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 What the hell is going on with the markets this week?

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Table of Contents

• Company Highlight

• Fear & Greed Index

• Project power rankings of the week

• Market Updates and News

• Growth Marketing Tip of the Week

• Recently Funded Companies

• Meme’s of the Week

Company Highlight

Web3 Marketing is hard. Like really hard. Your community never grows, your engagement is nonexistent and you’re lost in a sea of AI content. 

We’ve personally seen W3VE come up in the space and take on giants like StakingCabin who are validators for projects like Sui, Aptos and Cosmos.

That’s why I’m confident in recommending it, because it feels like a 10 person in-house marketing team without any of the hassle.

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Fear & Greed Index

Project power rankings of the week

Market Updates and News

1) Bitcoin “buy the dip" results in price surge:
Bitcoin’s latest slip has the bulls dusting off their favorite line: “buy the dip.” The coin slid over 3% this week to $111,590, slicing through its 50- and 100-day moving averages. Both indicators, which had been climbing since April, have now gone flat, like gym bros who skipped their daily pump. Meanwhile, Santiment says “buy the dip” chatter on social media is the loudest it’s been in a month. Retail traders are clearly optimistic, but sometimes loud enthusiasm is less conviction and more… wishful thinking.

The real story might be brewing in liquidity. Hyblock Capital spots the biggest cluster of orders parked at $107,000. Picture it as a giant puddle of demand and supply that price can’t resist stumbling toward. Traders like to stack orders there, not because $107K is magical, but because everyone else does too. This essentially means that when Bitcoin reaches $107,000 a huge pool of cash will be pumped into Bitcoin as investors have placed an order to buy at the $107k mark which will result in the price of Bitcoin trampolining.

Now, $107K isn’t just a target, it could also be a safety net. Thick buy walls at that level can soak up panic selling and launch prices back up like a trampoline. But that depends on whether actual buyers show up or just Twitter cheerleaders. Until then, “buy the dip” might sound less like a strategy and more like famous last words but for the sake of our sanity, lets be positive.

2) Visa pilots Stablecoin payments
Visa just gave stablecoins a seat at the grown-ups’ table. The payments giant is piloting stablecoin funding for Visa Direct, a move that could chop cross-border settlement times from days down to minutes. Instead of money crawling through the banking system like it’s stuck in traffic, businesses can now move liquidity faster and free up cash flow. Circle’s USDC and EURC are the first tokens on the invite list, but Visa hinted more could join the party if demand picks up.

Here’s the clever part: Visa is treating stablecoins like “money in the bank.” That means businesses, including banks and remittance providers, can pre-fund payouts in stablecoins without tying up big piles of cash days in advance. Once funded, Visa can pay recipients in local currency, making the whole thing invisible to the end user. For them, it’s just faster payments. For the business, it’s more efficient capital management.

As for whether Visa will eventually mint its own stablecoin, the company is keeping things mysterious. A spokesperson said it’s “hard to rule anything out,” which is corporate speak for “never say never.” For now, Visa seems focused on scaling stablecoin rails through cards, settlements, and bank integrations. Translation: they’re not reinventing the wheel yet, but they are putting crypto-grade tires on it.

3) 3 things in life are certain: death, taxes and rug pulls

DeFi has another mess on its hands. PeckShield flagged unusual activity inside HyperVault on Friday, and what started as a “suspicious withdrawal” quickly looked like a full-on rug pull. Funds were bridged out of Hyperliquid, converted to ETH, and sent through Tornado Cash, the go-to mixer for anyone hoping to vanish into the blockchain fog. In total, about 752 ETH slipped into the shadows, setting off alarm bells across crypto Twitter.

The optics got worse fast. As rumors spread, HyperVault’s social channels, its X account and Discord, vanished into thin air. For a platform that had been marketing itself as a digital vault and password manager for businesses, the disappearing act felt like pouring gasoline on the fire. At its peak, HyperVault had around $5.8 million locked and was positioning itself as a rising DeFi star in the Hyperliquid ecosystem. Instead, its sudden silence sent investors scrambling.

Behind the scenes, developers pointed to a permissions loophole as the culprit. Users had assigned Hyperdrive’s Router as an operator, which effectively gave it the keys to call any whitelisted contract. Attackers exploited that trust gap, manipulated positions, and drained funds with precision. The exploit wasn’t some deep cryptographic flaw, it was closer to leaving the vault door wide open with a neon “welcome” sign.

Hyperdrive tried to reassure the community by clarifying that core assets like thBILL and the HYPED governance token weren’t directly affected. But in DeFi, stolen funds are only half the problem. The other half is trust, and once that evaporates, it’s nearly impossible to code it back in. HyperVault may have billed itself as a secure digital vault, but for users left holding the bag, it turned out to be anything but.

Growth Marketing Tip of the Week

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Recently Funded Companies

Meme’s of the Week

That’s it for this week.

Keep showing up, keep cheering each other on — and as always, head for the moon!