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Tỷ phú Peter Thiel hỗ trợ Founders Fund dẫn đầu khoản đầu tư 5 triệu USD mua lại token quản trị ANVL của giao thức DeFi Anvil, với sự tham gia của Pantera Capital, Theta Blockchain Ventures, Bullish và Protoscale Capital. Các điều khoản cụ thể của giao dịch và định giá vẫn chưa được công bố, Anvil cho biết, token được mua lại đến từ kho bạc hiện có của dự án, không phải là phát hành mới.Anvil dựa trên Ethereum, nhằm mục đích sử dụng tài sản kỹ thuật số làm tài sản thế chấp cho các cam kết tài chính như thanh toán, tín dụng, v.v. Công ty phát triển của nó, Anvil Research Labs, đồng thời ra mắt SDK, giúp các doanh nghiệp và tổ chức tài chính tích hợp giao thức này mà không cần viết mã blockchain. Các đối tác như Consensus, Bitcoin.com, công ty thanh toán Flexa đã được liệt kê là đối tác hợp tác.Hiện tại, tổng cung ANVL là 100 tỷ token, với khoảng 80 tỷ token đang lưu hành. TVL của mạng Anvil khoảng 14 triệu USD. Khác với các giao thức cho vay DeFi truyền thống, Anvil chủ yếu cung cấp bảo đảm cho các cam kết tài chính thông qua tài sản thế chấp trên chuỗi, thay vì cho phép người dùng vay tiền và trả lãi.

Anvl đã hoàn thành việc mua 5 triệu đô la Mỹ token quản trị, do Founders Fund dẫn đầu, cùng với sự tham gia của các tổ chức như Pantera Capital.Khoản tiền này đến từ kho bạc hiện có của Anvil, không phải là token mới phát hành.

Theo báo cáo của The Information, mặc dù trong những năm gần đây, các quỹ đầu tư mạo hiểm của Mỹ đã giảm mạnh đầu tư vào các công ty khởi nghiệp ở Trung Quốc, nhưng một số VC của Mỹ vẫn tiếp tục đến Trung Quốc để gặp gỡ các nhà sáng lập công nghệ.Tháng trước, ba đối tác của Founders Fund thuộc Peter Thiel là Sean Liu, John Luttig và Joey Krug đã từng thăm các công ty công nghệ ở Bắc Kinh, Thượng Hải và Thâm Quyến.

Longevity technology startup NewLimit, co-founded by Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong, announced the completion of a $435 million Series C funding round, with a valuation of $3.1 billion. This round was led by Founders Fund, a fund under Peter Thiel, with continued participation from Abstract Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, NFDG, Eli Lilly Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, and new investors including Thrive Capital, Greenoaks, and Quiet Capital.In 2021, Brian Armstrong, along with former GV partner and bioengineer Blake Byers and stem cell biologist Jacob Kimmel, jointly invested $110 million to establish NewLimit in South San Francisco.

Gnosis DAO is conducting a Snapshot vote proposing to allow GNO holders to proportionally acquire shares of the DAO treasury through a voluntary redemption mechanism. According to analyst Ignas, the treasury holds approximately $223 million in assets (including ETH, stablecoins, and ecosystem tokens), with about 1.3 million GNO eligible for redemption, each corresponding to about $170 in treasury value, while the current trading price of GNO is around $132, representing a discount of about 27%.The vote reversed twice within 24 hours: after Gnosis co-founder Stefan George cast a dissenting vote, the situation briefly turned, but then a whale wallet holding 67,000 GNO cast a supporting vote, putting the supporters back in the lead. Currently, about 116,000 GNO are in favor (about 65%), 59,600 against, and 1,600 abstentions, surpassing the quorum threshold of 75,000 votes, with voting continuing until May 12.Supporters believe that Gnosis Ltd. has become a funding black hole structurally misaligned with the interests of holders, while opponents warn that redemption will weaken projects with actual users such as Gnosis Pay, Circles, and Gnosis Chain, and may trigger a chain reaction for other DAOs trading below net asset value.

According to market news, Silicon Valley's top investor Peter Thiel's venture capital fund Founders Fund has raised $6 billion to invest in late-stage companies, marking the largest fundraising in the institution's history.Most of the funds—$4.5 billion—come from limited partners, including sovereign wealth funds. A source familiar with the matter stated that the remaining $1.5 billion comes from senior management and employees of Founders Fund, including Peter Thiel himself. The fund's fourth growth-stage investment fund was quickly established less than a year after the launch of the previous fund, making it the fastest transition to a new fund in Founders Fund's twenty-year history.The rapid launch of a larger fund reflects the rising demand for substantial financing from mature-stage startups, which are increasingly inclined to raise funds from private investors rather than the public market. Other venture capital firms are also raising billions of dollars for late-stage investments, partly because tech companies need more capital to afford expensive computing resources. For example, Sequoia Capital recently raised about $7 billion for a new fund to increase investments in large companies; Thrive Capital has also raised a fund of $10 billion, marking its largest scale in history.

Peter Thiel's venture capital firm Founders Fund is investing approximately $624 million in Anduril's latest funding round, making it one of the largest investors in this round.It is reported that Anduril's funding round is approximately $4 billion, with a valuation expected to reach $60 billion, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Thrive Capital. Anduril is a U.S. AI military startup, and its founder Palmer Luckey previously launched a digital bank called Erebor with Peter Thiel, specifically designed for cryptocurrency and tech startups.

Keone Hon from Monad Lianchuang stated: "I feel that the lending protocol for the liquidity pool should set rate limits on the supply of assets deposited as collateral. For example, if the current supply is 100 million and the supply cap is 300 million, then in the next 10 minutes, the maximum allowed increase should be to 110 million, rather than allowing a one-time deposit of the full 200 million. In reality, no one needs to complete such a large deposit all at once.This is important because when certain exotic assets are attacked, the impact depends on the scale of the exit channels for that asset. Especially in many cases where attacks belong to infinite issuance vulnerabilities, the scale of the exit that can be made essentially determines the upper limit of the attack losses. Lending protocols are often the largest exit channels. If a smart cap is introduced, where the initial cap is slightly above the current supply and is gradually adjusted to the real cap over several hours, it would have a huge effect. With such a mechanism, rsETH depositors could have avoided about 200 million dollars in losses.This also raises a point: the asset issuers themselves should support such mechanisms. If you are issuing redeemable tokens with redemption delays, you are not worried about hackers redeeming directly from you, but you need to compress the scale of external exit paths as much as possible without affecting normal users. Therefore, a high supply cap should be seen as a risk rather than a symbol of strength. For example, the Hyperbridge DOT attack did not result in a 100 million dollar loss because there were very few exit paths; the Resolv attack loss was 24 million dollars instead of 200 million dollars because the scale of the exit path limited the loss cap. This is an obvious principle, but there are still immediately actionable measures: audit the supply caps of all assets and lower the caps when unnecessary."

Kyle Samani, co-founder of Multicoin Capital, stated on the X platform that he is willing to bet on the viewpoint proposed by KOL ampera that "Bittensor (TAO) will enter the top 10 of crypto assets before 2028," and he is willing to accept a maximum bet amount of $1 million.

Pendle co-founder @tn_pendle met with the Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam last week in New York along with Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and Anchorage Digital to advocate for the construction of Vietnam's international financial center.During the talks, Pendle co-founder @tn_pendle discussed Vietnam's potential as a market for tokenized bonds, ETFs, and private credit, and strongly promoted the deep talent pool that Vietnam possesses.

Two co-founders of the Indian cryptocurrency exchange CoinDCX, Sumit Gupta and Neeraj Khandelwal, who received investment from Coinbase, were arrested by the police on suspicion of involvement in a cryptocurrency investment scam. However, according to reports from other local media, the two were only summoned and not arrested.CoinDCX issued a statement saying that the case involves someone impersonating the founders of CoinDCX and defrauding an insurance consultant of 7.1 million rupees (approximately $75,000), and is unrelated to the two founders.

According to Axios, Meta has acquired Moltbook, a social network designed specifically for AI agents that has garnered significant attention. This deal brings Moltbook founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr into Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), a department led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang.

According to market news, sources reveal that Peter Thiel's Founders Fund is about to complete the fundraising for its fourth growth fund, expected to secure $6 billion in capital commitments.External investor demand exceeds the fund's capacity, with approximately $1.5 billion coming from Founders Fund partners themselves. This fundraising comes less than a year after the closure of its third $4.6 billion growth fund, which is primarily used for follow-on investments in successful late-stage companies.

Ronin announced an adjustment plan for its economic model, stating that as the network is expected to transition to Layer 2 by the end of March, passive staking rewards and the original validator system will be eliminated, replaced by a "proof of allocation" mechanism that provides targeted incentives to builders who make actual contributions to the ecosystem.The announcement also stated that the Ronin treasury will enhance its financial strength by increasing revenue sources such as transaction sharing from Ronin Market, sorter earnings, and new income from ecological applications and game tokens. In terms of governance, control of the treasury will shift from validators to a voting mechanism based on RON token weight, which will be used to review buybacks, investments, and DeFi-related activities.

According to crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett, a16z co-founders Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon had a lunch meeting with Republican senators, focusing on advancing cryptocurrency market structure legislation to solidify the United States' global leadership in the fields of crypto and AI.

The autonomous AI agent platform Feltsense announced the completion of a $5.1 million financing round. This round was participated by Matt PRD, the founder of moltbook, as well as the founders of Crunchbase and Joinrepublic, along with well-known venture capital firms such as Draper VC, Precursor VC, and Liquid 2 VC.

According to Cointelegraph, the co-founder and board member of the cryptocurrency infrastructure platform Cere Network is facing a $100 million lawsuit, with the plaintiffs accusing them of executing a "pump and dump" scheme that allegedly stole tens of millions of dollars from investors.The plaintiffs allege that co-founder Fred Jin and others violated lock-up commitments after the public offering of the platform's tokens, secretly selling $41 million worth of tokens and transferring the funds to personal wallets. The lawsuit also claims that they collaborated with market makers to use bots to fake trading volumes to cover up their actions. This is the second lawsuit Cere Network has faced this month. Previously, another co-founder filed a lawsuit on January 13, accusing Jin of misappropriating over $58 million in company assets. Currently, the price of the CERE token has dropped approximately 99.9% from its all-time high in November 2021.