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@DavideFi I was probably in a different crowd, because I only met few builders. Most were iterating on existing ideas, and almost no one was trying to build something new or experimental.

ETHCC 2026 recap: DeFi on an employment crisis great weather, great events, great vibes, but the landscape is shrinking and money is drying out going straight from NYC DAS to ETHCC, it is clear to me that DeFi is living an identity crisis on multiple fronts gone are the protocols run events where all their users go to feast at the expense of the treasury - in are the multi-hosted gatherings where most builders go all together but where you also meet the same people villas hosted by the few protocols that fundraised in 2025 and are still growing or soon to launch were the highlight of this year. the meta was less beach-front venues, more curated and researched places you look around for your friends that came last year, and notice always the same faces from the last ethcc - while some of the usual faces are gone and not seen any longer. events are curated but you can see they net is cast much larger because you can’t fill a space being hyper selective. places this year are smaller and the hyped events are not huge venues but small curated terraces very quickly at capacity about DeFi now, what’s clear like the cannes sky is that many of our frens are still around but they are looking for what their next chapter is going to look like. layoffs have hit the community with sparse victims, with chains and daos closing the faucets of infinite money i tell people i work in defi since 4+ years and the looks are not anymore of excitement but if surprise: the OGs are gone from the industry and almost everyone around is a new participant that came around recently and has no memory of what it once was the question they all these people have is: what’s next for our industry? defi founders and people with cool ideas are not the cool thing anymore, at least here in cannes, if we exclude the few hackathons that were not oversubscribed for sure but still manifested great ideas and use cases many defi projects sold or got acquired by corporate entities that are keeping the builders around but run on a different dream that the original founders dreams - but this is probably the bright side of the changes with merger and acquisitions keeping the light on on those long term builders so what about our frens in search for a new adventure? europe is DeFi. and defi needs europeans. DAS was full of suits having a job in tradfi working on adoption Cannes was full of DeFi builders and believers wondering what’s next for us tokenization is not the answer to everything, but it’s definitely leading the current narrative of tokenizing everything, and to work with institutions or companies that can help the industry scale defi is alive but in a rough shape, and we need to make sure our friends find a way to reinvent themselves. long live defi, let’s keep it alive and let’s keep growing defi in europe

@PrintorRekt @circle Wrapped BTC is for people who want BTC exposure but want it to be productive and generate additional value at the same time.

@circle why we needs to buy CirBTC while we can buy native BTC ? Also its not good you did nothing on DRIFT exploited while you had time

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@R89Capital What if I'm borrowing?

Never use DeFi, the yield isn’t even remotely worth the risk.

Hard pick. Which usdc spoke on @aave v4 would you choose?

@Colonel_Burr @MikeIppolito_ Defi is 100% affected by this law.

@Wasiutynski @MikeIppolito_ DeFi is unaffected by this law. This law affects Coinbase and others. You're right to say what you are saying. You need a counterparty

Think the market is underestimating how bullish it is for Aave and Morpho if stablecoins can't pass back yield. If the issuers can't pass the yield back natively, they'll go looking onchain directly into vaults. Trillions.

@Raph_Bloch @EthCC Help us understand the part we don't understand.

I had coffee with a banker attending his first @EthCC. He was surprised by how little some crypto builders understand TradFi: "They’re very strong on tech. But they don’t really understand finance - how it works, why it exists. You can’t replace or improve a system you don’t understand." And the problem is, he’s right.

"I think now it's the best time to build" - @StaniKulechov at @EthCC

@leys_baby @MissDefi333 Prima aprilis

@MissDefi333 ETHCC side event for polish crypto?

Polish football team might have lost this match (important match) nevertheless the ETHCC side event for polish crypto community was great! It was pleasure to see all of you 🇵🇱

@0xGroovy What does this number represent? Surely it does not count hyperliquid, so what does it count?

There’s literally 100 of us left here

@SabretoothSG @EthCC Cannes is an expensive city

sad watching @ethcc turn into every other crypto conference. the speaker lineup is now the sponsors lineup with extra steps. I guess the curation team now curates for check size.

@OuroborosCap8 💯

Anyone building high LTV FX money markets? Think this will be the middle layer allowing vaults to offer DeFi yields to non-USD currencies.

Can someone explain this to me? If there isn’t enough money in the vault to pay out, why aren’t people closing their positions? What's in it for the LPs? Why aren't they withdrawing? Seems odd @OstiumLabs

@sytaylor @openfx_ Why do they need so much money? Do they subsidize their product?

🚨 BREAKING: @openfx_ raises $94M at $500M to build stablecoin-powered FX infrastructure. Accel, Atomico, Lightspeed, Pantera all in. --- Founded by Prabhakar Reddy (co-founded FalconX). He saw queues outside Western Union branches in Dubai and started digging into cross-border settlement. The pain he found: the $200 trillion annual FX market still settles on infrastructure that takes 2-5 business days. Conversion costs run 50-150 bps. And trillions sit locked in pre-funded accounts just to make the system work. --- Wise and Airwallex have solved a lot of this for retail and SMB on G10 pairs. Fast settlement, transparent pricing, tight spreads. Where OpenFX focuses is different - emerging market corridors. MXN, BRL, COP, ARS. Corridors where correspondent banking is slow, unreliable, and expensive. Where USD liquidity is hard to source at any price. Where domestic payment systems like UPI or PromptPay are excellent but cross-border rails between them are fragmented. That's where stablecoins as a settlement bridge start to make structural sense. --- OpenFX prices at 0.01-0.3%. 98% of transactions settle under 60 minutes. 30% under 10 minutes. $4B to $45B in annualized volume in one year. Customers include MoneyGram, Yellow Card, fintechs, neobanks, payroll platforms. --- No token launch. No speculative narrative. Stablecoins deployed where traditional rails fail - broken corridors, not liquid G10 pairs. The industry could use a lot more of that kind of focus.

@arc I am currently building perps DEX and I would love to be part of this event and learn more about Arc L1.

In Cannes for EthCC and ETHGlobal? Join Arc for The Aperitif Hour on April 1. We’re gathering builders, developers, partners, investors, and business leaders for an intimate evening with the Architect community ahead of a big week in Cannes. Come by for rooftop views, thoughtful conversation, and a chance to connect with the Circle team before ETHGlobal kicks off. Space is limited. luma.com/ArcHour2026?ut…

I love the idea of a native USDC blockchain from @arc, but is that the only differentiator? Where are the details? @EthCC

Love the idea of rating risk in DeFi and being able to take action when those ratings drop. A big win for transparency. If done right, it will save a lot of headaches. Great talk, @MarcinRedStone, @CredoraNetwork at @ethcc.

Finally, someone is calling out how unfair and dangerous the ADL mechanisms used by most crypto exchanges are. Great talk by @0x70626a at @ethcc.

@fede_intern Sir, haven't you been in WC?

There is no water in the EthCC event lol