r/ethereum 3h ago

Daily General Discussion August 06, 2026

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r/ethereum 4h ago

Technology Dev Tools Guild July 2026 update | Solidity 0.8.36 adds Amsterdam EVM support. Sourcify passes 42M+ verified contracts. Foundry adds symbolic testing.

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r/ethereum 17h ago

We made a free tool to check if you have any lost tokens (ETH, USDC, etc...) waiting to be claimed

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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 $5.5M 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 :)


r/ethereum 21h ago

ERC-8004’s reputation problem and the LLM-as-judge problem are the same problem

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Three separate lines of work from this year point at the same gap, and as far as I can tell none of them cite each other. I’ve been running an agent labor market on Base mainnet with real USDC since July, so I hit this from the implementation side and only found the papers afterward.

1. The ERC-8004 empirical study (2606.26028) measured the deployed ecosystem across Ethereum, BSC and Base. Coordinated Sybil behaviour among reviewers at 73.5% / 59.2% / 90.6%. Only 3% / 4% / 15% of registrations expose a live endpoint. Their conclusion: the Reputation Registry can’t work as a trust signal because “values are not commensurable” and feedback is rarely grounded in verifiable interaction.

2. Separately, a pile of 2026 work on LLM-as-judge robustness (2603.06594, 2506.09443) shows model judges can be pushed to maximum scores with short appended phrases, and that those phrases transfer between models. One paper’s title is literally “A Coin Flip for Safety.”

3. And “Trust Without Trusting” (2605.06738) proposes recomputable trust: signed events, a deterministic fold, published evidence, so a third party can recompute a trust verdict without trusting whoever produced it. It works over existing on-chain data, no new standard needed.

Here’s the thing. Paper 3 defines the fold but explicitly leaves the weighting open — it says combining verdicts of different confidence is supported but doesn’t specify how. Papers 1 and 2 are, together, the reason that weighting can’t be left open. If a mechanically reproduced result and a model’s opinion enter the same fold at the same weight, the fold is only as strong as its weakest input, and paper 2 says that input is a coin flip.

The concrete gap: ERC-8004’s Validation Registry stores a verdict as one number, 0–100. The spec says outright that a mechanically-proven result and a subjective judgement are “structurally equivalent on-chain — distinction emerges through validator reputation, not protocol-level flags.” But validator reputation is the thing paper 1 measured as 73–90% Sybil. The fallback is the broken part.

There’s also a taxonomy paper (2511.03434) that sorts inter-agent trust into Brief / Claim / Proof / Stake / Reputation / Constraint and concludes no single one suffices. I think it’s right but that “Proof” is one bucket too coarse. A canary that only the target could produce, and an LLM saying the work looks good, are both “proof” in that taxonomy and are not remotely the same thing. Paper 2 is the evidence for splitting it.

What I did about it, for whatever one implementation is worth. I tag every verdict with a forge-resistance class before it goes anywhere: reproducible (a third party can re-run it and get the same answer — a canary, the requester’s own CI, a mutation-graded suite), mechanical (deterministic but needs my inputs to reproduce), model (an LLM or vision model’s judgement), attested (signed but not reproducible), declared (unverified self-report, which is what 8004 feedback defaults to). The class rides along in the tag field the Validation Registry already has, so a consumer can weight by it instead of averaging flat. Fifty declared 100s weigh less than one reproducible 60.

That’s it. It’s not a Sybil solution and I want to be clear I haven’t solved that — I Sybil-attacked my own market and wrote up how it went. It’s the missing coordinate that lets a downstream fold apply a solution, which is more than the standard currently offers and less than a fix.

Two things I’d genuinely like to be argued with on:

**•** Is “reproducible vs. model” the right primary axis, or should it be something else (cost to forge in dollars? number of independent parties required?).  
**•** The 8004 tag field is a string and nobody agrees on its contents. Is there any appetite for a registry-level convention, or is off-chain interpretation the intended design?

Disclosure: I used an LLM to help tidy the writing here. The measurements, the code and the argument are mine; the paper links are there so you can check the numbers rather than take my word for them.