US startups raised $108B in venture capital during Q3 2026, bringing year-to-date funding to $487B—73% of global VC investment and a new all-time high.
And the biggest force driving this year’s mega-rounds? No prizes for guessing. 🤖
If you wanted to know what kind of man Jeff is, get this: on January 2024, he declined a $100M funding round at $1B val, choosing to continue to fund Hyperliquid with his personal money in order to keep the protocol pure.
An amazing article by @domcooke:
https://t.co/hv3pj8tw5i
📌JUST IN: Crypto industry proposes expanded community bank involvement in stablecoin infrastructure to break deadlock on market structure bill, per Bloomberg.
JUST IN : 💰 Binance’s SAFU fund purchased an additional 1,315 #BTC worth $100.42 million, bringing its total acquisition over the past two days to 2,630 BTC valued at $201.12 million
🔥NOW: Bitcoin drops below $75K for first time since April as whale wallets dump 50K+ BTC while small retail wallets aggressively buy dips, a bearish combination per Santiment.
📌ETF FLOWS: BTC, and SOL spot ETFs saw net inflows on Feb. 2, while ETH and XRP spot ETFs saw net outflows.
BTC: $561.89M
ETH: - $2.86M
SOL: $5.58M
XRP: - $404.69K
📌TODAY: Solana launches its first AI Agent Hackathon in partnership with Colosseum.
AI agents build on Solana, humans vote, and $100K in prizes awarded to top four submissions.
JUST IN : 🚨💰 Binance announces, “We are aware of some technical difficulties affecting withdrawals on the platform. Our team is already working on a fix, and services will resume as soon as possible.”