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Deals•Feb 20, 2026
Kraken Acquires Magna for Early Token Support
U.S.-based exchange Kraken announced the acquisition of token‑management platform Magna, with the deal closing on Friday. Terms were undisclosed, but Kraken co‑CEO Arjun Sethi said the purchase will enable early support for token issuers as the exchange readies for a potential IPO.
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Deals•Feb 18, 2026
Hyper Foundation Invests $1M HYPE in New DC DeFi Policy Center
Hyper Foundation announced a $1M HYPE grant to launch a new Washington, DC‑based policy center aimed at clarifying DeFi regulations. The Hyperliquid Policy Center will lobby policymakers to shape clearer rules for the decentralized finance ecosystem, underscoring the foundation’s commitment...
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Deals•Feb 16, 2026
Flying Tulip Announces Public Token Sale for Feb 16
DeFi protocol Flying Tulip, founded by Yearn Finance’s Andre Cronje, is set to launch its public token sale on Feb 16, with the token trading on Feb 23. The sale follows prior fundraising rounds that raised over $290 million, and prediction markets value...
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Deals•Feb 5, 2026
Tether Makes $100M Strategic Equity Investment in Anchorage Digital
Tether announced a $100 million strategic equity investment in Anchorage Digital on Feb 5, 2026, aiming to bolster secure, regulated crypto‑banking infrastructure. The deal underscores a partnership between the leading stablecoin issuer and the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S.
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Deals•Dec 10, 2025
ETHZilla Takes 15% Stake in Zippy for $21M to Tokenize Manufactured Home Loans
Nasdaq‑listed ETHZilla Corporation announced a $21 million investment to acquire a 15 % fully‑diluted stake in Zippy, a digital platform for manufactured‑home loans. The deal includes cash and ETHZilla stock, and gives ETHZilla a board seat as the companies partner to tokenize...
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Deals•Dec 4, 2025
Galaxy Acquires Alluvial Finance to Boost Institutional Staking Infrastructure
Galaxy announced the acquisition of Alluvial Finance, aiming to expand its institutional liquid‑staking infrastructure. The deal will keep Liquid Collective under the oversight of its non‑profit foundation, signaling a strategic move into the crypto staking market.
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Deals•Dec 3, 2025
Ostium Labs Secures $24M Series A Funding Led by Jump Crypto and General Catalyst
Ostium Labs, a decentralized tokenized RWA exchange, announced a new Series A round raising $24 million, including a $20 million lead from Jump Crypto and General Catalyst. The round also saw participation from Coinbase Ventures, Wintermute Ventures, Crucible Capital and early users,...
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Deals•Dec 2, 2025
Sonnet BioTherapeutics Merges with Rorschach LLC to Form First HYPE Treasury Company
Sonnet BioTherapeutics announced a merger with Rorschach LLC, creating the inaugural major HYPE treasury company. The deal, valued at approximately $888 million, was approved and is expected to boost HYPE’s market presence.
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Deals•Nov 26, 2025
SpaceComputer Secures $10M Seed Funding to Build Secure Blockchain Compute Satellites
SpaceComputer announced a $10 million seed round to develop an orbital network for secure blockchain computing. The round was co‑led by Maven11 and Lattice, with participation from Superscrypt, the Arbitrum Foundation, Nascent, Offchain Labs, Hashkey, Chorus One and several individual investors.
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Deals•Nov 18, 2025
0xbow Secures $3.5M Seed Funding to Expand Privacy Pools
DeFi privacy platform 0xbow announced a $3.5 million seed round to grow its Privacy Pools technology. The round was led by Starbloom Capital and included investors such as Coinbase Ventures, BOOST VC and Status Research & Development GmbH. Funds will be used...
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Deals•Nov 10, 2025
Monad Announces $187 Million Public Token Sale on Coinbase Platform
Monad, a Layer‑1 blockchain, unveiled its tokenomics and announced a public sale of 7.5% of MON tokens on Coinbase’s new token‑sale platform, targeting a $187 million raise at a $2.5 billion valuation. The announcement sparked community backlash over allocation ratios but signals...
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Deals•Nov 7, 2025
Immunefi Announces $5M ICO on CoinList Ahead of 2026 Token Generation Event
Immunefi, the leading Web3 bug bounty firm, unveiled a public token sale on CoinList to raise $5 million, with the sale running Nov 12‑19. The offering will allocate 374 million IMU tokens at $0.01337 each, targeting a token generation event in February 2026. Proceeds...
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News•Nov 4, 2025
One Year On: Inside ApeChain’s Brief Rise and Slow Fall
ApeChain, the Yuga Labs‑backed Layer 3 built for the ApeCoin ecosystem, launched in October 2023 with promises of fast transactions, NFT staking and developer incentives, sparking a brief surge that pushed total value locked to a peak of $33.8 million in December...
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News•Nov 4, 2025
Bitcoin Breaches 10/10 Low as It Approaches $100,000
Bitcoin slipped to about $101,000, a 6% drop in 24 hours and 12% weekly, as the broader crypto market fell 6% to $3.44 trillion. Major altcoins such as Ethereum, BNB, Solana and XRP posted double‑digit weekly losses, while spot Bitcoin and...
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News•Nov 4, 2025
ZKsync Proposes Utility and Revenue Focused Tokenomics Shift
ZKsync announced a revised tokenomics plan that would convert its ZK token from a pure governance role into a utility token whose value is derived from on‑chain interoperability fees and off‑chain enterprise licensing revenue. The proposal, the first phase of...
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News•Nov 4, 2025
Aave DAO Makes $50 Million Annual Token Buybacks Permanent
The Aave DAO voted unanimously to make its $50 million‑per‑year token buyback program permanent, allocating weekly purchases of $250,000‑$1.75 million from protocol revenue. The move embeds the buyback into Aave’s long‑term “Aavenomics” strategy, leveraging its $12.7 million‑30‑day revenue and allowing the Finance Committee...
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News•Nov 3, 2025
Sports Betting Pushes Kalshi and Polymarket Volumes to All-Time Highs
October saw prediction‑market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket post record volumes of $7.4 billion combined, driven largely by a surge in sports‑betting activity. Kalshi handled $4.4 billion, including $1.1 billion in sports bets over a week, while Polymarket processed $3 billion, with $357 million in sports...
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News•Nov 3, 2025
Ethena USDe Market Cap Drops 40% After ‘Black Friday’ October 10 Crash
Ethena Labs' synthetic dollar‑pegged token USDe saw its market capitalization plunge by more than $5 billion in the three‑and‑a‑half weeks following the Oct. 10 “Black Friday” flash crash, falling from roughly $14.6 billion to about $9.2 billion – a near‑40% drop. The crash triggered...
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News•Nov 3, 2025
Crypto Markets Start November in the Red as Bitcoin Dips Below $108,000
Bitcoin slipped below $108,000 on Nov. 3, trading around $107,800—a 2% drop that pulled the total crypto market cap to $3.68 trillion, down roughly 3% in 24 hours, with the top ten assets each losing 1%‑6%. Over $539 million in leveraged positions were liquidated,...
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News•Nov 1, 2025
T3 FCU Has Frozen Over $300 Million in Illicit Funds
T3 Financial Crime Unit (FCU), a joint effort by Tether, Tron and TRM Labs, reported freezing more than $300 million in illicit on‑chain assets since its September 2024 launch, highlighted by a cooperation with Brazil's Federal Police to seize 4.3 million USDT tied...
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News•Oct 31, 2025
Maple’s SYRUP Stakers Vote to End Staking Rewards, Launch DAO Treasury
Maple Finance’s SYRUP stakers voted overwhelmingly—over 99% of voting power—to end staking rewards and allocate 25% of ongoing protocol revenue to a newly created Syrup Strategic Fund (SSF). The SSF will serve as a DAO treasury holding SYRUP, Bitcoin and...
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News•Oct 31, 2025
Bitcoin Scrambles to Close October in Green as 2018 Sell-Off Shadows Loom
BTC is back above $110,000, but it’s still not enough to close the "Uptober" in the green.
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News•Oct 31, 2025
BlackRock, Securitize Reduce BUIDL’s Market Cap on Ethereum by 60%
BlackRock and its tokenization partner Securitize have shifted a large portion of the $2.8 billion BUIDL fund from Ethereum to Avalanche, Aptos and Polygon, slashing its Ethereum market cap by roughly 60% to about $990 million. In the same week, holdings on...
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News•Oct 31, 2025
The Next $100B DeFi Market: Real DNS Domains
D3 is launching an Ethereum L2 platform that tokenizes real DNS domains such as .com, .ai and .xyz, making them fully ICANN‑compliant and granting true ownership rights. The system enables fractionalization, fungible trading, collateralization and revenue‑sharing of domain assets, eliminating...
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Deals•Oct 31, 2025
Securitize to Go Public via $1.25B SPAC Deal with Cantor Equity Partners II
Securitize announced it will become a publicly listed company through a business combination with SPAC Cantor Equity Partners II, valuing the combined entity at about $1.25 billion. The transaction is expected to list the new company on Nasdaq under the ticker...
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News•Oct 30, 2025
FourMeme Surpasses Pumpfun With $43 Million in Monthly Revenue
FourMeme, the Binance Smart Chain memecoin launchpad, generated $43 million in fees over the past 30 days, outpacing Solana‑based Pumpfun by 13% and becoming the fourth‑largest DeFi revenue source after Hyperliquid, Circle, and Tether. The platform’s surge came as overall memecoin trading...
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News•Oct 30, 2025
NFTs Crater as Farmers Abandon OpenSea
NFT volumes on OpenSea have slumped 48% in the past week following the first XP chest‑farming campaign, with legacy collections such as Bored Ape Yacht Club and Pudgy Penguins falling over 50% since the summer rally. Prices are also tumbling—BAYC...
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News•Oct 30, 2025
NEAR Cuts Inflation Rate by Half Despite Failed Community Vote
NEAR Protocol completed a network upgrade that slashes its annual token inflation from 5% to roughly 2.4%, cutting staking yields from about 9% to 4.5% and curbing the issuance of ~60 million new tokens per year. The change was enacted despite...
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News•Oct 30, 2025
CLANKER Jumps 350% After Farcaster Acquires the AI Token Launchpad
Farcaster acquired Clanker, an AI‑agent token launchpad on Base, sending the CLANKER token up more than 350% to an all‑time high near $143 before settling around $112. The deal will embed Clanker's token‑launching AI (tokenbot) deeper into Farcaster’s app, with...
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News•Oct 30, 2025
On-Chain Revenue Hits $20 Billion in 2025 as DeFi Drives Growth
On‑chain revenue hit $20 billion in 2025, with users paying $9.7 billion in fees in the first half of the year – a 41% YoY increase and the highest H1 total on record. DeFi generated 63% of those fees, led by DEX...
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News•Oct 30, 2025
MegaETH ICO Crosses $1 Billion in Commitments
MegaETH, a real‑time Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain, is set to close its ICO on Oct. 30 with a $50 million cap, yet more than $1 billion in commitments from roughly 38,000 investors averaging $25,000 each. Bids can reach $186,282 and are priced up to...
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News•Oct 30, 2025
Hedera Rallies on Canary Capital ETF Launch
Canary Capital launched exchange‑traded funds for Hedera (HBAR) and Litecoin (LTC) on Oct. 28, triggering a 22% rally in HBAR to $0.22 and a market cap of $9 billion, while LTC slipped up to 5% after an earlier 5% gain. The HBAR...
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News•Oct 30, 2025
Former FTX US President Brett Harrison to Launch Perpetuals Exchange
Former FTX US president Brett Harrison announced the launch of Architect, a Bermuda‑registered perpetual derivatives exchange branded AX that will trade perpetual futures on stocks, indices, interest rates and commodities using a central‑limit‑order‑book model with centrally cleared, anonymous matching. The...
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Deals•Oct 30, 2025
MegaETH ICO Set to Raise up to $50M as over $1B in Bids Compete for MEGA Tokens
MegaETH is closing its initial coin offering on 2025-10-30 with a $50 million cap, though more than $1 billion in commitments have been placed for MEGA token allocations. The sale is run via Sonar, allows token lockups for discounts, and...
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News•Oct 29, 2025
Bittensor Rallies Ahead of First TAO Halving
Bittensor’s native TAO token is rallying ahead of its first halving scheduled for Dec. 10, gaining about 50% in the past 30 days and ranking as the second‑best‑performing top‑100 altcoin. The halving, modeled on Bitcoin’s supply‑cut mechanism, is expected to reduce circulating...
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News•Oct 29, 2025
Morpho Gets $775 Million of Pre-Deposits From Stable, Adds Support for Optimism
DeFi lending platform Morpho, now the eighth‑largest protocol with roughly $8 billion TVL, secured a $775 million pre‑deposit from Stable, the Bitfinex‑backed stablechain, to be allocated across Gauntlet‑managed vaults. The deposit will be split among multiple Morpho vaults, underscoring a broader shift...
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News•Oct 29, 2025
AERO Soars 10% as Animoca Market Buys Aerodrome's Native Token
Animoca Brands announced it purchased an undisclosed amount of Aerodrome’s native AERO token on the Base network, buying at market price and immediately max‑locking the tokens as veAERO for voting power and long‑term staking rewards. The news lifted AERO more...
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News•Oct 29, 2025
Crypto Sale Moves From ETHZilla, Sequans Spark DAT Unwind Fears
Ethereum treasury firm ETHZilla sold roughly $40 million of ETH and used $12 million to repurchase 600,000 shares, narrowing its market‑to‑NAV discount to 0.62 and lifting its Nasdaq price 5.4%. Bitcoin treasury company Sequans transferred about 970 BTC to a Coinbase Prime hot...
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News•Oct 28, 2025
Tokenized Nasdaq Futures Enter Top 10 by Volume on Hyperliquid
Hyperliquid’s HIP‑3 upgrade launched the permissionless XYZ100 market, a tokenized Nasdaq‑100 futures contract that broke into the exchange’s top‑10 assets by daily volume, posting $72 million in 24‑hour volume and $55 million in open interest. To accommodate the surge, Hyperliquid raised its...
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News•Oct 28, 2025
REP Jumps 50% in a Week as Dev Gets Community Support for Augur Fork
Augur developer Micah Zoltu has raised 200,000 REP to fund an algorithmic fork that will test the protocol’s built‑in dispute system and force inactive token holders to migrate or lose access. The fork will trigger a 60‑day migration window after...
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News•Oct 28, 2025
Crypto Market Edges Lower While US Stocks Hit New Highs
The cryptocurrency market slipped on Tuesday, with Bitcoin flat around $115,200 and Ethereum down 2% to $4,099, while other major tokens fell 1‑1.5%; small‑cap Hedera surged 12% and a few niche coins rose 7%. Global crypto market cap slipped to...
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News•Oct 27, 2025
AI Sector Rebounds as Agent Payment Systems Gain Traction
AI‑focused small‑cap tokens are rallying after a slump, with the Virtuals ecosystem jumping 84% in a week and its flagship coins TIBBIR and AIXBT gaining 27% and 54% respectively following Coinbase’s October 24 rollout of Virtuals‑based AI agent tokens. The...
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News•Oct 27, 2025
MetaMask Fuels Airdrop Buzz With Token Claim Domain Registration
MetaMask registered the domains claim.metamask.io and gift.metamask.io, sparking fresh speculation that a native $MASK token airdrop is imminent. Polymarket odds for a 2025 launch jumped from 11% to over 40% before settling around 17% as the news spread across forums...
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News•Oct 27, 2025
Crypto Phones Struggle as Solana Quietly Pulls Plug on Saga
Solana Mobile has discontinued software and security updates for its first‑generation Saga phone, leaving roughly 20,000 active units unsupported just over two years after its $1,000 launch and price cut to $599. The Saga’s failure, echoed by critics like Marques...
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News•Oct 27, 2025
TVL on Kraken’s L2 Ink Surges 3,800% in Less Than Two Weeks
Ink, Kraken's Optimism‑based L2 launched in December 2024, saw its total value locked surge 3,800% in under two weeks, rising from $6.42 million to about $249 million. More than 97% of the jump came from Tydro, a non‑custodial lending protocol built as...
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News•Oct 24, 2025
2025 Is the Year ‘Crypto Went Mainstream’: A16z
Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z Crypto declares 2025 the year crypto ‘went mainstream,’ citing a total market value above $4 trillion, mobile wallet users up 20%, an estimated 40–70 million active users (roughly +10 million year‑over‑year), and on‑chain holdings rising to $175...
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News•Oct 24, 2025
Stable Controversially Pre-Fills $825 Million Vault
Stable, a Bitfinex‑backed stablechain, launched a capped $825 million public deposit vault that was revealed to be nearly full at announcement time after $500 million (60%) had already been pre‑deposited by ten wallets tied to the vault owner. On‑chain evidence...
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News•Oct 24, 2025
GENIUS Has Yet to Take Effect, Despite Some Firms Claiming to Be ‘Regulated’ and ‘Compliant’
Although the GENIUS Act was signed into law on July 18, 2025, it has not yet taken effect and remains in a public comment period running through Nov. 4, 2025, meaning no stablecoin issuer is currently regulated under it. Firms...
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Deals•Oct 24, 2025
Ripple Completes $1.25B Acquisition of Hidden Road, Rebrands It as Ripple Prime
Ripple has completed its acquisition of global prime broker Hidden Road for $1.25 billion and rebranded the business as Ripple Prime. The deal expands Ripple into institutional prime brokerage and supports greater use of its stablecoin RLUSD and XRP in...
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Deals•Oct 24, 2025
Pumpfun Acquires Multichain Memecoin Trading Terminal Padre
Pumpfun has acquired Padre, a multichain memecoin trading terminal operating on Solana, Base, Ethereum, and BNB Smart Chain, expanding Pumpfun's memecoin trading stack and challenging trading bots. The deal was announced on 2025-10-24; no financial terms were disclosed.
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News•Oct 23, 2025
Can Decentralized Networks Make the Internet More Resilient?
A multi‑hour AWS outage that disrupted major apps including Robinhood has reignited debate over the internet’s concentration in a few cloud providers—AWS, Azure and Google Cloud together control over 60% of the market (AWS 30%, Azure 21%, Google 12%). Experts...
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News•Oct 23, 2025
Aster Rallies on ‘Rocket Launch’ Incentives Campaign
Aster, a decentralized exchange on BNB Smart Chain, rallied after unveiling a new incentives program called “Rocket Launch,” which will allocate reward pools in ASTER and partner tokens to traders based on volume and requires holding a minimum (undisclosed) amount...
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News•Oct 23, 2025
BNB Rallies After Trump Pardons Binance Founder CZ
President Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, prompting a 7% intraday rally in BNB to $1,145 and lifting the token’s market cap to over $158 billion. The pardon, coming after Zhao’s November 2023 guilty plea and a $4.3 billion...
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News•Oct 23, 2025
Crypto Token Buybacks Surge Fivefold as Projects Return More Revenue to Holders
Crypto projects have ramped up token buybacks and direct distributions more than fivefold since 2024, with Keyrock finding that the 12 studied projects returned an average 64% of revenue to tokenholders. The shift toward revenue-sharing—often executed via programmatic, discretionary or...
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News•Oct 23, 2025
HYPE Jumps 10% as Robinhood Announces Spot Listing
HYPE surged about 10.8% to just over $40 after Robinhood announced it would list Hyperliquid’s HYPE token on its retail platform, though the asset won’t support smart order routing or be available on Robinhood’s pro Legend interface. The move coincides...
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News•Oct 23, 2025
MegaETH Pre-Market Valuation Taps $6 Billion
Ethereum Layer‑2 project MegaETH announced a community-led raise via Sonar with an English auction starting at $1 million and capped at $999 million, timed with the launch of MEGA pre‑market perpetuals on Hyperliquid. The pre‑market briefly implied a $6 billion...
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Deals•Oct 23, 2025
Hyperliquid Strategies Files S-1 to Raise up to $1B in Public Offering
Hyperliquid Strategies filed an S-1 prospectus on Oct 22, 2025 outlining plans to offer up to $1 billion in a public offering of 160 million shares to build a digital asset treasury. The filing signals the company's intent to go...
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Deals•Oct 23, 2025
Aave Labs Acquires Stable Finance to Simplify Stablecoin Savings
Aave Labs has acquired San Francisco fintech startup Stable Finance, bringing founder Mario Baxter Cabrera and the full engineering team into Aave Labs to accelerate consumer-facing DeFi products and simplify stablecoin savings. The Stable app will be phased out as...
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Deals•Oct 23, 2025
Kalshi Raises $300M From Paradigm, Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz
Kalshi raised $300 million from venture firms including Paradigm, Sequoia, and Andreessen Horowitz to support its crypto and on‑chain expansion. The funding backs Kalshi's push into on‑chain prediction markets and integrations such as its partnership with oracle RedStone.
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News•Oct 22, 2025
FET Drops Over 10% as Fetchai Pushes Legal Action Against Ocean Protocol
Fetchai has launched collective legal action and accused Ocean Protocol of converting 661 million OCEAN into 286 million FET in July and routing roughly 270 million FET to exchanges and an OTC desk, allegations Ocean calls baseless. The dispute has...
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News•Oct 22, 2025
Hyperliquid-Based Kinetiq Unveils KNTQ Governance Token
Kinetiq Foundation launched KNTQ, a 1 billion‑supply governance token for the Kinetiq liquid‑staking protocol on Hyperliquid’s HyperEVM, aiming to give holders governance rights and shape protocol direction. The distribution allocates 30% to protocol growth/rewards, 25% to an initial airdrop (1%...
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News•Oct 22, 2025
ENA Jumps 4% as First Ethena-Native DEX Ethereal Launches Mainnet Alpha
Ethereal, the first Ethena-native spot and perpetual DEX, has launched its mainnet alpha, allowing a limited group of users to trade using USDe, Ethena Labs’ synthetic dollar. The DEX runs on a bespoke EVM appchain (Ethereal Chain) with execution on...
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News•Oct 22, 2025
Nearly Half of U.S. Retail Crypto Holders Haven’t Earned Yield: MoreMarkets
A MoreMarkets report finds nearly half of U.S. retail crypto holders have never earned yield, estimating 20–36 million earn yield via centralized exchanges while only 500,000–700,000 use DeFi—meaning about 97% of yield earners favor CEXs. The survey cites liquidity concerns...
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News•Oct 22, 2025
Ethereum Foundation Announces Gas Limit Cap for Upcoming Fusaka Upgrade
The Ethereum Foundation said it will introduce EIP‑7825 with the Fusaka hard fork in December, imposing a per‑transaction gas cap of 16.78 million (down from the current ability for one transaction to consume a full 45 million‑gas block). The cap...
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Deals•Oct 22, 2025
Kinetiq Raised $1.75M From Hyperliquid‑ecosystem Investors
Kinetiq (the Kinetiq Foundation) raised $1.75 million from investors active within the Hyperliquid ecosystem, the Foundation revealed. The funding was disclosed alongside the launch of Kinetiq's KNTQ governance token and follows the protocol's rapid TVL growth since launching in July...
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Deals•Oct 22, 2025
DraftKings Acquires Railbird to Launch DraftKings Predictions
DraftKings announced the acquisition of Railbird as it prepares to launch a new prediction markets platform, DraftKings Predictions. Polymarket Clearing will serve as the designated clearinghouse for the product's backend infrastructure.
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News•Oct 21, 2025
KDA Plummets as Kadena Organization Shuts Down Operations
Kadena Organization said it will immediately shut down operations and cut formal ties to the Kadena Layer‑1 blockchain, triggering a 60% one‑day drop in the KDA token and an 85% decline over the past year to a $30 million market...
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News•Oct 21, 2025
Maple and Aave Team Up to Bring Institutional Assets to DeFi Lending Markets
Maple Finance, which manages roughly $3.1 billion in assets, will integrate its institutional-grade syrup tokens (starting with syrupUSDT and syrupUSDC) into Aave’s $40 billion decentralized lending protocol to channel curated institutional yield into Aave liquidity pools. The partnership aims to...
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News•Oct 21, 2025
Why Yat Siu Believes Altcoins Will Surpass Bitcoin
Animoca Brands co‑founder Yat Siu outlined a plan to tackle Web3’s identity and trust problems by building a reputation layer using zero‑knowledge proofs and a Mocaverse loyalty SDK that ties staking power and airdrops to verifiable, cross‑chain identities. He revealed...
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News•Oct 21, 2025
Meteora Trades at $1 Billion Pre-Market Valuation Ahead of TGE
Meteora is trading at an implied $1 billion fully diluted pre‑market valuation ahead of its token generation event Thursday, down from a $1.8 billion opening on Oct. 10 and reflecting gradual pullback since the broader altcoin sell‑off. The Solana DEX—third‑largest...
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Deals•Oct 21, 2025
Coinbase Acquires Echo for $375 Million to Expand On‑Chain Fundraising
Coinbase has acquired blockchain fundraising platform Echo in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $375 million. The acquisition will integrate Echo’s Sonar public token sale platform into Coinbase’s on‑chain capital formation tools and bring Echo co‑founder Jordan “Cobie” Fish to...
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News•Oct 20, 2025
HumidiFi Tops Monthly Solana DEX Volumes and Teases Airdrop
HumidiFi, a proprietary AMM launched in June, topped monthly Solana DEX volumes with about $34 billion traded—surpassing Meteora’s $31.5 billion and Raydium’s $21.4 billion. The exchange’s prop-AMM model, which reduces slippage by eliminating adverse flow, appears to be drawing market‑maker...
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Deals•Oct 20, 2025
Greenlane Raises $110M Private Placement to Fund BERA DAT with Polychain Lead
Greenlane Holdings announced a $110 million private placement to fund its new BERA digital asset treasury (DAT), led by Polychain Capital and including institutional/crypto investors such as Blockchain.com, Kraken, North Rock Digital, CitizenX and dao5, supported by the Berachain Foundation....
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Deals•Oct 20, 2025
Turtle Raises $5.5M to Expand Programmable DeFi Liquidity Infrastructure
On‑chain liquidity distribution protocol Turtle raised $5.5 million, bringing total funding to $11.7 million. The capital will fund engineering hires, product infrastructure, and cross‑chain integrations; investors include GSR, FalconX, Anchorage VC and founders from Polygon, 1inch and Gnosis.
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Deals•Oct 19, 2025
Kalshi Raises $300M in Growth-Stage Financing as Prediction Markets Go Mainstream
Kalshi secured $300 million in financing as it positions itself as a regulated, institutional prediction market; the raise accompanies broader investor interest in the space as incumbents and exchanges eye the market.
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Deals•Oct 17, 2025
Stripe-Backed Tempo Raises $500M Series A at $5B Valuation
Tempo, a payments-focused blockchain developed by Stripe and Paradigm, raised $500 million in a Series A round led by Thrive Capital and Greenoaks, valuing the company at $5 billion. Additional participants included Sequoia, Ribbit Capital, and SV Angel; Stripe and...
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Deals•Oct 16, 2025
Ventuals Raises $38M in HYPE Deposits Within 30 Minutes to Fund HIP-3 Markets
Ventuals launched a HYPE liquid staking vault to fund its HIP-3 permissionless derivatives market, collecting roughly $38 million (just over 1 million HYPE) within the first 30 minutes and reaching 1.29 million HYPE by time of reporting. The launch included...
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Deals•Oct 10, 2025
Umbra Completes Oversubscribed ICO, Caps Raise at $3M After $150M+ Commitments
Privacy protocol Umbra concluded its ICO on 2025-10-10, pricing UMBRA at $0.30 and capping the raise at $3 million (roughly $8.55M FDV) after more than $150M in commitments. The token launched on secondary markets trading ~5x ICO price; the sale...
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Deals•Oct 8, 2025
Plume to Acquire Dinero to Add Liquid Staking and Compliance Infrastructure
Plume announced plans to acquire Dinero to integrate liquid staking products and compliance infrastructure into Plume’s real-world asset blockchain. The acquisition aims to strengthen Plume’s DeFi capabilities and compliance features for tokenized assets.
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Deals•Oct 7, 2025
ICE Invests $2B in Polymarket to Expand Into Prediction Markets
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has invested $2 billion in Polymarket in a strategic corporate funding round, making ICE a global distributor of Polymarket data and supporting Polymarket's expansion into prediction markets. The partnership positions ICE to distribute Polymarket's data while providing...
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Deals•Oct 7, 2025
Intercontinental Exchange Invests $2 Billion in Polymarket
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) made a $2 billion investment in decentralized prediction market platform Polymarket, signaling major corporate backing for the sector. The investment was highlighted amid record trading volumes across prediction markets and increased mainstream partnerships.
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Deals•Oct 3, 2025
Orange Cap Games Acquires Moonbirds Ahead of BIRB Token Launch
Moonbirds, the NFT collection, was acquired by Orange Cap Games and is set to launch its BIRB token on Solana amid a surge in trading volume. The article notes the collection’s trading volume rose over 1,000% in 90 days and...
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Deals•Oct 2, 2025
Avalanche Treasury Co. To Merge with Mountain Lake Acquisition in $675M Deal
Avalanche Treasury Co. announced a planned $675 million merger with SPAC Mountain Lake Acquisition. The transaction includes $460 million in assets and a discounted purchase of AVAX tokens from the Avalanche Foundation, effectively bringing Avalanche Treasury public via the SPAC...
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Deals•Oct 1, 2025
IHC Backs ADI Chain to Launch Dirham-Backed Stablecoin
Abu Dhabi-based conglomerate IHC has backed ADI Chain, an L2 blockchain project building a dirham-backed stablecoin to onboard the region’s financial system onto blockchain. The backing is a corporate investment to support ADI Chain’s development and stablecoin launch; financial terms...
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