Michael Turpin walked out of a conference as a celebrated crypto investor. Forty-five minutes later, a 15-year-old in a cramped New York bedroom had bribed a telecom rep, hijacked Turpin’s phone number, and vacuumed $24 million in ETH from his accounts. The teenager—Ellis Pinsky—blew the proceeds on Rolexes, escorts, and bottle service before the FBI closed in. It was the largest individual SIM-swap theft ever recorded, and it exposed a brutal truth:
Why this matters to every founder
Pinsky’s exploit worked because Turpin’s entire security stack relied on a single point of failure—one SMS-based Two-Factor code. In a hyper-connected world, attackers need only one weak link: an underpaid customer-service clerk, an outdated recovery workflow, or a cloud folder mis-tagged “final_v2.” The result is the same—funds lost, brand destroyed, investors gone. If a seasoned multi-billion-dollar holder can be drained in an hour, a seed-stage startup running on hope and a few YouTube tutorials stands no chance.
The hidden cost of “move fast and break things”
Many Web3 teams sprint from white-paper to token launch, wiring smart contracts in weekend hackathons and outsourcing security to copy-pasted checklists. They assume rapid shipping equals competitive edge; attackers assume the same. A single exploit can erase valuation and reputation overnight—ask the founders who quietly wire money to ransomware wallets while tweeting “maintenance upgrade.”
Where BRNZ fits
For founders who would rather build products than memorize threat-models, BRNZ delivers a 20-year-battle-tested blockchain stack with zero recorded exploits and a security-governed Hero-to-Winner roadmap. Multi-agent AI monitors wallet behavior in real time, while the Cash Bot Machine automates treasury flows behind hardware-key enforcement. Skip the duct-taped tutorials—launch a real project on infra that institutional investors already trust.
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