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A security-first investment framework starts by treating smart contract risk as a primary financial variable rather than a technical footnote. This approach evaluates code maturity, audit depth, audit diversity, bug bounty incentives, historical exploit patterns, and the economic blast radius of a single failure. It assumes exploits are probabilistic, not exceptional, and prices expected loss into valuation using scenario analysis. Governance response speed, upgrade mechanisms, and emergency controls are assessed as risk mitigants, not centralization flaws. Capital allocation decisions hinge on whether protocol yield adequately compensates for statistically expected exploit loss over time.