- Industry voices are calling for rate limits and time delays following large-scale crypto heists
- Arik Galansky publicly urged the ecosystem to adopt these protective measures
- Projects that already implemented such controls highlighted their effectiveness
Following a wave of large-scale crypto heists, industry voices have renewed calls for rate limits and time delays to minimize damage from future exploits. The push for these protective controls has gained momentum as attackers continue to drain assets in single, coordinated transactions.
Security advocate Arik Galansky made the case directly on X on October 30, 2026. “We need more rate limits and time delays in the ecosystem,” he wrote in a post that circulated widely among developers and security professionals.
Rate limits cap the volume of withdrawals within a set timeframe, while time delays hold transactions for a review period before execution. Both mechanisms give teams a window to detect suspicious activity and halt an attack before funds are fully extracted.
However, adoption across the ecosystem remains inconsistent, with many decentralized platforms still lacking these safeguards. Consequently, projects that already have such controls in place are drawing attention as examples of proactive design.
Indeed, some of these projects took the opportunity to underline their potential, noting how their existing safeguards could have limited the damage in recent incidents.
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