Not your key, not your coin? The Spectrum of Decentralization DeFi aims to be trustless & permissionless, but how decentralized is it really? At @EthereumZurich we just explored some of the key trade-offs shaping the future: ⚖️ Security vs. Usability – Can self-custody be easy for mass adoption? 🏛️ Regulation vs. Permissionlessness – is it easier to be decentralized? 📡 Infrastructure Reliance – Are we too dependent on centralized providers? 📊 Governance Trade-offs – Can DAOs stay decentralized at scale? Great insights from: 🔹 Niharika @safe – Smart contract wallets 🔹 Florian Prantl, LEXR – Legal & regulatory risks 🔹 Michael Svoboda @LiquityProtocol – Fully decentralized lending 🔹 Nils Bundi @defiscan_info @DeFiCollective_ – Measuring decentralization How do we push DeFi forward while staying true to its ethos? @wiw3ch #DeFi #Decentralization

@TokenBrice I flagged your tweet internally hours ago, but ive been busy w/ v4 rollout and didnt have time to personally respond appreciate the report, we've verified hundreds of contracts across over a dozen chains its obv not intentional lol

Now that $BOLD is live, the liquidity initiatives votes are starting! What are liquidity initiatives? On Liquity v2, 25% of all the interest paid by depositors is collected and able to be redirected to liquidity Initiatives, based on $LQTY holders' vote. More info: Which liquidity initiatives? There are currently 3 Liquidity Initiatives available: - Curve BOLD/USDC pool - Curve LUSD/BOLD - The DeFi Collective What does the Collective offers? Essentially, the most competitive use of protocol BOLD possible. For each 1 BOLD the Collective receives through this initiative, there will be: - $1 posted as vote incentives on Velo/Aero BOLD pools ($0.5 from BOLD x ~2x bribe multiplier) - $1 permanently LPed in BOLD L2 pools ($0.5 from BOLD + $0.5 from the Collective's assets) You can get a full overview of what our initiative entails here: What to do? 🗳️If you own LQTY, consider voting for the 🐜: you only need to cast your vote once, it automatically carries over 📢Spread the word 👀Watch this space, as the 🐜 are cooking neat integrations and opportunities for BOLD, especially on L2, starting with Optimism, Base and Arbitrum, potentially as early as next week

gm felt cute this morning, decided to mint some BOLD

Liquity V2 is LIVE on Ethereum Mainnet! 🎉 - Borrow on your own terms with user-set interest rates - Hold or deposit $BOLD , an immutable stablecoin with real yield - Stake $LQTY to direct protocol incentivized liquidity - Participate in the wider V2 friendly fork ecosystem 🧵👇

Another implication of today's ESMA/MiCA guidance--you really don't want to go with a subDAO type model for managing DAO-adjacent entities, DAO-related multisigs, etc. BORG model--with check/balance mechanics rather than tokenholder-management mechanics--is being proved out.

If you’re an octant participant give DeFiScan some love. Its goal is to put some L2Beat style evaluative pressure on the stage of decentralisation of DeFi crypto systems. Gonna be important in the next ape season.

The results of the Devcon Quadratic Voting round are here 🏄 Congrats to 🥇 @DefiLlama, 🥈 @0xKofi, 🥉 @espejelomar, and all other participants in the round who provide us with useful dashboards about Ethereum data.