{"id":607173,"date":"2026-05-31T06:30:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T06:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=818430"},"modified":"2026-05-31T06:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T06:30:47","slug":"is-all-defi-unsafe-industry-leaders-push-back-after-openzeppelin-founder-warns-retail-to-exit-blue-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/is-all-defi-unsafe-industry-leaders-push-back-after-openzeppelin-founder-warns-retail-to-exit-blue-chips\/","title":{"rendered":"Is All DeFi Unsafe? Industry Leaders Push Back After Openzeppelin Founder Warns Retail to Exit Blue-Chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/is-all-defi-unsafe-industry-leaders-push-back-after-openzeppelin-founder-warns-retail-to-exit-blue-chips-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Development code on a laptop in the dark.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Openzeppelin co-founder Manuel Ar\u00e1oz sparked widespread industry debate by calling decentralized finance ( DeFi) unsafe. Industry leaders counter that Ar\u00e1oz\u2019s framing overstates the risk, pointing out that DeFi lending security has improved by roughly 98% since 2020. Shifting From Drama to Data When Openzeppelin co-founder and former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Manuel Ar\u00e1oz characterized decentralized [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Openzeppelin co-founder Manuel Ar\u00e1oz sparked widespread industry debate by calling decentralized finance ( DeFi) unsafe. Industry leaders counter that Ar\u00e1oz\u2019s framing overstates the risk, pointing out that DeFi lending security has improved by roughly 98% since 2020. Shifting From Drama to Data When Openzeppelin co-founder and former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Manuel Ar\u00e1oz characterized decentralized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":607174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-607173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}