$3.5B has been lost to DeFi exploits.
Security discussions often focus on smart contracts, wallets, and protocols. But there's another critical layer that gets less attention: data.
At
@proofoftalk,
@rodventures shared why data integrity is becoming increasingly important as more applications and agents rely on blockchain data:
"The open secret is that most systems using onchain data aren't querying blockchains directly. The data is indexed, organized, and stored in databases before it's used. Our job is to ensure that data is cryptographically proven to be accurate and complete, so the systems relying on it can trust what they're seeing." - Rodrigo Coelho, CEO
@edgeandnode
As agentic systems and DeFi applications become more sophisticated, they depend on data pipelines to make decisions. If the underlying data is incorrect, incomplete, or manipulated, the outcomes can be too.
The challenge is ensuring the data entering those systems is trustworthy in the first place.
That's why cryptographic guarantees around data integrity matter. Because when billions of dollars are moving through autonomous systems, "garbage in, garbage out" becomes a security problem.