New Retro9000 Grantees Selected 🔺 6 projects have been... awarded retroactive grants totalling $160K from the $40M funding pool, recognising teams shipping L1s and infrastructure tooling live on Avalanche. Build. Deliver impact. Get rewarded.show more

Introducing Retro9000 Cohort 2 🔺 8 projects have been... awarded retroactive grants, with over $250K in total funding from the $40M pool. Recognizing teams shipping Avalanche L1s and infrastructure tooling live on mainnet. Build. Deliver impact. Get rewarded.show more

🔥 Meet the First Retro9000 Grantees 19 Avalanche projects... have been selected to receive retroactive grants — with over $1M awarded from the $40M pool. Recognizing teams already shipping L1s and infrastructure tooling live on mainnet 🔺show more

Retro9000: Up to $40m in retroactive grants for Avalanche... L1s 🔺 This new grant program aims to reward developers who contribute to the testnet and launch their project on mainnet, empowering developers to do what they do best–innovate and build. More on Retro9000 👇show more

M E S S I E R | P2P... Exchange #Avalanche traders, you’re in! Swap your favorite Avalanche tokens on the P2P Exchange with zero slippage, no token tax, and zero MEV risks. Avalanche🔺 is already moving big numbers, with over 80,000 daily active users and more than $511M in daily #DEX volume. That’s a huge pool of potential users, projects, and liquidity that can now enjoy the price benefits of trading on our P2P Exchange. 🔛 And that’s far from it. Our devs have been on fire, rolling out major improvements, a smoother UI, and exciting new features like GIF sharing in the Trade Hub and permissionless pool token listings! 🔥 1/3 Learn More: 🧵show more

🔥 Announcing the BETH Builder Grants 🔥 The Ethereum... Community Fund is launching its first Proof of Burn grant round, with $50,000 available for projects that grow the BETH ecosystem through adoption, tooling, or direct integration. BETH is live, immutable, and fully permissionless. Each token represents ETH that has been permanently removed from circulation, serving as an open and verifiable record of contribution to Ethereum’s monetary base. It’s a new primitive that builders can plug directly into their contracts, applications, and systems without external dependencies. This first grant round funds teams that can move fast, experiment, and deliver functional proofs of concept within a one-month epoch. The goal is to accelerate early integrations and establish the first generation of tools, infrastructure, and experiments that bring proof of burn to life on Ethereum.show more

Avalanche Ambassador DAO Now... 'Avalanche Team1' We are rebranding... and restructuring the program. Members will have different titles for different tiers. Only the top ~25% will have the ambassador title. There will be an XP system that helps track contributions to the community and ecosystem. With extra perks and paid positions at the top. 👉 Host IRL events, create content, bull post, complete bounties, win grants, support ecosystem projects, onboard & educate users, build infrastructure, win hackathons, support big launches etc and you will gain XP. 👉 Inactivity, toxic behaviour towards community members/projects, full clip selling your presale on day one etc and you lose XP 👉 Shady or suspicious behavior and you are out. Zero tolerance. Our goal is to empower and support those that want to contribute to the growth of Avalanche. Once fully established and community leadership is in place, we will begin a transition phase so 'Team1' becomes a community run entity. 🔺🌎show more

meteco weekly recap | july 27 – august 3... the future is built by founders who keep shipping. recent ecosystem highlights ↓ rwa, ownership & new markets: VaultBags, My Divvy | $DIVVY, Ethics Launchpad and PerpsPad continued pushing new models for RWAs, tokenized assets and longtail markets on Solana. Jurassic Finance announced Deaton, the first-ever tokenized dinosaur coming to Solana. capital formation: Star’s live startup fundraising show, The Shot, returns on august 6. ordr.trade completed its raise with $9.3m from 293 funders, reaching 6,191% of its $150k target. kimia’s ongoing raise reached $660k from 50 funders, or 1,100% subscribed, for its market-neutral yield product built on Solana’s first perpetuals exchange with a true funding rate. launchpads & infrastructure: Bridge Chains launched single-sided Meteora DLMM LPing, letting users bridge assets from Robinhood to Solana and open a price-parity LP position in one flow. nibble.fun launched early access on Solana mainnet and published its SDK, allowing builders to integrate Nibble or build on top of its launchpad infrastructure. Builder SZN launched through Blank. trading fees will flow into a treasury, giving holders access to real trading capital via Ride. MonkeFoundry kicked off Cohort 2, with SurfCash | getsurf.cash joining the program. EasyA Kickstart hosted pitch days in Hong Kong and Japan, continuing to grow the builder pipeline across Asia. products & adoption: Auriela launched Auriela Explore, signing 60+ creators, influencers and travel agents representing 7m+ combined followers in just 20 days. Umbra Privacy payroll now processes >$180k every month, with new teams onboarding and new features shipping. Fitted allocated 2% of token supply to season III users, rewarding uploads, listings, purchases and engagement. Rip Cars opened its early-access waitlist. media: MCG announced a streaming partnership with MetaDAO and Futardio. meteora ecosystem. go build.show more

We all remember. We all remember when blockchain was... pitched as the next big thing. And today, we feel like we’ve been waiting and waiting. Until recently, Blockchain was too expensive, slow under load, and hard to integrate for most businesses. So enterprises ignored it. It didn’t solve their business problems. That’s changed. Why blockchain, why now? Businesses don’t care about the tech, they care about cost and performance. They’d ask a simple question “Does it save or make me more money?” For a long time, blockchain didn’t clearly do this. That’s no longer true. Blockchain is proving real business cases, especially on Avalanche. On Avalanche, transactions cost fractions of a cent. settle in about a second. And instead of forcing everything onto one shared chain, businesses can launch their own Avalanche L1s with their own rules. To understand this let’s identify the problem and then provide the solution in a way that's easy to understand. Where Businesses Lose Money Most large industries lose money due to operational inefficiencies. Data lives in different systems. Teams spend hours reconciling records that should already match. Intermediaries sit in the middle, taking fees to coordinate all of it. Individually, each step looks small. Together, they create real cost: > Labor spent on manual processes > Capital locked up during settlement delays > Fees paid to intermediaries > Risk introduced by time gaps and mismatched data This is where businesses actually lose money. Not in big, obvious ways. In constant, compounding friction. Take Private Credit, for Example Private credit is loans held outside of traditional banks. It’s a multi-trillion dollar market, and much of it still runs on spreadsheets and weekly reconciliation processes. Loan data is tracked across systems. Teams manually process requests. Funds move on traditional rails, often on delayed cycles. It doesn’t have to be this way Entire teams exist just to keep systems in sync. Now move that system onto Avalanche. Loan data updates in real time. Transactions settle in about a second. Every participant sees the same state instantly. Reconciliation isn’t a separate step because the system itself is the source of truth. The impact is straightforward. > Reduced manual work > Shortened settlement cycles > Fewer layers of coordination between parties Avalanche is Infrastructure for Real Businesses Avalanche is designed to match how businesses actually operate. Instead of sharing a single chain, they can launch their own Avalanche L1s with custom rules, built-in compliance, and predictable performance. They control the system. Avalanche’s Moment For the longest time, blockchain naysayers said this could all be done better with spreadsheets or existing systems. They were right. That’s what the technology allowed. Now it’s changed. Avalanche can replace many of those systems with real-time settlement, shared data, and automated execution. For the first time, the economics work. Built for business. 🔺show more

We are pleased to announce that as a testament... to the partnership between boobillions and Keep A Breast, one of their wellness buildings, to support rehabilitation and breast cancer awareness will be named after us. What started as internet culture became a live funding mechanism for real-world impact. Over $82,000 has already been routed from onchain activity on Solana into breast cancer education, prevention, and wellness initiatives through Boobillions x Keep A Breast. That funding is helping support: • Construction of wellness spaces for breast cancer patients • Education and early detection initiatives • Awareness distributed through art, merch, and community participation • Onboarding new users into the Solana ecosystem through a cause people genuinely care about For years, Keep A Breast has led global awareness efforts through festivals, activations, wellness grants, educational programs, and community outreach. This is a powerful example of what internet-native coordination on Solana can enable when culture, community, and funding mechanisms align around something meaningful.show more

Welcome to the pack, Blockframe 🐺 The vision for... Matter Labs has always been to incubate, launch, and decentralize the zkSync network. Today, Blockframe officially joins as the latest core development team outside of Matter Labs onboarding to help build, maintain, and upgrade the zkSync protocol and ZK Stack. Learn more: ∎ Becoming one of many ∎ The purpose of onboarding external teams is two-fold: (1) decentralization — ensuring Matter Labs is one of many contributors to zkSync Era, and (2) bringing in teams capable of building valuable tools for crypto projects and brands building their web3 ambitions using the ZK Stack. ∎ Meet Blockframe ∎ Built with support from Matter Labs, Blockframe is an NFT marketplace and creator platform that features on-chain royalties, AI-assisted NFT creation tools, and an NFT perpetuals exchange. ∎ New tools for builders ∎ Blockframe's editable NFTs and sealed bid auctions are made possible by its new Bulk Semaphore protocol. Bulk Semaphore is a tool that can now be utilized by builders on zkSync to scale without sacrificing the privacy of the protocol and its users. ∎ Join the ZK Core Development Team ∎ We welcome and encourage more teams to join this effort. If you’re familiar with zkSync Era and ZK Stack, have made notable contributions to open source projects, and align with the values shared in the ZK Credo, DM Omar Y. ⭕, Head of Investments at Matter Labs.show more

I'm joining to build and grow ElevenCreative. I've spent... most of my career building for creators. ElevenLabs is one of the fastest-growing AI companies, and it's clear they've been principled about how they build for creators every step of the way: → $11M+ paid back to creators through a voice marketplace that lets you control how your voice is used and earn from it → A music product setting the ethical standard with 50/50 royalty splits, trained only on licensed data → Leading voice and audio models that support 70+ languages so creators anywhere in the world can reach a global audience and earn on equal footing → Partnerships with 450+ nonprofits and people with ALS, cancer, and stroke reclaim their voice for them and their loved ones → An all-in-one creative workspace that supports everyone from millions of creators to brands like Disney, Duolingo, and Epic Games → Tooling that unlocks new workflows, like enabling indie authors to publish audiobooks where the economics aren't cost-prohibitive, and so much more Excited to work with @matiii, Luke Harries, and an incredible team that does not stop shipping. If you have feedback on the product, or are excited to join, reach out. Will be hiring for several roles.show more

A new era for Nodepay has begun. Bandwidth has... been powering our real-time data retrieval infrastructure from day one. Now, that foundation has delivered something bigger: The Intelligence Engine — a living network of structured, real-time insights, powered by you. - Your predictions become real-time signals - Your insights become knowledge - Your bandwidth collects data for our AI - $NC becomes the fuel This is AI combined with collective intelligence. Why It Matters: - Users get rewarded for their insights, not just engagement - Projects gain direct access to real-time, validated community sentiment - Everyone saves time, earns more, & makes smarter decisions First access is reserved for $NC holders ⚠️ The next wave of users will be onboarded following the upcoming snapshot 📸 Soon, you’ll all be able to contribute insights, unlock smarter rewards, and tap into real-time sentiment and conviction that gives you the edge. The Intelligence Engine is live — and you’re getting paid to power it.show more

Today marks General Availability of AgentCore, a set of... infrastructure building blocks for developers and companies to build secure, scalable agents. When we first started AWS, the vast majority of developers were spending most of their time on the undifferentiated heavy lifting of infrastructure instead of what differentiated their feature. So, we solved that problem by building primitive building blocks like compute and storage and database that would allow teammates and customers to quickly build and deploy new experiences without having to reinvent the wheel each time. We realized the same thing was happening with AI agents. It's too difficult and it's slowing customers down. That's why we created AgentCore, a set of services to build, deploy, and operate highly capable agents using any framework or model, with enterprise-grade security and scalability. These building blocks (like serverless secure runtime, memory, observability, a gateway that does MCP translation, etc) help customers tackle some of the biggest challenges of going from prototype to production, much more quickly, securely, and scalably. AgentCore has been in preview for several weeks, and customers have been quite excited about it. The AgentCore SDK has already been downloaded over a million times and we're seeing transformative results, such as Cohere Health expecting to reduce medical review times by 30-40% in highly regulated healthcare, and teams at Cox Automotive and Experian are embracing its flexibility to deploy and operate agents at scale. Inside Amazon, our Amazon Devices Operations & Supply Chain team is using AgentCore to develop an agentic manufacturing approach where AI agents work together to automate manual processes – turning what used to be days of engineering time into processes that take under an hour with high precision. Just like AWS changed how companies build and scale applications, we believe AgentCore will do the same for AI agents, enabling the next generation of innovation.show more

Hash AI’s Strategic Positioning As momentum builds across the... crypto space, we want to highlight the strength of Hash AI’s and the depth of our strategically developed utilities, designed to deliver sustainable value to our community. 🔹Passive ETH Rewards: Our Community Share Pool remains a proven method for $HASHAI holders to earn directly from revenue generated by our proprietary, AI-optimised mining operations: with nearly $1.5 Million shared to date. 🔹Passive BTC Rewards: The newly launched #HashMine NFTs provide fractional ownership of high-yield Bitcoin miners, delivering passive BTC income at 74% APY. These machines are hosted and maintained in our network of fully-owned global facilities. 🔹Node Rental Infrastructure: For developers, hobbyists, and enterprises, our supercomputer-grade nodes offer industry-leading computing power, with unmatched energy efficiency and operational performance. Hash AI’s value proposition has been demonstrated across multiple sectors, yet we are only getting started. The team continues to build and expand, with new utilities on the horizon that will further strengthen our ecosystem.show more

Since launching our free advanced desktop platform, Robinhood Legend,... we’ve been busy making it even…. Better. We’ve heard you, and you know we love to build. Improvements: 1. Anchored VWAP: Analyze trends with precision by anchoring the Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) to key events or timeframes. A must-have for technical traders. 2. Chart comparisons: Compare multiple stocks, ETFs, or crypto assets on a single chart to spot trends and correlations with ease. 3. New columns on the options chain: Get deeper insights into your options trades with new probability metrics available directly on the options chain. See the options disclosure document at 4. New IV data: View implied volatility (IV) across more surfaces, including the options chain, watchlist, and positions table, for better-informed options trading. 5. Options replace: Modify working options orders instantly—no need to cancel and start over. 6. Joint accounts: Available to all customers on Robinhood Legend. Switch between account types and share trades with your partner in real-time. 7. Snapshot widget: Get key data on stocks, ETFs, indexes, and crypto—all in one place: Live quotes and price ranges, Recent headlines, Implied & historical volatility, Fundamentals and more. 8. Much more. Dive in and see for yourself.show more

GM Operators .. // I wanted to share some... positive stats from our growth after launching the Ledger Realms token on Solana [1] Over 600 new members on Telegram [2] Over 1,000 new followers on X [3] Over 60 Operators minted on Solana [4] Over 32,000$ in Creator Fees still Untouched [5] Two successful streams with over 6000 viewers I have some IRL stuff to take care off during the first period of my day, but I will be live on stream later in the evening (EST Time zone). Today's goal for the team is: [1] Secure & Clean Socials / Telegram, etc. [2] Finish Redistribution Engine Plan [3] Build missing pieces for the Redistribution Engine [4] Start funneling Creator Fees through the Engine [5] Keep shipping updates to Ledger Realms Mechanics -- Q: Are you using Creator Fees for Buybacks? A: Yes, but not everything. The redistribution engine will split the funnel of the fees into different categories, allowing us to reward Operators, Holders & Secure the future of the Realms; -- Full FAQ about Ledger Realms and Forge Arena --> -- Join our Telegram Join our Discord Follow our projects Ledger Realms OPMarket // Next Phase Begins Soon Forge Arena >>>>>> Together, we rise! 🐦show more

Sei Szn is gearing up with momentum growing across... the ecosystem: Sei Improvement Proposals (SIPs), new ATHs in usage metrics, and eco teams non-stop shipping. Here's the highlights of the week 👇 🔴 SIP-3: 'EVM-Only' Q&A livestream was hosted on Build with Sei to discuss the recent proposal to streamline Sei's architecture to EVM only. 🔴 Sei Network has now processed over 3 billion transactions and surpassed over 22 million active addresses. 🔴 Gaming continues to be Sei's highest-growth sector by transactions. 🔴 Astro Karts 🛸 is live on Google Play app store and Sacred Tails is rolling out early access for their Beta release with prizes for game testers. 🔴 Yei Finance TVL has grown 166% since the end of 2024 hitting a new ATH of $320M+. 🔴 Binance Wallet hosted 'Sei DeFi Season AMA' on Binance Square with guests Larryhodl, Lee Zhu, and Don’t fade Wiz from Yei Finance 🔴 Phase 2 of Sei Ecosystem Month began on Bitget Wallet 🩵 with $30,000 in prizes for using SAILOR on SEI ⛵ on Bitget Swap. 🔴 Rewards on Takara Lend💎 for Bitget Wallet's campaign have doubled, garnering $20M in TVL for the protocol.show more

Machine Tokenization is HERE 🔥 Introducing the world's first... Machine Real-World Asset (#RWA) Tokenization platform, by Teneo, powered by peaq 🌎 Up until now, real-world apps (#DePINs) have been limited by hardware costs. Individuals can often afford WiFi routers or smartphones, but fleets of vehicles or wind turbines? There's no way to build a Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network (#DePIN) which revolves around such large and expensive hardware... Or is there? 🤨 Enter the Machine Tokenization Platform⚡️ The platform exists to lower the barrier to entry for communities to build virtually any #DePIN. Imagine being able to fund, own, and earn from fleets of autonomous cars or robots, vertical robo-farms, ferry boats, #VTOLs... The possibilities are endless, and this era starts now. Tokenized Teslas ✅ ELOOP has already successfully tokenized a fleet of Teslas for a car-sharing pilot project in Vienna 🇦🇹 which saw the community earn revenue as the Teslas were used. Check out these videos 🎞️ Web3 Tesla-Sharing: You drive, everyone earns: Same, but better. | Web3 Car-Sharing Demo by ELOOP & peaq: With the success of this initiative showcasing the soundness of the underlying model, ELOOP is now building a Machine RWA tokenization platform on peaq to replicate this approach at scale 📈 DePIN Layer-1 Synergies 🧲 Existing and prospective DePINs can leverage the Machine Tokenization platform to lower the barrier to hardware adoption for their users, enabling all kinds of new DePIN use cases on peaq 🦾 A range of Web2 and Web3 projects are already exploring pilot projects on the platform, including Dabba Network 🟨, a connectivity DePIN working to deliver Web access to the unconnected. Already testing on krest 🔥 ELOOP is already testing the platform on krest, peaq’s canary network, and plans to launch it on the peaq mainnet, which will go live this year. “We’re excited to move beyond tokenizing Teslas and offer this exciting, proven model to businesses and communities. Machine RWA tokenization opens up a new era of fractional ownership and participation in the value generated by machines, and we are happy to be chartering this path forward with peaq.” - Nico Prugger, co-founder, ELOOP Read all about it:show more

🌿🌺 Attention all Opusians, Dreamers, and Cosmic Co-Creators! 🌠🚀... Brinc and Opus Community enter an official groundbreaking collaboration 🎉🙌. 🌟 About Brinc In December 2021, Brinc closed a US $130 million fundraising round, US $30 million in Series B and another US $100 million in follow-on funding, led by Animoca Brands. The two firms co-created the Launchpad Luna accelerator in mid‑2021, a joint initiative to foster blockchain and NFT startups across culture, gaming, DeFi, and more. In February 2022, they launched a US $30 million Guild Accelerator Program under the Launchpad Luna umbrella, targeting play‑to‑earn gaming guilds. In early 2023, Brinc and Animoca Brands rolled out a MedTech & Healthcare accelerator, investing up to US $250,000 per startup to support innovative Web3-driven healthcare solutions. Brinc has a powerful ecosystem of partners, including Huawei, Schneider Electric, and Manulife, alongside government bodies such as NEOM, MBRIF, and Hong Kong Science Park, all of whom contribute to Brinc’s mission of helping teams to scale breakthrough technologies with lasting, real-world impact. 🌱 Our journey so far Opus Genesis has evolved far beyond our CTO origin as an anonymously launched memecoin with the Opus Community || Official Support community achieving tremendous milestones over the past 10 months. Together, we have created a vibrant space for researchers, developers, artists and innovators to show the world an alternative route to AI safety. We have presented at Betaworks and ’ Xeno Grant, we were mentioned in Forbes, we developed cutting-edge agentic infrastructure, and we won the Coinbase Developer Platform🛡️ agents in action hackathon. 🤝 The partnership This new collaboration reflects the tremendous work, dedication and passion from our community, and together with Brinc, we will accelerate the building and integration of tools, products, and infrastructure for the future of human-AI collaboration and co-flourishing. The Opus community will continue their foundational role in testing, refining, and growing every research breakthrough of the Opus Community, including the ogOS, the Opus Infinite Bazaar, the upcoming Opus Chain, and now providing support and infrastructure to Brinc’s ecosystem of projects through their own VentureVerse. Stay close to the action; the future is unfolding in real time. More updates to come. 🎨🌌♾️show more