Weekly Deal Updates - February 24, 2025
Deal Meeting Date
Feb 24, 2025
Sponsor
Pond AI
ISO Week
54
Number of Deals
6
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- 📰 Top News 📰
- 📈 Market Data 📉
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- Splyce Finance $500k Angel
Splyce is a permissionless investment protocol. It offers dETFs and hybrid Staked SOL & RWA products, delivering high yield with low volatility and full DeFi composability.
- Wagmi Hub $900k at $5mm Private SAFT
Wagmi Hub is a multi-chain infrastructure that is focused on post-launch memecoin growth support through community building and growth, simple trading tools, and gamified activities.
- Fuse Node Sale
Fuse aims to build the Stripe of L2s and offers a fully customizable suite of financial and payment solutions for businesses and users in Web3. It uses its zkEVM to power business payments.
- Thravos $2mm Pre-Seed SAFT
Thravos is building an ecosystem that creates monetizable interaction between athletes, fans, and brands with AI Agents and Tokenization.
- MAIN $1mm Seed SAFT
MAIN is building an intuitive, user-friendly application that enables users to take full control of their data while offering enterprises to directly connect with their customers and request any data type, thereby providing access to actionable, ethically sourced behavioral data—eliminating the need for intermediaries or data brokers.
- DataHive $1mm Seed SAFT
DataHive is building the protocol layer to onboard people who want control of their data. It features a privacy AI agent, which blocks all network packet-level tracking, ensuring its users opt out of every form of data collection. This gives users full ownership of their data, enabling personal, and secure, AI-powered use cases.
📰 Top Crypto News 📰
Here's the latest scoop from the blockchain, crypto, and Web3 world. 🚀🌐
- 📉Bitcoin Slides Below $87K to 3-Month Low as Nasdaq Futures Dip, Yen Sparks Risk-Off Fears - BTC hits three-month as Nasdaq futures point to continued risk aversion in stocks and its weakness is consistent with the decline in the global money supply early this year.
- 🤑 Bernstein expects crypto market liquidity to move away from 'useless' memecoins and back to DeFi, gaming and NFTs - Bernstein analysts predict a shift in crypto liquidity towards decentralized finance, gaming, and NFTs, moving away from memecoins.
- 👑 Ethereum Foundation's Aya Miyaguchi 'stepping up' as president as Vitalik Buterin promises leadership changes - Aya Miyaguchi takes on a more prominent role within the Ethereum Foundation, signaling upcoming leadership transitions.
- 🕵️ Bybit Declares ‘War on Lazarus’ as it Crowdsources Effort to Freeze Stolen Funds - The exchange is offering a 5% bounty for submissions that could lead to stolen funds being frozen.
- 🧠 The Funding: Are memecoins here to stay? Crypto VCs weigh in - Venture capitalists discuss the sustainability and future of memecoins in the crypto ecosystem.
- ⏲️ Tokenized time platform Time.fun goes live on Solana following Base debut - Time.fun launches on Solana, allowing users to tokenize and trade time-based assets.
- 💰 Ethena raises $100 million in private ENA token sale to build out new chain and institutional product - Ethena secures $100 million to develop a new blockchain and institutional-grade products.
- 🤖 YZi Labs invests in crypto-AI startup Vana, CZ joins as advisor - YZi Labs invests in Vana, a crypto-AI startup, with Binance's CZ joining as an advisor.
- 💼 WalletConnect Foundation secures $10 million in oversubscribed token sales, including 11-second sellout on Echo - WalletConnect Foundation raises $10 million through rapid token sales, indicating strong investor interest.
- 😠 Crypto execs are shaming traders for selling the Kaito token -Industry leaders criticize traders for offloading Kaito tokens, highlighting tensions within the crypto community.
- 💸 Doodles’ Solana token fails to impress - The launch of Doodles' token on Solana receives lukewarm responses from the community.
📈 Market Data 📉
DEX Weekly Transaction Volume by Chain
Top Cryptocurrencies
| Token | February 18, 2025 | February 25, 2025 | % Change |
| BTC | $95,496 | $88,756 | -7.1% |
| ETH | $2,669.49 | $2,495.32 | -6.5% |
| BNB | $647.73 | $623.43 | -3.8% |
| SOL | $169.11 | $144.36 | -14.6% |
| XRP | $2.56 | $2.32 | -9.4% |
Source: CoinGecko Closing Prices.
Significant Gainers and Losers
Criteria: 1) Volume (24h) > US$50,000; 2) Have gained or lost the most in the last 7 days.
- Active Gainers:
| Token | Price | % Price Change(7d) | Volume (24hr) |
| Story (IP) | $5.73 | 166.01% | $1,693,197,006 |
| Maker (MKR) | $1,678.75 | 41.92% | $296,717,815 |
| Sei (SEI) | $0.28 | 26.80% | $310,544,396 |
- Active Losers:
| Token | Price | % Price Change (7d) | Volume (24hr) |
| Raydium (RAY) | $2.47 | -40.29% | $322,182,532 |
| Mantle (MNT) | $0.80 | -21.84% | $89,139,672 |
| Official Trump (TRUMP) | $12.94 | -19.97% | $1,166,277,946 |
Source: CoinMarketCap as of February 25, 2025
Market Sentiment and Indicators
- Crypto Fear and Greed Index: The index began at 47 (Neutral), fluctuating slightly within the Neutral Zone early in the week before dropping sharply to end at 25 (Fear) The index is recalculated daily to reflect the market's emotional state, which can influence trading behaviors.
Source: Crypto Fear and Greed Index
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