Marcus | Balancer

Money Legos Floripa was about bringing the people building the future of Onchain finance into the same room. An evening of conversations, ideas, and connections between founders, builders, and key players shaping Brazil’s evolving financial ecosystem. Through talks from @contavcbr, @PodsFinance, @islanddao, and @Founder_Haus, and a panel bringing together @chainlesscripto, @norafinancexyz, @dolafycom, @altsidebrasil, @bwbiassets, and @Haven_Hn_, we explored different perspectives on the infrastructure, products, and collaborations moving the industry forward. Because financial innovation doesn't happen in isolation. It happens when different building blocks, technologies, and people come together to create something bigger. That's the idea behind Money Legos: connecting the pieces to build what's next. A look back at the conversations, connections, and energy that made this edition happen. Thank you to everyone who was part of it. And this is only the beginning. See you at the next Money Legos.

Devcon 9 is coming to Lisbon! 🇵🇹 October 11–13, 2027 Building on Mumbai, we're bringing Ethereum's builders together with more friends and allies working toward a freer, more open internet.

During Brazil’s recent election, people bought @tether on Sunday to hedge currency risk while trad markets were closed. Now in Paraguay, Ueno Bank customers have been cut off from their savings, so USDT offers a safehaven for those looking to hold and move their money outside the banking system. This is exactly why we’re building @USDT0_to. People should be able to access the money they trust and move it across borders or networks when they need it. Having access to trusted assets like dollars & gold can make a world of difference in moments of instability like this.

Over the past few weeks I found more than $500k that people forgot they had left on @Balancer. Ethena, Gauntlet and Gnosis were among them. Most of it was invisible on explorers or dashboards. Here's where it was hiding, and how I tracked it down. It all started with the DAO's own old positions, to make sure nothing was left behind. I documented everything publicly so the community could follow along: forum.balancer.fi/t/closing-… Then I wondered how many other users had funds sitting in the same places. Turns out, a lot. Three places it was hiding: • Balancer v3 buffers. They use internal accounting, so they don't show up on most dashboards. Ethena, Gauntlet and others still had funds there. • Old v2 liquidity mining incentives. The liquidity was gone, but the rewards were still waiting. Gnosis had 128k LDO it never claimed. • Old veBAL protocol fees. After veBAL was discontinued, lots of people forgot to claim their leftover USDC. The hard part wasn't knowing where to look. It was the sheer number of addresses. Years of LPs, from retail EOAs to DAO multisigs, way more than I could check by hand. So I spawned a bunch of Grok Bots to do the grunt work: going through every contract, checking addresses one by one, and flagging anything with a balance left. Merkle claims were the trickiest part. To tell whether something was still claimable, you have to match old weekly distribution reports against what was already claimed onchain. Miss one week and the numbers stop adding up. Then came the fun part: figuring out who's behind an address and how to reach them. I reached out to everyone I could find. Most have started withdrawing. Gnosis, for instance, opened a proposal to clean up its legacy Safe after I flagged it: forum.gnosis.io/t/gip-xxx-wi… If you've ever used Balancer, it's worth a look. I wrote up where to check and how to withdraw here: forum.balancer.fi/t/a-heads-… Balancer has been a big part of my life for over 5 years. I learned more there than anywhere else. So instead of a sad goodbye as it winds down, I wanted to close the chapter doing what I love: digging onchain, and giving something back to the community that gave me so much. My DMs are open if you need a hand. 🫡

1/4 If you've used Balancer before, you may still have funds or rewards sitting in the protocol. While reviewing DAO-owned assets, contributors also checked historical positions held by outside users. So far, more than $500k has been identified and the owners have been notified.

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Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test. 48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video. It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).