TL,DR;

About Moving fast

People have for decades been indoctrinated by agile development evangelists to move fast, fail quickly and go for minimum viable products. These ideas don’t seem to fit the bill when building in a hostile environment. Failing quickly in DeFi comes at the expense of 10s or 100s of million dollar equivalents.

We may not simply need another methodology. We need a paradigm shift allowing for rapid iteration while reducing the likelihood of getting rekt at the same time.

Let’s eliminate the idea that a proper audit is somehow a guarantee for safety. It is — most of the time — a snapshot of checklist-style security measures applied to moving targets that have often long evolved into something else shortly after a project hits mainnet.

Expect the greatest teams in the future of finance to well be those capable of handling the trade-offs between shipping fast and shipping safely, continuously auditing and rigorously testing their composable money robots like they live and breathe it.