2026/2/25 📈

Today's Newsletter

💡@hibachi_xyz is building a fast, privacy-focused trading platform to bring stablecoin-based FX markets onchain

📰 News

• Crypto․com gets conditional approval to operate as a U.S. national crypto bank

• Stripe considers acquiring parts of PayPal

• Meta plans to integrate stablecoins on Ethereum in the second half of this year

• White House said President Trump will not pardon Sam Bankman-Fried

👍 Good Reads

• @RayDalio - Investing In Light Of The Big Cycle

• @spicy_aff - Base Made Prop AMMs Possible on EVM

• @DeRonin_ - AI tools for generating and editing video content

🔔 New Protocols

• @takeoverfun

• @techdollarhq

💰 Crypto Fundraising

• @kash_bot (DeFi) - 2m Pre-Seed led by @TheSpartanGroup @BigBrainVC

• @TruFinProtocol (DeFi) - $TBD Strategic led by @scventuresDNA

• @trytbd (DeFi) - 3m Seed led by @CMT_Digital @paraficapital

• @PowerPrtcl (GameFi) - 3m investment from @BITKRAFTVC

💵 Airdrops

• @MetaMask $LINEA reward claim is live

🖥 Videos & Podcasts

• @thebellcurvepod - Funding Abundance: Aave’s Vision for DeFi and Real-World Assets | Stani Kulechov

• @ForwardGuidance - What ETF Flows Are Telling Us About Investor Appetite | James Seyffart

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