This week, we have:

• A Snapshot proposal to revitalize the DAO!

• Cheat codes for software development.

• Jobs!

​In this week's episode of DevNTell, Makoto Kern, founder of iiimpact.io will be our guest. iiimpact helps companies co-create efficient, structured, and strategic software development processes that make targets, optimize internal productivity, and improve both your bottom line and operational management.

​Viewers of this DevNTell will see Makoto give us an engaging talk around software development and how their firm is a cheat code for your success.

Register here to get notifications when the show starts.

DevNTell is brought to you by our friends at Arbitrum

Get started today by exploring Arbitrum’s comprehensive docs and tutorials to help you launch your next DApp!

Our Friend, BNB, is celebrating 5 years of the BNB Chain. They are marking the occasion by hosting events in 5 cities. Each event is designed for founders, builders and their community to connect and shape the next era of Web3 on BNB Chain.

Check out this tweet for more information on the upcoming event from BNB Chain.

Last week on DevNTell, we had Kartika Chendorain, founder of HomeHive AI, on the show. HomeHive is building a new category of household intelligence centred around privacy, family and planet first.

Kartika gave us an overview of HomeHive AI, why she's building it and a discussion around the future of household AI. Recap the episode on Spotify and mint your Pod Media for the show.

Disclaimer: Please do your due diligence about a role posted here.

• @Bhaktii08 is hiring a Marketing Manager and a Sales Executive. DM your resume if interested. 

• The Ethereum Foundation is hiring a developer tooling coordinator to help decide what to build, fund and support across the ecosystem. An Ideal candidate should have technical experience across the Ethereum stack, an intuition for how dev tooling should evolve, and some ops chops. Apply here. 

• @theblessingemah, a blockchain PM is looking for products to contribute to. Send her a DM if you have anything you need a PM for. You can see her portfolio on her website.

• @alexdolbun on D_D server seeks AMM + PR/ORM pipeline job opportunities. If you need anything related to cross-chain automated market making, AI SalesOps, or PR pipeline, you can book a slot for a chat. 

• @namita8498 is looking for a forward-deployed engineer role, hmu if you are hiring.

• rielj.eth is open to new opportunities as a Software Developer. Has worked across frontend, backend, and smart contract development; comfortable with tools such as React, TypeScript, Solidity, Hardhat/Foundry, Anchor, and more. Especially interested in roles within the crypto, DeFi, or infra tooling space, but always open to exploring meaningful projects of any kind.  Available for full-time or part-time work.

This proposal has been elevated to the Forum. It details the approval of the D_D Community for a budget request for $12,000 USDC, broken down into $10,000 USDC from the DAO Treasury and $2000 from the Investments Team allocation. The purpose of the funds is to revitalize D_D by bringing back the old days where active members are sponsored to attend events. The funds will be utilized in the following ways:

Community Developer Sponsorship Program: 

Budget: 6,000 $USDC (2,000 per developer). Send 3 active community developers to DevConnect - based on a criteria. Funds distributed after verification of travel eligibility (VISA, passport, availability)

Developer DAO Community Meetup

Budget: up to 4,000 $USDC: To host networking event for existing and new community members.

Register your support or disapproval by voicing your concerns here.  

Proposal for July-September Quarter

The proposal requests 9,000 $USDC for the July-Sept quarter to renew the Coordination/Marketing Role managed by Billyjitsu and marketing led by Narbs.

There is also a 30,000 $USDC request over time for the investments team. This will be used to earn yield over time while analyzing risk factors for the DAO. The full 30,000 will not be taken all at once, but strategically be pulled when opportunities arise that meet certain risk criteria.

Exercise your governance right by voting either way you choose on the proposal here. Voting ends on August 26.

It's incredible that Ethereum is now 10 years old!  All great things require time to mature, and it's amazing that it took a decade for an RPC option like D_D Cloud to emerge.

We're putting the final touches on the first-ever hybrid cloud built for web3 and it’s almost showtime. Want front-row seats when the doors open?

Join the waitlist & be the first to know.

🚀 Founders: Scale Your Web3 or AI Product Faster.

D_D Ventures partners with bold builders, reshaping the future of decentralized tech and AI. We help early-stage teams like yours:

• Build smarter with Web3 and AI infrastructure expertise.

• Grow globally with proven strategies to amplify your reach.

👉 Got vision? Let’s talk.

Contact us today to elevate your product to category leadership.

The D_D Academy is a sub-section of Developer DAO tasked with creating educational content for public goods. Are you interested in contributing educational content or development work to the Academy and being rewarded?

Join the Academy sync and find out how you can contribute. Reach out to @piablo.eth to learn how you can contribute as the Academy syncs are back and better than ever. 

Delegate your ARIO tokens to our Arweave gateway, as we will share 10% of the rewards with you.

You can delegate your ARIO tokens here.

If you don’t have ARIO tokens yet, visit the ar.io website to learn how to obtain them.

• https://coinwizard.fun/ is a Solana memecoin launchpad developed by D_D member Julian. Do check it out. 

• A bi-weekly hackathon with herd on Farcaster. The first “Build your own crowdfund" trail video was posted by @Hone1er.

• An interesting X post by @asparuhdamyanov on “shit posting” to gain traction.

• First week progress report of building in public by @frankiefab100.

• Check out and provide feedback on a crypto payment platform built by new D_D member Julian.

• @Bhaktii08 is starting a Discord for Builder PMs for folks serious about building skills in product management roadmaps, user research, AI tools, growth hacks, etc. Reply to this

Arbitrum’s $10M Audit Program: Apply to Secure Your Smart Contracts 

The Arbitrum Audit Subsidy Program is now accepting applications from blockchain projects building or planning to build in the Arbitrum ecosystem. The subsidy program, launched by the Arbitrum Foundation following DAO’s approval, allocates $10M in ARB worth of grants and investments over 12 months to subsidise third-party smart contract audits. This initiative is one of the largest audit subsidy programs currently available in the crypto industry. Apply to secure your smart contract. 

Epoch 9, Ethereum Stories

Epoch 9 is funding journalists, storytellers, content creators, and researchers who’ve helped make Ethereum legible, credible, and engaging to audiences. They are funding high-impact marketing, educational, and journalistic content that pushes Ethereum forward. Apply here.

AI-Powered Malware Hijacks Dev Tools

A Russian developer lost $500,000 after installing a counterfeit "Solidity Language" extension from Cursor’s AI IDE marketplace; a malicious tool with 54,000 fake downloads and perfect ratings that delivered remote access malware instead of code highlighting. The attack exemplifies a coordinated campaign: hackers created lookalike extensions (e.g., "juanblanco" vs. "juanbIanco") to impersonate legitimate tools, artificially inflating download counts to rank higher in searches. The same group deployed copycat extensions like "solaibot" and "among-eth" across marketplaces, turning development environments into attack vectors.

This week, we have:

• A Snapshot proposal to revitalize the DAO!

• Cheat codes for software development.

• Jobs!

​In this week's episode of DevNTell, Makoto Kern, founder of iiimpact.io will be our guest. iiimpact helps companies co-create efficient, structured, and strategic software development processes that make targets, optimize internal productivity, and improve both your bottom line and operational management.

​Viewers of this DevNTell will see Makoto give us an engaging talk around software development and how their firm is a cheat code for your success.

Register here to get notifications when the show starts.

DevNTell is brought to you by our friends at Arbitrum

Get started today by exploring Arbitrum’s comprehensive docs and tutorials to help you launch your next DApp!

Our Friend, BNB, is celebrating 5 years of the BNB Chain. They are marking the occasion by hosting events in 5 cities. Each event is designed for founders, builders and their community to connect and shape the next era of Web3 on BNB Chain.

Check out this tweet for more information on the upcoming event from BNB Chain.

Last week on DevNTell, we had Kartika Chendorain, founder of HomeHive AI, on the show. HomeHive is building a new category of household intelligence centred around privacy, family and planet first.

Kartika gave us an overview of HomeHive AI, why she's building it and a discussion around the future of household AI. Recap the episode on Spotify and mint your Pod Media for the show.

Disclaimer: Please do your due diligence about a role posted here.

• @Bhaktii08 is hiring a Marketing Manager and a Sales Executive. DM your resume if interested. 

• The Ethereum Foundation is hiring a developer tooling coordinator to help decide what to build, fund and support across the ecosystem. An Ideal candidate should have technical experience across the Ethereum stack, an intuition for how dev tooling should evolve, and some ops chops. Apply here. 

• @theblessingemah, a blockchain PM is looking for products to contribute to. Send her a DM if you have anything you need a PM for. You can see her portfolio on her website.

• @alexdolbun on D_D server seeks AMM + PR/ORM pipeline job opportunities. If you need anything related to cross-chain automated market making, AI SalesOps, or PR pipeline, you can book a slot for a chat. 

• @namita8498 is looking for a forward-deployed engineer role, hmu if you are hiring.

• rielj.eth is open to new opportunities as a Software Developer. Has worked across frontend, backend, and smart contract development; comfortable with tools such as React, TypeScript, Solidity, Hardhat/Foundry, Anchor, and more. Especially interested in roles within the crypto, DeFi, or infra tooling space, but always open to exploring meaningful projects of any kind.  Available for full-time or part-time work.

This proposal has been elevated to the Forum. It details the approval of the D_D Community for a budget request for $12,000 USDC, broken down into $10,000 USDC from the DAO Treasury and $2000 from the Investments Team allocation. The purpose of the funds is to revitalize D_D by bringing back the old days where active members are sponsored to attend events. The funds will be utilized in the following ways:

Community Developer Sponsorship Program: 

Budget: 6,000 $USDC (2,000 per developer). Send 3 active community developers to DevConnect - based on a criteria. Funds distributed after verification of travel eligibility (VISA, passport, availability)

Developer DAO Community Meetup

Budget: up to 4,000 $USDC: To host networking event for existing and new community members.

Register your support or disapproval by voicing your concerns here.  

Proposal for July-September Quarter

The proposal requests 9,000 $USDC for the July-Sept quarter to renew the Coordination/Marketing Role managed by Billyjitsu and marketing led by Narbs.

There is also a 30,000 $USDC request over time for the investments team. This will be used to earn yield over time while analyzing risk factors for the DAO. The full 30,000 will not be taken all at once, but strategically be pulled when opportunities arise that meet certain risk criteria.

Exercise your governance right by voting either way you choose on the proposal here. Voting ends on August 26.

It's incredible that Ethereum is now 10 years old!  All great things require time to mature, and it's amazing that it took a decade for an RPC option like D_D Cloud to emerge.

We're putting the final touches on the first-ever hybrid cloud built for web3 and it’s almost showtime. Want front-row seats when the doors open?

Join the waitlist & be the first to know.

🚀 Founders: Scale Your Web3 or AI Product Faster.

D_D Ventures partners with bold builders, reshaping the future of decentralized tech and AI. We help early-stage teams like yours:

• Build smarter with Web3 and AI infrastructure expertise.

• Grow globally with proven strategies to amplify your reach.

👉 Got vision? Let’s talk.

Contact us today to elevate your product to category leadership.

The D_D Academy is a sub-section of Developer DAO tasked with creating educational content for public goods. Are you interested in contributing educational content or development work to the Academy and being rewarded?

Join the Academy sync and find out how you can contribute. Reach out to @piablo.eth to learn how you can contribute as the Academy syncs are back and better than ever. 

Delegate your ARIO tokens to our Arweave gateway, as we will share 10% of the rewards with you.

You can delegate your ARIO tokens here.

If you don’t have ARIO tokens yet, visit the ar.io website to learn how to obtain them.

• https://coinwizard.fun/ is a Solana memecoin launchpad developed by D_D member Julian. Do check it out. 

• A bi-weekly hackathon with herd on Farcaster. The first “Build your own crowdfund" trail video was posted by @Hone1er.

• An interesting X post by @asparuhdamyanov on “shit posting” to gain traction.

• First week progress report of building in public by @frankiefab100.

• Check out and provide feedback on a crypto payment platform built by new D_D member Julian.

• @Bhaktii08 is starting a Discord for Builder PMs for folks serious about building skills in product management roadmaps, user research, AI tools, growth hacks, etc. Reply to this

Arbitrum’s $10M Audit Program: Apply to Secure Your Smart Contracts 

The Arbitrum Audit Subsidy Program is now accepting applications from blockchain projects building or planning to build in the Arbitrum ecosystem. The subsidy program, launched by the Arbitrum Foundation following DAO’s approval, allocates $10M in ARB worth of grants and investments over 12 months to subsidise third-party smart contract audits. This initiative is one of the largest audit subsidy programs currently available in the crypto industry. Apply to secure your smart contract. 

Epoch 9, Ethereum Stories

Epoch 9 is funding journalists, storytellers, content creators, and researchers who’ve helped make Ethereum legible, credible, and engaging to audiences. They are funding high-impact marketing, educational, and journalistic content that pushes Ethereum forward. Apply here.

AI-Powered Malware Hijacks Dev Tools

A Russian developer lost $500,000 after installing a counterfeit "Solidity Language" extension from Cursor’s AI IDE marketplace; a malicious tool with 54,000 fake downloads and perfect ratings that delivered remote access malware instead of code highlighting. The attack exemplifies a coordinated campaign: hackers created lookalike extensions (e.g., "juanblanco" vs. "juanbIanco") to impersonate legitimate tools, artificially inflating download counts to rank higher in searches. The same group deployed copycat extensions like "solaibot" and "among-eth" across marketplaces, turning development environments into attack vectors.