Most "early" plays in your feed have no funding and no product. We filtered for one signal: real capital behind the project. This week that means Robinhood, Coinbase Ventures, Ribbit Capital, Susquehanna, GSR and The Sandbox founders. Six live activities, with links and steps.

Arcus · Perp DEX

A DEX on Robinhood Chain for stock tokens, spot and perps, built by the team behind dYdX. Points went live on October 1, after $5B+ in volume during private beta.

Backers: Robinhood Crypto (strategic investment) · incubated by dYdX Labs

How to join:

1. Sign up via our Arcus invite link and connect your wallet. Private beta users already got Season 0 points.

2. Trade. Stock tokens and other RWAs earn more, and so do RWA perps traded outside US market hours. Swaps in Robinhood Wallet routed through Arcus are boosted too.

3. Season 1 pays a fixed 250K points per week, updated Wednesdays at 3PM ET. The program ends no later than H1 2027.

Elysium · Hyperliquid Network

A new network from Kinetiq, the team behind kHYPE, a liquid-staking token for HYPE. It's built to take Hyperliquid DeFi and spot trading past current throughput limits, and the testnet is open.

Backers: Maven 11, Susquehanna, IMC, Flowdesk, Chorus One (Kinetiq seed) · $1.75M

How to join:

1. Open elysium.kinetiq.xyz/testnet-bridge and connect your wallet.

2. Claim test tokens, add the Elysium network and bridge to HyperEVM.

3. Make a few different transactions over several days, not just one. No rewards have been announced, so use test funds only.

Reya · Perp DEX

A perp DEX that just moved to a new v2 orderbook. v2 is in private beta and opens in phases, starting with Season 1 traders and market makers.

Backers: Coinbase Ventures, Framework Ventures, Wintermute, Brevan Howard Digital, Robot Ventures · $10M

How to join:

1. Open app.reya.xyz and join the v2 queue.

2. Once you're in, trade on the new orderbook. ETH, BTC, SOL, HYPE and XRP are among the first markets.

3. Season 2 pays in $REYA: 3% of total supply. The season is short and the pool is fixed, so getting in early means fewer people splitting it.

Entropy · Pre-IPO Perps

Perps on stocks, commodities and pre-IPO companies, built on Hyperliquid by ex-Citadel Securities, Optiver and Polymarket traders. It's now also live inside Trust Wallet.

Backers: Ribbit Capital (seed lead) · $14M seed

How to join:

1. Trade at entropy.io. Tencent ($HK700) was just listed with 10x leverage.

2. If you post about markets, apply to the Entropy Partners program through the application form. The team reviews every application.

3. Keep posting: the first affiliate badges went out on October 2 to people already creating content about Entropy.

dare market · SocialFi

A Solana platform where people post public challenges with bounties and others complete them with proof. v2 went live on October 1: every dare can now launch its own token.

Backers: Karatage, Paper Ventures (co-leads), GSR, Axia8, Ansem · $2M

How to join:

1. Open app.dare.market and sign in.

2. Launch a token for your dare (SOL or USDC), or trade existing ones. Trading fees fill the dare's bounty pool.

3. Or complete dares yourself. The daily Dare of the Day has been paying $1,000 bounties.

Hollywood Hills · Fan Investing

A cosmic-horror feature film from The Sandbox founders, built around the real Dead & Famous bus tour in LA. Fans can invest in the film, share its revenue and hunt for clues that can change the story.

Backers: Arthur Madrid and Sebastien Borget (lead investors) · $1M fan campaign

How to join:

1. Join the waitlist at hollywoodhills.cc.

2. The investment window opens October 8 through Republic (18+, limited allocation, first come first served).

3. Investors get one of 3,000 Villa collectibles, each hiding a piece of the mystery. This is a paid investment, not a free mint.

Not financial advice. Points and testnets don't guarantee a token.