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[Marcus | Balancer @Marcus_Balancer]

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[Marcus | Balancer @Marcus_Balancer]

@elonmusk @arielsbdar When Brazil?? 🇧🇷🇧🇷
Soon please!

[Marcus | Balancer @Marcus_Balancer]

@henlojseam Sorry for your loss! 😢

[Sergio Yuhjtman @Syuhjtman]

Tokenizing assets on blockchains is great. Then we want to exchange those tokens on-chain, naturally. I believe that our current DEXs on Ethereum are suboptimal. My proposal is "Walraswap: equilibrium-based decentralized exchange integrating external AMM liquidity".

Read a friendly introduction on https://t.co/c6x4AWPAbI
Link to the full paper: https://t.co/t6Jg9pilwl

Thanks to @jesus_chitty, @GeoffRamseyer, Christoph Schlegel, @Balancer, and Flashbots!

[Marcus | Balancer @Marcus_Balancer]

@tiagohansen @project0 Nicely done! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[Marcus | Balancer @Marcus_Balancer]

@LefterisJP Noticed the same. Should be an amazing Devcon with such easy access 🙏🏼

[Marcus | Balancer @Marcus_Balancer]

Lisbon for Devcon 9 is a great call.

A lot of Ethereum builders already live there, and it's easy to reach for most of the ecosystem

See you in October @EFDevcon

[Devcon 9 | Lisbon @EFDevcon]

Devcon 9 is coming to Lisbon! 🇵🇹

October 11–13, 2027

Building on Mumbai, we're bringing Ethereum's builders together with more friends and allies working toward a freer, more open internet.

[Sequoia Capital @sequoia]

https://t.co/ZuGVVQLF5E

[Marcus | Balancer @Marcus_Balancer]

I'm from Brazil. As a kid I watched my parents go through what Paraguay is going through now

Situations like that are why I got into crypto. DeFi solves problems people born in some countries don't even know can exist

[zerolore @zerolore]

During Brazil’s recent election, people bought @tether on Sunday to hedge currency risk while trad markets were closed.

Now in Paraguay, Ueno Bank customers have been cut off from their savings, so USDT offers a safehaven for those looking to hold and move their money outside the banking system.

This is exactly why we’re building @USDT0_to. People should be able to access the money they trust and move it across borders or networks when they need it.

Having access to trusted assets like dollars & gold can make a world of difference in moments of instability like this.

[Marcus | Balancer @Marcus_Balancer]

@StaniKulechov Nice!
ethereum:0x7fc66500c84a76ad7e9c93437bfc5ac33e2ddae9 comunitty is lucky to have such a capable and serious team working for the protocol

[Marcus | Balancer @Marcus_Balancer]

@CoWSwap @tokenterminal Record users while the whole market traded less. People keep coming back to @CoWSwap because the execution is just better
Congrats on the Q3 report, team!

[Marcus | Balancer @Marcus_Balancer]

@StaniKulechov After working with you and the Aave team, I know how much effort goes into the product side, but also how much you care about token holders.
Excited to see the Aavenomics 3.0 design

[Marcus | Balancer @Marcus_Balancer]

Winding down a protocol well means nobody leaves money behind. @mendesfabio went address by address, found $500k+ in forgotten funds and tracked down the owners. That kind of care and rigor is rare, and any team would be lucky to have him.

If you ever used Balancer, read this and check. https://t.co/9J4PTThrbF

[Fábio @mendesfabio]

Over the past few weeks I found more than $500k that people forgot they had left on @Balancer.

Ethena, Gauntlet and Gnosis were among them. Most of it was invisible on explorers or dashboards.

Here's where it was hiding, and how I tracked it down.

It all started with the DAO's own old positions, to make sure nothing was left behind. I documented everything publicly so the community could follow along:

https://t.co/3HnoyT6mJT

Then I wondered how many other users had funds sitting in the same places. Turns out, a lot.

Three places it was hiding:

• Balancer v3 buffers. They use internal accounting, so they don't show up on most dashboards. Ethena, Gauntlet and others still had funds there.
• Old v2 liquidity mining incentives. The liquidity was gone, but the rewards were still waiting. Gnosis had 128k LDO it never claimed.
• Old veBAL protocol fees. After veBAL was discontinued, lots of people forgot to claim their leftover USDC.

The hard part wasn't knowing where to look. It was the sheer number of addresses. Years of LPs, from retail EOAs to DAO multisigs, way more than I could check by hand.

So I spawned a bunch of Grok Bots to do the grunt work: going through every contract, checking addresses one by one, and flagging anything with a balance left.

Merkle claims were the trickiest part. To tell whether something was still claimable, you have to match old weekly distribution reports against what was already claimed onchain. Miss one week and the numbers stop adding up.

Then came the fun part: figuring out who's behind an address and how to reach them.

I reached out to everyone I could find. Most have started withdrawing. Gnosis, for instance, opened a proposal to clean up its legacy Safe after I flagged it:

https://t.co/u4mZRa0I45

If you've ever used Balancer, it's worth a look. I wrote up where to check and how to withdraw here:

https://t.co/9VeTnSpPIu

Balancer has been a big part of my life for over 5 years. I learned more there than anywhere else.

So instead of a sad goodbye as it winds down, I wanted to close the chapter doing what I love: digging onchain, and giving something back to the community that gave me so much.

My DMs are open if you need a hand. 🫡

[Marcus | Balancer @Marcus_Balancer]

@ShivaanshKapoor @Balancer Thank you Shivaansh, it was a pleasure building alongside @roycoprotocol .

[Marcus | Balancer @Marcus_Balancer]

Today is the last regular working day for the @Balancer team.

Some of the people on this team have been here since Balancer's earliest days. Others joined along the way. Together, they helped build and evolve the protocol over the years.

From the original weighted pools and liquidity bootstrapping to the v2 Vault, Boosted Pools, and v3, Balancer helped shape how liquidity works in DeFi. Behind all of that were years of research, engineering, integrations, operations, and work with partners that most people never saw.

The last year was especially difficult. The exploit hurt people who trusted Balancer, and the team went through the recovery, restructuring, and eventually the decision to wind down. Even after the end date was set, they continued doing the work needed to support users and partners.

This isn't the ending we worked for. But it doesn't take away what the team built and contributed to DeFi.

The winddown itself continues under BIP-928. For the remaining steps and withdrawal information, please follow the official Balancer updates.

To everyone who helped build Balancer over the years, thank you.
I'm grateful I got to work with so many of you.

[Marcus | Balancer @Marcus_Balancer]

@FiliusJff @Balancer Thank you, they really are bright people and I am looking forward to seeing what each of them achieves next.

[Marcus | Balancer @Marcus_Balancer]

@crypticdefense @Balancer Appreciate it, AMMs still have plenty of unsolved problems and researchers like you are a big reason they keep getting safer and better.

[bleu @bleubuilders]

A little over a year after we launched cowpy, we’re excited to see it has powered more than $100M in settled volume.

Built for @CoWSwap interactions, cowpy gives Python builders native tools for MEV-protected trading, order-book management, smart-contract execution, subgraph queries, and multi-chain support.

So far:

• $124M in volume
• 27K PyPI downloads
• 53K orders across 6 chains

Get started with:

pip install cowdao-cowpy

Moooo 🐮

[Marcus | Balancer @Marcus_Balancer]

@PodsFinance @cioffi_victor 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[Marcus | Balancer @Marcus_Balancer]

@joaobrunoliz @Balancer Thanks João. You were a big part of the team and it was a privilege working together. Proud of what we built.

[Marcus | Balancer @Marcus_Balancer]

@tiagohansen @fcmartinelli @Balancer Tiago, thank you. You stuck with us through the hardest part and I am grateful for it. Proud of what we built together, and excited to watch what you do at @project0

[Marcus | Balancer @Marcus_Balancer]

@Lorenzo_B @Balancer Thanks Lorenzo. You were there through the hardest stretch and it made a real difference. Proud to have worked with you. @sherlockdefi got a good one.