2/ The Dubai Ethereum Community Hub launched in December at @Hadronfc, hosting lively daily co-working sessions and their second meetup in January in collaboration with the @ETHDubaiConf team!
The meetup focused on "The State of DeFi in 2026, and Where the Real Substance Is."
The speaker lineup reflected the vibrant local ecosystem and included:
🔸 @asal_alizade - UAE + MENA Lead at @Base
🔸 @danekshea - Solutions Architect Lead at @LayerZero_Core
🔸 @van0k_eth - Senior NEET at @GearboxProtocol
🔸 Kirill Kuznetsov - Senior Solutions Architect at @1inch
🔸 @sarangparikh22 - DeFi expert
Stay up to date on future events! 👇
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Will any increases to SSTORE / CREATE costs be accompanied by EIP7825 cap increase? 7825 almost bricked some Gearbox Permissionless contracts (since some deployment functions spend 12-14M gas, dangerously close to the cap), and any significant increases will surely put this over the cap
European authoritarians and their enablers in the media are misrepresenting GrapheneOS and even Pixel phones as if they're something for criminals. GrapheneOS is opposed to the mass surveillance police state these people want to impose on everyone.
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I don't think it would move the needle this much.
From personal experience, contracts that are heavy in compute over storage writes are just query contracts used by devs for infra, and they are generally interacted with through RPC static calls.
For most user-facing contracts, SSTORE gas dominates compute gas.
In light of today’s @Bybit_Official incident, here’s how we secure our technical @safe multisig at @GearboxProtocol:
Continuous monitoring
Whenever a new transaction is submitted or an existing one is signed, we immediately receive a notification in our alert channel. This alert shows the transaction hash and who proposed and signed the transaction.
Detailed transaction report
The most significant feature is the transaction report. It contains parsed transaction call data in a human-readable format, allowing all signers to see actions that occur understandably, both in plain text and in bytecode.
Deployment check and whitelisted external calls
Whenever the system deploys a new contract or interacts with an existing one, it checks the bytecode and compares it with code in our GitHub repository. Thus, the system constantly recompiles and compares the bytecode with the audited version, providing us with detailed information such as source links, audit reports, etc.
This is how we have built a robust system to filter and check all transactions before they go to the technical multisig and affect changes to the protocol.
@naval Wondering if there could be the same perverse incentives as the housing bubble that caused 2008.
I.e. CDO-like bundles of applicants’ tax yield could incentivize vetting agencies to procure as many applicants as they can, regardless of quality.
Decentralized Autonomous AI Agents: The Future of Smart Contracts
Truly gamifying DeFi with AI… omg buzzwords, ban+report?! Not quite. We can make strategies, gamified entries-exits, conditions for positions, etc. All are accessible via simple text. Intelligent DeFi made real.
I’m excited to share my research on AI-driven autonomous agents! Instead of merely speculating about the future, I built a working prototype (learning by building) of a new Cyber economy that implements this vision. Let's discuss it at DevCon!
@GODofETH Gearbox uses Redstone oracles for weETH/ezETH, which have roughly the same risk profile as Chainlink. I.e., you would need to skew the price for several blocks and in several pools to manipulate them, which is extremely expensive.