Lately I have been thinking about why hacks keep happening across Web3.
To me it does not feel like hackers suddenly became geniuses. It feels more like our defenses were never built to understand what is actually happening.
Most smart contracts act like a serious but clueless guard. If I show the right signature, the door opens. It does not matter if the action looks suspicious or completely reckless. The system checks permission, not intention.
When I looked into what @Vanarchain is doing with Kayon, something finally made sense to me. Instead of only proving the ticket is valid, they are starting to ask why someone is trying to enter at all. Kayon’s on chain reasoning feels less like automation and more like awareness. I see it as replacing a basic guard with someone who actually watches behavior and context before allowing access.
For me this feels like blockchain moving from pure execution toward understanding. We used to think decentralization alone solved everything, but now we are realizing systems also need ways to prevent mistakes before damage happens. Giving contracts the ability to reason about intent could change how compliance and safety work without needing constant human oversight.
If this direction works, DeFi could move from simple automation into something closer to controlled autonomy. I think many people still struggle to understand this idea, which is probably why the market has not reacted strongly yet.
Personally I find that gap interesting. When technology shifts from acting like a calculator to behaving more like a thinking system, adoption usually starts quietly before everyone notices at once.
Sometimes the biggest changes arrive without noise.
