8217; &#8211; Why DeFi security fears may be overblown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some prominent investors in the DeFi sector have downplayed security fears, especially as major AI firms release models with cybersecurity offensive capabilities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at VC firm Dragonfly, the reported value of DeFi hacks in 2026 was \u2018declining in size\u2019 to warrant the <a href=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/not-a-good-take-aaves-founder-rejects-all-defi-is-unsafe-warning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overblown security<\/a> fears. He added,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Median hack size by year is also declining, showing that we&#8217;re moving more toward smaller hacks of smaller protocols.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_616075\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-616075\" style=\"width: 1226px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/DeFi-security.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-616075\" src=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/DeFi-security.jpg\" alt=\"DeFi security \" width=\"1226\" height=\"877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/DeFi-security.jpg 1226w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/DeFi-security-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/DeFi-security-1024x733.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/DeFi-security-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/DeFi-security-1200x858.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1226px) 100vw, 1226px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-616075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: X<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His insight was based on the exclusion of Bybit ($1.4 billion) and KelpDAO ($292 million) stolen funds. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the data supports his statement, it was based solely on stolen fund values.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In 2025, $2.55 billion was lost to exploits ($1.17 billion per year) compared to 2026\u2019s $1.89 billion or $775 million per year. Overall, the median hack size per year has dropped from over $8 million in 2021 to below $1 million in 2026. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Haseeb highlighting that,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The average dollar in DeFi is as safe as it was a year ago. If you keep your money in large protocols that can afford to harden themselves, you&#8217;ll likely be fine.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><strong>Will DeFi security concerns derail adoption?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the number of <a href=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/crypto-hacks-hit-record-high-in-h1-2026-whats-fueling-the-surge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hack incidents<\/a> skyrocketed to record highs in H1 2026. O<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ne of his most striking insights was <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the decline in \u2018operational security failures\u2019 or exploits related to admin keys or signing infrastructure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For perspective, 75% of the nearly $1 billion stolen in 2026 was linked to operational failures. But Haseeb noted that this trend was dropping too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some have claimed this is because hacks are moving into admin key hacks; admin key\/multisig hacks are already included in this dataset. Those are going down in dollar terms as well.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the unfamiliar, the bank run on leading DeFi lending platform Aave after the KelpDAO hack underscored how the major players were also fragile.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amid elevated security risk and 2.7%-3.8% average yield, DeFi became relatively riskier and less lucrative than U.S. Treasury bills. In fact, vaults or automated yield strategies that leverage smart contracts on top of protocols like Aave were the hardest hit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Notably, the overall value locked in DeFi vaults dropped from $113 billion to $61 billion before slightly recovering to $65 billion as of writing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_616076\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-616076\" style=\"width: 1789px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-14-113148.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-616076\" src=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-14-113148.png\" alt=\"DeFi \" width=\"1789\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-14-113148.png 1789w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-14-113148-300x99.png 300w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-14-113148-1024x338.png 1024w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-14-113148-768x254.png 768w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-14-113148-1536x507.png 1536w, https:\/\/ambcrypto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-14-113148-1200x396.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1789px) 100vw, 1789px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-616076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Source: Diadata<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interestingly, S&amp;P Global Ratings <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/fintechfrank\/status\/2076687117271396773\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">views<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> DeFi vaults as equivalent to managed funds. The rating firm projects that vaults could become a \u2018core infrastructure\u2019 for tokenized real-world assets and institutional capital.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In other words, as tokenization momentum grows, traditional managed funds will evolve into DeFi vaults. But whether the ongoing DeFi security fears will derail this major adoption unlock remains to be seen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Final Summary<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dragonfly\u2019s Haseeb said DeFi exploits due to \u2018operational security failures\u2019 and the average value of hacks were declining.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capital outflows from DeFi vaults have hit over $50B amid broader market downturn and security concerns<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will DeFi security fears derail institutional adoption of vaults? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":616156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[950,66,4,20],"tags":[6427],"class_list":["post-616074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-defi","category-new-news","category-social","category-trading-view","tag-ambcrypto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Hack sizes are declining&#039; 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