Qi Shen

When you don’t actually know the domain, managing perception becomes your primary tool. Real knowledge lets you let the work speak.

design has to be in the founding DNA of your company for it to be a forever priority otherwise it won’t seep through every corner of your org like it needs to because it becomes an uphill battle to justify its place you can buy it and hire it, but it won’t be the same

A Composer Flow has 4 parts: Inputs, Calls, Guards, Refs. You compile it once. You sign it once. It runs as one transaction. BFB used a Flow to collapse a full DeFi exit (repay loans, withdraw collateral, pull liquidity, swap every token to a stablecoin) into one signature. 20 transactions in 1. That won them Best User Experience.

We had incredible submissions, but we had to pick our favorites. Best User Experience went to BFB, more about the project: ethglobal.com/showcase/bfb-x… Huge congrats to @sdakebk @knQzx0 @0xdcc011 and @malcomefein

🔫 BFB showcase -> ethglobal.com/showcase/bfb-x… Jump to 54s for live demo

@tanjaweb3 @lifiprotocol @ETHGlobal Thanks @lifiprotocol for the prize and recognition! Shoutout to the BFB creators: @sdakebk @knQzx0 @0xdcc011 @MalcomeFein Go BFB!

.@lifiprotocol winners announced Congrats 👏👏👏

We won @lifiprotocol Best User Experience Award at @ethconf 2026! Go team BFB!!!

Woke up extremely bullish on DeFi and Ethereum today Uniswap launched in the 2018 bear, when Ethereum sentiment was at all time lows Uniswap and other defi projects relentlessly built through that bear market and proved how powerful Ethereum can be, catalyzing defi summer and everything since Now vibes are down bad again and Uniswap intends to build our way out of it. Last time it was by proving defi is possible. This time it will be by proving defi is inevitable. The internet brought two disruptive changes: existing businesses moving onto the internet, and the formation of new internet-native businesses The same duality will exist for defi: the tokenization of all existing assets, and a growing vibrant economy of crypto native assets. And it’s all happening right now, with more and more assets being brought onchain, increasing the value and productivity of crypto native assets. As this digital economy grows, Defi is being integrated everywhere - payment processors, brokerage accounts, asset issuers. It won't stop until we eat the entire global economy Uniswap the liquidity layer + Ethereum the settlement layer. The perfect combination of low counterparty risk, permissionless, programmable infrastructure And all this will result in huge growth in protocol volumes and fee generation. Which reminds me: UNI burn hit all time highs today, after several new sources of protocol fees came online. And there are many more to come: v4, uniswap x, aggregator hooks, more chains, etc Now add in all the new assets coming onchain We're still at the beginning 🦄

Check Designs: Keep every file synced to your design system with → Variable & style suggestions → Color contrast suggestions → Library mismatch detection → Detached component detection

The world wants to trade freely, without gatekeepers, borders, or asking permission The world wants DeFi

Blockchain Networks in Plain English. What each major network is most like in the traditional financial world

wdym of course there’s an agent right on the design canvas that’s fluent in Figma and native to the way your team works

[•] Republic Wallet is here [•] One place for crypto, real-world assets, and security tokens. Multichain. No seed phrase required. Your wallet shouldn’t just store value… it should unlock it.

Whitepaper Reading Club NYC Just held a discussion on Crypto Payments. Want to thank @zeebradoom (@bigbrain) for leading the discussion and QiShen ( @joinrepublic ) for hosting us at their office! [Will post summary + notes soon] Great to see @yorkerhodes, @olivialonyc, @abhib3012, @andyisnotandy, @xkedar, @Nayanbandaru_ @etherary , @leishamurthy and others that joined :) It's amazing to see some old faces that's still building here as well as the young guns! Sorry we didn't go a as deep as we wanted to - didn't have a much time as we normally do!

Republic 🤝 @INX_Group

In these five years, the Ethereum Foundation is entering a period of mild austerity, in order to be able to simultaneously meet two goals: 1. Deliver on an aggressive roadmap that ensures Ethereum's status as a performant and scalable world computer that does not compromise on robustness, sustainability and decentralization. 2. Ensures the Ethereum Foundation's own ability to sustain into the long term, and protect Ethereum's core mission and goals, including both the core blockchain layer as well as users' ability to access and use the chain with self-sovereignty, security and privacy. To this end, my own share of the austerity is that I am personally taking on responsibilities that might in another time have been "special projects" of the EF. Specifically, we are seeking the existence of an open-source, secure and verifiable full stack of software and hardware that can protect both our personal lives and our public environments ( see vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/0… ). This includes applications such as finance, communication and governance, blockchains, operating systems, secure hardware, biotech (including both personal and public health), and more. If you have seen the Vensa announcement (seeking to make open silicon a commercially viable reality at least for security-critical applications), the ucritter.com including recent versions with built in ZK + FHE + differential-privacy features, the air quality work, my donations to encrypted messaging apps, my own enthusiasm and use for privacy-preserving, walkaway-test-friendly and local-first software (including operating systems), then you know the general spirit of what I am planning to support. For this reason I have just withdrawn 16,384 ETH, which will be deployed toward these goals over the next few years. I am also exploring secure decentralized staking options that will allow even more capital from staking rewards to be put toward these goals in the long term. Ethereum itself is an indispensable part of the "full-stack openness and verifiability" vision. The Ethereum Foundation will continue with a steadfast focus on developing Ethereum, with that goal in mind. "Ethereum everywhere" is nice, but the primary priority is "Ethereum for people who need it". Not corposlop, but self-sovereignty, and the baseline infrastructure that enables cooperation without domination. In a world where many people's default mindset is that we need to race to become a big strong bully, because otherwise the existing big strong bullies will eat you first, this is the needed alternative. It will involve much more than technology to succeed, but the technical layer is something which is in our control to make happen. The tools to ensure your, and your community's, autonomy and safety, as a basic right that belongs to everyone. Open not in a bullshit "open means everyone has the right to buy it from us and use our API for $200/month" way, but actually open, and secure and verifiable so that you know that your technology is working for you.

@FurqanR would love to try it

Been shipping a ton of improvements to Nebula over the last few weeks. It's finally at a point where it's doing real work reliably. Also connects to way more services and is better at completing tasks end to end. Letting in more testers, reply if you want to try it for free.

Token gating = 🔑 to better communities. It’s: ✅ Quality > quantity ✅ Verified holders ✅ Trust + credibility ✅ Spam-free Telegram Do it in just a few clicks 👇