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Cyber adversaries evolved alongside the industry, refining both technical exploits and social engineering techniques. According to industry data, total losses in 2025 reached $3.35 billion, marking a 37% increase compared to $2.45 billion in 2024. The Web3 ecosystem entered 2025 with renewed momentum, buoyed by improving macroeconomic conditions, stronger investor confidence, and a noticeably more supportive political climate in the United States. The new U.S. administration moved quickly to position digital assets as a strategic innovation sector rather than a regulatory anomaly, sending an early signal that blockchain technology would be encouraged rather than restrained. This shift restored confidence among builders, institutions, and venture capital, helping decentralized applications expand deeper into payments, gaming, tokenized assets, identity solutions, and real-world financial use cases. Yet, as activity accelerated across the ecosystem, so did the threat landscape. Cyber adversaries evolved alongside the industry, refining both technical exploits and social engineering techniques. While innovation surged, 2025 became a stark reminder that growth and risk continue to move in parallel within Web3. According to industry data, total losses in 2025 reached $3.35 billion, marking a 37% increase compared to $2.45 billion in 2024. At first glance, the numbers suggest a dramatic deterioration in security conditions. However, a closer look reveals a more nuanced picture. One single incident, the Bybit exploit, accounted for approximately $1.45 billion of the year’s losses. When this outlier is excluded, overall stolen funds would have declined year over year, underscoring a critical shift in attacker behavior. Rather than relying on a high volume of mid-sized exploits, threat actors increasingly concentrated resources into fewer but far more devastating operations. The Bybit incident demonstrated the growing presence of well-funded, highly coordinated adversaries capable of executing complex, long-horizon attacks. This trend suggests that while baseline security hygiene is improving across many protocols, systemic risks…

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