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[Oregon Blockchain Group @oregonblock]

April Recap—Work across Venture Capital, Engineering, and Research.

@audreyjhud @jenlb04 @jacobcordova22 @xaviervortigern @anna_debarro

[Charles @Chasneed_]

Participated in my first hackathon this past weekend at QuackHacks, representing both myself and @oregonblock

@oregonblock won 4 out of 11 total tracks, which is pretty awesome

I built something I'm genuinely proud of, so I wanted to share it:

Imagine how many people would be inspired if they found out Elon Musk asked an LLM something as simple as "what's 2+2?"

Right now there's a real problem: there's no effective way for people to share and publish their conversations with AI, their discoveries, the questions they ask.

So I built a solution.

Introducing https://t.co/UDLiLlkxlI, a way for people to have conversations with Gemini and, at the end, get the option to post that conversation, including their questions and a summary, to a search interface that anyone can read and discover.

[Oregon Blockchain Group @oregonblock]

Pitch Spotlight: RAILGUN @RAILGUN_Project ($RAIL)

Presented by Nick Sakys, Jeremy Mitaux, and Justin Schroeder.

Crypto was built to be transparent. That's also its biggest problem for any institution that actually wants to use it.

RAILGUN is a privacy layer running directly on Ethereum, Polygon, BNB, and Arbitrum. No new chain. No bridge. ZK proofs that let you transact privately inside the EVM you are already using, with a compliance mechanism that Tornado Cash never had.

The Ethereum Foundation built RAILGUN into Kohaku, their new wallet privacy SDK. Vitalik has repeatedly moved funds through the protocol. The protocol generates ~$4.53M in annual fees flowing to stakers, 73% of supply is locked, and RAIL was trading at a 36% discount to base case intrinsic value at time of pitch.

Full pitch and fund report at the link in bio.

Shoutout to Nick, Jeremy, and Justin for a well-researched pitch!

[Charles @Chasneed_]

High risk, high reward

Pumpcade is the riskiest bet we’ve placed in the last two years at Oregon Blockchain Group

Prediction market volumes grew by over 400 percent from 2024 to 2025, hitting $63.5 billion. We expect Pumpcade to capture a meaningful slice of that momentum post-beta

OBG to the moon

[Mateusz Palusinski @MateuszPalusin2]

Leading the Prediction Markets team at @oregonblock has been one of the best experiences of my time at @uoregon.

This week, three teams brought three new trades to keep the green stacking:
→ Politics: A read on the LA mayoral primary
→ Digital Markets: A play on the AI leaderboard race
→ Economics: A tactical bet on Silver's last week of May

Week 9 Theses just dropped. Read it below!!👇
https://t.co/ofFfRLrN7M

#PredictionMarkets #Synthesis #Polymarket #Kalshi #Blockchain

[Cameron Coleman @cam_coleman1]

Just wrote a paper about redesigning SNAP benefits

This is a $113 Billion issue

Blockchain saves it

Read here: https://t.co/QXJjeX3jrz

[Oregon Blockchain Group @oregonblock]

@cam_coleman1 Great paper!

[Oregon Blockchain Group @oregonblock]

This week we’re spotlighting Cameron Coleman (@cam_coleman1), Director of Research at OBG!

From speaking at blockchain conferences in Toronto alongside 16 OBG members, to being invited to speak at a Stand With Crypto event in D.C., Cameron has helped represent OBG on some big stages. He also traveled to Cannes for a blockchain hackathon where he won first place and was later featured in a Bloomberg article on VC.

Currently, he’s working on putting SNAP benefits on-chain to improve accessibility and efficiency!

[Oregon Blockchain Group @oregonblock]

Pitch Spotlight: @pumpcade

This pitch spotlight covers the $PUMPCADE report presented by Braydon Perko, Salem Alfassam, Mateusz Palusinski. Pumpcade is a Solana-based parimutuel prediction market platform that lets users bet on ultra-short outcomes (60 seconds to 30 minutes) directly inside livestream chats and webpages, instead of standalone forecasting sites like Polymarket or Kalshi. Founded in September 2025 by Harrison Leggio out of a https://t.co/uqKG1D0Ogb Twitch Plays experiment, the project has raised $6M in 12 days from https://t.co/uqKG1D0Ogb, Jump Crypto, and Foundation Capital ahead of its Q2 2026 mainnet launch.

The core thesis centers on a catalyst-rich entry point where the market is still pricing a closed-beta testnet token days before audit completion, open beta (scaling from ~500 to 50K+ users), and mainnet launch with https://t.co/uqKG1D0Ogb co-marketing. $PUMPCADE launched as a fair launch with a fully circulating supply, zero emissions, and a USDC-funded buyback-and-burn Value Engine, meaning every dollar of platform usage mechanically reduces supply with no dilution offsetting it. Institutional allocations from the $5M seed are locked through May 2027, keeping near-term supply pressure off the table. Monte Carlo modeling produces a base case median of ~$0.071 (~2x) and a bull case of ~$0.877 (~25x) contingent on viral adoption, with the entire thesis hinging on whether post-mainnet usage materializes to spin the burn engine. The group recommended a 3.0 ETH Buy, funded by rotating out of $SYRUP and $ETH into a higher-asymmetry, catalyst-stacked position.

Shoutout to Mateusz, Braydon, and Salem for an awesome pitch!

[Tangem @Tangem]

Every generation has a financial awakening. For GenZ, it’s crypto.

Over the past few months, we’ve held 25 workshops for 1000+ students at universities like Harvard Business School, LSE and more, teaching them to truly own it.

Now we’re making it official. Introducing Tangem Campus.

[College.xyz @college_xyz]

.@wintermute_t has officially announced their Summer 2026 Internship.

Apply for this highly touted internship below 👇

[Mateusz Palusinski @MateuszPalusin2]

Excited to officially launch and lead the Prediction Markets Sector at @oregonblock, focused on finding market edge through live trade research, thesis building, and probabilistic thinking.

To kick things off, we just published our first two market breakdowns on Medium:

Week 6:
https://t.co/s3sweRW7UT

Week 7:
https://t.co/ihKUYOe24O

Trying to build one of the strongest student prediction market communities out there. 👀

What’s one market you think is currently being mispriced?

#PredictionMarkets #Crypto #Research #Macro #Blockchain #UniversityofOregon

[DASMAC @_DASMAC_]

New feature drop with Finn Fuji from @oregonblock

Realistic trading bots- Sniper, Whale, Noise, and Retail now live on the DASMAC order book sim

https://t.co/ajEDXeKeyF

[DASMAC @_DASMAC_]

Fourth @colosseum update live and we shipped the orderbook visualization to the market sim page

Watching @finnam0n and @EthanTerrero from @oregonblock bring this to life has been something else

So, when sim levels update, you're not just watching the numbers snap in, you can actually see the book shift in real time

Bids and asks breathing. the market alive

This is what building feels like
https://t.co/tlh3YnhEgx

[Oregon Blockchain Group @oregonblock]

This week we’re spotlighting Armaan Hajar (@hajar_armaan) from our research team!

It’s been awesome getting to see Armaan’s work at the intersection of blockchain, ML, and healthcare — he’s training ML models across decentralized data sources to help detect early-stage osteoarthritis in patients with ACL injuries.

Aside from his research, Armaan is a Barry Goldwater Scholar and an incoming Amazon SWE Intern, with the goal of contributing to real patient studies and clinical applications!

[Drewby @drewbydoo05]

@HackMIT Just sent and email, @oregonblock would love to show out

[Oregon Blockchain Group @oregonblock]

April Recap—Work across Venture Capital, Engineering, and Research.

@audreyjhud @jenlb04 @jacobcordova22 @xaviervortigern @anna_debarro

[Charles @Chasneed_]

Excited to share my first prediction as an analyst with the @oregonblock prediction market team

My call: BTC is more likely to reach $90K in the next two weeks than fall back to the $70K zone.

The thesis comes down to three things:

1. BTC just broke out of its multi-month ascending trading channel and is pressing right up against the 200-day EMA (~$82,228). The breakout itself signals momentum shifting bullish, and a daily close above the 200 EMA flips the regime entirely. These breakouts tend to accelerate, so $90K isn't a stretch.

2. Middle East de-escalation. Iran responded to the US peace proposal Sunday and looks to wind the conflict down. BTC follows global macro — this is a tailwind.

3. Got a gut feelin (I’m a perma bull)

[Jacob Cordova @jacobcordova22]

Tokens are not Equities.

Almost all DeFi tokens fail to capture the true value of stablecoin growth.

@SkyEcosystem has put on a masterclass in putting token holders first. Read more on how the intertwinement of tokenomics and product have made $SKY one of the most attractive bets in DeFi.

https://t.co/um1Kk1P8Z6

[Tangem @Tangem]

A lecture at the University of Oregon earlier this week 🇺🇸 @oregonblock

In the end, every student walked out with a Tangem Wallet to practice what they'd learned. Big thanks to our Ambassador, Jess, for being our lecturer.