Weekly Deal Updates - April 21 , 2025
Deal Meeting Date
Apr 21, 2025
Sponsor
Pond AI
ISO Week
60
Number of Deals
3
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- 📰 Top News 📰
- 📈 Market Data 📉
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💰 New Deals 💰
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- NYALA €5mm DPO
NYALA Digital Asset AG offers a comprehensive platform that enables businesses to issue, manage, and trade tokenized securities on the blockchain. Their services cater to various financial instruments, including bonds, equities, and fund shares, providing a streamlined, compliant, and cost-effective approach to digital asset issuance.
- Atelerix $3mm Pre-seed SAFT
Atelerix aims to build a universal blockchain network with native cross-ecosystem connectivity, which enables app-specific blockchains with L1-grade security, real multichain interoperability, composability on blockchain level, and web-scale throughput.
- Dojima Labs Series A SAFT
Dojima is building the Omnichain Web - a framework for composable interoperability between Web2 and Web3 systems. It enables decentralized execution, custody, and cross-chain communication for unified application deployment.
📰 Top Crypto News 📰
Here's the latest scoop from the blockchain, crypto, and Web3 world. 🚀🌐
- 💹 BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF nears 3% of total BTC supply as inflows spike - As the global economy continues to confront uncertainty amid President Trump disrupting markets with his policies around tariffs, Bitcoin could continue to thrive, BlackRock’s U.S. Head of Equity ETFs Jay Jacobs said this week.
- 🏦 Federal Reserve withdraws crypto-unfriendly banking guidance - The Fed is rescinding its supervisory letter from 2022 that called for notification in advance of planned or ongoing crypto-asset activities.
- 💼 SEC Chair Paul Atkins signals sharp shift on digital assets in first public remarks at crypto roundtable - Atkins took a few digs on Friday at the SEC’s previous approach to regulating crypto under the Biden administration.
- 💰 Ark Invest raises 2030 bull-case bitcoin price projection to $2.4 million on 'aggressive' modeling - Ark also projects a price estimate of $1.2 million in the base case and $500,000 in the bear case in 2030.
- 💸 Paradigm leads $50 million Series A round for decentralized AI project Nous Research - The latest funding round brings the project’s yet-to-launch token valuation to $1 billion.
- 💱 Circle executive denies claims of seeking US banking license - Circle’s chief strategy officer and head of global policy, Dante Disparte, denied reports that the company is seeking a US federal bank charter.
- 🔗 Ethereum fees drop to a 5-year low as transaction volumes lull - Fees on the Ethereum blockchain have dropped to the lowest level since 2020 thanks to fewer users sending Ether and using smart contracts, says Santiment.
- 💳 Riot Platforms Secures $100M Bitcoin-Backed Credit Line From Coinbase - The funds will be used for strategic initiatives and general corporate purposes, and cash drawn from the line will carry at least a 7.75% interest rate.
- 🕹️ Assassin’s Creed dev Ubisoft teams with Immutable on Might and Magic title - After the recent success of the first 'Might and Magic' release on mobile (Era of Chaos), Ubisoft and Immutable are excited to play to their strengths by bringing another 'Might and Magic' to mobile, this time leveraging Immutable’s expertise in strategy card games.
- 📈 Polygon NFTs overtake Ethereum collectibles in 7-day sales - The surge was driven by an RWA NFT marketplace called Courtyard, which tokenizes physical collectible cards.
📈 Market Data 📉
DEX Weekly Transaction Volume by Chain
Top Cryptocurrencies
| Token | April 15, 2025 | April 23, 2025 | % Change |
| BTC | $83,656 | $93,605 | 11.9% |
| ETH | $1,587.82 | $1,793.97 | 13.0% |
| BNB | $579.71 | $606.17 | 4.6% |
| SOL | $126.30 | $151.00 | 19.6% |
| XRP | $2.09 | $2.22 | 6.2% |
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) |
| OFFICIAL TRUMP (TRUMP) | $13.53 | 76.46% | $2,164,576,145 |
| Sui (SUI) | $3.63 | 70.02% | $3,473,455,776 |
| Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) | $0.94 | 64.58% | $289,087,734 |
- Active Losers:
| Token | Price | % Price Change (7d) | Volume (24hr) |
| UNUS SED LEO (LEO) | $8.90 | -3.64% | $4,178,691 |
| DeXe (DEXE) | $13.08 | -3.39% | $30,415,990 |
| PAX Gold (PAXG) | $3,298.01 | -1.75% | $105,737,878 |
Source: CoinMarketCap as of April 24, 2025
Market Sentiment and Indicators
- Crypto Fear and Greed Index: The index began at 30 (Fear), climbed across the Fear Zone and Neutral Zone all the way to the Greed Zone, topping at 72 (Greed) and closing at 63 (Greed). 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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