Weekly Deal Updates - April 7 , 2025
Deal Meeting Date
Apr 7, 2025
Sponsor
Pond AI
ISO Week
58
Number of Deals
4
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In this newsletter:
- 💰New Deals💰
- 📰 Top News 📰
- 📈 Market Data 📉
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🧠 🤖 Pond AI 🤖 🧠
Pond is a crypto-native AI model using graph deep learning trained with on-chain data to predict on-chain behaviors and streamline the development of AI-powered crypto-native applications in DeFi, social, trading, MEV, and security sectors.
The technical team brings extensive research and engineering experience from world-leading graph ML and AI companies, with over 40 publications in prestigious AI journals and conferences, including IEEE, Nature, Harvard Business Review, ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR, and PNAS. 🚀
💰 New Deals 💰
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- Droplinked $7mm Seed SAFE + Token Warrant
Droplinked enables attested merchant transaction data for RWA-backed SME credit, onchain sales, and instant settlement. It aims to unlock billions for SMB’s and SME’s with infrastructure to sell onchain inventory with stablecoin lending pools that provide working capital and finance factoring as CDP RWAs.
- Zekret $1.25 Seed SAFT
Zekret is building a compliance-first blockchain to unlock billions in Institutional liquidity for DeFi. Its fully compliant, institutional-grade blockchain built from the ground up to bridge regulated finance and DeFi — making it possible for banks, funds, enterprises, and regulated players to finally deploy capital safely into Web3.
- FNT Crypto $1mm Private SAFT
FNT is an innovative, all-in-one financial platform that combines DeFi, CeFi, and Game-Fi elements, offering users a secure and seamless way to store, spend, invest, and grow their crypto assets.
- Dephy Seed SAFT
DePHY aims to make IoTs connect to Solana easier. It drastically reduces development time and cost by combining open-source hardware, a messaging layer, and two novel financial primitives—DePINFi and PayFi.
📰 Top Crypto News 📰
Here's the latest scoop from the blockchain, crypto, and Web3 world. 🚀🌐
- 💳 Tether Explores U.S. Payments Market Expansion - Tether, the issuer of the world's largest stablecoin, is considering developing a stablecoin-enabled point-of-sale system to rival Square, aiming to make stablecoins a common checking account alternative for U.S. consumers.
- 💼 Ripple Plans to Acquire Prime Brokerage Hidden Road - Ripple announced a deal to acquire prime brokerage Hidden Road for $1.25 billion, signaling its intent to expand its services in the crypto financial ecosystem.
- 💸 Private Equity Giant Apollo Invests in Real-World Asset Platform Plume - The investment aims to accelerate Plume’s efforts to make real-world assets tradable and usable in crypto markets.
- 💹 First XRP ETF in the U.S. to Go Live on Tuesday With Launch of Teucrium’s Leveraged Fund - Teucrium’s leveraged ETF arrives amid a flurry of applications for spot XRP ETFs still under SEC review.
- 🏦 EU markets regulator says crypto may cause ‘broader stability issues’ as market grows - As the crypto industry grows and ties in with traditional markets, sharp price falls could increasingly disrupt the broader market, says ESMA executive director Natasha Cazenave.
- 🪙 SEC Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw's disapproval of agency's stablecoin claim could complicate legislative efforts: TD Cowen - A divide in opinion over stablecoins between SEC Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw and the SEC could be “another roadblock” for stablecoin legislation, according to a note from TD Cowen.
- ⚖️ DOJ Axes Crypto Unit as Trump’s Regulatory Pullback Continues - “The Department of Justice is not a digital assets regulator,” U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in the Monday night memo.
- 🎮 Web3 Gaming Struggles: Neon Machine’s web3 game Shrapnel is facing major financial difficulties, layoffs, and delays. A new partnership in China aims to support development as the company restructures.
- 🕹️ DeFi Game Aavegotchi to Abandon Polygon, Migrate to Coinbase’s Base - The move follows sharp drops in user activity and total value locked on Polygon as Base’s usage climbs.
- 📉 Has Michael Saylor’s Strategy built a house of cards? - With MSTR at the center of clashing leveraged ETFs and convertible stock plays, the market is making its own bets.
📈 Market Data 📉
DEX Weekly Transaction Volume by Chain
Top Cryptocurrencies
| Token | April 1, 2025 | April 8, 2025 | % Change |
| BTC | $85,238 | $76,329 | -10.5% |
| ETH | $1,907.17 | $1,471.36 | -22.9% |
| BNB | $611.03 | $553.40 | -9.4% |
| SOL | $126.81 | $105.49 | -16.8% |
| XRP | $2.14 | $1.79 | -16.4% |
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) |
| Fartcoin (FARTCOIN) | $0.52 | 8.82% | $247,774,062 |
| OKB (OKB) | $50.87 | 6.90% | $20,678,523 |
| DeXe (DEXE) | $15.59 | 6.68% | $11,427,573 |
- Active Losers:
| Token | Price | % Price Change (7d) | Volume (24hr) |
| Jito (JTO) | $1.58 | -29.16% | $55,498,714 |
| OFFICIAL TRUMP (TRUMP) | $7.47 | -26.95% | $514,311,838 |
| Lido DAO (LDO) | $0.63 | -26.80% | $118,164,207 |
Source: CoinMarketCap as of April 8, 2025
Market Sentiment and Indicators
- Crypto Fear and Greed Index: The index began at 34 (Fear), briefly rose to 44 (Neutral) early in the week, then quickly dropped to 25 ( Extreme Fear). It attempted to recover, climbing back to 34 (Fear) but fell again, closing at 23 (Extreme Fear). This 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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