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Defi is a central part of the value that Ethereum provides. Financial empowerment is a central part of what it means to have agency and freedom in our current world. Finance is far from the only thing that Ethereum is good for, but it is an important thing. This post discusses how the Ethereum Foundation is approaching defi. Defi today makes the world's best savings, risk management and wealth-building opportunities permissionlessly available worldwide. We need to build on that. Ethereum's early defi era was great because it dared to dream and innovate and come up with totally new paradigms (eg. AMMs). Defi tomorrow will bring back that spirit. Don't just "make a better stablecoin", dig a layer deeper, and think about the underlying problem (risk management, hedging one's future expenses), and come up with an even better solution. But also, as the EF, we are not interested in supporting "onchain finance" or even "defi" indiscriminately. We have a specific vision of what we want to see out of defi: permissionless, open-source, private, security-first global finance that maximizes people's control over their own assets, minimizes centralized chokepoints and trusted third parties, and democratizes risk management and wealth building (the two key goals of finance according to modern portfolio theory) as well as payments. We want protocols that pass the walkaway test: that keep working even if the original team suddenly disappears without warning (or even: becomes hostile / compromised without warning). Bringing this vision to reality will inevitably take a lot of work. Defi is a complex toolchain, including various onchain components, user-side offchain components (ie. wallet, local agent...), other offchain components, etc. The things that we care about include areas like: * Improving security of defi through "traditional" means, eg. audits, standards, wallet-side safeguards * Improving security of defi through "new" means, eg. AI-assisted formal verification, user-side agents as safeguards * Oracle security and decentralization (there's A LOT of skeletons in the closet here, we as an ecosystem really need to point a big eye of sauron at it for a while) * Privacy. Both privacy-preserving payments, and privacy of more complex use cases (eg. what does it mean to have a maximally privacy-preserving CDP? there are clearly benefits in reducing liquidation-sniping risk, but it requires hard tech to get there) * Open source, and improving the licensing / forkability situation in defi Ethereum is a permissionless protocol, and nothing stops people from deploying insecure protocols, protocols that enshrine ultimately unneeded centralized trust in the name of convenience, or dopamine-maximizing gambleslop. However, we *are* interested in working with anyone aligned to make permissionless, open-source, intermediary-minimizing and security and user-agency-maximizing defi ecosystem as strong as possible, so that it can be not just individuals and institutions' first choice in Ethereum, but also a globally compelling way to manage funds for anyone who needs its properties.


【WizardAO:重构入口页面,推动 AO 开发体验体系化升级】 香港,2026 年 2 月 25 日 —— WizardAO (@WaoEco) 近日进行产品更新,正式上线全新 Landing Page,对其 @aoTheComputer & #HyperBEAM 开发工具链入口进行结构化重构。 作为目前生态内 HyperBEAM 最全面的技术文档,WizardAO 此次更新的核心目标在于提升可读性与路径清晰度。面对覆盖 7 章体系化内容、139 个模块参考文档及完整 SDK、测试环境与 Devnet 部署能力的庞大知识库,WizardAO 通过 “Learn → Code → Test → Build with AI → Deploy” 的五步结构重新梳理开发流程,使开发者能够更直观地理解从学习到生产部署的完整路径。 据介绍,新页面强化了三项关键能力展示: ➡️ 一是只需 3 行代码完成 AO 部署与调用的精简 SDK 体验; ➡️ 二是支持 5 种环境切换的统一测试接口; ➡️ 三是引入 AI Agent 驱动的自动化构建与质量门控流程,强调“写更少代码”与“可验证执行”的结合。 其作者 @TomoDB 指出,Web3 基础设施逐步回归“可运行性”与“可验证性”的背景下,开发入口的清晰化与工程流程的标准化,正成为生态扩展的重要条件。WizardAO 此次改版,被视为其从“文档聚合平台”向“结构化开发入口”的阶段性转型。











For folks who missed it over the weekend, the BIP 360 team submitted significant updates to the BIP via pull request on Friday, including a clean rewrite, spearheaded by our new co-author, @isabelfoxenduke. Our goal is to present the proposal’s motivation, rationale, and technical details as readably as possible and clarify the substantive changes recommended by co-author, @Ethan_Heilman, earlier this year. Furthermore, we believe this proposal should be accessible and readable to everyone interested in Bitcoin quantum mitigation strategies and not only the technical elite. We hope this rewrite accomplishes that goal. In summary, the BIP introduces a new Bitcoin output type that is both Tapscript-supportive and resistant to hypothetical breaks in Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC). We have renamed this proposed output type: "Pay-to-Tapscript-Hash" or "P2TSH." For more details about our thought process, we hope you’ll review the BIP in full on the BIP360 website [see below], which also includes complete test vectors in Python and Rust.









