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🚨 Important announcement: Sadly, we’re announcing that Hats.finance is entering a final wind-down of its hosted operations. After a lot of reflection, we’ve reached the point where keeping a centralized UI and servers running is no longer sustainable, and there isn’t a new legal or operational wrapper planned to continue that hosted stack. This is not easy to share. Hats have been a long, fascinating, sometimes brutal journey. Since 2021, we chased one belief: a decentralized market deserves decentralized security. Vitalik’s narrative about systems sharing Web3's DNA was a compass for us, and Hats was built in that spirit. But reality didn’t match the original thesis. Smart contract security budgets did not scale to DeFi-level volumes as we expected, and rapid progress in AI security tools, along with the maturation of secure, reusable smart contract building blocks, reduced the need for a protocol like Hats to sustain meaningful long-term demand for the HATS token. What happens now: * The Hats.finance hosted frontend and backend (UI and servers) are expected to go offline on Dec 31, 2025. Most functionality that depends on that hosted stack will be phased out. * The Hats protocol remains deployed on-chain and governed by the DAO. Core contracts are intended to continue functioning according to their code. * An IPFS build of the frontend is available today and may remain accessible via public gateways as long as it is being served (e.g., by pinning providers or community nodes). As payments to our current pinning provider (e.g. Pinata) will stop, we cannot guarantee its continued availability or performance. Action for users with deposits: If you want to withdraw via the hosted UI, we recommend starting a Withdraw Request by Dec 17, 2025 (7-day cooldown plus 7-day withdrawal window). If you miss the window, you can re-initiate a new request, or interact directly with the contracts at any time, subject to their logic and network conditions. Thank you to everyone who believed in this experiment, used it, partnered with it, and pushed it forward. We’ll do our best as contributors to support the community through the wind-down. Shared in our capacity as individual contributors to the Hats protocol, for information purposes only.

The @Kleros_io Audit competition kicks off this Tuesday, Sept 23, at GMT. Auditors can already opt-in and secure their spot: 👉 app.hats.finance/audit-compe… ⚡ Important ⚡ In the following article, you’ll find all the competition details, including the adapted severity definitions tailored to the Kleros competition and its unique codebase. hatsfinance.medium.com/klero… Join us to help protect Kleros’ code.

💥 $80,000 USDC up for grabs for those who can spot vulnerabilities in ~3,870 SLOC! The @Kleros_io audit competition kicks off Tuesday, Sept 23, 2025, with the following prize pool: 🔹 Low Severity → up to $800 🔹 Medium Severity → up to $16,000 🔹 High Severity → up to $32,000 👀 Don’t miss your chance. Sharpen your skills, find the bugs, claim the rewards. 👉 Join the competition & start hacking!

🚨 New audit competition! 🚨 @Kleros_io x @HatsFinance Details coming soon 👀 Save the dates! 🗓️

Congrats to the winners of the @dTRINITY_DeFi audit competition 🔥 Time to claim your rewards💰 Winners breakdown : app.hats.finance/audit-compe… Huge thanks to our auditors and sponsors, your efforts and support made this audit competition a success.

🚨 The @dTRINITY_DeFi Audit Competition has officially ended! Huge thanks to everyone who participated 🙌 Over the next few days, the sponsor will complete the final labeling process. Once that's done, we’ll announce the preliminary winners. Stay tuned — more updates coming soon!

Final Call: Last 2 Days of the @dTRINITY_DeFi Audit Competition! Kudos to both auditors and sponsor, outstanding work so far! The sponsor’s team has reviewed almost all submission with a clear explanations and transparent labeling. A real audit competition with real-time judgment. Make the most of your audit!

7 days of competition -> 210 submissions! $80,000 up for grabs 💰 The team has started reviewing — it’s all happening in real time: public and transparent. Join us to make @dTRINITY_DeFi secure and battle-ready. ⏳ Ends: July 4th, 2025 at 15:00 GMT All the details 👉 app.hats.finance/audit-compe…

🚨 The @dTRINITY_DeFi audit competition is officially LIVE! Time to hunt — let’s see who climbs to the top of the leaderboard 👀 Good luck, researchers!

Starting in 2 hours with Complete Audit Cycle: @dTRINITY_DeFi audit competition👇🎩

New audit competition on @Hatsfinance  more details coming very soon 👀👀

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