What is Plasma (XPL)?

Mainnet Launch Details

Trading Debut — Market Reactions and Volumes

Plasma token market cap (pre-market) graph

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Tokenomics and Supply Metrics

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Ecosystem Positioning

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Risks and Challenges

Outlook

Plasma (Pre-Market)

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Plasma (XPL) went live on Sept 25, 2025, with $2B in liquidity, zero-fee USDT transfers, and a 14.6x ICO-to-market surge. Backed by Tether and Founders Fund, the chain targets stablecoin payments at scale.

Cobie

Framework Ventures

Bitfinex

Plasma $XPL Mainnet Launch

Zaheer

United States of America

Investing in the crypto-powered Web3 and creator economy ecosystems

6MV (6th Man Ventures)

Virgin Islands (British)

Bybit is a global cryptocurrency derivatives exchange designed for all retail traders, professionals and investment institutions alike.

Bybit

Cobie, a well-known pseudonymous figure, has made a significant impact both on crypto Twitter and within the broader cryptocurrency industry. Beyond his online presence, he's also recognized as the founder of Echo.

DRW Venture Capital, an arm of principal trading firm DRW, invests primarily in financial and enterprise technology. Many of our portfolio companies benefit from our engagement beyond capital: as a client, as a liquidity provider, through our review of new products, and through our deep industry expertise.

As a firm with no outside investors, wehave a flexible mandate to deploy capital and often tap into our core business to help companies grow. We’re powered by the people, technology and ideas of DRW, and those we invest in may leverage it all. DRW has diversified business expertise and deep networks in trading and technology, real estate investment, cryptocurrencies and product development — a unique advantage.

DRW Venture Capital

Flow Traders

IMC Financial Markets

Laser Digital is a crypto business redefining the frontier of digital finance for institutional investors.

Laser Digital

Guy Young

Framework Ventures is a cutting-edge venture capital firm deeply immersed in the world of decentralized finance (DeFi) and blockchain technology. Founded by Michael Anderson and Vance Spencer, Framework Ventures stands out as a key player in the rapidly evolving landscape of digital assets and blockchain-based financial innovations.

Peter Thiel

Taiwan

Bitfinex is the world's leading digital asset trading platform.

Italy

Paolo Ardoino is the CEO of Tether & CTO of Bitfinex

Paolo Ardoino

Plasma

Founders Fund is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, specializing in investments in science and technology companies.

Founders Fund

Manifold Trading is a early-stage web3 fund that takes a data-driven, systematic approach to making high-conviction investments.

Manifold Trading

Anthos Capital

Karatage

Christian Angermayer

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

Australia

Kain Warwick

Larry Cermak is a Director of Research at The Block.

Larry Cermak

Fogo

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

Distributed Global is an investment firm focused on the blockchain and digital asset ecosystem.

Distributed Global

GSR, founded in 2013, is a global leader in digital asset trading and market making.
GSR is a crypto market maker and ecosystem partner

GSR Markets (GSR)

Protocol Specialist at Bison Trails (acquired by Coinbase). Tweetsman. Actually helpful angel, specializing in protocols: layer 1, 2, interop, bridges, and defi

Viktor Bunin

Hart Lambur

Will Price

Zaki Manian

Konstantin Lomashuk

Sina Habibian

Igor Igamberdiev

Vasiliy Shapovalov

banteg

Charlie

Philipp Zentner

Vaibhav Chellani

Pedro Gomes

Matthew Tan

Lisa Cuesta Bunin

Nick Pai

Harith Kamarul

Kevin Pang

OneBalance

Blockchain Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. It was founded in 2013 by Bart Stephens and Brad Stephens, and it's headquartered in San Francisco, California. Blockchain Capital is one of the earliest and most well-known venture capital firms dedicated exclusively to the blockchain and cryptocurrency space.

Blockchain Capital

Hong Kong

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

Cayman Islands

cyber•Fund is committed to partnering with founders at every stage, from inception to growth and beyond. cyber•Fund’s mission is to accelerate the transition to an open cyber economy by supporting entrepreneurs innovating at the intersection of blockchain, artificial intelligence, robotics, and related technologies.

cyber Fund

L2 Iterative Ventures (L2IV)

Dragonfly Capital Partners, commonly referred to as Dragonfly Capital, is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Dragonfly Capital is known for its active involvement in the blockchain and crypto industry and its commitment to supporting innovative projects and companies.

Dragonfly Capital

Robot Ventures primarily invests in projects and companies related to decentralized finance (DeFi), blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies, and the broader Web 3.0 ecosystem. They seek to identify promising early-stage projects that are building innovative solutions in these areas.

Robot Ventures

Santiago Roel Santos is the Partner at ParaFi Capital

Santiago Roel Santos

Figment Capital launched its first fund in 2021 to invest in high-conviction, early-stage blockchain infrastructure projects. As an early-stage investor, they work closely with founders as they scale from idea to adoption and beyond.

Figment Capital

Big Brain Holdings Invests in Seed, Pre-Seed and Early Stage Startups

Big Brain Holdings

Canada

Vitalik Buterin, a Russian-born Canadian programmer and writer, is best known for co-founding Ethereum, one of the most influential blockchain platforms.

Vitalik Buterin

Sreeram Kannan

Mert Mumtaz

Hasu

Kartik Talwar

Joseph Lubin

MegaETH (Pre-Market)

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

Shima Capital

Scott Lewis Co-Founder of Concourse Open Community.

Scott Lewis

Austin Green

Ari Litan

Fortunafi

Bryan Pellegrino is the co-founder and CEO of LayerZero Labs, a blockchain company developing LayerZero, an interoperability protocol that enables seamless communication between different blockchains. This protocol is especially significant in the DeFi space, as it allows data and tokens to move across networks like Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, and Solana.

Bryan Pellegrino

rushi

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.

Polychain Capital

Arrington Capital is a thesis-focused digital asset and Web3 investing firm. Since 2017, Arrington Capital has invested in over 200 early-stage companies in the crypto ecosystem. Arrington Capital's crypto-native team of seasoned entrepreneurs, founders, and executives is committed to doubling down on efforts to ensure our partners' success.

Arrington Capital

Hypersphere is a crypto-native investment platform designed to partner with early-stage and public blockchain networks.

Hypersphere Ventures

Primitive Ventures is an international venture investment firm that invests on blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies.

Primitive Ventures

Republic is an investment platform providing access to startups, real estate, crypto, and video game investments.

Republic

Meltem Demirors

India

Aniket Jindal

dao5

Managed by the family office of Arthur Hayes (co-founder, BitMEX), Maelstrom is building a long-term portfolio of infrastructure companies that will serve as the foundation of the next wave of trustless decentralization.

Maelstrom

Georgios Vlachos

Build A Bera Workshop

Shogun

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.

YZi Labs (prev Binance Labs)

Lemniscap is an investment firm specializing in investments in emerging cryptoassets and blockchain companies

Lemniscap

Placeholder is a venture capital firm that invests in decentralized protocols and web3 services. Partners Joel Monegro and Chris Burniske manage the firm with Brad Burnham as venture partner. Mario Laul is our head of research. Shelly Gogol and Crystal Kwan manage operations.

Placeholder

Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. He previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com. He is an active Angel investor, and have invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Yammer, Stack Overflow and Wanelo.

Naval Ravikant

Finality Capital Partners

Monad

Paradigm is a cryptocurrency-focused investment firm and venture capital company. It was founded by Matt Huang and Fred Ehrsam, both of whom have significant experience in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. Paradigm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is considered a prominent player in the digital asset and blockchain investment space.

Paradigm

Electric Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in blockchain and cryptocurrency-related projects and companies. Founded by Avichal Garg and Curtis Spencer, Electric Capital is known for its active involvement in the cryptocurrency space and its support for innovative blockchain technologies.

Electric Capital

OKX Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality and promising projects, with an initial capital of $100 million.

OKX Ventures

Greenoaks Capital

Germany

Cherry Ventures

Delphi Ventures was founded over 25 years ago as one of the first venture capital firms to focus on investing in life sciences companies.

Delphi Ventures

Singapore

SevenX Ventures provides insights and operational expertise to help blockchain startups in growing.

SevenX Ventures

Switzerland

Dialectic is a Swiss capital enterprise focused on deployment of human and financial capital into alternative assets.

Dialectic Capital

Portugal

Fernando Martinelli

Ethereal Ventures a new venture fund established by Joseph Lubin

Ethereal Ventures

P2P Capital invest in crypto assets through owning coins, tokens, participating in traditional equity fundraising and DeFi.

P2P Capital

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

Israel

Collider Ventures is an early-stage venture capital blockchain & cryptocurrency fund.

Collider Ventures

0x Ventures

1kx is a venture capital firm that stands at the forefront of the blockchain and crypto space, focusing on investments in decentralized technologies and blockchain-based projects. Founded by Christopher Heymann and Lasse Clausen, 1kx has established itself as a key player in identifying and supporting early-stage companies that are pushing the boundaries of innovation in the crypto ecosystem.

LongHash Ventures is a global blockchain accelerator and VC fund.

LongHash Ventures

LAO is a member-led venture fund built on the spirit of Ethereum’s original DAO. As a global collective of Ethereum enthusiasts and experts, LAO invests in early-stage projects that push the boundaries of DeFi, NFTs, privacy, and Web3 social applications.

The Lao

Established in 2018, Kronos Research swiftly ascended to the forefront of the quantitative trading landscape, handling billions of dollars in transactions daily.

Kronos Research

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

imToken

mgnr.io is a systematic proprietary trading firm that uses innovative quantitative research and rigorous engineering.

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