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Why shifts overlap
Handover is where continuous operations fail. Client Focus designs it out.
Read the note2025 digital asset losses: what the numbers say about operations
Approximately 3.4 billion dollars was stolen in 2025, concentrated in a small number of large incidents, with DPRK-linked actors responsible for a record share.
Read the noteNode and RPC health as a security signal
Infrastructure degradation is often the first visible symptom of an attack or a failed change; the network operations center and the security operations center must share telemetry.
Read the notePrivileged actions on-chain: the events a security operations center must treat as critical
Role grants, configuration-flag changes, proxy upgrades and pause-state changes are the highest-signal events in a contract's life.
Read the noteThe February 2025 exchange breach: lessons for signing operations
The largest theft in the industry's history to date, approximately 1.5 billion dollars from a single exchange, was executed through the signing workflow, not a smart contract bug.
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