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Syndicate

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Syndicate

@syndicateio

The infrastructure to infinitely scale Ethereum: build customized, programmable, decentralized rollups and sequencers. A community-owned internet starts here.

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Joined August 2020

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Syndicate
@syndicateio
May 21
Syndicate Labs is winding down. After five years building onchain developer infrastructure, the rollup market has fundamentally shifted, making this decision necessary. Here's what this means for the network, token holders, and developers building with Syndicate.
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Syndicate
@syndicateio
May 21
Replying to @syndicateio
Team members and investors remain locked, with no affiliated individual able to access their allocations. We structured our vesting to align with long-term incentives, and no team member or investor has received any short-term benefit.
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Syndicate
@syndicateio
May 21
To every developer who shipped with our tools and every community member who contributed to the network: thank you. If you are interested in becoming a maintainer of the network, please DM us.
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Syndicate
@syndicateio
May 21
Our code is open source, permanently available, and open to contributors. This is true regardless of what happens with Syndicate Labs or the Syndicate Network Collective. Our work is there for any developer who wants to carry it forward.
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Syndicate
@syndicateio
May 21
Replying to @syndicateio
The Syndicate Network Collective is independent from Syndicate Labs, so SYND governance is not immediately affected. A successor could preserve the DUNA. Without one, we have a plan for an orderly wind down.
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Syndicate
@syndicateio
May 21
A few clarifications worth making directly. The decision to wind down was not influenced by the recent bridge compromise, and the two are unrelated. The affected customer and all SYND holders on Commons Chain have been made whole. Reimbursement was funded by treasury reserves
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Syndicate
@syndicateio
May 21
Replying to @syndicateio
We've spent half a decade seeking to make this ecosystem successful. We sincerely wish that we had a different outcome, and have dedicated ourselves for years to helping onchain applications succeed. We wish as much as everyone else that a different result were possible.
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Syndicate
@syndicateio
May 21
Syndicate is more than Syndicate Labs. Here's what stays. Syndicate has two entities. Syndicate Labs, the development company, and the Syndicate Network Collective, a separate Wyoming DUNA that holds SYND tokens with governance power.
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Syndicate
@syndicateio
May 21
Replying to @syndicateio
Syndicate has always focused on giving developers the customization and control to bring any app onchain, at scale. Unfortunately, the rollup market has shrunk dramatically. For every new rollup spinning up, several more are quietly shutting down.
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Syndicate
@syndicateio
May 21
The market has shifted away from our technology, making it impossible to wait out these market conditions. EVM rollups are no longer the standard. Instead, custom chains are being built by consulting teams from scratch, with very little reusable tech or network value.
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Syndicate
@syndicateio
May 18
Not every part of a system needs to be onchain. The trust boundaries that need to be verifiable do, and Stylus by @arbitrum made that practical for SyndDB.
Arbitrum
@arbitrum
May 14
The Arbitrum Platform is built for businesses that need more than standard smart contracts. Syndicate used Stylus to keep high-throughput infrastructure offchain while making critical trust boundaries verifiable onchain through SyndDB.
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Syndicate
@syndicateio
May 10
An update on the Syndicate bridge compromise: All impacted SYND holders on Commons Chain have been reimbursed in full plus an additional 15% of the total amount lost. These reimbursements have been sent directly to affected wallets on Base, with gas covered by Syndicate Labs.
basescan.org
Address: 0x5AcaADC3...93C02D6a5 | BaseScan
Contract: Unverified | Balance: $0 across 0 Chains | Transactions: 2,585 | As at Jun-21-2026 09:05:26 PM (UTC)
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Syndicate
@syndicateio
May 10
Additionally, as part of the response to the Syndicate bridge compromise, Syndicate Labs has also opted to burn an equal amount of SYND (the total reimbursed amount) from its treasury allocation to offset any long term impact on the circulating supply. This entire burn totals to
Ethereum Transaction Hash: 0xa58da82a98... | Etherscan
From etherscan.io
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Syndicate
@syndicateio
May 10
100% of affected holders and customers are now made whole after our bridge compromise. With this reimbursement, all impacted SYND holders have been made whole. One week ago, all impacted customers were made whole. Syndicate Labs chose not to reimburse its own affected holdings,
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Syndicate
@syndicateio
May 7
We have validated all holder and staker balances on Commons. We are importing them into our tool to send these balances to the corresponding addresses on Base. Before sending, we will perform further validation and simulations. We will have updates soon as this work continues
Syndicate
@syndicateio
May 3
An update on the Syndicate bridge compromise: Making users and customers whole is progressing quickly. The affected customer has been made whole. Making SYND holders on Commons whole is underway. Pre-compromise SYND balances on Commons have been snapshotted. We are
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Syndicate
@syndicateio
May 10
We are running a simulation of our Commons balance distribution tooling on Base Sepolia If all completes as expected, we will soon run our SYND distribution on Base There is no claim portal. All SYND will be directly sent to impacted wallets. There will be a view-only inspector
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Syndicate
@syndicateio
May 3
An update on the Syndicate bridge compromise: Making users and customers whole is progressing quickly. The affected customer has been made whole. Making SYND holders on Commons whole is underway. Pre-compromise SYND balances on Commons have been snapshotted. We are
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Syndicate
@syndicateio
Apr 30
Syndicate Labs experienced a security incident. A private key compromise enabled malicious upgrades to bridge contracts on two chains, moving ~18.5M SYND and ~$50,000 of tokens from customer chains. All impacted parties are being made whole. Details below ↓
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Syndicate
@syndicateio
Apr 30
Replying to @syndicateio
We plan to introduce hardware-backed or multisig-backed signing for upgrades, with alerting and circuit breakers on the upgrade path itself. This requires changes to our chain upgrade scripts, as well as additional validation.
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Syndicate
@syndicateio
Apr 30
Impacted users and customers are being made whole, made possible by careful treasury planning for situations like this. We hold ourselves to a high standard when user and customer funds are at risk, and we are committed to meeting that standard going forward.
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