Authored by Erald Ghoos, CEO of OKX Europe

Last week I wrote about the great crypto migration underway since MiCA’s deadline, and about the difference between a licence and a proof. This week I want to build on that, because I think there’s a genuinely good story here that gets buried whenever the industry has a rough news cycle: trust in this space isn’t fragile, it’s compounding. Every year there are more ways for users to check for themselves that a platform is what it says it is, and fewer places left for platforms to hide if it isn’t.

That’s worth saying plainly, because you’ve probably also seen headlines recently about a hardware wallet firmware issue affecting some Coldcard users. Coinkite has halted shipments and published an…