The $ETH bear case just got $292M weaker.

Everyone has been calling Ethereum too slow for two years. Getting outcompeted on TPS. Irrelevant.

Then a $292M DeFi exploit hit this week on exactly the kind of complexity $ETH deliberately avoided.

While traders were watching the hack, Vitalik was speaking in Hong Kong about why ETH was never in the TPS race. Verifiable data. User-controlled security. Long-term reliability over short-term bragging rights.

Concrete roadmap: finality dropping from ~16 minutes to 10-20 seconds. zkEVM scaling near-term. Full quantum resistance long-term. Chain verifiable from a phone.

The bear thesis was always about speed. Speed is starting to look like the wrong metric.

At what point does the security-over-speed argument become the mainstream ETH framing, or do you think TPS still dominates how people evaluate it?