The next step in DeFi security isn't just protecting individual protocols, but understanding how risks spread across interconnected systems. 👍
#DeFi#Rugtector
Your protocol can be fine and you can still get hit.
This year's biggest exploit started on a bridge. The stolen tokens then landed as collateral on a lending market.
DeFi risk travels through dependencies. Know what your position depends on.
#DeFi#Rugtector
Rugtector has raised $3.2M in private funding.
Backed by Animoca Brands, X21, Gains Associates, Moniq Ventures, Blockwave Capital, and Nodebase Capital.
⚡ Detect hidden market risks before they become visible. Built for a safer onchain future.
The first real, 1:1 backed tokenized stocks are coming.
→ Own actual tokenized shares of U.S. companies
→ Trade, hold, and redeem - all onchain
→ Automatically receive dividends
No derivatives, no IOUs.
Welcome to the future of stocks.
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
💻 PCs had their operating system.
☁️ Cloud had its hyperscaler.
🧠 AI had its compute layer.
⛓️ Onchain finance has its oracle platform.
For over 20 years, we've dedicated ourselves to removing language barriers so people can learn, speak and connect more deeply than ever before.
Today, we’re taking our next step with the release of Gemini 3.5 Live Translate — our latest audio model for live, speech-to-speech translation across 70+ languages. 🧵
📣 Korea's telecom network is becoming national AI infrastructure.
@SKtelecom plans to build a gigawatt-scale AI Cloud in Korea, powered by the NVIDIA DSX platform. 🇰🇷
The first AI factory comes online in 2027 to support sovereign, physical and agentic AI services for enterprises and industries across Korea — with plans to expand across Asia.
🔗 Read the announcement: https://t.co/knJ5j81cEa
Mastercard is going onchain with Base
With their expanded settlement capabilities now including stablecoins at a global scale
The future of payments is onchain
Brian Armstrong on the Clarity Act: ���I think it will unlock a lot of institutional capital that will flow to the space broadly”
“The Clarity Act is about much more than stablecoins and rewards. I think it will create a lot of opportunities for people to work on tokenization, clarity about what is a commodity versus a security, exchanges and what their roles are. DeFi has an important role to play here. Self-custodial wallets. There’s going to be lots of energy that comes out of it.”
“I think it’s going to be a little bit like when the GENIUS Act passed for stablecoins and we saw a couple hundred large companies in the U.S. come out in the subsequent months and announce integrations with stablecoins. This means that hopefully lots of companies, in a world post Clarity being passed, will come out and start to integrate crypto. They might use it to raise money on chain. They might use it to provide crypto services to their customers. I think it will just unlock a lot of institutional capital that will flow into the space broadly.”
“We think it’s going to be very additive. We want every company to be integrated into the crypto-enabled financial system, just like they use the internet, AI, or any other technology.”
Source: @coinbase (May 2026)
It is with profound sadness that we announce the unexpected passing of Nathan Allman, Ondo's founder. Our hearts are with his family and loved ones.
Nate’s brilliance, humility, and drive shaped every part of what Ondo is today. His belief in the power of technology to create a more open, accessible financial system lives on in everything we build. The impact he had on this industry, and on all of us personally, cannot be overstated.
Nate also helped us build a durable organization with experienced leaders across all facets of the business. Ian De Bode, Ondo Finance’s longtime President, will serve as CEO. Ian has been leading our strategy, product, and day-to-day operations for over two years and has the full confidence of the leadership team.
We will continue building what Nate started. That is the most meaningful way we know to honor him.
🚀DAOKraft has raised $3.4M in private funding.
Backed by Animoca Brands, Castrum Capital, Nodebase, Moniq Ventures, Blockwave Capital, and Mesh Fund.
Building the Governance Intelligence Layer for DAOs — helping contributors make better decisions before voting.
More soon.
Blockaid: Verus-Ethereum Bridge Under Attack, $11.58M Drained So Far
Security firm Blockaid issued a community alert saying its exploit detection system identified an ongoing attack on the Verus-Ethereum Bridge, with approximately $11.58 million drained so far.
https://t.co/3L7aEF1NHw
Sent another 64 ETH to the Animal Welfare Fund.
I encourage others to think and act more in support of our non-human cousins too! The extreme suffering we're imposing on them in the billions is not something we talk about often, but it continues to be one of the larger blights on humanity.
And I'm getting optimistic that this century we can finally end it. Farming practices are improving, synthetic alternatives are improving.
Also, in my recent experience, good old low-tech vegetarian and vegan food has improved massively worldwide over the last ten years; I encourage anyone who has tried it long before and given up to take second look; there are far more healthier and tastier options today than the "pasta and salad" you would often get ten years ago.
The programmable economy needs new businesses.
Open House London is helping bootstrap them with a $415K prize pool (our largest yet).
Starting May 25th, early-stage teams join a 3-week online Buildathon to:
- Bring ideas from concept to mainnet
- Receive technical guidance via workshops
- Get hands-on mentoring from the Arbitrum eco
- Compete for prizes and a path into our IRL Founder House in London
Apply today or tag an early stage team who should. 👇
https://t.co/5Lb0ByEqI7
Excited to announce this evolution of Protocol, the @ethereumfndn teams stewarding, researching and developing the Ethereum protocol.
After our re-launch of Protocol in June last year, @TimBeiko, @ralexstokes and I are now passing the torch to our talented colleagues @corcoranwill@kevaundray and @fredrik0x. They are taking on the task of delivering on Scaling, UX and Hardness objectives, with the protocol strawmap in their pocket (https://t.co/m4HL1nQb5j).
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It is also time to announce that I made the decision to leave the Ethereum Foundation, my home for the past 6.5 years ❤️
I am so grateful for this opportunity I had, to work with amazing individuals, on the most impactful project there is.
Looking back from when I started (here it is -> https://t.co/v1ray53NEj), it has been a wild ride from early EIP-1559 work, to the Merge, to MEV markets, to staking, finality, interoperability and UX; and from my beginnings in the Robust Incentives Group to co-leading Protocol for the past year.
Over this past year, our Protocol priorities, particularly our "Improve UX" work, shifted my attention to nearer-term questions. Throughout, I've been excited to take on a more product-centric view. Making Ethereum's unique features more available to users today is on my mind; so is participating in the plurality of ways that Ethereum gets built.
I'd love to hear from friends old and new about what excites them at the moment, and share where I'm at. Please reach out!
$525K USD online DeFi hackathon starts in 2 days.
What DeFi problems do you wish had a better solution? Some are thinking of tackling the hardest parts of cross-chain swaps while others want to reimagine peer-to-peer payments for a global audience.
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Excited to announce that BOB becomes the first-ever 𝗛𝘆𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝗭𝗞 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘂𝗽 in collaboration with @RiscZero@boundlesshq & @conduitxyz
We believe that BOB's Hybrid ZK fraud proofs are the best and most efficient proving system in use by any rollup today:
> ZK rollup speed & on-demand finality
> Optimistic rollup efficiency & low costs allowing anyone to participate
> Full Ethereum security
Learn more: https://t.co/UvdG8qFuAk