When people think about fundraising, they usually think about decks, demos and traction But once conversations become serious, security quickly becomes the main part of the discussion 10X Founders Demo Day v2.0 is proud to welcome @hackenclub as a Co-host, putting $15,000 in audit credits behind the winning team Hacken is an end-to-end blockchain security and compliance partner for digital assets. Born on blockchain rather than adapted to it, Hacken combines deep Web3 expertise with enterprise-grade quality, AI-powered offensive security, and globally recognized certifications, bringing top-tier, blockchain-native expertise and proven credibility to organizations securing their infrastructure and meeting modern digital asset regulations Since 2017, Hacken has completed 2,300+ audits and verified $430B+ in assets through its Proof of Reserves work, earning the trust of 1,500 adopters including the European Commission, ADGM, MetaMask, the Ethereum Foundation and Binance As Web3 continues to mature, security is no longer something teams add before launch - it's something they're expected to build around from day one. Having Hacken join this year's Demo Day is another step toward giving founders access to the people helping shape that standard across the industry 10X Founders Demo Day v2.0 · August 25 🔗 Apply now:

You already know the winner is taking home $150K, but do you know what's actually inside that prize pool? For 10X Founders Demo Day V2.0 we didn't just assemble a trophy. We assembled a launch stack 🚀 - the exact set of things a team normally burns nine months and half its treasury acquiring one BD call at a time. If you are a founder still fighting through this market cycle, this is your ultimate chance! Capital Investment @SonicLabs - $20,000 in ecosystem grants, a builder program seat and hands-on technical support @injective - up to $20,000 following internal DD Security @hackenclub - $15K in audit credits. The first question every investor asks is “is it audited?” already answered Data & Visibility @AtlasOracleX (backed by CMC) - free CoinMarketCap listing + $5K in oracle price feeds @CointelegraphAc - $10K in media credits to get the story told Growth @Galxe - Essentials Plus, $6K in community growth tooling @Cryptic_Web3 - $5K growth marketing package Infrastructure @1inch - $5K in API access on Custom Plan, built on top of one of Web3’s most used swap layers From the hosts @InspiraLabsHQ - $20K in acceleration, mentorship and GTM support @Yellow - $20K in advisory, market making and Yellow SDK support @cicada_mm - $20K in market making and Launchpad credits That’s $150K, not a prize - a full go-to-market package for a team that’s ready 🎯 And one more thing worth saying out loud: the pool goes to the winner, but nobody walks off this stage with nothing. Every finalist leaves with a judge scorecard, an honest read from people who evaluate projects for a living. That kind of feedback usually takes months and a hundred cold DMs to earn 8 founders. One stage. August 25 🔥 🔗 Apply now:

Injective Mint was announced this week, bringing compliant asset issuance into one platform for institutions, users, and AI agents. Native $INJ also went live on @Coinbase, giving the largest U.S. crypto exchange direct access to the Injective ecosystem. Below are some of the top developments that happened on Injective from the past week ⤵️ 🟪 Injective Mint was officially announced, giving issuers one platform to launch tokenized equities, bonds, ETFs, credit, real estate, FX, and more with built in compliance controls 🟪$INJ is officially live on @coinbase after Coinbase Markets completed the migration to the Injective EVM and enabled sends and receives again 🟪The Senate has unified CLARITY Act text, and @SummerMersinger made the case at the Injective Summit for getting it to the floor before the August recess 🟪The full Injective Summit playlist is officially live, with sessions from members of Congress and leaders from Invesco, Grayscale, Circle, Chainlink, Galaxy, Anchorage Digital, Blockchain Association, and more 🟪Injective presented at AdventureX, China's largest hackathon, where builders are creating new products across stablecoins, RWAs, and Injective infrastructure 📊 Key Stats 🟪 Injective has now processed 3 billion transactions, putting the network among the highest transaction count chains in history 🟪@HelixMarkets recorded $205 million in 7 day volume and reached $78.3 billion in cumulative volume across its onchain markets 🌐 Ecosystem News 🟪 The Injective Ecosystem Meetup in Tokyo brought builders and institutions together around stablecoins, RWAs, AI, and how enterprises can build on Injective 🟪@InspiraLabsHQ officially launched 10X Founders Demo Day v2.0 with Injective joining six other co hosts and a $150K+ prize pool for Web3 founders The future doesn't wait. Build what comes next with us.

If your startup touches real-world assets, this Co-host reveal matters more than most 10X Founders Demo Day v2.0 is proud to welcome @Injective as a Co-host 🔥 Injective will award the winning team a $20,000 ecosystem grant, subject to its internal due diligence Most founders on this stage haven't locked in where they'll build and Injective offers more than a name on the roster - it offers the infrastructure behind the decision Its MultiVM support runs EVM and CosmWasm side by side, so a team's existing Ethereum tooling, MetaMask, Hardhat, Remix, Foundry, carries over without a rewrite and its dApp builder lets founders test an idea in natural language before touching code. That same infrastructure carries into Injective's tokenization stack, covering equities, commodities, pre-IPO credit, money markets and FX, with compliance built into the asset layer from the start rather than added after launch The easy part is tokenizing, the harder part is earning institutional trust and Injective has already earned it 10X Founders Demo Day v2.0 · August 25 🔗 Apply now:

Huge thanks to @incrypted for covering 10X Founders Demo Day v2.0! Their write-up breaks down what's coming on August 25: Sonic joining as our first-ever Anchor Partner, 7 co-hosts and a $150K+ prize pool for Web3 founders ready to raise Read it here:

10X Founders Demo Day v2.0 on August 25. $150K+ prize pool. Seven co-hosts. Capital behind it. Real resources—grants, GTM support, audit credits, market making. If you've built something, this is the stage.

Proud to be the Anchor Partner for @InspiraLabsHQ's 10X Founders Demo Day v2.0. Chain selection is one of the biggest decisions a founder makes, and we want to be part of that conversation early, not after the fact. Excited to review projects, back the teams ready to build, and see who takes the stage on August 25.

@SonicLabs joins 10X Founders Demo Day v2.0 as the Anchor Partner 🔥 For the winning team, that's $20,000 in ecosystem grants, a spot in Sonic's builder program and hands-on technical support to actually launch on the network Chain selection is a business decision. It shapes a project's economics, support, and distribution and deserves the same diligence founders give fundraising or hiring This is why the Anchor role exists: the exclusive slot, one ecosystem behind the entire event. Most builders on stage are pre-TGE, still deciding where to build. As Anchor, Sonic is in the room for those decisions, reviewing projects and backing the teams ready to build Sonic's offer is structural, not cosmetic. Fee Monetization returns up to 90% of network fees to the team behind it. The Innovator Fund adds up to 200M $S for teams building on the network, builder economics for the builder's side of the table $20K for the winner. Ecosystem access for every finalist. A chain that competes for its builders instead of counting them 10X Founders Demo Day v2.0 · August 25 🔗 Apply now:

@SonicLabs joins 10X Founders Demo Day v2.0 as the Anchor Partner 🔥 For the winning team, that's $20,000 in ecosystem grants, a spot in Sonic's builder program and hands-on technical support to actually launch on the network Chain selection is a business decision. It shapes a project's economics, support, and distribution and deserves the same diligence founders give fundraising or hiring This is why the Anchor role exists: the exclusive slot, one ecosystem behind the entire event. Most builders on stage are pre-TGE, still deciding where to build. As Anchor, Sonic is in the room for those decisions, reviewing projects and backing the teams ready to build Sonic's offer is structural, not cosmetic. Fee Monetization returns up to 90% of network fees to the team behind it. The Innovator Fund adds up to 200M $S for teams building on the network, builder economics for the builder's side of the table $20K for the winner. Ecosystem access for every finalist. A chain that competes for its builders instead of counting them 10X Founders Demo Day v2.0 · August 25 🔗 Apply now:

Excited to be an anchor partner for @InspiraLabsHQ’s 10X Founders Demo Day! Founders, this is your shot at real support, exposure, and (most importantly) capital! Apply today:

There’s a reason 10X Founders Demo Day is coming back The first edition became a flagship event, earning an incredible response from the founder and investor community The best Demo Days create value for both founders and the people backing them. That principle is at the core of 10X Founders Demo Day - and it's exactly why we're bringing it back for v2.0 Here's what happened in the last edition: • 150+ founder applications • Only 12 startups selected to pitch after rigorous evaluation across product, team, traction, token model and market fit • Every one of the seven judges independently chose the same winner: @backyard_fi • 7,000+ live attendees • $125K in rewards • 40% of applicants were VC-backed • Full media coverage from @Cointelegraph and @binance News That's how the model is supposed to work. Founders get meaningful feedback, connections and opportunities they wouldn't find elsewhere. Partners get early access to high-conviction teams before the rest of the market catches up v1.0 proved the model. v2.0 is where we scale it 10X Founders Demo Day v2.0 · August 25 🔗 Apply now:

Today, we're excited to officially launch 10X Founders Demo Day v2.0, hosted by @InspiraLabsHQ, @Yellow and @cicada_mm @SonicLabs joins 10X Founders Demo Day v2.0 as our Anchor Partner. More than supporting the initiative with its extensive ecosystem, Sonic Labs is putting real capital behind founders, helping turn promising projects into high-growth companies This time, we're honored to commence this occasion with seven co-hosts standing with us: @injective, @1inch, @CointelegraphAc, @Galxe, @Cryptic_Web3, @hackenclub and @AtlasOracleX - backed by CMC Last but not least, we're thrilled to have @BitcoinNews, @CoinMarketCap, @CryptoRank_io, @Cointelegraph, @incrypted and @Assemble_io on board as our media partners, helping bring the stories of the next generation of builders to a global audience $150K+ in the prize pool: ecosystem grants and investments, acceleration, GTM support, SDK and advisory access, market making, audit credits, and media exposure. We've assembled the resources founders need to build, launch and scale This is the lineup we've been building toward If you've got something worth showing, August 25 is your day 🔗 Apply now →

Remember the first 10X Founders Demo Day earlier this year? 150+ applications. $125K in grants. What if we doubled everything? It happened once already, It's happening again Stay tuned

We are happy to share 10X Founders Demo Day landed on @Cointelegraph ⚡️ One of the biggest media moves in Web3. Kudos Cointelegraph team! 🔗 150+ founders applied. Top VC judges confirmed. $125,000+ prize pool locked. Massive thanks to @yellow__capital, @Yellow, @Chain_GPT, @CointelegraphAc, @LunarStrategy and @cedehub — we built this together; every co-host brought real work to the table. Shoutout to the VC judges joining us on the panel – @dunleavy89 (@VarysCapital), @al_nechaev (@FundersVC), @jessiexiao_eth (@StarknetFndn), @CharCrypto96 (@Magnus_Fund), @eddybitcoin (@CoinsiliumGroup), @BTC_Mick (@DraperVC). Thanks for showing up and giving builders a real shot at being heard. May 1. The room is set. Pitch lineup dropping soon 👀

Most demo days are a stage. This one is a gauntlet. Inspira Labs and @yellow__capital are launching the 10X Founders Demo Day — and we are pleased to welcome four formidable industry leaders as our co-hosts: @Chain_GPT, @CointelegraphAc, @LunarStrategy and @cedehub. A structured virtual pitch session where selected Web3 founders present to a judge panel composed of Inspira Labs, Yellow Capital, and leading VCs, receiving structured feedback, direct introductions, and real capital conversations. Every project on stage is pre-vetted. Every judge at the table deploys capital or runs infrastructure. This isn't a showcase. It's a stress test. 🔗 Apply now: