In October this year, the encryption industry saw 21 public acquisition transactions, including Coinbase's acquisition of echo and Kranken's acquisition of the SMALL exchange. At the same time, the cumulative number of acquisition events reached 144, an increase of over 100% compared to last year, setting a historical record.

Odaily News MegaETH announced that the public sale on the Sonar platform under Echo has started. The total supply of MegaETH is 10 billion pieces, with 500 million pieces available for this public sale, and the payment method is USDT. Users can bid through English auctions, with a maximum bid of 186,282 USD and a minimum of 2,650 USD. The starting price is 0.0001 USD (FDV is 1 million USD), and the maximum price limit is 0.0999 USD (FDV is 999 million USD).

Gate News Bot news, on October 27, according to CoinMarketCap data, as of the time of writing, PAYAI (PayAI Network) is currently priced at 0.07 USD, with a rise of 8.07% in the last 24 hours, reaching a high of 0.07 USD and a low of 0.05 USD, with a 24-hour volume of 236 million USD. The current market capitalization ranks 3608. PayAI Network is a multi-network x402 accelerator focused on the Solana ecosystem. It offers instant, invisible payment solutions suitable for AI agents, microtransactions, and fast commercial transactions. Key features of PayAI include the x402 accelerator, x402 Echo merchant, freelance AI marketplace, and the upcoming CT agent monetization feature. The platform aims to provide payment infrastructure for the AI era.

PANews October 22 news, the Ethereum scaling solution MegaETH developed by MegaLabs announced on platform X that it will launch a public sale on the Sonar platform under Echo, with an initial Fully Diluted Valuation (FDV) of $1 million and a valuation cap set at $999 million. Users can bid through an English auction, with the maximum bid reaching $186,282. If subscriptions exceed expectations, existing MegaETH community members will be prioritized, as well as those investors who have shown long-term consistency through social activities, on-chain behavior, and locking preferences. The dual-peak distribution process ensures broad distribution of tokens while prioritizing key contributors. Core supporters of MegaETH will receive priority allocation, while at least 5,000 participants will receive a base allocation with a starting price of $2,650. A total of MEGA tokens will be sold on October 27.

PANews, October 21st news, according to the Wall Street Journal, Coinbase executives revealed that the company has reached a deal of approximately $375 million to acquire the Echo platform – a platform that allows crypto companies to raise funds directly and quickly on the blockchain. This acquisition is Coinbase's eighth transaction so far this year, as Coinbase actively pursues acquisition activities taking advantage of the favorable momentum brought by the U.S. monetary policy regarding crypto assets.

Odaily News According to The Wall Street Journal, Coinbase has acquired the crypto assets investment platform ECHO for $375 million.

BlockBeats news, on October 16, the encryption angel investment platform Echo tweeted that "everyone who has participated in investments on Echo is eligible to receive the Monad Airdrop. Specific steps to claim will be published on their website later."

MGBX will launch the "Echo Points System" on October 3, 2025, where users can earn points through trading, sign up, inviting friends, and other methods. The points can be used to participate in project Airdrops, exchange for Platform Tokens, etc., aimed at enhancing user interaction and long-term rewards.

Jin10 data reported on September 30, the European Central Bank Governing Council member Rehn stated that the European Central Bank should take bold actions to make the euro a "reliable global stability anchor." His remarks echo the views of European Central Bank President Lagarde. Lagarde stated in June that, given the global backdrop of rising trade wars and protectionism, the global status of the euro needs to be strengthened. Rehn said, "This requires strategic reflection and bold actions to support a healthier rebalancing of the global monetary order."

According to BlockBeats news on September 27, the stablecoin L1 Blockchain Plasma went live and absorbed over $4 billion in Crypto Assets within 24 hours, ranking eighth in the value of deposits in Blockchain DeFi, mainly due to the Plasma lending vault and users locking assets in cooperative DeFi protocols earning the native network Token XPL. Plasma's initial success has driven up the price of the XPL Token, which has risen 30% from the Opening Price, currently around $1.2, corresponding to a Fully Diluted Valuation of nearly $12 billion, an increase of 24 times from the $50 million valuation during the public sale in June, representing an astonishing return of up to 324 times for investors who participated in the Plasma seed round on the early investment platform Echo last November.

ChainCatcher news, the stablecoin Blockchain Plasma Mainnet officially launched yesterday and introduced the native Token XPL. According to the Echo data dashboard, if a user invests 1000U on the Echo platform, they can receive a return of approximately 310,000 U, with a yield of 318 times.

According to ChainCatcher news and NFTgators, the programmable data chain Irys has completed a $10 million Series A financing round, led by CoinFund, with participation from Hypersphere, Tykhe Ventures, Varrock Ventures, Breed VC, Echo Group, Amber Group, and W A GMI Ventures. This round of financing brings Irys's total funding to $20 million.

PANews July 10 news, according to Jin10 reports, "The Federal Reserve's mouthpiece" Nick Timiraos stated that the Federal Reserve's meeting minutes revealed some things we already knew. Officials are divided into three main camps regarding the interest rate path: ① a rate cut within the year but excluding July (the mainstream camp), ② keeping rates unchanged for the whole year, ③ advocating immediate action at the next meeting (the minutes show that only a "minority" of participants supported this, implying that it includes The Federal Reserve Board of Governors Waller and Bowman). The minutes also pointed out that "a few participants expressed that the target range for the federal funds rate may not be much higher than the neutral level at this time." In other words, unless the economy significantly slows down, even if a rate cut is restarted, the subsequent room for further cuts will be very limited.

According to Gate News bot, the decentralized stablecoin infrastructure Perena has announced the completion of its Echo round of financing. This round of financing has received investments from institutions such as Susquehanna, Native Crypto, and Hermeneutic Investments. The Perena team revealed that this round of financing attracted over 350 investors, and the financing subscription was completed in just a few minutes.

According to Gate News bot, as reported by the Belgian Echo, one of Belgium's largest banks, KBC, has officially announced that its investment platform Bolero will start offering users the ability to purchase Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) this fall. As the first move of a major Belgian bank into the Crypto Assets sector, KBC plans to do so before this fall.

Gate News bot message, Bitcoin liquidity and aggregation infrastructure project Echo Protocol announced that the ECHO airdrop claim will open on July 2. The team stated that 15% of the total supply will be allocated for rewards to early users, contributors, and the community. Relevant information is as follows:

Gate will launch Echo (ECHO) spot trading on July 2, 2025, and kick off the HODLer Airdrop event, where holding 1 GT will qualify you for the airdrop. Futures trading tasks will also start on the same day, sharing a 1,000,000 ECHO airdrop prize pool.

According to the Gate News bot announcement on July 1, 2025, Gate will launch the Move ecosystem project Echo (ECHO) Token and initiate the HODLer Airdrop event. The total amount of the airdrop is 1,000,000 ECHO, and participating users must hold at least 1 GT. The Echo protocol is a Bitcoin staking and liquidity infrastructure based on Move, providing re-staking solutions for BTC L2/LRT asset holders and institutions, while offering income opportunities from BTC ecosystem assets for individual users. The total supply of the project token is 1 billion, issued on the Aptos chain. According to reports, the ECHO/USDT trading pair will open for trading on July 2, 2025, at 20:00:00 1928374656574839201 UTC+8, and the airdrop activity will end on the same day at 18:00:00 1928374656574839201 UTC+8. Users can participate in the airdrop distribution based on their GT holdings proportion, with a limit of 1000 GT per user.

Gate News bot message, according to Foresight News, the Bitcoin infrastructure protocol Echo Protocol completed the Echo coin Snapshot at 12:00 on June 29. The protocol's official tweet confirmed that the project has entered the next stage.

Odaily News Yield.xyz announced the completion of a $5 million strategic round of financing, led by Multicoin Capital. The company, formerly known as Omni, was acquired by Echo Base this year and is dedicated to providing a one-stop DeFi yield infrastructure for application endpoints. (Blockworks)

Golden Finance reports that Inference Labs, focused on building an encryption trust layer for AI agents and off-chain computing, has announced the completion of a $6.3 million financing round, led by DACM and Delphi Ventures, with participation from Arche Capital and Lvna Capital. It is understood that the financing originally included a $1 million community round led by Native Capital for the Echo Syndicate. The new funds are intended to support the construction of a Decentralization verification architecture that allows AI computations to remain off-chain and private while generating zk-SNARKs.

Odaily News Echo Protocol co-founder JP | Echo stated on the X platform that in the past 24 hours, its team has collaborated with Aptos to recover the X account from the recent hacker attack and has now regained full control. All malicious links posted by the attacker have been swiftly removed, and no large-scale fund withdrawals have been observed during this time. A detailed public report outlining the incident, including the process of the X account theft, will be released subsequently.

Gate News bot message, according to the tweet from Slow Mist's Chief Information Security Officer @im23pds, the recent rumor circulating on social media that "the Bitcoin liquidity protocol Echo Protocol suffered a $267 million fund theft" is false. Upon verification, the official Twitter account of Echo Protocol was hacked, and the related tweets have been set to prohibit comments. Source: Wu Says.

BlockBeats news, on June 14, the Echo Protocol, which focuses on Bitcoin liquidity re-staking and yield layers, officially announced that its wallet holding 2515.648579 uBTC (currently valued at over 266 million USD) has suffered a highly complex supply chain attack and has been maliciously breached. The team has initiated an emergency investigation and will release an event review report as soon as possible. Currently, the collateralization rate of the platform's treasury has dropped to 20%. To ensure system security, all withdrawal operations will be suspended from midnight Eastern Time. Echo Protocol stated that it is working closely with auditing firms and security experts to handle this incident and will later announce a bounty program to encourage those with information to assist in tracking the stolen assets.

According to ChainCatcher news, the official announcement from Silhouette, the privacy execution layer based on Hyperliquid, states that it has completed a $3 million Pre-Seed funding round led by RockawayX, with participation from Amber Group, HiveMind, Protagonist, No Limit Holdings, NGC Ventures, and Echo. Silhouette is a "Shield Exchange" built on TEE, aiming to achieve privacy-protecting order matching and settlement functions on Hyperliquid, supporting HyperCore and HyperEVM, providing including

PANews reported on May 27 that, according to The Block, Echo, founded by well-known crypto investor Cobie (Jordan Fish), officially launched the IC0 platform Sonar, and the first fundraising project was Plasma, a dedicated chain for stablecoins. Plasma will sell 10% of its total XPL token supply, or 1 billion tokens, through Sonar, with the goal of raising $50 million, corresponding to a fully diluted valuation of $500 million. Users need to deposit USDT, USDC or USDS into the Ethereum Plasma vault to participate, and the lock-up period is set to 40 days or 12 months depending on the region. The Plasma mainnet is expected to go live this summer, and XPL will be used for network consensus, EVM execution, and Bitcoin cross-chain bridge operation.

Golden Finance reports that, according to The Block, the crypto assets investment firm Paradigm has hired Cobie as an advisor. Cobie is the founder of the crypto assets investment platform Echo, which allows retail investors and members of the crypto assets community to participate in early financing rounds of projects under conditions similar to those of venture capital firms. Previously, in February, on-chain data analyst ZachXBT also joined Paradigm as an incident response consultant.

On March 20, Jin Ten Data reported that "Fed mouthpiece" Nick Timiraos stated that the combination of economic growth stagnation and rising prices (sometimes referred to as stagflation) may make it more difficult for the Fed to cut interest rates this year to prevent an economic slowdown. The response of Fed officials may largely depend on whether businesses and consumers expect prices to continue to rise, as Fed officials believe these expectations may become self-fulfilling. If workers, landlords, and business owners expect inflation rates to remain high, they will arrange their financial decisions in ways that can sustain higher prices. Some surveys attempting to gauge consumer inflation expectations show that uncertainty regarding the recent inflation outlook has increased or significantly increased.

PANews March 19 news, according to official news, the decentralized prediction market developer Opinion Labs has officially launched on the Monad Testnet. Opinion Labs aims to create an open prediction market solution and infrastructure that allows anyone to establish any prediction market and trade using any Token. In addition, Opinion Labs has recently announced the completion of a $5 million seed round of financing, with participants including the angel investment platform Echo and others.

PANews March 18th news, Decentralizationprediction market developer Opinion Labs announced that it has completed a $5 million seed round of financing earlier, led by Yzi Labs, with other investors including angel investment community Echo, Animoca Ventures, Manifold Trading, Amber

PANews reported on February 21 that WalletConnect raised $10 million from four oversubscribed Token sales, including a $500,000 private sale conducted through the Token financing platform Echo. The project disclosed that there are no further Token sale plans at this stage, and delivery will be driven according to the product roadmap.

Odaily Planet Daily News Echo founder Jordan Fish (commonly known as Cobie) hinted that the project is planning to launch its initial Token product, aiming to enable community investors to use private venture capital. Echo is a fundraising platform for Crypto community members that supports collective investment projects and has been used for projects like Megaeth, Initia, Ethena, and Fogo

According to analysts at JPMorgan, while regulatory transparency is expected to encourage more investment in crypto assets, the main challenges facing venture capital firms are competition from large institutions, high interest rates, and the rise of platforms such as ETFs and Echo. It is expected that venture capital funds for crypto assets will increase by 2025, but may not reach the levels of 2021 and 2022. In the future, venture capital firms will prioritize projects with actual user adoption and focus on long-term encryption.

Echo founder Cobie accused some VC of preventing it from offering discounted prices to investors, and even opposing community sales, unless it was in the later rounds of overvaluation. Some VCs advocate avoiding public sales and oppose discounted valuations and short-term attribution periods. At the same time, VCs have no problem with team Airdrop unlocked Tokens, but they oppose it if some of the team's unlocked Tokens are sold.

Abstract announces the launch of Syndicate, supported by echo. Syndicate will showcase selected builders' applications to accredited investors to drive the future of consumer Crypto Assets. Investors can apply to join Syndicate through official channels. Abstract will be launched this month.

Recently, the ACT Foundation and the GNON team have issued announcements to officially announce the establishment of a strategic partnership, aiming to jointly promote the future development of Decentralization Intelligent Agent (Agentic AI) technology. This collaboration is based on the core technology "Echo Chambers" of the GNON team, combined with the ecological resources of the ACT Foundation, and is committed to providing more freedom and innovation space for AI developers and Decentralization technology enthusiasts. “Echo

ChainCatcher News, Act I: The AI Prophecy. X announced that the ACT community is providing funding to GNON to support its development of the Decentralization communication network Echo.