Second one this week - Trezor was first in line. Seems that targeting physical orders - the same attack vector as was the case with Trezor
Bearish on hardware wallets?
Heya folks, interested if there's anyone here that's still actively using Maker for their ETH long?
Seeing as they've fully rebranded to Sky a while ago, it's interesting to see that there's still a solid userbase there. Even with household names like Aave, Morpho, Fluid, etc... filling the space.
We have Maker integrated in our app (DeFi Saver), where users can manage their CDP - and I saw that just a few days ago someone increased leverage by using our boost tool by $5 million in ETH.
That led me to think - what's the sentiment surrounding Maker? If you haven't been using it, are you aware that it's still functional?
What's interesting is that Spark (the lending protocol that's part of the Sky ecosystem) is offering better rates for longing ETH - yet Maker CDP owners aren't exactly flocking there.
Not here to shill anything - just wanted to give context as to why I asked this question in the first place.
Would be incredibly cool to hear from an actual Maker user - as I'm interested to also hear what keeps you engaged with that protocol as opposed to moving your loan to Spark (which offers better rates than the Stability Fee)
Heya folks, interested if there's anyone here that's still actively using Maker for their ETH long?
Seeing as they've fully rebranded to Sky a while ago, it's interesting to see that there's still a solid userbase there. Even with household names like Aave, Morpho, Fluid, etc... filling the space.
We have Maker integrated in our app (DeFi Saver), where users can manage their CDP - and I saw that just a few days ago someone increased leverage by using our boost tool by $5 million in ETH.
That led me to think - what's the sentiment surrounding Maker? If you haven't been using it, are you aware that it's still functional?
What's interesting is that Spark (the lending protocol that's part of the Sky ecosystem) is offering better rates for longing ETH - yet Maker CDP owners aren't exactly flocking there.
Not here to shill anything - just wanted to give context as to why I asked this question in the first place.
Would be incredibly cool to hear from an actual Maker user - as I'm interested to also hear what keeps you engaged with that protocol as opposed to moving your loan to Spark (which offers better rates than the Stability Fee)
TL;DR:
We built a free tool that lets you connect your lending protocol position to Telegram. From there, you can set up monitors that send you a Telegram notification based on your Health Ratio changes.
For transparency sake - I'm part of the DeFi Saver team (that built this tool). My goal here is to share info about a free, useful tool we built - and not to shill any paid tool on our app.
More context:
I'm part of the DeFi Saver team - and our main focus is providing tools for lending protocol users. That said, I'm not here to shill any paid tool from our app.
Instead, I'd like to share a completely free tool within our app that might be useful if you have an ETH long on Aave, Maker, Compound, Morpho, etc...
It's a Telegram mini-app that lets you view your borrow position(s) directly from Telegram, and also set notifications when your position's Health Factor falls/increases to a certain %
Point being - you don't have to visit any of the lending protocols directly, or use the DeFi Saver app. You can get all information about your position directly through Telegram.
Links:
Disclaimer - I totally understand apprehension for clicking random links you see on Reddit (especially crypto-related subreddits). As such, please feel free to find DeFi Saver on Twitter directly - as we'll share all relevant info/links there.
This way, you're keeping yourself safe, and I really believe in being super careful when it comes to your portfolio.
If you're okay with clicking links here, I'll just share some non-app links that have useful info (if you're interested in this tool):
Twitter post with more info on the tool and link to the app: https://x.com/DeFiSaver/status/2085720327859122524
Knowledge Base guide on the tool: https://help.defisaver.com/features/notify/telegram-bot-for-monitoring-your-position
Just to re-iterate, there's no hidden fee, catch, or anything when using this tool.
We already have a healthy business model from our premium tools - so we're cool with just building neat, useful, and free tools for the DeFi community.
Feel free to ask me any questions in the comments here :)
TL;DR:
We built a free tool that lets you connect your lending protocol position to Telegram. From there, you can set up monitors that send you a Telegram notification based on your Health Ratio changes.
For transparency sake - I'm part of the DeFi Saver team (that built this tool). My goal here is to share info about a free, useful tool we built - and not to shill any paid tool on our app.
More context:
Sharing a completely free tool within our (DeFi Saver) app that might be useful if you have a borrow position on Aave, Maker, Compound, Morpho, etc...
It's a Telegram mini-app that lets you view your borrow position(s) directly from Telegram, and also set notifications when your position's Health Factor falls/increases to a certain %
Point being - you don't have to visit any of the lending protocols directly, or use the DeFi Saver app. You can get all information about your position directly through Telegram.
Links:
Disclaimer - I totally understand apprehension for clicking random links you see on Reddit (especially crypto-related subreddits). As such, please feel free to find DeFi Saver on Twitter directly - as we'll share all relevant info/links there.
This way, you're keeping yourself safe, and I really believe in being super careful when it comes to your portfolio.
If you're okay with clicking links here, I'll just share some non-app links that have useful info (if you're interested in this tool):
Just to re-iterate, there's no hidden fee, catch, or anything when using this tool.
We already have a healthy business model from our premium tools - so we're cool with just building neat, useful, and free tools for the DeFi community.
Feel free to ask me any questions in the comments here :)
TL;DR and quick context - I work at DeFi Saver, and we built a completely free tool that lets you check if you have any smart wallets that have "lost tokens" sitting around waiting to be claimed.
Just re-iterating, there are no strings attached - it's completely free and we quickly built it after realizing there was over $67M in unclaimed tokens sitting across 87,021 smart wallets. I'm just disclosing that I work for DFS to underscore that this isn't some hidden shill for DFS.
No need to connect your wallet to the tool - just run your wallet address, check if you have tokens to claim - and claim them on DeFi Saver.
The leftover tokens typically happen as leftover dust from DeFi transactions, long-forgotten airdrop (such as $UNI) or regular DeFi activity where you forgot the funds on your smart wallet.
Full Info about the tool:
We found over $67M in unclaimed tokens sitting in numerous smart wallets across the DeFi landscape.
Not random tokens, but blue chip assets - including:
$ETH - $3.4M
$USDT - $6.9M
$sUSDS - $10M
$WBTC - $6M
And many more.
We then built a tool that lets you claim the tokens you forgot you had.
Simply connect your main wallet to TokenSaver, check, and claim on DeFi Saver: https://tokensaver.fyi/
How do these assets end up in a smart wallet?
Option 1:
When you manage your lending position through a DeFi app (such as DeFi Saver, Summer.Fi, Instadapp) - it utilizes a smart wallet in order to perform advanced transactions such as 1-tx leveraging, unwinding, and more.
All of these advanced transactions typically require swapping an asset to pay back a flash loan.
When these swaps happen - It's possible that it swaps a bit more than necessary to make sure the transaction goes through despite small price movement. Those leftover funds remain sitting in the smart wallet holding the position.
Or, perhaps you have/had a Maker position?
All Maker CDPs are held on DSProxy smart wallets, so it’s worth connecting your CDP owner wallet to TokenSaver - maybe there are some leftover funds waiting to be claimed.
That’s up to 8 years of potentially accumulating assets that never ended up in your EOA wallet.
Option 2:
You were eligible for an airdrop and received it due to your DeFi activity - but because it was distributed to your smart wallet, you never realized it.
There's currently over $5M in $UNI that were likely distributed this way - and are unclaimed to this day.
Option 3:
Through regular DeFi activity over the years - some funds might have ended up on your smart wallet, and due to smart wallets typically lacking dedicated frontends - you forgot about them.
While Safe (Gnosis) smart wallets have a dedicated UI - some, such as DSProxy, DSA, and SummerFi proprietary wallets lack it.
So, it’s possible you continued on your DeFi journey without ever realizing you had funds leftover on the smart wallet(s).
Since smart wallets need to have an owner wallet - you should simply connect with your main wallet, and TokenSaver will find all smart wallets owned by it.
Note for nested Safe owners - Please input your owner Safe’s address into TokenSaver, not your EOA.
You can then access DeFi Saver through the Safe app and claim your funds that way.
That's pretty much it! Please try the tool out and let me know if you found anything interesting, such as a bag that you never realized you had available to claim :)
A quick reminder to avoid getting confused when you research your old swaps on Etherscan - What might seem like huge slippage at first could just be current asset prices.
Let's take an example of this sUSDe -> USDT swap:
https://i.imgur.com/Tt4vIhM.png
Seemingly, this transaction swapped 3,984,878 sUSDe worth $4,781,853.65 for 4,726,804 USDT, which is over a $50,000 loss on the swap.
This might seem like a considerable loss and not aligned with regular slippage settings for swaps.
However, the issue here is that the dollar values Etherscan shows is the current value of tokens on CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap - not the market price at the time of the swap.
So if we take a look at the market price of the sUSDe/USDT pair on Fluid at the time of the transaction, it's going to show us the actual swap value.
The transaction happened on August 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM UTC+2:
https://i.imgur.com/Wh0lGIW.png
The Fluid DEX chart for the sUSDe/USDT pair on that date and time:
https://i.imgur.com/eoLp19X.png
This gives us the price of 1 sUSDe = 1.18709 USDT
Going back to the swap, we have:
3,984,878 sUSDe * 1.18709 = 4,730,409 USDT
This gives a loss of $3,605 which fits within slippage settings of 0.1% for such a large transaction.
We can now see how it might look like you lost more funds during a swap than expected.
This might not always be the case, as your transaction could be the victim of a MEV attack. So it's always worth triple-checking the transaction for any MEV bot activity.
Heya folks! For those of you that are using/have used CEXs/DEXs to trade ETH perps - have you ever used Trailing Stops?
If you have, I'm interested to hear how it worked out for you. Fully aware that it's always at risk of getting triggered due to a wick, but if it has enough buffer space and if you're not trading low-liquidity assets that are prone to leveraged manipulation - you should be good.
I recently did a small study of how a Trailing Stop would perform based on ETH's price movement from July 1 - July 4 where it rallied from ~$1,566 to ~$1,807. A Trailing Stop of 2% would have taken you from that $1,566 mark all the way to $1,807 - where it would have triggered when ETH pulled back to ~$1,750.
So Take Profits at $1,600, $1,650, and $1,700 would have underperformed this strategy over that period of time.
I just find the overall concept of "ride the rally, exit only when it retraces considerably" fascinating, as it kinda takes out the guessing work on when you should place Take Profits on. Let alone manually watching the charts waiting to close your position at the perfect moment.
If you're not familiar with Trailing Stops or want a bit more insight into the small study of ETH's price on July 1 - July 4, I also made a short video on it that might be useful.
Looking forward to hearing your experience!
Quick context*: I talk to a lot of DeFi users as part of my day-to-day work of supporting DeFi Saver users. As such, I get insight into what DeFi enthusiasts might have knowledge-gaps on.*
So, I decided to write a guide that answers a pretty popular question, which is how to track exactly how much your collateral grew due to the supply APY, and how much your debt grew due to borrow APY.
No matter how many changes happened to your collateral/debt due to various actions, you'll still be able to use this guide to get the exact numbers.
On Aave, there's no button you can press that will show you how much interest you earned and how much interest you paid on specific dates.
Yet, if we're looking at a lending position's historical P&L - that's a pretty significant metric. If you have a long position that was opened in 2025 and is still active in 2026 - how can you figure out what your 2025 P&L was?
How can you differentiate between your profit on your collateral appreciating in price and your collateral amount growing due to the supply APY?
Conversely, how can you figure out how much your debt grew if you're dealing with a date that's over 6 months in the past?
Using your current debt balance is not relevant, since you'd be ignoring 6 months of compounding since 2025 ended.
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For a position with no extra transactions - it's easy. Just subtract your current collateral and debt amounts from their starting values.
But as soon as you introduce an extra transaction (add collateral, withdraw, pay back debt, increase/decrease leverage) - the simple subtraction from above no longer applies.
We need to figure out what our collateral/debt balances were at specific dates/blocks in time, before these transactions occurred.
To start, let's first understand how collateral and debt balances are tracked on Aave.
When you open a borrow position on Aave - your collateral and debt balances are tracked through Aave collateral and Aave debt tokens that are held by your wallet:
Both of these are fungible, ERC-20 tokens that can even be swapped on a DEX.
Sidenote: The fact they're ERC20 tokens proved extremely useful during the recent rsETH exploit - when ETH collateral was non-withdrawable. This still allowed for the Aave collateral tokens to be swapped and allow users to exit positions.
While the name of the collateral token looks weird, it makes sense if we break it down:
So, if we were on Arbitrum, we'd have:
When it comes to our supply and borrow APY - both of these tokens will increase in value based on the underlying token's interest rates on Aave.
Since this guide isn't focusing on a detailed breakdown of how these tokens work, I'll just quickly share how they actually increase in value.
Aave stores a global index for suppliers and another for borrowers.
The current index itself is calculated using the elapsed time since the last update. This means that they aren't just updated at every single block, since that would be considerably expensive.
Okay, so we've wrapped up our quick intro into Aave debt/collateral tokens - let's get to the point.
We now have all the ingredients, so let's get to calculating how much interest we paid and earned.
Say I have an Aave V3 position, andIe want to figure out how much the collateral balance of my WETH increased from June 5th, when the position was opened - until June 23rd - a day before I increased my leverage.
I can go to the DeFi Saver app, which has a "History" tab in which I'll see all transactions associated with my position. That includes the transaction where I increased my leverage.
First, I'd click on "Leveraged Create" on the History tab, which will take us to Etherscan for when the position was opened. There, we want to click on the "Net transfers" tab so it's visually easier to follow.
Now, how do we answer the question of "How much did this collateral increase in amount due to the supply APY by June 23rd?"
Enter Etherscan's "Account Balance Checker" - located under the "More" tab.
If you were expecting/fearing an extremely complex tool - I'm happy to share that you'll be met with just a few options:
What we need is:
Let's circle back to the Etherscan transaction where the position was originally opened - and where we saw the aEthWETH token balance.
Since it's an ERC-20 token, it's going to have its own token contract address. Simply click on the token on Etherscan and you'll be taken to its contract page:
For example, the WETH collateral address is: 0x4d5F47FA6A74757f35C14fD3a6Ef8E3C9BC514E8
Going back to the Account Balance Checker, let's:
Token Quantity will show us the magic number - This lets us use our starting balance, and subtract it from the current aEthWETH token quantity.
This same exact process applies if you're trying to figure out how much your debt grew.
One of the biggest arbitraging opportunities in DeFi - and to make it all more interesting it was all due to a regular bank failing.
Wild to think it's been 3 years since. Were you around and following all the ongoing drama?
Also USDC wasn't the only re-peg opportunity as DAI depegged soon thereafter due to the PSM from Maker having so much USDC backing what was a fully decentralized stablecoin
So happy I'm no longer spoiler-wary, and the chains have fully come off in terms of Twin Peaks discourse.
Loved the finale and The Return as a whole. Coop insisting on saving Laura made me feel uneasy, like he just can't let it go no matter what.
Ultimately, you can't go back home. There is no going back home.
You save Laura from being killed - she ends up living a "bad" life full of fear, where even cars driving behind her at night make her uneasy because someone might be following. A complete loss of innocence.
Young Laura, while passed away - still retains her innocence. I couldn't help but feel "Let it rest Coop".
That said, the theories on his attempt to save Laura being part of The White Lodge's plan does make sense and Coops decision isn't a selfish one.
Incredible comentary on "nostalgic returns" of old tv shows. In a way he gave us everything we wanted, but also showed us that none of the things we remember will be as we hold them in our memories.
Still need time to soak everything in. What a ride!
Teen Goku, Piccolo Jr, Teen ChiChi are all welcome picks and popular choices - but I'd also love to see some more niche contestants.
Giran is so visually memorable for me, but I'd also love to see:
Ironically, it feels like for the 20+ years of the Tenkaichi series, it's the OG Dragonball storylines that have always been the most difficult to recreate due to lacking content.
