Gate and BlockSec Launch Security Course on Phishing, Account Theft

The framing here is telling: the exchange points to phishing, account takeover and social engineering as the industry's largest loss categories, a shift in emphasis from protocol exploits to user-facing fraud. That matters more for retail-facing platforms with large user bases than for DeFi-native venues, since the attack surface is the account, not the contract. The proof-of-reserves disclosure alongside a security education push suggests exchanges are competing on trust infrastructure as much as listings. Whether such courses measurably reduce incident rates, rather than serving as brand positioning, is the open question.