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U.S. stocks and ETFs. Tokenized by EQX. Trading 24/7/365.
11 markets are now live on the @HyperliquidX orderbook.
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Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of @coinbase fixed rate loans, powered by @Morpho Midnight!
Morpho × Coinbase products have been immensely successful and helped open a new category in finance: the user experience of fintech apps, but with better financial products thanks to DeFi’s open and competitive rails.
We’re now building on that foundation and starting to scale: new loan types and use cases, bringing onchain credit one step closer to the scale and diversity of global credit markets.
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We’ve raised a seed round led by @variantfund!
With participation from @nascent, @preludexyz, @cbventures, @lattice_fund, @veryearlyxyz, and @daedalus_angels.
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Morpho Association has raised $175M to build the open credit network for the world.
Co-led by @paradigm, @a16zcrypto, @RibbitCapital with strategic participation from @apolloglobal, @vaneck_us, @circle_ventures, and @Ledger @Cathayinnov.
The round also included participation from @variantfund, @wmt_ventures, @preludexyz, @IOSGVC, @HashKey_Capital, @sbigroup, @Bpifrance, @mirana, @bamazizimesh, NJJ Capital and 10+ other strategic partners.
The funding will help accelerate Morpho's position as the foundation for onchain credit.
Publishing our @preludexyz Q1 market commentary.
A year ago we shared our vision of how we thought DeFi would converge with TradFi. This year it's exciting to cover the progress as it plays out in real time:
- All assets are coming onchain
- Institutions are choosing crypto
The next step in accelerating DeFi
Today we’re announcing our $5 million seed round, led by @Multicoin
This funding directly supports Exponent’s next phase: becoming the premier platform for onchain portfolio construction
As industries mature so do the opportunities. Pat lays out five of the opportunities we're both excited by and seeing a lot of great founders building around.
The pessimism in some circles belies the entrepreneurial activity in crypto right now. Here's the 5 areas I'm spending most of my time on rn:
– Higher-order DeFi
– New consumer markets
– Onchain privacy
– Crypto as a launchpad
– Quantum resilience
pmayr.xyz/where-im-spending-…
Incredible to see all the teams leveraging crypto to tackle their individual markets.
Congratulations to all the finalists!
The Start In Block 2026 startup competition concluded last week, and it exceeded all expectations.
From over 1,000 applications across every corner of the digital asset ecosystem, 12 finalists made it to the stage at the Carrousel du Louvre. Two days of pitching in front of the leading investors, institutional leaders, and the most demanding jury in European digital assets. The energy in that room during the competition was unlike anything we have seen in previous editions.
Every finalist brought something real. But three companies stood above the rest:
🥇 First Place: @Manakoai, also the winner of the Bittensor track by @YumaGroup
🥈 Second Place: @TheRiskProtocol, also the winner of the DeFAI track by Spectrum Nodes
🥉 Third Place: @SundialProtocol, also the winner of the Institutional Adoption track by @Cardano_CF
A special recognition to the other finalists: @404gen_, Synth, @Bitcast_network, @Neuron_World, Deploi, @CoinbaxHQ, @MasumiNetwork, @zettacapital00, and @libertum_token, each of whom brought a standard that made this one of the strongest cohorts in Start In Block history.
None of this happens without the people who gave their time and expertise to make the competition credible. Thank you to our jury, Mykolas Majauskas - @Bybit_Official, Tomasz Kajetan Stańczak (@tkstanczak) -@Nethermind, Jessi Brooks - @RibbitCapital, Greg Schvey (@GSchvey) -@YumaGroup, Siam Kidd (@SiamKidd) - @dsvfund, Brett Sun (@sohkai) - @preludexyz, Matthew Felice Pace (@mfelicepace) - @SpectrumNodes, Pablo Campos - @Bit2Me, David Bchiri - @xrpl_commons, Samiz Bayan (@samizb) - @DraperDragon, Brian Wong (@brian_wong) - ASCII Ventures, and Ethan Pierce (@EthanPierse) - @BorderlessVC.
Thanks to our sponsors, @Cardano_CF, @SpectrumNodes, @YUMAGroup, @Bit2Me, and @AdevarLabs, for making the $10M+ prize pool possible.
To every founder who applied, built, and took the stage this week, we see you, and we look forward to seeing you at Signal Week 2027.
Excited to be exploring new forms of money in a post quantum world.
Join us next weds (Mar. 11) if you're in London!
Quantum computers will eventually break Bitcoin.
But they may also enable something stranger:
Money secured by the laws of nature, backed by physics.
On March 11, in London wiesnerlabs.org is hosting a seminar alongside @encodeclub & @preludexyz on Quantum Money after Bitcoin.
Researchers from Cambridge, Oxford & Google Quantum AI.
RSVP:
luma.com/wo55omdb
