We're honoured to be named the winner of Pivot's Open Demo Day Edition 3! Out of 100 applications → 25 shortlisted → 5 finalists, the Renesis.fi team secured first place. We're grateful to the @pivotintelHQ team and the judges, Rohit Kaul (@pivotintelHQ), @MittalDevika (@avax), @0xEvgeniy (@legiondotcc), and Maria Potapneva (@FundersVC), for their time and valuable feedback on what we're building at Renesis.fi. Congratulations to the other finalists as well, @Swarp_Pay, @LifeInGen6, @RateX_Network, and @craydotpro 👏 The gap we're addressing is massive. We're building the first defi-native institutional operating system for crypto funds, unifying portfolio management, execution, and operations across CeFi and DeFi. We're just getting started. 🫡

Behind every successful raise is a strategy. Evgeniy Medvedev of Legion shared his insights on fundraising tactics, investor psychology, and building a compelling case for your startup for this week's Cointelegraph Accelerator Workshop.

Strong products attract users. Strong pitches attract investors. This Friday, Cointelegraph Accelerator cohort startups will take part in a dedicated Pitch Practice Session designed to sharpen their fundraising strategy, strengthen their market positioning, and refine their investor narratives. Founders will pitch live and receive direct feedback from industry veterans on fundraising, positioning, growth, and market strategy. A special thanks to Panayiotis Kattides of Keap Technologies, Luca Bazzurro, and Jay Wong of web3connector for sharing their expertise with the cohort.

Great products get built. Great narratives get funded. Today, @lacey_wisdom of PL Capital and Cointelegraph Accelerator's Viktor Y. will explore why the strongest pitch decks connect product, market, traction, and team into a single investable argument. • Traction-driven storytelling • Founder-market fit • Market positioning • Investor-ready pitch strategy

"Great products focus on critical unknowns, not endless curiosity." Better Things Product Strategist @kotsalajnen says the features users remember are often the unexpected ones that create delight.

🔥 TODAY: Cointelegraph Accelerator joins the judging panel for Proof of Pitch at @proofoftalk. Alongside investors from Dragonly, Haun Ventures, Draper Associates, Moonrock Capital, Raptor Group, Foresight Ventures, and others, Cointelegraph will help evaluate the next generation of Web3 startups.

Product-market fit is measured, not assumed. @angela_s_n, Global Events Manager at @Starknet, shared her formula for PMF. At Cointelegraph Accelerator's "Marketing Strategy: PMF & Target Audience" workshop, she said successful teams test their assumptions in the market rather than trying to force a fit.

Product-based startups do not scale by convincing everyone; they scale by deeply serving the right first market. @Starknet Head of Events @angela_s_n and Better Things Product Strategist Aleksandra Kotsalainen will deliver an interactive workshop built around one core principle: great products earn attention, but great PMF earns retention. - Target audience narrowing - Psychoanalytics of customers - Product-market fit clarity - Feedback & Iteration Loops - Weakness-to-strength thinking

We just brought @xStocksFi to @Injective! 🆕 140 tokenized stocks are now live on Realmint, covering the most traded equities in the world. The @injective community can now discover, understand, and trade tokenized stocks from $USDC on Injective in one click, gasless, without leaving the ecosystem. The stock market is now live on Realmint. 🔗 app.realmint.io

Builders are accelerating on @injective. ⚡ Cointelegraph Accelerator recently wrapped its 12-week Injective cohort with a Demo Day featuring 8 projects building across AI, RWAs, trading infrastructure, payments, and DeFi. Hosted by Cointelegraph Accelerator Head David Shengart, founders pitched investors, VCs, mentors, and ecosystem partners after weeks of support across strategy, product, tokenomics, compliance, GTM, fundraising, and community growth. Meet the cohort: • @Kustodia_mx — smart contract escrow infrastructure for high-value LATAM P2P transactions • @ParadyzeFi — AI-powered trader development platform for perpetual futures with behavioral analytics and onchain trading identity • @HandlPay — social media handles as cross-chain stablecoin payment addresses • @0xundefined_ — institutional RWA credit curator connecting Asian real-world credit markets with onchain capital • @realmintio — cross-chain RWA marketplace with a native scoring and discovery layer • @SvimFinance — AI-powered onchain wealth layer aggregating RWAs, DeFi, and trading strategies • @projektanimas — AI execution engine for prediction markets and DeFi • Founder @Lahnshen — building Falq, a unified onchain trading terminal for perpetuals, memecoins, and prediction markets From tokenized credit and RWA infrastructure to AI-native trading systems and seamless stablecoin payments, the cohort reflects the expanding range of applications emerging on Injective. A huge thanks to the Injective ecosystem, mentors, advisors, investors, and partners who helped support the program and the founders building through it. The next generation of Injective builders is already shipping.

We are happy to share 10X Founders Demo Day landed on @Cointelegraph ⚡️ One of the biggest media moves in Web3. Kudos Cointelegraph team! 🔗 cointelegraph.com/press-rele… 150 founders applied. Top VC judges confirmed. $125,000 prize pool locked. Massive thanks to @yellow__capital, @Yellow, @Chain_GPT, @CointelegraphAc, @LunarStrategy and @cedehub — we built this together; every co-host brought real work to the table. Shoutout to the VC judges joining us on the panel – @dunleavy89 (@VarysCapital), @al_nechaev (@FundersVC), @jessiexiao_eth (@StarknetFndn), @CharCrypto96 (@Magnus_Fund), @eddybitcoin (@CoinsiliumGroup), @BTC_Mick (@DraperVC). Thanks for showing up and giving builders a real shot at being heard. May 1. The room is set. Pitch lineup dropping soon 👀

Most demo days are a stage. This one is a gauntlet. Inspira Labs and @yellow__capital are launching the 10X Founders Demo Day — and we are pleased to welcome four formidable industry leaders as our co-hosts: @Chain_GPT, @CointelegraphAc, @LunarStrategy and @cedehub. A structured virtual pitch session where selected Web3 founders present to a judge panel composed of Inspira Labs, Yellow Capital, and leading VCs, receiving structured feedback, direct introductions, and real capital conversations. Every project on stage is pre-vetted. Every judge at the table deploys capital or runs infrastructure. This isn't a showcase. It's a stress test. 🔗 Apply now: luma.com/x1uvhjxj

-30% off all PRO packages 🤩 We’re celebrating April with a special offer from CryptoRobotics — connect any PRO package for a period of 1 month or more with a 30% discount. The monthly packages will cost you: • Basic PRO — $13 instead of $19 • Expert PRO — $69 instead of $99 • Signals PRO — $89 instead of $129 What do the PRO packages include? ✅ Trading Bots ✅ Signals from professional analysts ✅ Advanced smart orders and trade automation ✅ Unlimited analytics dashboard for portfolio and instrument monitoring ✅ Adding strategy to the bot function 🏆 Become a PRO with a 30 % discount 👉 CryptoRobotics.ai The sale is valid until April 30, 2026 ⚡️

Brickken has closed a €3M Pre-Series A round at a €38M valuation. The round brings in strategic partners from across Europe, investors with deep expertise in digital transformation and financial infrastructure at an institutional scale. They came in on the back of a year defined by execution: • 150 clients onboarded across 30 countries • $500M in assets tokenized • Client base and revenue doubled Institutional tokenization is a long game. The past year was about proving we could play it. This round wasn't planned, it was earned. As institutional traction built, strategic investors came forward ahead of our Series A. We brought in partners whose expertise and networks accelerate what we're already executing on. The capital has a clear mandate: establish The Brickken Group as our international holding structure, build out our regulatory capabilities across key markets and financial hubs, including MiCA in the EU and VARA in the UAE, expanding the infrastructure capabilities that enable us to serve institutional clients worldwide. As major institutions move from exploration to deployment, tokenization infrastructure layer for capital markets has become essential, and that is exactly what we provide. "This financing marks a deliberate step toward institutional scale. We are investing heavily in regulatory readiness and operational depth to support asset managers, issuers, and financial institutions as on-chain finance becomes a core component of capital markets." Edwin Mata, CEO of Brickken. Series A is ahead. The foundation is in place.

We’re beyond excited to have our old friends join us tonight! 🚀 Suji @suji_yan: Founder of @masknetwork Emily @emilyRioFreeman: Founder of @byreal_io VladimirS @Vladimir_CT: Head of Research @Cointelegraph Jessica Young @JessicaMetaEra: CEO of @MetaEraCN As we celebrate a major SoSoValue milestone, we’re bringing together an incredible panel to discuss: "How to build a new financial world onchain." Don’t miss out on this deep dive into the future of DeFi and the launch of SoDEX. Tune in at 10 PM SGT / 2 PM UTC: x.com/i/spaces/1pKkOyMOEVMKj…

Meet the speakers joining the Infrastructure Adoption panel at Cointelegraph Connect: Cannes Edition @luke_judges, Partner Director, @Ripple @ashtokyo, CCO, @Mercuryo_io @jdetychey, President, @Ethereum_France @al_nechaev, Partner, @fundersvc @MlvsBznz, Executive Director, @CantonFdn 🗓April 2 📍Canopy by Hilton, Cannes

Join top DeFi leaders at Cointelegraph Connect: Cannes Edition @charlesdhaussy, CEO of @dYdXfoundation @bees_neeth, Investment Partner & Co-founder of @etherealvc @0xJHan, CEO of @eulerfinance @0x_eunice, Co-founder of @monad 🗓 April 2 📍 Canopy by Hilton, Cannes

💥We’re excited to welcome @StaniKulechov, Founder of @Aave Labs, to the stage at Cointelegraph Connect: Cannes Edition. Join us for an exclusive fireside chat diving into the future of DeFi and beyond. 🗓April 2 📍Canopy by Hilton, Cannes.

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