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Pillar VC Raises $192M for Two Funds With Crypto Focus

The Boston-based firm's investments will be focused on northeast U.S., it said.

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Venture capital firm Pillar VC raised $192 million for two funds focused on crypto as well as fintech, artificial intelligence/machine learning and enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

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  • The Boston-based firm raised $169 million for its Pillar III fund and $23 million for Pillar Select, according to an announcement Tuesday.
  • Investments will be focused on northeast U.S., it said.
  • The funds will make pre-seed investments of $50,000-$500,000 and seed-round investments of $2 million-$6 million in startups focused technologies including crypto, fintech, and AI/ML.
  • USDC-backer Circle is among Pillar's beneficiaries from previous funds. The firm joined a mammoth $440 million fundraising round in May alongside Fidelity and CoinDesk parent Digital Currency Group.
  • Circle intends to go public later this year via a SPAC deal worth $4.5 billion.

Read more: Circle Reveals Assets Backing USDC Stablecoin

UPDATE (July 20, 16:28 UTC): Corrects dollar amount of how much was raised for Pillar III and Pillar Select funds.

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Protocol Research: GoPlus Security

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  • As of October 2025, GoPlus has generated $4.7M in total revenue across its product lines. The GoPlus App is the primary revenue driver, contributing $2.5M (approx. 53%), followed by the SafeToken Protocol at $1.7M.
  • GoPlus Intelligence's Token Security API averaged 717 million monthly calls year-to-date in 2025 , with a peak of nearly 1 billion calls in February 2025. Total blockchain-level requests, including transaction simulations, averaged an additional 350 million per month.
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Bitcoin's Parabolic Arc Snaps: Trader Peter Brandt Eyes $25K Crash Floor

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Veteran trader Peter Brandt warns that bitcoin's growth parabola has fractured, potentially leading to a price drop to $25,000.

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  • Veteran trader Peter Brandt warns that bitcoin's growth parabola has fractured, potentially leading to a price drop to $25,000.
  • Bitcoin's bull cycles have historically seen diminishing returns, with significant pullbacks following record highs.
  • The current cycle saw prices double to $126,000 before pulling back to under $90,000, breaking the parabolic trend.