Linea (Pre-Market)

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

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Ethereum

MetaMask USD

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

ZKsync

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

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United States of America

Borderless Capital is a Blockchain VC firm and a modern financial institution investing capital and co-building financial products with our portfolio companies that accelerates access, bootstraps adoption, and creates value globally through the Algorand Borderless Economy.

Borderless Capital

Switzerland

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

Circle Ventures focuses on proprietary capital investments in the technology sector.

Circle Ventures

Will Price

Paribu

Is Asset Management

FRWRD

BRIX

ConsenSys Mesh

Systemic Ventures

MYX Finance

China

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)

Hong Kong

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

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

OKX Ventures

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

Foresight Ventures is an investment institution focusing on blockchain technology and crypto industry established in 2020, whose predecessor was an international private equity venture capital with more than ten years of investment experience.  We take solid research on market and technology as investment orientation when investing in both primary and secondary markets of equity and token, with nearly 80 million dollars asset under management.

Foresight Ventures

Cypher Capital is a early stage VC and consultant firm

Cypher Capital

Bing Ventures

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)

Leland Ventures Capital is a hedge fund that invests alongside our partners to provide diversified investment strategies to generate long-term income.

Leland Ventures

Crypto-native venture capital that invests in community-driven Web3 startups.

Lecca Ventures

Redpoint China Ventures focuses on early investments in the TMT sector.

Redpoint China Ventures

D11 Labs

Metalpha

FL Foundation

Woyong

Joseph Lubin

Shodai Network

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

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

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

Amber Group

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

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

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

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

Paper 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

StarkNet

UFLY Labs

Trusta.AI

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

SevenX Ventures

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

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

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

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

Republic 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

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.

Chorus One

Ryan Fang

Re7 Capital

Tristan Thompson

Bodhi Ventures is a crypto native fund – built by founders for founders.

Bodhi Ventures

Philippines

Stepan Simkin

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

Laser Digital

Auros is an algorithmic trading and market making firm that delivers best-in-class liquidity for exchanges and token projects.

Auros Global

Moonhill Capital

L2 Iterative Ventures (L2IV)

Trident Digital

Frachtis

TRITON

Theia invests in companies building the Internet Financial System, a global financial system based on cryptography that anybody can access from a phone or laptop.

ConsenSys

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