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We are deploying
- $0.5-1m checks
- founders that are rebuilding finance
- live product w/ traction + growth
We plug you directly into the @ether_fi ecosystem
- $5.3B in TVL
- $600M in vault products
- tens of thousands of active users
- $1B annual volume card program
The shift in the crypto fundraising landscape the past 6 months has been insane.
Crypto VCs used to have to constantly be networking/writing/podcasting/going on spaces/promoting your thesis/getting on 10 deal flow calls a week, to get into good deals...now it's literally enough to just have capital to write checks.
Deals are being pushed rather than dug out. Inbound if people know you have money is at an all-time high.
Most firms are either 1) Out of money 2) Moved to Series A and beyond or 3) Fundraising (with no success).
Deals that used to close in 2-3 weeks now close in 2-3 months.
Firms with questionable business models or copy pasta of the latest trend are getting zero primary or follow-on funding (Good news!).
There are now realistically <20 firms writing checks in pre-seed/seed.
VCs basically have the pick of any deal they want, with more time to do DD.
IMHO 25/26 are going to be historic vintages for those who stick around.
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The race to define Hyperliquid’s financial layer is on. 🌊
We’re proud to back @hyperbeat as they build the native yield layer for one of crypto’s fastest-growing ecosystems.
Hyperbeat has been one of the most impressive teams we’ve worked with. @degennQuant and @HatashiYamatomo and the team are executing lightning fast, shipping relentlessly, and have already bootstrapped the protocol to $400M+ TVL.
Vaults, LSTs, lending, payments, HIP-3 markets, all in one platform.
This is the missing piece for Hyperliquid’s on-chain financial stack.
We're super excited about what's to come!
Hyperliquid.
We've raised a $5.2M seed round to build Hyperbeat, The Native Yield Layer of Hyperliquid.
Led by @etherfi_VC and @ElectricCapital, including an @echodotxyz round via @hypurr_co with an 800 basis point discount for the community to private investors.
The Native Yield Layer of Hyperliquid will interact with Hyperliquid as one composable state to build the next generation of Hyperliquid DeFi.
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We are proud to be early investors in @risechain, which today announced a $4 million investment from @galaxyhq. It’s a clear endorsement of a project that is not simply making Ethereum faster, but rethinking how blockchain is supposed to feel.
Most blockchains settle eventually. Rise responds immediately.
Its testnet has already processed more than 1.7 billion transactions. In one second, it cleared over 50,000. With latency as low as 5 milliseconds and a target throughput above 100,000 transactions per second, Rise is not playing catch-up. It’s changing the tempo.
And tempo matters. Because what most users experience when interacting with a blockchain is not the cryptography or the consensus. What they experience is the wait. The pause. The moment between intent and confirmation. Rise eliminates that moment. It replaces it with flow.
This is made possible by a system called Shreds – small, independently verifiable packets of computation that move through the network in real time. They do not batch. They do not lag. They allow state to update as soon as the action occurs. Paired with the Parallel EVM, built on Reth, the architecture behaves less like a blockchain and more like a live application runtime.
It all runs on standard machines. No exotic hardware. No centralization. Fully compatible with Ethereum, built on the OP Stack, with Based Sequencing on the roadmap to bring Ethereum’s validator set directly into the system.
And perhaps most important, this is not an abstraction. It is a product. It works. Developers are already building on it.
The team behind Rise is as focused as the system itself. @sam_battenally leads with a deep command of systems thinking and a clear vision for how performance should translate into user experience. @0xsashamai brings a rare mix of DeFi experience and regional depth, with an active footprint across Southeast Asia. @hai_rise is the technical core – precise, quiet, and deeply embedded in the system’s architecture. His fingerprints are on every part of the protocol’s execution logic.
Together, they have built something rare: a blockchain that moves quickly, but carefully. That scales not only speed, but trust.
At ether.fi Ventures, we back infrastructure that changes what people believe is possible. Rise does that. It doesn’t just challenge assumptions about performance – it makes them obsolete.
We’re excited to support the team as they bring Rise toward mainnet and help define what real-time means in the world of Ethereum.
Galaxy Ventures @galaxyhq joins RISE Chain on our mission to scale Ethereum with ‘Infinite Speed’.
This brings our total raised to $8M as we build the fastest environment for real-time applications on Ethereum.
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The largest onchain jackpot is now live on @worldcoin
Get a free ticket to win $1,000,000 USD today
We've had 19 jackpot winners and run over $100,000,000 in past drawings 🧵
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Calling all chads!
Excited to announce our next Public Sale, going live on Monday!
Welcoming @risechain to the Capital Launchpad 🔥
With this sale also available to eligible US users, alongside usual eligible countries.
When: 12:00PM UTC, 18th August 2025
Valuation/FDV: $200M (Fixed)
Target Raise: $2M+
Max Offering Size: Capped at 4% of total supply
Vesting: 50% at TGE + 50% 6 months after TGE (Fixed)
Prev Round Investors: Galaxy Ventures, Vitalik Buterin, Stani Kulechov and more
Last Round Val: $100M (Dec 2024)
Min/Max Allocation: $1,000 - $250,000
RISE is a next-generation high-speed blockchain engineered for mass adoption. It delivers latency as low as 5 ms to power real-time applications. Through based sequencing, RISE will inherit Ethereum’s censorship resistance, security, and uptime.
Apps on RISE include advanced DeFi primitives such as fully onchain orderbooks, composable money legos built on top, real-time money markets and more.
Allocation priorities for this sale will be based on:
- Early pledgers
- ETH Bulls: Historical ETH support during ETH underperformance + ETH leaderboard
- Early RISErs (RISE testnet users, RISE Sans + Risus, RISE quest NFT holders)
- Kaito eco
- Select DeFi protocol users
- Holders of select NFTs such as Pudgy Penguins, Miladys, Yapybaras, Moonbirds, Bored Apes, CryptoPunks, Azukis, ARC Stellars, and more
- Select gaming communities
- All other accounts
Make sure to get your account set up on our Capital Launchpad now to be ready for Monday! 🤝
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