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 Sequoia, Castle Island, Ribbit Capital, Jump and Foundation Capital. Six live activities, with links and steps.

Catalyst · AI Trading

An AI agent that turns a plain-English trade idea into a strategy, watches the signals and executes for you. It covers spot, perps, tokenized stocks and prediction markets. Catalyst launched on October 8 and is letting people in from the waitlist.

Backers: Sequoia (lead), Jump, Peak XV, Lux, Selini · $30M seed

How to join:

1. Go to catalyst.app and join the waitlist. The research preview is free.

2. Join the Discord at discord.gg/usecatalyst.

3. Reply to their launch post with your best trade idea. That is the team's own call to action.

Kintsu · Canton Lending

Kintsu moved from Monad liquid staking to private lending on Canton, the network DTCC uses to bring tokenized Treasuries onchain. Its private beta opened on October 8.

Backers: Castle Island Ventures (lead), Brevan Howard Digital, Spartan, CMT Digital, Animoca Ventures · $4M seed (2024)

How to join:

1. Apply at kintsu.xyz/beta as a borrower, lender or curator.

2. Wait for selection. Access opens in waves, and spots are selected, not sold.

3. In Wave 01, supply USDC, borrow USDC against Canton Coin (CC), or stake CC.

Navra · AI Wallet

A keyless self-custody app with an AI agent that moves money into vetted onchain markets. It's the new company of Mike Cagney, co-founder of SoFi and Figure. Figure is the first partner, and the limited rollout starts in October.

Backers: Ribbit Capital (lead), Jump Crypto, DCM, Baseline, Figure · $19M Series A

How to join:

1. Go to navra.com and join the waitlist with your email.

2. Institutions can book a demo on the same page.

3. Follow @HelloNavra: access goes out in waves during the October rollout. No points or rewards announced.

Imperial · Perp DEX

A Solana perps router that sends every order to the cheapest venue among Jupiter, Phoenix, GMTrade and its own Armada liquidity pool. It raised on October 6, and Season 1 points are live.

Backers: Foundation Capital (lead) · $1.5M seed

How to join:

1. Go to imperial.space and connect a Solana wallet.

2. Trade perps or provide liquidity in Armada. The team points to delta-neutral funding-rate farming as one way to earn.

3. Track your points and rank at imperial.space/points. Full rules aren't published yet.

dreamDEX · Perp DEX

The flagship onchain perps DEX on Somnia, the L1 whose ecosystem has up to $270M committed by Improbable and MSquared. Perps Arena starts today: four weeks of trading on testnet for real prizes.

Backers: Somnia ecosystem (Improbable, MSquared)

How to join:

1. Register at app.testnet.dreamdex.io/competition.

2. Keep at least 10 SOMI on Somnia Mainnet in the same wallet from registration until payout. Balances are checked with unannounced snapshots.

3. Trade testnet perps for 4 weeks. 510 prizes from a $15,000 pool, no trading capital at risk.

Tria · Crypto Neobank

A self-custodial neobank with a crypto card. On October 4 it launched Tria Gacha: buy packs of graded Pokemon, One Piece and sports cards, then keep them, sell them back or have them shipped.

Backers: P2 Ventures, Aptos, plus executives from Polygon, Ethereum Foundation and Wintermute · $12M

How to join:

1. Open app.tria.so on your phone. Gacha is mobile-only.

2. Join the Gacha waitlist. Access opens in daily batches.

3. Pay for packs with the Tria card for up to 6% cashback (limited time). Pack openings leaderboard runs to October 18. Packs cost real money, and the TRIA token is already live, so there's no airdrop upside.

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