Real-time hack detection should be a public good, for the people, by the people. Not something that costs 50k a year.
Who is interested in working on this with @jerrythekid and I ?
Let's turn DeFi United into an Endowment
Massive credit to @StaniKulechov, putting his money where his mouth is and generating a movement to cover Kelp/LZ hack loses. It's admirable to see the community rally together to make depositors whole. A lot of thanks are in order but I would like to focus on something else for a moment.
---
How can we take advantage of this opportunity to propose something that this not just a one-time thing but possible a paradigm shift for our industry?
I propose that DeFi United be converted into the (first?) Blockchain Endowment.
Endowments are pools of assets donated to institutions like universities, museums, and non-profits. These assets are invested in very low-risk portfolios with hundred year time horizons. Part of the yearly returns are used to fund scholarships, salaries, and other works for the institution. Meanwhile, the principle is never used. So what you get is the power of compound interest to fund different initiatives over time.
The Harvard University Endowment may be the most famous of all. It started in the 1600s, today it is worth $56B USD. It is used to pay scholarships, salaries, expansions, etc.
My proposal for the Blockchain Endowment is that the initial donations be pooled together and staked for passive returns + network security. Furthermore, companies may commit a % of their yearly revenue to the endowment and in-exchange they can become eligible for future credit facilities from said Endowment.
Obviously there are many complexities to running an endowment but this is just an idea and a dream, hopefully one day to be reality.
MENTOR OF ALEPH HACKATHON!
We’re very happy to welcome @chasquitox, Quantitative Engineer in @DAMM_Capital & Robotics Professor in UDESA, as a mentor for Aleph Hackathon.
ALEPH MARCH '26 CAMERA!
We had the pleasure of having @BautiDeFi from @DAMM_Capital as a speaker at the DeFi Summit, and he told us more about the event and the new Aleph Hub.
New speaker alert!
The DeFi summit is just around the corner, and @BautiDeFi from @DAMM_Capital is joining as a speaker.
Bauti is a DeFi engineer. At the age of 13, he learned to program in Java. Software development became his hobby and passion.
DAMM Capital (Buenos Aires) — buscamos perfil matemático/analítico.
Si te interesa modelar sistemas dinámicos, optimizar modelos de machine learning o desarrollar teoría cuantitativa.
Requisitos:
- Matemática aplicada/teórica (fuerte)
- Programación (moderada)
📩 DM con CV.
Introducing the $OP Fund by @wakeuplabs x DAMM
Built to give @Optimism holders a genuine way to earn real, OP-denominated yield, beyond short-term incentive campaigns.
Built on @lagoonfinance & @VelodromeFi,w/ a fresh @privy_io powered dapp.
Our 1st open fund is live👇
The DAMM Quant team is starting the year strong.
Latest research has been on modular width for LPing, preliminary backtest results on the first model iteration are already looking promising.
Before (pic 1): 8.3% APY <> 4.9 Sharpe
Now (pic 2): 8.3% APY <> 7.8 Sharpe
TBC..
Around 10 months into DAMM, fully bootstrapped with our own capital, enjoying every day, growing in a steady path, and already profitable. So… what have we done so far?
• Launched DAMMstable, a stablecoin fund aimed at delivering ~2x Aave rates with low-risk positions. Initially deployed as a purely algorithmic Uniswap stablecoin fund, it’s now partially algorithmic with discretionary positions. Zero drawdowns and home to several LPs.
• Launched DAMMeth, an ETH fund built on the thesis that Ethereum will be a cornerstone of the future of finance and that $ETH should reflect that. DAMMeth is designed around the power of compound interest, where a 50–100% excess return over the benchmark on long-term, volatile assets with large upside like ETH can massively impact outcomes.
• We partnered with @lagoon_finance as our asset-management infrastructure layer.
• Built permission helpers so @safe + Zodiac Roles can tap into @Uniswap v4 (unlocking billions in AUM that wasn’t possible before).
• With support from @Optimism & @wakeuplabs to bring DAMMop to OP, we are launching a vault to create OP denominated yield & deep liquidity for the $OP token before EOY.
• Morpho vaults in testing, going well.
• @pendle_fi markets deployed with @obolnetwork + Tally.
• Dropped the DAMM Toolkit, an ERC-4626-native, intent-ready asset management infrastructure layer. Open-source for everyone. While Arbitrum supported us in eventually auditing parts of it, we prefer to focus on alpha, which is why we run internal ops on Lagoon ,but anyone can access and use our stack.
• Quietly onboarding TradFi players in LATAM & Argentina into DeFi.
• Together with @Kleros_io , launched StakeCurate: a trustless vault/asset verification layer for DeFi vaults, with the first example going live next week.
• Closed great results with our first big PoL (protocol-owned liquidity) clients (non-custodial, trustless, fully autonomous) and already expanding the client base.
• Helping onboard Argentine math & engineering talent into Web3.
• Collaborating with @UCEMA_edu and other universities to expand deep DeFi education among young Argentine students.
• [redacted]
Para ser parte de DAMM, la vara es muy alta. Somos un grupo de apasionados y enfermos. Todo lo que logramos es gracias al equipo.
Mejor de todo: Es totalmente organico pq todos aman lo que hacen.
Yesterday we hosted Tomasz, Co-Executive Director at the Ethereum Foundation, to chat all about DeFi and Ethereum.
Great having you with us.
Thanks @cryptochica_arg!
At DAMM we don’t mind 100-hour weeks because we love what we do, but having @tkstanczak at our hacker house for an asado gives us the energy to keep building the future of finance on @ethereum .
EF never felt closer.
Bullish DeFi. Bullish ETH. Bullish DAMM.
Ty @cryptochica_arg for setting it up 🫶