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"Power breeds parasites — long live anarchy!"

[🧡 @StumCrypto]

Future without war:
No states. No borders. No political monopolies.
Maximum freedom. Minimum violence.
AI coordinates a global, decentralized society, prevents violence, protects human life, and cannot rule for its own benefit.
Humanity, not governments, comes first.
#Anarchism

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@EuclidProtocol @aave rugpoll will win

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@aave Unfortunately, the DeFi ecosystem is effectively funding North Korean hackers. You pool user funds, and Lazarus just takes them — it looks like a hidden donation system. Then you apologize, pause, relaunch, attract new funds… and they come back and take it again.

[Aave @aave]

Aave service providers and ecosystem partners have established a recovery fund that factors in pending DAO votes, including the Arbitrum governance vote, indicative agreements, and successful execution to restore rsETH’s full backing.

We are DeFi United, and resolving this for affected users and the broader DeFi ecosystem is our top priority.

We have aligned with @KelpDAO and @LayerZero_Core on the technical steps required to execute our plan. That work is now moving forward.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to DeFi United and to the thousands of community members who stood with us throughout. Watching the DeFi community come together has been genuinely inspiring.

The final recovery plan, steps for users, and further updates will follow shortly.

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@SirAlbert2A @aave @StaniKulechov #isthisdefi

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#isthisdefi

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@StaniKulechov is it defi ? =)

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@0xB10C ����

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@smykjain If they truly cared about security, they would’ve hired more staff so that thousands of addresses wouldn’t depend on a single employee getting some sleep!

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@smykjain North Korea’s hacker army will always be an order of magnitude more competent and sophisticated than any so-called “top” teams—because the stakes are huge money, while on the other side you often have an underqualified team of three and an investor.

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@Madibaa08 @smykjain just dont loop shitcoins =)

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@smykjain Keep it up. After every hack, you just need to work a bit more carefully for a couple of weeks =)

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@DeFi_Made_Here @weremeow @Lomashuk DeCeNtRaLiZaTiOn at its “fullest growth.” Plus digital censorship and banning a Discord user who simply asked what’s going on and why TVL dropped by 30%.
Bravo. Go to hell.

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@0xfluid @Lomashuk @cyberfund @weremeow Why are you banning people on Discord for asking: why did FLUID’s TVL drop by 30% in one day?

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@0xfluid Why are you banning people on Discord for asking: why did FLUID’s TVL drop by 30% in one day?

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@slezisatoshi @VitalikButerin buy some ZK. looser

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

There have recently been some discussions on the ongoing role of L2s in the Ethereum ecosystem, especially in the face of two facts:

* L2s' progress to stage 2 (and, secondarily, on interop) has been far slower and more difficult than originally expected
* L1 itself is scaling, fees are very low, and gaslimits are projected to increase greatly in 2026

Both of these facts, for their own separate reasons, mean that the original vision of L2s and their role in Ethereum no longer makes sense, and we need a new path.

First, let us recap the original vision. Ethereum needs to scale. The definition of "Ethereum scaling" is the existence of large quantities of block space that is backed by the full faith and credit of Ethereum - that is, block space where, if you do things (including with ETH) inside that block space, your activities are guaranteed to be valid, uncensored, unreverted, untouched, as long as Ethereum itself functions. If you create a 10000 TPS EVM where its connection to L1 is mediated by a multisig bridge, then you are not scaling Ethereum.

This vision no longer makes sense. L1 does not need L2s to be "branded shards", because L1 is itself scaling. And L2s are not able or willing to satisfy the properties that a true "branded shard" would require. I've even seen at least one explicitly saying that they may never want to go beyond stage 1, not just for technical reasons around ZK-EVM safety, but also because their customers' regulatory needs require them to have ultimate control. This may be doing the right thing for your customers. But it should be obvious that if you are doing this, then you are not "scaling Ethereum" in the sense meant by the rollup-centric roadmap. But that's fine! it's fine because Ethereum itself is now scaling directly on L1, with large planned increases to its gas limit this year and the years ahead.

We should stop thinking about L2s as literally being "branded shards" of Ethereum, with the social status and responsibilities that this entails. Instead, we can think of L2s as being a full spectrum, which includes both chains backed by the full faith and credit of Ethereum with various unique properties (eg. not just EVM), as well as a whole array of options at different levels of connection to Ethereum, that each person (or bot) is free to care about or not care about depending on their needs.

What would I do today if I were an L2?

* Identify a value add other than "scaling". Examples: (i) non-EVM specialized features/VMs around privacy, (ii) efficiency specialized around a particular application, (iii) truly extreme levels of scaling that even a greatly expanded L1 will not do, (iv) a totally different design for non-financial applications, eg. social, identity, AI, (v) ultra-low-latency and other sequencing properties, (vi) maybe built-in oracles or decentralized dispute resolution or other "non-computationally-verifiable" features
* Be stage 1 at the minimum (otherwise you really are just a separate L1 with a bridge, and you should just call yourself that) if you're doing things with ETH or other ethereum-issued assets
* Support maximum interoperability with Ethereum, though this will differ for each one (eg. what if you're not EVM, or even not financial?)

From Ethereum's side, over the past few months I've become more convinced of the value of the native rollup precompile, particuarly once we have enshrined ZK-EVM proofs that we need anyway to scale L1. This is a precompile that verifies a ZK-EVM proof, and it's "part of Ethereum", so (i) it auto-upgrades along with Ethereum, and (ii) if the precompile has a bug, Ethereum will hard-fork to fix the bug.

The native rollup precompile would make full, security-council-free, EVM verification accessible. We should spend much more time working out how to design it in such a way that if your L2 is "EVM plus other stuff", then the native rollup precompile would verify the EVM, and you only have to bring your own prover for the "other stuff" (eg. Stylus). This might involve a canonical way of exposing a lookup table between contract call inputs and outputs, and letting you provide your own values to the lookup table (that you would prove separately).

This would make it easy to have safe, strong, trustless interoperability with Ethereum. It also enables synchronous composability (see: https://t.co/9jy6v1X6Fw and https://t.co/gZmu3YjebM ). And from there, it's each L2's choice exactly what they want to build. Don't just "extend L1", figure out something new to add.

This of course means that some will add things that are trust-dependent, or backdoored, or otherwise insecure; this is unavoidable in a permissionless ecosystem where developers have freedom. Our job should make to make it clear to users what guarantees they have, and to build up the strongest Ethereum that we can.

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@PeckShieldAlert @SpecterAnalyst Because of such morons, such attacks still exist.

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@wintermute_t Who better than you to know where the market is headed? After all, you're the one who makes it go down and up, after all.

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@KeystoneWallet If you don’t care about the Keystone Discord channel and user support, then it would be better to delete the channel or block sending messages there.
It’s a real swamp of scammers. There are no moderators, no announcements. It’s unclear why it’s still alive.

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@BitcoinLixin If you don’t care about the Keystone Discord channel and user support, then it would be better to delete the channel or block sending messages there.
It’s a real swamp of scammers. There are no moderators, no announcements. It’s unclear why it’s still alive.