This week, we have:

• 2x DevNTell with onchain data and saving.

• D_D Cloud

Just a reminder about D_D Cloud, Developer DAO's cloud platform providing reliable RPC services for builders and developers.

Getting started is straightforward. Visit cloud.developerdao.com and sign up if you haven’t already. An activation code will be sent to your email, which you’ll use to activate your account.

After activation, log in to your account and create an API key. Once your API key is set up, you can immediately begin making RPC calls and integrating D_D Cloud into your applications.

If you haven’t tried it yet, now is a great time to explore D_D Cloud and start building with ease.

We have a double header DevNTell edition this week. On Wednesday, January 21, we will be joined by Manny Narang and Jamie Morris, co-founders of Blend. Blend is a global savings account that adapts to your currency, yield, and market exposure.

Register to watch the episode to learn about Blend and how you can get started using it today!

The second DevNTell for the week will air on Friday, January 23, featuring Pierre Tillement, Head of Marketing at Pyth Network. Pyth is an oracle network delivering real-time market data to financial dApps across 40+ blockchains, providing 380+ low-latency price feeds across cryptocurrencies, equities, ETFs, FX pairs, and commodities.

Register to get notified when the episode with Pyth Network airs.

Last week on DevNtell, Brian Huang, Co-Founder of Glider, was our guest on the show. Glider is a unified platform that gives you the control, clarity, and speed to design and manage automated portfolios without compromise.

Watch the episode on our Spotify and Apple podcast to learn about Glider, and you can also print and own the episode on Pods.

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

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 to reshape 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.

• An article on Taste is the new moat by @ropats16.

• Julian needs feedback on his project brixpay.io. The project focuses on accepting cryptocurrency.  payments. 

• You can find the DevNTell podcast on the Grokipedia platform.

A digital feeding frenzy erupted after a user sent BTC to a wallet using a public block reward ID as its private key. Automated mempool bots instantly detected the deposit and launched a high-speed bidding war, using Replace-By-Fee (RBF) transactions to outmaneuver one another. These bots aggressively hiked fees to ensure miners prioritized their withdrawal, often sacrificing nearly the entire deposit just to "win" the theft.

Claude AI plugins can now vibe code smart contracts

Anthropic’s Claude recently launched a "CoWork" tool and a marketplace of cybersecurity "skills" that allow developers to outsource smart contract auditing to AI. By integrating tools from firms like Trail of Bits, users can now perform "vibe audits", using AI to check for bug variants, pattern-based vulnerabilities, and compliance with technical whitepapers. This shift moves heavy lifting away from human reviewers, allowing developers to scan complex blockchain code for "footgun" designs and entry-point flaws with simple prompts.

Despite the convenience, security experts warn that "vibe auditing" is far from foolproof. Trail of Bits released these tools under Creative Commons with explicit disclaimers that AI checks are incomplete and prone to errors. While these plugins help identify low-hanging fruit, the industry consensus remains that manual reviews by human experts are still mandatory before deploying contracts that manage millions in digital assets.

YO Protocol’s $3.7M "Slippage Bomb"

In a staggering operational blunder, YO Protocol vaporized $3.71 million during a routine vault rebalancing yesterday. The protocol’s operator fed a swap into the Odos aggregator with broken parameters that effectively disabled slippage protection, causing the transaction to route through thin Uniswap V4 pools with fee tiers as high as 88%. Instead of a standard conversion, the system executed 102 fragmented trades across obscure tokens and "puddle-deep" liquidity, ultimately returning just $112,000 to the vault, a 97% loss triggered entirely by human error rather than a malicious exploit.

To contain the fallout, the team used funds from a recent $10 million Series A round to quietly backstop the loss and make users whole. While they issued an on-chain plea asking liquidity providers to return 90% of the windfall as a "bounty," the protocol has notably avoided public disclosure, telling users in social channels that "there was no incident." This "slippage bomb" highlights a growing risk in DeFi, as aggregators gain access to increasingly exotic and illiquid pools, a single misconfigured swap parameter can be just as devastating as a sophisticated hack.

This week, we have:

• 2x DevNTell with onchain data and saving.

• D_D Cloud

Just a reminder about D_D Cloud, Developer DAO's cloud platform providing reliable RPC services for builders and developers.

Getting started is straightforward. Visit cloud.developerdao.com and sign up if you haven’t already. An activation code will be sent to your email, which you’ll use to activate your account.

After activation, log in to your account and create an API key. Once your API key is set up, you can immediately begin making RPC calls and integrating D_D Cloud into your applications.

If you haven’t tried it yet, now is a great time to explore D_D Cloud and start building with ease.

We have a double header DevNTell edition this week. On Wednesday, January 21, we will be joined by Manny Narang and Jamie Morris, co-founders of Blend. Blend is a global savings account that adapts to your currency, yield, and market exposure.

Register to watch the episode to learn about Blend and how you can get started using it today!

The second DevNTell for the week will air on Friday, January 23, featuring Pierre Tillement, Head of Marketing at Pyth Network. Pyth is an oracle network delivering real-time market data to financial dApps across 40+ blockchains, providing 380+ low-latency price feeds across cryptocurrencies, equities, ETFs, FX pairs, and commodities.

Register to get notified when the episode with Pyth Network airs.

Last week on DevNtell, Brian Huang, Co-Founder of Glider, was our guest on the show. Glider is a unified platform that gives you the control, clarity, and speed to design and manage automated portfolios without compromise.

Watch the episode on our Spotify and Apple podcast to learn about Glider, and you can also print and own the episode on Pods.

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

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 to reshape 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.

• An article on Taste is the new moat by @ropats16.

• Julian needs feedback on his project brixpay.io. The project focuses on accepting cryptocurrency.  payments. 

• You can find the DevNTell podcast on the Grokipedia platform.

A digital feeding frenzy erupted after a user sent BTC to a wallet using a public block reward ID as its private key. Automated mempool bots instantly detected the deposit and launched a high-speed bidding war, using Replace-By-Fee (RBF) transactions to outmaneuver one another. These bots aggressively hiked fees to ensure miners prioritized their withdrawal, often sacrificing nearly the entire deposit just to "win" the theft.

Claude AI plugins can now vibe code smart contracts

Anthropic’s Claude recently launched a "CoWork" tool and a marketplace of cybersecurity "skills" that allow developers to outsource smart contract auditing to AI. By integrating tools from firms like Trail of Bits, users can now perform "vibe audits", using AI to check for bug variants, pattern-based vulnerabilities, and compliance with technical whitepapers. This shift moves heavy lifting away from human reviewers, allowing developers to scan complex blockchain code for "footgun" designs and entry-point flaws with simple prompts.

Despite the convenience, security experts warn that "vibe auditing" is far from foolproof. Trail of Bits released these tools under Creative Commons with explicit disclaimers that AI checks are incomplete and prone to errors. While these plugins help identify low-hanging fruit, the industry consensus remains that manual reviews by human experts are still mandatory before deploying contracts that manage millions in digital assets.

YO Protocol’s $3.7M "Slippage Bomb"

In a staggering operational blunder, YO Protocol vaporized $3.71 million during a routine vault rebalancing yesterday. The protocol’s operator fed a swap into the Odos aggregator with broken parameters that effectively disabled slippage protection, causing the transaction to route through thin Uniswap V4 pools with fee tiers as high as 88%. Instead of a standard conversion, the system executed 102 fragmented trades across obscure tokens and "puddle-deep" liquidity, ultimately returning just $112,000 to the vault, a 97% loss triggered entirely by human error rather than a malicious exploit.

To contain the fallout, the team used funds from a recent $10 million Series A round to quietly backstop the loss and make users whole. While they issued an on-chain plea asking liquidity providers to return 90% of the windfall as a "bounty," the protocol has notably avoided public disclosure, telling users in social channels that "there was no incident." This "slippage bomb" highlights a growing risk in DeFi, as aggregators gain access to increasingly exotic and illiquid pools, a single misconfigured swap parameter can be just as devastating as a sophisticated hack.