CZ Says YZi Labs' Winter Bets Could Be Biggest Winners
Countercyclical capital is venture's oldest edge, but a $10B crypto-native family office making that case publicly while naming specific deals lands harder.
Funding rounds, seed and Series raises, project token sales, grants, and bankruptcy events.
Countercyclical capital is venture's oldest edge, but a $10B crypto-native family office making that case publicly while naming specific deals lands harder.
Debt-heavy AI infrastructure creates the key vulnerability: if returns lag, the capital rush into data centers could reverse into a broader liquidity headwind for crypto.
Only 4.7% reached both milestones, pointing to token launches and Series A rounds as alternative graduation paths rather than sequential steps.
Singapore captured 82.5% of the region's $6.2B cumulative blockchain funding, and a single Crypto.com Series D accounts for nearly 60% of this year's total.
$10B in YTD payment volume backs the pitch, but the real signal is the investor mix: CMT Digital, Lightspeed Faction, and Stellar Development Foundation co-financing stablecoin-rail plumbing for…
Back's stake could climb to 27.8% if all warrants exercise, signaling multi-year conviction in Europe's listed BTC treasury play rather than a one-off bid.
Newer altcoin-tracking treasury vehicles like CYPH (+142%) and PURR (+62%) are running circles around Strategy's 30%, suggesting the next leg of the trade is moving past bitcoin exposure into…
Galaxy Research data shows later-stage deals took 57% of Q1 crypto VC capital while pre-seed slipped to 19% of transactions, the thinnest founding-stage market since 2020.
PONS and Pump.fun are leading a broad-based fee revival that signals speculation is returning structurally, not just as a short-term bounce.
Memecoins dominate the top tier, reinforcing their role as a fast route to liquidity and attention after TGE.
The 40% valuation jump in a matter of months reflects how fast regulated prediction markets are scaling, with the Trump administration actively suing states that try to constrain them.
A $300M check from 1789 Capital, tied to a politically connected family, is the kind of legitimizing capital prediction markets have chased for years.
The dollar figures look close, but the SEC's $75M rule and Senate Section 103 attach to different legal mechanisms.
ETH trades at overbought RSI 76.3 against $2,500 resistance while spot inflows stay thin. The counterweight is BTC's 59.79% dominance: rotation only counts if fresh capital arrives, not just relative…
The Oct. 20 comment window is the last formal chance to redraw a framework that decides whether US crypto ventures raise from public markets or stay offshore.
When federal NSF funding dried up, the lab turned to an OnlyFans account and a Pump.fun memecoin whose creator royalties now exceed $150K.
Equity-method affiliate status signals SBI is treating Ajaib as a strategic anchor for its Japan-to-Indonesia digital-asset network, not a portfolio bet, with stablecoin settlement as the live thread.
The headline $30B capex is loud, but the deeper signal is shorter GPU payback, $4.7B in contracted cloud revenue, and a US grid queue that runs five years, all of which Bernstein says make IREN's…
Low-cost tasks let users track five funded projects in their early stages, but participation creates only potential eligibility and does not guarantee an airdrop.
The Seoul court's ruling is the first of four unjust enrichment suits Bithumb filed to claw back proceeds from its February 620,000 BTC mishap, setting precedent for how exchanges can recover from…