We are pleased to share that @further Ventures Fund II has completed an investment in @Silicon_Data's $30.5M Series A round, along with Valor Atreides AI Fund, CME Ventures, DRW, F-Prime, Samsung Next, VanEck, Jump Trading and Wintermute.

5/▪️@get_optimum Asia Tour Round 2: KBW & Token 2049 (👉nitter.net/get_optimum/status/210…) ▪️@pave_bank launches the Georgia-Singapore Fintech Scholars Programme (👉nitter.net/pave_bank/status/21034…)

4/▪️@FourPillarsFP' FP Validated has joined the Aptos validator set (👉linkedin.com/posts/fourpilla…) ▪️@fuzefinance will be at Jordan Fintech Festival 2026 (👉nitter.net/fuzefinance/status/210…) ▪️@fuzefinance team heading to London for IAMTN (👉nitter.net/fuzefinance/status/210…)

3/▪️@FourPillarsFP is open to co-research collaborations (👉nitter.net/FourPillarsFP/status/2…) ▪️@FourPillarsFP introduces Four Pillars Advisory Network (FPAN) (👉nitter.net/FourPillarsFP/status/2…) ▪️@FourPillarsFP co-hosts RealFi x Asia Stablecoin Conference 2026 (👉linkedin.com/posts/fourpilla…)

2/▪️Here's where to find @dfnsHQ in October (👉nitter.net/dfnsHQ/status/21020013…) ▪️@dfnsHQ welcomes Eric Amlie as new Tech Ops Manager (👉nitter.net/dfnsHQ/status/21024215…) ▪️@dfnsHQ is part of @WalletConnect's new certified cohort (👉nitter.net/dfnsHQ/status/21027447…)

Tomorrow @ETHSofiaBG 🇧🇬 kicks off and our Chief Product Officer @sajidazouarhi will be onstage! Don't miss her panel "Building Under CROPS" at 4:25 PM! ethsofia.com/agenda

The line-up is set for CV Summit 🇨🇭 Our CEO Andrew Gibb joins leaders from @sygnumofficial, Luzerner Kantonalbank, Celsion Bank and @PwC to discuss the next frontier in institutional and retail crypto services. 📍 Zurich 📅 29 Sept | 14:30–15:00 @CV_Labs

🇸🇬 🇬🇪 @tether, @pave_bank and @gftn_official launch the Georgia-Singapore Fintech Scholars Programme. Top students from Tbilisi State University spend a semester at Singapore Management University, fully funded. The first higher education exchange between Georgia and Singapore.

Meet the Fuze team heading to IAMTN. Mo, Shamvil, Arpit and Alex will be in London to meet the banks, remittance operators and payment providers shaping how money moves across borders. Attending on 7-8 October? Come find us.

Matthew Quek, Co-Founder & COO @grvt_io, talks about how prediction markets, and eventually FX, commodities, and equities, could open up more ways to generate yield on-chain at the #FurtherNetworkSummit 2025👇

My next podcast guest spent 10 years as a Special Agent for the US Secret Service. He protected the President and his family, investigated white collar crime, got shot at multiple times, and left 7 months ago to build a company fighting financial fraud. Mudassar Malik (Founder of @deconflict_) and I talk about why law enforcement is always 3-4 months behind the scam, the smartest criminal he ever caught, and what 22 years of chasing bad guys taught him about how they actually think. Trailer out now, full episode coming soon!

Asia Tour Round 2: KBW & Token 2049 Here's what the team will be up to at each conference: KBW - 9/28 @kentlinyy is speaking on the @ethereumkoreaio staking infra panel. - 9/29 We host our signature CODED event featuring a @MurielMedard keynote and speakers from 17 top projects. (info & sign up in next tweet) Token2049 - 10/6 We're cohosting an event on agentic trading with @ambr_io. - 10/7 We'll be attending DAS Asia. As always, if you'll be around and would like to set something up please reach out directly.

Twinstake is heading to Seoul 🇰🇷 Our Global VP of Sales Harriet Browning will be at @kbwofficial 2026 for what's shaping up to be an important week for Twinstake in the region. Institutions exploring staking across APAC, DM us to set up a conversation with Harriet.

Offering staking is a feature. Running it is an operation. For exchanges, that raises some important decisions: build or partner? Omnibus or segregated? What do those choices mean for risk and operations? A short excerpt from our Institutional Staking Playbook for Exchanges 🧵

Fuze will be at JO FinTech Festival 2026 on September 23-24. Serena Sebastiani and Karim Mujalli will be there connecting with institutions, fintechs, and partners from across the region. If you’re attending, find the Fuze team at the Arab Bank booth. #Fintech #DigitalAssets

London, we’re coming. The Fuze team is heading to IAMTN to connect with the people building and operating global money movement. We’re looking forward to good conversations, familiar faces, and new connections. If you’re attending, let’s meet.

: : Introducing Four Pillars Advisory Network (FPAN) Our goal is simple: Bridge institutional Asia with the best of onchain. We’re bringing Asia’s leading institutions closer to the protocols, platforms, and people shaping the global onchain economy through strategic advisory and direct ecosystem connections. Founding participants include: @AlliumLabs, @arbitrum, @Figure, @further, @LayerZero_Core, @LidoFinance, @MetaMask, @PanteraCapital, @redstone_defi, @RWA_xyz, @Securitize, @solana, @sphere_labs, and @SuiNetwork Institutional adoption in Asia is just getting started.

: : FourPillars Joins Bullish with Ondo as a Research Partner FourPillars is joining Bullish with Ondo, a private gathering hosted by Ondo Finance in Seoul on September 29, as an official research partner. Bullish with Ondo will open with a session featuring the Ondo Perps leadership team, covering product direction and broader market insights. This will be followed by a session featuring leading financial institutions, before closing with prominent crypto figures including Arthur Hayes, Rasmr, and Jordi Alexander sharing their investment theses. For the partnership, FourPillars will publish “Ondo Finance: Wall Street 2.0,” a research report analyzing how Ondo Finance has expanded its onchain financial offerings from U.S. Treasuries to equities, ETFs, and perpetual futures. For attendees, Ondo Finance Merch, special referal bonus, and physical copies of the report will be given at the Bullish with Ondo event. Enter “FourPillars” in the invitee field to receive official Ondo merchandise. luma.com/BullishwithOndo

1/ Who’s Backing the Next Phase of Onchain Finance? This year’s sponsor lineup reflects the institutions and infrastructure driving the next phase of onchain finance across Asia. [Title Sponsors] - S&P Dow Jones Indices - SBI DigiTrust - @Top_nod [Gold Sponsors] - @dsrvlabs_jiyun - @Alchemy - @RialoHQ - @blockaid_ - @HypernativeLabs - @AltusLabsHQ [Silver Sponsors] - @CantonNetwork - @BDACSKorea - @multiplifi - @P2Pvalidator