Pitch Spotlight: @pumpcade This pitch spotlight covers the $PUMPCADE report presented by Braydon Perko, Salem Alfassam, Mateusz Palusinski. Pumpcade is a Solana-based parimutuel prediction market platform that lets users bet on ultra-short outcomes (60 seconds to 30 minutes) directly inside livestream chats and webpages, instead of standalone forecasting sites like Polymarket or Kalshi. Founded in September 2025 by Harrison Leggio out of a Pump.fun Twitch Plays experiment, the project has raised $6M in 12 days from Pump.fun, Jump Crypto, and Foundation Capital ahead of its Q2 2026 mainnet launch. The core thesis centers on a catalyst-rich entry point where the market is still pricing a closed-beta testnet token days before audit completion, open beta (scaling from ~500 to 50K users), and mainnet launch with Pump.fun co-marketing. $PUMPCADE launched as a fair launch with a fully circulating supply, zero emissions, and a USDC-funded buyback-and-burn Value Engine, meaning every dollar of platform usage mechanically reduces supply with no dilution offsetting it. Institutional allocations from the $5M seed are locked through May 2027, keeping near-term supply pressure off the table. Monte Carlo modeling produces a base case median of ~$0.071 (~2x) and a bull case of ~$0.877 (~25x) contingent on viral adoption, with the entire thesis hinging on whether post-mainnet usage materializes to spin the burn engine. The group recommended a 3.0 ETH Buy, funded by rotating out of $SYRUP and $ETH into a higher-asymmetry, catalyst-stacked position. Shoutout to Mateusz, Braydon, and Salem for an awesome pitch!

Just won the @worldnetwork track at the @ETHGlobal hackathon in Cannes! We built Equitas, revolutionizing SNAP benefits and putting it on-chain Shoutout to my teammate @drewbydoo05 and @oregonblock for the sponsor! coding on the beach is meta we celebrated in monaco