DeFi explorer and writer l CM and Vibes Officer @concretexyz and @glowfinancexyz
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Today makes it exactly one year since I started working with Concrete.
Over the past 12 months, I’ve gone from simply contributing to different protocol to helping build a system that thinks deeply about capital, risk and long-term value in DeFi just in one place. The goal was to find a place to build real value where it mattered.
This is a reflection of how the journey has been, what Concrete is building, how the team operates, what I’ve personally worked on, and what the future holds.
Grateful to the amazing team, let's keep building.
Full article here:
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Bybit team is standby to help in any ways that we can. Bitget helped us when we had the hack.
we are updating lazarusbounty.com/en/ to help Bitget to capture and trace the stolen fund movement.
Here is what we can confirm at this stage:
On the attack:
Our security team has made initial progress in tracing the source. The attacker compromised a critical backend system within our wallet infrastructure, used it to spoof transaction data, and triggered our authorization process to move funds out. Private key compromise has been ruled out — this excludes the more severe risk scenarios. Loss containment is confirmed. No further unauthorized transfers are possible. The specific method of system intrusion remains under active investigation. A full technical report will follow once confirmed.
On withdrawal restoration:
Multiple technical teams are working in parallel on system remediation and security hardening. Withdrawal restoration is being prepared in parallel. We will announce a timeline as soon as one is confirmed — we will not commit to a window we cannot guarantee.
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The bitget’s $350M hack has one detail I can’t get past
Bitget said they detected the breach at 18:31 UTC but online reports fund were still leaving Bitget labelled wallets at 21:23
That is about three hours later. What happened to the security system and containing the breach?
Some funds were reportedly swapped into ETH within minutes paying up to 5% above market price. That means the speed mattered more than the cost of the trade.
But then Bitget has like an insurance fund that can cover the loss but the entry point and containment timeline still need explaining.
Even if they don't replace every dollar people will still use it. We've seen this happen with another centralized platform.
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An institution can like your DeFi product and still be unable to use it.
There are bunch of reasons that can happen and its one part of what @ConcreteXYZ is building that I think deserves more attention.
Imagine presenting a yield strategy to an institution managing client assets, the return will be attractive, but then that is when the real work starts answering questions like who will hold the asset, can the company account for where the money went? What happens if the strategy loses money?
Just saying "trust me or the contract is audited” is enough reason to not proceed with it anymore
There are firms whose custody arrangements and internal rules won’t allow them to interact with a protocol the way normal individual would. Wallet size is different and they're not moved by higher APY
This explain the thinking behind Concrete’s work with BitGo, integrating yield strategies into an existing framework, with controls institution can work with.
This doesn’t mean the strategies cannot lose money.
Even when assets are spread across different markets, those markets can fall together.
But what matters is understanding the exposure, setting limits and having a clear process for managing it.
That is why my interest in institutional DeFi keeps increasing. Beyond the return, I want to understand how the money is managed and what happens when things don’t go as planned.
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Everyone has seen the $CT Foundation announcement. But there’s a question worth answering before we move past it as just “regular” news.
Why does @ConcreteXYZ need a foundation when concrete protocol already exists?
I think understanding that makes the whole announcement a lot more interesting.
Concrete protocol and the concrete foundation serve different purposes within the same ecosystem.
The protocol remains the technology people interact with, the smart contracts, vaults and infrastructure behind concrete on-chain financial products.
The foundation is going to be the organization will be established to support governance, distribute the $CT and help with how governance decisions are carried out.
Then there’s Blueprint finance as we all know, the company itself behind concrete and all other sub products. And concrete network, one of the foundation’s ecosystem is going to be the body issuing CT and making it available to trade
The names have different responsibilities. I know its a lot right now,but think about what happens as a protocol grows.
Someone has to build and maintain the technology. A system has to be in place for the utility to function longterm.
But they also need to be processes for deciding which strategies can be approved, how treasury resources are used and so many others
These decisions affect the people and the institution using the system and concrete cares about its users to just engage in this stuff blindly without a solid structure in place.
What I simply mean is that concrete is putting a more defined structure around those responsibilities as the ecosystem expands. The foundation will provide a safe environment in fhe ecosystem for governance and treasury administration, while the protocol remains the infrastructure those decisions will be enacted on.
That is where $CT comes in, depending on the decision the foundation reaches, active participants may qualify for token rewards, but those rewards are not guaranteed.
And holding $CT does not mean owning shares in Concrete or having a right to its profits, don’t forget that.
What interests me here is how that concrete connects this to the institutional DeFi they’ve been building.
Concrete earn provides access to yield strategies. Vaults provide the underlying vault structure. Partners can build their own products using Concrete’s infrastructure.
AssetCX addresses another requirement, institutions whose underlying assets must remain with a qualified custodian can receive a 1:1 receipt token designed for use across the Concrete ecosystem (we already experienced this last year with partners like dolomite, berachain ecosystem)
That helps explain why the governance structure matters alongside the products. More users will definitely depend on concrete infrastructure in the long run hence that is why this strategies are being implemented now.
There is still alot to be rollout ahead.
What users like you and I should be paying attention to is which decisions participants (users and not institutions) can actually influence, how the governance will work and how changes get implemented.
For people following Concrete, there’s a lot worth staying engaged with here
This announcement gives us a clearer picture of how concrete intends to organize that next stage. We’ve been building for close to 2 years now
Excited for what is to come definitely.
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I want people to know my work. I’m still deciding how much of me needs to come with it and the thought of that drains me alot.
I enjoy sharing something I’ve learnt, an opinion, or a project I’m working on. There's a lot to put out there. But I also like having parts of my life that don’t need an audience.
For the past seven months, my brother @itachi_r3birth and I have been working on a series of projects.
One of them is Mahoraga, an adaptive AI trading project focused on continual learning and model updates. The idea is for the system to learn from new information and refine its behaviour over time. We really locked in on that one, although I can’t share much of the technical detail yet. We built that for ourselves.
Earlier this year, we also qualified for and participated in hackathons. I didn’t even announce any of that here
I barely shared that side of myself. So someone following my page might have no idea what I've been working on.
I value privacy a lot and I’m comfortable building quietly and I don’t feel the need to get validation for every step I take. Once my clients are satisfied, that is usually been enough for me.
But building something of my own has made me think about this differently.
I can be satisfied with the work and still need the right people to know it exists. Potential users, people I could collaborate with, or even someone willing to fund what we’re building.
How do they find us if we keep everything to ourselves?
That’s where I’m stuck a bit. I understand why people want to know the person behind the work but I just think there should be room to build that connection without turning every experience into a post.
Sometimes, being online makes it feel like I have to keep proving I'm a builder. The work still exists when nobody sees it, but I’m starting to think about the opportunities that might never reach it.
In the coming weeks, I’ll start documenting more of what we’re building and giving the projects a proper presence online.
I’m still figuring out how much of myself needs to come with that, but no pressure still.
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One question I keep coming back to as Concrete heads toward TGE,
How do you recognise the people who made a community better?
The person answering questions, writing detailed articles, translating for another language community, or making the technical articles easier to understand, even the members pointing out something that needs fixing.
Some of that work is easy to count. Some needs to be appreciated more often as well
Personally, I think consistency and usefulness deserve more attention. Quality > Quantity.
“Did my contribution help at least one person?”
I think that’s a question each of us should ask ourselves. Leave the big numbers aside first.
Did someone understand the product better? Find an answer? Get past something they were struggling with the product or even the community.
That counts too. That's a true contributor
What contribution do you think projects overlook the most?
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The future of DeFi is here and it is beyond just vaults
Exciting days ahead
Gmcrete 💛
Assets added to the roadmap today: Concrete (CT)
coinbase.com/blog/increasing…
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D3CRYPT0R retweeted
Concrete is now the 4th largest DeFi curator, and the largest outside of Morpho.
And since the data for this report was captured, we’ve grown to over $1B.
The interesting part of curation isn’t finding opportunities. It’s building infrastructure that can be trusted to deploy capital repeatedly, at scale.
Proud of the @ConcreteXYZ team for continuing to build the operating system for on-chain finance.
Great report from @vaultsfyi.
We’re publishing The State of DeFi Curation 2026, the most comprehensive analysis of curated onchain markets to date.
The report maps $11.29B across 856 vaults, 131 curators and 18 protocols. It shows who manages the capital, where it sits and what sits underneath.
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D3CRYPT0R retweeted
1/ Introducing the USD1 RWA Vault.
Concrete is bringing a new way to put USD1 to work.
USD1. One vault. Multiple real-world opportunities.
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D3CRYPT0R retweeted
1/ We’re pleased to announce a new strategic round of financing.
Led by @polychain
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I don’t think people fully understand what @ConcreteXYZ is building yet.
If you don't pay attention properly, concUSD may look like another stablecoin launch, but fit it into the vault system and then you'll understand what it really is.
If you’ve used DeFi before, you know how annoying it gets.
You find a good opportunity, but it’s on another chain. Then you have to start bridging, swapping to get the best opportunity from different ecosystems and even move into another stablecoin.
Then do the whole thing again when you want to move somewhere else.
This is the problem @ConcreteXYZ have been slowly removing.
The vaults already simplify the strategy side.
You deposit, and instead of manually jumping between protocols and strategies, the vault handles most of that.
So it's easy for concUSD to just become dollar that controls the entire ecosystem. It will just be and Identity that concrete gives you for any asset and its equal to your deposited asset, close to "ctassets"
Instead of usdc and usdt scattered across multiple blockchain, the idea becomes easy to understand with this
one asset, one vault ecosystem and bunch of opportunities underneath.
That’s why when concrete says “Vaults are only the beginning” It truly is
Concrete is making capital between these ecosystem feel like using one
And concUSD will be the money that moves through it.
And once they pull this off, @ConcreteXYZ stops being just a vault protocol
It starts becoming an ecosystem for moving and deploying capital across DeFi without users having to understand every chain, bridge and protocol underneath.
This is the part I think people should be paying attention to.
Gmcrete!
1/ Introducing concUSD.
Concrete is partnering with @m0 to launch a new stablecoin designed to be a dollar-denominated liquidity layer for the Concrete ecosystem.
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D3CRYPT0R retweeted
Vaults are only the beginning.
At @ConcreteXYZ we're building the complete infrastructure for an on-chain vault economy.
concUSD gives Concrete a native dollar built for our ecosystem, from vault deposits and settlement to liquidity, collateral, and everything we build next.
1/ Introducing concUSD.
Concrete is partnering with @m0 to launch a new stablecoin designed to be a dollar-denominated liquidity layer for the Concrete ecosystem.
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D3CRYPT0R retweeted
1/ Introducing concUSD.
Concrete is partnering with @m0 to launch a new stablecoin designed to be a dollar-denominated liquidity layer for the Concrete ecosystem.
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D3CRYPT0R retweeted
Concrete for us isn't just a name, but it has meaning behind what we do and how we do it.
We built the foundations for on chain finance.
That's why we have been able to scale solutions with groups that control less than $50M to more than $100B
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