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My coment was deleted because didnt maintain constructive discussion.
So here it is again, better formulated.
I have been in cardano for years now, since $0.07, cardano had its run.
But holding cardano at this point will get you nowhere.
The worst thing that happened to cardano was governance and catalys funding.
They missed the mark by huge margin by focusing on governance instead of improve the chain.
It got run over by other chains in term of development. Yes it is slowly catching up.
But governance led to catalyst funding being exploited by grifters and leeches.
"Building" on cardano only if funded by catalyst. The catalyst treasury has been drained even by iog and cardano fundation.
There has been a massive sell pressure on the ADA token.
Even now with ada price of 0.25 there are millions of ada requested from catalyst, only to be sold for fiat to fund expenses from different "projects" and even cardano organizations.
If they are not bullish on ada and are willing to sell it for usd at these ridicules prices, how are we going to be bullish on ada.
If you want to actually grow your portfolio take a look at $strike token on cardano.
Use your ada and buy $strike.
This is a real utility token from Strike Finance , they build a perpetual trading platform with 100% revenue share.
All fees, that is 100% of all possible fees go to stakers of the token. Everything goes to stakers.
The team itself and the platform stake their tokens, and DAO tokens just like everybody else.
Everyone is the same boat.
If they want to earn they need to make their platform successful, and by doing that, they make us all earn.
They already have the platform up and running, currently they are working on security, as a requirement to onboard institutional capital to flow into their liquidity vaults, that already have over 20% apr, and also currently they are running a campaign for 3months to reimburse all losses to liquidity providers if by chance they happen.
Liquid staking is about to go live in a week, their mobile app is ready but waiting for approval from apple to release both android and apple app at the same time.
The trading fees are low, opening and closing trades is instant, like on a cex.
They are running their own node on top of the cardano, they will decentralize it more in coming months.
Also this make it possible to access strike trading platform from different chains.
Later they will offer people to run validator node themself. At later stages they will run its own blockchain.
All this said, this is a project that is just starting its run, with only 2500holders and $12M MC.
So what do you thing will grow your bags more, investing in ada and holding it.
Or using that ada to participate in cardano defi, and buy $STRIKE.
What has more upside potential? ADA or $STRIKE?

The lack of on-chain verification is exactly why we are seeing these failures. While LayerZero CEO Bryan Pellegrino deflects, Kelp DAO is the one actually showing an ethical response by sacrificing 70% of their treasury to fix the mess. Real security requires skin in the game, not just gaslighting and what-ifs.

There’s been a noticeable cluster of DeFi exploits recently, with multiple protocols affected over a short period. Numbers below are approximate and based on publicly reported incidents worth verifying individually.

**Recent incidents**
* Kelp DAO: \~$292M
* Drift: \~$285M
* Grinex: \~$13.7M
* Rhea Finance: \~$7.6M
* Wasabi: \~$5M
* Volo: \~$3.5M
* Purrlend: \~$1.5M
* CoW Swap: \~$1.2M
* Aethir: \~$423K
* Silo: \~$392K
* Scallop: \~150K SUI
One reported cause in a recent case (Wasabi) was a compromised deployer EOA, which highlights how off-chain key management can still be a major vulnerability even when smart contracts are audited.
**Estimated total impact**
\~$800M+ in reported losses over a relatively short timeframe
Security continues to be one of the biggest challenges in DeFi, especially around:
* Key management (EOAs, multisigs)
* Smart contract vulnerabilities
* Bridge and cross-chain risks
If anyone has confirmed sources or corrections for specific incidents, would be useful to refine this list further.

**ETH Daily - 29th April 2026**
* EF ESP [allocates](https://blog.ethereum.org/2026/04/29/allocation-q1-26) $9.8m in Q1 2026
* Solidity v0.8.35 [release](https://investor.visa.com/news/news-details/2026/Visa-Accelerates-Stablecoin-Momentum-Adding-Five-Blockchains-for-Settlement/default.aspx) 
* Visa [extends](https://investor.visa.com/news/news-details/2026/Visa-Accelerates-Stablecoin-Momentum-Adding-Five-Blockchains-for-Settlement/default.aspx) stablecoin pilot to Base
* Ethereum [hits](https://x.com/eth_everstake/status/2049527980632707582) daily txs ATH
* Foundry v1.7.0 [release](https://github.com/foundry-rs/foundry/releases/tag/v1.7.0)
* Smart Node v1.20.2 [release](https://github.com/rocket-pool/smartnode/releases/tag/v1.20.2)
* Stani [reflects](https://x.com/StaniKulechov/status/2049454189818880451) on DeFi United
* Luigi [joins](https://x.com/luigidemeo/status/2049462381466587326) the Aave team
* Lido DAO [approves](https://etherscan.io/tx/0xa0b46f66a1f96f4f2b2a642c4ed33c72d4d99a9b2e8c930485f3bd51c60a4cda) 2,500 ETH
* How EtherFi [handled](https://x.com/ether_fi/status/2049552696659612152) rsETH incident
* Lens DeFi United [badge](https://defiunited.lens.xyz/)
* ZKsync protocol [upgrade v31](https://forum.zknation.io/t/zip-16-v31-interop-bundles-upgrade/979)
* Ethena [minted](https://x.com/Naeven_0/status/2049390604820664494) 100M USDm
* Uniswap [Community SDK](https://github.com/ZahaStudio/uniswap-sdk-monorepo)
* Governance [Review #93](https://x.com/l2beatgov/status/2049557558399062312)
* Link smart wallet [update](https://x.com/link/status/2049529099933348041)
* Privy digital [asset accounts](https://x.com/privy_io/status/2049542439552397756)
Read more: [https://ethdaily.io/936](https://ethdaily.io/936)

Most people know 1inch as an aggregator but almost nobody talks about Aqua, which is way more interesting for LPs.
The core problem: on-chain data shows that 85-97% of LP capital in AMMs sits idle on any given day. 94% in Uniswap v2, 85% in v3, 97% in Balancer. Your capital defines prices but almost never executes trades.
What Aqua does differently: your capital stays in your wallet. Never leaves. Aqua creates a virtual accounting layer that lets the same capital back multiple trading strategies simultaneously. So instead of your $100K sitting 90% idle in one pool, it can provision multiple strategies at once. Different strategies activate at different times, so your capital is constantly working.
The key concept is SLAC (Shared Liquidity Amplification Coefficient). With leverage through money markets (3x) combined with strategy multiplexing (3x), an LP with $1K in equity can support $9K in notional liquidity exposure. Same capital, 9x amplification.
Another thing worth noting: since capital isn't locked in pool contracts, you keep all your DeFi utility. DAO voting, staking, money market collateral -- all still available while your assets are provisioning liquidity.
The bigger picture: this shifts DeFi competition from "who can attract more TVL" to "who can build better trading formulas." LPs can test new strategies without pulling capital from existing ones. A superior strategy goes from zero to significant liquidity in minutes, not months.
Curious if anyone here has been looking into this or has thoughts on where shared liquidity models are heading, especially cross-chain.

The private key compromise stat being the largest single category is undersold in most security discussions. The industry obsesses over smart contract audits, formal verification, and bug bounties, which matter, but the actual leading cause of loss is people getting phished, storing keys incorrectly, or getting socially engineered.
The structural issue is that key management is a user problem that gets treated as a user responsibility. Protocols can audit their contracts. They can't audit whether their users are storing seed phrases in iCloud notes or responding to fake support DMs. The attack surface scales with adoption but the security education doesn't scale with it.
What makes this hard to solve. Hardware wallets help but add friction that most users won't tolerate for everyday transactions. Multisig and social recovery shift the problem but don't eliminate it. MPC wallets distribute key material but introduce new trust assumptions. Every solution has a tradeoff that prevents it from becoming the default.
The 2025 numbers being the worst on record despite years of "security improvements" is telling. The exploits are getting larger because the TVL is larger, but the per-dollar risk profile probably hasn't improved much. More money locked means bigger targets.
The Kelp DAO bridge exploit being $290M four months into the year suggests 2026 won't be better. Bridges remain high-value targets because they hold concentrated assets and have complex trust assumptions across chains.

Radiants DAO has announced the winners of the second Solana Mobile Hackathon — MONOLITH.

Over five weeks, the event attracted 403 submissions from 66 countries, with $135,000 in total prizes awarded across 10 cash winners, 5 honorable mentions, and one SKR bonus track.

Top projects, including NOMI (3D on-chain pet), Echo Protocol (GPS-based rewards), Pumpville (multiplayer world), and Cashflow (yield aggregator), demonstrated innovative use of Seeker device features.
Each top winner receives $10,000, a Seeker device, dApp Store placement, marketing support, and a call with Anatoly Yakovenko.
The hackathon highlighted growing momentum in mobile-first Solana applications.
[https://x.com/RadiantsDAO/status/2049549104175268000](https://x.com/RadiantsDAO/status/2049549104175268000)

The Agglayer tech is cool, but the real story is the accountability gap. Kelp DAO put up 70% of their actual treasury to fix this. Meanwhile, LayerZero is "pledging" liquidity they can withdraw later while staying silent on why they allow 1-of-1 configs to secure $292M. PR isn't a post-mortem....

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