Gate 新闻机器人消息，CryptoRank 引入了一个专门的 VC 压力部分，以监控代币解锁及其供应变化。该平台跟踪 VC 解锁数据，这在代币供应动态中起着关键作用。该工具特别解决了成熟项目的代币分配问题。

PANews, October 23, reported that the analyst Eye, who previously revealed the identity of the "1011 flash crash Whale," posted on the X platform disclosing the Bunni Hacker. He stated that this hacker had attacked 14 protocols including Equilibria, BSX, DFX Finance, and Curve. In many cases, after launching the attack, she would deplete the total Liquidity of various protocols, leading to the collapse of the protocols. This hacker acts recklessly and mercilessly, disregarding the fact that she is joking with the futures of many people, including the funds of users and various teams. Eye pointed out that this attacker has extensive connections in the crypto industry and is linked to venture capital firms. She believes she is invulnerable due to the alibi she has, and she possesses thousands of online nicknames. Now it is time for her to pay the price. According to previous news, the decentralized trading protocol Bunni announced today that it is officially closing due to security vulnerabilities and insufficient funds.

Recently, the insider story behind the ATH big dump has been revealed, divided into two versions: one is that the founder pumped the price and then dumped at a high position, and the other is that internal executives united with VC for shorting to counter the founder's pump strategy. Insiders utilized public sentiment and blogger promotions, ultimately leading to the big dump.

According to Jinse Finance, on the 23rd, the founder of LD Capital posted on X stating that cognition is the best core competitiveness. Everyone in the world wants to win, but often only a very small number of people can succeed. For example, so many new projects go live every day (knowing that most will eventually drop to zero), exchanges/project parties/market makers are the biggest beneficiaries and driving forces, while the market is full of ridicule towards VC. A major short position is shorting during the falling phase, while the market is full of jealousy calling it insider trading. To maintain thinking and progress amidst the noisy and useless information, enhancing cognition and aligning knowledge with action is the path to achieving results. Both CZ and Jack Ma started at 38 years old; there is no need to rush, time is not the issue.

Keycard announced the early access launch of its AI agent identification and access management platform, completing a $38 million initial funding round led by several well-known investment institutions. The platform will replace traditional credentials with "short-term identity binding tokens", supporting cross-application delegated execution and full-chain auditing.

Golden Finance reports that the tokenized stock infrastructure BlockStreet has completed a $11.5 million financing round, led by Hack VC. The team is composed of experienced professionals and plans to launch a transparent dashboard, which will be online on Monad and later expand to platforms such as Ethereum, aiming to improve trading efficiency.

Amber Group was selected for the 2025 "Top 50 VC" list at the Silicon Valley 101 x RootData Annual Summit, becoming an influential investment institution in the Web3 field, providing comprehensive digital asset services. This list aims to evaluate the key forces that continue to drive industry advancement.

PANews, October 6th news, according to The Kobeissi Letter, VC has invested a record $192.7 billion in AI startups so far in 2025, making this year likely to be the first in history where over 50% of venture capital funds flow into the AI industry. In the past 12 months, the share of US AI in VC transactions has exceeded 60%, tripling since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020.

BlockBeats news, on September 16, Nick Tomaino, founder of the crypto VC firm 1confirmation, published a statement evaluating "Base considering issuing coins" stating, "If done correctly, BASE will immediately become one of the top five Crypto Assets by market capitalization. No VC, no insider trading, transparent Airdrop to developers and users based on usage. This is the most successful non-Token chain in history, and the Airdrop will serve as rocket fuel."

According to BlockBeats news on September 10, Chris Burniske, former head of crypto at Ark Invest and now a partner at Placeholder VC, stated that "a rate cut by the Fed next week may trigger a wave of risk appetite in the market, but the market is likely to quickly turn pessimistic after an initial spike, as it will be concerned about 'those not optimistic factors'. Therefore, Bitcoin may initially follow the trend of gold, but if risk assets are dumped in the fourth quarter, I expect Crypto Assets to be significantly impacted."

Joseph Jacks, the founder of OSS Capital, accused Polychain and DCG of imposing "predatory terms" on the Bittensor subnet team, demanding up to 50% permanent tokens while providing almost no value support, arguing that such behavior only attracts mediocre teams and calling for condemnation of this practice.

Golden Finance reports that the encryption infrastructure provider Utila has announced the completion of a $22 million financing round, led by Red Dot Capital Partners, with participation from investors such as Nyca, Wing VC, DCG, and Cerca Partners, increasing its valuation nearly threefold in six months and expanding the total amount of its Series A financing in March to $40 million.

Odaily News Artificial intelligence blockchain startup Kite announced the completion of a $18 million Series A financing, led by PayPal and General Catalyst, with participation from 8 VCs, Samsung Next, and Alumni Ventures. Kite's co-founder and CEO declined to disclose the valuation of the startup and also refused to reveal whether this financing was purely equity financing or token warrants. (Fortune)

The XRPL Hackathon Seoul 2025 will be held on September 20 in Seoul, themed "Built For Fintech", sponsored by Ripple, aimed at developers and startup teams, featuring a fintech track, with winners receiving prizes and pitching opportunities.

According to ChainCatcher news and NFTgators, the programmable data chain Irys has completed a $10 million Series A financing round, led by CoinFund, with participation from Hypersphere, Tykhe Ventures, Varrock Ventures, Breed VC, Echo Group, Amber Group, and W A GMI Ventures. This round of financing brings Irys's total funding to $20 million.

The stablecoin payment infrastructure Blindpay has completed a $3.3 million seed round financing, with investors including Y Combinator and others. The company provides enterprise cross-border transfer and virtual account tools through API and has processed over $125 million in transfers in 2025.

BlockBeats news, on July 31, the encryption data company TACEO completed a $5.5 million seed round financing, led by Archetype VC, with participation from a16z CSX, Cyber.Fund, acapital, and Polymorphic Capital. This funding will accelerate TACEO's launch of its innovative data infrastructure product "Private Shared.

Gate News bot message, Zypher Network announced the completion of $7 million in financing, led jointly by UOB Venture and Signum Capital, with participation from Hong Leong Group (, Cogitent Ventures, Catcher VC, Hydrogenesis Labs, DWF Venture, and others.

Encryption analyst @ahboyash stated that by mid-2025, 56 venture-backed tokens will have been listed. Most of them are valued between 50 million and 1 billion, and some token trading prices have fallen below the valuation of the previous round of financing, which may result in losses for investors.

DePIN has completed a $3.15 million financing round with the cloud platform dKloud, with participants including Animoca Brands. dKloud combines decentralized cloud infrastructure to support enterprises in deploying applications using Crypto Assets and fiat, while also providing a developer marketplace for tool sharing and Token earnings.

Gate News bot message: According to data from DefiLlama, this week has been relatively calm, with venture capitalists and other investors investing $3 million in crypto asset startups, bringing the total funding to over $7.7 billion in 2025 so far. As in previous weeks, investors are focusing on infrastructure projects aimed at expanding Ethereum, quantitative trading, and enhancing Bitcoin functionality.

A new study jointly conducted by Chainplay and Strorible shows that nearly half (45%) of venture (VC)-backed cryptocurrency projects have ceased operations, and 77% of these projects have less than $1,000 in monthly revenue. The study, which looked at 1,181 projects that received financing between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2024, also found that venture capital firm Polychain Capital had the highest failure rate of investments, with 44% of its projects having died.

Gate News bot message, recently, the crypto assets venture capital community has been discussing the current market conditions. Several VC investors pointed out that the industry faces multiple challenges, including excessively long lock-up position restrictions, lack of a comprehensive legal governance framework, and oversupply of assets in the primary market. Participants emphasized that VC should focus on supporting resilient founders who can continue operating during market downturns. They noted that the market is gradually becoming more rational, and investors are no longer blindly chasing projects lacking fundamentals. However, in the absence of a完善 regulatory system, exchanges raise project valuations through liquidity operations and obtain intermediate profits, causing VC and retail investors to bear losses. Source: WeChat Official Account

The AI intent recognition project Brian, launched at the 2023 ETHPrague Hackathon, has announced its termination due to loss of market advantage and financing issues, criticizing VC for overly focusing on TGE and hype while neglecting actual progress. The team had planned to launch a Web3-specific model and Token, but industry speculation and cost issues led to the project's failure.

BlockBeats news, on May 26, AI trading builder Brian announced in a post that the Brian application is no longer open to users. The Brian API will continue to be available to developers for the next three months, and developers can request access. Brian started at the ETHPrague hackathon in June 2023, aiming to develop a trading builder that allows users to convert text prompts into on-chain trades. The response from sponsors was very enthusiastic, and the project won five first prizes from The Graph, Gnosis, AAVE, Gateway, and Taiko. In the months following the hackathon, Brian went through three stages: closed testing in November 2023, public testing in February 2024, and July 2024.

Hyperdrive completed a $6 million Series A financing round, led by Hack VC and Arrington Capital. The project is based on the Hyperliquid Blockchain and builds a decentralized stablecoin market. Other participating institutions include Delphi Digital, SIG DTI, Proof, and others.

Hyperdrive completed a $6 million Series A funding round, led by Hack VC and Arrington Capital. The project is built on the Hyperliquid Blockchain and aims to create a decentralized stablecoin market. Other participating institutions include Delphi Digital, SIG DTI, Proof, and others.

Hyperdrive completed a $6 million Series A funding round, aiming to build a stablecoin funding market on the Hyperliquid Blockchain, providing features such as stablecoin lending and borrowing, and liquid staking of $HYPE. Hack VC and Arrington Capital led the investment, with follow-on funding from Delphi Ventures, Proof Group, and others. The project's goal is to become a hub for the stablecoin market and yield.

Odaily News 1confirmation founder Nick Tomaino stated on the X platform that the rise of Ethereum means the "death of crypto VC," and that 99% of crypto VCs will soon disappear. The only way for long-term development is to be in the right place at the right time, to obtain institutional capital, to lack vision or creativity, and to stay aligned with users.

PANews, May 11 news, Nick Tomaino, founder of 1confirmation, posted on the X platform stating that the rise of Ethereum means the "death of crypto VCs," and that 99% of crypto VCs will soon vanish. The only way for long-term development is to be in the right place at the right time, to secure institutional capital, to lack vision or creativity, and to stay aligned with users.

The RootData Analyst Competition Season 1 has begun, and participants can choose from three themes for analysis, including undervalued BN Launchpool projects, airdrop potential of unlisted financing projects, and recognized encryption VCs and their reasons. The competition runs from May 10 to May 23, with a total prize pool of 3000 USDT, and judges will evaluate the quality of submissions from multiple perspectives.

The RootData Analyst Competition Season 1 has been launched, with themes including undervalued BN Launchpool projects, airdrop potential of unlisted financing projects, and recognized encryption VC. The competition runs from May 10 to May 23, with a total prize pool of 3000 USDT. The evaluation will consider logic, data application, and analysis perspectives. Outstanding works have the opportunity to be shared and showcased on RootData.

ChainCatcher news, the RootData Analyst Competition Season 1 has now opened. Participants can choose one of three themes to analyze, which include "The Most Underrated BN Launchpool Projects in the Past 12 Months", "The Most Airdrop Potential Unlaunched Financing Projects in the Next Two Quarters", and "The Most Recognized Encryption VC in the Past Two Years and the Reasons", with analysis covering fundamentals, teams, funding, and more. The submission period for this competition is from May 10th 14:00 to May 23rd 14:00 (UTC), with a total prize pool of 3000 USDT, and there are first, second, and third prizes. Among them, there are 2 first prizes, each of which will receive 500 USDT. The evaluation will be based on logical insight (40%), RootData data application (30%), and multi-angle analysis.

According to Gate.io News bot and a report by Fortune, the cryptocurrency company Dinari recently completed a $12.7 million Series A funding round. This round of financing was co-led by Hack VC and Blockchange Ventures, with participation from VanEck Ventures, F-Prime, and Avalanche Fund. After this round of financing, Dinari's total financing amount reached 22.65 million USD. The company mainly provides blockchain technology-based US company stock purchasing services for non-US investors.

The blockchain financial company Dinari has completed a $12.7 million Series A financing round, led by Hack VC and Blockchange Ventures, with participation from VanEck Ventures, F-Prime, and Avalanche Fund. The company's total financing has reached $22.65 million, with a valuation of $40.15 million in 2024. Although the latest valuation has not been disclosed, it has already achieved profitability.

The privacy blockchain project Miden was founded by former Meta engineers and completed a $25 million seed round of financing on April 29, led by Andreessen Horowitz, Hack VC, and 1kx. Investors include Finality Capital Partners, Symbolic Capital, and others. Miden is dedicated to achieving transaction privacy through zk-SNARKs while focusing on blockchain performance and decentralization. Polygon Labs will receive a 10% share but did not invest directly.

Gate.io News bot message, "Fortune" reported that the crypto startup Theo has completed a $20 million financing. This financing was conducted in two rounds: In March 2024, the quantitative investment firm Manifold Trading led a $4.5 million seed round; subsequently, the crypto asset investment firms Hack VC and Anthos Capital led a $15.5 million round. Theo was co-founded by former Optiver and IMC Trading employees Abhi Pingle and his brother Arijit Pingle, along with TK Kwon. The company is dedicated to developing high-frequency trading (HFT) strategies for ordinary investors.

L1 Blockchain developer Pharos Network has launched its first public testnet, providing a testing environment for developers aimed at supporting smart contracts development, performance testing, and stress testing. Future plans include improving tool resources, expanding service support, and more. Previously completed a $8 million seed round funding.

According to @kylechasse, SBI VC Trade, a crypto exchange owned by Japanese financial giant SBI Group, acquired 4,000 BTC worth $330 million.

According to @kylechasse, SBI VC Trade, a crypto exchange owned by Japanese financial giant SBI Group, acquired 4,000 BTC worth $330 million.

According to Golden Finance, the founder of Enigmafund VC said in X that BlackRock still holds more than 571,514 BTC (about $48,007,176,000). In the last 7 days, they have sold around 1,621 BTC (currently worth $136,164,000-$145,890,000).

Andre Cronje, founder of Sonic Labs, shares in the article that he was once questioned by venture capitalist Kyle Samani, but he stuck to his own path, and now the code has helped 5 unicorns rise, encouraging everyone not to give up and keep trying to create great things.

Placeholder VC partner points out that Trump's strategic reserve proposal may be a negotiating tactic that needs to persuade Congress to pass. Trump can start with this and then make concessions, similar to his previous absurd claims. This move implies that if Congress does not agree to BTC reserves, more outrageous conditions will be proposed.

The practice of using price manipulation and market capitalization to attract investors by encryption teams over the past decade has been followed. Common patterns include raising funds on a large scale, inundating with large-scale paid marketing, and internal personnel concentrating holdings of Tokens. Although this model is effective, its long-term effectiveness is questionable with the development of the market and some recent events.

BlockBeats news, on February 23, according to official sources, ResearchHub has received a $2 million investment from Boost VC. It is reported that BoostVC is deepening its commitment to accelerating scientific research at ResearchHub. This funding will further strengthen ResearchHub's efforts to make research more open, transparent, and collaborative.

Zak Folkman, co-founder of World Liberty Financial, said at Consensus Hong Kong 2025 that the amount raised in the public sale is not the key to the sale of WLFIToken, but rather the establishment of a connection with the community. The project has not received support from VCs since its inception, and retail investors initially had concerns about valuation and fundraising goals, but several milestones have been achieved. WLFIToken is not only a governance token but also has practical applications. It is not yet open for trading, so the community should be cautious about unofficial information.

2025 Based Rollup Summit will be held in San Francisco on March 10, 2025, with Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and major L2 co-founders in attendance, bringing cutting-edge thinking and insights to the based rollup community.

According to PitchBook's report, the financing amount in the Crypto Assets field will rise by 13.6% to reach $2.5 billion by the fourth quarter of 2024. Investors mainly invest in early-stage startups, with the median valuation doubling to $52 million compared to the previous year, while late-stage companies only receive 5% of the total financing rounds. Stablecoins and artificial intelligence are expected to be highly followed by VC this year.

The cryptocurrency industry does not need any project to raise more than $10 million. VC's massive funding for projects like Berachian, Monad, Abstract, Movement is simply because they need to spend this money. In fact, VC is providing these newly established companies with more than 5 years of operating capital, and these projects can also obtain additional funding during token issuance. Tom finally urged not to have more than $10 million in financing and no more than $100 million in valuation.

encryption researcher @hmalviya9 analyzed the valuation of the Berachain project, and according to Berachain, approximately 34.3% of the supply allocated to VC raised a valuation of 142 million USD. It is speculated that the average get on board price for VC is about 0.82 USD, and the predicted Bull Market price for BERA will be between 10-15 USD, while the Bear Market price will be between 5-10 USD.