This week, we have:

• 💸 D_D DevConnect Giveaway

• Austin Griffith on DevNTell

• 👩🏾‍💻 Polkadot hackathon

Signed up for our Devcon giveaway? That’s just the first step. To win, you’ll need to prove you’ve got the chops!

Developer DAO is bringing back its tradition of top-notch tutorial content, the kind that once helped members land roles at leading web3 companies. To score high in the contest, create standout learning materials: blog posts, video tutorials, or even short clips.

💡 Need inspo? Check out the latest EIPs (like ERC-8004), watch DevNTell episodes, or start building with @futexlabs + D_D Cloud for extra points.

Once you’ve crafted your content, share it on X and tag @developer_dao. DAO members can also post in the #boost-your-content channel for maximum visibility.

It’s time to ship, share, and shine. LFG! 🔥

This week on the DevNTell Podcast, the legendary Austin Griffith, founder of BuidlGuidl, will be our guest. BuidlGuidl is a curated group of Ethereum builders creating products, prototypes, and tutorials to enrich the web3 ecosystem.

​Viewers of this DevNTell will learn about BuidlGuidl, Scaffold-ETH 2, and many more. Don’t miss it. Register here to get notified when the show starts.

Oct 6 – Nov 17, 2025 | Online | $40,000 Prize Pool

Polkadot invites builders, innovators, and dreamers to take part in a 6-week hackathon designed to push Web3 beyond payments and memes. With Polkadot’s Rust-powered SDK and Web3 Cloud architecture, participants will explore new frontiers of decentralized apps that are radically open and radically useful.

Open to blockchain beginners and Web2 developers ready to make the leap into Web3.

Register here if interested.

Do you have a freaky dev story that you might want to share with the community? 

Anonymous tech stories that reveal those all-too-common SMH moments in tech, shared by the people who witnessed them firsthand.

DevNTell is introducing “Freaky Dev Tales”. Share your hilarious dev stories with us, as the best stories get shared weekly. Use this form to share those classic epic tales.

Last week on the DevNTell Podcast, we had two exciting episodes. The first episode was about “Turning Projects into Paid Gigs with Contribo” featuring Aleksa Stojanović, founder of Contribo. Contribo helps organizations turn real projects into paid gigs and connects them with developers who can prove their skills by building, not resumes.

Viewers of the DevNTell episode learned the major problems Contribo is tackling, and why outcome-based gigs can help fix hiring bottlenecks. 

If you missed the episode, recap it on our Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Mint and own the episode on Pods. 

The second DevNTell episode was “The future of intelligent and autonomous systems with Weilliptic”. Avinash Lakshman, founder & CEO of Weilliptic was our guest. Avinash is most well-known for co-inventing Amazon Dynamo and creating Apache Cassandra while at Facebook; however, having now founded Weilliptic, he is on a mission to create the most advanced decentralized infrastructure network ever built, providing unparalleled scalability without sacrificing security and throughput. Weilliptic's mission is to make AI ethical via provenance and governance.

Recap the episode on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Mint the episode on Pods.

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

• @Fiyin, co-founder of Helicode, a developer and designer collective connecting world-class African talent with global Web3 companies, has a vetted pool of exceptional designers, frontend or backend developers, smart contract engineers, or growth marketers. Send a DM if you need their services or connect with them on their website. 

• @liquidsurfer is looking for a project that needs a Product Person. Send a message if you need the outlined services. 

• DX Engineers' job at Vercel. Send a DM if interested. 

• D_D member, @mannyornothing, is looking to bring on a social media wizard, basically a Twitter genius, for a friend. Requirements are native web3 culture vibes with your Twitter account as the resume sort. Send a DM if interested.

DevConnect Funding Proposal is Live on Snapshot

This proposal aims to revive the glory days of D_D. It seeks a total budget of $12,000 USD from the DAO Treasury and the Investments Team allocation to fund sending three active contributors to DevConnect and hosting a community meetup, thereby strengthening our ecosystem and driving meaningful engagement.

Register your support or disapproval by voting either way on the proposal. Get those votes in before the deadline.

Incredibly, Ethereum is now 10 years old!  All great things require time to mature, and, amazingly, 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.

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.

• D_D member @mbcrook is offering free Helius Developer RPCS to any dev that wants them. Send a DM if interested. 

• @ropats16 wants to host a 5v5 football mini-tournament in Singapore on October 1st and would love to meet whoever is in town.RSVP on this link if you're down. It’s first-come, first-served.

• Infographic on what you need to know to learn Rust fundamentals by @mahima_thacker.

Cloudflare Partners with Coinbase to Launch x402 Foundation

Cloudflare has teamed up with Coinbase to launch the x402 Foundation, an initiative to standardize and drive adoption of the x402 protocol. The protocol is designed to create a universal language for value exchange online, enabling machines to transact directly without accounts, subscriptions, or API keys. For years, HTTP 402 “Payment Required” codes went unused because no clear standard existed — x402 changes that by defining how clients and servers negotiate payments programmatically. With this framework, digital agents can pay on demand for everything from data access to computing power, opening new monetization models for creators and service providers alike.

Plasma’s Savings Vault Attracts Almost $3 Billion in 24 Hours

Plasma’s new stablechain exploded out of the gate with a blockbuster launch. In its first 24 hours, the Bitfinex-backed network drew nearly $3 billion into its flagship Savings Vault, outpacing the total value locked on many entire blockchains. Built on Aave and Veda, the vault offers around 20% APY on USDT deposits and quickly grabbed investor attention, pulling in $1.3 billion in its first hour before doubling again. Plasma isn’t stopping there; it also plans to roll out a basis-trade vault that uses delta-neutral strategies to capture yield from perpetual funding fees.

Circle rarely freezes stolen funds but wants reversible transactions

Circle, the issuer of the $74B USDC stablecoin, is weighing the addition of reversible transactions to allow refunds in fraud or dispute cases, a step that could bring it closer to traditional finance but clash with crypto’s core principle of instant, final settlement.

Circle president Heath Tarbert told the Financial Times the company is wrestling with the trade-off between “immediacy and irreversibility.” Any refund system would likely run off-chain, using a second layer to process counter-payments much like credit card chargebacks.

The debate follows the passage of the GENIUS Act, which requires stablecoin issuers to maintain freeze, seize, or burn controls. While USDC already includes an “Access Denial” freeze function, Circle has faced criticism for not using it effectively, most notably after the $42M GMX hack, when attackers funneled millions of USDC into unfreezable DAI.

This week, we have:

• 💸 D_D DevConnect Giveaway

• Austin Griffith on DevNTell

• 👩🏾‍💻 Polkadot hackathon

Signed up for our Devcon giveaway? That’s just the first step. To win, you’ll need to prove you’ve got the chops!

Developer DAO is bringing back its tradition of top-notch tutorial content, the kind that once helped members land roles at leading web3 companies. To score high in the contest, create standout learning materials: blog posts, video tutorials, or even short clips.

💡 Need inspo? Check out the latest EIPs (like ERC-8004), watch DevNTell episodes, or start building with @futexlabs + D_D Cloud for extra points.

Once you’ve crafted your content, share it on X and tag @developer_dao. DAO members can also post in the #boost-your-content channel for maximum visibility.

It’s time to ship, share, and shine. LFG! 🔥

This week on the DevNTell Podcast, the legendary Austin Griffith, founder of BuidlGuidl, will be our guest. BuidlGuidl is a curated group of Ethereum builders creating products, prototypes, and tutorials to enrich the web3 ecosystem.

​Viewers of this DevNTell will learn about BuidlGuidl, Scaffold-ETH 2, and many more. Don’t miss it. Register here to get notified when the show starts.

Oct 6 – Nov 17, 2025 | Online | $40,000 Prize Pool

Polkadot invites builders, innovators, and dreamers to take part in a 6-week hackathon designed to push Web3 beyond payments and memes. With Polkadot’s Rust-powered SDK and Web3 Cloud architecture, participants will explore new frontiers of decentralized apps that are radically open and radically useful.

Open to blockchain beginners and Web2 developers ready to make the leap into Web3.

Register here if interested.

Do you have a freaky dev story that you might want to share with the community? 

Anonymous tech stories that reveal those all-too-common SMH moments in tech, shared by the people who witnessed them firsthand.

DevNTell is introducing “Freaky Dev Tales”. Share your hilarious dev stories with us, as the best stories get shared weekly. Use this form to share those classic epic tales.

Last week on the DevNTell Podcast, we had two exciting episodes. The first episode was about “Turning Projects into Paid Gigs with Contribo” featuring Aleksa Stojanović, founder of Contribo. Contribo helps organizations turn real projects into paid gigs and connects them with developers who can prove their skills by building, not resumes.

Viewers of the DevNTell episode learned the major problems Contribo is tackling, and why outcome-based gigs can help fix hiring bottlenecks. 

If you missed the episode, recap it on our Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Mint and own the episode on Pods. 

The second DevNTell episode was “The future of intelligent and autonomous systems with Weilliptic”. Avinash Lakshman, founder & CEO of Weilliptic was our guest. Avinash is most well-known for co-inventing Amazon Dynamo and creating Apache Cassandra while at Facebook; however, having now founded Weilliptic, he is on a mission to create the most advanced decentralized infrastructure network ever built, providing unparalleled scalability without sacrificing security and throughput. Weilliptic's mission is to make AI ethical via provenance and governance.

Recap the episode on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Mint the episode on Pods.

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

• @Fiyin, co-founder of Helicode, a developer and designer collective connecting world-class African talent with global Web3 companies, has a vetted pool of exceptional designers, frontend or backend developers, smart contract engineers, or growth marketers. Send a DM if you need their services or connect with them on their website. 

• @liquidsurfer is looking for a project that needs a Product Person. Send a message if you need the outlined services. 

• DX Engineers' job at Vercel. Send a DM if interested. 

• D_D member, @mannyornothing, is looking to bring on a social media wizard, basically a Twitter genius, for a friend. Requirements are native web3 culture vibes with your Twitter account as the resume sort. Send a DM if interested.

DevConnect Funding Proposal is Live on Snapshot

This proposal aims to revive the glory days of D_D. It seeks a total budget of $12,000 USD from the DAO Treasury and the Investments Team allocation to fund sending three active contributors to DevConnect and hosting a community meetup, thereby strengthening our ecosystem and driving meaningful engagement.

Register your support or disapproval by voting either way on the proposal. Get those votes in before the deadline.

Incredibly, Ethereum is now 10 years old!  All great things require time to mature, and, amazingly, 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.

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.

• D_D member @mbcrook is offering free Helius Developer RPCS to any dev that wants them. Send a DM if interested. 

• @ropats16 wants to host a 5v5 football mini-tournament in Singapore on October 1st and would love to meet whoever is in town.RSVP on this link if you're down. It’s first-come, first-served.

• Infographic on what you need to know to learn Rust fundamentals by @mahima_thacker.

Cloudflare Partners with Coinbase to Launch x402 Foundation

Cloudflare has teamed up with Coinbase to launch the x402 Foundation, an initiative to standardize and drive adoption of the x402 protocol. The protocol is designed to create a universal language for value exchange online, enabling machines to transact directly without accounts, subscriptions, or API keys. For years, HTTP 402 “Payment Required” codes went unused because no clear standard existed — x402 changes that by defining how clients and servers negotiate payments programmatically. With this framework, digital agents can pay on demand for everything from data access to computing power, opening new monetization models for creators and service providers alike.

Plasma’s Savings Vault Attracts Almost $3 Billion in 24 Hours

Plasma’s new stablechain exploded out of the gate with a blockbuster launch. In its first 24 hours, the Bitfinex-backed network drew nearly $3 billion into its flagship Savings Vault, outpacing the total value locked on many entire blockchains. Built on Aave and Veda, the vault offers around 20% APY on USDT deposits and quickly grabbed investor attention, pulling in $1.3 billion in its first hour before doubling again. Plasma isn’t stopping there; it also plans to roll out a basis-trade vault that uses delta-neutral strategies to capture yield from perpetual funding fees.

Circle rarely freezes stolen funds but wants reversible transactions

Circle, the issuer of the $74B USDC stablecoin, is weighing the addition of reversible transactions to allow refunds in fraud or dispute cases, a step that could bring it closer to traditional finance but clash with crypto’s core principle of instant, final settlement.

Circle president Heath Tarbert told the Financial Times the company is wrestling with the trade-off between “immediacy and irreversibility.” Any refund system would likely run off-chain, using a second layer to process counter-payments much like credit card chargebacks.

The debate follows the passage of the GENIUS Act, which requires stablecoin issuers to maintain freeze, seize, or burn controls. While USDC already includes an “Access Denial” freeze function, Circle has faced criticism for not using it effectively, most notably after the $42M GMX hack, when attackers funneled millions of USDC into unfreezable DAI.