This week, we have:

• On-chain lending for real-world assets on DevNTell.

​This week on DevNTell,  we are joined by João Moreira, the founder and CEO of Mystic Finance. Mystic is a lending market for tokenized real-world assets that focuses on leveraging the best of RWAs to maximize their use in DeFi.

​Viewers of this DevNTell will learn about Mystic Finance and how you can get started using it today!

Register here to get notified when the show starts. 

Last week on DevNtell, ​Joan Alavedra, the co-founder of Openfort, was our guest. Openfort builds secure wallet infrastructure to unlock better UX with internet money with built-in support for embedded wallets, account abstraction, automations, and money flows.

Catch the full recap on Spotify and Apple podcasts, and mint the episode to own it on Pods.

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

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

• D_D member @voyageur6049 is looking for web3 jobs with a clear PMF. Has experience working in web3 + data-intensive applications with an early-stage startup. Send a message to @voyageur6049 if you are hiring or know anyone who is. 

• D_D member @0xjakess is looking to take on new clients at their agency, Ethereal Labs, a Web3 Development Agency. Send a DM on Telegram (xjakess) if you are looking for devs for your project.

• D_D member @gcodez  is currently open to new client engagements. He builds high-quality mobile applications using Flutter and Dart, as well as native mobile technologies, and is available for projects requiring reliable cross-platform or fully native solutions. 

• The Ethereum Foundation's 2026 PhD Fellowship Program, which funds academic research related to Ethereum, has been launched. The initiative will award 9–10 fellowships, each worth $24,000 over one year, to PhD students whose work advances research around the Ethereum ecosystem.

  The fellowship is open to students across disciplines, including computer science, economics, political science, public policy, sociology, and urban planning, provided that their research results in open-access academic publications.

  Applications opened February 2, 2026, and proposals must be submitted by April 1, 2026. See more details 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.

• A repo on OpenClaw Security Practice Guide

• An Article on Address Poisoning Attacks Being on the Rise on Ethereum

Aave Post-Mortem: $50M Swap Collapses to $36K After Trader Accepts 99.9% Price Impact

A trader lost nearly the entire value of a $50.4 million token swap on March 12, 2026, after executing a large trade through the swap widget on the Aave interface, which integrates the CoW Swap aggregator. The user attempted to swap aEthUSDT for aEthAAVE in an illiquid market and was quoted a price reflecting a 99.9% price impact, reducing the expected value to about $36,000. Despite clear warnings in the interface and a required confirmation acknowledging the possibility of a total loss, the user proceeded with the transaction. The swap was executed through external decentralized exchanges and did not affect the core Aave lending protocol. In response, Aave announced Aave Shield, a new safeguard that will automatically block swaps with price impacts above 25% unless users manually disable the protection.

Ethereum Foundation Publishes EF Mandate

The Ethereum Foundation has published the EF Mandate, a 38-page document outlining its role and long-term vision for the Ethereum ecosystem. The Foundation states that it does not control Ethereum but acts as a steward whose mission is to ensure the network remains decentralized, resilient, and capable of supporting user self-sovereignty. The document also reaffirms Ethereum’s core promise as a global “World Computer” that anyone can use permissionlessly, while enabling large-scale coordination without centralized authority. It emphasizes maintaining key principles—censorship resistance, open-source development, privacy, and security—as the baseline for decisions affecting the protocol and its ecosystem.

Binance probed by DoJ, files lawsuit against WSJ

Binance has sued The Wall Street Journal over what it calls defamatory reporting about internal investigations into crypto transfers linked to Iran. The reports claimed investigators found about $1.7 billion in crypto moving from Chinese entities to accounts connected to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Following the reports, the U.S. Department of Justice began contacting individuals with knowledge of the case, while U.S. senators launched a separate inquiry requesting documents from Binance.

This week, we have:

• On-chain lending for real-world assets on DevNTell.

​This week on DevNTell,  we are joined by João Moreira, the founder and CEO of Mystic Finance. Mystic is a lending market for tokenized real-world assets that focuses on leveraging the best of RWAs to maximize their use in DeFi.

​Viewers of this DevNTell will learn about Mystic Finance and how you can get started using it today!

Register here to get notified when the show starts. 

Last week on DevNtell, ​Joan Alavedra, the co-founder of Openfort, was our guest. Openfort builds secure wallet infrastructure to unlock better UX with internet money with built-in support for embedded wallets, account abstraction, automations, and money flows.

Catch the full recap on Spotify and Apple podcasts, and mint the episode to own it on Pods.

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

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

• D_D member @voyageur6049 is looking for web3 jobs with a clear PMF. Has experience working in web3 + data-intensive applications with an early-stage startup. Send a message to @voyageur6049 if you are hiring or know anyone who is. 

• D_D member @0xjakess is looking to take on new clients at their agency, Ethereal Labs, a Web3 Development Agency. Send a DM on Telegram (xjakess) if you are looking for devs for your project.

• D_D member @gcodez  is currently open to new client engagements. He builds high-quality mobile applications using Flutter and Dart, as well as native mobile technologies, and is available for projects requiring reliable cross-platform or fully native solutions. 

• The Ethereum Foundation's 2026 PhD Fellowship Program, which funds academic research related to Ethereum, has been launched. The initiative will award 9–10 fellowships, each worth $24,000 over one year, to PhD students whose work advances research around the Ethereum ecosystem.

  The fellowship is open to students across disciplines, including computer science, economics, political science, public policy, sociology, and urban planning, provided that their research results in open-access academic publications.

  Applications opened February 2, 2026, and proposals must be submitted by April 1, 2026. See more details 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.

• A repo on OpenClaw Security Practice Guide

• An Article on Address Poisoning Attacks Being on the Rise on Ethereum

Aave Post-Mortem: $50M Swap Collapses to $36K After Trader Accepts 99.9% Price Impact

A trader lost nearly the entire value of a $50.4 million token swap on March 12, 2026, after executing a large trade through the swap widget on the Aave interface, which integrates the CoW Swap aggregator. The user attempted to swap aEthUSDT for aEthAAVE in an illiquid market and was quoted a price reflecting a 99.9% price impact, reducing the expected value to about $36,000. Despite clear warnings in the interface and a required confirmation acknowledging the possibility of a total loss, the user proceeded with the transaction. The swap was executed through external decentralized exchanges and did not affect the core Aave lending protocol. In response, Aave announced Aave Shield, a new safeguard that will automatically block swaps with price impacts above 25% unless users manually disable the protection.

Ethereum Foundation Publishes EF Mandate

The Ethereum Foundation has published the EF Mandate, a 38-page document outlining its role and long-term vision for the Ethereum ecosystem. The Foundation states that it does not control Ethereum but acts as a steward whose mission is to ensure the network remains decentralized, resilient, and capable of supporting user self-sovereignty. The document also reaffirms Ethereum’s core promise as a global “World Computer” that anyone can use permissionlessly, while enabling large-scale coordination without centralized authority. It emphasizes maintaining key principles—censorship resistance, open-source development, privacy, and security—as the baseline for decisions affecting the protocol and its ecosystem.

Binance probed by DoJ, files lawsuit against WSJ

Binance has sued The Wall Street Journal over what it calls defamatory reporting about internal investigations into crypto transfers linked to Iran. The reports claimed investigators found about $1.7 billion in crypto moving from Chinese entities to accounts connected to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Following the reports, the U.S. Department of Justice began contacting individuals with knowledge of the case, while U.S. senators launched a separate inquiry requesting documents from Binance.