This is the last issue of Probably Nothing for this year.

We wish you a nice holiday, and for those who NGMI it this year, may 2026 bring the success you need!

This week, we have:

• Cartesi and Psy Protocol on DevNTell!

• A stablecoin hackathon!

We have a double-headed DevNTell episode scheduled for your viewing pleasure this week. On the 17th of December, the first episode will feature João Garcia, the Lead Developer Advocate at Cartesi, while on December 19th, Carter Feldman, the founder of Psy Protocol, will be our guest.

​The first DevNTell episode for the week will host João Garcia, the Lead Developer Advocate at Cartesi. Cartesi enables developers to build appchain rollups with any code, while benefiting from the security of Ethereum. It bridges the gap between traditional software and blockchain by bringing decades of mature operating systems, programming languages, libraries, and tools to decentralized applications.

​Viewers of this DevNTell will learn about Cartesi and how you can use it to build your appchain rollup with any code!

Register here to get notified when the show starts. 

​The second DevNTell episode for the week will have the founder of Psy Protocol, Carter Feldman. Psy Protocol is developed from first principles to build a Layer 1 protocol that delivers what the internet Web3 always promised: limitless scale, unshakeable user sovereignty, and an economy built on fairness.

​Viewers of this episode of DevNTell will learn about Psy Protocol and how you can get started using it today!

Register here to get notified when the show starts.

The DevNTell Advent Calendar launched on Dec 11th, counting down the top-most watched DevNTell episodes of 2025! Be on the lookout from now till Christmas Day (Dec 25th) to see if your favourite episode made the cut.

Additionally, if you or a friend is looking to join Developer DAO or gain more governance power, we are running a giveaway of 5 prizes of 400 tokens in conjunction with the DevNTell Advent Calendar. Be sure to enter before Christmas to have a chance to have some CODE tokens put in your stockings this year.

Register for the $CODE giveaway here.

Calling all Web3 devs, AI engineers, and fintech innovators! MNEE is hosting a hackathon to build real applications using their USD-backed stablecoin on Ethereum. This is your chance to make money truly programmable for agents, commerce, and automated finance.

Key Details

• Theme: Programmable Money for Agents, Commerce, and Automated Finance.

• Requirement: You must use the MNEE stablecoin (USD-backed, on Ethereum).

• Prize Pool: A massive $50,000 in cryptocurrency.

• Deadline: Jan 12, 2026, @ 11:00 PM GMT+1.

• Tracks:

  • AI & Agent Payments

  • Commerce & Creator Tools

  • Financial Automation

• Location: The hackathon is held online and is open to the public.

What to Build

Focus on real-world use cases where money moves automatically:

1. AI: Autonomous agents paying for services/data.

2. Commerce: Stablecoin checkouts and creator payment systems.

3. Finance: Smart contract-based invoicing, escrow, or treasury management.

Ready to build the economic infrastructure of tomorrow?

Register here if you are interested.

Last week on DevNTell, Adam Gomez, the Co-Founder of Portals, was our guest. Portals is a no-code game platform that lets anyone create and explore immersive games and worlds in the browser.

Watch the episode to learn about Portals and how to get started with the platform. You can recap the episode on our Spotify or Apple Podcast and also mint it on Pods.

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.

Terra Founder Do Kwon Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison

A court has sentenced Terra founder Do Kwon to 15 years in prison for fraud linked to the $40 billion collapse of the Terra/LUNA ecosystem, a meltdown that helped spark the brutal 2022 crypto bear market.

Kwon, who pleaded guilty in August 2025, will serve part of his sentence in the United States before finishing the remainder in South Korea. The ruling closes a three-year legal saga that followed one of the most damaging failures in crypto history.

Coinbase gears up support for on-chain Solana token trading directly through its app

Coinbase is bringing native DEX trading for Solana-based tokens directly into its app, letting users trade on-chain assets straight from liquidity pools,  no centralized exchange listing required.

Unveiled at Solana Breakpoint, the feature gives retail users earlier access to liquid Solana tokens and deepens Coinbase’s push into on-chain trading. The move also builds on Coinbase’s recent acquisition of Vector, a Solana-based platform, as the exchange expands beyond traditional CEX rails.

Aave Labs faces backlash over CoW Swap integration

Aave Labs is under fire from its community after integrating CoW Swap into the protocol’s frontend, a move delegates say redirects 15–25 basis points in swap fees away from the Aave DAO treasury. Those fees had previously flowed to the DAO through ParaSwap’s donation model.

The decision has reignited a deeper debate over monetization and DAO alignment. Aave Labs argues the frontend is a product it owns and has the right to monetize, while delegates warn the shift weakens revenue sharing and is fueling growing unrest across Aave’s governance.

Binance to advise Pakistan on $2 billion asset tokenization as country prepares stablecoin launch

Pakistan has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with Binance to explore tokenizing up to $2 billion in state-owned assets, including sovereign bonds, treasury bills, and commodity reserves, as it steps up its push into blockchain-based finance.

The country has also issued preliminary regulatory clearances to Binance and HTX and reaffirmed plans to launch a national stablecoin. Together, the moves signal a fast-tracked overhaul of Pakistan’s digital finance strategy, backed by new licensing frameworks, asset tokenization, and stablecoin initiatives.

This is the last issue of Probably Nothing for this year.

We wish you a nice holiday, and for those who NGMI it this year, may 2026 bring the success you need!

This week, we have:

• Cartesi and Psy Protocol on DevNTell!

• A stablecoin hackathon!

We have a double-headed DevNTell episode scheduled for your viewing pleasure this week. On the 17th of December, the first episode will feature João Garcia, the Lead Developer Advocate at Cartesi, while on December 19th, Carter Feldman, the founder of Psy Protocol, will be our guest.

​The first DevNTell episode for the week will host João Garcia, the Lead Developer Advocate at Cartesi. Cartesi enables developers to build appchain rollups with any code, while benefiting from the security of Ethereum. It bridges the gap between traditional software and blockchain by bringing decades of mature operating systems, programming languages, libraries, and tools to decentralized applications.

​Viewers of this DevNTell will learn about Cartesi and how you can use it to build your appchain rollup with any code!

Register here to get notified when the show starts. 

​The second DevNTell episode for the week will have the founder of Psy Protocol, Carter Feldman. Psy Protocol is developed from first principles to build a Layer 1 protocol that delivers what the internet Web3 always promised: limitless scale, unshakeable user sovereignty, and an economy built on fairness.

​Viewers of this episode of DevNTell will learn about Psy Protocol and how you can get started using it today!

Register here to get notified when the show starts.

The DevNTell Advent Calendar launched on Dec 11th, counting down the top-most watched DevNTell episodes of 2025! Be on the lookout from now till Christmas Day (Dec 25th) to see if your favourite episode made the cut.

Additionally, if you or a friend is looking to join Developer DAO or gain more governance power, we are running a giveaway of 5 prizes of 400 tokens in conjunction with the DevNTell Advent Calendar. Be sure to enter before Christmas to have a chance to have some CODE tokens put in your stockings this year.

Register for the $CODE giveaway here.

Calling all Web3 devs, AI engineers, and fintech innovators! MNEE is hosting a hackathon to build real applications using their USD-backed stablecoin on Ethereum. This is your chance to make money truly programmable for agents, commerce, and automated finance.

Key Details

• Theme: Programmable Money for Agents, Commerce, and Automated Finance.

• Requirement: You must use the MNEE stablecoin (USD-backed, on Ethereum).

• Prize Pool: A massive $50,000 in cryptocurrency.

• Deadline: Jan 12, 2026, @ 11:00 PM GMT+1.

• Tracks:

  • AI & Agent Payments

  • Commerce & Creator Tools

  • Financial Automation

• Location: The hackathon is held online and is open to the public.

What to Build

Focus on real-world use cases where money moves automatically:

1. AI: Autonomous agents paying for services/data.

2. Commerce: Stablecoin checkouts and creator payment systems.

3. Finance: Smart contract-based invoicing, escrow, or treasury management.

Ready to build the economic infrastructure of tomorrow?

Register here if you are interested.

Last week on DevNTell, Adam Gomez, the Co-Founder of Portals, was our guest. Portals is a no-code game platform that lets anyone create and explore immersive games and worlds in the browser.

Watch the episode to learn about Portals and how to get started with the platform. You can recap the episode on our Spotify or Apple Podcast and also mint it on Pods.

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.

Terra Founder Do Kwon Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison

A court has sentenced Terra founder Do Kwon to 15 years in prison for fraud linked to the $40 billion collapse of the Terra/LUNA ecosystem, a meltdown that helped spark the brutal 2022 crypto bear market.

Kwon, who pleaded guilty in August 2025, will serve part of his sentence in the United States before finishing the remainder in South Korea. The ruling closes a three-year legal saga that followed one of the most damaging failures in crypto history.

Coinbase gears up support for on-chain Solana token trading directly through its app

Coinbase is bringing native DEX trading for Solana-based tokens directly into its app, letting users trade on-chain assets straight from liquidity pools,  no centralized exchange listing required.

Unveiled at Solana Breakpoint, the feature gives retail users earlier access to liquid Solana tokens and deepens Coinbase’s push into on-chain trading. The move also builds on Coinbase’s recent acquisition of Vector, a Solana-based platform, as the exchange expands beyond traditional CEX rails.

Aave Labs faces backlash over CoW Swap integration

Aave Labs is under fire from its community after integrating CoW Swap into the protocol’s frontend, a move delegates say redirects 15–25 basis points in swap fees away from the Aave DAO treasury. Those fees had previously flowed to the DAO through ParaSwap’s donation model.

The decision has reignited a deeper debate over monetization and DAO alignment. Aave Labs argues the frontend is a product it owns and has the right to monetize, while delegates warn the shift weakens revenue sharing and is fueling growing unrest across Aave’s governance.

Binance to advise Pakistan on $2 billion asset tokenization as country prepares stablecoin launch

Pakistan has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with Binance to explore tokenizing up to $2 billion in state-owned assets, including sovereign bonds, treasury bills, and commodity reserves, as it steps up its push into blockchain-based finance.

The country has also issued preliminary regulatory clearances to Binance and HTX and reaffirmed plans to launch a national stablecoin. Together, the moves signal a fast-tracked overhaul of Pakistan’s digital finance strategy, backed by new licensing frameworks, asset tokenization, and stablecoin initiatives.