Raised new fund targeting up to $1.5 billion to expand investment mandate into artificial intelligence, robotics, and other frontier technologies.

Committed $10M in API credits for crypto security research and development.

Purchased $5.9M META tokens at $7.83 per token.

Partnered with OpenAI to research vulnerabilities in cryptocurrency smart contracts related to superintelligence exploitation.

Partnered with OpenAI to launch EVMBench, an evaluation framework testing 120 high-severity smart contract vulnerabilities from Code4rena competitions.

Alana Palmedo from Paradigm is serving as a markets innovator with the CFTC.

GTE, the flagship DEX on MegaETH, raised $15M from Paradigm.

Backs Nitro Accelerator alongside Electric Capital, Dragonfly, and CIV, offering grants up to $500,000 for builders on any blockchain.

Invested in Aztec alongside a16z, ConsenSys Mesh, Coinbase Ventures, and others as part of a $120 million funding round.

Backed the Nitro Web3 accelerator program offering $500,000 in immediate capital to selected founder teams.

Business division heads of the Farcaster division have been reassigned to new roles within the organization.

Led a $7.1M seed funding round for Noise, a trading platform for social trends launching on Base.

Hired Gabe in a role associated with Jesse.

Printed $109 billion in negotiated block trading activity on Paradigm during 2025.

Received "Best In VC" award in The Rollup 2025 Awards.

A GTM function leader departs Paradigm after 3 years, with @jpegmogul taking over Portfolio GTM responsibilities going forward.

Charlie Noyes announces his departure from Paradigm.

A General Partner steps down from Paradigm after an 8-year tenure, having helped build the firm from the ground up alongside the founding team.

Stripe launches testnet for a new stablecoin-centric blockchain built in partnership with Paradigm.

Paradigm invested $13.5 million in CrownBRLV, a Brazilian stablecoin startup whose BRLV stablecoin is backed by government bonds and offers institutional exposure to Brazil's markets.

Paradigm adds Ishan (@jpegmogul) to the team, bringing startup scaling experience in crypto and biotech to support portfolio companies.

Paradigm invests $13.5 million in stablecoin startup Crown, marking the firm's first investment in Brazil.

Paradigm structures DAT deal for Hyperliquid with $1 billion shelf offering to accumulate HYPE tokens, with Sonnet Therapeutics serving as transaction vehicle.

Paradigm leads $1 billion Series E funding round for Kalshi at an $11 billion valuation, with participation from Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.

Frankie (FrankieIsLost) promoted to General Partner at Paradigm, described as investor, researcher, and engineer.

Hitesh Donga, former Head of Product at Paradigm, joins Derive Labs as their new Head of Product after building trading systems across fixed income and crypto derivatives at Paradigm's trading platform.

Paradigm leads Kalshi's $1 billion raise at an $11 billion valuation with participation from Sequoia, a16z crypto, and CapitalG.

Paradigm-backed Aztec Network begins token auction February 2nd with $300 million FDV floor price (75% below its 2022 Series B valuation of $1.2 billion led by a16z), with TGE scheduled for mid-February. Aztec collaborates with Uniswap to deploy a new Continuous Clearing Auction (CCA) mechanism for the token sale, which has already attracted over 10,000 addresses committing 6,271 ETH ($17.78 million) in pre-registration.

Tempo payments blockchain by Stripe and Paradigm goes live with Klarna as first banking partner launching KlarnaUSD stablecoin.

Paradigm and Stripe back Tempo blockchain, set to host Klarna's stablecoin launch in 2026.

A Paradigm and Dragonfly-backed project has 57k as the highest ICO allocation, features locked staking with APY, prohibits OTC secondary trading, has no pool2 emissions, and operates as an L1 with zero float.

Paradigm backs YO Labs alongside Circle and Solana, with the company actively hiring Web3 backend and Rust developers.

Paradigm acts as both the entity running a raise for Monad and the lead investor in the project, with minimal verifiable public information available. Monad trades above its Coinbase presale price on thin liquidity.

Community members warn about influencer shilling activity related to Paradigm products and advise users to be cautious.

Paradex processes $5B daily volume with zero fees and partners with Jupiter Exchange, Mantle, Trezor, Bitwise Invest, Sui Network, and Story Protocol.

Paradigm backs RIFTDEX, a peer-to-peer bitcoin trading protocol that raised $8M.

Paradigm bought Hyperliquid tokens on the open market.

Paradigm supported Roman Storm during legal challenges related to privacy development on Ethereum, acting before Solana Foundation's $500k donation and Ethereum Foundation's public support for Alexey.

Paradigm participated in Kalshi's funding round at a $5B valuation alongside Coinbase, CapitalG, a16z, and Sequoia.

Paradigm routed $5.4B in volume during a major market liquidation event, with both Paradigm and incubated project Paradex maintaining functionality during extreme stress conditions when many other venues failed.

Paradigm collaborates with Stripe to build Tempo blockchain, claiming it will be permissionless and designed to leverage Stripe's merchant network for crypto payments with 1.5% USDC transaction fees and integration with Stripe's $1.4 trillion payment processing base.

Paradigm led a $250M funding round for Monad, marking its first Layer 1 blockchain investment as lead investor; Monad now listed on Hyperliquid pre-markets with $13B implied FDV.

Research article "Quantum Markets" by authors @0xalpo and @sofianeflarbi released, with potential implications for crypto market structure and launchpad mechanics.

Paradigm leads $6.6M seed funding round for Divine Research, a DeFi project.

Dan Robinson cautions crypto projects against invoking regulators to target competitors, warning such tactics could backfire on the broader crypto ecosystem.

Crossmint announces partnership with Tempo blockchain to provide embedded wallet and payment infrastructure services to developers building on the platform.

Stripe and Paradigm officially launch their new Layer 1 blockchain Tempo.

Tweet suggests Stripe owns Paradigm as their research arm, indicating deeper integration beyond previously reported partnership structure.

Reth client bug causes temporary Ethereum node disruptions.

Core team member steps down from full-time position, maintains advisory role while joining MIT.

Matt Huang appointed CEO of Tempo while maintaining Paradigm co-founder role.

New joint venture between Stripe and Paradigm structured as independent subsidiary with separate brand, team, and roadmap.

Stripe partners with Paradigm to launch Tempo, a new payments-focused L1 blockchain integrated with Stripe's merchant network.

Strategic expansion beyond infrastructure scaling to focus on payment applications and real-world assets (RWA) integration, discussed during Frontiers event with Ethereum Foundation co-executive director.

Ken Griffin's Citadel expands presence in crypto CLOB sector through Paradigm investments.

Technical collaboration with Nethermind focuses on increasing Ethereum gas limits and supporting key EIPs for network optimization.

Leads $11.5M funding round for Kuru Labs to develop hybrid CLOB-AMM DEX on Monad.

General Partner Dan Robinson to testify at Senate Banking Committee hearing on market structure on Wednesday at 10:00AM EST.

Makes strategic investment as lead investor in Kalshi's Series C funding round.

Amber Group joins as curator and 24/7 market maker, bringing enhanced liquidity and narrow spreads to launches.

Technical proposal introduces Orbitals system for optimizing stablecoin pool efficiency.

Leads $5M seed investment in crypto credit startup 3Jane.

Notable crypto personality Cobie joins as advisor for newly revealed public market fund.

New 'Multiverse Finance' feature enables using prediction market tokens as collateral for crypto borrowing, with automatic liquidation mechanics.

Strategic $50M investment made in decentralized AI startup Nous Research at $1B token valuation.

66% of traditional financial institutions are actively engaged with DeFi, indicating mainstream adoption of decentralized finance.