Trump's family earned over $1 billion from crypto last year — while Bitcoin has lost more than 50% from its all-time high, erasing every gain made since his election. The gap between presidential profits and retail losses is reshaping how the industry's Washington strategy is being judged.

BonkDAO lost an estimated $20 million when an attacker passed a malicious governance proposal — not by exploiting code, but by winning a vote. The DAO governance attack reveals a systemic vulnerability that threatens every treasury in DeFi, not just memecoins.

Stolen private keys, not flaws in blockchain code, account for roughly 40% of the $16.69 billion lost to crypto hacks, according to DeFiLlama data. Security experts say crypto private key hacks are a key-management and operational failure — and the industry's fixes remain unevenly adopted.