It's always better to control risks and secure our coins/ crypto assets ourselves.
This is one of the main reasons why I don't have interest to join shared masternodes, and staking pools.
Yes it is always best to have your own coins and run your own masternodes/stake as we never know what can happen.
Fortunately, I withdrawn my coins out of Cryptopia two weeks ago.
All best wishes for someone who got their assets stucked there.
Just take a look at what happened with Cryptopia, they have been hacked and I know a lot of people that had their coins sitting on there, I myself had a small amount ready to sell but I was lucky it was only around 0.05 btc value. Congrats on winning the AceD giveaway! I'm looking forward to seeing what AceD can deliver this year with the plans to improve many of their platforms.