Antoine's been thinking about base-layer security longer than most. He's the one who found the replacement cycling attack in 2023 -- the thing that forced emergency patches across LND, CLN, Eclair, and LDK all in one week. So when he says this node is "cryptographic or security first" and writes everything by hand, that ain't pride talking. That's a man who's seen exactly what happens when the low-level stuff gets assumptions baked in.