Onchain governance matters. If @Ripple acquires @circle, de facto they get to decide on any contentious hard fork of Ethereum or Solana. Good strategic purchase.
Hiring US support staff instead of offshore support staff only increases the cost of the bribes. If the attackers did indeed take $400M, is it going to move the needle?
Access to that information should be extremely limited and tightly monitored. Support staff shouldn't have access.