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We are proud to be backing the Interstate team! They are exceptionally fast thinkers and operators. We could not be more excited.
We are excited to announce our 2025 fundraise!
Backed by these pioneering crypto vc firms and an incredible set of angels! We aim to be the leading trading platform for DeFi, enabling anyone to trade any asset onchain.
Venture Funds:
@MarshlandGroup
@Taisu_Ventures
@bloccelerate
@alpen
@gd1_vc
@mhventures
@Alchemy
@LegendsG_xyz
Angels:
@waikit
@vanishree_rao
@grugcapital
@kyleArojas
@flavian_alchemy
@sergey_nog
@galacticminter
Bloccelerate VC retweeted
As a response to socialism, Miami will replace NYC as the finance capital and Austin will replace SF as the tech capital.
Bloccelerate VC retweeted
2025: Best in Yield.
2026: The standard-bearer for Onchain Asset Management.
Thank you @therollupco for the recognition!
$500M to $5B was just the start, @maplefinance is combining institutional-grade yield with DeFi's transparency and composability
Likely the most important piece of research we publish - the 4th Annual BCVC Founder Survey!
Read the full report here: docsend.com/v/nxnjs/bcvcfoun…
Thank you again to the incredible founders who took the time to share their thoughts as part of this survey. We hope it helps break down walls and enables open dialogue about the problems faced by founders in our space!
Bloccelerate VC retweeted
We hosted a fireside at BCVC Summit with former CFTC Chair J. Christopher “Crypto Dad” Giancarlo (@giancarloMKTS) on prediction markets, the digital dollar, and the future of regulation.
Some of the takeaways 👇
Bloccelerate VC retweeted
Being a startup CEO is hard.
Being a crypto startup CEO is a different level entirely.
For years, I wanted to host a panel of “CEO survivors”—founders who made it through multiple market cycles and kept building. I finally got to do that this year at the BCVC Founder Summit.
One of the most honest conversations of the day was:
BUIDL TO LAST: Designing Companies That Outlive Cycles
Panelists (aka: the winners):
- Michael Shaulov (@mikeshaulov) — CEO, Fireblocks (@FireblocksHQ)
- Anton Katz (@KatzAnton) — CEO & Founder, Talos (@talostrading)
- Robert Leshner (@rleshner) — CEO & Co-founder, Superstate (@SuperstateInc)
- Jonathan Levin (@jony_levin) — CEO & Co-founder, Chainalysis (@chainalysis)
- Sandeep Nailwal (@sandeepnailwal) — Co-founder & CEO, Polygon (@0xPolygon)
🧵 Watch the recording + my key takeaways below ⬇️
Merry Christmas!
Bloccelerate VC retweeted
🚨 @aave is having a full blown civil war
And it might be the biggest governance fight defi has ever seen.
Heres a clean breakdown 👇
Aave has two sides:
– Aave labs → a centralised entity founded by stani
– Aave dao → token holders who govern the protocol
Now heres what happening,
Dec 4, 2025: Aave labs announces a partnership with @CoWSwap to improve swap pricing + mev protection on the aave interface.
Dec 11, 2025: A popular delegate, @DeFi_EzR3aL drops onchain analysis stating that swap fees from the new cow swap contract are being routed to a private wallet controlled by aave labs. Not the dao.
Translation: DAO revenue just got quietly cut off.
Dec 12, 2025: Marc zeller (largest delegate, aave chan initiative) calls it stealth privatization. Claims ~$10m per year that should go to the dao is gone.
Dec 16, 2025: Things go nuclear ☢️
A. Proposal called “poison pill” by Tulip King.
The demands:
– Seize all aave ip, code, and brand
– Force aave labs to become a dao owned subsidiary
– Claw back all past revenue earned using the aave brand
B. Then comes proposal #2 — “brand seizure” by former cto of aave labs @eboadom,
– Move trademarks, domains, socials to the dao immediately.
Logic: If dao pays for dev + marketing then dao should own the brand, domains, socials.
Aave Labs / Stani’s defense:
– This (cowswap thing) was never a fee switch.
– Frontend revenue was a surplus labs donated voluntarily.
– Aave labs is a private company.
– DAO owns the contracts, not the website.
– Labs pays for hosting, security, and frontend engineers.
Now the plot twist, amid all this chaos,
Aave labs opens a snapshot vote on dec 23👇
Proposal: Give aave token (aave dao) holders explicit control over brand assets, domains, socials, naming rights, github, npm, everything. (baed on @eboadom's proposal)
Except…
The author of the proposal @eboadom says he never approved it.
He claims it was rushed to vote with his name on it while discussion was still active. Calls it “disgraceful.” Urges people to abstain.
@Marczeller says the proposal was rushed during holidays, with fresh delegations gaining voting power.
Zoom out. This isn’t about cow swap. This isn’t about one wallet.
This is the unresolved question of defi:
Who actually owns a protocol? The code? The frontend? Or the brand?
Aave is about to set a precedent. And everyone is watching.
Founders often ask us if it's better to build vertically or horizontally. We turned this around and asked leading founders in the decentralized AI space to have this debate.
Hear @benfielding of @gensynai and @sreeramkannan of @eigencloud share their thoughts on which is the "right" way and why!
At the BCVC Summit, we hosted a thought-provoking debate on the future of decentralized AI.
For decentralized AI to be truly useful, should infra…
- go deep into specific, AI-native use cases?
- or cast a wide net as a general-purpose, full-stack verifiable cloud?
Deep Dive: Ben Fielding @benfielding, Co-Founder of @gensynai
Wide Net: Sreeram Kannan @sreeramkannan, Founder of @eigencloud
Watch the debate and vote on the future of AI 👇
Key takeaways below.
Bloccelerate VC retweeted
Today we’re announcing a $29M Series A extension for LI.FI, funded by Multicoin and CoinFund.
This brings our total capital raised to ~$52M.
More aggressive and committed than ever to build the universal liquidity market for digital assets. Time to scale.
fortune.com/2025/12/11/exclu…
Bloccelerate VC retweeted
At BCVC Summit, we ran a debate on one of the spiciest market-structure ideas of the year.
Watch the replay and vote on who made the better argument.
For founders + builders in crypto, here are the key takeaways 🧵
Bloccelerate VC retweeted
At the BCVC Founder Summit, we don’t do safe conversations.
We bring in people willing to question — or defend — the status quo. This year’s debate: stablecoin yield.
NOT To Yield: Cassandra Lentchner (ex-@BitGo) & Erica Khalili (@Lead_Bank)
To Yield: Will Peck (@wbpeck) & Aadil Mamujee (@amamujee)
Thanks to moderator Chris Crawford (@FenwickWest) for framing the big tension:
The Genius Act bans interest-bearing payment stables… but demand (and “rewards” workarounds) isn’t going anywhere.
Watch the debate and vote on who made the stronger case.👇
Key takeaways below.
Stablecoins have been THE KILLER USE case of crypto this year. But what role will dollar stablecoins play in the future of monetary policy?
At BCVC Summit we hosted Federal Reserve Governor @SteveMiran with a fireside chat moderated by @NValentineTV.
🧵 Key takeaways below.
Why this matters for crypto builders
If you’re building in stablecoins, payments, or onchain USD:
- You’re not just shipping a feature; you’re helping lay new rails for global dollar demand
- Your products can redirect savings from emerging markets straight into dollar assets
- The flows on your rails are starting to show up in how central banks and policymakers think about the future
Onchain USD is moving from “experimental” to core financial infrastructure.