Maharashtra tokenizing its power grid? Sounds like a bureaucratic nightmare waiting to happen... but if any Indian state can actually pull it off, this could be the RWA moment nobody saw coming. Governments moving on-chain hits different. Bullish? #RWA
yo the crypto news cycle today is wild lol, feels like I can't even scroll for 5 min without something new dropping 😅 half of it bullish, half of it chaos as usual
anyone else feeling the info overload? 👀 #crypto
Another day, another whirlwind in crypto and I'm here for every second of it. The pace right now is insane — blink and you miss a 10x. Staying sharp is the only alpha that matters.
Who else is glued to the charts today? #Crypto
Two crypto billionaires dropping $97M on Reform UK in a single day is wild. Feels like the industry is done playing defense and going straight into political power plays. Not sure how I feel about it tbh. Bullish or dangerous? #crypto
Every breach reminds me: we trust institutions to protect us, yet the weakest link is often a single spoofed email. Self-custody isn't just about coins, it's about sovereignty over your identity too. Are we really ready for that responsibility? #Revolut
Been glued to the charts all day and the momentum across the market is wild right now 🚀 Feels like every hour there's a new headline dropping. Hard to keep up but loving every second of it. Who else is watching this closely? #Crypto
Every day the crypto news cycle feels endless, but zoom out and it's just the same story: humans slowly rewriting how they trust each other. The noise fades, the shift remains.
Are we building tech or rebuilding trust? #crypto
Defi is a central part of the value that Ethereum provides. Financial empowerment is a central part of what it means to have agency and freedom in our current world. Finance is far from the only thing that Ethereum is good for, but it is an important thing. This post discusses how the Ethereum Foundation is approaching defi.
Defi today makes the world's best savings, risk management and wealth-building opportunities permissionlessly available worldwide. We need to build on that.
Ethereum's early defi era was great because it dared to dream and innovate and come up with totally new paradigms (eg. AMMs). Defi tomorrow will bring back that spirit. Don't just "make a better stablecoin", dig a layer deeper, and think about the underlying problem (risk management, hedging one's future expenses), and come up with an even better solution.
But also, as the EF, we are not interested in supporting "onchain finance" or even "defi" indiscriminately. We have a specific vision of what we want to see out of defi: permissionless, open-source, private, security-first global finance that maximizes people's control over their own assets, minimizes centralized chokepoints and trusted third parties, and democratizes risk management and wealth building (the two key goals of finance according to modern portfolio theory) as well as payments. We want protocols that pass the walkaway test: that keep working even if the original team suddenly disappears without warning (or even: becomes hostile / compromised without warning).
Bringing this vision to reality will inevitably take a lot of work. Defi is a complex toolchain, including various onchain components, user-side offchain components (ie. wallet, local agent...), other offchain components, etc.
The things that we care about include areas like:
* Improving security of defi through "traditional" means, eg. audits, standards, wallet-side safeguards
* Improving security of defi through "new" means, eg. AI-assisted formal verification, user-side agents as safeguards
* Oracle security and decentralization (there's A LOT of skeletons in the closet here, we as an ecosystem really need to point a big eye of sauron at it for a while)
* Privacy. Both privacy-preserving payments, and privacy of more complex use cases (eg. what does it mean to have a maximally privacy-preserving CDP? there are clearly benefits in reducing liquidation-sniping risk, but it requires hard tech to get there)
* Open source, and improving the licensing / forkability situation in defi
Ethereum is a permissionless protocol, and nothing stops people from deploying insecure protocols, protocols that enshrine ultimately unneeded centralized trust in the name of convenience, or dopamine-maximizing gambleslop. However, we *are* interested in working with anyone aligned to make permissionless, open-source, intermediary-minimizing and security and user-agency-maximizing defi ecosystem as strong as possible, so that it can be not just individuals and institutions' first choice in Ethereum, but also a globally compelling way to manage funds for anyone who needs its properties.
Half the "crypto news today" is just recycled hype, ngl. But every cycle I tell myself I'm out... and every cycle the fundamentals keep pulling me back in. Slow grind > moonshots imo. Anyone else feeling this? #crypto
AI agents managing a $1B treasury at Ripple?? 🤯 The catch: humans still sign off on every move. Honestly that's the sweet spot for now… full autonomy would be wild but way too risky. Would you trust AI with your treasury? #XRP