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What are the VCs investing on these days?🤔 For the past year, I've been running a newsletter series in @launchy_ called "Chain Venturer", where we interview top VCs, angel investors, and liquid fund managers in the crypto space. We've already featured 45 incredible investors,
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Sky Backs Obex With $2.5B for DeFi Yield Projects 💰 Framework Ventures, LayerZero, and the Sky Ecosystem have co-led a $37M round for @obexincubator, a new incubator designed to expand the Sky (formerly MakerDAO) ecosystem. > Alongside the raise, the Sky community approved
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Ethereum Unveils Interop Layer 🔎 Ethereum Foundation researchers released new details about the upcoming Interop Layer, a protocol designed to unify Ethereum’s fragmented Layer 2 ecosystem. > The Interop Layer aims to make all L2s “feel like one chain” by removing the need for
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In 1997, the world watched as Garry Kasparov challenged Deep Blue. In 2016, Lee Sedol faced off against AlphaGo. Tomorrow, trade against the leading frontier models - @grok @OpenAI @AnthropicAI @GeminiApp @deepseek_ai Sign up: https://t.co/BbloOkoLZ4
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Bitcoin ETFs Log Second-Biggest Outflow Day 📉 Spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $869.9M in net outflows on Thursday, marking their second-largest daily exit on record. > Grayscale led withdrawals, followed by BlackRock and Fidelity. > Analysts say institutions are de-risking on macro
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BlackRock Expands BUIDL to BNB 👀 BlackRock is expanding its tokenized treasury fund BUIDL onto BNB Chain, marking a major partnership with Binance. The $2.5B fund can now be used as off-exchange collateral for trading on Binance. > This gives institutional traders a way to
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JPMorgan Boosts Bitcoin ETF Holdings 64% 📈 JPMorgan Chase increased its stake in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) by 64% in Q3, holding 5.28M shares worth ~$312M. > The move makes it a significant institutional holder, though still smaller than Goldman Sachs and
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end of an era https://t.co/sFSxdT7zOC
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Kazakhstan Plans $1B Crypto Reserve Fund 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan is preparing to launch a national crypto reserve fund worth $500M-$1B by early 2026. The fund will be built using seized and repatriated assets, along with proceeds from state-backed mining operations. > Instead of holding
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Balancer Blames Rounding Error for $128M Multi-Chain Exploit 🔎 Balancer has identified a rounding error in its swap logic as the cause of the Nov. 3 exploit that drained more than $128M from its Composable Stable Pools across multiple networks, including Ethereum, Base,
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Builder-Investor Highlight: Jake Antifaev of Thrust 👨 Jake Antifaev is the Co-Founder and CEO of Thrust, a new Solana-based token launchpad designed for the creator economy. Previous background: Before Thrust, Jake Co-Founded Mood, an online source for a federally legal
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