The DeFi Collective (🐜,🐜, 🐜)

The broader market remained choppy in January. The underlying structure remains resilient, and with some upcoming adjustments, the treasury will continue to perform as designed, covering DeFiScan expenses to deliver it as a public good deficollective.org/blog/tdc-jan-2…

DeFiScan is live in Ethereum Security QF Round on @Giveth! We're building verifiable insights into the maturity and risks of DeFi protocols. Providing developers better tools to build with decentralization in mind, and let users avoid single points of failure. No more blind trust. Real data. Real ratings. A more secure DeFi ecosystem. If you have found DeFiScan useful and/or would like to support the development of the centralization risk infrastructure, please consider donating to us: qf.giveth.io/project/defisc…

LQTY stakers: action needed ⚡ ➡️ $63k in additional PIL rewards will be distributed ➡️ >14% of stakers votes need to be reallocated Best move? Vote for initiatives with the strongest liquidity: ✅ @CurveFinance BOLD/USDC ✅ @Uniswap v4 BOLD/USDC Your votes matter 🙏 Let's dive into it 🧵

Watch the recording: 01 - Start & intro Trustless Force. 03 - Intro Nils & background. 11 - What is trustlessness? 14 - Why should users care? 22 - What is DeFi Scan, and what benefits does it offer users? 31 - What were the most surprising and shocking things for you? 33 - How trustless is DeFi? 34 - Maturity stages of projects in DeFi. 36 - Is trustlessness always the best choice? 40 - What will you improve with DeFi Scan V2? 47 - How can we best support trustless solutions? 43 - Why could trustless stablecoins become more relevant? 48 - Importance of usage and a regulatory curve out for trustless solutions. 56 - How does Nils check for trustlessness? 58 - His magic wish for the space? 59 - Project that gets too little credit for their trustless efforts? 60 - Who should be the next guest?

How trustless is DeFi? If you want to know, you have to look at the code. @nilsbundi has done that and will share what he found. Join the @TrustlessForce and @svobodamichael next Wed. to find out more. Check out @defiscan_info from the @DeFiCollective_ x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

The December monthly report is out: roses are red, markets are tough, and the Ants chug along, be it sunny or rainy deficollective.org/blog/tdc-dec-2…

You can see the concrete evolution of the Ethereum and L2 gas costs clearly thanks to the Collective's monthly reporting For a similar level of activity, in November 2023, $1,693.32 of gas was spent across 5 chains November 2025? Down to $15.84

Web3 is nothing without Web2 ⚠️ React2shell (CVE-2025-55182) is critical and hitting MANY Web3 orgs. A compromised server can cause snowball failures with catastrophic consequences, even if part of your infra is “permissionless”.

DeFi enthusiasts! 🚀 Support DeFiScan – we're GIVbacks eligible on @Giveth! Make a 20$ recurring donation today to help us bring transparency in DeFi, and earn $GIV as well as $SUP @Superfluid_HQ rewards in return! 1.226M SUP is being streamed [that’s over $28,000 in rewards]! Giving less is also rewarding! With $5 or more donated to any GIVbacks-eligible project, you'll be entered into the 103rd raffle for . Let's build the future of public good on Giveth – donate now to us or any GIVbacks-eligible projects: [giveth.io/project/defisc…]

BTW, I can already share some cool trivia with you: 1) our winning bid, 0.66, matches our main wallet address wallet 0x666... 😎 2) we funded this bid mostly thanks to our @PoolTogether_: DeFi x NFT to the max ♟️

The Collective is now the proud owner of an awesome @nounsdao NFT that carries some serious weight! We've bid generously and asked the Nouns on Discord not to fight us (multisig => bidding wars hard), and they honored it! A fantastic beginning of a great story, next steps soon

@haojun222 @0xluude @Chateau_capital Hello this is @TokenBrice, one of the founders of the @DeFiCollective_, in full alignment with @0xluude's position: that shit is not a stable If you think you will get one of our guys into trouble by connecting his contributions with his Twitter takes, you're a lunatic

Hv u heard of Ethena sUSDe? Is sUSDe a stable? is sXXUSD a stable? First time in defi? Dont b ridiculous. I expect more from a "DeFi strategist" at @DeFiCollective_ chUSD is a synthetic dollar that pegs 1:1 that is true. It's functionally identical to USDe or the hundreds of synthetic dollars out there. schUSD is a Wall Street Private Credit Fund vault. >> Why not call it something without the name USD then users know to dig deeper into the risks Noted, brb I'll rename it to "RWA TOKEN FOR @0xluude"

DeFi protocols are shrinking because current yields are capped and the risk of holding any of these assets outweighs the yield they deliver There is a reason the avg. person doesnt have access to complex RWA yield strategies... As we onboard more of this into DeFi expect the events of 10/10 to continue to repeat Not everything should be looped infinitely onchain

The @DeFiCollective_ is definitely not fading and keeps winning! ~0.51 wETH won lately, and we have a really cool plan as to what to do with it, watch this space

Going through our DEX history series with @duniyaxyz, of course @CurveFinance had to be covered; credit is given where it's due: CRV played a key part in defining what a token could be, actualizing property rights on chain - whether you were here or not, it's worth the listen

Our space with @bottoproject is starting now, join us: x.com/i/spaces/1ynJO…

We're discussing the $BOTTO economy tomorrow at noon EST w/ special guest @TokenBrice from @DeFiCollective_ We'll be covering: -Recent $BOTTO economy updates -Token utility + rewards -Liquidity management Join in, ask questions, and learn about the present and future of $BOTTO

On November 21st, the centralized domains of both Velodrome and Aerodrome were hijacked and directed to malicious content. This attack was caught and mitigated quickly with the support of our security partners — and a plan for how to move forward is now ready. 👇

We are investigating a potential DNS hijacking. Please do not use our primary domain as we investigate.

The monthly report for October is out - revenues are still quite volatile but stabilizing, get the full picture here: deficollective.org/blog/tdc-oct-2…

Rollup TV: Nillion, Vesu, Noon and Money Moves Fast x.com/i/broadcasts/1…