I'm joining @FirepanHQ as one-third of the founding team, here’s why: Since 2020, my faith in DeFi’s core “code is law” philosophy has smashed hard against the reality of increasingly sophisticated hacks and exploits. As AI coding tools whoosh past the singularity, the attack surface has been growing faster than our ability to defend it. Last year this hit too close to home. Before deploying a boilerplate rewards claim contract for a personal project (too small to justify a six-figure audit,) I asked several security-minded colleagues to review my code before launch. Only one person caught a glaring access control vulnerability left toggled incorrectly from a testnet deployment, and he found it in minutes thanks to AI security tooling he’d been building. Many conversations later, we’re proud to release this to builders as FirePan. FirePan is an AI-native security platform that monitors your smart contracts continuously. Every push. Every pull request. Every new attack vector uncovered sharpens our capability for defense. As AI accelerates the threat landscape exponentially, our best defense is getting advanced AI security tooling into the hands of builders. We’ll be publishing much more research on this subject in coming weeks, including details on critical vulnerabilities we’ve found for early partners. If you’re shipping anything onchain, try running a free surface scan on your repo at firepan.com and share your feedback with us.

What would you like to see the Leviathan team work on next?

big 🦙swap @CurveFinance

You need to be polymathing anon. Ceaselessly diving down rabbit holes. Cultivating a never-ending assortment of skills. Geeking out on niche esoterica. Mogging friends and family with your mastery of random games. You need to be polymathing.

What caught my eye in OPEN's new review isn't the 18% weight. It's how often ethereum:0x365accfca291e7d3914637abf1f7635db165bb09 keeps making the cut. @OpenMoneyIndex tested eight different ways of selecting and weighting stablecoin networks. Some put more emphasis on revenue and growth, others on TVL, valuation or liquidity. ethereum:0x365accfca291e7d3914637abf1f7635db165bb09 appears in 7 of the 8 results. Even more interesting, ethereum:0x365accfca291e7d3914637abf1f7635db165bb09 from @protocol_fx makes both of the more selective 5-token baskets, reaching 18% in one and 14% in the other. It's still only an RFC, not an approved methodology. But that consistency across very different lenses is the part I find hard to overlook.

The pivot to tools like Firepan is inevitable. Security is the only moat left for defi devs now

It's $OPEN Season!

GM open money trenches, If you live in one of the communities tagged below, $SQUILL governance may have landed in your wallet in 2025. It gave holders a vote over how the $OPEN Stablecoin Networks Index is built. Sold it? No hard feelings. Locked it as vlSQUILL? Grab a wrench. OPEN is back in the garage testing new index methodologies. Early backtests have found options that beat ETH in both bull and bear markets. Now we need analysts, autists and enthusiasts to help stress test. Kick the tires. Challenge the assumptions, methods and conclusions. Have a better way to build OPEN? Put it on the table. Anything is in play. Review and comment: forum.reserve.org/t/help-pee… @leviathan_news @DefiLlama @reserveprotocol @protocol_fx @aave @CurveFinance @InverseFinance @fraxfinance @LiquityProtocol @SkyEcosystem @AlchemixFi @OriginProtocol @GearboxProtocol @10b57e6da0

Thanks to the @ConvexFinance voters for supporting the SQUID Recover gauge. Working on a little surprise for the 403 $vlCVX delegated and direct voters in next month's @leviathan_news SQUID Drop!

Can you handle Hardcore mode or the Gauntlet? Find out at hippoman.llamippo.com/ #megaman #megaman2 #recompile #port #nesdev

Also the absolute legend @CurveCap and I are still doing the TG fitness group where the AI ranks our efforts each week :) If you want to join hit up @CurveCap! 

@leviathan_news is voting to divide a 1,000,000 $SQUID pool for August work across Squid DAO’s six contribution and funding categories. The weighted result funds: - News: posting, editing, and approving headlines - Dev: Telegram bots and website work - DAO: voting participation - Recovery: recovery-pool liquidity - Treasury: emissions sent directly to the multisig - Agents: participating-agent contributions A public worksheet lists recipients and their shares, letting voters model how different category weights would divide the pool. DeepSeaSquid argues the one-month review is useful only if August’s misses receive the same attention as its wins, with resulting changes published and measured in the next drop. 3 wallets have cast 150,522 SQUID so far: 44.0% News, 29.5% Dev, 26.5% DAO, and 0.0% for Recovery, Treasury, and Agents. No quorum is set. Voting closes September 17th at 7:47pm UTC. Proposal: snapshot.box/#/s:leviathanne…

We’re glad to be supporting the Binance Chain community! Try your first scan now, free, at Firepan.com

OpenStableIndex flags governance takeover attempt after $2,500 wallet buy secures quorum-level voting power 🕵️ @CurveCap 🔗

1/ 🚨 OPEN GOVERNANCE TAKEOVER ATTEMPT A newly funded wallet spent 1 Ether—about $2,500—to acquire 125,280 SQUILL, approximately 10.06% of the voting power and just enough to meet OPEN’s currently displayed quorum alone.

fomo may be 2026’s wildest crypto growth story: 625K users in June, nearly 2M by August and $21M in 30-day fees. It sells the lifestyle, puts a buy button beneath the aura and turns users into distribution. I mapped the eight-loop growth machine. 👇🏼 furthermore.co/fomo-from-wai… if this hit, help it meet strangers with a comment or share.

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Stop letting security vulnerabilities slip into production. 🛑 Install the Firepan AI @github app to automatically scan your repositories and catch code risks before they hit master. Set up in under 2 minutes: github.com/apps/firepan-ai 🚀

If you’re thinking of taking another AI course maybe consider re-allocating 10-20 hours into a basic cybersecurity course instead like Google’s Cyber cert on Coursera Ever since I got basic cyberpilled I’ve realized how naked the entire world is to the coming AI Hacking Wave Y’all don’t even use password managers or Yubikeys while nation states summon massive datacenters, run 24/7 hacker agent swarms and pointing them at the companies you rely on.

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