Weekly Deal Updates - January 27, 2025
Deal Meeting Date
Jan 27, 2025
Sponsor
Pond AI
ISO Week
50
Number of Deals
5
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- 💰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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- Shards Protocol $450k Seed SAFT
Shards Protocol is a tokenized community launcher & AI-driven advertising network. It combines Shards Launcher, RewardsHQ, and AdX to gather on-chain and off-chain Big Data from Web3 communities, fueling an AI engine for hyper-targeted user profiling across Gaming, DeFi, SocialFi, and more.
- Starlight $400k Private SAFT
Starlight is a KOL marketing platform that uses AI to streamline matchmaking, management, reward distribution, and community activation. It creates a one-stop shop for projects to run their KOL campaigns seamlessly and saves them time and money by optimizing their workflow.
- Rhuna $2.5mm at $20mm seed SAFT
Rhuna provides white-label AI infrastructure solutions for event management. It was created by the co-founders of Untold, one of the largest music festivals. It features comprehensive solutions for managing payments, access control, marketing, ticketing, and analytics—all powered by the latest blockchain and AI integrations.
- Yei Finance $4mm at $40mm SAFT
Yei Finance is an omnichain liquidity infrastructure that aims to maximize capital efficiency and unlock multiple layers of yield. Yei transforms single-use liquidity into a multi-functional resource, combining a money market, swap, and cross-chain hub into a seamless super app.
- SKOR AI $600k Private SAFT
SKOR AI is building AI-powered virtual agents to help gamers improve performance, learn strategies, and master gameplay. It provides 1) Advanced gaming and trading agents: AI co-pilots providing real-time insights and strategies to enhance performance in games and trading. 2)
Creator agents: Customizable agents for SocialFi to create unique content and drive creator monetization.
📰 Top Crypto News 📰
Here's the latest scoop from the blockchain, crypto, and Web3 world. 🚀🌐
- 🔗 Lido Co-Founder Teases 'Second Foundation' for Ethereum Amid Community Backlash - Vitalik Butern's proposal for an Ethereum Foundation restructuring has unveiled deep rifts within the network's community.
- 💼 Senate confirms pro-crypto Scott Bessent as US Treasury Secretary - As US Treasury secretary, billionaire hedge fund manager Scott Bessent will have sway over fiscal policy, financial regulations, international sanctions and overseas investments.
- 🏛️ Ripple Secures MLT Regulatory License in New York and Texas - The company now holds Money Transmitter Licenses (MLTs) in 50 states which will allow seamless complaint-first cross-border payment solutions.
- 🪙 President Trump Signs Executive Order To Ban Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) - The President has also assigned a working group to assess the creation of a strategic bitcoin stockpile.
- 🏦 Trump crypto plans have Wall Street CEOs ready to jump into digital assets - Wall Street’s top CEOs told CNBC from Davos, Switzerland, this week that they’re ready to go bigger in crypto if Trump administration rolls out favorable policies.
- 🖥️ Elon Musk Said to Propose Blockchain Use at D.O.G.E. for Efficiency: Bloomberg - Representatives of the Department of Government Efficiency have spoken with leaders of several public blockchains, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.
- 🔗 Jupiter’s Acquisition Spree, Buyback Plan Spark Solana Ecosystem Dominance Concerns - While some view it as a positive move for long-term growth, others worry it could lead to monopolistic behavior and harm innovation in the Solana ecosystem.
- ⚖️ KuCoin to Pay Nearly $300M Fine After Pleading Guilty to DOJ Charges -KuCoin was used to launder billions in proceeds from darknet markets, malware, ransomware and fraud schemes, U.S. Attorney Danielle R. Sassoon said in a statement.
- 📈Nasdaq Files for In-Kind Redemptions for BlackRock Spot Bitcoin ETF - The Securities and Exchange Commission had previously only allowed cash redemptions when the spot bitcoin ETFs were approved last January.
- ⚖️ Gensler wraps tenure as SEC chair with lawsuit against Nova Labs - A Nova Labs exec referred to the last-day lawsuit “as irresponsible as it is wrong-headed”
📈 Market Data 📉
DEX Weekly Transaction Volume by Chain
Top Cryptocurrencies
| Token | January 21, 2025 | January 28, 2025 | % Change |
| BTC | $106,182 | $101,313 | -4.6% |
| ETH | $3,326.03 | $3,076.49 | -7.5% |
| BNB | $693.06 | $661.63 | -4.5% |
| SOL | $250.40 | $226.89 | -9.4% |
| XRP | $3.17 | $3.06 | -3.5% |
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) | $0.03593 | 215.29% | $657,085,591 |
| Jupiter (JUP) | $1.07 | 30.46% | $538,321,300 |
| MANTRA (OM) | $4.53 | 28.45% | $148,205,062 |
- Active Losers:
| Token | Price | % Price Change (7d) | Volume (24hr) |
| Fartcoin (FARTCOIN) | 0.922 | -48.06% | $283,715,000 |
| Pudgy Penguins (PENGU) | 0.01562 | -39.77% | $329,621,117 |
| Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) | 1.94 | -37.75% | $141,430,948 |
Source: CoinMarketCap as of January 28, 2025
Market Sentiment and Indicators
- Crypto Fear and Greed Index: During this period, the index value started at 76 (Greed), moved up to 84 (Greed) at the beginning of the week, then slid down for most of the week, and ended at 72 (Greed). The index is recalculated daily, reflecting the emotional state of the market, which can influence trading behaviors.
Source: Crypto Fear and Greed Index
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