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You Should Know THIS RULE For Surviving a Bear Market In this discussion infrastructure innovators share insights on how they approach risk management and how investors can protect capital while still maintaining exposure to emerging opportunities. Featuring @M1Capital_, @NewTribeCap, @CsquaredVC, @caladanxyz, @DefinitiveFi, and Psalion Watch now 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=Nba_t6…

Live from Vault Summit NYSE, NYC. Fusion Co-Founder @DarrenCamas presents to an institutional and corporate audience on allocating onchain with regulatory confidence. Now streaming at: x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Revenue goes up. Supply goes down. No emission games. No unlock tricks. Just real tokens being retired. 22M $KGEN burned. KGEN 2.0 is live. It all burns 🔥

It’s been a turbulent week, and when you look through the June to September options book on Derive, you can see a clear split between how traders are positioning BTC/ETH versus HYPE. $BTC and $ETH still look more like range and vol markets than clean directional bets. BTC positioning is concentrated around June, with traders active in downside protection and upside calls, while ETH has a slightly cleaner upside lean into July and September with strikes around 2.8k, 3k and 3.2k showing up. Neither book looks like traders are all-in on one side. $HYPE is diverging. Since the Arthur Hayes sell, the market has had a public reason to fade the move, however the options book still has real upside activity sitting in it with June 26 call activity clustered around 55/60/80 and September 25 still showing size around 55, plus further upside at 80/110/150. The TL;DR is: BTC and ETH options are being used to hedge/manage volatility, while HYPE is more for upside optionality.

Introducing Moonwell on Ethereum. The lending protocol that grew up on Base is now live on the largest onchain economy in the world. Supply, borrow, and earn starting today.

🚨 Droidsmiths, we heard you. Beskar Droid prices were way too steep for a single variant. We overstepped, and we're fixing it now. These changes are now live in v1.13.1 Epic Multiplier: 4,000x → 125x Legendary Multiplier: 15,000x → 400x Here's what that means for Beskar Droids (Before → After): 🔷 Groundmech (Min Epic): 3.6B → 112.5M 🔷 Gunrunner (Max Epic): 25.2B → 787.5M 🔶 Proto-Roller (Min Leg): 330B → 8.8B 🔶 R7 (Max Leg): 555B → 14.8B Thank you for being passionate enough to speak up. That feedback makes this game better. The Beskar grind should feel good — not impossible. THIS IS THE WAY. 🤖

Another productive month: • Largest HYPE trading day. $70M in HYPE options volume. Since December, HYPE has crossed $1.63B in total notional traded. • Joined Blockworks Token Transparency. DRV went live on the Blockworks Token Transparency Framework, scoring 37/40, with buybacks now totalling 24,580,447 DRV. • Integrated Gold-i. Derive liquidity is now accessible through MatrixNET, giving brokers, prop firms and fund managers a cleaner route into onchain options via MT4, MT5, DXtrade, CLEO and more. • Integrated Oggregator. Traders can now aggregate crypto options pricing, execute trades and generate alpha signals across major venues. • Integrated Amper. @helloamper brings Derive options into a DeFi agent interface for swaps, lending, perps and options. • Stradle execution. @StradleXYZ now combines options aggregation, execution and simplified payoff visualisation. • Launched ADA options. The first large ADA options trade hit the tape: a ~$5M call spread collateralized with ADA. • Agentic trading competition. Co-sponsored @_hummingbot’s Condor Builders Cup, the first live trading competition for AI agents. On to June.

ZBCN is now available on @iTrustCapital IRA accounts. US holders can buy and hold $ZBCN in a tax-advantaged crypto retirement account. iTrustCapital is one of the leading US platforms for crypto IRAs, with $16B in total transaction volume, up 60% over the past year.

Fusion powers the industry's top strategy for stETH, asset issued by @LidoFinance. TVL has trended up for 200+ days, yield primarily sourced from @sparkdotfi. Cap raised this week by 1,000 stETH to meet growing demand.

Panel: Capital Trends in 2026: Where Is Smart Money Heading in Web3? at Teamz Summit @teamz_inc @Kevin_Soltani @jtwald @Crypto_Ciara @CsquaredVC @MendozaVentures @TradingAlpinist @daryllirl @TRIVEDIGI @TeamZtian youtu.be/QQTDktXRRG0?si… via @YouTube

Bitcoin Pizza Day reminds us how a simple first step can grow into a global financial movement. Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day!

Today was our largest HYPE trading day, with almost $70M in HYPE options volume. Since launching in Dec 2025, we’ve seen: • $1.63B total notional traded • $720M in HYPE options volume • $27M of HYPE & kHYPE used as collateral In under 6 months, HYPE is challenging ETH for Derive’s second-largest market.

Consensus week proved one thing: the real deals happen off-stage. 🔥 TBV Deal Hub & Demo Day brought together hundreds of founders, investors and builders at an epic venue where connections turned into real opportunities. 🚀 Huge thanks to @tbvxyz, @Hashlock_, and @8BlocksLabs for making it one of the amazing nights of @consensus2026 week. Special thanks to all the VCs and speakers from Knox Investments, @CsquaredVC, @GondorCapitalIO, @RedBeardVC, @CerasVentures, @tokentus_AG, @NomadCapital_io, Atro Labs, @LightningCapAM, @coinfund & Sonlin Ventures — plus every founder, including @buildcoldstar, @J0KUH, @tx_labs, REFI 2, @SIXR_cricket, Gainr and @SwapRoyale who came through and made the room impossible to ignore. This is exactly what we envisioned. And honestly? Miami delivered. 💯 See you all at the next one! 🫡

MISTER BONES IS HERE!! Grab the squad and head into Droid Tycoon now, event ends tomorrow (May 17) at 1PM ET!

The Zebec SuperApp mobile app is in the final testing stages as we continue preparing for its release in Q2 2026. Real-time payroll, card management, staking and more. All in one place. Built for modern payments and everyday finance.

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Great joining House of AI at Consensus Miami for a sharp discussion on what actually gets funded in AI. AI x Web3 is moving from narrative to infrastructure. The next wave will be built around verification, agent accountability, data ownership and decentralized compute.

We're pleased to welcome @Crypto_Ciara, Founder & Managing Partner of @CsquaredVC, as a speaker at the Tokenized Capital Summit 2026 in Miami 🇺🇸 Ciara brings a rare blend of institutional finance and crypto-native experience, and will share her perspective on what separates the Web3 projects worth backing from the ones that don't make it.

Miami is full of great startups. Only the best ones make it to TBV Demo Day. Are you in? 🤔 Meet the panel deciding who has what it takes 👇 🎙️ @Brent_Fulfer - GP & Co-Founder, @tbvxyz 🎙️ AJ Labella - Associate, @CsquaredVC 🎙️ Sarah Abuagela - Partner, @CerasVentures 🎙️ @CryptoMonaT - Venture Investor, @tokentus_AG 🎙️ @pg_gpt - Investment Research, @NomadCapital_io 🎙️ Joshua H. - Associate, @RedBeardVC 🎙️ @atrojanowski_ - Associate, Atro Labs 🎙️ Stephen Knox - Investor, Knox Investments 🎙️ Amy Coveny - Venture Operations, @LightningCapAM 🎙️ @magicofazi - Investor, @coinfund 🎙️ @KyleSonlin - President, @Sonlin Ventures Hosted by @tbvxyz, @_thebestevent, @Hashlock_ & @8BlocksLabs ✉️ Get your invitation now ⬇️ luma.com/TBVDEALROOM-MI…