FTC takes action to regulate the DeFi ecosystem. As of January 20th, the newly proposed software standards require protocol teams to implement multi-layer audits, formal verification, and comprehensive emergency response mechanisms. Projects that fail to meet these standards may face legal liability risks if vulnerabilities are exploited. Interestingly, leading protocols such as Aave, Uniswap, and Compound have already surpassed these threshold requirements and have laid out their plans in advance. Meanwhile, smaller protocols that adopt a fork-and-launch model to go live quickly are in a awkward position — they must either quickly complete compliance measures or risk being eliminated by the regulatory wave. The era of DeFi's rapid and unregulated growth has officially come to an end, and standardization has become a necessary survival skill.