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.@KR1plc becomes the first publicly listed company to launch dedicated Ethereum validators on Lido stVaults, with @P2Pvalidator running the validators. Read more at:

At Nansen, we've been running validators since 2019 with 0 slashing events. ~$2,000,000,000 staked. 200,000+ stakers. Non-custodial. Now available as a @LidoFinance V3 stVault operator. Stake ETH with Nansen →

Today I paid tribute to the infected blood community for their extraordinary courage in their long fight for truth and justice. Thank you to the Infected Blood Memorial Committee for the care, compassion and dedication behind this service at St Paul’s Cathedral. As a nation, we must ensure the lessons of this scandal are never forgotten.

With the launch of Lido V3, we are ushering in a new era of customizable, institutional-grade Ethereum staking. stVaults are a new staking primitive designed for segmented, operator-specific, non-custodial ETH staking. Here’s why Ebunker x stVaults is a game-changer for the ecosystem. 👇

I have been waiting for the VW Golf GTI, because the boy – it would be a stretch to call him a man – I liked in 1991 had one. He used to drive me round Regent's Park in his Golf GTI, and although he went to St Paul's Boys School and was a religious Jew, I thought this made him seem dangerous. I knew nothing. Behind the ambivalent smile his secret was this: he really cared about maths. My sister has a Golf now. ✍️ Tanya Gold Article | | @TanyaGold1

🗡️ What DeFi Shipped 🚢 (Sept 23): Circle launched its own L1, and Aave and Compound both built doors for institutional money. Here are 14 big updates in under a minute: • @Arc, the L1 from @circle, went live. TVL (which could be rented) looks solid, but the reception across CT was poor. • @aave proposed custodied collateral lending with @Anchorage holding the collateral. Institutions could borrow stablecoins against Bitcoin that never leaves regulated custody. • @Compound_xyz opened its Institutional Market for USDC borrowing, with LTVs up to 87% on ETH, 85% on wstETH, and 81% on wBTC and cbBTC. • @pendle_fi went live on Robinhood Chain with yield markets on tokenized stock dividends, starting with NVDA maturing October 15 and PFE maturing December 10. • @Uniswap shipped StablePair Hook, a v4 hook that sets LP fees based on how far a pool has drifted from its reference rate. Live on two Ethereum pools, USDC/USDT and USDC/USDG. • @base published the spec for Validity Transactions, which the chain includes only when onchain conditions match, gated on balance, storage, block number, or Flashblock index. • @MetaMask now auto-reverts a transaction when real execution doesn't match what the wallet simulated. It targets "red pill" attacks, where a contract behaves one way in simulation and another onchain. • @Pumpfun replaced Cashback Mode with Holder Rewards. Holder Reward tokens now pay out just for holding, with higher ceilings the longer you hold. • @LidoFinance and @Stakely_io opened a public ETH staking vault built on stVaults, pairing ETH staking with the EarnETH DeFi strategy. • @RenzoAI launched Renzo Basis, an automated delta-neutral basis trade on @HyperliquidX supporting BTC and HYPE at launch. • @zama scaled up confidential DeFi with 16 yield vaults across five institutional curators, covering USDC, USDT, WBTC, AUSD, and tGBP, all deployed on @Morpho. • @0xMiden, the privacy-focused chain incubated by @0xPolygon, shipped testnet v0.16, the last major release before mainnet. • @DeriveXYZ proposed V3, a zkVM exchange settling on Ethereum L1. The matching engine and sequencer state transitions get proved in a zkVM, with user funds custodied in L1 contracts. • @verantaxyz, the leveraged-trading protocol on @base, rebranded from Avantis and dropped its invite-code gate. I’m fine with institutions keeping their custodians and compliance teams bc that’s probably what it takes to get them comfortable using DeFi. I just don’t want that to become the only way to use it. I’d still like to borrow against my holdings at 2 a.m. without asking someone for permission.