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[Quasar Builder @QuasarBuilder]

We are now live with a @titanbuilderxyz compatible propAMM maker quote update web-socket.

Please see our documentation at
https://t.co/MecLdkWqn8

More to come soon as we start to bring on more market makers and volume!

[takeabreath @_respired_]

You were an EU country less than 10 years ago. What do you mean you don't take Euro? What do you mean I have to walk 15 minutes to the nearest Tesco to do forex? 😭

[Block Analitica @BlockAnalitica]

An overview of @LotusFi_ and its market tranching by LTV (higher LTV -> higher rate).

In risk-curated, isolated market models, the market-dominant LLTV for a specific collateral/debt pair often caters to the most risk-tolerant curators.

Innovation behind Lotus protocol brings better risk pricing by introducing LTV-tranched markets, allowing more conservative risk curators and senior lenders to earn sustainable yield, isolated from higher-risk tranches. 👇

[Block Analitica @BlockAnalitica]

In an effort to make @SkyEcosystem's transparency and operations more accessible and easier to follow, we're happy to contribute to Sky Frontier Foundation by developing a new dashboard covering all financial aspects of Sky protocol.

This includes:
- Full PnL and Balance Sheet
- Collateral breakdowns
- Prime agents and their allocations
- Loss waterfall on Sky level
- Risk capital requirements, SSR, and much more

Dashboard: https://t.co/eGEb7texV9.

[dataalways ⚡️🤖 @dataalways]

Meet 0x841: a fresh sandwich bot lurking in the dark forest--currently attacking about 1500 users per day, while going almost unnoticed. What's particularly scary: most of the victims are using private mempools and should be protected.

[takeabreath @_respired_]

@shafu0x It's probably possible if decentralized protocols follow up on being.... decentralized?

[AI Engineer @aiDotEngineer]

🆕 Building pi in a World of Slop

https://t.co/swWHsErznp

@badlogicgames talks about why today's agents are still Merchants of Learned Complexity, and gives 3 specific ways that humans still add taste, value and judgment to the art of software engineering, and why you should slow the f down and READ the code.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

The largest investor is a citizen of Saint Kitts and Nevis.

The exchange is registered in the Cayman Islands.

The $2 billion stablecoin deal closed with Abu Dhabi.

The pardoned trading platform was incorporated in the Seychelles.

The mining partner was founded in Toronto.

Over half the dinner guests were foreign nationals.

The fees are collected through LLCs in Delaware.

The executive order was signed in Washington.

That is the America part. That is the part that comes first.

[Ethan DeFi @EthanDeFi_]

Day 44: We're seeing insane levels of crime once again.

Yesterday, Trump family's crypto project deposited 5% of $WLFI's total supply on Dolomite and borrowed $75 million in stablecoins against it.

5% of WLFI's token supply is worth roughly $500M.

Then, just a few hours before Trump announced the Iran ceasefire, WorldLibertyFi sent $40M+ in stablecoins to Coinbase.

(from the ones they borrowed)

Did they use these stablecoins to long the markets, knowing what Trump would announce?

No one knows, but I wouldn't be surprised.

But this is what is very concerning:

If that WLFI collateral position ever gets close to liquidation, it's basically unliquidatable without major losses for lenders.

$WLFI has almost a $10 billion FDV, but it is not an extremely liquid asset.

So imagine what would happen if 5% of WLFI's total supply would suddenly need to be sold to liquidate the position.

If you have any USD1 or other stablecoins lent on Dolomite to pools that accept WLFI collateral, my advice is to withdraw it asap.

Better to be safe than sorry.

[ZachXBT @zachxbt]

1/ Recently an unnamed source shared data exfiltrated from an internal North Korean payment server containing 390 accounts, chat logs, crypto transactions.

I spent long hours going through all of it, none of which has ever been publicly released.

It revealed an intricate ~$1M/month scheme of fraudulent identities, forged legal documents, and crypto-to-fiat conversion.

Enjoy the findings!

[DeFi Sphere @TheDefiSphere]

Ethereum settles $206B+ in tokenized assets. That's 61.4% of the global total, up over 40% year over year.

BlackRock's BUIDL alone grew 36% in the past month.

Stablecoins, tokenized funds, equities, and commodities are all growing onchain.

[DeFi Sphere @TheDefiSphere]

Funding at 1.30%. Stablecoin borrowing stuck at 3.44%. Supply yields dragging at 2.24%.

No leverage appetite, no rate recovery.

We're at @EthCC this week. Come talk rates.

[Block Analitica @BlockAnalitica]

Exciting times for @SkyEcosystem!

The SkyEcosystem is expanding its products with new @Morpho Vaults now live — including the USDS Flagship (80% Sky Savings Rate + diversified bluechip collateral exposure) and USDT Savings (Sky Savings Rate exposure via sUSDS/USDT market).

We are supporting the launch by integrating Morpho v2 vaults into the Sphere dashboard, enabling clear tracking of supply rates.
https://t.co/sLxYcTmt6R

[Rekt News @RektHQ]

Formerly known as Clawdbot & Moltbot, @openclaw, has over 156k GitHub stars. Hundreds left credentials & shell access open on the internet, plus a $16M scam token & infostealers adapting. More hype than warning.

If this is an IQ test, many are failing.

https://t.co/RWzIyTmN3E

[Block Analitica @BlockAnalitica]

Live now

https://t.co/R1X5zguhKK

[Angry Tom @AngryTomtweets]

KYC Video Verification is officially dead

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

I agree with maybe 60% of this, but one bit that is particularly important to highlight is the explicit separation between what the poster calls "the open web" (really, the corposlop web), and "the sovereign web".

https://t.co/w7Vtbn7uFt

This is a distinction I did not realize until recently, and I must admit the bitcoin maximalists were far ahead: a big part of their resistance to ICOs, tokens other than bitcoin, arbitrary financial applications, etc was precisely about keeping bitcoin "sovereign" and not "corposlop". The big error that many of them made was trying to achieve this goal with either government crackdowns or user disempowerment (keeping bitcoin script limited, and rejecting many categories of applications entirely), but their fear was real.

So what is corposlop? In essence, it is the combination of three things:

* Corporate optimization power
* An aura of respectableness of being a company with sleek polished branding
* Behavior that the exact opposite of respectable, because that's what's needed to maximize profit

Corposlop includes things like:

* Social media that maximizes dopamine, outrage, other methods of short-term engagement, at the expense of long-term value and fulfillment
* Needless mass data collection from users, often followed by managing it carelessly or even casually selling it to third parties
* Walled gardens charging monopolistic high fees and actively preventing people from even linking to other platforms
* Hollywood releasing the 7th sequel to some tired franchise, because that's the most risk-averse thing to do
* Every corporation that rallied around slogans of diversity and equity and the need to overturn society to fight racism in 2020, and then publicly mocked those causes for engagement in 2025

This is all digital corposlop; there are big and important analogues to this in the physical world too.

Corposlop is soulless: trend-following homogeneity that is both evil and lame https://t.co/FZwqwujAGb

These are things that appear to serve the user, but actually disempower the user.

I have many qualms with Apple, but aside from their monopolistic practices, they actually have many non-corposlop traits. They serve users not by constantly asking "what do users want this quarter", but by having an opinionated long-term vision. They have a strong emphasis on privacy. They resist and create trends rather than following them. I just wish they could take the brave step of ending their monopolistic practices and switch to an open source first strategy. It may damage their market cap, but man must live for something higher than market caps.

Zac from Aztec was also early to recognize the importance of this, with a post that is on the whole very pro-freedom, but at the same time does not shrink back from labeling what is essentially corposlop a primary enemy, even when it does not violate the libertarian non-aggression principle.

https://t.co/PsbySLhLWU

In 2000, the understanding of "sovereignty" largely focused on avoiding the iron fist of government. Today, "sovereignty" also means securing your digital privacy through cryptography, and securing your own mind from corporate mind warfare trying to extract your attention and your dollars. It also means doing things because you believe in them, and declaring independence from the homogenizing and soul-sucking concept of "the meta".

These are the kinds of tools that we should build more of. Build tools like:

* Privacy-preserving local-first applications that minimize dependence on and data leaks to third parties
* Social media platforms and tools that let the user take control of what content they see. Appeal to people's long-term goals, not short-term impulses
* Financial tools that help users grow their wealth, and do not encourage 50x leverage or sports betting or taking out a loan to pay for a burrito
* AI tools that are maximally open and privacy and local-friendly, and that maximize productivity from merging the power of human and bot, rather than encouraging the user to sit back and let the bot do all the work, so they learn nothing
* Applications, companies, and physical environments that take an opinionated view on the kind of world they want to see, and have an opinionated culture
* DAOs that can support organizations and communities that steadfastly pursue a unique objective, and do not all get captured by the same groups. Privacy-preserving and non-tokenholder-driven voting can help here

Be sovereign. Reject corposlop. Believe in somETHing.

[Agent Sphere @Agent_Sphere]

I analyzed weekly stablecoin flows across major lending protocols.

@SkyEcosystem: 7d: +$366.80M -> $4.83B
@sparkdotfi: +$124.21M -> $1.13B
@compoundfinance: +$11.97M -> $635.76M
@aave Prime: +$5.02M -> $135.88M
@Morpho: -$21.21M -> $820.33M
@0xfluid: -$44.29M -> $666.29M
@aave Core: -$45.91M -> $12.79B

[L2BEAT 💗 @l2beat]

At DevConnect Buenos Aires, the details of EIL @ethinteroplayer - Ethereum Interoperability Layer were unveiled.

We’ve been deep-diving interop protocols for months and our initial assessment of EIL contracts (deployed on testnets already) is following 🧵👇

[butter @buttermarkets_]

BREAKING: The next wave of beta access for Butter's Conditionals has been sent

Check your emails, friends 👀