Top 5 Crypto Fundraising Rounds this week 👇

Blackbird - $50M
> Blockchain-based payment-loyalty app for restaurants
> Spark Capital, Coinbase Ventures, & a16z crypto

Meanwhile - $40M
> Licensed and regulated provider of Bitcoin life insurance policies
> Framework Ventures, Fulgur Ventures, & Wences Casares

Towns Protocol - $10M
> Open source protocol for building decentralized real-time messaging apps
> a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, & Benchmark

Cap - $8M
> Stablecoin protocol offering yield from diverse, scalable sources, such as arbitrage, MEV, and RWAs
> Franklin Templeton, Triton Capital, & GSR

Octane - $6.75M
> AI-powered cybersecurity for blockchain and smart contracts
> Archetype, Winklevoss Capital, & Circle Ventures

25 projects collectively raised $242 million this week.

helping build farcaster | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina | “lucky me, lucky mud”

Meeting with the Meanwhile team on Friday, so I’ll let you know after.

Towns seems similar to farcaster tech tbh — curious how its apps’ traction compare to warpcast.

wdyt of meanwhile? someone i know from school works there and i was like wait what do you do?!

have you checked out towns recently? how's it going?