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@variational_io @dragonfly_xyz Huge congrats to the team on this!

We’ve raised $50M led by @dragonfly_xyz to go all in on RWAs and bring TradFi liquidity on-chain. Today, we're launching Phase 1 of our RWA rollout to stress-test our infrastructure before bringing 100+ TradFi markets on-chain this summer.

Twitter spaces starting now 👇 Join if you want to learn more about how you can win over $400k in prizes in the next @arbitrum Hackathon. x.com/i/spaces/1mxPa…

@emilylai @kaledora @Ostium Congratulations Emily!

I've joined Ostium to lead marketing! There is a massive market opportunity ahead using blockchain rails to build better financial platforms for traders and investors globally I first met @kaledora in 2024 at Bangkok Devcon. In 2025, I visited the @ostium office where she looked me dead in the eyes and said she wanted to build a $10B company; I asked where can I send my (small) check. After a few months of learning more about the team and vision, I joined full time in March. Angel investor to employee arc activated What excited me most came down to the people, product, and vision: - The infrastructure was intentionally built to disrupt the opaque broker space and better serve digitally native traders around the world - Over 19m people trade CFDs, companies like IBKR are valued at $150B - market size is bigger than this channel - Passionate, intense co-founders that care a lot. War time mode CEO and CTO doesn't turn off. Yes, @contrarianmarco showed up in a suit in our first call - Getting to work with a cracked team of engineers, product developers, quants, and traders - supported by some of the best on the cap table - Top 20 revenue generating protocol in the whole industry - White glove customer service, a team focused on retention and users - @FlowTraderTM honestly needs to sleep more - Some more major product and partnership announcements in the works In the last two months I've been here, we've started running growth experiments across 8+ channels, brought on two more senior growth marketers, listed sixteen new assets, revamped the liquidity engine, and announced a data partnership with a major exchange. I'm having fun and there's a lot more work to do. Looking forward to this next chapter. If you're a user, trader, or growth marketer - dms are open

Open House London remote 3-week Buildathon program kicks off May 25th with $115K in prizes. If you're an early-stage team looking to bring new product ideas into the programmable economy on the Arbitrum Platform, here’s why you should register. 👇🧵 openhouse.arbitrum.io/?utm_source=tw…

This is the biggest Hackathon @arbitrum hosted to date with $415k in prizes. All to support our early stage ecosystem teams. 3-week Online Buildathon. Concept to mainnet. Real mentoring from the Arbitrum Team. If you've been sitting on an idea, May 25th is when you take action! Register below 👇 arbitrum-london.hackquest.io/?utm_source=ec… x.com/arbitrum/statu…

The programmable economy needs new businesses. Open House London is helping bootstrap them with a $415K prize pool (our largest yet). Starting May 25th, early-stage teams join a 3-week online Buildathon to: - Bring ideas from concept to mainnet - Receive technical guidance via workshops - Get hands-on mentoring from the Arbitrum eco - Compete for prizes and a path into our IRL Founder House in London Apply today or tag an early stage team who should. 👇 openhouse.arbitrum.io/?utm_source=tw…

@blue_clarity @StarknetFndn @Starknet Congrats!

First off: other chains? dead. Secondly, I’ve joined @StarknetFndn. Yes, @Starknet. “but they only have 8 users” Good. Even better. Because imagine finding an ecosystem with pristine technology, world-class engineering, and somehow still an absurdly under-appreciated story. That is the setup I get to cook with. After a period of deep reflection, Starknet just feels right. There’s a serious glow-up opportunity here, and I’m excited to work with the Foundation and the ecosystem to help make it happen. Plus, i get to London + Lisbon max. Sorry in advance.

@luigidemeo @aave Congrats @luigidemeo

Some personal news*  I've recently joined @aave 👻 as Chief Strategy and Business Officer. After ~4 months of rest and reflection regarding the state of the industry, my personal life, and my ambitions, I feel more invigorated and determined than ever to contribute to the crypto space. When I stepped away from @AvaLabs earlier this year, I said I'd take time to think carefully about where I could contribute most. I’m grateful for the awesome opportunities I've been able to consider. The answer became clear over the past months and many conversations with @StaniKulechov and the Aave Labs team. I've long known Stani and Emilio and admired their work. Like them, I believe the future of finance is onchain, and Aave is at the center of this evolution. Aave has the opportunity to provide a better way to borrow and lend, and to build credit markets at internet scale. The legacy financial system is slow, fragmented, and quietly extractive, and most of the world is underserved by it. Aave has spent years proving, in production and across cycles, that an open and programmable alternative works at scale. The next chapter is about turning that foundation into the credit and capital markets layer of the internet. In this new role, I'll lead strategy, business development, and core operational functions,  working closely with Stani and the team to strengthen what's already working while pursuing the next set of opportunities ahead of us. I'm joining at a pivotal moment. The events of the past week have made clear there's real work to be done and lessons to be drawn. I’ve been working non-stop with the team on the recovery effort this past week and I have no doubt that Aave will emerge even stronger. What I've seen up close is grit, focus, and determination under pressure. This is exactly the kind of team I want to build alongside of, and it makes me even more confident about where this is all headed. -Luigi

The Arbitrum Security Council has taken emergency action to freeze the 30,766 ETH being held in the address on Arbitrum One that is connected to the KelpDAO exploit. The Security Council acted with input from law enforcement as to the exploiter’s identity, and, at all times, weighed its commitment to the security and integrity of the Arbitrum community without impacting any Arbitrum users or applications. After significant technical diligence and deliberation, the Security Council identified and executed a technical approach to move funds to safety without affecting any other chain state or Arbitrum users. As of April 20 11:26pm ET the funds have been successfully transferred to an intermediary frozen wallet. They are no longer accessible to the address that originally held the funds, and can only be moved by further action by Arbitrum governance, which will be coordinated with relevant parties.

@MacroMate8 @SolanaFndn Congrats! 🥂

big personal news: first off, Ethereum is dead second, i am now Special Situations at @SolanaFndn. my mandate is mega deals that will drive max value why solana? > the most engaged userbase in crypto with the highest take rate per volume (more than hype coinbase binance) > foundation is very lean and full of killers > other chains dont need me. ethereum is fucked (stuck in communism) and hype’s perp game is mature. solana is perfect for me to have fun and get shit done what will i do at solana: > bring 10B TVL to solana i’ve brokered 1-2B before and wanna up my game. if you are a large TVL provider, we have super scalable fixed yield products at 7-8% in a tradfi setup dm me > help grow RWA perps on solana hype done a great job with oil, gold, nasdaq perps and we will take it further if you are a serious crypto/tradfi market maker in rwa, we have the distribution and open to deals dm me what motivates me personally: first off, I am doing this for glory. I want to come in and be instrumental in growing trading activity and onchain tvl. second, I want to be relevant again. I miss pissing people off while being unavoidable. its fun thirdly, learn how to acquire trading distribution. almost no one in crypto knows how to do but thats where billion usd opportunities lie and they belong on solana.

@Lukexiao0 @BNBCHAIN Congrats Luke!

I’ve joined @BNBChain as Head of BD! BNB was one of the first blockchains I interacted with when I started in crypto. Today, it powers the most active global community of users who transfer stablecoins, use DeFi, invest in tokenized assets, and launch AI agents. The work is just getting started and I'm excited to continue build on the momentum. We will continue to make BNB the best home for builders and institutions! DMs are open. If you’re a builder considering BNB Chain, let’s chat. We've got an incredible team here that is ready to help!

@Timccopeland I would argue the reason for this is that majority of demand for crypto related trading is captured by perps hence crypto predictions have had lower adoption

even on a crypto predictions platform, crypto is still niche can't stop winning

@iatskar @gondorfi Congrats guys! Excited to see you build it. Can’t wait to give it a spin :)

We raised $2.5M. Here's why @gondorfi wins: Prediction markets are a new financial asset class. It was first clear when Robinhood started generating over 30% of Kalshi’s volume. Now Metamask and Rabby integrated Polymarket, while Jupiter lists Kalshi positions onchain We see a new ecosystem emerging that mirrors early crypto. Polymarket and Kalshi are becoming new launchpads, while distribution comes from analogues of CEXs (e.g. Robinhood) and DEXs (e.g. Jupiter) The missing layer is DeFi. At Gondor, we are building a protocol for borrowing against Polymarket positions. This unlocks capital efficiency and leverage prediction markets need to become a financial primitive Countless frontends are building on top of prediction markets. With Gondor on the backend, they can easily offer borrowing and leverage to their users Institutions are joining too but they can’t justify locking capital for months with capped returns. Gondor fixes that We are building the DeFi layer for prediction markets. We don’t compete with anyone. We are growing together with the whole space That's why Gondor wins

Congratulations on your new role @nina_rong! I had the chance to work with Nina for almost two years and she is one of the sharpest and most driven people I have met. More importantly she is also one of the most thoughtful people I know, I’m still reliant on her Chinese tea supply… 👀 Extremely fortunate to have learned from Nina. Excited to see the huge impact she will make at @BNBCHAIN. x.com/nina_rong/stat…

@nina_rong Congrats 🥂

I am excited to announce that I have joined BNB Chain as the Executive Director of Growth. In 2021, I joined the crypto industry when blockchains were congested. It was a time when a single transaction could cost thousands in USD value. I had the extreme pleasure of contributing to the go-to-market of one of the most successful scaling solutions of Ethereum. Fast forward to 2025, there are over 150 L2s, and many more L1s with magnitudes higher throughput than Ethereum. Yet, 99% of blockchain ecosystems launched in the past 24 months fail to bootstrap users or developers. The crypto industry is facing a new challenge – the challenge of discovery. Today, less than 10% of assets on-chain are activated. The truth is that crypto products struggle to reach retail users, and retail users often face challenges with liquidity discovery. How BNB Chain is solving the discovery problem better than others: Mass user base: With over 695M unique addresses and 2M+ daily active users, BNB Chain is the ideal distribution channel for innovations to reach mass adoption. Optimized for liquidity discovery: The BNB Chain ecosystem has had 619 BEPs and 20 hard forks in the past 6 years to minimize the cost of discovery: reducing latency by 24x, increasing throughput by 40x, and reducing fees by 300x. Developer support: This is where I am most excited. In this role, I will be focusing on creating programs and platforms to onboard early-stage projects and global talent to the BNB ecosystem, providing them with access to resources and the mass user base of the BNB Chain ecosystem. Drop me a DM if you are 1) interested in building on BNB Chain, 2) looking for job opportunities at BNB Chain Foundation, or BNB Chain ecosystem in general ✉️ Nuff talk today. We don’t talk the talk, we Build N Build 💛 @BNBCHAIN @heyibinance @cz_binance

@GmWen7 @ajwarner90 @0x_dav @CocoraEth @ad_or11 💙

Shout out to @ajwarner90 @0x_dav @CocoraEth @kubesqrt @ad_or11 for making this happen 🫡

Excited to see @arbitrum go live on Binance Alpha. This unlocks one of the largest distribution channels for early projects launching in the Arbitrum ecosystem. Let’s get to work 🫡

The real flippening

@TheZen_177 @coinbase @echodotxyz @megaeth 🫡

@kubesqrt @coinbase @echodotxyz @megaeth Always nice to see these updates when on a hiatus 💙

Everything you missed in crypto this week. 1. Coinbase acquires Echo for $375M @coinbase acquired @echodotxyz, the leading onchain capital raising platform, to expand community-driven funding opportunities. x.com/coinbase/statu… 2. MegaETH public sale announced @megaeth revealed its public sale on Sonar by @echodotxyz, starting at a $1M FDV and going up to $999M using an auction model. x.com/megaeth_labs/s… 3. Stable teases major Thursday reveal @stable hinted at a major announcement this Thursday, describing it as a foundation for the future of onchain payments. x.com/stable/status/… 4. Renzo proposes $REZ buybacks @renzoai proposed using 100% of protocol revenue for $REZ buybacks over the next 6 months, already repurchasing 1.05% of supply. x.com/RenzoProtocol/… 5. Hyperliquid Strategies files S-1 to raise up to $1B Plans a 160M share offering, with part of proceeds earmarked for potential $HYPE token purchases. x.com/Cointelegraph/… 6. OpenSea unveils $SEA token plans @dfinzer announced @opensea’s next chapter with a $SEA token launching in Q1 2026, with 50% of supply for the community and deep product integration. x.com/dfinzer/status… 7. Bunni shuts down after $8.4M exploit @bunni_xyz announced its closure following an $8.4M exploit and insufficient funds to relaunch securely. x.com/bunni_xyz/stat… 8. Daylight Energy raises $75M @daylightenergy raised $75M to build a decentralized energy network for the global electricity market. x.com/daylightenergy…

@Timccopeland Tim for Chancellor?

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