1/ Today the EF is sharing a bit more about how it's approaching DeFi going forward:

Let today be the day the whole world finally gets why open source matters

let’s make building the new doomscrolling same dopamine, but one builds you and one eats you

Gotta say that I love how the glamsterdam EIP updates are packaged in a digestible way for different stakeholders. forkcast.org/upgrade/glamste… Kudos @ethereumfndn 7708 is one of those almost invisible things but a big UX unlock for @safe users.

There is nothing more CROPS aligned on Ethereum than ETH

Looks like the options thing is happening already! See also: various people thinking through and building different versions of the idea in the thread: ethresear.ch/t/building-inde… Though I do strongly urge that if any of these get on mainnet quickly, we formally verify it first. I hope @vyperlang and/or github.com/lfglabs-dev/verit… folks ( @Fricoben) can help! (Also, now is a good time to be thinking about robustness-optimized oracles) firefly.social/post/x/206494…

i finally understand why people become such open source model extremists. completely alien mindset to me before today

5 more days to apply

2022 flushed out CeFiDeFi (celsius, ftx, blockfi) and the obvious cases got cleared now we're moving down the spectrum, where ai is accelerating discovery of the same failure modes inside teams that called themselves defi: security tools find bugs faster, fuzzers probe deeper, and agents test edge cases that humans miss most of these patterns are web2-style: human errors, weak oracles, fragile admin and governance, repo hygiene, etc. decentralization still matters as the structural floor, and what's failing are the teams that took shortcuts past it while claiming to embody it RWAs aren't exempt either, where the bar is the same: transparency, attested backing, clear user ownership rights, real redemption paths. the ones that meet it become defensible infrastructure, while the ones that don't, end up as CeFiDeFi in another wrapper CROPS is what survives the flush test

As we discussed with @VitalikButerin on our Fireside, formal verification is a big positive outcome from AI that will more than counterbalance the effects of AI finding new bugs. I am strongly supportive of math AI tools like Aristotle from @HarmonicMath driving this forward.

1/ ETH is the best positioned asset: - To become self sovereign money - To have a native, uncorrelated yield - To be globally censorship resistant - To have customizable privacy - To be quantum resistant - To stay decentralized - To achieve the potential BTC was supposed to

Starting June 10, ETH will become the default payment method for all newly approved grants. 🦄 This brings our grant-making closer to the Ethereum ecosystem we support. This change applies to new applications submitted on or after June 10.

🇺🇸 Today, the curator accountability debate comes to the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Our CEO & Co-Founder, @claberus, joins @keyrock, @YuzuMoneyX, @particula_io and @CharlieStLouis from the @ethereumfndn to discuss how allocators evaluate curators, risk systems, transparency, and track records. 12:30 pm ET, live via @Vault__Summit.

Risk controls are more important than how you parameterize your agent. The first time it materially deviates from intent, it is no longer usable. Matthew Sheffield (@sheffieldreport), in conversation with Charles St. Louis (@CharlesStLouis), on what institutional agentic finance actually requires before real capital moves through it:

1/ World, meet Cohort I of the Ethereum Security Subsidy Program. Out of 100 applicants, here are the 30 projects selected for our first of many cohorts. Proudly securing @ethereum mainnet together with @ethereumfndn, @nethermind and @chainlinklabs.

The next wave of speakers is here! 🚀 Come hear from top names in Web3, AI, and finance this July 21–22, 2026. ▪️ @CharlieStLouis, @ethereumfndn ▪️ Eve Lam, @MorganStanley ▪️ Philippe Noelting, @zksync ▪️ @jasrajshallan, MP & Shadow Minister of Finance, Calgary East ▪️ Dion Degrand, Rawlinson & Hunter Group ▪️ @moniquebmul, @business ▪️ @Lightswarm, @OPTNLabs ▪️ @tmoodley, Migodi-Auric ▪️ Yoon Auh, BOLTS Technologies See you in the future.

People ask what it will take for DeFi to reach the mainstream One quote that's always stuck with me is Elon saying self driving cars need to be 10x safer than human drivers before people will trust them DeFi faces the same challenge. We're not going to onboard the world by telling people to "DYOR" and hope for the best. We need better tooling, better transparency, better risk visibility, and stronger security across every layer of the stack That means attacking the problem from all fronts. One piece of that puzzle is transparency. Users shouldn't have to dig through dozens of dashboards, audit reports, and risk providers to understand what they're interacting with That's why we're looking for a team to build a neutral, open source DeFi risk intelligence aggregator that brings existing risk data together in one place If you're the team to build it, apply below 👇

The EF App Relations team is opening an RFP for a Neutral DeFi Risk Intelligence Aggregator. An open source web app that pulls every major DeFi risk feed into one view. No composite scoring, no synthesis. Just what each provider reports, side by side.