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FROTH OR REPRICING? A heated debate is unfolding among crypto investors: have we just hit a local top, or will the breakout after eight months of consolidation continue higher through year-end? The crypto market has surged rapidly, as we anticipated, but the key question remains—can this rally sustain itself, or is it nearing exhaustion? Anecdotally, we are seeing renewed interest in crypto from casual observers. Friends and family are once...
MAPLE OVERVIEW Maple Finance is a digital asset lending platform founded in 2019 by a group of former investment bank and credit professionals. Maple Finance has an institutional lending focus with industry-standard compliance and due diligence for all borrowers and lenders, providing a transparent and frictionless lending experience. Maple is the gateway for institutions to access on-chain credit. Most borrowers are institutions in the digital asset space and are subject...
WEEKLY RECAP Weekly funding sharply declined, falling 81% from $181 million to $35 million, with total deal count dropping 31% from 26 to 18. The decreases can potentially be attributed to projects foregoing announcements in light of a week filled with U.S. election headlines. 77% of funding fell into the Infrastructure bucket, totaling $27 million across seven deals. Similarly, funding was concentrated in Pre-Seed and Seed deal stages, collectively comprising...
TRUMP MAINTAINS A SLIGHT EDGE, BUT IT’S ESSENTIALLY A TOSSUP Well, it's here, folks – the moment that markets have been building up towards since January—the general election to decide the next President of the United States. As our clients know, we have been closely tracking polling and prediction market trends over the past several months, and these have served as a key input in our recommendations. Odds for both...
WEEKLY RECAP Weekly funding increased 65% from $103 million to $170 million despite the deal count falling 15% from 26 to 22. Eight companies raised $10 million or more this week, in contrast to just 10 companies combined in the last two weeks. The bulk of funding was concentrated in the Infrastructure category, with projects raising $112 million across 12 deals. DeFi was the second most funded category, with $48...
In tonight's video, we discuss why we think many crypto-native investors remain sidelined despite record BTC ETF inflows and bullish futures sentiment, how Trump's stalling momentum and potential de-risking ahead of the election might be causing BTC's retest of $70k, the significant bullish implications of MicroStrategy's plan to deploy nearly $43 billion into BTC over the next three years; and how the Stacks Nakamoto upgrade enhances its alignment with Bitcoin,...
BTC ETFS SEE MASSIVE INFLOWS: IS CRYPTO NATIVE CAPITAL SIDELINED? BTC ETFs saw over $2.2 billion in net inflows across all spot ETFs from Monday through Wednesday of this week—the largest three-day sum of inflows since the products launched in January—bringing the five-day moving average to north of $500 million. This is certainly impressive and speaks to the explosive breakout we have seen this week. Source: Farside Investors, Fundstrat We've...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Solana is a high throughput smart contract platform (SCP) engineered for user friendly and efficient decentralized applications (dApps). The platform's primary objective is to establish a unified global state chain via its unique architecture enabling the parallel processing and rapid confirmation of transactions. Osprey Funds is a digital asset manager aiming to build low-cost digital asset investment products that are simple, secure, and transparent. Osprey's Solana Trust (OSOL)...
In today's video, we discuss the bullish momentum returning to crypto markets, key macro updates from the JOLTs report and China's stimulus plans, the anticipated MicroStrategy BTC bid, upcoming earnings for COIN, and the broader macro factors supporting the bullish case for crypto. TICKERS IN THIS VIDEO: BTC 1.88%