bhardwajadi

bd and gtm @lucidlyfi and @useaspen | Grad @NITHamirpurHP

[bhardwajadi @defivirtus]

From hills to base 🚀

@BasedIndia @callusfbi excited to catchup with you all 📷

[bhardwajadi @defivirtus]

can i get an invite code for Suzi? @suzitrade @yashhsm

[bhardwajadi @defivirtus]

@wycf_show @gauntlet_xyz @CarsonMBrown The edge isn't understanding the strategy.

The painful part is turning it into something that actually runs.

With https://t.co/vfQh1NmDTV , you just describe the strategy in natural language.

It builds it, backtests it, adds the guards, and executes it from your own wallet.

[bhardwajadi @defivirtus]

The edge isn't understanding the strategy.

The painful part is turning it into something that actually runs.

With https://t.co/vfQh1NmDTV , you just describe the strategy in natural language.

It builds it, backtests it, adds the guards, and executes it from your own wallet.

[Where Yield Comes From @wycf_show]

19% of all curated vault AuM in DeFi is allocated by @gauntlet_xyz, and every one of those positions starts with the same question.

Tomorrow, @CarsonMBrown opens the playbook on the whiteboard.

Episode 03: base:0x000000000001cdb57e58fa75fe420a0f4d6640d5, 10:00 ET.

[bhardwajadi @defivirtus]

saw a Reddit strategy.

my first thought wasn't "does it work?"

it was "how many people can actually automate this?"

most traders stop at the idea because turning it into production is painful.

aspen removes that step.

describe the strategy in English. the agent turns it into an executable strategy, backtests it, wraps it with guards, and runs it from your wallet.

feels a lot like Cursor, but for trading.

DM FOR EARLY ACCESS 📧 | https://t.co/blUxRkBzKH

[bhardwajadi @defivirtus]

btw, this is where I’m working from

[bhardwajadi @defivirtus]

For fifty years, humans have been the execution layer of finance. Software drew the dashboards, we clicked the buttons.

The stack quietly got ready for something else. DeFi turned markets into open APIs. Stablecoins made dollars settle programmatically ($300B+ and federally regulated now).

Agents are the missing participant: software that can take "put my idle USDC into conservative yield, stay liquid, exit if conditions breach my limits" and turn it into transactions.

But here's the part nobody wants to say: the model is the least trustworthy component in the system. It hallucinates addresses. It can be injected by any text it reads. An LLM with signing authority isn't a product, it's a bounty.

So the real work of agentic finance isn't giving models more freedom. It's building the layer that translates intent into execution without ever letting natural language touch money directly.

The model proposes, deterministic code disposes: vetted registries fill every address, every tx is fork-simulated before send, kill switches always let you exit, and the user can revoke the agent on-chain.

That's what we're building with @useaspen. Say the strategy once. Let the infrastructure handle the execution.

The last click was never the point. The intent behind it was.

[bhardwajadi @defivirtus]

DeFi has quietly trained everyone to accept a weird deal: to run a real strategy, you hand your money to someone else.

Someone else's vault. Someone else's parameters.

Someone else's 2-of-3 multisig you've never met.

Not because your ideas are worse than theirs but because execution is a full-time job and custody was the price of automation.

That price is fake. It was an engineering problem, not a law of nature.

Aspen runs your strategy from your own vault: you describe it in a sentence, it's decomposed, simulated before you sign, executed by an agent that can trade but can never withdraw and that you can revoke at any moment.

Automation without the custody tax. That's the whole product.

[Aspen @useaspen]

You say the strategy once. Aspen takes it from there.

No dashboards. No endless clicks. No micromanaging.

Just execution.

Meet Aspen.

[Aspen @useaspen]

You say the strategy once. Aspen takes it from there.

No dashboards. No endless clicks. No micromanaging.

Just execution.

Meet Aspen.

[bhardwajadi @defivirtus]

You, me, 5 am, airport, morning coffee and Singapore waiting for us

[bhardwajadi @defivirtus]

Mom I’m in love with a criminal

[bhardwajadi @defivirtus]

@sridharfyi Please check you DM's

[bhardwajadi @defivirtus]

@solana best replies

[Kelp @KelpDAO]

Making right by every rsETH holder is our goal, and this plan is how we get there.

The technical implementation plan is now public. It covers restoring rsETH backing, clearing affected positions across @aave and @compoundfinance, and resuming normal market operations across all affected markets.

The plan is designed to restore full backing without socializing losses. Execution depends on governance approvals and finalizing agreements, and we will share progress publicly as each step moves forward.

Thank you for staying with us through this.

[Amit @GAmitej]

The hardest week of my career.
And also the week I saw what this industry is truly made of.

We are contributing 2,000 ETH to DeFi United. Every rsETH holder will be made whole. That was always the only acceptable outcome for me personally.

To everyone who showed up, thank you.

DeFi United.

[bhardwajadi @defivirtus]

been watching the rsETH recovery closely.

wanted a single page that just shows what's happening on pledges, live on-chain inflows, what's left.

made one: https://t.co/PnFCJiW8xJ

we stand defiunited.

[DeFi Warhol @Defi_Warhol]

I've been in this space since 2017, and I've seen dozens of exploits happen over the years.

The main lesson I learned after every exploit is that you truly understand the quality of the team behind the project in the next 2/3 days afterward.

And the work that Kelp's team has done is truly one of the most reactive & professional I've seen in this space.

The initial hole in Kelp was 163,200 ETH. Keep this number in mind.

Kelp managed to recover 43,000 ETH directly. Arbitrum Security Council froze another 30,700 ETH.

EtherFi, Ethena, Lido, Mantle, and Golem committed 43,500 ETH in confirmed public posts.

They recovered 72% of the total stolen funds, that's 117,200 ETH for a second. The hole suddenly dropped from 163,200 ETH to 46,000 ETH. Assuming the rest will be covered by Kelp's Treasury once we have a final number.

I remember reading posts right after the exploit that this was the final nail in the coffin for DeFi.

Good to see Kelp and Aave bringing the entire ecosystem together with the mission of making DeFi United and keeping moving forward.

The big guys are always louder and well-resourced to own their narrative, but Kelp has stayed silent and been working relentlessly behind the scenes. I am rooting for them.

[bhardwajadi @defivirtus]

@StaniKulechov built this out pls check:

https://t.co/24APIOwiW4

[bhardwajadi @defivirtus]

been watching the rsETH recovery closely.

wanted a single page that just shows what's happening on pledges, live on-chain inflows, what's left.

made one: https://t.co/PnFCJiW8xJ

we stand defiunited.

[bhardwajadi @defivirtus]

been watching the rsETH recovery closely.

wanted a single page that just shows what's happening on pledges, live on-chain inflows, what's left.

made one: https://t.co/PnFCJiW8xJ

we stand defiunited.

[bhardwajadi @defivirtus]

defi united

[Stani @StaniKulechov]

defiunited.eth is now open for contributions. All contributions are going towards DeFi United relief efforts to restore rsETH and safe DeFi.

https://t.co/gdkGe5pi0e