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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

The previous (and maybe this) hacks were smaller than their profits so far.

People may have thought to themselves "Given all the mistakes they have made, they must have learned by now."

Andre "test in production" Cronje. I avoid the YFI mafia projects because he is either mentally unstable or purposefully screws with the communities in a type of sociopathy https://decrypt.co/37995/exclusive-yfi-andre-cronje-broke-qu...

He will release projects in prod, encourage people to throw money in, take the money and later claim he was just testing. It's bad behavior.

No contingency for “fool me three times”.

would be the perfect crime to create a hackable platform, hack it and steal your customer's money, quit after a while...

not so perfect. But this happens, a lot. sometimes they don't even hide it. The defi degenerates call it 'rugging', eg: rug pull. Often its not even a hack, the contract has an administrative function that allows draining the contract.

> How does this platform still exist?

DeFi, in its users, self selects for a lot of...erm...unique personality traits.