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Caffeinated Capital, a San Francisco venture firm started by a solo capitalist Raymond Tonsing, is raising a fifth fund of $400 million, according to a regulatory filing.

The firm, an early investor in software company Airtable and defense startup Saronic, has already raised $160 million toward the fund. If Caffeinated hits its target, it will be the 15-year-old firm’s largest capital haul date. Although the outfit didn’t announce its previous fund, PitchBook data estimates that Caffeinated closed its fund four with a total of $209 million in commitments.

Although Tonsing was Caffeinated’s only general partner until four years ago, Varun Gupta, who led data science and machine learning at Affirm, joined him as a second general partner in 2020.

Tonsing was an early investor in Affirm, a buy-now-pay-later platform that went public in 2021. The firm’s other notable exits include A/B testing startup Optimizely, which PitchBook estimates was sold for $600 million in 2020.

Sui (SUI), Rollblock (RBLK), Avalanche (AVAX), and Shiba Inu (SHIB) listed as cryptos set for notable price surges.

Some of the top crypto projects on track for a bull run this year have already started to rally. The Sui price has an year-to-date uptick of over 300%. Avalanche is now changing hands at $37.06, which is an improvement of 23.20% in the last year.

As the meme coin craze rages on, Shiba Inu continues to lead the charge with an uptick of 124.32% on its annual chart. Shiba Inu’s community has advanced beyond meme culture with Shibarium and ShibaSwap, enhancing scalability and utility.

Rollblock is also gaining traction among top crypto holders. Its ongoing presale has raised nearly $9 million, and at a discounted price of $0.046, RBLK is tipped to surge to $0.052 by the next stage.

Rollblock joins top crypto rank amid a rally of over 250%

Rollblock is showing great potential for becoming a top crypto asset, with a 260% surge from its presale entry price of $0.01. RBLK is now changing hands at $0.046, and analysts anticipate further upside before the token launches.

Rollblock is creating a GambleFi protocol. The online gambling scene is saturated with outdated casinos that lack transparency and accountability. Rollblock introduces provably fair games where each transaction is on-chain, giving players peace of mind about their winnings.

Rollblock’s unique revenue share model, where a stake of the profits is distributed among RBLK holders, is also attractive. The presale only offers 60% of RBLK.

Investor interest in SUI increases

SUI is counted among the top crypto gainers now that its price registered a near 300% surge in the last year. A Layer-1 solution for the blockchain trilemma, SUI is a delegated proof-of-stake blockchain that promotes low-latency and high-throughput dApps. 

SUI’s ecosystem is expanding with a total value lock of $2 billion, which is a 100% increase from $1 billion just three months ago. Also, SUI’s strategic partnership with Chainlalysis could strengthen its security and further attract institutional investors.

Avalanche

AVAX is at a massive 74% drop from its ATH. If AVAX recovers, holders will register a meteoric surge in their portfolios. AVAX is showing some signs of a bullish recovery, with its price increasing 23% over the last year despite a drop of 5% in the last month. AVAX’s Layer-1 ecosystem excels in terms of high throughput and low latency. MeWe, an emerging privacy-centric social network, is one of the dApps that have launched on Avalanche. Market watchers suggest this could lead to a bull run for AVAX in 2025.

Reduced selling pressure on Shiba Inu

The Ethereum-based meme coin continues to spark bullish sentiment, with its price increasing over 120% over the last year. While SHIB is down 10% in the last month, holders remain highly optimistic, with 89% expressing bullish sentiment. Whales are accumulating more SHIB, with records showing a spike in whale activity of 2,000%. 

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Bitcoin price struggled to clear the $107,200 resistance zone. BTC is correcting gains and might revisit the $100,000 support zone.

• Bitcoin started a downside correction from the $107,200 zone.
• The price is trading below $104,500 and the 100 hourly Simple moving average.
• There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance at $103,650 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken).
• The pair could start another increase if it stays above the $100,500 support zone.

Bitcoin Price Dips Again

Bitcoin price started a decent upward move above the $103,500 zone. BTC was able to climb above the $104,500 and $105,000 levels.

The bulls even pushed the price above the $106,000 level. However, the bears were active near the $107,200 zone. A high was formed at $107,200 and the price is now correcting gains. There was a move below the $105,000 level.

There was a move below the 50% Fib retracement level of the upward move from the $100,114 swing low to the $107,200 high. Bitcoin price is now trading below $104,500 and the 100 hourly Simple moving average.

On the upside, immediate resistance is near the $103,000 level. The first key resistance is near the $103,500 level. There is also a key bearish trend line forming with resistance at $103,650 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair. A clear move above the $103,650 resistance might send the price higher. The next key resistance could be $104,500.

A close above the $104,500 resistance might send the price further higher. In the stated case, the price could rise and test the $107,200 resistance level and a new all-time high. Any more gains might send the price toward the $112,500 level.

More Losses In BTC?

If Bitcoin fails to rise above the $104,000 resistance zone, it could start a downside correction. Immediate support on the downside is near the $101,750 level or the 76.4% Fib retracement level of the upward move from the $100,114 swing low to the $107,200 high. The first major support is near the $100,500 level.

The next support is now near the $100,000 zone. Any more losses might send the price toward the $88,500 support in the near term.

Technical indicators:

Hourly MACD – The MACD is now gaining pace in the bearish zone.

Hourly RSI (Relative Strength Index) – The RSI for BTC/USD is now below the 50 level.

Major Support Levels – $101,650, followed by $100,500.

Major Resistance Levels – $103,650 and $104,500.

Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc’s Wordle today page for the original viral word game.

Grant Cardone is the founder and CEO of Cardone Capital, a firm that manages about $5 billion in real estate. And he just introduced a new fund that invests property-generated cash flow into bitcoin (BTC).

“Nobody else has ever done this to scale. Nobody’s ever done this particular model,” Cardone told CoinDesk in an interview. “And the response from our investors is phenomenal.”

“There’s a buddy of mine who’s known me for 15 years. He’s never invested a penny with me. He’s also never bought any bitcoin. He told me bitcoin was too risky, and the real estate was too slow. When I showed him the fund, he put $15 million in the deal,” Cardone said.

How does it work?

For his pilot project, Cardone bought an apartment complex on the Space Coast in Melbourne, Florida, for $72 million, and ploughed an extra $15 million in bitcoin into the fund, for a total of $88 million. The cash flow generated by the property will be dollar-cost averaged into bitcoin every month for the next four years — or at least until the fund’s asset ratio, currently at 85% real estate and 15% bitcoin, shifts to 70% real estate and 30% bitcoin.

If the top cryptocurrency, now trading for $104,000, reaches the $158,000 mark within a year, the entire fund will grow by 25% in value. If it reaches $251,000 in two years, that number shoots up to 61%. Cardone’s projections assume that bitcoin will hit $1 million per coin within the next five years, and keep going up after that.

And his ambition is to roll out 10 other such projects before June, for a grand total investment of $1 billion. If bitcoin rises according to Cardone’s projections, Cardone Capital may end up with a bitcoin reserve potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars solely off the back of its real estate cash flow.

Taking a page out of Saylor’s book

Cardone has been buying real estate for 30 years, and he’s famous for it, with over 4.8 million followers on Instagram, 2.7 million on YouTube, and 1.1 million on X. Cardone Capital manages 15,000 units — 6,000 of which belong to Cardone himself, and 9,000 of which have been crowdfunded across 18,400 investors, accredited or not. The firm distributes $80 million a year in dividends, and its last six deals were all paid in cash. “We don’t take institutional money,” Cardone said. “No sovereign funds, no Wall Street.”

“I am definitely a risk-taker, but I’m a real estate guy, so compared to the degenerates in the blockchain industry, I am so conservative, it’s unbelievable,” Cardone said. Despite studying bitcoin for seven years, he did not see a way to combine real estate and bitcoin until MicroStrategy (MSTR) co-founder Michael Saylor suggested the model to him. “This is really a version of what he’s doing at MicroStrategy,” Cardone said.

One of the advantages of the real estate-bitcoin fund is that it allows the firm to raise capital much faster. Not only are investors piling into the initiative, but Cardone plans on issuing corporate bonds to get some long-term, cheap money, and somewhat replicate Saylor’s convertible note formula.

He also wants to put up combined mortgages against the projects. Bitcoin mortgage products do not yet exist, he noted, but Cardone expects that to change after he’s done plowing hundreds of millions of dollars into these hybrid projects. “$700 million worth of real estate paid for with cash, $300 million worth of bitcoin, and no debt. Who wouldn’t give me a loan for $500 million against the combination?” he said. “I’m talking about very friendly long-term debt, no margin calls. Seven to 10 years.”

Not to mention the possibility of the firm going public, which Cardone says could occur in 2026.

Cardone plans to buy bitcoin in a price-agnostic way — meaning that he won’t be focused on buying dips, but will simply purchase bitcoin within 72 hours of the monthly distributions coming in. Nor will the firm take exposure to bitcoin through any spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs); the plan is to hold the cryptocurrency through an institutional custodian.

Does he ever plan on selling? Not in the immediate future. But he still has concerns about the growing frenzy surrounding cryptocurrencies.

“The place I’m at in my life, I can take this chance. I don’t need more cash flow,” Cardone said. “But if you’re 25 years old and you’re trying to get some cash flow for life, bitcoin is not a solution. It’s a bet, it’s a gamble, and you got to pay rent, you got to take care of your family, you got to pay your bills. And bitcoin just doesn’t do that.”