# Security Outline

**The goal of the Ionic protocol is to delivering standardized and secure money market infrastructure on Mode Network.**

For this vision to become a reality, security is of the highest importance and at the heart of all decisions made by the team. A few of the tenants of our security philosophy:

#### **“Slow and steady”**

The paradigm around DeFi has always been “build fast and break things”. At Ionic, we want to be a protocol that is around for a long time in the future. We are willing to sacrifice speed of onboarding certain features and assets in order to ensure everything we ship is robustly tested and verified.


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