Clouted, a startup backed by a16z’s Speedrun accelerator, has secured a $7 million seed round led by Slow Ventures, with Gold House Ventures, Weekend Fund, and Peak XV’s Surge among the participants. The company, co-founded and led by CEO Justin Banusing, uses AI to manage the full lifecycle of short-form video marketing — from coordinating a network […]
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Key Takeaways An A16z-linked wallet has amassed 3.9 million HYPE worth $192.6 million since April 14, per Lookonchain. The buying makes A16z the largest external HYPE holder as the token reached its all-time high of $67.24 yesterday. A Genesis-era whale sold 1.5 million HYPE for a $95 million gain, testing the rally’s next leg. Smart Money on Both Sides A wallet that onchain analysts have linked to venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (A16z or A16z Crypto) has quietly turned into Hyperliquid’s most aggressive institutional buyer. The address has accumulated about 3.9 million HYPE worth roughly $192.6 million since April 14, at an average price near $49.40, according to blockchain tracker Lookonchain. It added another 226,121 tokens, about $14.5 million, in a single day this week. The scale of the position has been climbing fast, with Bitcoin.com News
A wallet reportedly tied to venture giant Andreessen Horowitz (A16z) has accumulated 3.9 million HYPE worth about $192.6 million, even as one of Hyperliquid’s earliest backers sold a 1.5 million-token stake to lock in a roughly $95 million profit. Smart Money on Both Sides A wallet that onchain analysts have linked to venture capital firm […]
AI's dual role in DeFi security highlights the urgent need for robust containment protocols to prevent potential misuse by adversaries.
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NanoCo, the company behind security-focused AI agent platform NanoClaw, has closed an oversubscribed $12 million seed round led by Valley Capital Partners, with participation from Docker, Vercel, Monday.com, Slow Ventures, and angel investor Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face. Brothers Gavriel and Lazer Cohen built NanoClaw as a sandboxed, container-based alternative to OpenClaw, designed to […]
The rapid growth of tokenized assets highlights the need for improved infrastructure to integrate them into the broader DeFi ecosystem effectively.
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Syndicate Labs revealed that all of its code will remain permanently open source and available for developers who want to continue building on the technology.
a16z crypto says Wall Street is adopting blockchain less for ideology than for efficiency, risk control and programmable market infrastructure that makes assets composable. a16z crypto general partner Guy Wuollet says the financial industry is undergoing a digital migration in…
The surge in HYPE's value highlights shifting investor confidence and potential market realignment favoring emerging crypto assets.
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