ParaFi Capital Closes $125 Million New Fund, Focusing on Stablecoins and Institutional DeFi
New York-based digital asset manager ParaFi Capital has closed a $125 million venture fund this month, per Bloomberg.
Founder Ben Forman said the fund will focus on stablecoins, asset tokenization, and institutional-grade on-chain finance. The firm has already invested in crypto leaders including Anchorage, Bitwise, and Polymarket.
The fundraising comes amid a crypto market downturn: Bitcoin has dropped more than 40% from its October 2023 all-time high. Meanwhile, several top crypto funds—including Paradigm—have expanded their investment mandates to cover AI robotics.
“This fundraising shows sophisticated investors can tell the difference between short-term price swings and the long-term adoption trend of blockchain-based financial infrastructure,” Forman told Bloomberg.
Separately, since early 2025, ParaFi has raised an additional $325 million for its ongoing digital asset strategy. The firm currently manages roughly $2 billion in assets.
Founded in 2018, ParaFi’s backe
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Ethereum Foundation Outlines L2 Role Evolution: From "Scalability Tool" to "Differentiation Engine"
March 24
Today, the Ethereum Foundation released a **comprehensive breakdown** on how the roles of L1 and L2 have evolved. The core takeaway: as the ecosystem matures, L2’s primary goal has shifted—from “scaling Ethereum” to “delivering differentiated functionality, tailored services, and self-sovereign domains”—with scalability now taking a backseat.
The Foundation redefined L1/L2 roles as follows:
- **L1**: A permissionless, highly resilient global settlement layer. It handles shared state, liquidity, and acts as a DeFi hub. It must keep scaling while upholding censorship resistance, openness, privacy, and security.
- **L2**: While building its own on-chain economy, it extends Ethereum’s core attributes to a wider user base to create a “full-spectrum” ecosystem.
The Foundation emphasized that L2s with the **strongest L1 integration** should prioritize synchronous composability, full interoperability, shared liquidity, and mechanisms like Stage 2. Many L2 solutions—with di
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Hip3 Deployer on Hyperliquid trade.xyz Hits All-Time Highs Across the Board
On March 24, trade.xyz announced via its official social media that all key metrics have hit record highs, including:
- Total trading volume: $110 billion
- Open interest: $1.6 billion, with a 24-hour peak trading volume of $5.6 billion
- 24-hour peak daily active traders: 453,000
- Weekend peak trading volume: $1.09 billion
- XYZ’s share of Hypercore’s 24-hour peak total trading volume: 44.4%
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A Whale Withdraws Nearly $16 Million Worth of Altcoin from Binance 7 Hours Ago
March 24th, per The Data Nerd monitoring, a crypto whale withdrew nearly $16 million worth of altcoins from Binance 7 hours ago, dispersing the funds to two wallets. The withdrawn assets include:
- 43.49 million ENA (~$4 million)
- 3.28k AAVE (~$3.6 million)
- 24.9k AVAX (~$2.4 million)
- 8 million ONDO (~$2 million)
- 5.96k UNI (~$2.1 million)
- 1.49 million PENDLE (~$1.8 million)
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SIREN plunges nearly 60% in 24 hours, market cap drops to $780 million
On March 24, per market data, SIREN plummeted 56.8% over 24 hours. Its market capitalization fell to $780 million, while 24-hour trading volume reached $55.79 million.
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