Why devs love OpenCode: > fully open source harness... + privacy-first > butter-smooth terminal TUI > bring your own model: Claude, GPT, Kimi, etc. > LSP-smart, multi-session agents, git-native What’s your favorite feature of OpenCode?show more

New open-source agent harness just landed! I got early... access to TrueForge by TrueFoundry and have been running it locally for the past few days. The harness layer deserves as much attention as the model, and open source matters here because you can inspect the loop, run it on your own infrastructure, and swap to the latest or cheaper models. TrueForge handles the runtime work that makes an agent reliable. It drives the tool-calling loop, manages context, coordinates subagents, and executes code in a sandbox, with any model you choose. Every tool call re-sends the growing context to the model, so in practice the harness controls most of what an agent costs to run. A few things stood out from my testing and their published benchmarks. Vendor-Neutral by design. It runs OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google models alongside open-weight models like Kimi, GLM, and DeepSeek. Model routing is a setting, and you can send each task to the model that fits it. On a 14-task enterprise agent benchmark, it matched the accuracy of Claude Managed Agents running the same Opus 4.8 model at roughly 30% lower cost per run (3.8M tokens vs 10M for the same answers). Routing the same tasks to GLM-5.2 held accuracy and brought cost down by about 75%, around $3 per run instead of $12. Fully self-hosted and Open Source (MIT License). I had it running locally with one command, with sandboxed code execution working out of the box. It's time to own your agent harness. Thanks to TrueFoundry for partnering on this post.show more

Another WTF moment. A developer just open-sourced a coding... agent harness that boots 245x faster than Claude Code. It's called jcode. You launch it and the first frame renders in 14 milliseconds. Claude Code takes 3,436. One active session uses 27.8 MB of RAM. Claude Code uses 386.6. Run ten sessions in parallel and jcode holds at 117 MB while OpenCode swells to 3.2 GB. Each agent has a semantic memory graph instead of a scratchpad. Every turn gets embedded as a vector. The graph is queried on every turn for related memories, and a sideagent verifies the hits before injecting them into context. Consolidation runs in the background to check for stale or conflicting facts. No manual /remember calls. No token burn on lookup tools. The provider list is 30+ deep. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, Azure, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Groq, Mistral, Perplexity, Fireworks, Ollama, LM Studio, and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint you point it at. Ran out of tokens on your first ChatGPT Pro sub? /account swaps to the second. Then there's Swarm. Spawn two agents in the same repo and the server manages them. When agent A edits a file agent B has been reading, agent B gets pinged and can check the diff. Agents can DM each other, broadcast to the room, or spawn their own worker teams for parallel tasks. Groups, channels, and completion statuses are handled automatically. The UI has live side panels that render mermaid diagrams inline. To make it fast, the author wrote a Rust mermaid renderer 1800x faster than the JavaScript one, then wrote a custom terminal called Handterm because no existing terminal could do smooth partial-line scrolling. Self-dev mode is where it gets wild. Tell your agent to enter self-dev and it starts editing jcode's own source code, rebuilds the binary, reloads it live, and keeps working across your existing sessions. You can also resume broken sessions from Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, or pi directly inside jcode. Anthropic's cache goes cold at the 5-minute mark and you're staring down a big cache miss on your next turn? The UI warns you before you spend the tokens. Written in Rust. MIT licensed. Runs on macOS, Windows, Linux, and Termux. Sitting at 11.2k stars with a native iOS app coming.show more

Your AI Toolkit Just Got Supercharged 5 elite AI... models. 1 unified platform. 90 seconds of pure workflow magic. Here's the reality: Building with AI used to mean chaos—juggling tabs, managing API keys, context-switching hell. But what if you didn't have to choose? What if you could access the best of every model without leaving your workflow? Meet the New Standard: Replit's AI Model Ecosystem Claude for your complex thinking. GPT-4 for your creative fire. Mistral when you need lightning-speed execution. Llama for privacy-first local analysis. Open source freedom for the innovators. 300+ models. One dashboard. Zero friction. Switch between them in seconds, not minutes. No sign-ups. No API gymnastics. Just pick, prompt, and ship. Why This Matters You're not just saving time—you're reclaiming your focus. Every tab you don't open is mental energy preserved. Every API key you don't manage is a distraction eliminated. This is what AI integration should feel like: invisible. Effortless. Natural. The builders who master this first won't just be faster. They'll be unstoppable. Your move. Replit ⠕ is waiting. ✨show more

Chinese quant built a simulation of how SPX price... reacts to any global event. He’s already made over $100k - with full blockchain proof. He knows exactly where price will go. More than 40 years of SPX trading history have been loaded into MiroFish simulator (18k stars on GitHub) AI analyzed every single moment in that trading history. Now this guy has a fully functional SPX price prediction system. His wallet: Dozens of successful SPX price-prediction trades and hundreds of tests across other stock markets. Here’s exactly what you need to replicate his stack: - market data APIs (SPX price, use Alpha Vantage or Quandl) - data pipeline (use Python) - feature engineering (for output signals like RSI, MACD) - seed dataset for MiroFish (convert data into structured context) - multi-agent simulation (macro strategist, earnings analyst, sentiment analyst agents etc.) - probability forecast (run different scenarios) - trading / decision Model (SPX futures ES, SPY ETF) Save this pipeline if you want to run a similar simulation on your own data. You can feed the whole thing to your Claude and build your first (even small) simulation model together.show more

EVERYONE'S TRYING TO SOLVE AI TEAM MEMORY WITH SERVERS,... VECTOR DATABASES, AND ORCHESTRATION PLATFORMS. THIS OPEN SOURCE TOOL DOES IT WITH ONE FOLDER IN YOUR REPO. Every dev on your team runs Claude Code. When one agent screws something up, the rest have no idea. They just repeat the mistake next week. It's called teamlore. When your agent gets corrected or breaks something, it writes a small lore file into a .lore/ folder. That file ships with your PR, gets reviewed like normal code, and after merge every teammate's agent automatically recalls it when they touch that part of the repo. No server. No datab No accounts. No SaaS bill. Just a folder in git. Which means code review catches bad lessons before they poison the team, git blame tells you when a rule was added and why, and the whole thing works offline. One command to install: npx teamlore init Companion command: npx teamlore scarmap. Turns your team's history of mistakes into a visual heat map of the codebase. Every red zone is a place your team has been burned before. Which means every red zone is a place your agents should slow down. Here's the wildest part. The teamlore repo's own .lore/ folder contains every mistake Claude made while building teamlore itself. Dogfooded end-to-end. You can literally open the folder and read the receipts. The author's public invitation: "Would love for someone to try and break it." Available on npm. Repo just launched. 100% open source. (link in the comments)show more

BREAKING: SpaceXAI has released another major new update for... Grok Build (v1.0.19) This update improves background task handling, adds transparent terminal themes, worktree support for headless sessions, and better session/dashboard controls. It also fixes UI freezes, crashes, feedback issues, clickable URLs, and makes the first prompt after login faster. Breaking Changes • Scheduled /loop tasks always run in the background; they no longer inject turns into your conversation. Features • New terminal theme option makes backgrounds transparent so the terminal's own colors show through. • MCP servers blocked by organization policy now show clear messages and are refused before any config change. • Session resume now tells the model what loops, subagents, and workflows were still running. • Dashboard now shows newly dispatched sessions immediately instead of waiting for the store. • Headless sessions (grok -p) now support the --worktree flag to run in a separate git worktree. • Dashboard now says 'Open session' instead of 'Add session' for the session picker button. • Multi-line bash commands now render with proper wrapping and highlighting when opening the block viewer. • /usage now works from the dashboard and shows account allowance when no session is active. Bug Fixes • Fixed mid-turn UI freezes when the terminal stops reading output. • Fixed crashes that occurred when the terminal pane was closed while grok was exiting. • MCP server list in minimal mode now correctly shows policy-blocked servers. • URLs that wrap across multiple lines inside quotes or lists are now fully clickable. • The welcome screen composer now grows taller when you paste multi-line text. • Enterprise policy files are no longer deleted on startup when your team login is stored at a custom GROK_AUTH_PATH. • /feedback now drops unsupported images with a notice (matching the modal) and never loses your report text on save errors. • Feedback drafts keep their paragraph breaks when updated, and the modal no longer switches tabs unexpectedly. • Turn summary lines no longer lose their spacing after background tasks finish. • Thinking blocks no longer stay expanded after switching between fullscreen and minimal modes. Performance • First prompt after login is faster when MCP servers are configured; they connect in the background. Download Grok Build: Update to the latest Alpha release: grok update --alpha Update to the latest Stable release: grok updateshow more

this is the worst local ai will ever be.... it only gets better from here. if you are not expanding your mind with these small models you are missing what's happening right now 99 percent tool call success rate. when steered well with the right skills and a framework like hermes agent the node becomes a cognition layer. not a chatbot. not a toy. an extension of how you think. i was cranking this node at 35 to 50 tok/s all day on personal experiments and now after all the work is done qwen 3.5 9B is iterating on its own code. the game it created. fixing its own bugs autonomously. and the part you should probably not miss is that all of this is happening on a RTX 3060. not an H100. not an A100. the card most of you have sitting in a drawer right now. if you just open that drawer and put that intelligence to work every tensor core on that card should be running for you. your work. your experiments. your thinking. you all have it but because nobody told you what this hardware can actually do in 2026 you never tried. the day it unlocks is the day you test your workload, understand the tradeoffs, debug the loops, and then decide if you need to scale the hardware. there is no point buying 3 mac studios when things done well you can squeeze a similar level of intelligence from 9B compared to 70B. but only when you create the right environment for your model through the right harness. and let me tell you i have tried claude code as a local harness. i have tried opencode. i have tried various others. somehow i landed on hermes agent and never left. there is something magical going on at Nous Research. the tool call parsers, the skills system, the way it handles small models natively. nothing else comes close for local inference. own your cognition. your AI. your agent. your prompts. your experiments. why give them away for free. those are who you are and they don't belong on someone else's servers being monitored. just give it a shot with your existing hardware. you run into a problem the community will help you. and if you are migrating from openclaw to hermes i will personally help you make the switch.show more

We are in an insane run of open-weight drops.... Every modality, open source is winning. This is what an open source AI summer ☀️ looks like: 🧠 LLMs & Reasoning → DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (my king 👑): 304B MoE refresh, Terminal-Bench 2.1 jumps 61.8→82.7 over the preview, DeepSWE 7.3→54.4. Closes in on Opus-4.8 on Agents' Last Exam (25.2 vs 25.7). MIT. → Muse-Glimmer-30B, from Meta (they are back!!): their first open agentic model. ~29.6B dense + perception encoder, 131k+ context, built to run fully local, no cloud. Apache 2.0. → Liquid AI LFM2.5-2.6B: 2.69B params, 131k context, 220 tok/s on an M5 Max in under 2.5GB RAM. Competitive with models 4x larger on agentic tasks. → inclusionAI Ling-3.0-flash: 124B total, only 5.1B active, ~12% the size of their old 1T flagship Ring-2.6, matches it on key benchmarks. MIT. → inclusionAI Ling-3.0-tiny: 7.9B total, 1.3B active, 86-90 tok/s on an M4 Pro MacBook at ~8GB peak memory. MIT. → NVIDIA Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B: hybrid Mamba-2+MoE+Attention, up to 1M context, runs on a single H100 or DGX Spark, SWE-bench Verified 52.8. → deepgrove maple-preview: 20B-A1B ternary-weight reasoner, 218 tok/s on a Mac mini M4, 5.3GB checkpoint. MIT. → BigBang-v1 (endless-frontier): fine-tuned from Qwen3.6-35B-A3B via a self-evolving generator/critic synthetic-data loop. Lands aggregate performance between DeepSeek V4 Flash (284B) and V4 Pro (1.6T), at 35B. Apache 2.0. 🎬 Video → MiniMax-H3: 33B dense omni model, native stereo audio, up to 2K/15s. 3.6k+ likes already. → Minimax-H3-Turbo (lightx2v): Apache-2.0 turbo distillation of H3 for fast inference. → Lightricks LTX-2.5: image-to-video update, custom Gemma-4-12B text encoder, a markedly stronger distilled model. 🔊 Voice → NVIDIA NemotronLabs VoiceChat-11B: full-duplex speech-to-speech, ~450ms turn-taking, #2 on open VoiceBench, and the first open full-duplex model with live tool-calling mid-conversation. 🛡️ Safety → Mistral Shieldstral-1.0-3B: 3B multimodal guardrail that takes your safety policy as plain text instead of fixed categories. Beats LlamaGuard-4-12B and ShieldGemma-9B on HarmBench (99.4) and ToxicChat (84.1) at a fraction of the size. Apache 2.0.show more

llama.cpp isn't just for text LLMs anymore. Pure C++... zero shot voice cloning just officially landed in mainline. Text generation was only step one. If you’re building autonomous local AI agents, real time voice assistants, or edge workflows, instant low latency audio is the missing piece. Thanks to PR #26254, Alibaba’s state of the art Qwen3 TTS model family is now natively supported directly inside the llama.cpp repository under the multimodal (mtmd) framework. No Python bloat. No massive PyTorch CUDA overhead. Just raw, hyper optimized C++ running GGUF voice weights. Here is why this native update is a massive deal for the open source local AI stack: # Multimodal Architecture (.gguf + mmproj) Qwen3-TTS splits the workload between the base language model backbone and a multimodal projection adapter. llama.cpp handles this using the llama-tts binary, mapping the text model alongside its --mmproj projector to process audio tokens seamlessly. # Zero Shot Voice Cloning in Seconds You don't need fine tuning or massive dataset training. Feed the C++ engine a single 5 to 10 second .wav audio sample using the --tts-speaker-file flag, and it accurately clones the exact timbre, tone, and accent on the fly. # Real World T4 GPU Benchmark & Resource FootprintRunning the 1.7B Base model in 8-bit quantization (Q8_0): - VRAM Footprint: ~7 GB peak VRAM during active zero-shot cloning. - Audio Quality: Studio grade, natural-sounding voice output in seconds. • - Execution: Direct execution via native compiled binaries or sub process calls. # Coming Next to llama-server (PR #26603) Beyond CLI execution, a native POST /tts HTTP endpoint is currently being added to llama-server, which will soon allow you to trigger voice generation directly via standard REST API requests! # quick note on Colab compilation: Because this code was merged into mainline very recently, pre-built third-party binaries haven't fully caught up yet. Compiling llama-tts directly from source on Google Colab's free CPU instance can take about 1 hour (or ~1-2 minutes if targeting single GPU arch like -DCMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=75). Be patient during the build step, or compile it locally on your own rig for instant execution! To test this out yourself, I built a zero config Google Colab notebook that compiles llama.cpp, downloads the Q8_0 GGUF files from HuggingFace, and spins up an interactive Gradio Studio UI so you can record/upload 3 second clips and clone voices in real time. Stop sleeping on native C++ audio. The era of bulky Python audio pipelines is officially over. Links to the free Google Colab notebook and the official ggml org GGUF HuggingFace model repository are in the replies below! available in q4 and q8 both variants, 1 GB and 1.85 GBs respectively (requires additional ~500MB mmproj gguf) Are you building local voice agents yet? What does your current audio stack look like? Drop your setups below!show more

AgentLinter is here! Is your agent sharp & secure?... I built AgentLinter, a linter for and agent config files. Here's why. Whether you're vibe-coding or agent-coding, your AI's output quality comes down to one thing: how well you wrote your But managing these files properly? Way harder than it looks. 🎯 The Silent Failure Problem Vague instructions like "write good code" let the agent interpret however it wants. Output gets inconsistent, but nothing throws an error. The failure is silent. Anthropic's own docs say write "Use 2-space indentation" not "Format code properly." But as the file grows, spotting these with your eyes alone is nearly impossible. 🔐 The Security Problem People hard-code API keys and tokens directly into or and commit them, way more often than you'd think. AgentLinter stats show 1 in 5 workspaces has exposed credentials. .gitignore doesn't catch secrets buried inside markdown files. 💥 The Consistency Problem Multiple config files = contradictions. says "be a friendly assistant," says "concise, direct tone." The agent gets confused. references files that don't exist. Past 5 files, these conflicts triple. So I thought: is code. Code has ESLint. Why doesn't this have a linter? 🔍 What AgentLinter Does It diagnoses your agent config across 8 categories: 1) Structure: file organization 2) Clarity: instruction specificity 3) Completeness: missing definitions 4) Security: exposed secrets 5) Consistency: cross-file contradictions 6) Memory: session handoff 7) Runtime Config: gateway/auth settings 8) Skill Safety: dangerous shell commands & injection patterns Each scored 0–100 with concrete fix suggestions. Write "be helpful" and it tells you to specify response length, tone, and format. Find an API key? Instant CRITICAL alert to rotate. 🔒 Privacy-First & 100% Local Everything runs on your machine. Files never leave. Only the results are shared, and you can turn that off in settings. This matters — these files can contain system prompts, security rules, and personal context. Fully open source, MIT license, 100% free. 🛠️ Multi-Tool Support Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and Clawdbot. Detects for project mode, or clawdbot.json for agent mode and adjusts diagnostics automatically. 🚀 Get Started with one line npx agentlinter Node.js 18+, no config needed. Run it, check your score, fix what needs fixing. Happy vibe-coding & happy agent life! 🤙 Website: Github:show more

Qwen 3.8 27B Q4_K_M - 90 tokens/sec on a... single NVIDIA RTX 4090 (24 GB VRAM) with Dflash2! (MTP 60 tps -> 90 tps Dflash2!!!!) Local AI moves so fast (literally!) it’s terrifying. Z lab just dropped DFlash 2 for Qwen 3.8 27b and Muse Glimmer. I patched llama.cpp (PR #27342) and paired it with Unsloth’s Qwen 3.8 27B UD-Q4_K_XL quant. The result? Lossless 90 tokens/s decode. My last post highlighted native MTP hitting 60 t/s at 130,000 context. But DFlash 2 just completely shattered that ceiling. By using parallel block diffusion drafting (predicting whole blocks of tokens in a single pass using dynamic convolutions), DFlash achieves a massive 5.39 token acceptance rate. THE ALPHA TWEAK: `n-max 7` eats too much VRAM for draft states. But if you drop the draft limit to `--spec-draft-n-max 4`, you slash the VRAM overhead and actually increase the throughput. Here is the new 24GB VRAM Physics Matrix (DFlash 2 @ n-max 4): - 30k Context: 1,725 t/s prefill | 87.05 t/s decode | 22.2 GB VRAM - 80k Context: 1,789 t/s prefill | 84.20 t/s decode | 23.3 GB VRAM - 110k Context: 1,767 t/s prefill | 83.35 t/s decode | 23.96 GB VRAM (110k context at 83+ tokens a second sitting exactly on the 24GB hardware limit is absolute wizardry). How to compile the PR today: git clone cd llama.cpp git fetch origin pull/27342/head:pr-27342 git switch pr-27342 cmake -B build -DGGML_CUDA=ON && cmake --build build -j Llama.cpp flags for Dflash (110k Context Ceiling): ./build/bin/llama-server -m Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf -md Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2-Q4_K_M.gguf --spec-type draft-dflash --spec-draft-n-max 4 -c 110000 -ngl 99 --port 8080 -ctv q4_0 -ctk q4_0 The fact that the open source community is shipping block diffusion drafters so quickly that run entirely locally on a gaming GPU is unbelievable. If you own a single RTX 3090 or 4090, it is officially time to upgrade to qwen 3.8 27b with dflash 2 and cancel your API subscriptions and let local silicon eat the cloud. This model beats GPT 5.6 Terra, GLM 5.2 DeepSeek V4 Pro, Muse Spark 1.2 and Claude Opus 4.8 on the artificial analysis agentic index (details in the replies) Hugging Face GGUF links (Base + DFlash2) and the full visual VRAM scaling and Dflash2 vs MTP graphs are also in the replies below. are you sticking to native MTP for the 130k context, or sacrificing 20k context to redline your decode speed? How many tokens/sec are you pushing on your current local rig?show more

vPay offshore accounts and physical cards have been getting... field-tested IRL for a while now, and we’ll open them to the public as soon as we’re fully confident in the UX. But before offshore accounts go public, I want to address a few points: Some might point out that - vPay isn’t the first crypto card - vPay doesn’t have the lowest fees - So why choose vPay instead of the Coinbase 🛡️ Card or MetaMask 🦊 Card or KAST or or Tria, or any of the other big names? Now to address: Privacy | The biggest differentiator that sets vPay completely apart is Private Banking. The majority of the crypto card providers on the market use Rain infra. Even if you’ve never heard of them, that's what your favorite "NeoBank" uses. And due to their legal jurisdictions, they will report your finances to authorities since they're CRS and FACTA compliant. We are not. As an OmniBank, we work with different banking partners, and although KYC is required to use our services, our offshore banks are non-CRS and non-FACTA. Tax reporting is the responsibility and choice of the user. Offshore Accounts vs Physical Cards | I've tried to highlight this a few times so far. vPay has 3 offerings on the banking side of things. Virtual cards - live now. Physical cards - coming Q1 2026. The first two are similar to what everyone else on the market offers. The offshore accounts are not. which are coming this week. They allow unlimited spending, ATM withdrawals, and international SWIFT transfers, which very few “Neobanks” provide. Offshore accounts are coming this week. Self-Custody | We're not 100% non-custodial yet, as that is near impossible at the moment but it's something we're working towards. And we try to keep the users' self-custodial wallets in the loop as much as possible for maximum control. Those who have tried the vPay app know that almost every move asks for permission from their wallet, and we always encourage users to keep their funds in their non-custodial wallets until the very last moment, since our top-ups usually only take seconds to a minute to process. Fees | All of the card providers mentioned above either raised millions from VCs or in presales or have a huge org backing them. We have neither. vPay was self-funded and community-owned since day 1, launched under Virtuals Protocol Genesis V1 launch model, an objectively bad launch model and hugely unfavorable toward project teams. So even though vPay has been generating revenue and profitable from early on, we do not have the luxury of offering 0% fees yet, since they're mostly a marketing gimmick paid for by millions in VC money and not a sustainable business model for early-stage companies. What we're working towards instead, is true co-ownership of vPay and revenue-share with users. OmniBank vs NeoBank | I’m not a fan of the term “NeoBank.” It implies just a bank, but make it crypto. That’s not vPay. Our goals have always been clear: A) Anything and everything users need to do with their money and assets, both Web2 and Web3, all in one hub. Powered by a constellation of partner agents. The cards and the bank accounts are just the foundation. B) To eventually build independent financial rails for crypto and decouple from the chokehold of Visa/Mastercard. vLink is the first step toward this vision. This turned out to be a rather long tweet, but context matters. Questions and feedback welcome in replies or DMs. See you all with your vPay vCards very soon.show more

A Citadel quant sat down next to me at... Verve on Gough and asked why my laptop had four terminals open I was scanning Polymarket. Four panes. Each one a different agent. He was killing time before a flight. Saw the screens. "Is that a multi-agent setup on prediction markets. Who's orchestrating" Claude. One prompt per agent. They don't share memory. Only a queue file. He pulled up a chair. "Walk me through. I do this for equities at work. I want to see your agent separation" Agent 1 is the scanner. I piped raw JSON from the official Polymarket CLI straight into Claude and told it to score every live market on three things. Edge against my probability estimate. Book depth on both sides. Hours to resolution. Thresholds kill 93% of markets before the brain ever sees them. Edge under 7 cents gone. Depth under $500 gone. Under 4 hours to resolution gone. Over 168 gone. 487 live markets collapse to 35. "Seven cents is your transaction cost buffer" Yes. Below that the gas and spread eat the trade. A green fill popped. +$52 on a BTC dominance market. "And the brain" Agent 2. Runs four checks on every survivor. Base rate from history. News in the last six hours. Whether any of the 47 top wallets are currently holding. And a disposition check - is the crowd making a known cognitive error. Three out of four must agree. Otherwise drop it. 86 million trades. I let Claude rank every wallet with 100+ fills and a 70%+ win rate. It returned 47 names in four minutes. Top 20 wallets made more than the bottom 13,000 combined. "Concentration like that means the signal is there. Most retail books look like a normal curve. Yours looks like power law" Kelly sizing does the rest. Capped at quarter Kelly. If f-star goes negative the trade dies no matter how confident I feel. "Overbet once and the bankroll is gone. You respect that. Good" Agent 3 is execution. Three strategies pulled out of a 53k line Typescript repo. Arbitrage across related markets. Convergence when price moves toward my estimate. Whale copy with a 60 second delay on the 47 wallets. Two agents agree full position. One agent only half. Disagreement no trade. "What did you cut" Sports. 52% win rate. Already priced in before the scanner flags it. Markets under $50k in depth. Slippage makes every edge a coin flip. Holding to settlement. The top wallets exit at 73% of max profit every time. I copied that. Agent 4 watches exits. Three triggers. Target hit at 85% of expected move. Volume spike 3x the ten minute average. Thesis stale 24 hours with no movement. "91% of the smart wallets exit before resolution. That's the trade" Yeah. Being right is not the same as being profitable. Setup: Claude API $20 Hetzner VPS $5 Four repos free Total $25 a month $200 seed. 27 days ago. $14,300 now. 271 trades. 74% win rate. Sharpe 2.47. Copy here: "How long did the build take" Two weekends. One to wire the scanner and the CLI. One to get the agents talking through the queue file. He watched the volume exit trigger fire on a Fed cut market. Position closed at 0.71. +$184. "Nobody at my shop runs four agents on their own money. We run eight on the firm's. You got the same structure on a laptop for the price of a sandwich a month" He asked for the repos. I sent them. He messaged me from the gate. "Publishing this tomorrow. My PM is going to ask me why I didn't do it first" I told him his PM already has a Bloomberg. That's the problem.show more

📣 Puffer UniFi V2 testnet is now live! 🐡... The UniFi V2 testnet is officially live, and we’re inviting builders to explore the stack and join the next phase of Ethereum-native infrastructure. With the advancement of based rollup technology, UniFi offers a practical path forward to address Ethereum’s fragmentation and foster ecosystem growth. UniFi-OP enables Ethereum builders and users to avoid choosing a “winning” L2 or giving up revenue. Based sequencing keeps rollups, appchains, and general-purpose chains fully composable with Ethereum. Thanks to UniFi AVS, rollup owners can now share priority fees and MEV with validators. This upgrade was made possible in collaboration with Gattaca, , Automata Network, and Ethereum. ⚒️ What Builders Get • Governance‑optional rollups 🗳️ • Custom fee markets (subsidize, burn, or share) • KYC‑gated or fully permissionless chains 💆 What Users Feel • Sub‑10 ms confirmations ⚡ • One‑click exits to L1 (no 7‑day wait) • Seamless L1 interaction—AMMs, CLOBs, RWAs “just work” 📈 Economic Win‑Win Based sequencing ≠ giving up MEV and Priority fees. Rollup owners, gateways, and L1 proposers share MEV & congestion fees through @puffer_unifiAVS. Alignment without sacrifices. 🧩Pragmatic Composability How composable is UniFi V2? • L2 → L1 withdrawal supported • EIP‑7702 smart‑wallet standard baked in • Atomic withdrawals in the same block (no more 7 day wait) 🛡️Trust‑Minimized, Real‑Time Proving Real time proving is a must have to achieve composability and security that a rollup needs. We came up with a trust minimized pragmatic approach with TEEs for the first phase. In collaboration with Automata Network we now have: • Multi‑TEE provers (Intel TDX + AMD SEV) attest each block in less than 1s. • Hardware diversity = reduced trust assumptions. 🏎️UniFi AVS (Gateway Registry) For Preconfimrations (preconfs), we take advantage of delegated proposing to gateways to bring the speed. This service requires shared security. 🏗️Built on : • Validators opt in and delegate proposer rights. • They earn extra yield for serving preconfs. • Restaking validators solve the cold‑start problem. 💻 Preconf Phases • Centralized gateways at launch. • Progressive onboarding → many independent gateways for decentralization. • Proposer‑delegated based sequencing (speed). 🗺️Roadmap • ✅ Hybrid Based‑OP stack with TEE proving & fast gateways • 🔜 ZK proving • 🔜 Universal Registry Contract (URC) by ****@fabric_ethereum for slashing • 🔜 Commit boost Commit-Boost 📻 🕶️ 🦇🔊 integration • 🔜 Native L1 ↔ L2 ↔ L2 calls All upgrades are backward‑compatible and shipped incrementally. ⚔️Security Model at a Glance • Restaked ETH → slashable backing • Multi‑vendor TEEs → hardware redundancy • ZK fallback → cryptographic safety net No single point of failure. 🎯Metrics That Matter The KPI moves from TVL to transaction volume & speed. High‑frequency order‑flow is real revenue—and UniFi lets dApps capture it instead of donating it to someone else’s sequencer. 🧑‍💻Code & Collaboration UniFi V2 extends the open work by Gattaca on Gattaca‑OP. Dive into the repos and contribute. 📚TL;DR • Pragmatic composability with atomic withdrawals from the L2. • Trust‑minimized, real‑time proving • UniFi AVS bootstrapped by EigenLayer • Based rollups that share income 🪖Builders: stop choosing between UX, composability, and revenue. DM us or visit to spin up your Based Appchain and join the UniFi Based Rollup testnet—or fork the stack and run it yourself. 👷‍♂️ Build with us: 🪙 Faucet: 🌍Ecosystem resources:show more

Nelson Tugume, PLU and the Putinitication of Uganda’s Oligarchy... Yesterday, Mr Nelson Tugume, the much maligned Boss of the Africa Coffee Park in Ntungamo, with his own media entourage in tow, made an appearance at the head offices of PLU and made a very public show of supporting the PLU boss’ Presidential ambitions with what seemed like a poorly rehearsed, hastily delivered meandering speech. In short, he ditched his former godfather Mr Odrek Rwabwogo, figuratively bent the knee and kissed the ring of the CDF, General MK who also happens to be Mr Rwabwogo’s brother-in-law. He came promising jabs or is it jobs? (See video and make your own judgement) He promised to bring investors with potential to invest a trillion dollars. Don’t ask why he never went to them for his own investment but instead raised the coffers of a poor country. He promised to support the Supreme Leader. The only promise he didn’t make was turning water into wine. The desperation was that high that he might have been tempted to throw that into the mix. Anyway, the man can talk a good game! You could easily see why President Museveni and the people who handed him billions to “teach Ugandans how to drink coffee” were charmed. But don’t be fooled by those high-sounding nothings. Mr Tugume wasn’t at PLU to make an investment pitch. He went there for a transaction. He went to buy an insurance policy for his growing, recently acquired state funded wealth. The noises from some PLU insiders had grown too loud for his comfort. A few decibels louder and he would have followed his Godfather’s right hand man, Mr Matthew Bagonza, into the basement, via a very public nude show on Twitter. That is an ignominy he wasn’t willing to suffer. Mr Tugume is anything but a fool. He is, what in modern parlance, we call a “sharp man”. He knows that in a country where the state is not only your biggest funder and protector (he moves around with armed SFC guards) but also your biggest threat, strategic alignment is how you hedge against uncertain winds. Throw in uncertainty about transition and you immediately understand the need to align with the perceived next center of state coercive power. A smart businessman needs not wait for elections when the signals are already screaming “MK Presidency”. It’s a clever hedge; an insurance policy if you’d like. The price? A few banal words, public photographs shared in endless media loops, a signing of the PLU support pledge book (See frame 2). In exchange, he receives a public amnesty via Twitter from the man himself and a pledge to protect “his investments”. As risk management goes, this is a masterclass. But this game wasn’t invented here and it won’t end here. This whole state cash bonanza has the feel of the privatization heist by Oligarchs in the evening years of Boris Yeltsin’s reign in Russia. The only difference with Uganda’s reverse privatization happening today is that unlike here where supposed investors get boatloads of state cash, in Russia, they got state business conglomerates at the price of a song. As transition from Yeltsin to Vladimir Putin happened, they quickly had to adjust. They either faced a jail cell or keep the oil wells, steel conglomerates etc in exchange for recognizing the unchallenged power of the new sheriff in town. It’s all eerily similar to our case. On December 31 1999, an ailing Yeltsin who at the time probably had more vodka in his veins than blood, resigned and chose then Prime Minister and former KGB boss, Vladimir Putin as acting President. Mr Putin went on to win an election in May 2000 and the consolidation of power started in earnest. If you are long in the tooth like me, you might recall that famous July 2000 summit where President Putin made 21 of the most powerful Russian Oligarchs “a DEAL they couldn’t refuse”. These Oligarchs who had amassed so much wealth and had turned the Russian state into their own playground were asked to drop any political ambitions, funding for the opposition and stay out of state decision making in exchange for the right to remain “temporary custodians” of their wealth, gotten through massively corrupt privatization and “loans for shares” schemes. Those who refused like Boris Berezovsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky were asset stripped, jailed, exiled or died under mysterious circumstances; a suspiciously strategic high rise window here, a heart attack there serving as the quickest ticket to meetings with their maker. Anyway, back to Uganda, these “loans for shares” schemes have become mainstay. Think DEI Pharma, Atiak Sugar, Africa Coffee Park etc Any “investor” who can oil the system and ride into Mzee’s courtyard comes out with a truckload of state cash. Mr Nelson Tugume did this play just this a few years ago. He rode the coattails of the President’s son-in-law, Mr Odrek Rwabwogo, en-route to a $10 million windfall which then opened the funding floodgates for his coffee contraption or is it public finance soak pit (?) nestled in the Ntungamo hills. He “cleverly” diverted billions off of that $10 million, initially meant to serve as a funding pool for coffee exporters. He paid himself the bulk of the cash, dug up a litany of building foundations in Ntungamo, engaged a fierce media machine, sang the right patriotic songs, repeated Mzee’s favorite investment and development buzz words and he was off to the races. The soup kitchen of a welfare state has now become his personal piggy bank. Public Square unearthed a lot of that information. You can find some of it here: Anyway, with the recent political winds starting to blow in the direction of the first son’s presidential ambitions, Mr Tugume found himself in a precarious situation where sails had to be adjusted to align with these winds. What the country witnessed wasn’t really a decision rooted in patriotism and deep love for country. It was a “smart” business decision. Mr Tugume wasn’t the first and certainly won’t be the last to make it. The times, they’re interesting… Signed: #KalebuleHQ #TalkingCoffeeshow more

As we prepare to launch several projects, we're eager... to provide a general update to our community. We are steadily approaching our end goal, thanks to the daily progress we're making toward our vision. Achieving our objectives will bring about a significant transformation in cross-chain interoperability and the flow of liquidity within protocols. This will address crucial challenges and drive mass adoption. Our future-focused approach and effective team collaboration keep us moving forward in an organized manner. Let’s delve deeper into the state of development of our current products and upcoming projects. Tao Bridge Starting with the Tao Bridge, which enables the #Bittensor community to unlock DeFi opportunities with their $TAO via a highly efficient blockchain like #MultiversX, known for its security, speed, and affordability. We deeply admire #Bittensor and believe a project like that is crucial for the future of not just the crypto space but also humanity, as it addresses the major challenges AI faces today: centralization, siloed and isolated work, which pose risks and hinder the technology's potential. We are committed to the vision of subnets and dynamic $TAO, convinced that this ecosystem is as groundbreaking as #Ethereum or #Bitcoin. We will continue to support #Bittensor wherever possible, and our bridge will also expand to other chains with Hatom V2. The TAO Bridge, deployed on and accessible through will launch on the Mainnet in 14 days, on March 27th. You can follow the countdown on the lending page at Given that our main priorities are security and stability, this period will be primarily focused on quality assurance to ensure a flawless Mainnet launch. The launch will also introduce TAO Liquid Staking at along with the integration of both $wTAO and $swTAO on the lending page. This allows #Bittensor users to leverage liquid stake, employ short or long strategies, among other DeFi strategies, or simply access stablecoin liquidity while maintaining exposure to their $TAO. Up to $1M will be distributed as additional incentives on top of the supply APYs at the launch of the $wTAO and $swTAO money markets, with $200K allocated for the first month specifically for bootstrapping. Initially, 70% of rewards will go to liquidity providers, and 30% to those using $HTM to boost their lending positions. This changes to a 50-50 split in the second month, and by the third month, all incentives are directed through the Booster. This approach encourages early participation and sustained engagement with $HTM. Introducing $TAO to #MultiversX will result in the creation of Liquidity Pools (LPs) on both AshSwap 🔥 and xExchange ⚡. These LPs will be incentivized by both entities, and Hatom will distribute extra rewards at launch. The goal is to make #MultiversX a one-stop hub for $TAO holders. Upon stabilizing the volumes, there will also be plans to integrate it on AshPerp 🔥. Furthermore, with the release of $USH, users will have the ability to mint it while retaining exposure to their $TAO. The TAO Bridge and TAO Liquid Staking smart contracts have been audited by Runtime Vеrification and @arda_project, while penetration testing and DevSecOps have been performed on our infrastructure by CertiK. We're excited to announce our exclusive partnership with TAONEW one of the top 5 validators on #Bittensor. TAONEW has been extremely helpful and supportive from day one. By sharing 50% of its service fee with its stakers, TAONEW enables Hatom to offer an optimized Staking APY to its users. Since our initial reference, #Bittensor has grown sevenfold, becoming the largest AI project in the crypto sphere. We reiterate our commitment to contribute to such technology and hope to address some of its current DeFi challenges. Syfy Moving forward, today marks a significant milestone, not only for our decentralized protocols but also for our development companies, which currently stand as the sole and primary contributors to the Hatom Labs and Soul Labs. We’re excited to unveil Syfy, the evolved identity of Hatom Labs and Soul Labs, now serving as the parent entity for our burgeoning development companies. Organization is crucial for scalability, which is why Syfy was established to cultivate an environment where our teams can collaborate more seamlessly, enhancing our effectiveness and efficiency. At the same time, we remain committed to upholding the financial independence of each project, supported by its own community of funding contributors. Feel free to explore our website at for more information! Additionally, don't forget to follow Syfy and explore their Genesis article highlighted in their initial post: Booster V2 The Booster V2 will introduce a range of new features and opportunities for $HTM holders: Optimized Position Boosting: Previously, boosting was done individually for each money market, necessitating $HTM token distribution and periodic rebalancing due to price fluctuations. With Booster V2, the system now considers the overall position, eliminating the need for manual rebalancing. Gas Fee Reduction: Booster V2 implements optimizations that result in reduced gas fees, making transactions more cost-effective for users. Incorporation of Governance: Users staking $HTM tokens gain voting rights directly within the Booster, allowing them to participate in governance decisions while maintaining their staked positions. (Note: Only $HTM tokens are considered for governance; LP tokens are not included.) Enhanced Boosting Mechanism: The Booster V2 enables LP Tokens to boost positions within the Booster, leveraging trading fees from swaps and farm incentives while boosting lending positions. Smart Contract Completion: The Booster smart contract has been completed and audited by @arda_project, ensuring security and reliability. Frontend Implementation: The frontend design for Booster V2 has been successfully implemented, providing users with an intuitive interface. Collaboration with xExchange: Exploration is ongoing for collaboration with xExchange ⚡ to enable LP creation, farming, and meta-staking within the Booster. Upon finalization of testing, we will launch the Booster V2 on the devnet to gather community feedback and begin preparations for the mainnet release. Soul Before delving into Soul Labs's developments, it's essential to summarize its core functionality briefly: Soul Labs seamlessly connects different lending protocols and blockchains, facilitating lending and borrowing across platforms like Aave, Compound Labs, and Hatom Labs, consolidating liquidity and users' borrowing capabilities. Utilizing LayerZero Labs and other messaging layers for cross-chain communication, Soul Labs bypasses asset bridging or synthetics, unlocking novel DeFi strategies and solidifying its position as the ultimate solution for cross-lending dilemmas. Soul V1 will be permissionless, holding censorship-resistant features, incorporating multiple redundancy mechanisms, and providing support for various DApps. We're thrilled to announce that, following the launch of the Tao Bridge in 2-3 weeks, we will introduce the Soul Labs website. This platform has been meticulously crafted over 250 days to not only provide a comprehensive overview of our vision but also to offer an engaging and captivating experience that promises to be memorable. Regarding the app, significant progress has been made on the V1 protocol, including: Smart Contract Development and Testing: • Completion of the initial phase of smart contract development. • Conducting advanced testing to ensure the system's robustness. • Establishment of a fully functional proof of concept. Successful deployment and testing on the #Goerli (#Ethereum Testnet) and #Mumbai (#Polygon Testnet), leveraging LayerZero Labs for seamless operation. Feature Enhancement and Protocol Optimization: • Enhanced testing procedures to bolster system resilience. • Integration of advanced features and significant code refactoring for optimization. • Incorporation of various communication methods, including LayerZero Labs, Formerly Axelar, now at @axelar, Chainlink CCIP), and wormholecrypto, into Soul Labs framework, enhancing its resilience and flexibility. This allows Soul Labs to maintain operation through alternative protocols if the primary one is temporarily paused. Website Development and Documentation: • Nearing the completion of the v1 app, with final touches being applied. • The preparation of comprehensive V1 documentation and the Yellow Paper, available upon Soul Labs's public launch, offering detailed insights into the platform's infrastructure and capabilities. USH Recognizing the critical need for stable liquidity within the ecosystem, we have positioned ourselves at the forefront of providing a solution by introducing $USH, the first native, decentralized, and over-collateralized stablecoin on #MultiversX. As market conditions have improved, we have observed a growing demand for stablecoins in the ecosystem, evidenced by the utilization rate in the Lending Protocol spiking to over 90% several times in recent months. Therefore, our goal is to tackle the current challenges faced by users by creating a robust product that will not only help them hedge against market volatility but also open up better opportunities to trade the markets and generate yield. We're happy to unveil the $USH website, now live with a sleek and intuitive user interface, designed for ease of use, which ensures that interacting with the protocol is straightforward and accessible for all. You can access it now through this link: For the technical side, we’re advancing steadily and we’ve accomplished the following milestones: Lending Protocol Facilitator: • Coded the first version to support multiple discount factors for different collaterals. • Implemented tracking of borrowing effectiveness to enable earnings forecasting for the module and support minting processes. Isolated Pools Facilitator: • Coded the first version of Isolated Pools Facilitator. • Use of $EGLD or $sEGLD as collateral, with positions stored always in $EGLD to benefit the protocol through Liquid Staking and lending interest. • Virtual account implementation for converting $sEGLD earnings into $USH, functioning like liquidation where users deposit $USH for a higher amount of $HsELGD. Staking Module • Coded the first version of the Staking Module that allows users to stake and unstake without any restrictions. We're currently focusing our efforts on the following tasks: • Implementation of HTM Booster in the discount model in the Lending Protocol. • Implementation of different depeg strategies and brainstorming further potential “soft” depeg mechanisms. • Research and implementation of rewards model for Staking Module. • Research and implementation of Boosted Vaults Facilitator. • Review and stress-test the first version of the code. Upon launch, $USH will be integrated into various protocols and AMMs across the ecosystem, further increasing both its utility and liquidity. The opportunities will be vast, enabling users to engage in a wide range of activities such as yield farming, staking, and arbitrage, all while leveraging a stable and reliable asset. Regarding the USH Airdrop campaign, it will continue until the official launch of $USH planned for late Q2-early Q3, rewarding all users who have actively participated in the initiative. Hatom V2 It is clear by now that we are driven to build a more robust, interoperable, and secure DeFi space, removing the current barriers that hinder users' capabilities to seamlessly interact with different blockchains. Through Hatom V2, we will introduce Hatom's cross-chain architecture, designed from the ground up for interoperability. This approach will elevate the protocol to unprecedented levels, enabling its deployment across various blockchains and facilitating seamless connections between them through Soul. By enhancing interoperability, Hatom V2 aims to foster a more inclusive and accessible ecosystem. This expansion will not only broaden the protocol's reach but also significantly increase its flexibility and utility, allowing users to interact with a diverse range of assets and products across different chains. We’re thrilled to share that we are currently crafting the V2 redesign of the Hatom webpage. Anticipate a jaw-dropping transformation that will truly astonish, blending cutting-edge design with an unparalleled user experience, elevating it to a dynamic, interactive hub, and making every interaction more engaging. Good things take time, but we are confident that the release of V2 website will take place in the second quarter of this year and will officially mark the start of our journey into the cross-chain landscape. We are excited about the future and we truly believe that this will mark the beginning of a new era for Hatom. It's crucial for us to develop rapidly without sacrificing the quality or the security of each product. We're strategically allocating resources to ensure smooth progress in every area of our work. As we push forward, we believe that the launch of Soul Labs will be the most important milestone due to its massive potential and disruptive technology. We would like to thank you all for the unwavering support you've shown over the past few months; it truly fuels our passion to push daily and make strides toward achieving our ambitious goals.show more

Nobody warns you about the moment a hammerhead decides... you are interesting. Not dangerous. Not hungry. Interesting. That is a completely different problem. I have watched this video more than 40 times. Every replay I catch something I missed. Every replay my stomach does the same thing. Watch it first. Sound on. Then come back, because what you just saw sits on top of one of the strangest stories in the ocean, and almost nobody tells it. This thread is long on purpose. Stay with me. It gets better with every section. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE HEAD IS NOT A HEAD Forget everything you think you know about that shape. The hammer is not for hitting. It has never been for hitting. It is a sensor array. Think of a metal detector, a radar dish and a pair of stereo speakers welded onto the front of a predator. Spread across the underside of that wide, flat head are hundreds of tiny jelly-filled pores called ampullae of Lorenzini. They pick up electric fields. Not strong ones. Sharks can sense fields measured in billionths of a volt per centimeter. Every living thing leaks electricity. Every heartbeat. Every muscle twitch. Every flick of a gill. A hammerhead does not need to see you. It reads you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE WIDER THE SCANNER, THE BETTER THE SIGNAL Here is the part that should bother you. A wider head means the sensors are spread further apart. More coverage. A bigger sweep. A better chance of catching the faintest signal in the water. Evolution did not build a weird head. Evolution built a search engine, and it has been running for roughly 20 million years. A hammerhead sweeps its head across the seafloor like someone swinging a metal detector on a beach. Left. Right. Left. Right. Buried stingray? Found. Fish hiding in sand? Found. Something that thinks it is hidden? Found. Hiding is a strategy that only works on animals that cannot feel your pulse from a meter away. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE EYES ARE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE FACE. THAT IS THE POINT. Put your eyes at the very tips of a wide bar. What happens? Your field of view explodes. Research on hammerhead vision suggests they see close to a full circle in the vertical plane. Up. Down. Ahead. To the sides. Almost all at once. On top of that, their eyes overlap in front, which gives them depth perception. That is what lets an animal judge distance to a target with frightening precision. Most predators trade wide vision for depth. The hammerhead refused the trade. So when one turns and looks at you, it is not glancing. It is measuring. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE SCALE PROBLEM There are nine species of hammerhead. Most are modest, a couple of meters long, and mostly minding their own business. Then there is the great hammerhead. Up to about 6 meters. That is roughly 20 feet. Adults can weigh well over 400 kilograms, and the biggest ever recorded pushed past 500. It has a tall, curved first dorsal fin like a sail. It has a head that can span around a meter or more across on large animals. When one shows up, the reef does not go quiet. The reef goes empty. Fish that were there one second ago are simply not there anymore. Nobody saw them leave. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE STINGRAY OBSESSION Great hammerheads are famous for one thing: they love stingrays. Stingrays are armored in venomous barbs. Most predators leave them alone. The great hammerhead treats them like a favorite meal. Scientists have found stingray barbs embedded in the mouths and jaws of hammerheads. Old scars. Trophies. The technique is brutal and elegant. Use the electric sense to find the ray, even under sand. Then use the head as a tool: pin the ray flat against the bottom, hold it down, and bite. So yes, the head is a sensor. It is also a clamp. Sensor. Clamp. Search engine. All in one piece of cartilage. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THEY SWIM SIDEWAYS. ON PURPOSE. In 2016, researchers tagged great hammerheads near the Bahamas and noticed something odd. The sharks kept rolling onto their sides while swimming, tilting at steep angles, sometimes for long stretches of time. Why? Because it is efficient. A hammerhead has a long upper lobe on its tail and big pectoral fins. Swimming tilted works like a glider using its wing at an angle. The study found it can cut the energy cost of swimming by around 10 percent. Ten percent may not sound like much. Over a lifetime, for an animal that cannot stop moving, that is the difference between winning and starving. The most successful shark shapes on Earth are the ones that look wrong. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY THIS SHARK CHANGES HOW YOU THINK ABOUT "AGGRESSIVE" Here is where most people get it wrong. We look at a big predator and assume one of two things: it wants to eat us, or it does not care. There is a third state, and it is the one that explains almost every close encounter in the ocean. Curiosity. Sharks explore their world with sensors first and teeth last. To a shark, an unfamiliar object is a question. It moves closer. It circles. It checks the electric signature, the movement, the shape, the bubbles. Bubbles alone can pull sharks in. The sound and motion of a diver's exhaled air is a signal in a place where signals are everything. Most of the time the question gets answered and the shark leaves. Most of the time. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE NUMBER THAT SHOULD CALM YOU DOWN Let us do the math, because the math is wild. Hammerheads of all species are linked to only a small handful of recorded bites on humans. To date, essentially none of them fatal. Across all shark species combined, unprovoked fatal incidents worldwide usually land somewhere around five to ten people in a year. Compare that to what happens the other way. Estimates published in the journal Marine Policy put the number of sharks killed by humans at around 100 million every year. Some estimates run far higher. One hundred million. That is roughly 270,000 sharks a day. About 11,000 every hour. Three every second. While you read this sentence, about a dozen sharks died. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE ANIMAL THAT DIES THE MOMENT IT IS CAUGHT Now the dark part. Hammerheads are among the most fragile sharks on the planet. When a hammerhead is caught on a longline or in a net, it fights hard, and it struggles for oxygen. Studies of fishing survival show hammerheads have some of the highest death rates at the moment of capture of any shark. Great hammerheads in particular are known to often die before they even reach the boat. Even if the fisherman wants to release it, it is often too late. So the story is not just that hammerheads are hunted. It is that their biology makes every encounter with a fishing line far more lethal than it would be for a tougher species. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE RANKING THAT SHOULD MAKE YOU ANGRY In 2019, the IUCN Red List moved both the great hammerhead and the scalloped hammerhead into the Critically Endangered category. That is one step from extinct in the wild. The great hammerhead in particular has been hammered, no pun intended, for its fins. Large, tall, high-value fins in a trade where fins from big sharks bring the most money. In some regions, populations have crashed by staggering percentages over just a few decades. An animal that survived for tens of millions of years is being erased in the time it takes a kid to grow up and get a driver's license. And the cruelest detail? A dead hammerhead is worth a fraction of a living one. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE MOST BRUTAL CALCULATION IN CONSERVATION Ready for a number? A study in Palau estimated that a single reef shark is worth around 1.9 million dollars to the local economy over its lifetime, through diving tourism. The same shark, dead, sold for meat and fins, is worth a few hundred dollars at most. One estimate put it near 108 dollars. Read that again. One point nine million. One hundred and eight. Globally, shark diving tourism is estimated to bring in hundreds of millions of dollars a year and support thousands of jobs, in places where the alternative is often industrial fishing. The living animal is a fortune. The dead one is a receipt. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY DIVERS TRAVEL THOUSANDS OF MILES TO SEE THIS There are places on Earth where hammerheads gather, and people plan entire years around them. Scalloped hammerheads form massive schools around seamounts and remote islands, sometimes hundreds strong. Places like Cocos Island off Costa Rica, Malpelo off Colombia and the waters around the Galapagos are legendary for it. Why do they school? Nobody knows for certain. Leading ideas: cleaning stations where small fish remove parasites, social behavior, safety in numbers, and mating. Scientists have watched these schools for decades and still cannot fully explain them. A wall of hammerheads holding position in blue water is one of the few sights in nature that stops even veteran divers mid-breath. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE SHARK THAT EATS ITS OWN Great hammerheads have an ugly habit. They eat other sharks. Smaller sharks, rays, skates, octopus, squid, crustaceans, bony fish. And yes, other hammerheads have turned up in the stomach contents of great hammerheads, including young ones. Nobody in the ocean is safe from an animal that sits near the top of the food chain and reads electricity for a living. This is why baby hammerheads spend their early lives in shallow nurseries. Warm, protected water. Mangroves. Places big predators cannot easily follow. Life begins in hiding. It ends up in the open blue. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE BABIES ARE BORN LIVE, AND THEY ARE BORN READY Hammerheads do not lay eggs. Females give birth to live pups, and the litters can be large. Scalloped hammerhead females can have a couple of dozen pups at a time. Great hammerhead litters can run even larger, with dozens of pups in one go. At birth, the babies already look like miniature adults, except their heads are rounded at the front rather than fully flared. The hammer folds forward to keep from harming the mother during birth. The pups get zero parental care. Not a second of it. Mom leaves. The nursery takes over. Survive or become someone else's lunch. Many do not make it. That is why losing the adults is so devastating: the math of recovery is brutal for an animal that matures slowly and reproduces rarely. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE SHARK THAT ATE SEAGRASS Yes, seriously. The bonnethead, one of the smaller hammerhead species, is the only shark scientists have shown to actively digest plant material. In lab feeding studies, bonnetheads fed a diet with a large share of seagrass were able to digest a big portion of it and use the nutrients. A shark. Eating salad. Every rule you thought you knew about sharks has an exception somewhere, and the exception is usually stranger than the rule. This is why the group is so fascinating. Same basic blueprint. Wildly different lives. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SHARKS ARE OLDER THAN TREES Let that one sink in. The first sharks appeared in the oceans more than 400 million years ago. The first true trees showed up around 380 million years ago. Sharks have lived through all five of the great mass extinctions. The one that ended the dinosaurs. The one that came before it, and it was worse. The one that killed roughly 90 percent of life on Earth. They came through all of them. And in the last 50 years, human fishing has done what asteroids and volcanoes could not: pushed entire shark groups toward the edge. Something survived a planet-wide catastrophe, and it is losing to a fishing hook. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE ONE THING SHARKS DO THAT KEEPS THE OCEAN ALIVE Take away the top predators and the ocean does not simply get quieter. It gets sick. Sharks keep prey populations healthy by removing the weak, the sick and the slow. They push other animals to keep moving, which prevents overgrazing of things like seagrass beds and reefs. When large sharks vanish, mid-level predators boom. Those predators eat everything below them. Habitats collapse. Fisheries follow. It has happened along coastlines where large sharks were overfished. The ripple effects moved down the food chain and back up to the fishermen who caused them. The apex predator is not the villain of the reef. It is the load-bearing wall. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT A CLOSE ENCOUNTER ACTUALLY DOES TO YOUR BRAIN I want to talk about the feeling. Whether you are the person in the water or the person watching a screen at 2 a.m., there is a very specific sensation that hits when a large wild animal closes the distance. Your body knows before you do. The heart rate climbs. The breath shortens. The world narrows to one thing. Psychologists call it a threat response. Divers call it something else. They say the sea gets very quiet. There is a reason clips like this spread. They do not just show an animal. They hand you the feeling of standing where you would never dare to stand. You cannot look away. You do not want to. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE FIRST RULE OF THE OCEAN Let me be direct, because this matters more than views. Do not touch wild animals. Do not chase them. Do not corner them. Do not grab them for a photo. Shark skin is made of tiny tooth-like scales called dermal denticles. It feels like sandpaper. It can scrape human skin and it is not built for being handled. Contact can stress an animal and change how it behaves in ways nobody can predict. Professional operators spend years learning how to read a shark and give it room to make its own choices. The best encounters are the ones where the animal decides to stay, and nobody forces the moment. Respect is not a slogan. It is a survival skill for both sides. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE ELECTRIC SENSE IS OLDER THAN THE DINOSAURS Electroreception is not a hammerhead invention. It is an ancient sensory system shared across sharks, rays and some other fish. Hammerheads just took it to an extreme. Imagine living in a world where the most reliable information is not light or sound but the faint electrical hum of other living things. Water conducts that hum. Darkness does not block it. Sand does not fully hide it. In that world, the strongest animal is not the fastest. It is the one that receives the clearest signal. The hammerhead built its entire body around that idea. Everything else, the flat head, the wide-set eyes, the tilted swim, bends around it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW MUCH OF THE OCEAN DO WE ACTUALLY KNOW? Here is a humbling fact. Scientists still argue about the basic behavior of the biggest hammerhead. Where do they breed? Where do the pups go? How far do individuals migrate? Great hammerheads have been tracked traveling enormous distances across open ocean, and yet key pieces of their life cycle remain mysteries. We have better maps of the surface of Mars than of large parts of the seafloor. Every year, new footage, new tags and new research rewrite the textbooks. A clip taken by a diver on a single dive can end up showing behavior no lab has ever recorded. Which brings us back to the video. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY THIS CLIP IS DIFFERENT I have seen hundreds of shark videos. Most follow a formula. Big shark. Wide shot. Dramatic music. A diver floating in the distance while the animal passes by. This one broke the formula in about two seconds. There is no safe distance. There is no cinematic framing. There is no comfortable narrative. There is only a moment where a wild animal behaves in a way you do not expect, and people in the water have to make decisions in real time. Watch the clip again, and this time pay attention to the seafloor. To the water. To the bubbles. To how fast the mood in the frame changes. Then ask yourself one question: what would you have done? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE THREE REACTIONS EVERY PERSON HAS After watching this, people tend to fall into one of three camps. Camp one: pure fear. "Get me out of the water." Camp two: pure fascination. "I need to see one in person." Camp three: the quiet one. They watch it twice, say nothing, and go look up dive trips. Which camp are you in? Be honest. Reply with 1, 2 or 3. I read every answer, and I have a strong suspicion the third camp is the largest. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THINGS YOU WILL NOTICE ON THE SECOND WATCH Do not scroll on yet. On the first watch, your brain does what brains do. It locks onto the most dramatic thing and ignores everything else. On the second watch, look at the edges of the frame. Look at the water color. Look at how the light behaves. Look at the small details that separate a routine dive from one that people will talk about for years. Then watch a third time with the sound on and listen. Great footage rewards patience. Most people never give it a second pass. Be the person who does. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE MYTHS THAT NEED TO DIE Myth: Sharks hunt humans. Reality: Humans are not on the menu. Sharks bite mostly out of curiosity or mistaken identity, and most bites are a single exploratory strike. Myth: Hammerheads are the most dangerous sharks. Reality: Among the least likely to bite. Their mouths are small compared to their body size, and their prey is mostly rays, small fish and cephalopods. Myth: Sharks never sleep. Reality: Sharks rest, though not the way we do. Some species pump water over their gills as they swim. Others can lie still. Myth: The ocean is empty of good news. Reality: Protected areas, fishing bans and shark sanctuaries have brought local recoveries in several places. It works when people decide it should. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT ACTUALLY HELPS Not vague awareness. Real, boring, effective actions. Support shark sanctuaries and marine protected areas. Countries and regions that ban shark finning and fishing in key habitats see measurable results over time. Choose seafood responsibly. Ask where it came from. Avoid products that are linked to shark bycatch. Do not buy shark fin products. That one is simple. Back scientists and NGOs that tag, track and protect sharks. Every tagged animal turns a mystery into data that can change policy. If you dive, book with operators who follow strict wildlife guidelines. Your money is a vote. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE SKIN THAT BEAT OLYMPIC RECORDS Shark skin is covered in microscopic, tooth-like scales that reduce drag and turbulence as water flows over the body. Engineers noticed. Swimsuit makers built fabrics inspired by it, and in the 2008 Olympics swimmers wearing high-tech suits broke record after record. The suits were banned from competition not long after. Think about that. A design perfected by sharks was so effective that humans had to outlaw it in sport. The ocean already solved problems we are still trying to understand. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THEY LIVE SLOW. THEY DIE FAST. Here is the biological trap. Large sharks tend to grow slowly, mature late and have relatively few offspring compared with fish that spawn by the million. Hammerheads live for decades, and there is no quick way to rebuild a population once it has been gutted. A fish that lays a million eggs can bounce back from a bad decade. A shark that takes years to mature and then has a litter every year or two cannot. Every adult removed is not one animal lost. It is an entire future generation deleted. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE PLOT TWIST: PROTECTION WORKS Not every shark story ends in disaster. In 2009, the island nation of Palau declared its waters a shark sanctuary, the first of its kind. Since then, many countries and territories have followed with sanctuaries, finning bans or trade restrictions. The pattern shows up again and again: when people stop killing sharks and protect the places they live, populations get a chance to stabilize. Nothing about this is hopeless. It is only unfinished. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE 3-SECOND TEST OF GREAT WILDLIFE FOOTAGE Real wildlife footage has a signature. Within seconds, you can tell whether you are watching a performance or reality. Reality has no script. No perfect angle. No music cue. Just an animal doing what it does and a camera trying to keep up. That rawness is exactly why it hits harder than anything a studio can produce. If you felt something the first time you pressed play, that was not an accident. That was the ocean, unedited. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE SILENT ALARM IN THE WATER Sharks do not rely on one sense. They stack them. Smell that can pick up traces of blood or food from far away. Hearing tuned to low-frequency vibrations, like the thrashing of an injured fish. A lateral line that feels pressure changes along the body. Vision. And the electric sense on top. Five information channels, all running at once, all feeding one brain. Hammerheads add a twist: nostrils set far apart on the edges of the head may help them work out which direction a scent is coming from, the way two ears help you locate a sound. Nothing about the way they hunt is random. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY THE BEST OCEAN VIDEOS FEEL ILLEGAL TO WATCH You know the feeling. You are on your phone. Safe. Warm. Nothing can reach you. And still, part of your brain says you should not be seeing this. That you are peeking into a place that was never built for you. That is the ocean. Two thirds of the surface of the planet, and we are visitors who breathe from a tank and last an hour. Every clip like this is a small window into a world running on its own rules, with or without us. Sit with that for a second. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE SIZE OF THE PROBLEM, IN ONE COMPARISON Picture a stadium holding 100,000 people. Now picture it emptying completely, then refilling, then emptying again, roughly once a day, every day, for a year. That is the scale of shark deaths linked to human activity, by the most widely cited estimates. The animals are not filling seats. They are disappearing from the food web that feeds the planet. Every species that goes quiet takes a piece of the system with it. The hammerhead is not just a strange shape in the blue. It is a warning light on the dashboard of the ocean. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY YOUR ATTENTION IS A WEAPON You are reading a very long post about a shark. Most people on this platform will not make it past the third line. You did. That means you are exactly the kind of person who can shift a conversation. Attention is the scarcest resource online, and the algorithm hands reach to whatever people stop for. A shark video that gets millions of views does something quiet and powerful. It moves a species from "monster" to "animal worth protecting" in the minds of people who would never read a research paper. Views are not vanity here. Views are how a critically endangered animal gets a seat in the room. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A QUICK GUT CHECK Before you go, answer honestly. Ten minutes ago, what did the word "hammerhead" mean to you? A weird-looking shark? A monster from a movie? Now you know it is a living sensor, a glider, a stingray hunter, a nursery guardian's worst nightmare, and a species on the edge. Same animal. Completely different story. That shift is the whole point of this post. Curiosity beats fear, every time, if you give it enough room. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE PART WHERE I ASK YOU FOR SOMETHING If this post gave you a single fact you did not know, do one of three things. Repost it. So the next person gets the same jolt you did. Reply with your camp: 1, 2 or 3. It tells me who is really watching. Follow for more animal stories told the way they deserve: fast, strange and true. That is it. No link. No product. Just a shark and a story. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ONE LAST THING Scroll back to the top. Watch the video one more time. The first time, you saw a moment. The second time, you will see a predator that reads heartbeats through open water, tilts on its side to save energy, hunts armored rays buried in sand, has outlived the dinosaurs, and is now fighting to outlive us. Nothing in the frame has changed. Everything about it has. That is what knowledge does to a video. That is what it does to an ocean. The sea is not empty and it is not hostile. It is full of animals that have been doing extraordinary things in the dark for hundreds of millions of years. Most of us just never stopped to look. Now you have. 🦈show more

🚨 Protocol Update #9 It's incredible how time flies... when you’re laser-focused on building and delivering the essential products that form the backbone of decentralized finance. Hatom has now been live on the Mainnet for over a year, and we're proud to say that this entire period has been free of issues or downtime. Our platform has been battle-tested during volatile market conditions, and each of our products has performed exactly as expected—solidifying our place as a cornerstone in the #MultiversX ecosystem. Describing last year as “incredible” feels like an understatement. We’ve witnessed unprecedented growth across the entire #MultiversX ecosystem, particularly in terms of TVL and yield opportunities. The day before Hatom launched its Lending Protocol and Liquid Staking on Mainnet, #MultiversX had a total TVL of $95 million. Within two weeks, the ecosystem surpassed $200 million in TVL, with Hatom driving over 50% of that growth. At its peak, Hatom reached over $280 million in TVL, accounting for more than 70% of the chain’s total TVL. What's even more remarkable is that, after initially using Treasury funds to incentivize users, Hatom has shifted to distributing rewards solely from protocol revenue. This marks the start of a fully sustainable, real-yield model, proving our products' rapid product-market fit and long-term viability. A Recap of the Past Year Here’s a quick overview of what we’ve accomplished in the past year: • Launched the first Lending Protocol in the #MultiversX ecosystem, along with the Liquid Staking Protocol on Mainnet. • Surpassed $100 million in TVL within just five days of the launch. • Deployed the HTM Booster Module and Accumulator. • Launched the Tao Bridge and Tao Liquid Staking, bringing over 33k $TAO into the #MultiversX ecosystem in just two weeks. • Implemented multiple upgrades to core infrastructure. • $HTM became the second-largest ESDT token after $EGLD. • Distributed over $3.85 million in rewards to our users. We are happy to announce that Hatom V2 is now live! After an incredible year of growth, we’re excited to take the next step toward becoming the leading liquidity hub across multiple chains. We invite you to explore our newly rebranded website at marking the beginning of our omni-chain journey. This rebranding reflects our bold vision and sets the stage for a full overhaul of our dApps, delivering a fresh and enhanced experience for all users. Achieving self-sustainability in such a short time, we now focus on research and development. Instead of pursuing many ideas, we’re committed to building high-impact products that create perfect synergies within our ecosystem. With that said, let’s dive into the key topics of this update: USH and Booster V2. Hatom USD (USH) We’ve highlighted USH in several updates, and it’s great to see the community recognizing its potential. USH is set to be one of the most impactful products on #MultiversX, providing a key revenue stream for Hatom while helping us maintain competitive rates and long-term sustainability. USH is the result of extensive research and careful development, designed to seamlessly fit into the Hatom ecosystem. While many DeFi projects are raising millions for new stablecoins, USH stands as another powerful product within our hub. The time has finally come for USH to be unveiled to the public, and we are excited to announce that USH will officially launch on Devnet on 28th October. While we’ve thoroughly tested for bugs internally, we’re excited to engage the community in this critical phase. To encourage participation, we’ll offer incentives for those testing USH on the Devnet, with more details to be shared at launch. Understanding USH's architecture is key to how it functions within our ecosystem. Let’s break it down step by step, starting with an explanation of each component. Facilitators USH’s minting process is driven by Facilitators—smart contracts responsible for the controlled minting and burning of USH. At launch, two primary facilitators will handle these tasks, each with distinct functionality: 1. Lending Protocol Facilitator The Lending Protocol Facilitator allows users to mint USH using a variety of supported collateral assets directly into the Hatom Lending Protocol. Unlike traditional lending mechanisms, where interest rates fluctuate based on the utilization rate, the minting of USH has fixed interest rates, thanks to Hatom's unique role as the entity managing the minting process. In a scenario where a user is minting USH through this facilitator using multiple assets as collateral, the protocol automatically prioritizes collateral with the lowest Minting APY. Let’s consider an example where a user deposits: - $1,000 in USDC (with a collateral factor of 80% and a 2% Minting APY) - $1,000 in BTC (with a collateral factor of 75% and a 3% Minting APY) - $1,000 in HTM (with a collateral factor of 70% and a 4% Minting APY) Based on these parameters, the user can mint a maximum of $2,250 worth of USH, distributed as follows: - $800 from $USDC (80% of $1,000) at 2% Minting APY - $750 from $BTC (75% of $1,000) at 3% Minting APY - $700 from $HTM (70% of $1,000) at 4% Minting APY The overall Minting APY will be a weighted average of these individual APYs, calculated based on the proportion of USH minted from each collateral type. Now, if the user decides to borrow only $1,000 worth of USH, the APY is determined as follows: - The first $800 will be borrowed from $USDC at 2% APY - The remaining $200 will be borrowed from $BTC at 3% APY This results in an effective Minting APY of 2.2%, reflecting a weighted average of the APYs across the borrowed amounts. It’s important to note that EGLD and wTAO, along with their liquid staking derivatives such as sEGLD and swTAO, can only be used as collateral in the Isolated Pools (which will be explained in the next section), not in the Lending Protocol 2. Isolated Pools Facilitator The Isolated Pools Facilitator allows users to mint $USH at zero interest using $EGLD, $wTAO, or their liquid staking derivatives ( $sEGLD or $swTAO) as collateral. Here’s how it works: When depositing EGLD or wTAO • These assets are staked through the Hatom Liquid Staking Protocol, generating the staking APY. • The staked assets are then deposited into the Lending Protocol, earning a supply APY, but are not activated as collateral. When depositing sEGLD or swTAO • When users deposit staking derivatives into the Isolated Pools, the protocol holds the staking derivatives, but the user's exposure is immediately shifted to the underlying asset ( $EGLD or $wTAO). This means the user no longer benefits from the staking rewards of the derivative, and instead, their exposure is entirely tied to the value and price movements of the underlying asset. • The staked assets are deposited into the Hatom Lending Protocol, earning the supply APY, but again not being activated as collateral. Since the protocol generates revenue from staking and supplying assets in the Lending Protocol, this income is used to incentivize the USH Staking Module. The protocol buys HTM tokens from the open market and distributes them, along with all fees generated by other facilitators, as rewards to stakers. We believe that the Isolated Pools Facilitator is one of the most important pieces of the USH ecosystem. Its potential impact on the TVL within both the Hatom ecosystem and the broader #MultiversX blockchain is immense and the revenue generated by this facilitator through fees will significantly bolster the overall growth of the protocol. To illustrate the potential of Isolated Pools, let’s use the following example: • $50 million worth of $EGLD is deposited into the Isolated Pools, generating a 6% staking APY • $50 million worth of $wTAO is also deposited, earning a 15% staking APY The total staking rewards generated from these assets would be: • $EGLD staking rewards: $50 million × 6% = $3 million annually • $wTAO staking rewards: $50 million × 15% = $7.5 million annually In total, the protocol generates $10.5 million in staking rewards annually. These rewards are then used to buy back HTM tokens from the open market, driving significant buying pressure on the HTM token itself. The purchased HTM tokens are distributed to USH LP stakers in the USH Staking Module, alongside the revenue generated by the Lending Protocol Facilitator. TVL and Yield Impact As we explore the broader impact of USH and the Isolated Pools, it becomes evident how these mechanisms contribute to the overall growth of the Hatom ecosystem, particularly in terms of TVL and potential yield generation. Based on the above numbers, if $50 million worth of $EGLD and $50 million worth of $wTAO are deposited into the Isolated Pools with a 75% collateral factor, we could mint up to $75 million worth of $USH. However, to prioritize safety, we’ll mint only 50% of the maximum, resulting in $37.5 million worth of $USH. In an ideal scenario, but also very unlikely, the $37.5 million $USH would be deposited in the Staking Module to generate rewards. In order for $USH to be deposited in the Staking Module, it is paired with another token (e.g., $USDC or $EGLD) to form Liquidity Pool (LP) position, contributing $75 million to the USH Staking Module. Additionally, the $100 million deposited in the Isolated Pools cycles through Liquid Staking and into the Lending Protocol, contributing a total of $300 million in TVL. Total TVL Breakdown: • $300 million from assets flowing through Isolated Pools ($100m) → Liquid Staking ($100m) → Lending Protocol ($100m) • $75 million from LP positions in the USH Staking Module Total TVL = $375 million As mentioned above, the $100 million deposited in Isolated Pools generates approximately $10.5 million annually in staking rewards (6% APY from $sEGLD and 15% APY from $swTAO). If all minted $USH is deposited into the Staking Module, the $75 million staked would benefit from these rewards, resulting in a 14% APY for USH LP stakers. On top of the protocol’s rewards, liquidity providers earn additional fees from their LP positions on decentralized exchanges, creating the perfect opportunity for all the participants in the USH Staking Module looking for attractive yields. USH Stability: The Peg Mechanism Ensuring the stability of USH is paramount, and to maintain its value close to $1 under all market conditions, we’ve implemented a robust dual peg mechanism. This system consists of two key layers of protection—Soft Peg and Hard Peg—designed to keep USH stable through both market-driven incentives and other mechanisms for scenarios where the Soft Peg mechanism can’t reclaim the peg. 1. Soft Peg Mechanism The Soft Peg Mechanism helps keep USH stable around its $1 value by encouraging market participants to act when USH trades above or below $1. When USH trades below $1 Users can buy USH at a discount, on a DEX, and repay their USH loans on Hatom, as USH is always valued at $1 on the protocol. This action removes $USH from circulation, helping to restore its price. When USH trades above $1 Users can borrow USH from the protocol at $1 and sell it on the open market at the higher price, increasing the circulating supply of USH and pushing its price back down to $1. 2. Hard Peg Mechanism (Redemption Mode) In cases where the Soft Peg alone cannot restore USH to $1 and its price drops significantly below the peg, the Hard Peg Mechanism is triggered through Redemption Mode. This mechanism allows any market participant to step in and help restore the peg by repaying USH loans for other borrowers, seizing their collateral at the full $1 value. It's important to note that Redemption Mode is only activated in the Isolated Pools and does not impact users minting USH through the Lending Protocol. Here’s how Redemption Mode works: When USH trades below $1 and the Redemption Mode is activated, redeemers can buy USH at the lower market price (e.g., $0.95), and use it to repay borrowers' debts at the full $1 value within the protocol. The redeemer receives collateral in the form of liquid staked tokens(such as $sEGLD or $swTAO) equivalent to the USH they repaid at its full $1 value, profiting from the difference between the discounted purchase price and the redemption value. The borrower being redeemed also benefits by receiving a redemption bonus, which allows them to keep a portion of their collateral after part of it is seized after loan was repaid. This system ensures that borrowers are not penalized during redemption, creating a balanced mechanism where both the redeemer and the borrower have something to gain. Redemption Mode differs from Liquidation in several ways: Redemption is triggered by USH falling below $1 and involves repaying borrower accounts to restore the peg. Both the redeemer and the borrower benefit, with the redeemer profiting from the price difference, and the borrower receiving a bonus from their collateral. Liquidation occurs when a borrower’s collateral falls below a certain threshold, making them risky. During liquidation, a portion of the borrower’s loan is repaid, and the collateral is seized, while also incurring a liquidation penalty. Redemption Mode uses a data structure known as a Red-Black Tree to efficiently monitor and rank all borrower positions within the protocol smart contract itself. This structure dynamically tracks borrowers based on their Borrow Limit Used, which is the percentage of collateral they have utilized relative to their borrowing capacity. The system prioritizes borrowers with the highest Borrow Limit Used, meaning those who have borrowed the most relative to their collateral are considered first for redemption. USH Airdrop Regarding the USH Airdrop, we would like to inform you that snapshots will end once USH is deployed on the Public Mainnet. The airdrop will be concluded shortly after, once all liquidity pools are stable and we determine the optimal moment to distribute the rewards to the community. USH Staking Module & Booster V2 The USH Staking Module will play a critical role in maintaining deep liquidity for USH while offering users high-yield opportunities. By staking USH LP tokens, such as USH/USDC and USH/EGLD, users can earn rewards generated by USH facilitators. This approach strengthens USH’s liquidity pools, making them robust enough to handle significant trades without destabilizing its price, thus reinforcing USH’s peg and overall stability. Beyond creating robust liquidity, the USH Staking Module serves as the key utility module within the USH ecosystem, designed to provide users with an opportunity to earn high yields on their USH holdings in a sustainable and organic way. All rewards distributed through the module are generated by various products across the Hatom ecosystem, ensuring long-term sustainability. For users seeking a more stable yield, the USH/USDC LP provides lower risk and steady returns. Those looking to leverage their EGLD holdings can opt for the USH/EGLD LP, which can be staked in the USH Staking Module. A key advantage of staking in the USH Staking Module is that rewards are based on the full value of the LP, not just the USH portion, maximizing your yield potential. As we continue to grow, we’ll be adding more LPs, providing users with even greater flexibility and options for staking their USH in the module. While our current focus is on LP tokens, we’re also exploring the possibility of allowing direct USH staking in the future, expanding the staking opportunities across the ecosystem. The Integration of Booster V2 with the Staking Module Booster V2 will be available for testing with the USH Devnet release, and with its introduction, we’ve strengthened the relationship between the HTM token and USH. Our ecosystem now features two independent boosters: one for the Lending Protocol and one for the USH Staking Module, each operating with the goal of maximizing yields for users. Key Improvements in Booster V2 Booster V2 brings several enhancements that elevate the functionality and user experience: Support for Multiple Token Types: Users will be able to deposit Pool Tokens, Farm Tokens, Dual Farm Tokens, or Staked HTM Tokens (via xExchange). Only the HTM portion will be considered for boosting. Unlimited Staking: The cap on HTM deposits will be removed, allowing users to stake without limits. This will foster a competitive environment where the more HTM you stake, the higher your potential APY. Integrated xExchange Management: Users will be able to manage their xExchange positions directly from the Booster dashboard. This will include creating pools, farming, dual farming, and staking HTM tokens, all from one convenient dashboard. Energy Management Integration: Booster V2 will allow users to manage their xExchange Energy directly from the dashboard, providing an additional way to boost rewards even further. Seamless Migration: Users will be able to migrate HTM between the Lending Protocol Booster and the USH Staking Module Booster without any cooldown periods, making it easier to optimize strategies across both modules. How the Yields Work Booster V2 will introduce a more structured and competitive approach to yield distribution across both the Lending Protocol and the Staking Module. HTM Booster in the Lending Protocol Base APY (First Batch): This is available to all users who stake a specific percentage of HTM relative to their collateral value. Any user can achieve this Base APY by staking the required amount of HTM. Boosted APY (Second Batch): After achieving the base level, users can boost their returns further by staking additional HTM, competing for the second batch of rewards. The more HTM staked beyond the base threshold, the higher the potential yield. USH Staking Module Yields Staking APY: Users who deposit USH-related LP tokens without boosting through the HTM Booster will still receive a Staking APY. This ensures that even passive participants which are not looking to stake their HTM in the Booster can take advantage of the USH Ecosystem to generate yields. Booster APY: Similar to the system in the Lending Protocol, users can stake HTM to unlock a Base APY. Beyond this threshold, any additional HTM staked will increase their APY in a competitive manner, allowing users to maximize their returns based on the amount of HTM they commit to boosting their positions. Rollout Plan for USH USH will be deployed in a phased rollout to ensure smooth implementation: Public Devnet: Open for testing, with incentives for participants to explore and stress-test the platform. Private Mainnet: A limited launch with partners to mint USH, bootstrap USH liquidity and generate initial protocol revenue. Public Mainnet: A full-scale launch, enabling all users to mint, stake, and trade USH. We know DeFi can be complex, which is why we’re committed to providing the tools and resources needed to navigate our ecosystem. With the USH Public Devnet launch, we’ll release updated documentation offering clear guidance on Hatom’s products. Developer documentation is also in the works, and we’re exploring the idea of a Hatom Academy for educational resources. Plus, we’ll soon roll out content focused on USH, helping users fully tap into its potential within Hatom and the MultiversX ecosystem. What’s Next? Hatom Pulse As Hatom grows, our focus remains on pushing DeFi boundaries while expanding across multiple ecosystems. Although this update doesn’t include a full roadmap—that will come later—our priority is clear: expanding Hatom across chains. To stand out in the competitive DeFi landscape, we’re committed to developing standout products. With that in mind, we’re excited to give you an exclusive preview of one of our most innovative products in development: Hatom Pulse. Over-collateralized non-custodial lending protocols, liquid staking, and over-collateralized stablecoins already exist on #Ethereum. What sets us apart is the synergy between these components within a unified ecosystem. By integrating these pillars, we tackle capital inefficiencies, allowing one protocol to enhance strategies that benefit the others, maximizing returns across the board. For example, when USH is minted, it means that EGLD is deposited, liquid-staked, and supplied in the lending protocol—all three protocols working in harmony. Hatom Pulse will elevate this synergy to another level, solving key issues faced by Aave, Compound Labs , and other leading protocols. We believe this innovation will be pivotal as we work to gain market share while expanding cross-chain. Our proof of concept will be deployed and battle-tested on #MultiversX, but the real growth will come when we scale this to markets that are thousands of times larger. This will be a turning point for Hatom. So, what is Hatom Pulse? On Hatom, like on Aave and other leading lending protocols, the largest assets used as collateral are often not borrowed, leading to substantial revenue loss for the protocol. This also results in very low income on the supply side, as borrowing fees depend on utilization rates, which only increase when borrowing activity rises. Generally, lending protocols are used to provide assets for borrowing stablecoins or for leveraging liquid staking strategies. This inefficiency locks up billions of dollars in dormant assets, and users earn very low supply rates on their collateral, which doesn’t help offset their loan interest. Hatom Pulse is designed to address these inefficiencies by leveraging the synergy between our existing products. It creates sophisticated vaults that activate dormant assets, unlocking advanced yield opportunities through a delta-neutral strategy. By utilizing assets like $EGLD, $sEGLD, $wTAO, and $swTAO, Hatom Pulse enables users to engage in delta-neutral strategies, where we long and short these assets on (CEXs), earning funding rates and staking rewards while keeping their assets intact. (The exact strategy, along with all the details, will be shared once USH is fully established). Initially, these vaults will operate on CEXs, where liquidity is highest, and will be managed through custodians like Copper.co to mitigate counterparty risks. Later, we plan to extend this to DEXs where all operations will be governed by smart contracts, ensuring full decentralization. serves as a strong proof of concept for us in this regard. However, our strategy will differ, as our focus will be on protecting the unit value, rather than the dollar value. Although Hatom Pulse is still in its research phase, early estimates suggest that this product alone could generate over 18% annual returns on $EGLD and more than 35% on $wTAO, with what we believe to be minimal risk. It’s important to note that these figures reflect current metrics based on internal calculations and may slightly differ upon product launch. But imagine reaching this on #Ethereum, while allowing users to borrow using their assets—this could be a disruptive protocol. We believe Hatom Pulse has the potential to become a cornerstone product as we transition into an omni-chain future. In a competitive DeFi landscape, it could give us a significant edge by offering something truly groundbreaking, capable of competing with well-established protocols across various chains. This strategy represents immense untapped potential. Hatom Pulse is being developed for risk-averse users who seek higher returns without excessive risk. By addressing inefficiencies in current DeFi strategies, we aim to offer a secure, robust option for yield generation that could rival established protocols. It's been an intense year for our team, and we sincerely thank the community for their patience, trust, and unwavering support as we've worked hard to build and deliver these groundbreaking products. As Hatom's omni-chain expansion nears, we remain focused on improving our existing products and researching new innovations to stay ahead in this competitive market. Our goal is to build a comprehensive DeFi ecosystem, accessible across all blockchains. With USH approaching its Mainnet release, we're proud of how our products have reshaped the DeFi landscape on MultiversX. By filling key gaps in the on-chain economy, we've created opportunities for users to generate yield, unlock the potential of decentralized finance, and provide strong utility for EGLD. In just over a year, we’ve built a strong ecosystem, but this is only the beginning. We’re ready to go even further, developing better products and unlocking new opportunities for our users. We’ll share more about our expansion plans in a dedicated post, staying focused on what matters most. Rest assured, what’s coming will be truly impressive for Hatom and our growing community!show more