Chung Daily Note - 2025/5/14

Happy Wednesday! You’re halfway there! Stay focused and keep moving forward! 💯

💡@Mantle_Official Yapperboard Challenge Phase 2 is live (May 6–June 4), with 50,000 $MNT up for grabs for the top 50 content creators

Some highlights from today's note

🔸Jack Mallers' Twenty One Capital buys 4,812 BTC for $458M

🔸@DeRonin_ - Kaito Tier List to farm in May

🔸@BanklessHQ - Launchcoin & Believe | ETH's 50% Candle | Coinbase Listed on S&P 500 | Jon, Bread, & Andy8052

Read More Below 👇

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📰 News

• Jack Mallers' Twenty One Capital buys 4,812 BTC for $458M

• JPM settles first tokenized treasuries trade on Ondo public ledger

• @virtuals_io veVIRTUAL staking goes live

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📖 Good Reads

• @RayDalio - The Art of the Deals and the Forces Behind Them

• @kenodnb - Solving Rollup Fragmentation and Unlocking True Ethereum Interoperability: @Calderaxyz

• @sandraaleow - The Kaito Effect

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🎉 New Protocols

• @notdotmarket

• @polldotfun (Backed by @alliancedao)

• @0xBerancia

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💰 Crypto Fundraising

• @SquadsProtocol (Blockchain Service) - $TBD Strategic investment from @HaunVentures

• @KYDLabs (Blockchain Service) - 7m Seed led by @a16zcrypto

• @SpaceComputerIO (Blockchain Infrastructure) - $TBD Pre-Seed led by @primitivecrypto

• @nirvanalabsai (Blockchain Infrastructure) - 6m Extended Seed led by @jump_ @CrucibleCap

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💵 Airdrops

• @DeRonin_ - Kaito Tier List to farm in May

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💡 Videos & Podcasts

• @leviathan_news - The Tech is Good Again feat. LogarithmicRex

• @BanklessHQ - Launchcoin & Believe | ETH's 50% Candle | Coinbase Listed on S&P 500 | Jon, Bread, & Andy8052

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😇 Opportunity

gmonad! @monad_xyz 10-week Testnet-2 preps 100–150 validators for mainnet—apply by May 21, 2025

That's all!