A one-third CISA workforce loss plus a proposed $707M cut pushes crypto toward a self-insurance model: exchanges, custodians, L2 sequencers, oracle networks, and bridge multisigs can’t assume KEV triage will keep the blast radius contained. If AI exploit tooling turns 2-3 week patch windows into 3-day or same-day races, the audit PDF is mostly theater; the edge is live dependency inventory, key-rotation drills, segmented signers, and boring incident comms. Wormhole, Ronin, Nomad, and Curve/Vyper already showed how coordination debt compounds faster than code debt once attackers have the diff.

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