Assure DeFi is shutting down. We verified more than 1,500 projects and over $2B in project value. We gave this space a way to trust founders it had no other way to check, and a lot of people used that before deciding where to put their money. Web3 hasn't been the market it was for a long time now, and the verification business went with it. We're closing this cleanly. If you have a KYC or an Audit with us, it stays valid. Records of every verification and audit we did will remain public and searchable after we close, so anyone checking your project can still check it. Message us if you want to talk through what that means for you. We're not taking any new work from here. Chapo is still around and still reachable, same as always. The other thing to know is that most of this team has spent the year building Brainverse, and now it has our full focus. We build AI agent teams for businesses. The company owns the agents, owns the code, and owns everything those agents learn, and it all runs inside their own environment instead of being rented from a vendor. We run 100+ agents inside our own business every day. It works for crypto projects too. One agent team does what you'd otherwise hire community, socials, dev support, research, support and market intel to do separately. If that's the problem you're sitting with, come talk to us. Thanks to everyone who verified with us, audited with us and stuck around over the years. brainverse.ai

The Ostium exploit wasn't a hacker outprogramming the contract. It was a bad price feed. $24M drained because one external dependency wasn't hardened. Oracle manipulation is the fastest growing attack vector in DeFi. Verify everything. Including what your contract listens to.

H1 2026: 207 security incidents. $972M in losses. That's roughly $5.4M lost per incident on average. Most of those projects had no verified team on record. No verification means no accountability. No accountability means no consequences. No consequences means it keeps happening.

As Ethereum evolves towards quantum resistance, it's crucial for DeFi protocols to prioritize security in their designs. Transitioning to quantum-resistant signatures and enhancing auditing practices will ensure trust in decentralized finance remains robust. Security must keep pace with innovation. What are you building that you think is so out of the box that no security solution exists for it yet?

The Bonk DAO governance attack wasn't a hack. It was a purchase. The attacker bought $20M in voting power, passed a malicious proposal, and walked away with the treasury. No exploit. No vulnerability. Just a broken governance design. This is why token-weighted voting without time locks, quorum thresholds, and identity verification is a liability. Your governance model is part of your security surface. Audit it like one.

Project Showcase: Dominion The next wave of Real World Assets won’t be limited to stocks and bonds. Precious metals are coming on-chain. Dominion (@Dominion_Market) is building a tokenized silver ecosystem on Solana, connecting physical silver ownership with blockchain accessibility and transparency. As part of their commitment to building responsibly, the team has successfully completed KYC verification with Assure DeFi. Every serious RWA project must answer three questions: • Is there a real asset? • Is there a real team? • Is there real accountability? Dominion is taking steps to address all three. ✅ KYC Verified by Assure DeFi 🥈 Physical Silver Backed ⛓️ Built on Solana The future of finance is increasingly on-chain. The future of commodities may be as well. #RWA #Solana #Silver #Tokenization #Web3 #Crypto #RealWorldAssets #AssureDeFi

Anthropic just raised $1.5B from Goldman, Blackstone and Apollo to build what's basically the McKinsey of AI: embed engineers inside companies and rebuild their workflows around AI agents. Full article: brainverse.ai/insights/anthr…

As someone in fundraising, there is a major problem with fundraising these days— “Investors Fear” ! There are STILL investors and fundraising is real but there is one thing teams need to do if they are to get funded. Question is “WHAT ?!” 🧶↓ (for you if need to fundraise).