VerifiedX Adds Custom Transfer Delays to Vault After 18,000 BTC Hack

The interesting shift here is architectural: VerifiedX is pushing a security control down to vault owners rather than imposing a protocol-wide rule, which turns settlement speed into a user-set variable. That matters most for holders of vBTC and for counterparties who now have to think about whether a pending transfer can still be reversed by the sender's own delay window. The open question is whether self-configured delays actually deter laundering of stolen bitcoin, or simply push attackers toward venues and wrappers that don't honor them — and whether other networks follow with similar owner-level controls.