My current sentiment:
I was bullish, but after rsETH event and AAVE situation I feel a bit worried. Alot big players are affected, there will be damage again on crypto reputation and many starting to wonder if the risks are worth the rewards, myself included.
APR 5-10% but the risk of being hacked/losing full collateral makes tradfi options more attractive since you can yield similar there in safer structures. Also in general "real world" investments are becoming more attractive off-chain.
Of course there is no safe place though, there are always risks for rewards but thats part of the game.
I hope crypto comes out stronger from this, and security will be taken full seriously in all aspects. Too many issues in 2026 already, and AI wont make things easier since it can easily find flaws in code and bad actors can act on it. I hope there is growth in this area in the industry and bad actors can be stopped. Until then, we really got to ask ourselves is the risk worth the rewards?
Lets see how the situation with AAVE plays out, if they solve this in a nice manner and if the DeFi space come together and find a outcome I think I will regain hope and if not its probably worth to consider how 2026 will play out and where DeFI is headed. Maybe worth to hold more BTC and just wind down.
