r/ethereum

I am having this thought that if permissioned private blockchain can work well for all kinda things like tokenization to real estate. What value will eth capture if at all. I understand blockchain reduces friction but what if all banks nasdaq dtcc coordinate for private blockchains which they are doing already. How will tokenized stocks come to ETH at all because nasdaq will do their own blockchain? Likewise for other use cases , I have a similar thought which makes me think how ETH is useful at all?

Please let me know your thoughts. I m genuinely curious.

Post written by a dev who recently deployed a fully onchain frontend for my project poidh: https://farcaster.xyz/acgk.eth/0x672d28dc

I get the argument for putting ownership and payments onchain but I’m less sure where the line should be for the rest of a community. Membership, permissions, reputation and access rules could all live onchain too but at some point it feels like you’re adding complexity just because you can.

If you were designing a community from scratch, what would you put onchain and what would you deliberately keep offchain?

I’m considering swapping my Ethereum for Bitcoin mostly for simplicity and long‑term storage. Has anyone here done this?

I know the replies will probably be somewhat biased, but is there any point in holding alt‑coins for long‑term investment?

Hoping to get some clarity on this process? I recently withdrew my Kiln position in my Ledger Wallet on 8/10/26. Assuming this entire process would take like 3-5 days to complete & I thought I would see the funds back in my wallet after a week. Apparently that's not at all how this process works, after reading a little bit more it's quite an involved backend process that involves an NFT being minted and I guess you can convert that back to your ETH along with its rewards? My concern lies in what I've been reading online some comments mention the process takes a week, while others say "The queue is busy & could take 40 DAYS"? If someone could explain to me the process here & maybe somewhere I can figure out how much longer I'd appreciate it.

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)

Title says it all, looking to figure out where I can get small amounts of ETH Base to cover fees..

it actually drives me insane. We deploy a massive dApp to mainnet, and literally two days later the client is like "can we just quickly edit the logic in this one function?" like no bro, that's the whole point of ethereum. I had to explain to a grown man that we can't just git push a hotfix to a live contract

We actually ended up having to bring in an external dev shop cisin just to build out a whole complicated proxy contract architecture for their v2 because management flat out refuses to finalize business logic before we deploy things

Im just so tired of web2 brain in web3 spaces. If one more project manager asks me to just "patch the blockchain real quick" i might actually throw my monitor out the window.

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 :)

Hi folks! Been building on EVM chains since 2016, and finally got some free time to do something I've always wanted: rebuilding OGame (my favorite mid-2000 browser game) fully on EVM smart contracts! All open source (github.com/Borodutch/veydrift) and already has 69 commanders who did 92,798 transactions since the launch 30 days ago.

Mechanics is classic OGame: you build mines, get resources, settle planets, join alliances, defend from raids and build fleets to raid other players! All three main resources are tokens and i'm building an inter-dimensional rift to extract these tokens from the game + inject the tokens from the open market.

The game has been through countless iterations by now and includes a thing i call "lazy reconciliation" which allows to decrease number of transactions (i.e. when the resources accumulate, they are "collected" within the very next transaction a player submits before doing an action like sending ships, starting an upgrade, etc).

It is the most complex system i've built on EVM (full on solidity) and I could use more testers trying to break the game! Lmk if you have any questions or comments :) I'm super happy to share my experience and chat about various EVM's. Cheers!

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