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October 7 and October 10. Singapore.
Downstairs is TOKEN2049 and the F1 race.
Upstairs is why you booked the flight.
Wednesday, October 7.
The VIP Penthouse.
Last year at TOKEN2049 we went straight to the top, to the Mandarin Oriental penthouse above the circuit.
We’re running it back with The Best Event, Diamante and Arcadia.
Saturday, October 10.
The Penthouse: Trackside.
Select founders, investors, and executives at a private brunch above the F1 circuit, overlooking Marina Bay.
Thank you to CoinRabbit for helping put this one together alongside The Best Event and Arcadia.
🤝 Partner Spotlight: Pyth Connect Q3 2026
The market moves fast. Pyth moves faster.
Thursday, October 8. 10:00 AM ET. Online.
Every trade, loan and prediction market needs one thing before it can work: the right price, right now. Pyth is where more than 138 institutions, from trading firms to exchanges, publish their prices directly, so apps and funds can use them the moment they change.
And it’s turning into a real business. Pyth passed $10.4M in annual recurring revenue in August, selling institutional market data to the firms that used to buy it only from the legacy giants.
On October 8, Pyth Connect walks through its biggest quarter yet: what shipped, who’s using it, and where demand for market data is heading next. A live update, then open Q&A. Send in your question when you register.
If you build, trade or invest in anything priced in real time, this is one hour on where the data underneath it is going.
🌟 Member Spotlight 🌟
Meet Rachel Conlan 👋
Huge congrats to Rachel on her new role as Chief Strategy Officer at Solana Foundation.
→ Former Global Chief Marketing Officer at Binance
→ Former Global Head of Brand and Partnerships at OKX
→ Former Global Brand Partnerships, CAA Sports at Creative Artists Agency
She spent four years at CAA pairing global brands with the biggest names in sports.
Then she moved into crypto. She ran brand and partnerships worldwide at OKX, then joined Binance and was named Global CMO within four months, leading marketing for the world's largest crypto exchange for three years.
She promised herself a proper break after Binance. It lasted three months.
Now at Solana Foundation she is bringing more institutions, businesses and builders onchain. Her bet is simple: stocks, trading and payments on one open network that never closes. Tokenized stocks on Solana have already traded $200 million in a single day, most of it outside US market hours.
Madison Avenue. Sports. Crypto.
Rachel keeps showing up where the next wave is headed.
This is what our network is all about. Keep building.
Around the World 🌏
Thursday, October 1.
Seoul.
KBW pulls the whole industry to Seoul: 13,000+ attendees and 300+ speakers.
Introduction.com and FactBlock, the team behind KBW, host the Official Closing Reception.
Mickey Hardy takes the stage, with Tristan Thompson representing the Introduction.com community.
Tuesday, October 6.
San Francisco.
During a16z Tech Week we’re taking over a bar with the NEAR Foundation for an invitation-only happy hour.
Cocktails, a closed door, an ultra-curated room.
Sunday, October 4. Coquitlam, BC.
Pudgy Canada and Introduction.com take over Activate.
Bring your crew. Dinner is covered.
KBW2026 Official Closing Reception, Seoul
Thu Oct 1, 8:00 PM KST
Assets & Access Tampa @ The Copper Shaker
Thu Oct 1, 7:00 PM ET
Pudgy Canada x Introduction.com, Coquitlam
Sun Oct 4, 4:00 PM PT
NEAR x Introduction.com Happy Hour, SF Tech Week
Tue Oct 6, 5:30 PM PT
VIP Penthouse Experience, Singapore
Wed Oct 7, 3:30 PM SGT
Assets & Access Miami @ Better Days
Thu Oct 8, 6:00 PM ET
The Penthouse: Trackside, Singapore
Sat Oct 10, 11:00 AM SGT
Assets & Access NYC @ Pubkey
Tue Oct 20, 7:00 PM ET
This is what membership looks like.
Introduction.com is where the future gets introduced.
250,000 founders, investors, and executives. 25 cities. 10 countries.
New York. San Francisco. Miami. Hong Kong. London. Dubai.
25,000 people have walked into one of our rooms. J.P. Morgan, Coinbase, Binance, Sequoia, and a16z among them.
One membership. Every room.
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Top Raises
Member Activity
Series C
Jeeves raised $110M, led by CoinFund, with a16z, Coinbase Ventures, AllianceBernstein, Vista Equity Partners, GIC and Y Combinator in the round. Jeeves gives companies that operate in many countries one place for corporate cards, bank accounts and payments, with stablecoins moving the money behind the scenes. BMW, Lululemon and Burger King already run on it.
Pyrs Carvolth and a16z racking up the wins before SF Tech Week! Nice!
Strategic Investment
Binance bought a $100M stake in Circle, the company behind USDC. The two also signed a five-year deal: Binance promotes USDC on its exchange, and Circle pays Binance a monthly fee.
Big week for Diana-Luk Y. and the Binance team!
Strategic
NG.Cash raised $15M, led by Blockchain Capital. NG.Cash is a Brazilian digital bank built for teens and young adults, and the money grows its crypto business.
Congrats to the Blockchain Capital team!
Strategic
Multicoin Capital invested in Grass. Terms were not disclosed. Grass pays more than 6 million people to share their spare home internet, then uses that network to collect web data for AI labs. It brought in $17M of revenue in the first half of 2026 alone.
Way to go John Robert Reed and the Multicoin team!
Strategic
Raven closed a strategic round from CMCC Global and Coinbase Ventures. Terms were not disclosed. Raven is a trading firm that keeps prediction markets stocked with buyers and sellers, so users can always get a trade done.
Pre-seed
functionSPACE raised $1.7M, led by Maven 11 and Blockwall, with Smape Capital. Most prediction markets ask yes or no. functionSPACE lets people bet on a number, like where a price or a rate will land.
Way to go Blockwall and team! Love to see it!
