Should a Chain Be Able to Undo a $6 Billion Hack? Lorenzo Valente and Omid Malekan Disagree

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ARK Invest’s director of research wants a two-to-three year window in which chains can reverse extreme hacks. The Columbia adjunct professor says a chain with a button is a chain whose button gets pushed. They agreed on X to settle it here.

Context: the $6.3 billion Binance hack of Oct. 29, 2026, attributed by the FBI to the North Korean group TraderTraitor.

Date: Nov 9, 4:30 pm ET

Guests: Omid Malekan, adjunct professor at Columbia Business School (@malekanoms), and Lorenzo Valente, director of research for crypto at ARK Invest (@LorenzoARK).

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