Nuon Monthly Update: March - April 2025
March 2025, Nuon has taken major steps to enhance security, governance, and yield strategies: it finalized a top-tier smart contract audit, integrated IPOR Fusion's new yield vault, expanded strategic partnerships, and joined prominent X Spaces on relevant industry topics.
In the past few weeks, Nuon has taken major steps to enhance security, governance, and yield strategies. From finalizing a top-tier smart contract audit, launching a bug bounty, and integrating new yield partners Midas and IPOR Fusion to hosting multiple X Spaces to deepen transparency, March and early April have been all about building trust, resilience, and expanding the Nuon ecosystem.
Guarded Launch and Testing
Following the public launch of the Nuon v2 protocol in early March via a controlled initial deployment, aka Guarded Launch, we’ve been focused on growing the protocol’s foundations — tightening security, expanding real-yield integrations, and opening up more ways for our community to participate and earn.
While February and early March were about launching Nuon v2 and introducing it to the public, the second half of March and April focused on making the protocol safer, smarter, and even more transparent.
Guarded Launch Goes Public, March 3, 2025
March 3 marked the full public release of Nuon v2, opening minting and staking to everyone with a minimum 1k minting requirement to limit access to angel investors and serious DeFi participants and limit risk exposure for retail users.
Guarded Launch had a goal to test the protocol in a live setting, gather feedback from stakeholders and early adopters, and complete the security audits.
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On-Chain Referrals with Affiliated Links Are Live
The launch of the Nuon protocol also initiated the protocol's state-of-the-art on-chain Referral Program that will be live for the next 2 years and is completely built into the protocol and the native token distribution schedule.
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The Guarded Launch Minimum Deposit Requirement is Lifted
As the Guarded Launch testing phase was completed successfully and the protocols security confirmed by live tests and audits, the minimum deposit requirement for minting Nuon has now been lifted, and for a short time left, the wider community can come and enjoy the high APY staking rewards, which are part of the exclusive MaxCap token distribution schedule.
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Building Secure Foundations
Decurity Smart Contract Audit Completed
On March 25, Nuon published the successful results of a comprehensive smart contract audit by Decurity, one of the most respected Web3 security firms in the space.
Decurity’s elite team of ethical hackers, ranked among the global top 50, conducted a rigorous assessment of Nuon’s smart contracts, confirming their robustness and operational soundness. The Nuon team, alongside developers from Protofire, diligently resolved or acknowledged all identified risks, ensuring a top-tier level of security across the protocol.
This marks a major milestone for Nuon, reinforcing our commitment to security and user protection as we scale.
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Safe Multisig Integration
In April, we added a significant upgrade to Nuon's security infrastructure through integration with Safe Multisig Wallet, the gold standard in decentralized security.
The integration's goal was to attract institutional investors, treasury managers, and protocols seeking to deposit larger amounts of assets under their care. They can now take advantage of a safe, liquid, and yield-bearing stablecoin like Nuon and interact with the Nuon protocol in the safest and easiest way possible, using a familiar Safe interface they already use for their secure asset management.
What Safe integration brings to the Nuon protocol:
- Enhanced Protection: Multiple signature requirements for all critical transactions
- Institutional-Grade Security: Implementing the same security standards used by leading DeFi protocols
- Strengthened Governance: An additional layer of security for protocol operations
- Future-Ready Infrastructure: Supporting our commitment to long-term stability
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Nuon Launches Bug Bounty Program
On April 3, we launched the Nuon Bug Bounty Program to encourage ethical hackers and seasoned Solidity developers to help us further secure the protocol. Building on the successful Decurity audit, this initiative invites experts to report vulnerabilities across Nuon smart contracts on Base, with bounties rewarded based on severity and reproducibility. Security remains at the heart of Nuon’s mission, and this program is another step toward making Nuon the safest stablecoin in DeFi.
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Optimizing Yield Allocations
Integration with the IPOR Fusion's USDC Lending Optimizer
On March 28, Nuon announced an ongoing collaboration with IPOR Labs, which resulted in a successful integration of IPOR Fusion's USDC Lending Optimizer into Nuon's portfolio of decentralized asset allocations.
Using the IPOR Fusion's powerful smart yield engine built for Base allows Nuon to tap into superior on-chain yield generation while maintaining full liquidity and minimizing risk. IPOR’s enterprise-grade optimization vaults dynamically allocate funds across top lending protocols, enhancing Nuon’s portfolio with higher, more stable real yields, even in volatile markets.
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Strategic Partnership with Midas
On March 12, Nuon announced the beginning of a major partnership with Midas, a tokenization platform bringing liquid real-world yield strategies on-chain.
Through Midas’ Liquid Yield Tokens (LYTs) and tokenized RWAs like T-bills, gold, BTC, and oil, Nuon will be working to build out an inflation backstop and unlock more resilient, diversified, and sustainable real yield.
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April 2025: Governance, Community, and Transparency
As we stepped into April, we doubled down on governance transparency, community engagement, and proactive security efforts.
Nuon Joins DAOBase Ecosystem
On April 1, Nuon officially joined DAOBase, a next-gen governance hub alongside industry heavyweights like Maker DAO, Yearn, Gnosis, and The Sandbox. This was a huge leap toward transparent, community-led governance. DAOBase offers real-time insights into DAO activities and treasury movements, making it the perfect platform to showcase Nuon’s growing decentralized infrastructure. As we prepare for the upcoming launch of MaxCap, Nuon’s governance token, joining DAOBase sets the stage for deeper community participation and DAO maturity.
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Nuon Launches Bug Bounty Program
On April 3, we launched the Nuon Bug Bounty Program to encourage ethical hackers and seasoned Solidity developers to help us further secure the protocol. Building on the successful Decurity audit, this initiative invites experts to report vulnerabilities across Nuon smart contracts on Base, with bounties rewarded based on severity and reproducibility. Security remains at the heart of Nuon’s mission, and this program is another step toward making Nuon the safest stablecoin in DeFi.
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Community Highlights
Ambassador Program Launch
On March 17, we introduced the Nuon Ambassador Program, calling on our community to help spread the word about Nuon across X and Telegram. The huge and incredibly positive response from the community took us by surprise as we went through over 1200 applications to choose the top 15 candidates.
Our Ambassadors, chosen from among the most active and dedicated community members, earn USDC rewards for their engagement efforts and help grow awareness around Nuon’s mission to bring simple, inflation-protected DeFi access to everyone.
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X Spaces: Governance, Dev Insights & Regulation
We hosted several X Spaces to keep the community informed about our product updates and partner projects. We also joined multiple prominent spaces as guest speakers to give our opinion on the major industry topics and trends of last month: stablecoin regulation, stablecoin yields, and web3 security, all incredibly important for Nuon's future development.
- Nuon x Midas RWA x Truflation - a roundtable discussion about the role of yields and tokenized RWA in inflation protection with Midas and Truflation. 🔗Listen on X (2.6k tuned in)
- Roundtable about Web3 Security — with guest speakers from Nuon Finance, Kerberus, Freename, Privado, and Haven1. 🔗Listen on X (2.1k tuned in)
- Hot topic discussion about the Stable Act 2025 — the future of regulation in the DeFi space and how Nuon aligns with evolving legal frameworks, with guest speakers from Bracket Finance, Nibiru chain, Stake Stone, and Nuon Finance. 🔗Listen on X (470 listened)
- Nuon x DAOBase — a deep dive into Nuon’s decentralized governance vision and how DAOBase supports it. 🔗Listen on X (180 listened)
- Builder AMA with Nuon and Protofire Devs — a technical session where Nuon’s development team discussed protocol architecture, smart contract safety, and roadmap progress. 🔗Listen on X (70 joined)
Summary
Over the past month, we’ve moved with intention, focusing on the long-term sustainability of Nuon by investing in security, optimizing our yield strategies, and strengthening our governance.
With a successful Decurity audit and live-testing completed and a second audit almost finalized, we are certain Nuon is now secure and battle-ready for broad, institutional-grade DeFi and TradFi adoption.
With powerful new integrations like IPOR Fusion and upcoming yield strategies from Midas, Nuon is already delivering real and sustainable yields above the market average while insulating Nuon holders from risks. And we will continue to go in this direction until Nuon provides the safest and easiest access to DeFi yields and inflation protection in the Web3 space.
What’s Next
As we move further into Q2, the focus turns to the launch of the MaxCap governance token, continued ecosystem integrations, and expanding partnerships.
We’ll also be rolling out MAXCAP airdrops and community reward initiatives to give back to our most loyal users and partners, especially from our highly supportive TRUF community, so make sure you stock up on some TRUF.
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