Most "early" plays in your feed have no funding and no product. We filtered for one signal: real capital behind the token, and wrote out exactly how to get into each. Six live activities, with links and steps.

1. AllScale · Payments

Self-custody stablecoin rails: invoicing, payroll and checkout in USDC/USDT.

Backers: YZi Labs (lead), Animoca Brands, Amber Group · $6.5M

How to join:

1. Go to allscale.io and click Launch App.

2. Create your one-click self-custody wallet.

3. Open the Rewards section, complete tasks (confirming email = 100 ASP).

4. Return daily for check-ins to stack AllScale Points (ASP) toward the airdrop.

2. Melee · Prediction Markets (Solana)

Permissionless prediction markets on any topic.

Backers: Variant, DBA · $3.5M

How to join:

1. Go to melee.markets and connect a Solana wallet.

2. Claim the OG badge.

3. Complete the available tasks to earn Melee Score (tied to future rewards).

3. Axis Robotics · Physical AI (BNB Chain)

Browser sim network crowdsourcing physical-AI robot-training data. $AXIS TGE targeted Q4 2026. ~$12M raised.

How to join (two paths):

Binance Wallet campaign (1.5M points, 30 days): open Binance Wallet, find the Axis Robotics campaign, complete tasks to earn Axis Points (eligible Keyless Wallet users).

Main Hub: go to axisrobotics.ai, sign up (email / Google / X / MetaMask), open the Alliance section, join the campaign, complete simulation tasks, track in Portfolio.

4. TermiX · AI Agents (BNB Chain)

On-chain marketplace where AI agents post, bid, execute and get paid. $TMT TGE + airdrop confirmed.

Backer: YZi Labs · $1M

How to join:

1. Go to termix.ai and connect.

2. Complete social tasks: link your X, submit eligible posts.

3. Register your .agent Agent ID, activate a Client or Supplier.

4. Earn TermiX Points (TP) through market activity; referrals pay up to 20%.

5. Chomp · Social

Q&A game: bet the gap between your private view and public opinion. Lowest-effort play here.

Backers: Jsquare, Blueyard, Accomplice · $3.6M

How to join:

1. Go to chomp.fyi (via @chompdotfyi).

2. Submit your email for early access. That's it, you're on the list.

6. ORO · AI DeFi

AI agent that turns plain-language prompts into on-chain DeFi transactions.

Backers: MH Ventures, Mapleblock Capital · $3M

How to join (deadline Sept 3):

1. Go to app.askoro.ai/campaign.

2. Start the "Clarity for Ondo" campaign, chat with ORO to learn how Ondo works.

3. Complete tasks to earn ORE Points (pool doubled to 40M; starter tasks give up to 8,500). No referral needed.

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Shyft Finance has partnered with GAP3 Partners as Co-Curator of its first two vaults, shCORE and shYIELD, as the Ethereum yield products near pre-deposits.

GAP3, the Gulf's first VARA-licensed Virtual Asset Investment Advisor, provides research, analysis and strategy recommendations on the vaults. shYIELD targets higher returns by combining Radiant Prime, Maple syrupUSDC and Gauntlet USD Alpha, while shCORE runs a more balanced mix of Radiant Prime, Ondo USDY and Sky sUSDS. Both contracts are already live on Ethereum mainnet.

Rather than lean on a single protocol, each vault blends multiple onchain and market-neutral strategies under one professionally curated wrapper, with source-level reporting via Accountable, RedStone and Chainlink Proof of Reserve for the off-exchange sleeves.

The tie-up fits a broader trend of regulated advisors moving into DeFi vault curation, packaging institutional-grade yield strategies for allocators who want onchain access with a compliance-friendly layer on top.

Solana's stake-weighted governance vote has passed SIMD-0550, clearing the two-thirds supermajority needed to double the network's annual disinflation rate from 15% to 30%.

The change accelerates how fast new SOL issuance winds down. It removes an estimated 18.9 million SOL, worth roughly $1.5B at recent prices, from future emissions and brings Solana's 1.5% terminal inflation forward by about three years, to around H1 2029 instead of 2032. Total supply ends up roughly 2.6% lower than under the old schedule.

Authored by Helius engineers and elevated to a formal Solana Governance Proposal, it is one of the network's biggest tokenomics changes to date. The trade-off: faster disinflation also trims future staking rewards, so validators and stakers accept lower nominal yield over time in exchange for a scarcer SOL.

For SOL holders, the vote is a clear shift toward scarcity: less new supply hitting the market each year and an earlier arrival at Solana's minimum inflation floor, at the cost of thinner staking emissions down the line.

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Bybit has launched 24/7 options on its stock perpetuals, starting with SpaceX and Nvidia, giving traders round-the-clock, USDT-settled exposure to equities.

The options sit on top of Bybit's TradFi Perpetuals, the exchange's product line for trading stocks, indices and commodities as 24/7 USDT-settled contracts. Adding options lets traders express directional and volatility views on names like SpaceX and Nvidia at any hour, including weekends when traditional markets are closed.

It is part of a broader race among crypto exchanges, Coinbase among them, to wrap tokenized or synthetic equity exposure in familiar derivatives and pull TradFi order flow onto crypto rails.

For the industry, it is another step in the convergence of crypto and traditional finance: the same venues that list perps on BTC and ETH now offer leveraged, always-on options on Big Tech and pre-IPO names, settled in stablecoins rather than dollars.

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Andreessen Horowitz has raised a $1.1B fund called Machine Age to invest in the hardware backbone of AI, from chips, memory, networking and storage to robotics.

The fund is a bet that the hard constraint on AI is no longer just models and data but the physical supply chain underneath them, the compute, memory and networking that have become the industry's tightest bottleneck. It slots alongside a16z's other infrastructure and Oxygen compute initiatives aimed at securing hardware access for its portfolio companies.

For crypto, the thesis rhymes with DePIN and on-chain AI: whoever controls compute, chips and networking capacity controls the pace of the AI buildout, and increasingly that hardware layer is where the biggest capital is now flowing.

The raise underscores how the AI arms race has shifted from software toward silicon and physical infrastructure, with top venture firms racing to fund the picks-and-shovels layer rather than just the applications on top.

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Japan's SBI Holdings is taking a 20% stake in Indonesian online brokerage Ajaib for $270M, turning the Jakarta-based firm into an equity-method affiliate.

The move is part of SBI's broader push to expand its yen-denominated stablecoin, JPYSC, which it launched in June, across Southeast Asia. Plugging Ajaib's retail brokerage and user base into SBI's crypto and payments stack gives the Japanese group a distribution channel for stablecoin and digital-asset services in one of the region's largest markets.

For Ajaib, founded by Stanford classmates Anderson Sumarli and Yada Piyajomkwan, the $270M Series C is Indonesia's largest tech funding round since 2022 and lifts its valuation above the prior round.

The deal fits a wider pattern of Japanese and regional financial groups buying into Southeast Asian fintech to seed stablecoin and tokenization rails, betting that local brokerages become the on-ramps for yen and dollar-pegged digital money.

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Bain Capital led a $74M growth investment in RQD* Clearing, a cloud-native securities clearing and custody provider, with ABN AMRO Clearing Bank and Nyca Partners also joining.

The minority growth round funds RQD's expansion across North America, Asia and the Middle East and, notably for crypto, accelerates its build-out of custody infrastructure for digital assets and tokenization. CoinDesk framed the deal as Wall Street laying the plumbing for tokenized markets, where clearing and custody rails are a prerequisite for moving real-world assets on-chain at scale.

RQD says it has cleared roughly 515 million equity transactions worth nearly $2 trillion so far this year, about 2.4% of US National Market System equity trading. Bain joins an investor group that already includes ABN AMRO Clearing, Nyca Partners, Gentree Fund and Belvedere Strategic Capital.

For digital-asset markets, the raise signals that traditional post-trade infrastructure providers are positioning early for tokenized securities, where settlement and custody move on-chain and the line between TradFi clearing and crypto custody starts to blur.

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DGAI topped this summer's new tokens at a $749M FDV, ahead of CAP ($655M) and RE ($536M). These valuations were priced in a sideways summer; now that the market's turning, we'll see which paper tags convert into real demand, and which don't.

DefiLlama and Forgd have launched Universal Token Ratings, a standardized system that scores 128 tokens from 0 to 100 and assigns letter grades from AAA down to CCC.

The grades combine each project's public disclosures with live on-chain and market data, and update continuously, so a token's rating shifts as its fundamentals change rather than sitting in a static report. Forgd, a Web3 investment bank, and DefiLlama pitch it as the first standard in digital assets that continuously verifies whether a token's real market performance matches what the project has disclosed.

Projects that are not yet covered can formally apply to disclose their information and get rated, and the full methodology behind the requirements is published openly on the platform.

For a market long criticized for opaque tokenomics and cherry-picked metrics, a continuously updated, disclosure-based rating gives allocators and researchers a common yardstick to compare tokens on more than price.

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