I Opened WBTC's Contract to See What Custody Really Means: One Address Can Pause It All
I opened WBTC's contract myself (block 25445276) and traced every permission to a single owner address โ one key that can mint more supply and pause every transfer on the asset. Whether a custodian's trust comes from a banking license or a technology network, on-chain it converges to the same thing: one key, held by someone. With ~84% of U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF assets custodied at Coinbase alone, that's a systemic concentration risk hiding behind the word "custody."
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