Maybe this crypto thing isn’t just hype after all
Today we are announcing that S&P Global has entered an agreement to acquire OpenZeppelin.
Onchain finance is growing from an emerging market into core financial infrastructure, and the standards and rails our team and community built are becoming the rails of global finance. OpenZeppelin smart contracts facilitated over $37 trillion in value transferred, with the vast majority of the largest DeFi protocols, blockchain networks, stablecoins and tokenized funds relying on them.
With S&P Global, we expect to accelerate the impact of onchain finance, backed by more than a century of trust in global markets, benchmarks, and risk frameworks.
To our clients and to all the users of OpenZeppelin open source tools:
• OpenZeppelin Contracts and all our open source applications and tools remain open source, free, and publicly maintained on GitHub. Building open source standards stays a core priority.
• Audits, engineering work, and ecosystem programs continue with the same team, brand, quality, and customer experience, with what will be the added benefit of S&P Global's research capacity, market data, and institutional reach.
For the last decade, OpenZeppelin has set the security standard for onchain finance. Today begins a new chapter for that mission, together with one of the most trusted names in global markets.
Read the full announcement: openzeppelin.com/news/spglob…
Navin Vethanayagam, Chief Brain of @IQOfficial and Co-founder of @KrwqCash, discusses the future of stablecoins and decentralization on a new episode of #TheBraveTechnologist podcast.
Listen to the full episode, hosted by @LukeMulks, here: brave.com/podcast/e135/
Built MatchPulse ⚡️
It turns live sports moments into automatically launched Solana markets, calibrated with @TXODDSOfficial and settled with proof. Built at @encodeclub
Public Demo: sidharthk2.github.io/matchpu…
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NEW: @KrwqCash, built by @IQofficial & @fraxfinance, adopts Chainlink to enhance reserve transparency for KRWQ, the first fully-backed Korean won stablecoin.
Chainlink Proof of Reserve is unlocking regulatory readiness for the world’s largest onchain Korean won FX market.
LFG🚀
BREAKING: KRWQ, the Korean won stablecoin, is expanding to Solana.
Unifying $100B+ in daily KRW liquidity onchain.
Korean won FX markets are moving onchain.
With USDC as the settlement layer, @iqofficial’s @KRWQcash are helping create a more transparent and accessible KRW-USD market structure, with trading costs that are 50%–75% lower than traditional KRW NDF markets.
By pairing KRWQ with USDC, they were able to support:
→ Deeper KRW-USD liquidity
→ Tighter spreads and better price formation
→ Broader institutional distribution
circle.com/case-studies/krwq
Another frontend compromise 😤
⚠️Important warning for @compoundfinance users:
The Compound Finance website seems to be redirecting to a suspicious domain. Specifically, clicking the App button takes you to a phishing domain with "CompOOnd" in the URL.
While the Compound team investigates and resolves this, please note you can use DeFi Saver to manage your Compound positions.
🤝🇰🇷 $KRWQ makes history. Here's what you need to know and what this means to us.
blog.iqai.com/krwq-acquires-…
KRWQ has begun acquiring Korean government bonds held at Shinhan Securities, tokenized through @etherfuse.
Developed by @iqofficial, KRWQ’s growth and fees directly power the $IQ token ecosystem. 💎
This is the FIRST time tokenized Korean sovereign debt has been integrated into the reserves of a KRW-denominated stablecoin.
✅ Direct link to Korea’s bond market
✅ Institutional assets held at Shinhan Securities
✅ Tokenization by @etherfuse
✅ Built on @FraxFinance
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built the bloomberg of prediction markets in a weekend with claude opus 4.6.
Real-time data from kalshi & polymarket, arbitrage finder, market screener, price history charts...
vibecoding is unreal right now.
predex.markets
Post-Fusaka mainnet hits different. @aave leverage loop for $0.35 gas 🤯
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3/ "Markets are among the best systems for aggregating information. As autonomous agents trade at scale, intelligence can emerge from their interactions. PredIQt is the proving ground where agent swarms compete and can outperform any single model," said @kesarito, CTO of IQ.
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Mastering Ethereum: Second Edition is officially out for free on github.
You can read it directly on github or on masteringethereum/./xyz if you prefer that UI.
Enjoy the book and let us know if you like it.
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Millions of OKX users can now access KRWQ on @base with the @okx platform.
KRWQ 🇰🇷 is the first Korean won ₩ stablecoin available on OKX.
We've shipped a massive unlock for @Base traders.
Base DEX trading → live on the OKX app.
Millions of tokens, no bridges, no gas — just trade from your fiat or exchange balance.
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KRWQ is the first Korean won stablecoin on Base. 🇰🇷
Built by IQ and Frax.
finance.yahoo.com/news/iq-fr…
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🇰🇷 NEW: KRWQ, the first fully backed Korean-won stablecoin built on Base, has launched.
Will this set the stage for wider adoption of won-backed assets?
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KRWQ is the first Korean won 🇰🇷 stablecoin on Base. Launched by @iqofficial and @fraxfinance.
KRWQ is the first multichain KRW stable leveraging @LayerZero_Core's OFT standard and the first tradeable KRW stable with liquidity on @aeroxyz.
theblock.co/post/376877/krwq…
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Tokenized AI agents are no longer science fiction. @iqofficial 's new integration with NEAR unlocks autonomous cross-chain actions that are fast, final, and secure.
This is what Chain Abstraction in action looks like.
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🚨 Devs, listen up.
AI agents just got a serious upgrade.
Introducing the Agent Development Kit (ADK) for TypeScript – the open-source framework to build, orchestrate, and deploy powerful AI agents.
→ Built for devs who ship.
🧵
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IQ AI has launched the Agent Tokenization Platform (ATP) — enabling AI agents to autonomously own, trade, and manage assets on-chain.
Built with @fraxfinance and @NEARProtocol integration, ATP marks a new era of AI as autonomous economic players. 🧵
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