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1/ Today the EF is sharing a bit more about how it's approaching DeFi going forward:

Live now: how Yearn automates DeFi strategies, the risks and trust assumptions involved, and what decentralized yield management looks like in practice With @jchaskin22, joined by @omgcorn of @yearnfi x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

There's a new chapter starting for the Protocol cluster. We're welcoming new leads and coordinators, and continuing our work toward Glamsterdam, Hegotà, and the Strawmap. More in the blog below 👇

Clear Signing for hardware wallets is a non-negotiable standard. It is one of our top priorities this year as we collaborate with the @ethereumfndn and our ecosystem partners. We are executing an aggressive roadmap to ensure that you never have to sign a transaction you don't fully understand. Let’s do this.

DeFiScan has been rebranded and DeFiScan V2 is now live at defiscan.info. The focus is not on polished scores (those will continue to evolve). The real product is the granular, on-chain data: explicit trust graphs that trace every permission, admin, dependency and oracle straight to user funds. So far we have 1,146 contracts tracked, and 154 admins detected on the $81B TVL we are continuously monitoring. Join our Telegram feed for continuous updates: t.me/defiscan_news The full methodology, pipeline and dataset are open source under MIT license: github.com/deficollective… We built on @l2beat — the gold standard for continuous risk monitoring. Protocol builders, researchers, DeFi users, and institutions — the data is public. Feedback and contributions are welcome! Stay safe.

privacy pools v2 public testnet is now live grab some sepolia ETH and come see what's new in the v2 shielded pool ↓

0/ Clear signing is now live. An open standard to end blind signing, making human-readable transactions default. This effort brings a major UX and Security upgrade to transaction signing on Ethereum.

1/ Two years after BUIDL, Blackrock launches two more tokenized funds — on the most biggest, most institutional public blockchain: Ethereum.

0/ Introducing IRIS. A fixed-rate origination layer built on top of DeFi’s deepest lending markets. Built from the work behind 246 Club.

Last week I travelled to the North Pole to film 100 core developers building Ethereum. But there was a twist... They had 5 days to build the first devnet for Glamsterdam, Ethereum’s next major upgrade, helping secure a $500 billion network. It was the most magical experience of my life. I’ve never experienced energy like it. It very quickly became, to me, the ultimate hackathon. With the stakes of Ethereum’s uptime. But how does anything stay together when no one is in charge? At one point @TimBeiko said: “we're about to turn 1 month of async work into 1 day”... From 4am technical drama (shit gets hot), To the most beautiful coordination between client teams, All the way to people really explaining why they do this. These are THE heroes you’ve never heard of. This is about the people keeping Ethereum alive. This is THE story. The people who have put a decade of work into Ethereum’s uptime. Full documentary coming soon.

A fact I feel like almost nobody knows: Ethereum's gas limit will be increased to ~200M after Glamsterdam, a huge increase from the 60M we have today. That’s a 3x+ of L1 execution capacity, with expectation of further doubling soons after that. Assuming no similar increase in demand, fees could stay near zero for years. This is the result of several innovations coming together at the right time: ePBS gives payloads more time, BALs let clients prefetch/parallelize execution work, and gas repricings make higher limits safe.

Tomorrow 2pm UTC Join @jchaskin22 & @griffgreen for a special edition of Ethereum Builders Live. They'll review the 100+ projects in @thedaofund's Quadratic Funding Round—@Giveth's biggest QF round. Learn about the projects working to keep Ethereum secure. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Great move on the side of EF - reduces the strain on the market - without doing any kind of bailout or backstop in the situation EF had no role in creating

0/ Today, the Ethereum Foundation completed a bilateral swap of ~21,269 aWETH to wstETH, coordinated with @LidoFinance and @mellowprotocol as part of their ongoing deleveraging work.

For those that don’t know, the EF runs scheduled treasury management every quarter to fund operations They don’t randomly pick days to sell, and they’re transparent about it I get the timing looks bad given how tense things are in DeFi right now. But the EF is consistent and doesn’t play games to manage optics

@jchaskin22 @ethereumfndn Any interest? @Kurt_M_Barry @alpeh_v @m4rio_eth

Fun idea for next week’s Ethereum Builders Live livestream from @ethereumfndn Go through **every project** in the Security QF round with a security expert Will take around 3 hours 🤷‍♂️. Any security people want in or tag someone who should join me

Where's the capital in crypto? Mostly on Ethereum

1/ The Ethereum Audit Subsidy A joint initiative with audit providers to subsidize the cost of audits for Ethereum builders. Security audits are a best practice, yet expensive. The subsidy program makes audits accessible and strengthens the Ethereum ecosystem.

@lou3ee non-objective search is such an unlock

do you agree?

I am happy that the EF hired people who actually use DeFi.