Is DeFi Even Decentralized!?

For 8 hours, Circle watched $232M of stolen USDC move through their own bridge during the Drift hack. They did nothing. Three weeks later, the Arbitrum Security Council voted 9 of 12 to freeze $71M from the Kelp hacker. Both answers are defensible. Neither is decentralized. This is Part 2 of the DeFi Hacks series, what 2026 has actually revealed about DeFi safety and what it means for you. Timestamps: 0:00 - The Question Nobody Wants to Say Out Loud 0:37 - The Circle Freeze That Didn't Happen 3:35 - The Arbitrum Freeze That Did Happen 6:14 - The Yield Trap (Goldman vs DeFi) 7:43 - Architecture Is the Story: Aave vs Morpho 9:42 - DeFi Has Already Broken This Rule Once 11:19 - Where I Actually Landed