A proposal to wind down Balancer and distribute the treasury to BAL holders is live on the forum, authored by Marcus Hardt. Discussion is open; a Snapshot vote is expected to happen from 25 to 29 September.
Nothing changes today: pools and withdrawals work as they do now. Any wind-down action waits for the vote.
Happy 10th, MetaMask! 🦊
Just 10 more years and we’ll finally get the user-friendly wallet we’ve all been waiting for
MetaMask just turned 10 years old. 🦊
To celebrate, we made you a little something:
ten.metamask.io?utm_source=t…
Lol, 'major investigation' in crypto?
That won’t be an investigation - it’ll be a list:
- every crypto company
- every CEX
- and their employees
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As ATOM gets ready to drop out of the Top 100 tokens by Market Cap on Coingecko, let's take a look at what's happening in the ecosystem:
- Axelar team has been acquired by Circle. Old token and project left behind.
- Drop have sunsetted, and decided against TGE.
- Pryzm are closing down.
- Akash is migrating away, likely to Solana.
- Noble decided against launching their much awaited token in Cosmos.
- Elys are moving to Base.
- Stargaze are sunsetting their chain.
- Sei decided to kill the Cosmos part of their chain completely.
- Shade Protocol have moved to Sei (as Feather).
- Orbit Earn are building on Arbitrum.
- pStake moved to Base.
- Jackal moved their token liquidity to Base.
- Demex are likely moving to Monad (as Celeris).
- Stride sunsetted.
- Quaser died, and then their successor Tower also died.
- Picasso (and everything from Compostable) died, and even stranded all the bridged SOL in Cosmos.
- Evmos died and even gifted all the tech for Cosmos EVM, but they decided not to use it on the Hub.
- Loads of DEX closed down: Wynd, Hopers, Junoswap, Loop, Ura, Phoenix, TerraSwap, Sienna, Blizzard, SecretSwap, Cresent, WhiteWhale, Gravity, Sifchain...
- Not to mention everything that died when Terra died.
- Loads of Injective apps died (Dojo Swap, Injera etc) I think they only have Helix and Neptune now. Pivot to EVM.
- Kujira died, and took loads of apps with it like Fusion, Levana etc. Rujira seems dead.
- Comdex died, I think they were going to try and become a PCS chain on the hub, then decided what's the point.
- Omniflix moved to Base (as Flixdotfun)
- Penumbra closed down (other privacy chains like Namada and Secret also seem dead).
- Unicornandmemes decided not to make UWU transferrable in Cosmos, and moved to Solana.
- Anyone remember Juno? And don't get me started on NETA
Everything is fine, right?
сryptopunks in 2025 aren’t a myth
pi.cp0x.com/
DeFi was supposed to be permissionless — instead we got region locks, IP bans, and silent wallet blacklists on official frontends.
Ihor Oleksiienko @torys87 showed how @cp0xdotcom is restoring open access with permissionless, censorship-resistant interfaces that anyone can run — no geoblocks, no 'access denied'
Crypto isn’t dead yet
youtu.be/QlDeWUyoLuU
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Social Recovery goes far beyond 'splitting a seed phrase'
In this talk by @curryrasul, cryptography engineer at R&D Lab of @ethereumfndn, you’ll see how trustless, onchain, guardian-based recovery actually works — and why wallets need a proper Social Recovery SDK to make recovery safe, private, and composable across chains
youtu.be/6kadvYOaGdk
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You don’t need to wait for Ethereum to get better — you can help shape its future yourself!
Dmitry Gusakov @d_gusakov, Tech Lead at @LidoFinance, breaks down how anyone can contribute: spreading the right knowledge, teaching others, championing useful EIPs, building open-source tools, running nodes or validators — all of it matters
youtu.be/FPsa6b6BU8s
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Most people think leveraged vaults require curators.
They don’t! Watch the talk by @andrENsobol, CTO of @ltvprotocol to understand how leveraged tokenized positions can be fully permissionless — and why LTV built a curatorless architecture using auctions and EIP4626 vaults
youtu.be/5eb44HjqWcU
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DEXs work very differently than most people think. If you want to understand what actually happens inside a modern DEX, watch the talk by Markus @haikane , CEO of @PropellerSwap
youtu.be/x8_-mMdXANs
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Nick S @s0xn1ck , founder of @mellowprotocol shared his vision for the next trillion in onchain assets and how institutional adoption is shifting the entire financial landscape at our event in Buenos Aires 🇦🇷
youtu.be/m6SFtfU7hQ4
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Dropping talks from our BA event! 🇦🇷
Kicking off with liquidity boss @k06a introducing Aqua — 1inch’s new shared liquidity protocol. Dive into how it works in “The Art of AMM” by Anton Bukov, co-founder @1inch
youtu.be/TwkgScs9ACE
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Today in Buenos Aires, we’ll be discussing the end of the 4-year crypto cycle and the beginning of a Supercycle 🚀
What will drive crypto’s next decade?
@CryptoHayes and @Lomashuk join us in Buenos Aires for a fireside chat to break down macro shifts, onchain products that will reshape markets.
Buenos Aires, Nov 20 at 15:40. Don’t miss this one👀
luma.com/onchain_capital_sum…
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For everyone here for @EFDevcon — we’re hosting an epic event together with our friends from @cp0xdotcom. Same legendary vibes as last year in Bangkok, but this time we’re adding ✨ talks ✨
>> luma.com/buenos
The lineup is so good you won’t believe it. See you tonight!
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Our latest State of Crypto report is here.
The main theme for the year is the maturation of the crypto industry:
• Traditional financial institutions and fintechs launched crypto products
• DeFi and stablecoins went mainstream
• Blockchains got faster and cheaper
• The regulatory shift in the U.S. revived builder confidence
Find the full 2025 State of Crypto report here: a16zcrypto.com/posts/article…
See below for a few highlights.























