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gumi Cryptos Capital retweeted
1inch Network incentive program: reward cap doubled.
Apple’s flagship event is tomorrow. You can trade AAPLc 24/7 on 1inch, routed across @base liquidity.
Up to $50 per wallet. 5% rewards in USDC. Operated by @merkl_xyz - all reward calculation and distribution runs on Merkl's side.
gumi Cryptos Capital retweeted
Great to be featured in @DefiantNews's overview of ripple:native vault infra on @FlareNetworks.
Firelight covers deposits against smart contract exploits and protocol-level failures.
Dive in to learn about the intricacies of vault management. 🤝
XRP has been one of crypto's biggest assets since 2012.
For most of those years, you could buy it, sell it, and not much else. That changes now.
@FlareNetworks is putting XRP to work.
Deposit XRP, it becomes FXRP, and a vault curator deploys it so it can start earning yield.
Our new video explains what a vault is, who's managing the risk inside it, and what happens when that goes wrong — then walks through earnXRP (@ClearstarLabs), MXRPY (@monarq_mgmt) and @Firelightfi (coming soon).
gumi Cryptos Capital retweeted
@LaserDigital_, a @Nomura group company, has chosen @KeyringNetwork as their DeFi partner.
This partnership underscores our tier-one institutional offerings of structuring, settlement technology and permissioned DeFi.
The initial markets will be live on @eulerfinance 👀
Laser Digital is partnering with @KeyringNetwork on institutional fixed income products, beginning with decentralised lending markets on @eulerfinance
🔗 laserdigital.com/newsroom/la…
🗒️ Professional and institutional investors only. Capital at risk. laserdigital.com/marketing-d…
gumi Cryptos Capital retweeted
A week of early-stage raises. @frontrunvc flagged 8 startups before they were announced. 👇
Average lead time: 154 days.
1. @polarisfnd - 219 days ago. $1M angel round from @sassal0x and 6 other angels
2. @Firelightfi - 198 days ago. $8M seed led by @GumiCryptos
3. @ParlayXOfficial - 195 days ago. $1.25M pre-seed led by Dreamcraft Ventures
4. @carinetwork - 170 days ago. $32.5M first round, backed entirely by banks
5. @wafer_ai - 141 days ago. $40M Series A co-led by @MarathonMP and @chemistry
6. @MonidHQ - 137 days ago. $2.1M pre-seed from @1984Ventures, @llama_venture, @UntappedVC and @fdotinc
7. @DiameterPay - 115 days ago. $10M Series A co-led by @CMT_Digital and @FactionVC
8. @AranyaInc - 57 days ago. $9M seed led by @firstround
Great week to follow from the front. Pushing for better coverage + longer lead times. 🫡
gumi Cryptos Capital retweeted
Four Sentora Smart Yield vaults are live on @FordefiHQ Earn: USD, ETH, BTC, and RWA.
Organizations using Fordefi can now allocate to Sentora vaults directly from their Fordefi environment
medium.com/sentora/sentora-s…
gumi Cryptos Capital retweeted
every startup has one number they check before coffee and one they only check when they're feeling brave. the distance between the two is the actual company.
gumi Cryptos Capital retweeted
The Igniter Cap NFT is now ready to claim! 🔥
100 depositors who opened or added to a position in the Firelight Launch Vault between January 28 and June 1 have been selected to receive this exclusive NFT reward.
Learn more.
gumi Cryptos Capital retweeted
The RedStone Podcast is live.
Five minutes, no filler.
Ep1: @carlosdomingo, CEO of @Securitize, on why institutions lead with compliance, not yield, and the road to a trillion-dollar tokenized market.
New episodes on Mondays.
youtu.be/_kKuDL9aaOE
gumi Cryptos Capital retweeted
Pumped to share that Firelight has raised an $8M seed led by @gumicryptos, with participation from @Maven11Capital, @metalayervc, Joint Effects, and @tribecap.
I spent most of my career underwriting risk at @transre , then five years at @FireblocksHQ watching institutions try (and often fail) to put real size onchain. Interest was never the problem. The thing on the screen looks like regular finance. The risk underneath doesn't. Users never opted in to losing assets to a smart contract failure, and neither did their risk committees.
The missing piece is risk/underwriting infrastructure. Traditional cover runs on annual policies and months-long claims while onchain risk changes every block. Pioneers like Nexus Mutual proved the demand - the constraint has been capacity, since most cover capital comes from inside the same markets it protects.
Firelight adds capacity rather than replacing anyone. Cover backed by capital from outside the system it protects, the same way ILS/cat bonds built a $45B market by importing external capital instead of recycling it. Exploits are assessed by an independent consortium of security and risk firms, not by us. Shoutout to @HypernativeLabs @cyfrin @nativeinsurance @labsGFX @CredoraNetwork
Crypto custody went from treating insurance as exotic to treating its absence as disqualifying in four years. Yield/Earn products are next.
The protocol goes live in a few weeks and our first cover integrations go live with it, including one of the world's largest exchanges and one of DeFi's most established protocols. More on both soon.
Thanks to @jrdothoughts, @admff492 and the @Firelightfi + @SentoraHQ @FlareNetworks teams, and the investors who backed us.
If you're putting DeFi behind a consumer or institutional front end, lets chat!
We are proud to lead this round alongside long time partners and tremendous leadership from @jrdothoughtts
Firelight raises $8M in a seed round led by @GumiCryptos, with participation from @Maven11Capital, @metalayervc, @tribecap & Joint Effects.
The round supports our work closing DeFi's protection gap. ~$80B in TVL sits across DeFi today, and only a fraction is protected.
coindesk.com/business/2026/0…
gumi Cryptos Capital retweeted
💰 @Firelightfi raises $8M in a Seed funding round
#Firelight secures $8M in a Seed funding round led by @GumiCryptos, with participation from @Maven11Capital, @Metalayervc, Joint Effects, and @TribeCap. Firelight will utilize secured funds to build an onchain protection layer for decentralized finance and expand the assets backing its cover system beyond $XRP.
Firelight is a decentralized finance risk-protection and staking protocol that uses large, non-yielding digital assets to provide on-chain insurance against smart-contract exploits.
👉 x.com/Firelightfi/status/209…
Firelight raises $8M in a seed round led by @GumiCryptos, with participation from @Maven11Capital, @metalayervc, @tribecap & Joint Effects.
The round supports our work closing DeFi's protection gap. ~$80B in TVL sits across DeFi today, and only a fraction is protected.
coindesk.com/business/2026/0…
gumi Cryptos Capital retweeted
RedStone Settle will unlock DeFi and T+0 exits for a tokenized fund by a Tier-1 asset manager with $838B AUM.
Centrifuge’s HYB, sub-advised by @NYLIManagement, is integrating Settle.
gumi Cryptos Capital retweeted
🚨BASS Speaker Announcement🚨
@mikojava Managing Partner of @GumiCryptos
the science of blockchain conference is coming home 🌲
stanford campus. july 30. one day, all frontier
@StanfordSBA @StanfordCrypto @theBBFund have been heads down all summer
lock your spot: luma.com/basssbc2026
gumi Cryptos Capital retweeted
4-8% of all github commits are now written by claude.
I interviewed @mikojava from @GumiCryptos, who watched the same thing happen to software once before from inside sun microsystems, where he grew java's developer community from thousands to millions.
We talk about everything from java, dot-com bubble, crypto, singapore's model of ownership, and why he welcomes AI slop.
07:31 - the java fund: sun, kleiner perkins & vinod khosla
09:21 - silicon valley's boom and bust cycles
12:35 - growing java from thousands to millions of developers
23:33 - has crypto lost the plot
32:57 - a generation locked out of ownership
41:52 - what he's investing in for 2026-2027
45:35 - AI is writing 4-8% of github
gumi Cryptos Capital retweeted
"onchain AI is real" as a boolean that evaluates to true. @michaelh_0g of @0G_labs makes the case to @mikojava of @GumiCryptos 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=WRpf1hY9…
gumi Cryptos Capital retweeted
Thank you to our backers, our community, and our power users 💜
@UniswapLabsVC, @JaneStreetGroup, @UniswapFND, @Uniswap, @cbventures, @HashKey_Capital, @GumiCryptos, @greenfield_cap, @BlizzardFund, @ApolloCryptoAu, @ZeePrimeCap, @L1D_xyz, @BingVentures, @HeartcoreCap, @SevenXVentures, @mhventures, @HailstoneLabs, @BigBrainVC, @comma3vc, @ContangoDigital, @VidenVc, @g_dip, @MrGavinLow, @gpl_94, @reganbozman, @mattdobel, @euler_mab, @yorgosv_, @tongnk, @will__price, @keyrock, @impossible_, @arbitrum, @calchulus, @0x_vadym, @bayramov_eth, @tjfanta1, @yoitsyoung, @especulacion, @defidave, @cmsholdings, @comfycapital_
gumi Cryptos Capital retweeted
Solv’s FROST Multi-Sig Governance taps reputable institutions for Bitcoin Security innovation.
With partners from: @TheSpartanGroup @AntalphaGlobal, @ApolloCryptoFM, @GumiCryptos, @IOSGVC and UOB Venture Management
Check the full article: globenewswire.com/news-relea…
Institutional borrowers get stable rates through @ArkisXYZ novel dynamic spread modeling
gumi Cryptos Capital retweeted
After the recent acquisition of @nucleusearn I’m excited to join @paxoslabs as part of the Growth + DeFi team!
A quick backstory on the journey that got me here alongside the rest of my team 👇
I'm a recent Math Econ grad from @Penn ('25), where I dove headfirst into crypto leading Governance initiatives @franklin_dao from a first principles perspective in DAOs like @UniswapFND, Compound and @aave.
What started as curiosity about DeFi, DAOs, coordination, and the game theory around it all turned into building @nucleusearn with my colleagues and exploring early ecosystems like @HyperliquidX.
During this time we honed our skills, built our network, and worked on a lot of interesting primitives helping shape our approach to current initiatives like providing tokenized yield offerings for users and bootstrapping liquidity for these offerings to support DeFi utility.
Some of the work I’m most proud of on our end is
@looping_col
Along this journey we definitely noticed some gaps.
Notably: enterprises need reliable, compliant infrastructure to truly participate without the risks.
That's why I'm thrilled to be building with @paxoslabs!
@paxoslabs is bringing institutional-grade infrastructure to market, giving platforms the tools to issue their own stablecoins, tap into compliant DeFi markets, and unlock new revenue streams with confidence.
Backed by @Paxos’s $120B+ track record, @paxoslabs is here to help enterprises move beyond access to full onchain financial experiences.
Huge shoutout to the team that helps to make it all happen: @JunKim831 @ChundaMcCain @dashanmccain @0x_carson @jpickett713 @mroddy5280 @0xTrojanhorse @anjaliegeorge
and all others who are too busy building to be posting.
I'll be focused on driving growth initiatives in DeFi:
- Partnering with platforms to integrate our tools
- Exploring new markets and primitives like @HyperliquidX
- Turning complex ideas into actionable strategies that create real value.
If you're interested in working together, let's connect—DMs open!
We had a rollout plan. The market had other ideas.
Sometimes opportunities show up when least expected, but we pulled out the stops, executed fast, and showed what we can bring to the table.
But we realized that we didn’t get the chance to introduce ourselves. Paxos Labs is the enterprise-grade infrastructure platform powering the next era of onchain finance.
Financial platforms across the world are constrained by legacy financial rails systems that are costly, slow, and limited in scope. As these platforms look to upgrade their underlying infrastructure, they can turn to Paxos Labs to guide them in their blockchain journey, from stablecoins to full onchain market access.
Backed by @Paxos's $120B+ track record in tokenization and regulatory expertise and trusted by enterprises like PayPal, Venmo, Mastercard, Nubank, Interactive Brokers, and more we extend proven infrastructure into a full product suite that unlocks utility, yield, and liquidity for platforms and their users.
With Paxos Labs, enterprises can take the step beyond stablecoin issuance and acceptance to deliver full onchain financial experiences for their users from branded stablecoin creation, to servicing yield on stablecoins, integrating compliant money markets, and more.
Our mission for enterprises is to enable them to own more of their economics, facilitate growth through innovation, and future-proof their business by delivering safe and utility-driven onchain experiences to their end-users.
Building the rails you can rely on, and the products that make them matter.
Paxos Labs is where the future of onchain finance is built, customized, and scaled.
Start your onchain journey with Paxos Labs.