RaaS #522: Jupiter Launches Prediction Market!

NHL Signs Licensing Deal with Polymarket, Aster Launches Vibe Trading Arena, and Moar!

Crypto cards offer real-world utility but lack deposit protections. While traditional banks hold deposits and provide full compliance, crypto cards enable instant crypto-to-fiat spending with conversion spreads, with no deposit insurance.

Jupiter launches its first prediction market using Kalshi liquidity, letting users speculate on F1 race outcomes. Beta version now live with the Mexico Grand Prix as its debut market.

Airdrop season ramps up. Marius’s Q4 guide outlines 50+ high-potential airdrops from projects with over $1M in funding. Spending 5–10 mins per protocol could net serious upside if done consistently.

Pivot to life!

Korea is a crypto power market. 9.7M Koreans hold crypto, 1 in 5 buy it for the next generation. Superficial partnerships don’t resonate; hire a native lead, build community year-round, and localize everything.

Kadena shuts down ops, KDA nukes 57%. The network is now miner-run only, with TVL cratering to $190K. Backed by $35M, Kadena sold parallel chains & low fees as its edge. Another ETH rival bites the dust.

Your daily dose of bite-sized news to stay updated.

1. Ethereal Mainnet Alpha launches with perp trading and USDe rewards.

2. BNB Chain and FOUR Meme have distributed the second tranche of $45M refunds dubbed “airdrop”.

3. SEAL launches a real-time phishing defense network with MetaMask, Phantom, Backpack, and WalletConnect.

4. Aster launches the Vibe Trading Arena, inviting builders to deploy AI agents for live trading.

5. NHL signs a licensing deal with Polymarket, per WSJ.

Turtle S2 kicks off with real-time Liquidity Leaderboard tracking. Activity from Kaito & Cookie now counts toward S2 rewards; deposits tracked even before LLB goes live.

Communism gud, capitalism bad.

Top Gainers: EVAA, MBC, RIVER, CLASH, COAI.

Polymarket’s infrastructure is growing from a single dApp into a full prediction OS for on-chain bettors. 36 apps now carry the Polymarket Builders badge, ranging from mobile trading bots and Telegram terminals to wallet analytics, prediction funds, and AI trading agents.

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1. Crypto builders have more ways than ever to earn, ranging from jobs and grants to tools, hackathons, and airdrops, with real upside tied to skill, timing, and visibility.

2. Capx AI will airdrop tokens on Nov 4 to users who showed real intent across Capx App, Capx Chain, and Capx Cloud, excluding Sybils and late registrants.

3. Monad memecoin traders now have a full-stack guide to gain an early edge and avoid becoming exit liquidity. Early Monad memecoin cycles are expected to reward those with tooling, discipline, and network edge.

4. Pendle demystified: retail can earn fixed yield, speculate on airdrops, or LP with delta-neutral strategies. Pendle is quietly becoming the DeFi backbone for yield derivatives, and retail finally has a shot at playing like the pros.

5. Chainlink proposes a cryptographic infrastructure as a superior compliance layer for digital assets. Their response to the U.S. Treasury outlines four pillars; this approach could shift compliance from manual compliance audits to automated, on-chain enforcement.

This wasn’t how I imagined I would learn about the Ethereum Foundation moving to a Safe wallet.

Stock exchanges in Hong Kong, India, and Australia are rejecting public companies trying to adopt Bitcoin treasury models; none have been approved in recent months. Regulatory fragmentation in Asia is reinforcing legacy restrictions, as global firms ramp up their exposure to BTC.

That’s all for today!