octra is taking names. A new launch platform landing on Ink Chain, and @octrafun just opened early applications.
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Gate Ventures Podcast | Episode 12
The Evolution of Crypto Capital Markets & Where DeFi is Today
🌟Guest: Ivailo Jordanov, Partner at Paper Ventures @ivailoj@Papervc
🎤Host: Jeremy Wallis, Partner at Gate Ventures @fintechblocks
DeFi proved that markets can run without intermediaries. But execution, clearing, margin and collateral — the parts of capital markets that actually move size — are still mostly off-chain. So where does durable value really accrue as this stack migrates?
Ivailo joins us to map where crypto capital markets are today, what's genuinely moving on-chain, and what stays hybrid for longer.
We’ll discuss:
🔷 Where durable value accrues next — execution, settlement/clearing, or collateral & margin infrastructure
🔷 Pure on-chain venues vs. hybrid models that keep traditional rails for larger tickets
🔷 What's still blocking institutional order flow and bigger ticket sizes from moving on-chain
🔷 Structural gaps in institutional stablecoin liquidity, FX conversion & atomic settlement
🔷 Programmable markets: tighter spreads and capital efficiency, or new fragmentation and basis risk?
August 20, 2026, 11 AM – 12 PM UTC | 7 – 8 PM GMT+8
LIVE on Gate Ventures' X
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Gate Ventures Podcast | Episode 13
Beyond the Dollar: Inside Plume's Institutional Open Finance Playbook
🌟Guest: Chris Yin, Co-founder & CEO of Plume @plumenetwork@chriseyin
🎤Host: Tiffany Chang, Gate Ventures @hella_tifficult
Almost everything onchain today is denominated in USD. But if RWAs are going to carry real institutional volume, the rails have to work for the assets institutions actually hold — and for the currencies they actually hold them in.
Our guest Chris Yin, Co-founder & CEO of Plume, joins us to unpack how Plume went from an RWA chain to the platform institutions issue and distribute through — and why the licenses, not the tech, decide who gets to build next.
We'll cover:
🔹 What "Open Finance for institutional assets" really means — and why Plume shifted from RWA chain to issuance & distribution platform
🔹 Why an SEC transfer-agent registration and a DTCC working group seat are the licenses that decide who builds next-gen securities infrastructure
🔹 How the Shinhan MOU opens RWA's non-dollar chapter — and what it takes to bring Korean Won assets onchain
🔹 Why the hard part is matching supply with distribution — connecting institutional credit to crypto-native users
🔹 How Plume Vaults turns strategies once reserved for large allocators into products anyone can hold, borrow against, and trade
🗓️August 19, 2026, 11 AM – 12 PM UTC | 7 – 8 PM GMT+8
📍LIVE on Gate Ventures' X, Set your reminder 👇https://t.co/sLvv1bonNT
🤝 KieDex × @FishWarOfficial
We’re excited to announce our new partnership with FishWar! 🎉
Together, we’re looking forward to creating new opportunities, strengthening our communities, and exploring exciting collaborations across the Web3 ecosystem.
More to come. 🚀
Welcome to the KieDex ecosystem, FishWar!
Today marks a major milestone for Qantera.
We are excited to announce the successful completion of our $2.1M Seed Round, with support from:
• Split Capital
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• Morningstar Ventures
• Passion Capital
This funding strengthens our mission to build a Layer 1 blockchain that is secure, scalable, and ready for the post-quantum era.
Thank you to our investors for their trust
Testnet soon, stay tuned 🔜
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🎁 Quantera Airdrop is LIVE
18% of the total QTER supply has been allocated to the Testnet Incentive Program, rewarding early adopters, community contributors, and developers helping build the Quantera ecosystem.
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👇 Calling All Developers
Today marks a major milestone for Qantera.
We are excited to announce the successful completion of our $2.1M Seed Round, with support from:
• Split Capital
• Arāya
• Morningstar Ventures
• Passion Capital
This funding strengthens our mission to build a Layer 1 blockchain that is secure, scalable, and ready for the post-quantum era.
Thank you to our investors for their trust
Testnet soon, stay tuned 🔜
@Qantera_network
Qantera Testnet is officially LIVE 🛡️
Today, we open the doors to developers, builders, validators, and early supporters to experience the next generation of blockchain infrastructure.
Explore the network, complete ecosystem activities, and help us shape a Layer 1 built for long-term security, scalability, and the quantum era.
Join the Testnet and start your journey today.
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The future starts now. Welcome to Qantera
Gate Ventures' new podcast is now on YouTube & Spotify - Moving Wall Street Onchain: Inside Superstate's $700T Bet
🔹 YouTube: https://t.co/SlymU82DKD
🔹 Spotify: https://t.co/GA2i3GvlFU
In this episode, Gate Ventures' Tiffany sits down with Jim Hiltner @HiltnerJim , Co-founder of Superstate @SuperstateInc, to explore the future of tokenized capital markets — from why institutions are looking for programmable finance, to what needs to happen before tokenized equities go mainstream.
Key Takeaways:
💡 From TradFi to Superstate:
Jim's journey spans traditional finance, CFA, Compound Treasury — where he helped build institutional adoption and secure an S&P credit rating — to founding Superstate with a mission to bring trillions in traditional capital markets on-chain.
💡 Institutions want programmable finance:
The future may not be about replacing intermediaries, but upgrading them. Models like Aave Horizon show a path forward: DeFi infrastructure, KYC-compliant participants, 24/7 settlement, and trusted counterparties.
💡 Not all tokenization is created equal:
There are three models: From wrapped tokens to institutional infrastructure and native issuance — where the token itself represents ownership.
💡 24/7 securities trading is a regulation problem, not a technology problem:
Superstate demonstrated RFQ trading of GLXY on Jupiter with Wintermute. The infrastructure is ready — the next unlock depends on regulatory clarity.
💡 The missing DeFi primitive is securities lending:
Tokenized assets can already work as collateral across protocols like Aave Horizon, Kamino, and Morpho, but unlocking lending markets could bring even more value on-chain.
🔹 Written Highlights on Medium: https://t.co/ZwuT1RImyH
Vangrid has raised $9M.
Thank you to our partners, supporters, and stakeholders for the conviction.
LLMs hit the text data wall. The next frontier is Physical AI and autonomous systems are starving for real-world spatial ground truth.
Satellites can't see sidewalks. Corporate fleets can't scale.
Vangrid turns 3 billion civilian smartphones into a decentralized perception grid.
Captured at the edge, verified onchain, delivered as ground truth for World Models and Sovereign Systems.
100K+ verified captures. Live bounty system. Real settlements on Base.
The grid is inevitable.
Gate Ventures Podcast | Episode 5
Planning Before an Exploit: Risk Thinking in Modern DeFi
Monet Supply @MonetSupply — Head of Strategy at Spark @sparkfinance and former risk consultant at Block Analytica — for a deep dive into what's actually broken in DeFi today. They get into why the biggest exploits stopped being smart contract bugs, why he checks liquidity before he checks yield, and how institutions moving $10M–$100M at a time should think about putting capital on-chain.
Key takeaways:
💡 The yield story is over — DeFi went from "a few percent above risk-free" two to three years ago to roughly matching T-bill rates today. The new value prop is liquidity, speed, and access
💡 Liquidity is the first metric he checks every morning: if liquidity closes, the exit door closes — and at institutional size, the exit door is the whole trade
💡 The risk has moved: DeFi Summer was re-entrancy bugs, today it's key management. Oracles, bridges, multi-sigs, and custody all collapse into the same question — who holds the keys
💡 Defense in layers: rate limits on price oracles so a feed can't print infinity or zero, time locks to buy reaction time, and moats instead of a single point of failure
Now on YouTube & Spotify!
🔹 YouTube: https://t.co/xKD5iOmxcy
🔹 Spotify: https://t.co/abp3jXHHXz
#DeFi #RWA #RWAStack #Spark #CeDeFi #KeyManagement #Oracles #Bridges #RiskManagement #Stablecoins #Tokenization #Web3 #OnChainFinance
every Claude and ChatGPT user now has the power to trade anything on @solana by having a conversation
welcome to PayBox, the payment vault and non-custodial wallet that lets AI Agents securely transact across the open internet
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