🤑 Let's go back 11 years:

“The team also planned to release a promotional brochure to raise funds for the project. A “pre-sale” of a special internal currency, Ether, was announced. According to Swiss law, Ether was described in the brochure not as currency or securities but as the basic computer platform on which various applications would later be developed.

The sale occurred from July 22 to September 2, 2014. As a result, more than 29,000 Bitcoins were raised — worth over $14.5 million at the end of August. Judging by this figure and the fact it was achieved in just six weeks, this is one of the most successful crowdfunding efforts in history, at least among those conducted on platforms like Kickstarter.”

It's so painful sometimes to read books about the history of cryptocurrencies.

#VC #history


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🔑 What makes Rayls stand out is offering banks a blockchain that actually respects regulations while integrating top-notch privacy with ZK proofs and homomorphic encryption

They’ve got some big partnerships like Brazil’s Central Bank pilot and JPMorgan backing their tech for tokenized funds

The vision? Unlock the $100 trillion TradFi liquidity safely on-chain with a network that combines public Ethereum Layer-2 with private, permissioned subnetworks


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Daily Dose of News 💿
October 21, Tuesday


♟ General:

• Waller signals Fed’s shift toward embracing crypto, proposes ‘skinny master account’ for payment innovators. Link.

• Prediction markets are now doing more volume than their peak during the election. Link.

🔔 Product updates:

• Tether's USDT reached 500 million total users in October 2025. Link.

• Solana quietly ends support for Saga mobile phone just two years after launch. Link.

🖥 Release:

• Ethereal Mainnet Alpha is Now Live. Link.

• Limitless Tokenomics Officially Announced. Link.

🗳 Treasures:

• SharpLink acquired 19,271 ETH at ~$3,892, bringing total holdings to 859,853 ETH valued at $3.5B. Link.

🍜 M&A:

• Coinbase Ventures has acquired Echo. Link.

• Pier Two has acquired Blockport. Link.

💰 Fundraising:

• Sign $25.5M Strategic Round. Link.

• Limitless Raises $10M. Link.

• Printr $2M Extended Seed Round. Link.

• Kotani Strategic Round. Link.


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🎴 Not funny, but a fact:

Prediction markets are now doing more volume than their peak during the election


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🧐 In Focus: Tempo. Link.

Launched publicly in September 2025, this groundbreaking blockchain aims to solve the performance and usability gaps traditional blockchains face in handling high-volume corporate payments.

Author: Green But Red

#article


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📺 Remember when they handed six AI bots $10K each to trade crypto?

DeepSeek crushed it up 30% in 2 days - while ChatGPT and Gemini tanked.

Well, now Talus just teamed up with Lagrange to make sure AI agents can’t pull a fast one on you. They’re integrating DeepProve, the world’s fastest zkML library, into Talus agents so every on-chain action comes with a cryptographic receipt.

DeepProve breaks AI inference into parallel chunks, proves each step, then packs it all into one compact proof - no data leaks, no black boxes. It’s already live on GPT-2, Gemma3, MLPs, and CNNs in DeFi and enterprise pilots.

• Phase 1: PoC in Nexus—agents will generate proof of their on-chain decisions.  
• Phase 2: Rollout to idol. fun’s AvA Markets for provably fair AI vs AI duels and Talus Vision for verifiable workflow templates.

Why you should care: If agents are gonna manage your money, execute complex DeFi strategies, or handle enterprise workflows, you need proof they’re doing what they claim. This partnership gives you that


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Daily Dose of News 💿
October 22, Wednesday


♟ General:

• Hong Kong's first spot Solana ETF starts trading on Oct. 27. Link.

• U.S. retailer Bealls Inc., founded over a century ago, reveals collaboration with digital payments provider Flexa to roll out crypto acceptance at more than 660 stores across U.S. Link.

• Crypto exchanges begin delisting Kadena after 65% price plunge on shutdown plans. Link.

🔔 Product updates:

• National Hockey League reached licensing agreements with prediction-market startups Kalshi and Polymarket. Link.

• Crypto exchange HTX sued by UK for unlawful promotion of assets. Link.

• Kraken says revenue doubled in the Q3. Link.

• Aave DAO proposes a $50 million annual Aave buyback plan. Link.

🖥 Release:

• 1inch integrates Flowdesk to route Societe Generale–FORGE’s EURCV and USDCV into DeFi. Link.

• Pharos AtlanticOcean Testnet is Now Live. Link.

🛍 Incentives:

• Limitless Airdrop Claim is Live. Link.

• Turtle Airdrop Claim is Live. Link.

🍜 M & A:

• FalconX has acquired 21Shares. Link.

• Modern Treasury has acquired beam. Link.

💰 Fundraising:

• BitcoinOS $10M Funding Round. Link.

• Cybrid $10M Series A Round. Link.

• Tesser $4.5M Seed Round. Link.

• Aureo $1.1M Pre-Seed Round. Link.

• TBook $5M Strategic Round. Link.

• StraitsX $10M Strategic Round. Link.


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🥸 By the way, I talked about this gap back in May.


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👑 Five years ago, Tether’s USDT had just 3 million wallets

Today? Over 500 million - a 160x leap!

From a niche trading tool to a global lifeline, $USDT has become the bridge between worlds - linking unbanked economies to digital dollars and reshaping what “financial access” means

Thanx CryptoRank for the chart 🤝


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🥸 “State of Crypto” report by a16z. Link.

I still remember 2017 when crypto felt like a wild frontier - chaotic, brilliant, but far from mainstream.

Fast forward to 2025, and reading the new a16z Crypto report, it’s clear: that frontier is now a global industry.

Author: Green But Red
Based on: a16z Crypto

#report #research #review


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Daily Dose of News 🎧
October 23, Thursday


♟ General:

• Coinbase is launching Payments MCP, the easiest way for agents to get onchain via x402. Link.

🔔 Product updates:

• Kalshi said to get investor offers at more than $10 billion valuation. Link.

🖥 Release:

• Plasma obtains VASP license, opens Amsterdam office to expand stablecoin payments in EU. Link.

🗳 Treasures:

• Hyperliquid Strategies seeks $1 billion raise to expand HYPE treasury. Link.

🛍 Incentives:

• MegaETH Token Sale Details Are Out. Link.

• Mint Rainbow New App Icon NFT. Link.

• Meteora Airdrop Claim and Listing Soon. Link.

🍜 M & A:

• DeFi specialist Aave Labs acquires Stable Finance, expands consumer access to onchain savings. Link.

💰 Fundraising:

• Tether joins $39 million funding round in 'programmable' Pave Bank. Link.

• Kinetiq $1.75M Seed Round. Link.

• bitsCrunch $500K Strategic Round. Link.


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👨‍🚀 Coinbase has just opened the door to the future. Link.

The payment system Payments MCP now allows AI agents (Claude, Gemini and others) to get full access to crypto wallets, fiat gateways, and payments.

Author: Green But Red

#payments #agents


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👑 LAST CHANCE: Challenge 4 Ends in Days! 👸

The final #dYdXPocketProBot challenge is wrapping up soon - October 31, 23:59 UTC is the deadline!

How to win $300:

• Share a NEW trade or PnL card on Twitter with #dYdXPocketProBot
• Follow “@ PP_Trading” on X
• Submit the challenge form

25 winners, $300 each = $7,500 total prize pool

Every time you close a position on Pocket Pro Bot, a PnL card gets auto-generated. Share it before the deadline hits!

This is the 4th and final week of the challenge series celebrating dYdX trading inside Telegram - 200+ markets, up to 50x leverage, all in your pocket

Don't miss out. Time's running out!

💾 Challenge details: dydx.xyz/pocketprochallenge


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🧐 Investment Report: Avici. Link.

This self-custody crypto neobank is processing real transactions - $1.2M+ Visa card spend, $800K-1M on-ramp GMV - with 4K MAUs and 70% MoM retention.

Here's the breakdown.

Author: Green But Red

#article


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🧙‍♀️ The Story Behind LAB. Link.

Through the Eyes of Vova Sadkov.

Author: Green But Red

#article #interview


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🥸 Not funny, but a fact:

At the end of Q3 2025, for the first time in history, quarterly inflows into spot ETH ETFs exceeded inflows into spot BTC ETFs!


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🔑 Major token unlocks. Link.

This week comes with a new round of token unlocks - routine for the crypto market, but still closely tracked by traders and project teams.

Author: Green But Red

#unlocks


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📺 Switching up the default mode. Link.

Fam, I've been getting too caught up in my own content lately and stopped quoting my soulmates. This article is very clear to me, but I think it will be a revelation for many, and very useful at that!

Author: The Learning Pill

#article


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👸 Top rounds of the week. Link.

Looking at this week’s funding rounds and I think I see a pattern nobody’s saying out loud.

Author: Green But Red

#VC #rounds


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