ChainCatcher news, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, an early investor in a certain Ethereum ICO transferred 664 ETH (approximately $1.03 million) to Kraken 4 hours ago and is gradually selling.The address currently still holds 30,821 ETH (approximately $47.6 million) across 3 wallets. He acquired 100,000 ETH during the ICO period for only $31,000.

ChainCatcher news, Uber and Robinhood early investor Jason Calacanis questions GameStop's Bitcoin reserve strategy, suggesting that this approach may just be a gimmick without a viable business model.Jason Calacanis stated, "If you are a public company that can't come up with a business model, then buy Bitcoin; if Strategy co-founder Michael Saylor wants to buy $1 trillion worth of Bitcoin, that might be a good suggestion."However, Saul Rejwan, managing partner of early cryptocurrency venture firm Masterkey, believes that the role of Bitcoin as a corporate reserve asset is no longer marginalized, and for companies looking to hedge against inflation, Bitcoin is becoming an option.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst The Data Nerd, an early investor/team member of Avalon deposited 3.5 million AVL tokens (approximately 1.58 million USD) to the Bybit exchange 7 hours ago.The wallet currently still holds 6 million AVL tokens (approximately 2.55 million USD).

ChainCatcher news, Jason Calacanis, an early investor in Uber and Robinhood and a well-known angel investor, posted on the X platform stating that Bitcoin has been monopolized by some giants in the market, and now is the best time to create a better Bitcoin, "the game needs to be reset." However, Jason Calacanis's viewpoint seems to have sparked differing opinions in the industry. Swan Bitcoin co-founder Brady Swenson stated that Bitcoin is a technological revolution that changes all industries, rather than following a single technology adoption curve like the iPad. Bitcoin, as a value transfer protocol, will never be replaced, but the competition for layer two protocols is still ongoing.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Silicon Valley venture capital firm Foundation Capital has raised $600 million for its 11th fund. The firm, an early investor in Solana Labs, will continue to focus on supporting early-stage startups.This venture capital firm, established 30 years ago, primarily invests in areas such as cryptocurrency, fintech, and artificial intelligence. It stated that the new fund will continue its tradition of supporting founders before product building or revenue generation, providing support at the "zero starting point" stage. Foundation Capital noted that 80% of its investments occur before a company generates its first dollar of revenue, "We look for what we call 'zero-to-billion-dollar markets'—these opportunities do not appear in industry forecasts because they are only visible to those who can see beyond the current existence."Foundation Capital is one of the early investors in Solana Labs, having participated in its $20 million Series A funding round in 2019. Its cryptocurrency portfolio also includes Binance U.S., OpenSea, MoonPay, Algorand, Stacks, BCB Group, Helius, Jito, and Kamino. The firm stated, "We have been investing in blockchain since 2014, unaffected by the harsh cryptocurrency winter."Foundation Capital's 11th fund has grown by 20% compared to the previous $500 million fund that closed three years ago. The firm's partner Rodolfo Gonzalez stated on social media, "If you are a seed-stage founder working in cryptocurrency, fintech, or enterprise AI, please come talk to us."

ChainCatcher news, according to monitoring by Spot on Chain, F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun sold 300,000 LDO for $518,000 about 10 hours ago. Since the beginning of 2025, he has sold 5.8 million LDO at an average price of $1.771 (approximately $10.27 million), and he still holds 2.2 million LDO (approximately $3.81 million).Another investor, Wolfgang Albrecht, transferred 2.6 million LDO (approximately $4.51 million) to Binance 16 hours ago. This investor unlocked 3.33 million LDO two years ago and has now sold 3.28 million LDO at an average price of about $1.895, with a remaining position of 50,000 LDO.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a certain early TRUMP whale cleared out 637,000 TRUMP 5 hours ago and exchanged it for 55,000 SOL (approximately 12.59 million USD), with an average selling price of 19.76 USD, making a profit of 11.87 million USD and achieving a 16.4 times return.It is reported that this whale spent 3,000 SOL (720,000 USD) to purchase 637,000 TRUMP within half an hour after TRUMP was launched, with a cost of only 1.14 USD.

According to ChainCatcher news, monitored by Arkham, an address suspected to belong to an early investor in Arbitrum (0x11...dfA9) transferred 5.26 million ARB, worth approximately 3.98 million dollars, to the custodian Anchorage Digital at 2:39 AM on January 10.This address received 175 million ARB from Arbitrum: Offchain Labs Investors on March 16, 2024 (then worth about 333 million dollars). Currently, the address still holds 142 million ARB, valued at approximately 106 million dollars at the current price.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Data Nerd monitoring, 30 minutes ago, a multi-signature wallet 0xB2E (possibly belonging to the BABYDOGE team/early investors) just deposited 390 trillion BABYDOGE (approximately 1.6 million USD) into Binance. In 8 months, this wallet has received a total of 20.33 trillion BABYDOGE (about 46.74 million USD) from its origin to the deposit at the exchange. It also transferred 4.45 trillion BABYDOGE (10.66 million USD) to Wintermute 2 months ago.

ChainCatcher news, according to the Financial Times, since August of this year, employees and early investors of the UK fintech startup Revolut have sold nearly $1 billion in stock, following the company's UK banking license receiving support from major financial institutions, which has led to a valuation of $45 billion.

ChainCatcher message, according to monitoring by The Data Nerd, 1 hour ago, an early investor in Aevo deposited 4.555 million AEVO (approximately 2.39 million USD) into Binance.9 months ago, he received 6.78 million RBN and exchanged all of it for AEVO. He currently still holds 2.225 million AEVO (approximately 1.15 million USD) in wallet 0xb50.

ChainCatcher message, according to @ai_9684xtpa monitoring, in the past 3 hours, early UNI investors have recharged 20.59 million USD worth of UNI to Coinbase. Since September 2024, this address has accumulated a total of 9 million UNI deposits to the exchange, with a total value of up to 70.58 million USD, at an average recharge price of 7.84 USD.

ChainCatcher news, according to Decrypt, Blocktempo and ChainCatcher recently launched a survey targeting early-stage crypto investors in the Asia-Pacific region. The participants included native crypto venture capital funds, traditional venture capital funds, individual investors, and family offices, resulting in 1,084 valid responses.According to the survey, the following key points were noted:• 90% of investors have a single investment amount within $1 million.• In terms of investment data inquiry and project tracking, 85% of early-stage investors chose to use RootData, making it the most commonly used data decision-making platform for early-stage crypto investors in the Asia-Pacific region. Cryptorank and Crunchbase are also commonly used data platforms for cross-validation by early-stage crypto investors.• Regarding project evaluation criteria, team background and experience (75%), technological innovation (53%), and business model (45%) are considered the most important. The main challenges include project information transparency (61%) and rapid industry changes (43%).• Investors believe that DeFi (41%), Bitcoin ecosystem (34%), and RWA (32%) are undervalued sectors, while Layer1/Layer2 (48%) is seen as an overvalued sector.• 42% of investors plan to maintain their current investment pace over the next four months, 27% plan to increase their investment intensity, 22% plan to reduce their investment intensity, and a small number of investors (9%) hold a cautious or uncertain attitude towards the market outlook, finding it difficult to judge or choosing to stop investing. Additionally, 44% of professional investors believe that there have been no significant innovations in the crypto industry this year.The research report also surveyed investors' investment strategies, research methods, due diligence approaches, etc. Click here to access the complete research report.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, EigenLayer has faced criticism after it was revealed that early investors received staking rewards without the restrictions of token locks. Investors and community members have complained about the lack of transparency in the supply of EigenLayer tokens. The total supply of EIGEN is fixed at 1.68 billion, with a circulating supply of 186 million, an FDV of 5.8 billion dollars, and a market cap (excluding uncirculated tokens) of 650 million dollars. Many of the questions raised by community members stem from a portion of these locked tokens, which belong to early investors who purchased them in heavily discounted funding rounds.Investors who bought in EigenLayer's 14.4 million dollar seed round, 50 million dollar Series A round, and the latest 100 million dollar funding in February can now stake their locked tokens for rewards. Currently, a total of 130 million EIGEN tokens have been staked. Many believe these are part of the claimed tokens, but in reality, 70 million of those tokens belong to this small group of early investors. EigenLayer investor TardFiWhale.eth wrote on X that the project recently updated its documentation, stating that "Staking by Eigen Labs investors is unrestricted," and that rewards are not subject to lock-up restrictions. The X post claims that this information was not included in the archived documents from mid-September.After the launch of the EIGEN token, it initially rose to 4.39 dollars, then fell by more than 20% to 3.57 dollars.

ChainCatcher news, according to @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, BABYDOG early investors have awakened after two years of dormancy, depositing 12.66 trillion BABYDOG into Binance six hours ago, worth 2.92 million USD, suspected to be sold.The address had purchased 12.61 trillion tokens via Pancakeswap between 2021.06.17 and 2021.06.21. If all are sold this time, it will yield a profit of 2.45 million USD, with a return rate as high as 531%.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, six days later, an early investor of UNI recharged Coinbase with UNI worth 9.91 million dollars three hours ago, suspected of selling.The address previously received 9 million UNI from the Uniswap project team before the token was launched, and has transferred a total of 3.94 million tokens (approximately 26.93 million dollars) to exchanges since 09.13; currently, it still holds 5.05 million UNI.

ChainCatcher news, according to Spot On Chain monitoring, a certain early SHIB buyer has gained an unrealized profit of $1.07 million (+46%) from NEIRO within 5 days. Overall, this whale is currently in profit on 2 out of the last 4 investments.

ChainCatcher news, according to @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, early investors of Uniswap ($UNI) are suspected of selling approximately $8.01 million worth of UNI tokens again. An hour ago, this address deposited 1.19 million UNI into Coinbase.In the past four days, this address has transferred a total of 2.49 million tokens to exchanges, with a total value of approximately $17.01 million. Notably, this address had been dormant for over four years and previously received 9 million UNI from the project team before the Uniswap token was launched.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, the venture capital firm Asylum Ventures has recently launched a new fund of $55 million, primarily investing in early-stage companies, planning to invest $1-2 million in Pre-Seed and Seed stage companies.It is reported that the program is led by Notation Capital founder Nick Chirls, who is also an early investor in Livepeer, Solana, Near, and Bison Trails (now Coinbase Cloud), as well as former Aztec Networks growth lead Jonathan Why.