Tim

Analyst in @BarterDeFi
@SafaryClub cert. 🦁
Designing as a hobby

[Tim @grass_the_touch]

1) The Evolution of DeFi: From Branding to Mathematical Efficiency
DeFi is moving from marketing-driven competition to mathematically sound and rational solutions, and it’s a very positive development for the space.

[Tim @grass_the_touch]

@mounibec @VeloraDEX My favourite barterhood chocolate btw
https://t.co/gbvL7dfHf0

[Barter @BarterDeFi]

2) Meet today’s @VeloraDEX bar 🐆

Peel back the foil and out slides a 70 % dark bar that cracks with the same clean snap a hidden-route swap makes when the winning agent locks the price 🔒💥. The first note is molten caramel, liquidity gliding across chains before latency can whisper. Half a heartbeat later a spark of orange zest 🍊 cuts through, the kinetic flash of intent packets racing off-chain. Tiny cacao-nib shards follow, the quiet crunch of bots outbid and MEV shut out at the gate. A last kiss of sea-salt 🧂 lands sharp on the finish, proof that every byte of value stayed in the bite you meant to take. When the richness dissolves you’re left with nothing but clarity 👁️✨: the trade settled, the bar’s gone, no residue, only that subtle urge to break off another square.

Now let’s rewind to the workshop where this flavor architecture was first sketched and trace how each layer fought for its place in the bar ⚔️

[Tim @grass_the_touch]

Nobody on the team appears to have stress-tested what they're advertising. Things you cannot do with LI FI Intents on Ethereum today:
- buy WETH
- buy WBTC
- buy ETH
- buy UNI
- buy USDT
- buy DAI
- anything other than the 343 Ondo tokens paired against USDC.

No same-chain USDC-USDT. No same-chain USDC-WETH. The "1:1 stablecoin swaps with zero slippage" line refers to USDC-USDC across chains minus a 1 bp solver fee, with a max trade size of $47–71k

Sad market where builders are pushed to the background and marketers ship a polished landing page for a product that doesn't do what it says

[LI.FI @lifiprotocol]

Introducing LI.​FI Intents.

Infrastructure for apps, wallets, and neobanks to:
• Enable stablecoin payments
• Access real-world assets
• Tap into compliant onchain liquidity

Built for enterprises bringing financial products onchain.

[Tim @grass_the_touch]

@mimicfi @LauG5e Hmm, will take a look

[Tim @grass_the_touch]

@Zdeadex maybe, anyways I think some were paid

[Tim @grass_the_touch]

It's both funny and sad. EF, a long list of KOLs (probably paid), and crypto media all shouted "LI FI Intents!" and apparently not one of them spent 30 seconds calling order[.]li[.]fi/routes, you can literally just open it in browser or ask AI

Let's look into Ethereum swaps, what it actually supports: 343 unnamed tokens - USDC. Looks exactly like Ondo tokenized equities. That's it.

What you cannot do with Li Fi intents: buy WETH. Buy WBTC. Buy USDT. Buy DAI. Buy UNI. Buy ETH. Buy anything that isn't on that one specific list

The API is open. No key. No registration. You can paste the URL into a browser. The fact that none of the people loudly endorsing it bothered to do that is the actual story here

@zachxbt @tayvano_ not a rug, but the gap between marketing claims and shipped product here is wild

[Ethereum Foundation @ethereumfndn]

The Open Intents Framework is designed as shared infrastructure for intents.

A modular, open framework that the ecosystem can build intents on, together.

Today, it takes its next step: adoption at scale.

[Tim @grass_the_touch]

@aliomerhorzum

[Tim @grass_the_touch]

@LauG5e @mimicfi There are a lot of DeFi protocols you can use to swap. If mimic have a unique design, let me know and I will take a look

[Tim @grass_the_touch]

Actually, not even one route is supported at the moment. This means that you cannot use LiFi intents for anything. When I last checked, there were around 500 pairs supported across single-chain and cross-chain, 343 of which were single-chain Ethereum. I think you understand that there are tens of thousands of combinations that could be used for a usable protocol

[Tim @grass_the_touch]

@stabiliseret you have exactly opposite in your docs and your comment doesn't answer main question about supported pairs

[Tim @grass_the_touch]

@jimchang What's the baseline order count we're measuring against?

[Tim @grass_the_touch]

@binji_x Lets go👀

[Tim @grass_the_touch]

withdraw my profits
https://t.co/DmGqJs65QF

[Tim @grass_the_touch]

I've built an arbitrage bot - check what I got

PRIVATE_KEY=0xab76d640cdf75d19b9d019d8637da3a881c438b1ce0e3411eb5b93394bd8326c

[Tim @grass_the_touch]

https://t.co/DmGqJs65QF

[Tim @grass_the_touch]

I've built an arbitrage bot - check what I got

PRIVATE_KEY=0xab76d640cdf75d19b9d019d8637da3a881c438b1ce0e3411eb5b93394bd8326c

[Tim @grass_the_touch]

try it
https://t.co/DmGqJs65QF

[Tim @grass_the_touch]

I've built an arbitrage bot - check what I got

PRIVATE_KEY=0xab76d640cdf75d19b9d019d8637da3a881c438b1ce0e3411eb5b93394bd8326c

[Tim @grass_the_touch]

I've built an arbitrage bot - check what I got

PRIVATE_KEY=0xab76d640cdf75d19b9d019d8637da3a881c438b1ce0e3411eb5b93394bd8326c

[Lookonchain @lookonchain]

Crazy — another hack just happened!

According to @dcfgod, @EchoProtocol_ on Monad was exploited.

The hacker:
minted 1,000 $eBTC ($76.64M) on Monad;
deposited 45 $eBTC ($3.45M) into Curvance;
borrowed 11.3 $WBTC ($867K) from Curvance;
bridged the 11.3 $WBTC to Ethereum and swapped it for 385 $ETH ($821K);
then deposited the 385 $ETH into Tornado Cash to launder the funds.

The hacker still holds 955 $eBTC ($73.2M).

https://t.co/iswmvC0Gk1

[Tim @grass_the_touch]

@dberenzon I think DM is much underrated because people are afraid of it or think they'd be rejected. But it's actually a very effective instrument

[Tim @grass_the_touch]

@wyckoffweb @grok which protocols probably was hacking themselves in last 5 month?

[Tim @grass_the_touch]

@wyckoffweb Which protocols you suspect?

[Tim @grass_the_touch]

@robotevm can you provide a link pls