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@AllezLabs | former apple farmer | defi maximalist

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Joined May 2021
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Kamino has been in a war room since the first rumours of the Binance hack, before anything was confirmed. We checked our major collateral assets with their issuers and our partners. So far, we see no exposure to the hack and no backing issues. We blocked the attacker’s SOL wallet from using Kamino's infrastructure within 5 minutes of identifying it. As a precaution, we have also paused on chain borrowing on the SOL/BTC market. We expect to resume shortly.
Kamino can confirm that it is currently unaffected by the ongoing Binance situation Out of an abundance of caution, we have temporarily paused borrowing in the SOL/BTC Market We are actively monitoring the situation and are in communication with various partners. Any further updates will be communicated solely here on Kamino’s official Twitter account
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Fixed rates fit reinsurance collateral very well. The yield on @onrefinance's solana:5Y8NV33Vv7WbnLfq3zBcKSdYPrk7g2KoiQoe7M2tcxp5 is steady, so a known cost of capital is attractive to loopers and lenders get a predictable yield. The @AllezLabs USDC vault has integrated fixed rate reserves since June to provide a blend of returns and liquidity using these new instruments.
Over $10M in fixed-rate loans are now active in the @onrefinance Market on Kamino. Fixed Rates bring a known cost of capital to reinsurance-backed strategies through rolling 30-day terms. A new standard for fixed-rate credit.
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Introducing the Backpack Market on Kamino. Kamino is expanding loans backed by tokenized equity on Solana with @Backpack Securities, bringing 1:1-backed, redeemable tokenized U.S.-listed equities directly into onchain credit markets.
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Borrow lending—the next crucial brick to usher in the next leg of tokenized security growth on @solana by the best in the business @kamino
Introducing the Backpack Market on Kamino. Kamino is expanding loans backed by tokenized equity on Solana with @Backpack Securities, bringing 1:1-backed, redeemable tokenized U.S.-listed equities directly into onchain credit markets.
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Some of the most popular stocks are now available as collateral on @Kamino via @Backpack Securities. The RWA story of the year has been equities coming on chain and benefiting from the composability of DeFi - keep watching the space 👀
Allez Labs is onboarding @Backpack Securities tokenized equities, as collateral on @Kamino. The Backpack Market pairs MU, SKHY, SPCX and SNDK collateral with USDC borrowing.
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For some reason I thought Terra was deprecated. Glad it's back! Great model
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👀 @VenusProtocol's new Spoke Markets allow liquidity to be sourced dynamically from the Venus Liquidity Hub. The first spoke market - the bStock index - allows for borrowing against QQQB and SYPB Read more 👇
The Venus Liquidity Hub is expanding. 🟣 Introducing Hub-Funded Spoke Markets, specialized lending markets powered by shared liquidity from the Hub. Instead of every new market relying on isolated liquidity, supported Spokes can access Hub liquidity under defined allocation limits. One Hub. More markets. Deeper capital efficiency. Explore now 👉 venus.io/#/spoke?chainId=56
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Super excited about @VenusProtocol's first Hub-Funded Spoke pool. Two of the most in demand bStocks (SPY, QQQ) as collateral with liquidity sourced from the Liquidity hub.
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Proud to partner with one the best safety specialisation team. Keep it safe, keep it growing.
. @CurrentSUI just had its largest month of growth yet Supply rose 65% to $124.9M in September, passing $100M for the first time on Sept 21. Debt rose 63% to $67M. Our September review 👇
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mcsquared retweeted
. @CurrentSUI just had its largest month of growth yet Supply rose 65% to $124.9M in September, passing $100M for the first time on Sept 21. Debt rose 63% to $67M. Our September review 👇
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Monthly @Kamino Lend Insights - September 2026 RWA collateral grew 19.1% to $537.8M, now a fifth of all supply. Total supply rose 4.4% to $2.64B and debt 4.0% to $1.04B, as collateral broadened into real-world assets and USDC borrowing grew. Continues
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Monthly @VenusProtocol Insights - September 2026 A quiet month on Venus: supply inched up, debt fell and liquidations were nearly non-existent. Here's September on the Core Pool 🧵 👇
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We are going to need cryptography audits on every part of the custody chain.
Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash. Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase). Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets. IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster). Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot. Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time? Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.) Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once. Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case. I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026). Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS. Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security. The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.
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Hundreds of millions already borrowed in RWA markets across @kamino
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A lot moved in September. USDAI’s largest loan in the book was refreshed to $128.9M. TVL kept climbing, now approaching $690M: - expansion to @Solana, with markets on @jupiter_earn and @kamino (@AllezLabs-managed vault) - sUSDai included in the @Bitwise's RWA vault on @Morpho - PYUSD/sUSDai strategy live on @BinanceWallet DeFi.
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The third institutional fixed rate vault from @VenusProtocol closed in september. So far the protocol has facilitated fixed rate, fixed duration loans using @matrixdock (tokenized gold), Asseto, and Solv collateral
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Current has successfully passed Sui Security control and we welcome all users to surf the Current with the best security and APR on @SuiNetwork Surf here: app.current.finance/lend
Following the Sui Security Team’s identification of and assistance with the resolution of @AlphaFiSUI 's misconfiguration of their ALPHA oracle and subsequent creation of bad debt, AlphaFi is winding down operation of their protocol. Sui Foundation has made the decision to provide assistance in order to ensure that the protocol is wholly solvent. No user funds are impacted. Withdrawals are open. If you are holding any existing borrow positions, you may unwind and withdraw your assets from AlphaLend. For Slush users, you may withdraw your generated yield and principle from USDC, SUI, WAL and DEEP Strategies with no wait period. Should you currently have a withdrawal request pending, please cancel and withdraw again to receive your funds instantly. Sui Security Team’s security tooling aided in the identification of this misconfiguration. Following the tool’s formal launch later this fall, it will be available as a public good to all DeFi protocols on Sui.
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Most important question for loopers: what happens upon expiry? In a nutshell: roll over if liquidity supports, otherwise unwind enough to satisfy lender requests, then roll over the remaining. Most loans will simply be rolled over - to same or better fixed rate, or to variable, if the borrower chose so. When liquidity is not available for a roll over, we unwind just enough to satisfy the queued withdrawals and then roll over the remaining of the debt. For a token like AUTO, unwind to YLDS is without slippage, so the expiry is painless. This the most elegant design we could think of. It feels open term.
Fixed Rate Multiply unlocks leveraged yield with a defined cost of capital over a set term Here’s how to open a position on Kamino ↓
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