What is MetaMask

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How to Participate in MetaMask Rewards

How to download and set up MetaMask wallet

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MetaMask Rewards Season 1 Tiers

How to Earn MetaMask Rewards Points

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Conclusion

Linea (Pre-Market)

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MetaMask has launched its new rewards program, letting users earn points through token swaps, futures trading, and referrals. Climb through seven tiers to unlock Linea tokens, fee discounts, and even the MetaMask Metal Card.

ConsenSys

How to Earn MetaMask Rewards

What Is MetaMask USD (mUSD)?

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Who Issues and Powers mUSD?

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How mUSD Works Inside MetaMask

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mUSD vs USDT, USDC, DAI, and PYUSD

Risks and Challenges for mUSD

Ethereum

MetaMask USD

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MetaMask just dropped mUSD — its own wallet-native stablecoin. Built with Bridge and M0, it launches on Ethereum and Linea, blending DeFi utility with real-world payments through the MetaMask Card.

Bridge

Stripe

MetaMask USD (mUSD) Launch

The Post-Voyage Paradox: A Market in Violent 

Linea (LINEA) token generation event data showing 9% airdrop and 1% Binance HODLer distribution in September 2025.

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The Macro Lens: Vitalik’s "Post-L2" Pivot

The Institutional Moat: SWIFT & The Settlement Shift

Technical Imperatives: De-Risking the Stack

The Economic Engine: The Dual Burn

The Valuation Paradox & The Verdict

Linea (LINEA) token vesting schedule showing Consensys Treasury locked for 1600+ days and Consortium allocation.

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ZKsync

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Linea has transitioned from a high-hype testnet to a distressed asset priced for irrelevance. But the market may be missing the signal for the noise. This report analyzes Linea's Q1 2026 pivot: a radical shift from retail "engagement farming" to becoming the settlement rail for SWIFT and global custodians. We dissect the "Dual Burn" economics and the move to Type 1 zkEVM to see if this asymmetric bet holds water.

BNP Paribas Private Equity

BNY Mellon

Is Linea (LINEA) Positioning as the Primary Institutional Settlement Layer for 2026?

Switzerland

ConsenSys develops enterprise applications, invests in startups, builds developer tools, and offers blockchain education.

United States of America

ConsenSys Mesh

Joseph Lubin

Shodai Network

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

Amber Group

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

United Kingdom

Outlier Ventures Lights the Way for Visionary Web3 Founders and Provides an Innovative Platform to Bring Their Big Ideas to Life.

Outlier Ventures

Singapore

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

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

Paper Ventures is a first-in, innovative investment firm, focusing on the ever-changing landscape of emerging technologies.

Paper Ventures

South Korea

Factblock is a leading blockchain accelerator and consulting firm, focused on connecting global blockchain startups to the Korean market

Factblock

SIG is a global quantitative trading firm committing its own capital to trade financial products around the world.

Susquehanna International Group (SIG)

Stake Capital

Scott Moore

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

Republic

Bitgo

MoonPay

We are a pre-seed/seed level investor to empower and support gifted entrepreneurs!

Cogitent Ventures

Lex Sokolin

Web3.0 Infrastructure Innovator and Builder to Return Data Ownership Back to Users.

ByteTrade Lab

Presto Labs

Taisu Ventures is a VC firm that invests in and empowers early-stage web3 companies across the globe.

Taisu Ventures

Mantle

G20 Ventures

EVM Capital

Mario Nawfal

Tony Gu

SpiderCrypto

Francesco Andreoli

Vanessa Grellet

chainyoda.eth

Marwan Alzarouni

Alex Oak

Billy Luedtke

Ciarra Pardo

Scott Parazynski

GaiaNet

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)

StarkNet

UFLY Labs

Trusta.AI

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

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

SevenX Ventures

China

SNZ Holding is a crypto fund founded by a group of engineers, blockchain evangelists and entrepreneurs passionate about disruptive blockchain technologies.

SNZ Holding

Redpoint Ventures

GGV Capital

Vision Plus Capital

Web3Auth

Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies reshaping trillion-dollar markets. They manage a hedge fund and several venture funds, investing across both public and private markets.

Multicoin Capital

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)

Union Square Ventures (USV) stands as a leading venture capital firm renowned for its strategic investments in groundbreaking technology companies. Established in 2003 by Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham, the firm has been a consistent player in the ever-evolving landscape of early-stage and growth-stage investments.

Union Square Ventures

Coinbase Ventures is the venture capital arm of Coinbase, one of the largest and most well-known cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. Coinbase Ventures is focused on investing in early-stage companies and projects in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. It provides funding, resources, and support to startups and entrepreneurs working on innovative blockchain and crypto-related technologies and applications.

Coinbase Ventures

Accomplice is a seed-led venture capital firm that invests in technology startup companies.

Accomplice

India

Peak XV Partners (Formerly Sequoia Capital India & SEA) is a leading venture capital and growth investing firm investing across India, South East Asia and beyond.

Peak XV Partners(ex-Sequoia India)

Vietnam

The Vietnamese VC fund Kyros Ventures invests capital into projects at various stages.

Kyros Ventures

Australia

Kosmos Ventures is an Australian investment firm founded in early 2017, focused on helping blockchain startups scale and integrate their technology into our future.

Kosmos Ventures

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

P2P Capital

LD Capital is an VC investors in the blockchain field in Asia.

LD Capital

Moonwhale Ventures is fund invests in teams building new protocols in the blockchain ecosystem and follows an early stage venture-style model. The fund invest in Blockchain tokens and projects which the Moonwhale Team believes are the most disruptive, scalable and promising protocols in the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

Moonwhale Ventures

Bahamas (The)

FTX Exchange is a cryptocurrency exchange company that develops a mobile trading platform.

FTX Ventures

YBB Foundation is a group of tech fans and early investors in crypto.

YBB Foundation

Minted Lab provides easier and more helpful information to investors by objectively inspecting and analyzing various blockchain projects.

Minted Lab

Darma Capital

Russia

HASH CIB (HASH#CIB)

Germany

Staking Facilities Venture is a venture capital investment firm based in Munich, Germany. The firm employs an early-stage and seed-stage investment strategy and invests across the blockchain, financial services and information technology sectors.

Staking Facilities Ventures

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

Pantera Capital is a blockchain and cryptocurrency-focused investment firm and hedge fund. It was founded in 2013 by Dan Morehead, who is a former Wall Street executive and chief financial officer (CFO) at Tiger Management. Pantera Capital is known for being one of the earliest institutional investors in the cryptocurrency space and has been actively involved in supporting the growth and development of blockchain technology and digital assets.

Pantera 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

ParaFi Capital is an alternative investment firm focused on blockchain and decentralized finance markets.

ParaFi Capital

Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions, startups, and qualified individuals shape a changing economy.

Galaxy

Republic Capital works with high net-worth individuals and family offices to syndicate investment opportunities.

Republic Capital

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

Primitive Ventures

White Star Capital is an international venture and early growth-stage investment platform in technology.

White Star Capital

Hivemind Capital Partners

Rob Phythian

Robert DeLucia

Ondo

SharpLink

Chorus One is building validation and staking infrastructure for Proof-of-Stake networks.

			Stage	Investors
Shodai Network	$2.50 M	~$25.00 M	Seed Round			DeFi	Nov 12, 2025
GAIA GaiaNet	$10.00 M	~$100.00 M	Series A	+30		Infrastructure	Jul 23, 2025
TA Trusta.AI	--	$80.00 M	Strategic Round	+1		Artificial Intelligence (AI)	Jun 26, 2025
Web3Auth	--	--	M&A			Web 3.0	Jun 2, 2025
SharpLink	$425.00 M	~$4.25 B	Post-IPO	+13	--	Sport	Jun 2, 2025
TURTLE Turtle	$6.20 M	~$62.00 M	Seed Round	+17		Protocol	May 12, 2025
Mesh	$82.00 M	~$820.00 M	Series B	+5	--	Finance	Mar 11, 2025
Lens Lens Chain	$31.00 M	~$310.00 M	Strategic Round	+17		Blockchain Service	Dec 18, 2024
NILE Nile	--	--	Liquid Investment			AMM	Dec 13, 2024
Predicate	$7.00 M	~$70.00 M	Funding Round	+21		Blockchain Service	Oct 15, 2024
YELLOW Yellow Network	$10.00 M	~$100.00 M	Seed Round	+9		Blockchain Service	Sep 17, 2024
ESPORTS Yooldo	--	--	Funding Round			Gaming	Sep 3, 2024
APR aPriori	$8.00 M	$100.00 M	Seed Round	+10	--	DeFi	Jul 25, 2024
IDLE Idle Finance	$2.40 M	~$24.00 M	Strategic Round	+11		DeFi	Jul 9, 2024
REZ Renzo Protocol	$17.00 M	~$170.00 M	Funding Round	+9		Liquid Staking Protocols	Jun 18, 2024
CARV Carv	$10.00 M	~$100.00 M	Series A	+7	--	Gaming	Apr 25, 2024
PLENA Plena	$5.00 M	~$50.00 M	Funding Round	+21		Wallet	Apr 17, 2024
PUFFER Puffer	$18.00 M	~$180.00 M	Series A Round	+9		Liquid Staking Protocols	Apr 16, 2024
BICO Biconomy	--	--	Strategic Round	+6		DeFi	Mar 28, 2024
NTGL Entangle	--	--	Strategic Round			Protocol	Mar 18, 2024

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