the recent series of defi hacks made one thing clear: 

we’ve collectively over optimized for yield and underpriced risk
protocols keep pushing liquidity into pools, rehypothecating it across layers, stacking incentives on incentives until no one really knows where the underlying value sits or what it ultimately depends on
it’s wild 
and when something breaks, it doesn’t just break locally
it cascades
maybe the uncomfortable truth is this:
the more composable the system becomes, the more fragile it quietly gets
with @DeFiShardsxyz, we were very intentional about this tradeoff early on
we consciously chose not to have liquidity pools holding or routing the core value of our nfts
we didn’t do it because it’s trendy to be a contrarian but we did it because we didn’t want the liquidity of our assets to be dependent on external contracts, pooled risks or layered assumptions
our goal was simple:
keep nfts liquid without exporting their risk surface elsewhere
we did it 
it’s a harder design problem which is less capital efficient on paper but far more predictable under stress
going forward, our industry needs a shift
- from maximum yield to minimum fragility
- from composability hype to security first primitives
survive first > optimize later