NYC 🇺🇸🗽
$BNB W #DLGH &
o MVB Season 10 accelerator launched its NYC Builders Bunker phase today (15 August 2025) with a 2-day intensive offline event connecting 15 selected Web3 projects to mentors and investors. The cohort - curated by BNB Chain, YZi Labs, and CMC Labs - features innovators across AI, DeFi, DePin, and RWA sectors, including RICE AI’s decentralised robotics data foundry and Asseto’s TradFi-DeFi integration platform. Program head Alex Odagiu (YZi Labs) emphasized backing founders with "strong fundamentals and market timing," while BNB Chain’s Sarah S highlighted the RWA sector’s growth on BSC. Demo Day pitches today will determine YZi Labs’ investment decisions, continuing MVB’s track record of incubating 200+ projects since 2021.
o Parallel to the NYC event, ex-Coral Capital executives Patrick Horsman, Joshua Kruger, and Johnathan Pasch advanced their $100M BNB treasury initiative, targeting a reverse buyback of a Nasdaq-listed shell company to form "Build&Build Corporation." This mirrors MicroStrategy’s crypto-acquisition model and follows CZ’s June endorsement that spurred a 2.4% BNB price surge to $624.46. The strategy leverages BNB’s utility: 21% of tokens are staked for passive income, and $5.7B is locked in BSC DeFi protocols. With whale wallets holding 50% of supply, the treasury could tighten circulation amid ETF speculation.
