Huge congrats to @wasabicard on closing a $10M Pre-A round. Excited to see how @jackderong is gonna lead the marketing effort in building the rails. LFG 🔥💳
Today marks an exciting milestone for WasabiCard!
We’re excited to announce that WasabiCard has raised nearly US$10 million in Series Pre-A round with participation from Avenir Group, Vernal Capital, Vision Plus Capital, and 01VC.
The funding will accelerate the company’s global expansion across card issuance, stablecoin-based cross-border payments, acquiring, and remittance services, as it continues to build a compliant, efficient, and user-friendly next-generation financial infrastructure.
We believe the future of payments will be faster, more programmable, increasingly borderless and we’re building the infrastructure to support that future.
Thanks to our investors, partners, clients, and community for being part of this journey.
Full Announcement: https://t.co/Rw6YX5gf53
.@build_on_bob just made the most natural hard money trade possible onchain:
- Native BTC ↔ Gold swaps
- No bridge. No wrapper. No CEX
Bitcoin holders can now swap directly into XAUT in 1 click on BOB Gateway 👇
1/ Tokenized gold is exploding
• $5.9B market
• Up 360% YoY
• Projected to hit $15B by end of 2026
• $126B trading volume in Q4 2025 alone
And now BOB just connected it directly to native BTC
2/ BTC holders have always faced the same problem when rotating into gold:
→ Trust a centralized exchange
→ Bridge assets across chains
→ Deal with wrappers & fragmented liquidity
→ Accept custody risk + withdrawal fees
The most obvious hard money trade had terrible UX.
Until now
3/ BOB Gateway now supports native BTC ↔ XAUT swaps
✓ Non-custodial
✓ Native BTC
✓ No bridge
✓ No wrappers
✓ 1-click execution
Just connect your BTC wallet + EVM wallet and swap directly onchain
4/ And BOB also removed one of the biggest onboarding frictions:
• New QR swaps let users send BTC directly from a centralized exchange
• No BTC wallet setup needed
5/ Why @tethergold ?
Because it dominates tokenized gold.
• $2.7B market cap
• 61% market share
• ~$200M daily volume
• 1:1 backed by physical gold in Swiss vaults
6/ Gold has massively outperformed in this cycle
• Now Bitcoin holders can gain gold exposure without ever leaving crypto rails
• Hard money ↔ hard money
7/ This is another step toward BOB’s vision of becoming the Bank of Bitcoin
Every release expands what Bitcoin capital can do onchain:
• Swaps
• Stable assets
• Yield
• Tokenized RWAs
• Gold exposure
All powered by native BTC
8/ Builders can also integrate BTC → XAUT directly through the BOB Gateway API, meaning apps can plug Bitcoin-to-gold flows directly into their products
Turn Bitcoin into digital gold in 1 click now → Native BTC ↔ XAUT swaps are now live on BOB Gateway: https://t.co/txOSERPJKt
IRAN JUST BECAME THE BIGGEST BITCOIN BUYER ON EARTH
Iran charges $2M in Bitcoin per ship to cross Hormuz
At $72,000 per $BTC, each ship = 27.7 BTC
~130 ships cross daily
For context:
Miners produce 450 $BTC/day
Iran earns 3,601 $BTC/day
That's 8x the entire daily mining supply
MicroStrategy took 4 years to stack 500K $BTC
Iran could do it in 5 months... with a toll booth
At the end of September, we launched 1-click BTC ↔ wBTC transfers in collaboration with @LayerZero_Core and @BitGo.
This gave nearly 15,000 dapps across 11 major chains - including @ethereum, @base, @BNBCHAIN, @unichain, and @avax - simple access to deep Bitcoin liquidity and userbase via the BOB Gateway SDK.
Many of these chains did not previously have direct routes available to native BTC.
🟧 $BOB has arrived and the $BOB token distribution has officially commenced.
The claim portal is now open for approximately community members and Community Sale participants. This distribution allocates 415,000,000 tokens (6.15% of total supply) to decentralize governance and reward early network participation.
To support the network's security, @build_on_bob has introduced a significant staking incentive program. For the first 60 days following launch, a bonus pool of 200 million tokens is available to all holders. This pool is allocated on a first-come, first-served basis until fully depleted.
Holders may elect to lock their staked tokens for a one-time bonus, incentivizing long-term commitment to the protocol. The bonus structure is based on the duration of the lock:
🔸3-month timelock: 25% bonus
🔸6-month timelock: 50% bonus
🔸18-month timelock: 250% bonus
Regarding staking yields, participants can earn a maximum APR of 60% during the initial two-month period, normalizing to a maximum of 15% thereafter. To qualify for the maximum rate, tokens must be delegated to both a hybrid node and a governance delegate.
This structure is designed to secure the BOB hybrid chain while advancing BOB's objective to bring Bitcoin DeFi to life.
3 Platforms That Allow Users to Stake Their Bitcoin
Thanks to the launch of Babylon’s mainnet and Bitcoin DeFi innovations, users now have a way to stake their native BTC and earn yield without having to rely on Bitcoin wrappers.
https://t.co/xiYtBJHFX2
Spot trading for BOB (BOBBOB) will go live on 20 November 2025. The opening of our BOBBOB-USD trading pair will begin later today if liquidity conditions are met, in regions where trading is supported.
🔥The moment is finally here! We're thrilled to announce that the $BOB Tokenomics is now officially LIVE!
This marks a huge milestone in our journey to build the ultimate gateway for Bitcoin DeFi 🧡
Dive into the details and see how we're building a community-powered ecosystem:
Look what the new Korean KOL and also BOB’s new Korean intern LUCY @luciee225 has made for us:
https://t.co/JWLuazg2mO
Check it out and subscribe to her channel for more :)
One year ago today, I walked into a room in Bangkok 🇹🇭 to meet the @build_on_bob team for the first time at Devcon.
A handshake, a shared vision, and tons of hard work later…
Fast forward to NOW: We've built, we've launched, and the Token Sale is LIVE.
Incredibly proud of this team 🧡 LFG 🏃♂️
🟠 BOB Community Sale update 🟠
We listened to your feedback 🧡 and are making the sale better and smoother for everyone.
🔸 Accelerated vesting:
• 50% unlock on Day 1
• 50% vested linearly over 3 months (≈16.67% unlocked per month)
• New vesting terms apply to all existing and new purchase requests
• Available via both CoinList and Gate Web3 Launchpad
🔸 The sale is extended until Sunday, Nov 16th, 5PM UTC - to give everyone a fair chance to join following some KYC challenges.
🔸 Find out more about $BOB and register for the Community Sale on the BOB website: https://t.co/wvSQdCvV8p