Weekly Deal Updates - April 14 , 2025
Deal Meeting Date
Apr 14, 2025
Sponsor
Pond AI
ISO Week
59
Number of Deals
4
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- 💰New Deals💰
- 📰 Top News 📰
- 📈 Market Data 📉
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💰 New Deals 💰
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- MemeMarket $1.02mm Pre-Seed SAFT
MemeMarket is the first decentralized prediction market game for meme coins and SuperApp, uniting communities and liquidity across ecosystems under one roof. It combines a social community layer with cutting-edge crypto tools, including an AI Meme Assistant to make researching, buying, and investing easier, safer, and smarter.
- Fluxlayer $500k Pre-Seed SAFT
Fluxlayer is building the Omni-Chain Intent Liquidity Layer: EigenLayer’s first ILaaS (Intent Liquidity as a Service)—to enable instant, permissionless, and secure cross-chain swaps with fast finality. They are also developing a decentralized BTC bridge as an EigenLayer AVS.
- N1 Private Round SAFT
N1 is an L1 blockchain that enables highly computationally intensive applications that cannot be run on other chains. Its low latency makes on-chain liquidity competitive with centralized venues, which significantly increases the efficiency of providing liquidity and reduces costs for users accessing markets.
📰 Top Crypto News 📰
Here's the latest scoop from the blockchain, crypto, and Web3 world. 🚀🌐
- 💼 Execs share ‘wish lists’ for SEC at agency’s second crypto roundtable - Panelists from Coinbase, Uniswap Labs and NYSE were among those making recommendations on crypto trading rules.
- 📰 Fed Chair Jerome Powell signals potential loosening of crypto rules for banks - During an interview on Wednesday at The Economic Club of Chicago, Powell pointed to “a wave of failures and fraud” over the years, but said that the atmosphere itself is turning more mainstream.
- 📉 Public mining firms sold over 40% of their BTC in March — Report - Miners continue to face economic challenges as the cost of everything from energy to hardware is projected to rise due to trade tariffs.
- 💸 Securitize manages $38B with acquisition of MG Stover admin business - The tokenization company has issued $3.3 billion in onchain assets, including BlackRock’s tokenized US Treasury fund, BUIDL.
- ⚖️ Block Fined $40 Million for Cash App’s Anti-Money Laundering Failures - The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) announced the penalty, saying it came after the regulator found “significant failures” in Block’s Bank Secrecy Act/anti-money laundering (BSA/AML) compliance program.
- 🕹️ Crypto gaming has mixed Q1 as deals jump, investment totals dip - DappRadar says investment totals dropped for Web3 games in Q1, but the number of deals jumped quarter-over-quarter, with a focus on infrastructure-building projects.
- 🚀 RAY token up 8% as Raydium rolls out Pump.fun competitor ‘LaunchLab’ - Raydium has released its token launchpad to allow creators to easily spin out cryptocurrencies. The tool comes nearly a month after Pump.fun announced its decentralized exchange, PumpSwap.
- ❔ Coinbase distances Base from highly criticized memecoin that dumped $15M - A Coinbase spokeswoman told Cointelegraph that “Base did not launch a token” after the blockchain’s X account was slammed for sharing a tokenized, tradable social post.
- 🪙 VanEck aims to launch crypto-related investments ETF next month, offering broad industry exposure through dozens of stocks - VanEck said it’s aiming for a May 14 launch of its crypto-related ETF made up of 30 to 60 investments which are closely tied to digital assets.
- 🥷 ZKsync discloses $5 million admin account hack - The ZKsync security team said approximately $5 million worth of ZK tokens were stolen from a compromised admin account. ZK, the native token introduced last June, is down approximately 15% on the day.
📈 Market Data 📉
DEX Weekly Transaction Volume by Chain
Top Cryptocurrencies
| Token | April 8, 2025 | April 15, 2025 | % Change |
| BTC | $76,329 | $83,656 | 9.6% |
| ETH | $1,471.36 | $1,587.82 | 7.9% |
| BNB | $553.40 | $579.71 | 4.8% |
| SOL | $105.49 | $126.30 | 19.7% |
| XRP | $1.79 | $2.09 | 16.8% |
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) |
| Onyxcoin (XCN) | $0.02 | 56.85% | $113,859,553 |
| Raydium (RAY) | $2.18 | 30.52% | $265,178,396 |
| Helium (HNT) | $3.54 | 30.08% | $19,124,070 |
- Active Losers:
| Token | Price | % Price Change (7d) | Volume (24hr) |
| MANTRA (OM) | $0.69 | -89.73% | $515,994,735 |
| Movement (MOVE) | $0.24 | -25.00% | $87,320,771 |
| Theta Network (THETA) | $0.63 | -15.35% | $35,628,861 |
Source: CoinMarketCap as of April 16, 2025
Market Sentiment and Indicators
- Crypto Fear and Greed Index: The index began at 23 (Fear), briefly dropped to 18 (Extreme Fear) early in the week, and then fluctuated for the remainder of the week, closing at 29 (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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