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Market Insights

Paradigm doesn't lead many rounds. It led this one — $15M into GTE, a MegaETH order book claiming Binance-grade speed. The product…

DeFi Secret September 3, 2026 9 min read

Market Insights

Anatoly Yakovenko and Wintermute funded a perp DEX that lives inside a Solana validator. Still testnet, still no token — which is…

DeFi Secret August 10, 2026 11 min read

Market Insights

Every perp DEX we've reviewed raised a seed round from someone. Hyperliquid raised nothing at all — and still trades more volume…

DeFi Secret August 5, 2026 11 min read

Market Insights

Jane Street and QCP put $5M into a perp DEX listing ~170 live markets — crypto, stocks, ETFs and forex from one…

DeFi Secret August 5, 2026 10 min read

Token Sales

Squid Router's $QUID sale drew $26.5M against a $2.25M cap — 11.8x oversubscribed, public unlocked before insiders. The full numbers, and why…

DeFi Secret August 5, 2026 8 min read

Market Insights

Ondo Perps lets you trade Nvidia, gold and the S&P 500 around the clock with leverage, using tokenized stocks as margin. The…

DeFi Secret August 4, 2026 8 min read

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