🚀 KuCoin Ventures Weekly TL;DR 🚀 Prediction markets are hitting the mainstream! 💥 Two huge signals last week: Politics: Trump's Truth Social is launching "Truth Predicts" w/ cryptocom, turning major social events into a betting market. 🗳️ Business: Coinbase CEO Armstrong settled Polymarket bets live on an earnings call! Why? Coinbase's revenue is shifting to on-chain services ($747M in Q3!), making them a huge fan of on-chain apps. This is strategic. 🧠

📊 Market Signals 📊 Meanwhile, the macro picture is murky. Fed Chair Powell calls it "driving in a fog," making a Dec rate cut uncertain. The market is feeling it: · Bitcoin Spot ETFs saw -$607M in outflows. · Stablecoin supply dipped, with $USDe falling below $10B. · VC funding hit a multi-month low at just $161M. Overall sentiment remains in the "Fear" zone. Caution is the name of the game. 📉

🔦 Project Spotlight 🔦 Big milestone unlocked: The first US Altcoin Spot ETFs ($SOL, $HBAR) are live! 🚀 They even launched during the gov't shutdown. The killer feature? Staking yields! A new era of yield-bearing ETFs. But the market reaction was muted. 🤔 $SOL ETFs saw ~$502M AUM, with inflows cooling after launch day. Meanwhile, real-world adoption continues: Stablecoin startup ZAR raised $12.9M (a16z-led) to bring digital dollars to Pakistan via local cash-in points. 🇵🇰

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