BNB Token Performance

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Network Growth and DeFi Expansion

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The Rise of Four.meme

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Risks and Challenges

Outlook

BNB Network Company (BNC) crypto portfolio

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BNB Chain (BNB) logo for BNB ecosystem analysis

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BNB Chain surges in 2025 with record users, $17B DeFi TVL, and a $1,330 BNB price. Fueled by memecoin mania and AI-driven upgrades, it’s evolving from an exchange token into core Web3 infrastructure.

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The State of the BNB Ecosystem in 2025

Comparative Market Overview

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Aster vs Hyperliquid token price comparison

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TVL, Trading Volume, and Liquidity Depth

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Adoption, User Growth, and Ecosystem Activity

Governance, Tokenomics, and Incentives

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Key Risks

Final Comparative Insights

Hyperliquid

Aster

Aster vs Hyperliquid – Who Leads the DeFi Perpetuals?

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Aster’s lightning-fast rise challenges Hyperliquid’s dominance in DeFi perpetuals. This analysis breaks down TVL, trading volumes, adoption, risks, and investor outlook.

How the Sale Works

Lombard and Its Core Token LBTC

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Investor Backing and the Role of $BARD

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Why Buidlpad?

Positioning in the Bitcoin DeFi Landscape

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Takeaway

Lombard Staked BTC

USD1

Bitcoin

Lombard

3D Lombard logo on a soft gradient background

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Lombard is launching its token sale on Buidlpad, raising $6.75M at a $450M FDV. With no vesting, a strong investor base, and integrations across DeFi, this sale could be one of the year’s most closely watched.

Polychain Capital

Franklin Templeton

Bybit

Nomad Capital

Lombard $BARD Sale on Buidlpad

Perena (SOL) Echo Launchpad Sale

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Enso (ENSO) CoinList Sale Concludes with $9.2M Raised

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Hana Network (HANA) TGE Sale (100% Unlocked)

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Pipe Network (PIPE) CoinList Sale on June 26

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Arcium (ARX) Upcoming Legion Launchpad Sale

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Infographic of top public token sales in June 2025 including Perena, Enso, and Hana.

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Key Takeaways

Ethereum

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Several high-profile token sales closed June. Perena launched on Echo, Enso raised $9.2M with 100% unlocked tokens, and Hana sold at $0.04 (FDV $40M). Pipe raised ~$10M on CoinList, and Arcium plans a public sale via Legion. Demand remained strong.

Anagram Crypto

Borderless Capital

Maelstrom

Multicoin Capital

Solana Ventures

Robot Ventures

Jordi Alexander

Top June 2025 Token Sales (Perena, Enso, Hana, Pipe, Arcium)

Malta

YZi Labs is an investment firm formerly known as Binance Labs that invests in all stages of development in the fields of Web3, artificial intelligence (AI), and biotechnology.

Funes

Singapore

Crypto.com is a payment and cryptocurrency platform that empowers users to buy, sell, and pay with crypto.

Crypto.com

Hong Kong

Animoca Brands is a global digital entertainment company that specializes in the development and publishing of mobile games, blockchain-based games, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). They are known for creating and publishing a wide range of popular games, including licensed intellectual properties such as Formula 1, Doraemon, and MotoGP. Animoca Brands is also heavily involved in the blockchain gaming space, leveraging the benefits of blockchain technology and NFTs to create unique gaming experiences.

Animoca Brands

United States of America

Gate.io

Standard Money

China

IDG Capital is an investment firm that funds early- to growth-stage companies in the technology sector.

IDG Capital

Sign

Sequoia Capital is a renowned venture capital firm with a strong presence in Silicon Valley and a global reach. Founded in 1972 by Don Valentine, it has played a significant role in the growth and development of numerous technology companies.

Sequoia Capital

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joining a16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of FoundersFund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Balaji Srinivasan

IOSG Venture is an early-stage fund for decentralized protocols and companies. Early-stage algorithm-based ventures.

IOSG Ventures

HashKey Capital is a blockchain and cryptocurrency-focused venture capital and investment firm based in Hong Kong. They specialize in funding and supporting early-stage blockchain and cryptocurrency projects, startups, and companies.

HashKey Capital

Amber Group is a one-stop crypto finance service provider that provides liquidity provision, trading and asset management services 24/7.

Amber Group

Hack VC is a web3 venture capital firm. Hack VC partners with online and offline hackers who are building the future of the internet.

Hack VC

Draper Associates is a global venture capital firm that invests in companies driving transformative change across industries.

Draper Associates

Cayman Islands

GBV Capital focuses exclusively on investment related to blockchain technology, digital currency, and cryptocurrency

GBV Capital

NGC Ventures is one of the largest institutional investors of blockchain technologies, and has been a key contributor to a number of leading projects.

NGC Ventures

Shima Capital is an early stage VC firm investing in disruptive web3 and blockchain technology companies.

Shima Capital

India

Sandeep Nailwal

Mirana Ventures is a leading global investment fund that provides long-term capital and strategic partnerships to visionary founders and fund managers in the Web3 space.

Mirana Ventures

Tess Hau is an investor and advisor to high-performing startups, deep tech companies, and extraordinary founders across the world.

Tess Ventures

Innovating, venturing, and catapulting forward the next generation of teams/companies

Infinity Ventures Crypto (IVC)

Folius Ventures invests, popularizes, and participates in the construction of the Web3 ecosystem.

Folius Ventures

Mask Network is the Portal to the New, Open Internet.

Mask Network

Matrixport is a digital assets financial services platform where users can invest, trade, and leverage crypto assets.

Matrixport

France

Synaps

Tegan Kline

imToken is the world’s largest Ethereum digital asset wallet.

imToken

Tekin Salimi

Liang Xinjun

Hash Global is a Web3 Venture Capital firm founded in 2018. They are dedicated to creating a more open and fair internet by working with the most talented and creative teams globally.

Hash Global

Y2Z Ventures is a long-term venture mainly focused on Metaverse and Web 3.0.

Y2Z Ventures

Alumni Ventures

Alex Shin

Aniket Jindal

Goodwater

Ahmed Al-Balaghi

Jaeson Ma

Next Web Capital

DiscusFish

Circle is a financial technology firm that utilizes stablecoins for payments and e-commerce.

Circle

Thomas Vu

Gate Ventures

WAGMI Ventures

APRO

Polychain Capital is a cryptocurrency-focused investment management firm and hedge fund. It was founded in 2016 by Olaf Carlson-Wee, who was the first employee at Coinbase and is known for being one of the earliest advocates of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Polychain Capital is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is considered one of the prominent players in the cryptocurrency investment space.

CMS Holdings may also invest in early-stage blockchain and cryptocurrency projects through private investments and strategic partnerships. They provide capital and support to innovative startups in the crypto space.

CMS Holdings

ABCDE Capital

Comma3 Ventures

Presto Labs

Digital asset fund investing in the analog to digital transformation of money in the emergent financial system.

UTXO Management

Oak Grove Ventures is an early-stage investment firm with a primary focus on advanced technology sectors.

Oak Grove Ventures

Hongshan, formerly known as Sequoia Capital China, is a venture capital firm specializing in investments across various stages, from seed and mid-stage to late-stage and growth, with a particular focus on the fintech sector.

HongShan (ex-Sequoia China)

United Kingdom

Kingsway Capital

Venture capital firm with a focus on blockchain games.

GameFi Ventures

Caladan (Alphalab)

Polygon Labs

Open Campus

Arbitrum Foundation

Selini is a global trading firm focused on systematic trading, liquidity provision, efficient execution, and venture investing—all within the digital assets space.

Selini Capital

Sfermion is a multi-strategy investment firm focused on the immersive internet. Sfermion's mission is to accelerate the emergence of the metaverse by investing in the companies and founders who are shaping our digital future.

			Stage	Investors
Funes	--	--	Funding Round			Blockchain Service	Nov 6, 2025
Standard Money	$8.00 M	~$80.00 M	Strategic Round	+1		DeFi	Nov 3, 2025
SIGN Sign	$25.50 M	~$255.00 M	Strategic Round			Infrastructure	Oct 21, 2025
AT APRO	--	--	Strategic Round	+1		Blockchain Service	Oct 21, 2025
EDU Open Campus	$5.00 M	~$50.00 M	Strategic Round	+5		Education	Oct 20, 2025
Temple	$5.00 M	~$50.00 M	Seed Round	+10		Finance	Oct 16, 2025
Better Payment Network	$50.00 M	~$500.00 M	Seed Round			Finance	Oct 15, 2025
ENA Ethena	--	--	Strategic Round			DeFi	Sep 19, 2025
StablecoinX	$530.00 M	~$5.30 B	PIPE	+1		Finance	Sep 6, 2025
HEMI Hemi	$15.00 M	~$150.00 M	Funding Round	+8		Modular Blockchain	Aug 26, 2025
USD.AI	--	--	Strategic Round		--	DeFi	Aug 26, 2025
Bitway	--	--	Incubation			Blockchain	Aug 26, 2025
StableStock	--	--	Seed Round			DeFi	Aug 20, 2025
ASP Aspecta	--	--	Strategic Round			Blockchain Service	Jul 10, 2025
IDOL MEET48	--	--	Strategic Round			Gaming	Jun 26, 2025
Concrete Protocol	$9.50 M	~$95.00 M	Strategic Round	+20		Protocol	Jun 23, 2025
OneKey	--	--	Funding Round			--	Jun 5, 2025
AVL Avalon	--	--	Funding Round			DeFi	May 26, 2025
GATA Gata	$4.00 M	~$40.00 M	Seed Round	+10		Artificial Intelligence (AI)	Apr 30, 2025
Opinion Labs	$5.00 M	~$50.00 M	Seed Round	+2		Predictions	Mar 18, 2025

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About YZi Labs (prev Binance Labs)

Investments Allocation

Fundraising Rounds