The programmable economy needs new businesses. Open House London is helping bootstrap them with a $415K prize pool (our largest yet). Starting May 25th, early-stage teams join a 3-week online Buildathon to: - Bring ideas from concept to mainnet - Receive technical guidance via workshops - Get hands-on mentoring from the Arbitrum eco - Compete for prizes and a path into our IRL Founder House in London Apply today or tag an early stage team who should. 👇 openhouse.arbitrum.io/?utm_s…

I am excited to announce that I have joined BNB Chain as the Executive Director of Growth. In 2021, I joined the crypto industry when blockchains were congested. It was a time when a single transaction could cost thousands in USD value. I had the extreme pleasure of contributing to the go-to-market of one of the most successful scaling solutions of Ethereum. Fast forward to 2025, there are over 150 L2s, and many more L1s with magnitudes higher throughput than Ethereum. Yet, 99% of blockchain ecosystems launched in the past 24 months fail to bootstrap users or developers. The crypto industry is facing a new challenge – the challenge of discovery. Today, less than 10% of assets on-chain are activated. The truth is that crypto products struggle to reach retail users, and retail users often face challenges with liquidity discovery. How BNB Chain is solving the discovery problem better than others: Mass user base: With over 695M unique addresses and 2M daily active users, BNB Chain is the ideal distribution channel for innovations to reach mass adoption. Optimized for liquidity discovery: The BNB Chain ecosystem has had 619 BEPs and 20 hard forks in the past 6 years to minimize the cost of discovery: reducing latency by 24x, increasing throughput by 40x, and reducing fees by 300x. Developer support: This is where I am most excited. In this role, I will be focusing on creating programs and platforms to onboard early-stage projects and global talent to the BNB ecosystem, providing them with access to resources and the mass user base of the BNB Chain ecosystem. Drop me a DM if you are 1) interested in building on BNB Chain, 2) looking for job opportunities at BNB Chain Foundation, or BNB Chain ecosystem in general ✉️ Nuff talk today. We don’t talk the talk, we Build N Build 💛 @BNBCHAIN @heyibinance @cz_binance

Bringing back Up Only was just the warm up. We’ve acquired @echodotxyz, the leading onchain capital raising platform. → Joining builders with community capital → Giving investors access to new opportunities → Growing economic freedom worldwide

[ ZOOMER ] OVER $550B GETS WIPED OFF CRYPTO MARKETCAP IN 7 HOURS AS TRUMP INCREASES CHINA TARIFFS: MARKET

BNB Chain and Four Meme Launch a $45M Reload Airdrop with Ecosystem Partners Recent market conditions have created turbulence across the broader crypto landscape, yet the BNB community continues to build, create and stay engaged through it all. That spirit of resilience is what keeps our ecosystem strong. To recognize that dedication, BNB Chain, together with @four_meme_, supported by @pancakeswap, @BinanceWallet, and @TrustWallet, will launch a $45M Reload Airdrop across memecoins on BNB Chain. This initiative will distribute the $45M in BNB to 160k users/addresses who have traded memecoins recently over the past week, with the final amount of airdropped BNB being distributed randomly. The first batch of airdrops will be distributed starting this week, all airdrops to the 160K addresses will be completed by early November 2025. This initiative represents a collective effort across the BNB ecosystem to show appreciation for our users and builders, especially the memecoin community. The memecoin community is one of the most active and creative communities in the ecosystem, who have been affected the most by recent events especially during the past week. Thank you to everyone who continues to build, create, and participate across BNB Chain. Your energy is what keeps this ecosystem moving forward. We remain committed to supporting all builders, users, and all areas of innovation that make this ecosystem thrive. For more details, please stay tuned to the official channels.

[ ZOOMER ] POLYMARKET LOOKING TO RELEASE THEIR NATIVE TOKEN AFTER IT FULLY ENTERS US MARKETS, ACCORDING TO SOURCES: DECRYPT

*TRUMP: CONSIDERING MASSIVE INCREASE OF TARIFFS ON CHINESE PRODUCTS

$HOOD: " If you can tokenize a private company, that same technology can actually be used to tokenize real estate, be it residential, commercial and we figured out how to do it." - @VladTenev

Monad Airdrop Claim Portal opens on Tuesday, October 14th

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