Sunday, August 24, 2025

The Funding: Why raising a crypto VC fund is harder now — even in a bull market
In this edition, I’m digging into why raising a crypto VC fund has gotten harder — even in a bull market — and what that means for the road ahead....

Telegram’s Pavel Durov reflects on French criminal case one year after arrest: ‘Legally and logically absurd’
Durov may only leave France for Dubai, where Telegram is headquartered and Durov's family lives, for up to two weeks at a time. ...

Stargate DAO approves LayerZero acquisition, despite last-minute interest from Wormhole, Axelar, and Across
Wormhole had extended a $120 million cash offer for Stargate, but Stargate's DAO declined to interrupt the ongoing LayerZero acquisition vote. ...

Bill Miller IV Sees 1% of $60T Retirement Funds Lifting Bitcoin Price by $30K; BlackRock Leads With $2.4B Fund and Largest BTC Holdings
Billionaire investor Bill Miller IV has projected that allocating just 1% of the $60 trillion in global retirement funds to Bitcoin could increase the cryptocurrency's price by $30,000, describing a 2...

Whale Dump Sends Bitcoin to $110,671, Erases $3 Billion in Open Interest
Bitcoin tumbled almost 4% in minutes on 24 August, briefly touching an intraday low of $110,671 before recovering above $112,000...

Bitcoin Whales Move 6,000 BTC to Buy, Stake 275,500 ETH Worth $1.3B as $1.65B-$2.2B ETH Shorts Near Liquidation
Several long-term Bitcoin whales have been reallocating their holdings into Ethereum, signaling a shift in major crypto investment strategies...

OKX Sets $100 Million Fund, Burns OKB After 320% Rally
Cryptocurrency exchange OKX has created a $100 million X Layer Ecosystem Fund aimed at financing developers that build long-term on-chain applications on its newly introduced X Layer network...

El Salvador and SpaceX Boost Combined Bitcoin Holdings to $1.7 Billion
El Salvador has continued its incremental Bitcoin purchase program, adding eight coins since 17 August and raising its national stash to about 6,280 BTC, worth roughly $721 million at current market p...

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