What a week in crypto! From the ECB bringing central bank money to tokenized finance to Binance betting $100M on Circle and BlackRock taking portfolios onchain, institutions kept reshaping digital finance this week 🏦 🇪🇺 The @ECB launches Pontes, letting banks settle wholesale tokenized asset transactions in central bank money. Santander, Deutsche Bank, Société Générale and Cecabank are among the first participants, with full rollout expected by 2028. 💵 @Binance invests $100M in @Circle as part of a five-year deal to expand USDC, with a focus on emerging markets. Binance bought Class A shares at a 5% discount, with a lock-up of up to two years. 📊 @BlackRock and @Ondo Finance launch Ondo Intelligent Portfolios, packaging three BlackRock-designed strategies into single tokens on Ethereum and BNB Chain for eligible investors outside the U.S. 𝕏 @X brings trading to the timeline. Its Cashtag Partner Program connects U.S. users with Coinbase, Gemini, Kraken, Interactive Brokers and Moomoo, while X itself does not execute trades or hold assets. 🏆 @Datablocks_app wins the MERGE Startup Contest 2026 among 12 international Web3 projects, with Shellment and Orion Finance completing the podium. All three will pitch on the main stage at MERGE Madrid. Join us at MERGE Madrid (October 27 to 29) where these conversations shape tomorrow's infrastructure.

We are working to support tokenized stocks on @datablocks_app soon 👀

Entre los 12 finalistas del Startup Contest en Merge Madrid (@mmerge_io), @datablocks_app se llevó el primer lugar 🏆 Datablocks: análisis onchain en tiempo real que descubre las estrategias ganadoras de los mejores traders Base builders la siguen rompiendo en todo el mundo

¡Qué gran jornada de talento e innovación vivimos ayer en el Startup Contest de Digitaliza Madrid! 🚀 Arrancamos el evento con las palabras de bienvenida de Paula Pascual, CEO de MERGE, y de Ignacio Azorín, Digital Strategy Director en @ComunidadMadrid. Tras esta apertura, el escenario fue de las startups. Disfrutamos de unos pitches de altísimo nivel donde conocimos las propuestas de las startups participantes. Durante la tarde, el evento continuó con una sesión de networking y paneles donde pudimos seguir conectando ideas y debatiendo sobre el ecosistema tecnológico. Para cerrar con broche de oro, @MLopezValverde, Consejero de Innovación de la Comunidad de Madrid, junto a Ignacio Azorín, fueron los encargados de entregar los premios a los grandes ganadores de esta edición: 🥇 Primer premio: @Datablocks_App 🥈 Segundo premio: Shellment 🥉 Tercer premio: @OrionFinanceAI ¡Muchísimas felicidades a los premiados y a todos los participantes por el increíble nivel demostrado! Gracias a todos los que nos acompañasteis ayer para seguir impulsando el talento y la tecnología. 💡 Gracias a nuestros sponsors @MadridInnova - @MADRID | @ComunidadMadrid | @Tritemius3T

Some stats from my claude code since we started working on the current version of @datablocks in April cache read: 348 B Cache write: 11.7 B the question is always the same, how can I 10x speed without 10x the nr of accounts? Some A/B tests coming later

Base builders are champs 🥇

Very proud of this achievement and a clear recognition of the work we are doing at @datablocks_app @thinktomas gave a killer pitch about we are doing on @base We have a lot on the pipeline, so stay tuned ;)

We won the @mmerge_io Startup Contest 🏆 After being selected as one of the 12 finalist startups, @Datablocks_App took 1st place in Madrid. An incredibly competitive final, in front of a jury made up of some of the leading investors, founders and operators in Spain’s crypto and Web3 ecosystem. A big milestone for us after months of building, iterating and learning at Lanzadera, and a meaningful recognition of the work we’re doing with onchain data on @base to help traders make better decisions. It was an honour to receive the award from @MLopezValverde and to be part of an event supported by @ComunidadMadrid, @MadridInnova, @MADRID and @Tritemius3T. Huge thanks to the @mmerge_io team, the jury and everyone who has supported us along the way. Very proud of this one.

Hard work beats talent 99.99% of the time Especially now with ai at your fingertips i’ve seen people make few hunderd thousand by getting a data advantage If you’re in the trenches, map out wallets and flow, make sure you have information edge

We keep on shipping and already cooking on some larger upgrades both to platform look and feel but also coverage on @base

Its time for the trenches to rise

This week we focused on making Smart Money easier to evaluate at a glance. Shipped on Datablocks: - Wallet hover with lifetime + 30d / 90d / 180d realised PnL - Biggest trade surfaced directly in the radar - More precise Smart Money flows, holdings and token supply - Realised PnL evolution on wallet pages Less digging when deciding whether a wallet or token is actually worth following. Btw, have you looked at base:0x9126236476efba9ad8ab77855c60eb5bf37586eb 👀?

Based builders in Europe to check out: - @AdamFDF_ building @sportfun - @mrtdlgc building @rwagmicom - @DarrenCamas building @ipor_io - @fekunze building @moneda_com - @JustAG07 building @bananagun - @Story91_ building @MySphereAI - @irishsaffer230 building @wlthxyz - @altagers building @celebrationhb - @apex_ether building @Veildotcash - @sstrenev building @defied_money - @CryptoFilles building @liminalcash - @CyphrGM building @vibestarterxyz - @AkashMVerma1 building @0x4Mica - @leighcronian building @cybercentry - @open_founder building @openservai - @thinktomas building @datablocks_app

muy flojo el circuito de f1 madring, no se porque viendo ejemplos como el de Mónaco no repiensan alternativas para que sea más dinámico, fácil de adelantar… siento que estoy simplemente viendo tráfico

I can tell you one thing: the entire world isn’t going to align to stop innovating.

The September 21 pitch day in Madrid has its lineup! @mmerge_io picked 12 startups across tokenization, compliance, consumer finance, analytics and crypto tax. Among the selected teams: @veridexalethia – keeps the evidence behind documented rights reviewable as those rights move across counterparties, systems, jurisdictions and time @datablocks_app – tracks smart-money activity on Base in real time: entries, exits, holdings, win rates and realised/unrealised PnL @FolksMobile – mobile finance app combining onchain savings, spending and other financial products in one consumer-facing interface @investaxes – crypto tax software built around Spanish regulation, helping users reconstruct activity across exchanges and wallets and calculate what needs to be reported to Hacienda Shellment – tokenized non-residential real estate from €1,000, with monthly rental income and a resale market for positions @ChainComply – Source-of-Wealth due diligence for banks, VASPs and other regulated institutions, combining crypto transaction history with compliance workflows.

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Super happy to be one of the selected startups of @mmerge_io Madrid Startup Contest! Can't wait to show what we're building @datablocks_app and the potential of onchain data for traders and AI agents on @base @Base_EUR

Here we go! We're one of the 12 startups selected to go to MERGE Madrid Startup Contest. MERGE is the top crypto conference in Spain, and an amazing opportunity to show how onchain data can help traders on @base and beyond

Muchos traders de habla hispana tienen una barrera de entrada a productos de analítica onchain porque todo está en inglés. Hace tiempo que sentíamos la necesidad de acercar nuestro conocimiento a nuestra lengua y poder ayudar a todos los traders de habla hispana de @base a operar mejor en el mercado.