🧵 The Secret Door to Early Token Sales: How @echodotxyz Levels the Playing Field For years, early rounds were closed to insiders, VCs, and friends of founders. Echo is changing that by letting anyone invest on-chain, alongside top leads, even before the hype starts. Here’s

Top 5 DeFi Protocol on SUI by TVL $SUI is quietly climbing the DeFi charts. With over $1.9B+ in TVL, lightning-fast settlement, and gas fees near zero, it’s becoming one of the most efficient homes for on-chain liquidity. Here are the Top 5 DeFi protocols driving that momentum

🧵 The Secret Door to Early Token Sales: How @echodotxyz Levels the Playing Field For years, early rounds were closed to insiders, VCs, and friends of founders. Echo is changing that by letting anyone invest on-chain, alongside top leads, even before the hype starts. Here’s

Top 5 DeFi Protocol on SUI by TVL $SUI is quietly climbing the DeFi charts. With over $1.9B+ in TVL, lightning-fast settlement, and gas fees near zero, it’s becoming one of the most efficient homes for on-chain liquidity. Here are the Top 5 DeFi protocols driving that momentum

🔥 Base Ecosystem at a Glance 🔥 @Base is quietly becoming one of the most vibrant, active, and fastest-growing ecosystems in crypto, averaging 900K+ daily active addresses, with 11M+ daily transactions, consistently outpacing @arbitrum and @Optimism Let’s take a closer look

The Federal Reserve has cut interest rates by 25bps the first move in months signaling a shift toward easing monetary policy. Impact on the crypto market: 📈Liquidity boost: Lower rates often push investors toward risk assets like crypto as borrowing becomes cheaper. 💵 Weaker

14/14 🧵 Final Thought Early access used to mean exclusivity, but https://t.co/tXdDJPyz9N is changing that into inclusivity + alignment. Would you join a deal led by someone you follow on-chain?

13/14 🧵 Where Echo Fits in the Ecosystem Legacy VC → Closed access, opaque terms. Launchpads/IDOs → Lottery-style, hype-driven. https://t.co/tXdDJPy1kf → Transparent, lead-driven, and community-aligned. It sits right at the intersection of DeFi, venture capital, and

12/14 🧵 Big Picture & Why It Matters https://t.co/tXdDJPy1kf isn’t just another investing platform, it’s the infrastructure for the next wave of capital formation and early access. By merging on-chain groups with public sales through Sonar, it’s lowering the barriers between

11/14 🧵 Risks to Consider As with any innovation, Echo comes with caveats: - Eligibility & jurisdiction: Many deals require “qualified” status and may exclude regions. - High risk / illiquidity: Early-stage investing is inherently risky and often locked up. - Lead quality

10/14 🧵 What Echo Brings to the Table Echo blends the best of Web3 and venture capital: - True early-access: Retail/co-investors can join rounds once reserved for insiders. - Aligned incentives: Lead-follower model with aligned pay-off. - On-chain transparency: Everything

9/14 🧵 Major Milestones Echo’s short history is already packed with big wins: - Late 2024: MegaLabs raised $10M in under 3 minutes via Echo. - March 2025: Coinbase Ventures joined as a Group Lead, funding projects building on @base. - October 2025: Coinbase officially

8/14 🧵 How Echo Makes Money (The Business Model) Echo generates revenue primarily through performance fees, platform fees, and deal infrastructure: - Lead Performance Fee: Echo takes a small % of the lead’s carry (profit share) only when deals succeed, aligning platform

7/14 🧵 The Role of the Lead Leads are the backbone of Echo. They source opportunities, invest their own capital, and share the same terms as followers. The catch? They only earn rewards if followers profit, meaning incentives are perfectly aligned. That’s a sharp break from

Here’s how it works: - A lead sources a deal and opens a group. - Followers review and commit funds (in USDC). - Smart contracts lock capital until the deal executes. - Tokens are distributed, ownership is transparent, and everyone shares the same upside. One real example:

6/14 🧵 The Core Idea & How Echo Works Think of Echo as “Angel Investing meets DeFi.” No hidden cap tables, no paperwork, no middlemen. Smart contracts handle capital flows and enforce alignment, and the lead only earns when followers profit.

5/14 🧵 Introducing Sonar: Public Sales for All Sonar is Echo’s leap beyond private groups. Launched in May 2025, it gives founders tools to self-host token sales with KYC filters, jurisdictional compliance, and time-weighted deposits (so it’s not just first-come, first-served).

4/13 🧵 Echo’s Growth Timeline Each phase of Echo’s growth added new layers of accessibility: - Early 2024 → Private Group Investing, where leads form investment circles. - Late 2024 → Investor Dashboard & Founder Portal, enabling tracking and fundraising tools. - May 2025

3/14 🧵 Founding & Early Growth Echo was founded in 2024 by @cobie to make early investing and token sales more accessible. Its beta launched in April, and within its first year, Echo facilitated fundraising for several projects and raised more than $100M in total. It quickly

2/14 🧵 What https://t.co/tXdDJPy1kf Is https://t.co/tXdDJPy1kf is an on-chain social investing platform. It connects investment leads (experienced investors) with followers (individuals who want access to the same deals). Everyone invests together on the same terms, same

1/14 🧵 Early VC Stage Early stage access has always been a closed game. VCs, whales, and private groups get the best deals while the rest only see them after the 100x. https://t.co/tXdDJPy1kf is breaking that cycle. Echo’s mission is simple: Make early stage investing open,