For years, Jaredfromsubway.eth has been one of the most infamous names in crypto.

Not because it launched a protocol.
Not because it built a new primitive.
But because it became one of the clearest symbols of toxic MEV on Ethereum.

Jaredfromsubway was known for sandwich attacks: watching pending DEX swaps, jumping in before a trader’s order, letting the trader execute at a worse price, and then selling immediately after. The result was simple: ordinary users got worse execution, while the bot extracted value from the transaction ordering game happening beneath the surface.

For most users, MEV is invisible.

You click swap.
You see a price.
You confirm.
Then somehow, the fill is worse than expected.

That difference is often where MEV lives.

This is exactly why Velvet is building MEV protection directly into the wallet and trading experience. When users create a wallet on Velvet with Email or X, they automatically get MEV-aware execution protection through Velvet’s integrations with 0slot on Solana and bloXroute on EVM chains.

No manual RPC setup.
No technical configuration.
No switching endpoints.
No need to understand validator routing or private mempools.

Velvet handles it in the background.

The Sandwich Bot Got Sandwiched

Over the weekend, Jaredfromsubway reportedly lost millions after an attacker turned its own automated trading logic against it.

This was not a normal private-key hack. It was not a simple phishing attack. And it was not the kind of exploit most users think about when they hear “smart contract hack.”

Instead, the attacker allegedly created fake tokens, fake pools, and fake opportunities that looked profitable to the bot’s automated system. Jared’s bot interacted with these routes and granted approvals to attacker-controlled contracts. Once those approvals were in place, the attacker used them to drain real assets from the bot.

In other words: the bot that spent years extracting value from traders was itself exploited by an even more adversarial version of onchain execution.

Crypto Twitter immediately called it poetic justice.

But the bigger takeaway is not just that one MEV bot got wrecked.

The real lesson is that onchain trading is an adversarial environment. Every swap, every route, every transaction, and every pending order exists in a market where bots, validators, searchers, and infrastructure providers are all competing around transaction ordering and execution.

And if users have to protect themselves manually, most users will lose.

MEV Is Not Just a Bot Problem

A lot of people hear “MEV” and think it only affects whales, bots, or advanced traders.

That is wrong.

MEV affects anyone trading onchain.

It can show up as:

• Worse execution

• Failed transactions

• Delayed fills

• Front-running

• Sandwich attacks

• Priority fee wars

• Bots extracting value from public orderflow

This is especially painful in fast-moving markets: memecoin launches, volatile tokens, perps, thin liquidity, and large swaps.

The average trader should not need to understand validator routing, private mempools, block builders, priority fees, or sandwich mitigation just to get a clean fill.

Protection should be built into the trading experience by default.

That is exactly how Velvet is approaching onchain execution.

Velvet: MEV Protection by Default

On Velvet, when users create a wallet with Email or X, they get automatic MEV protection through Velvet’s execution integrations.

No manual RPC setup.
No technical configuration.
No switching endpoints.
No guessing which route is safer.

Velvet abstracts the execution layer away and routes trades through infrastructure designed to improve execution quality and reduce MEV exposure.

This matters because Velvet is not just another swap interface. Velvet is building an onchain trading terminal and DeFAI execution layer where users can trade across ecosystems with the kind of protection and routing intelligence that historically only advanced traders had access to.

Solana: Velvet x 0slot

On Solana, Velvet integrates with 0slot to power MEV-optimized trading.

Solana is fast, but that does not mean it is free from MEV. In high-volatility markets, users still face latency races, priority fee competition, missed transactions, delayed fills, and worse execution when trades land too late.

0slot helps Velvet improve transaction delivery through faster routing, priority inclusion, and MEV-aware execution paths.

For Velvet users, this means eligible Solana trades can benefit from:

• Faster transaction inclusion

• Higher landing probability

• Better execution reliability during congestion

• Reduced risk from delayed or failed transactions

• More consistent performance for active traders and automated strategies

The key point: users do not need to manage this themselves. If they create a wallet with Email or X, Velvet automatically routes execution through the right protection layer in the background.

EVM: Velvet x bloXroute

On EVM chains, Velvet integrates with bloXroute Protect RPC infrastructure to help protect users from MEV front-running and sandwich attacks.

Normally, when a transaction is sent through a public mempool, bots can see it before it lands onchain. If the trade is profitable to attack, searchers can attempt to place transactions before and after it.

That is the classic sandwich attack.

bloXroute Protect RPCs help by routing transactions privately to block builders instead of exposing them directly in the public mempool. This reduces the ability for MEV bots to detect and attack the transaction before it is included.

For Velvet users, this means EVM execution can benefit from private routing designed to reduce front-running and sandwich risk while improving speed and reliability.

Again, this happens through Velvet’s trading stack automatically.

The Jared Lesson: Execution Is Part of Security

The Jaredfromsubway controversy shows something important: execution is no longer just about getting the best price from an aggregator.

Execution itself is security.

A route can look profitable and still be dangerous.
A transaction can simulate correctly and still expose a user to MEV.
A swap can go through and still leak value to bots.
A trading system can be automated and still be manipulated by adversarial markets.

This is why Velvet is building around a simple idea:

The user should express intent.
The platform should handle execution.

Whether you are trading manually, following strategies, using AI agents, or managing portfolios, the execution layer should be working in the background to protect against unnecessary value leakage.

From Wallet UX to Protected Execution

The future of onchain trading will not look like users manually connecting wallets, switching networks, configuring RPCs, setting priority fees, and hoping they do not get sandwiched.

It will look like this:

Create a wallet with Email or X.
Fund it.
Trade.
Let Velvet handle routing, execution, and MEV protection.

That is what Velvet is building.

A trading experience where sophisticated infrastructure is hidden behind simple UX.

Where users get MEV protection by default.

Where Solana trades can route through 0slot.

Where EVM trades can route through bloXroute.

Where execution quality is not treated as an afterthought.

The Bottom Line

Jaredfromsubway became famous by extracting value from other traders.

Then it became the latest reminder that onchain markets are hostile, automated, and unforgiving.

For users, the takeaway is clear: trading without MEV-aware execution means leaking value to the most sophisticated players in the market.

For Velvet, the mission is just as clear: bring professional-grade execution protection to every user, without making them think about the infrastructure underneath.

Because in DeFi, the best trade is not just the one with the best quoted price.

It is the one that actually lands cleanly.

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Velvet Unicorn just got a major upgrade.

Since launch, Velvet Unicorn has served as Velvet’s DeFAI intelligence layer, helping users discover opportunities, analyze markets, and navigate the increasingly complex world of on-chain finance.

Today, we’re taking the next step.

We’re launching the new Velvet Unicorn Portal — a dedicated platform for developers, builders, traders, and AI agents to connect directly to Velvet Unicorn and access the infrastructure powering the future of agentic finance.

Whether you’re building autonomous trading agents, integrating DeFi intelligence into your products, or turning ideas into executable strategies, the new portal gives you everything you need to get started.

What’s New?

The new Velvet Unicorn Portal introduces three major capabilities designed for the next generation of DeFAI applications.

API Access for Developers and Agents

Developers can now connect directly to Velvet Unicorn through APIs and integrate DeFi intelligence into applications, trading systems, dashboards, and autonomous agents.

Instead of building complex DeFi infrastructure from scratch, developers can leverage Velvet Unicorn as a DeFi-native intelligence layer within their own products.

This unlocks entirely new possibilities for AI-powered trading, portfolio management, opportunity discovery, and strategy generation.

MCP Support for AI Agents

Velvet Unicorn now supports MCP (Model Context Protocol).

This allows AI agents to connect directly to Velvet Unicorn, access structured DeFi intelligence, and incorporate real-time on-chain context into their workflows.

As the agent economy continues to expand, MCP support enables Velvet Unicorn to become a native intelligence layer for autonomous financial agents.

Prompt-to-Strategy

One of the most exciting additions to the platform is Prompt-to-Strategy.

Instead of manually building complex trading strategies, users can simply describe what they want to achieve using natural language.

For example:

“Build a BTC technical trading strategy using RSI, MACD, moving averages, and volume confirmation to identify momentum shifts and manage risk.”

Or:

“Create a memecoin trading strategy for Pump.fun that tracks new launches, wallet activity, volume spikes, liquidity changes, and social momentum to identify early opportunities.”

Velvet Unicorn works alongside leading AI models such as Claude and Codex to transform these ideas into structured, executable DeFi strategies.

This dramatically lowers the barrier to creating sophisticated trading systems while opening entirely new workflows for builders, traders, and AI agents.

Built for the Agentic Future

The future of DeFi won’t be powered by dashboards and manual clicks.

It will be powered by agents.

Agents that analyze markets.

Agents that discover opportunities.

Agents that generate strategies.

Agents that execute trades.

Agents that continuously optimize portfolios.

The new Velvet Unicorn Portal is designed to be the infrastructure layer powering this future.

By combining DeFi-native intelligence, API access, MCP support, and Prompt-to-Strategy workflows, Velvet Unicorn provides the foundation for a new generation of autonomous financial applications.

1,000 Free Credits for Early Users

To celebrate the launch, every user will receive 1,000 free credits for a limited time.

This gives developers, traders, and AI agents the opportunity to explore the platform, test integrations, and start building immediately.

Once free credits are exhausted, there are two ways to receive additional credits:

Pay with $VU

Users can purchase additional credits using the $VU token, creating direct utility within the Velvet Unicorn ecosystem.

Hold veVELVET

Users who hold veVELVET will receive recurring monthly credits, allowing long-term ecosystem participants to continuously access Velvet Unicorn’s capabilities.

More information on credit allocations, tiers, and usage limits will be shared soon.

Start Building

The next generation of DeFi won’t be powered by interfaces.

It will be powered by intelligence.

The new Velvet Unicorn Portal gives developers, traders, and AI agents direct access to that intelligence layer.

Connect agents.

Generate strategies.

Build autonomous financial systems.

The future of DeFAI starts here.

Explore the new Velvet Unicorn Portal:

https://vu.velvetdao.xyz/landing/

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Every trader wants alpha.

But alpha means nothing without execution.

That’s why Velvet has integrated the SushiSwap API into our Meta Aggregator across Ethereum, Base, and BNB Chain, giving traders access to even more liquidity and routing opportunities.

Why This Matters

When you place a trade, there are often dozens of possible routes it could take.

Some routes provide:

• Better pricing

• Lower slippage

• Deeper liquidity

• Better fills

Velvet’s Meta Aggregator automatically scans across liquidity sources to find the most optimal execution path.

Now, with SushiSwap added to the mix, Velvet can access even more liquidity when executing trades.

More Liquidity Across Major Chains

SushiSwap is now integrated into Velvet’s execution engine on:

• Ethereum

• Base

• BNB Chain

This means traders benefit from:

• More routing options

• Better liquidity access

• Improved execution quality

• More efficient trade fulfillment

All without changing how they trade.

Powered by AI and Intent-Based Trading

Velvet makes trading simple.

Users only need to choose:

• What token they want to sell

• What token they want to buy

Velvet handles everything else.

Behind the scenes, our Meta Aggregator searches across DEXs, liquidity pools, aggregators, market makers, and execution partners like SushiSwap to find the best available route.

At the same time, Velvet AI helps traders:

• Analyze markets

• Discover opportunities

• Track narratives

• Research assets

All from a single platform.

Trade, Analyze, and Earn

Every trade on Velvet earns Gems, which can be converted into $VELVET rewards.

So while Velvet is finding the best route for your trade, you’re also earning rewards for being active on the platform.

Trade smarter.

Use AI.

Earn $VELVET.

The Best Execution, Automatically

You shouldn’t need to manually compare liquidity across dozens of protocols.

That’s Velvet’s job.

With SushiSwap’s API now integrated across Ethereum, Base, and BNB Chain, Velvet users gain access to deeper liquidity and smarter execution with every trade.

You choose the asset.

Velvet finds the route.

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We’re excited to announce that 100% of $VELVET protocol-owned liquidity on Base has now been migrated to Aerodrome.

As the leading DEX on Base, Aerodrome has become the primary hub for liquidity, trading activity, and capital across the ecosystem. By consolidating liquidity into a single venue, we can provide a stronger trading experience for both existing and future $VELVET holders.

This migration is part of our broader strategy to continuously improve the market structure and accessibility of the $VELVET token.

Why Aerodrome?

Aerodrome has established itself as the liquidity layer of Base.

With deep liquidity, strong trading activity, and a growing user base, it has become the natural home for many of the ecosystem’s leading assets.

By migrating our protocol-owned liquidity to Aerodrome, we can:

• Improve liquidity concentration

• Reduce slippage for traders

• Strengthen price discovery

• Increase capital efficiency

• Support healthier market depth

Rather than spreading liquidity across multiple venues, concentrating it where users are already trading creates a better experience for everyone.

What This Means for $VELVET Traders

For token holders and traders, this migration helps create:

• Better trading execution

• Deeper liquidity

• Improved accessibility

• More efficient markets

As trading volume continues to grow across Velvet products, ensuring strong liquidity for the $VELVET token remains a key priority.

Trade $VELVET on Base with VelvetX

Provide Liquidity to $VELVET on Aerodrome

The official $VELVET / USDC pool is now live on Aerodrome:

https://aerodrome.finance/deposit?token0=0x833589fcd6edb6e08f4c7c32d4f71b54bda02913&token1=0xbf927b841994731c573bdf09ceb0c6b0aa887cdd&type=1&chain0=8453&chain1=8453&factory=0x5e7BB104d84c7CB9B682AaC2F3d509f5F406809A

Building for the Long Term

As Velvet continues expanding AI-powered trading, perps, real-world assets, and global market access, strengthening the foundations of the ecosystem remains just as important as shipping new products.

The migration of protocol-owned liquidity to Aerodrome is another step toward building a healthier, more efficient, and more scalable market for $VELVET.

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Some of the biggest investment opportunities of the next decade haven’t IPO’d yet.

For years, gaining exposure to companies like SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic was limited to venture capital firms, institutions, and private investors.

Today, that changes.

Through Velvet’s integrations with TradeXYZ and Ventuals, users can now trade:

• SpaceX

• OpenAI

• Anthropic

Three companies at the center of the biggest technological revolutions of our generation.

And one of them may not be private for much longer.

SpaceX is expected to begin public trading on June 12th in what is expected to be the largest IPO in history, with reports suggesting a valuation approaching $1.75 trillion.

Now traders don’t have to wait.

Three Companies Shaping the Future

SpaceX

Founded by Elon Musk, SpaceX has transformed the aerospace industry through reusable rockets, Starlink, satellite infrastructure, and ambitious plans for interplanetary exploration.

With a reported IPO valuation of $1.75 trillion, its expected public listing could become the largest IPO in history by a large margin.

Trade SpaceX on Velvet X

OpenAI

The creator of ChatGPT and one of the most influential AI companies in the world.

OpenAI has become synonymous with the AI revolution and continues to push the boundaries of artificial intelligence.

Trade OpenAI on Velvet X

Anthropic

Creator of Claude and one of the fastest-growing AI companies globally.

Anthropic has quickly emerged as a leading player in the race to build next-generation AI systems.

Trade Anthropic on Velvet X

Together, these are three of the most anticipated IPOs investors have been waiting years to access.

Powered by TradeXYZ and Ventuals

These markets are available through Velvet’s integrations with TradeXYZ and Ventuals, helping bring some of the world’s most sought-after private companies onchain.

For the first time, traders can gain exposure to pre-IPO giants from the same platform they use to trade crypto, equities, commodities, and indices.

Trade With Leverage. Powered by AI.

Velvet gives traders more than access.

Use Velvet AI to:

• Analyze companies

• Compare opportunities

• Research narratives

• Monitor industry developments

• Generate trade ideas

Ask questions like:

• Is OpenAI still undervalued relative to its growth?

• How does Anthropic compare to OpenAI?

• What could a SpaceX IPO mean for valuation?

Then execute directly from the same platform.

No switching apps.

No separate research terminals.

Just AI-powered analysis and execution in one place.

Trade, Analyze, and Earn

Every trade on Velvet earns Gems, which can be converted into $VELVET rewards on August 10th.

Trade pre-IPO markets.

Use AI.

Access leverage.

Earn rewards.

Trade the Future Before Everyone Else

SpaceX.

OpenAI.

Anthropic.

Three companies shaping the future of technology.

Three of the most anticipated IPOs in modern history.

Now available on Velvet.

Trade with leverage.

Use AI to find opportunities.

Earn $VELVET while you trade.

The future’s biggest companies are already being built.

Trade them on Velvet.

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In May we launched Velvet X, our new invite-only social trading platform, rolled out full Perpetual Futures Trading, integrated AI deeper into the trading experience, and continued building toward our vision of the DeFAI Operating System.

From discovering opportunities to executing trades and sharing results, traders can now do everything from a single interface.

Introducing Velvet X

May marked the launch and initial rollout of Velvet X, our new invite-only SocialFi trading platform built for traders who want an unfair advantage.

Velvet X combines AI, social trading, real-time discovery, and execution into a single experience designed specifically for the trenches.

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Discover Opportunities Faster

Velvet X introduces a completely redesigned discovery experience:

• Up to 100% cashback on fees

• $VELVET rewards

• Smart wallet + KOL tracking across 13M+ wallets

• Early signals on what top traders are buying before the rest of CT sees it

• Social feed for sharing alpha and getting AI signals

• Trading across Solana, Base, Hyperliquid, BNB, and more

AI Built Directly Into the Experience

Velvet Unicorn is now integrated directly into Velvet X.

Users can:

• Analyze tokens

• Research opportunities

• Evaluate risk and momentum

• Execute trades through AI

Built for Active Traders

Additional upgrades include:

• Draggable limit orders

• PnL Share Cards

• Watchlists for both tokens and traders

• Multi-chain portfolio tracking

• Unified wallet balances across chains

• Improved mobile and desktop experiences

• Faster onboarding and wallet connections

Velvet X also now supports top launchpads such as Bankr, Pump Mayhem, Zora, Flaunch, and others.

Velvet X is currently invite-only. Go to the app: https://x.velvet.capital

If you’d like access, jump into our community and ask the team for an invite code.

AI-Powered Alpha Distribution

We integrated X news and AI-generated signals from the Velvet Unicorn Alpha Chat directly into the Velvet ecosystem, helping traders discover opportunities faster and act on them immediately.

Building the DeFAI OS

Velvet Unicorn continues to evolve as the intelligence layer powering the Velvet ecosystem.

Every improvement moves us closer to our vision of a unified DeFAI experience where users can discover, analyze, and execute opportunities with the help of specialized AI agents.

The future isn’t just AI-assisted trading… it’s AI-native trading.

Tech & Product Updates

We also integrated Perps trading onto the new Velvet X, giving users access to Crypto, Stocks, and Commodities with up to 50x leverage.

The experience includes:

• One-click gasless deposits from Ethereum, Base, BNB Chain, and Sonic

• Position management tools

• Take Profit and Stop Loss orders

Perps are now fully integrated into the Velvet experience, bringing spot trading, DeFi, and leveraged trading under one roof.

Platform Performance & Reliability

Alongside new features, we shipped dozens of upgrades focused on speed, reliability, and execution quality.

Highlights include:

• Faster page loads through smarter caching

• Improved trading reliability

• Mobile chart improvements

• Improved invite-code onboarding

• Better chart precision and marker alignment

• Increased Perps reliability and execution quality

These improvements make Velvet faster, smoother, and more reliable across every part of the platform.

Community & Ecosystem Updates

Pumpdotfun Integration

We integrated Pumpdotfun into Velvet, allowing traders to use AI-powered analysis to navigate the trenches and identify opportunities faster.

State of Velvet Livestream

We hosted the latest State of Velvet livestream covering product updates, AI development, trading infrastructure, roadmap plans, and community Q&A.

Gems Epoch 11 Announced

We announced Epoch 11 of Velvet Gems.

This epoch introduces a longer reward period designed to create significantly larger reward claims for active users ending on August 10th.

DFlow Integration

We announced our integration with DFlow to improve Solana trade execution.

Benefits include better execution quality, improved fill rates, better pricing, and faster routing especially during volatile market conditions.

$CRED Trading Competition

In partnership with Helixa, we launched the $CRED Trading Competition.

The campaign featured 182 million $CRED in rewards.

Blue Chip Perps Competition

To celebrate the launch of Perpetual Futures Trading, we launched a Blue Chip Perps competition focused on BTC, ETH, and SOL.

Consensus & Events

The Velvet team attended Consensus and cohosted an afterparty, connecting with users, builders, and ecosystem partners.

Safe Foundation Token Swap

We completed our token swap with Safe Foundation, further strengthening alignment with one of Velvet’s longest-standing strategic partners.

Velvet Circle on Lolo

We launched the Velvet Circle on Lolo, allowing users and holders to connect at conferences, meetups, and community events around the world.

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The lines between crypto and traditional finance are disappearing.

For decades, traders needed separate accounts, platforms, and tools to access different markets. One platform for stocks. Another for commodities. Another for crypto. Yet another for research.

Velvet is changing that.

We’re excited to announce our integration with Trade[XYZ], bringing equities, commodities, and indices directly into the Velvet ecosystem.

Now, alongside crypto, launches, and DeFi opportunities, traders can access some of the world’s largest financial markets through a unified trading experience powered by AI and onchain infrastructure.

What Is Trade[XYZ]?

Trade[XYZ] is one of the leading providers of real-world asset perpetual markets built on Hyperliquid infrastructure.

Its mission is simple:

Bring global financial markets onchain.

Through Trade[XYZ], traders can gain exposure to equities, commodities, and indices through perpetual markets that operate 24/7.

Instead of relying on traditional brokerages, banking rails, or geographic restrictions, users can access global markets directly through modern onchain infrastructure.

Global Markets Are Finally Onchain

With Trade[XYZ], traders can now access some of the world’s most important assets directly through Velvet.

Equities

Trade exposure to companies such as:

• NVIDIA ($NVDA)

• Tesla ($TSLA)

• Google ($GOOGL)

• Robinhood ($HOOD)

• Micron ($MU)

• Sandisk ($SDNK)

Indices

Trade broader market narratives through:

• S&P 500

• NASDAQ-100

• Dow Jones Industrial Average

Commodities

Gain exposure to major global commodities including:

• Gold

• Silver

• Crude Oil

• Copper

All accessible through the same trading experience you already use for crypto.

Why This Matters

Crypto traders have become some of the most sophisticated market participants in the world.

Yet many of the biggest opportunities still happen outside crypto.

Imagine:

• Trading NVIDIA ahead of a major AI announcement

• Taking a position on the S&P 500 after a Fed meeting

• Going long Gold during macro uncertainty

• Trading Oil around geopolitical developments

Historically, that required entirely different brokers, platforms, and workflows.

Now those opportunities can be accessed from the same ecosystem where traders already manage their digital assets.

One Terminal. Every Major Market.

The average trader today uses multiple platforms.

One for crypto.

One for stocks.

One for commodities.

One for research.

One for analytics.

Velvet is bringing everything together.

With Trade[XYZ] integrated, traders can access Crypto, Equities, Indices, and Commodities all from a single trading experience.

But access is only part of the story.

Trade Everything With Leverage and AI

Markets move faster than ever.

The traders who win are increasingly those who combine execution with intelligence.

Through Velvet, users can not only access multiple asset classes, but also leverage AI-powered tools to help identify opportunities across them.

Use Velvet AI to:

• Research market narratives

• Analyze assets and sectors

• Generate trade ideas

• Monitor macro events

• Discover opportunities across crypto, equities, commodities, and indices

Whether you’re:

• Long NVIDIA because of AI growth

• Trading Gold during macro uncertainty

• Taking a view on the S&P 500 after economic data

• Rotating into the latest crypto narrative

Velvet gives you the tools to analyze opportunities and execute trades from the same platform.

Combined with leverage-enabled markets through Trade[XYZ], traders can express views across global markets without needing multiple brokers, research tools, or trading terminals.

Trade, Analyze, and Earn

Most trading platforms stop at execution.

Velvet goes further.

Every trade on Velvet contributes toward earning Gems, which can later be converted into $VELVET rewards through the ongoing Gems program.

This means that while you’re trading, you’re also accumulating rewards simply by being active on the platform.

The more you use Velvet:

• The more opportunities you can discover through AI

• The more markets you can access

• The more Gems you can earn

For active traders, this creates a powerful flywheel.

Trade global markets.

Use AI to discover opportunities.

Earn Gems.

Accumulate $VELVET.

Why Trade[XYZ] and Velvet Are Unlocking an Unfair Advantage

Trade[XYZ] brings global markets onchain.

Velvet brings:

• AI-powered market intelligence

• Leverage-enabled trading

• Cross-market access

• Launch trading

• Crypto trading

• Rewards through Gems and $VELVET

Together, they create a platform where traders can:

• Trade NVIDIA and Bitcoin from the same terminal

• Move between Gold, Solana, and the S&P 500 seamlessly

• Use AI to discover opportunities across markets

• Earn Gems and accumulate $VELVET while doing it

The future trader won’t use separate apps for stocks, commodities, crypto, research, and execution.

The future trader will use one platform.

The Future of Trading Is Converging

The distinction between TradFi and DeFi is disappearing.

The next generation of trading platforms won’t separate:

• Crypto

• Equities

• Commodities

• Indices

They’ll bring everything together under one roof.

That’s the future Velvet is building.

A platform where traders can access opportunities across every major asset class, leverage AI to make better decisions, and earn rewards simply by being active.

The world’s markets are moving onchain.

Trade them all on Velvet.

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Velvet is excited to announce our integration with Pump.fun and Pump Mayhem, bringing the most active launch ecosystems in crypto directly into the Velvet trading terminal.

With this integration, traders can now:

• Discover and trade Pump.fun launches directly through Velvet’s Trenches

• Access Pump Mayhem tokens and activity inside Velvet

• Track the entire bonding curve lifecycle

• Use Velvet’s AI-powered analysis tools to evaluate tokens faster

• Trade through advanced execution infrastructure built for high-speed launch environments

Pump launches move fast.

Velvet is designed to move faster.

What Is Pump.fun?

Pump.fun has become one of the largest token launch platforms in crypto, especially within the Solana ecosystem.

It allows anyone to instantly launch tradable tokens through a bonding curve system, creating an environment where new assets can gain traction extremely quickly.

This has turned Pump.fun into one of the most active hubs for:

• memecoin launches

• viral token trading

• speculative markets

• early-stage community tokens

For traders, it has created an entirely new category of high-speed on-chain trading.

What Is Pump Mayhem?

Pump Mayhem is an experimental Pump.fun feature for newly launched coins where an autonomous AI trading agent can trade the coin during its first 24 hours to create more early volume, price movement, and visibility. Pump says the goal is to help early-stage coins get more attention instead of dying immediately from lack of traction

How it works:

• A creator can enable Mayhem Mode only when creating the coin, not after launch.

• If enabled, the Mayhem agent mints an extra 1B tokens, making total supply 2B tokens.

• The agent can randomly buy and sell during the coin’s first 24 hours.

• After 24 hours, any unsold agent tokens are burned.

• Pump.fun says Mayhem coins have the same starting market cap and initial liquidity as regular Pump.fun coins.

• Fees from Mayhem-enabled coins go to separate Mayhem fee recipient wallets and are not tracked on the regular Pump.fun fees dashboard.

This is exactly the type of environment Velvet’s infrastructure is built for.

Trade Pump.fun Directly in the Trenches

Velvet’s Trenches is built for traders hunting early opportunities across crypto.

Now, with Pump.fun and Pump Mayhem integrated, users can monitor and trade launches directly from one unified trading interface without constantly switching between sites, bots, and dashboards.

Inside the Trenches, traders can:

• Discover newly launched Pump.fun and Pump Mayhem tokens in real time

• Monitor launch momentum as activity builds

• Instantly execute trades directly from Velvet

• Track bonding curve progression

• Stay ahead of market rotations faster

This dramatically reduces the friction between:
launch discovery → analysis → execution.

And in launch trading, speed is everything.

Track the Full Bonding Curve

One of the biggest advantages of the integration is visibility into the entire bonding curve progression directly inside Velvet.

This gives traders deeper insight into:

• How far a token has progressed through its curve

• Liquidity growth

• Trading momentum

• Potential migration timing

• Early versus crowded entries

Instead of blindly aping launches, traders can make more informed decisions with better data and infrastructure.

AI-Powered Launch Analysis

Launch trading is chaotic.

Thousands of tokens launch constantly, attention shifts instantly, and most traders struggle to process information quickly enough.

That’s where Velvet’s AI layer comes in.

Users can leverage Velvet AI to:

• Analyze Pump.fun and Pump Mayhem token activity

• Monitor wallet behavior and trading flows

• Track momentum shifts

• Surface higher-signal opportunities faster

• Filter out low-quality launches

The goal is simple: help traders identify stronger opportunities before the broader market catches on.

Powered by Velvet’s AI and Intent-Based Trading Engine

Velvet combines AI-powered intelligence with advanced execution infrastructure to create a next-generation trading experience.

Users simply specify:

• the token they want to sell

• the token they want to buy

Velvet handles everything else automatically.

Behind the scenes, Velvet routes trades across:

• liquidity pools

• DEX aggregators

• AMMs

• market makers

• chain-specific execution infrastructure

to deliver optimized execution with minimal friction.

This allows traders to focus on finding opportunities while Velvet handles routing complexity and execution quality underneath.

Built for High-Speed Traders

Pump.fun and Pump Mayhem trading are some of the most competitive environments in crypto.

The traders who win are often the ones who:

• discover launches faster

• analyze opportunities better

• execute quicker

• manage entries earlier

Velvet is building the infrastructure stack for exactly that type of trader.

With:

• AI-powered analysis

• integrated launch discovery

• advanced execution

• bonding curve visibility

• multi-platform launch access

Velvet turns the Trenches into a serious trading environment rather than just another token feed.

The Trenches Keep Expanding

Velvet’s vision is to become the ultimate trading terminal for on-chain markets.

The integrations with Pump.fun and Pump Mayhem are another major step toward that future.

More launchpads, AI tooling, execution upgrades, and trading infrastructure are coming soon.

The next meta moves fast.

Trade it faster on Velvet.

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Velvet is going live on X this Wednesday, May 27th at 3pm UTC, and this is one you do not want to miss.

We’ll be hosting a live conversation with the Velvet community to dive into everything happening across the ecosystem, from the launch of perps trading and major upgrades to trenches, to agentic trading, $VELVET, the Safe Foundation token swap, and the new Velvet X platform.

Whether you are already trading on Velvet, holding $VELVET, farming Gems, exploring Velvet X, or just curious about where onchain trading is heading next, this livestream is the perfect chance to hear directly from the team and ask your questions live.

What We’ll Cover

Perps & Trenches Trading

With the launch of perps trading and continued upgrades to Velvet’s trenches experience, Velvet is building toward one clear goal: becoming the go-to trading platform for active traders and whales across the market.

Perps unlock a new layer of trading on Velvet, giving users access to more advanced market opportunities beyond spot. At the same time, trenches continues to evolve into a faster and more powerful way to discover and trade new tokens across the market.

Together, perps and trenches help Velvet serve the full spectrum of active onchain traders, from those hunting early-stage opportunities to those trading larger positions, managing risk, and moving across different market conditions.

Agentic Trading

AI is becoming a core part of the future of trading.

During the livestream, we’ll break down how Velvet is approaching agentic trading and how AI agents can help users discover opportunities, analyze markets, and eventually execute strategies more intelligently.

This is a major part of Velvet’s long-term vision: turning trading from a manual, fragmented experience into something faster, smarter, and more automated.

$VELVET

We’ll also be sharing updates around $VELVET, the role it plays in the ecosystem, and how it connects to Velvet’s growth across trading, rewards, Gems, cashback, and future product releases.

We’ll also touch on the Safe Foundation token swap and what it means for Velvet as we continue expanding the ecosystem through strategic relationships and long-term alignment.

If you have questions about $VELVET, this is your chance to ask them live.

The New Velvet X Platform

We’ll be diving into Velvet X, the new invite-only trading platform built for traders who want an edge.

Velvet X brings together a new trading experience with trenches, social trading features, in-app analysis, AI-powered research tools, and more.

It is built for traders who want to move faster, find better opportunities, and stay ahead of the market.

Live Q&A and Viewer Rewards

Come ready with your questions.

We’ll be answering questions live throughout the session, covering everything from product updates and trading features to AI, $VELVET, Velvet X, and what’s coming next.

We’ll also be rewarding viewers live during the livestream, so make sure you show up, participate, and stay active.

Hosts

The livestream will be hosted by:

@defivas
Co-Founder and CEO of Velvet

@degen_mike14
Chief Degen Officer

Join Us Live

Velvet is moving fast across perps, trenches, AI trading, $VELVET, and the new Velvet X platform.

Join us this Wednesday, May 27th at 3pm UTC on X to hear what’s next, ask your questions, and be part of the conversation live.

Set your reminder and we’ll see you there.

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Epoch 11 of the Velvet Gems Campaign is officially underway, and this epoch introduces one of the biggest structural changes to the rewards system so far.

Starting now, Gems epochs will move from a 1 month cycle to a 3 month cycle.

This means users will now have significantly more time to mine Gems, climb the rankings, and accumulate rewards before distribution.

The current epoch will run until August 10, 2026.

Why We’re Moving to Longer Epochs

The move to longer epochs is designed to create:

• Larger reward claims per distribution

• Stronger long term participation incentives

• More meaningful competition across rankings

• Better alignment with long term ecosystem growth

Instead of receiving smaller monthly distributions, users will now accumulate rewards over a longer time horizon, making each claim substantially larger.

This also creates a more strategic environment where consistency and long term activity matter even more.

Perps Gems Are Now Live

Last epoch, Velvet officially launched Perps Gems alongside the release of perpetual futures trading on the platform.

To accelerate adoption and reward early perps traders:

• Perps trading currently earns 2x more Gems than spot trading

• Rewards are calculated based on Gems earned per dollar spent in fees

• The more active you are on perps, the faster you can climb the rankings

As Velvet continues expanding into more advanced trading infrastructure, perps trading is becoming a major driver of Gems generation across the ecosystem.

Rewards Are Live in the App

For Epoch 11, rewards will no longer be announced directly inside blog posts.

Instead, users can now head directly to the Velvet app to track:

• Current reward pool

• Rankings

• Gem balances

• Streak multipliers

• Trading boosts

• Estimated rewards

Visit: dapp.velvet.capital

Ranked Rewards Continue

Epoch 11 continues using the rank based Gems rewards system.

The higher your rank, the larger your share of the total rewards pool.

The system continues rewarding users who bring the most value to the Velvet ecosystem through:

• Trading activity

• Fees generated

• veVELVET alignment

• Referrals

• Consistency

Top users continue receiving the largest allocations, while all active users still participate in the rewards system.

Core Mechanics Stay the Same

The primary Gems mechanics remain unchanged for Epoch 11.

Earn Gems By:

• Trading on Velvet spot and perps

• Holding and staking veVELVET

• Referring active users

• Maintaining your Gem streak

Remember:

• Gems must still be claimed daily

• Missing a day breaks your streak

• Streaks can still stack up to a 150% bonus

• Trading multipliers continue using 30 day rolling volume

The Velvet Ecosystem Keeps Expanding

As the platform grows across spot trading, perps, DeFi, and AI powered strategies, Gems continue acting as the core loyalty and incentive layer across Velvet.

The users who consistently contribute to ecosystem growth continue positioning themselves for the largest rewards.

Key Dates

• Activity window: May 10 to August 10, 2026

• Distribution: August 10, 2026

Epoch 11 Is About Long Term Positioning

This update marks a shift toward a more long term and competitive rewards structure.

Bigger epochs. Bigger claims. Bigger incentives for consistency.

Start mining.

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The Safe Foundation and Velvet Capital have entered into a five-year token swap, aligning Safe’s smart account infrastructure with Velvet’s self-custodial DeFi trading and portfolio management platform as part of Safe Foundation’s 5M SAFE Ecosystem Alignment Program.

Velvet brings DeFi trading & portfolio infrastructure into the program, enabling users, traders, communities, and asset managers to trade, manage portfolios, launch vaults, and access strategies directly from their own wallets through its native app, agentic Telegram bot, APIs, and tokenized vault infrastructure.

A collective commitment to usable self-custody at scale

Safe and Velvet share a practical view of DeFi’s next phase: users should be able to trade, manage portfolios, launch vaults, and access onchain strategies while retaining control of their assets.

Velvet is building toward that through a self-custodial trading and portfolio management platform that brings together an onchain trading terminal, AI-assisted execution, portfolio management, vault infrastructure, and APIs for developers and asset managers. Today, Velvet supports more than 100,000 users across Base, Solana, BNB Chain, Sonic, and Ethereum, with over $200 million in trading volume. All of those users receive a Safe-based account by default.

The connection to Safe is therefore visible at the infrastructure level. Velvet uses the Safe smart accounts for enabling managers to configure portfolios with parameters such as management fees, performance fees, token whitelists, transferability, deposits, withdrawals, and batched transactions. Velvet also uses Safe as part of its vault-creation infrastructure to deploy vaults and Safe Modules to add custom features to Safe contracts.

This makes the alignment concrete. Safe provides the smart account foundation for secure ownership, programmable execution, and multisig control. Velvet applies that infrastructure to self-custodial DeFi workflows for traders, asset managers, DAOs, hedge funds, family offices, and other institutional users.

About Velvet

Velvet is an AI-powered, self-custodial onchain trading terminal and portfolio management platform built for traders, communities, asset managers, DAOs, hedge funds, family offices, and institutions.

Through a single vertically integrated system, Velvet enables users to discover opportunities, trade spot and perps, access yield, manage portfolios, launch tokenized vaults, and deploy onchain strategies directly from their own wallets. The platform brings together an onchain trading terminal, AI-assisted execution, agentic Telegram bot, portfolio management infrastructure, vault creation tools, and APIs for developers and asset managers.

Velvet supports more than 100,000 users across Base, Solana, BNB Chain, Sonic, Ethereum, Hyperliquid, and other networks, with over $200 million in trading volume. As part of its self-custodial infrastructure, Velvet uses Safe smart accounts to help power secure ownership, programmable execution, vault configuration, batched transactions, and multisig-controlled DeFi workflows at scale.

Website, X, Blog, App

About Safe

Safe (previously Gnosis Safe) is an onchain asset custody protocol that has processed over $1.4T+ in total value (TVP). Released as an open-source software stack by the Safe Ecosystem Foundation, it is establishing a universal smart account standard for secure custody of digital assets, data, and identity. Safe is built for the mission to unlock digital ownership for everyone in web3, including DAOs, enterprises, retail, and institutional users.

About the Safe Ecosystem Foundation, Zug, Switzerland

The mission of the Safe Ecosystem Foundation is to support the development of Safe, to strengthen Safe technology and to promote the Safe Ecosystem. The Safe Ecosystem Foundation is a non-profit organisation based in Zug, Switzerland, that helps educate people about Safe smart accounts and promotes Safe technology through the provision of grants and other forms of funding.

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Solana moves fast.

Your execution needs to move even faster.

Velvet is excited to announce a new integration with DFlow , bringing even more powerful execution infrastructure to traders using Velvet on Solana.

This integration is designed to help Velvet users:

• Land trades faster

• Access deeper liquidity

• Reduce slippage

• Improve execution during volatility

• Compete more effectively during launches and congestion

Because in crypto, especially on Solana, execution is everything.

Why This Matters

Most traders focus on finding the next opportunity.

The best traders focus on execution.

When markets start moving fast:

• Meme coins explode

• Launches get competitive

• Liquidity shifts instantly

• Blocks fill quickly

• Prices move in seconds

The difference between winning and missing the move often comes down to:

• Who gets the better route

• Who gets included faster

• Who gets the cleaner execution

That’s exactly what this integration improves.

What Is DFlow ?

DFlow is an advanced execution infrastructure built for Solana.

Instead of relying on fragmented public liquidity paths alone, DFlow creates a system where market makers and liquidity providers can compete to fulfill order flow more efficiently.

In simple terms:

Better routing = better execution = better trading outcomes.

This allows Velvet to further optimize how trades are processed behind the scenes so users can get a smoother, faster, and more reliable trading experience.

What This Unlocks for Velvet Traders

With DFlow integrated into Velvet’s Solana execution stack, traders benefit from:

Faster Trade Fulfillment

Trades can route through more optimized execution paths designed for speed and efficiency.

Better Execution During Volatility

As markets get more competitive, execution quality matters even more. This infrastructure helps improve reliability during high activity periods.

Reduced Slippage

Smarter routing means trades can access liquidity more efficiently, helping reduce unnecessary slippage.

More Competitive Trading Infrastructure

Whether you’re trading launches, memes, momentum plays, or running automated strategies, execution quality becomes an edge.

Powered by Velvet’s AI and Intent-Based Trading Engine

Velvet is not just another swap interface.

It’s an AI-powered trading infrastructure layer designed to abstract away the complexity of on-chain trading.

Users simply specify:

• What token they want to sell

• What token they want to buy

Velvet handles everything else automatically.

Behind the scenes, Velvet intelligently routes trades across:

• Liquidity pools

• DEX aggregators

• AMMs

• Market makers

• Advanced execution infrastructure like DFlow

to find the most optimal execution path possible.

At the same time, Velvet’s AI layer continuously analyzes:

• Market activity

• Wallet behavior

• Trading signals

• Onchain flows

• Emerging opportunities

to help traders move faster and make smarter decisions.

The result is a trading experience that feels simple on the surface while running highly sophisticated infrastructure underneath.

Solana Trading Is Becoming Infrastructure Warfare

As Solana continues to grow, trading is becoming increasingly competitive.

The edge is no longer just:

• Finding tokens early

• Reacting quickly

• Having good entries

The edge is increasingly:

• Execution quality

• Routing infrastructure

• Latency optimization

• Liquidity access

Velvet is building for that future.

The integration with DFlow is another step toward creating the highest-performance trading infrastructure possible for on-chain traders.

Built for Traders Who Want an Edge

Velvet is designed for:

• Active traders

• Meme coin traders

• Power users

• AI-assisted traders

• Automated strategy execution

• Users who care about execution quality

Whether you’re trading manually or building automated systems, better infrastructure compounds over time.

And that’s exactly what Velvet is focused on delivering.

The Future of On-Chain Trading

Velvet is building a unified trading layer for crypto:

• AI-powered trading tools

• Cross-chain execution

• Advanced routing systems

• Integrated perps, spot, yield, and launch trading

• Professional-grade infrastructure for retail and power users alike

This is what the next generation of trading looks like.

And we’re just getting started.

Trade faster.
Execute smarter.
Capture more opportunities.

Solana trading on Velvet just got even stronger.

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April was one of the biggest months yet for Velvet.

We launched Perps trading directly inside the Velvet App, starting to roll out Velvet X our new invite-only trading interface and continued expanding the AI agent ecosystem across x402, Helixa, and onchain identity platforms.

From agentic trading to social trenching, Velvet is continuing to push toward becoming the operating system for modern onchain traders.

Let’s break it down.

AI Updates: Expanding the Agent Economy

April focused on improving the capabilities, reach, and identity of Velvet’s AI agents.

Advanced Perps Analysis with AI

We upgraded the AI agent’s functionality across the app and introduced a new Pairs Analysis category for Perps trading.

Users can now ask the agent things like:

“Create me a good risk-reward BTC trade with 5-10x leverage on Perps.”

The AI can analyze setups, structure trades, and help users navigate leveraged markets directly inside the trading interface.

Agent Live on 8004 Scan

Velvet’s agent is now publicly available on 8004 Scan, expanding its visibility and accessibility in the growing onchain agent ecosystem.

x402 Agent APIs

We launched 5 agent APIs through x402, enabling developers and external applications to interact with Velvet agents programmatically.

Helixa Integration

Velvet Unicorn is now integrated with Helixa, giving it identity, reputation, and trust layers for the emerging agent economy.

Tech & Product Updates

April was a major month for product launches and trading infrastructure.

Perps Trading Goes Live

We officially launched Perps Trading through Hyperliquid directly on Velvet.

Users can now trade:

• Crypto

• Stocks

• Commodities

All from one interface with up to 50x leverage.

This marks a major expansion of Velvet from spot trading and DeFi into fully integrated multi-asset trading.

What We Are Building with Velvet X (invite-only)

Velvet X is our invite-only next-generation trading app, designed to give you an unfair advantage onchain.

It is faster, smarter, more social, and built for one thing: helping you discover and act on opportunities before the crowd.

With Velvet X, traders will get access to:

Social graph across millions of top KOL and traders
See what the smartest wallets are buying and selling before it hits the timeline.

New Social + AI feed
Spot emerging activity, narratives, and ecosystem-wide trends earlier than everyone else.

Redesigned all-chain experience
Discover tokens across multiple ecosystems in real time from one unified interface.

Mobile-first trading UX
Navigate & trade across chains, tokens & trenches smoothly so you can catch opportunities wherever you are.

Velvet X brings AI, social trading, multi-chain discovery, and real-time execution into one unified trading interface.

Community & Ecosystem Updates

April was another strong month across campaigns, partnerships, and ecosystem growth.

Gems Campaigns

• Epoch 9 concluded with 946,282 $VELVET distributed

• Epoch 10 launched with 933,310 $VELVET distributed to users on May 10

Easter Egg Trading Competition

We ran the Easter Egg Trading Competition, where users competed for 15 million Gems across:

• Base

• BNB Chain

• Solana

from April 3rd through April 6th.

Printr Integration

We integrated Printr, allowing users to trade every Printr token launch across:

• Solana

• Base

• BNB Chain

• Monad

Users on Velvet will also be eligible to receive the Printr Airdrop from trading directly through Velvet Trenches.

Global Events

The Velvet team attended Web3 Festival Hong Kong and hosted a side event “When Web3 Meets Nasdaq Company” alongside partners and ecosystem friends.

Agentic Trading Thought Leadership

Velvet’s Chief Degen Officer launched a multi-part article series focused on the future of Agentic Trading, exploring where AI-driven execution and autonomous portfolios are heading.

Community Growth

• Launched the Velvet Africa Meme Competition and BTC Price Prediction Competition

• Continued weekly Velvet Spaces

• Attended The Best Event Space ahead of the Consensus afterparty

Industry Recognition

Velvet was featured in Wenaltseason’s article on Trading Platforms in 2026, highlighting our positioning in the future of onchain trading infrastructure.

Cointelegraph Article featured Velvet as building DeFAI trading tools to reduce friction in trading and speed up decision making.

Aster Listing

$VELVET Perps officially launched on Aster.

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The next competition on Base has arrived.

Over the next 4 days, Velvet users can trade $CRED and compete for a massive 182,000,000 $CRED reward pool, alongside a 2x Gems Boost for all eligible trading activity.

Whether you’re accumulating spot exposure, rotating narratives, or actively trading volatility, every trade pushes you closer to rewards.

Trade CRED on Velvet

Trade $CRED on Velvet

The competition is live exclusively for $CRED trading on Base.

By trading $CRED on Velvet, users become eligible for:

• Direct $CRED rewards

• Volume-based reward distributions

• Staker incentives

• A 2x Gems Boost throughout the campaign

All trading volume contributes toward your final reward allocation.

How Rewards Are Distributed

Total Prize Pool

182,000,000 $CRED

Rewards are split across:

• Early participants

• High-volume traders

• Top Velvet stakers

First 100 Traders — 36.4M $CRED

• The first 100 users to trade at least $100 of $CRED on Velvet

• Will split a pool of 36,400,000 $CRED equally

Early participants are rewarded first.

Volume-Based Rewards — 127.5M $CRED

• 127,500,000 $CRED will be distributed proportionally based on total trading volume

• Minimum requirement: $100 total trading volume

The more volume you generate, the larger your share of rewards.

Top 50 Stakers — 18.2M $CRED

• The Top 50 veVELVET stakers on Velvet will split 18,200,000 $CRED

This rewards the users most aligned with the Velvet ecosystem long term.

Earn 2x Gems When Trading $CRED

For the duration of the competition, every eligible $CRED trade on Velvet receives a 2x Gems Boost.

What Are Gems?

Velvet Gems are Velvet’s community rewards system designed to distribute $VELVET over time to the ecosystem’s most active users.

Users earn Gems through:

• Trading

• Staking

• Referrals

• Participating in campaigns

By trading $CRED during this competition, you:

• Boost your overall Gems accumulation

• Climb the Velvet leaderboard faster

• Increase your share of future ecosystem rewards

The more active you are, the larger your long-term positioning inside the Velvet ecosystem.

Why Trade on Velvet?

Trading on Velvet gives users:

• Fast execution on Base

• Optimized routing across liquidity sources

• One-click trading experience

• Reward incentives on top of trading activity

• Access to active ecosystem campaigns and competitions

Instead of simply trading, your activity compounds into:

• Token rewards

• Gems accumulation

• Ecosystem positioning

Competition Ends Soon

The campaign is live for the next 4 days only.

Trade $CRED, generate volume, and position yourself before the competition closes.

Trade now: https://dapp.velvet.capital/TokenDetails/base/0xab3f23c2abcb4e12cc8b593c218a7ba64ed17ba3?pairAddress=0x55a4f7a23c4c2616cf848e639a08bd4283d13e66f5fcf34f828b5ca7e4e96324

CA: 0xab3f23c2abcb4e12cc8b593c218a7ba64ed17ba3

The Bottom Line

Trade $CRED.
Earn rewards.
Stack Gems.
Only on Velvet.

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Bitcoin. Ethereum. Solana.

The biggest assets in crypto are now part of the largest Gems competition yet on Velvet.

Introducing the Velvet Blue Chip Trading Competition, where traders can go long or short on BTC, ETH, and SOL perps and compete for a massive 20,000,000 Gem prize pool.

Whether you’re trading momentum, hedging volatility, or simply stacking volume, every trade pushes you higher on the leaderboard and improves your chances of winning.

Campaign ends May 12th

Start Trading: dapp.velvet.capital/perps

Trade Blue Chip Perps on Velvet

The competition is centered around the three largest and most actively traded assets in crypto:

• BTC Perps

• ETH Perps

• SOL Perps

Trade any of them on Velvet and your volume counts toward both:

• The global leaderboard

• The weighted raffle system

You can go:

• Long

• Short

• Trade across multiple markets

All trading volume contributes to your ranking and ticket count.

How the Competition Works

The competition has two parallel reward systems:

1. Leaderboard Rewards for the highest volume traders

2. Raffle Rewards where every $1,000 traded earns tickets into random prize draws

This structure rewards both:

• High-conviction traders

• Consistent active participants

Leaderboard Rewards: 12M Gems

The top traders by total BTC, ETH, and SOL perps volume on Velvet will receive Gems based on final rankings.

Prize Distribution

Rank 1

2,500,000 Gems

Rank 2

2,000,000 Gems

Rank 3

1,500,000 Gems

Rank 4–10

500,000 Gems each

Rank 11–25

150,000 Gems each

Rank 26–50

90,000 Gems each

A total of 50 traders will receive leaderboard rewards.

Raffle Rewards: 8M Gems

Alongside the leaderboard is a weighted raffle system.

For every:

• $1,000 traded = 1 ticket

The more volume you generate, the more tickets you accumulate and the higher your chances of winning.

Raffle Prize Distribution

Grand Prize

1 Winner
2,000,000 Gems

Big Prizes

5 Winners
500,000 Gems each

Standard Prizes

50 Winners
50,000 Gems each

Community Prizes

100 Winners
10,000 Gems each

In total, 156 raffle winners will receive rewards.

All rewards will be distributed after the campaign concludes.

Why Trade Blue Chip Perps on Velvet?

Velvet is built for active traders.

Trading BTC, ETH, and SOL perps on Velvet gives you:

• Fast execution

• Deep liquidity access

• Long and short exposure

• Seamless perp trading experience

• Rewards on top of your trading activity

Instead of simply trading blue chips, you’re turning your volume into:

• Leaderboard placement

• Raffle entries

• Gems accumulation

Earn Gems While You Trade

Every trade in the Blue Chip Competition contributes toward your Gems activity across Velvet.

What Are Gems?

Velvet Gems are Velvet’s long-term community rewards system designed to distribute $VELVET to the users contributing most to the ecosystem.

You earn Gems through:

• Trading

• Staking

• Referrals

• Participating in campaigns

The more active you are, the faster you climb the ecosystem leaderboard.

The Clock Is Running

The competition ends on May 12th.

Every trade matters.
Every position increases your odds.
Every ticket brings you closer to rewards.

Trade BTC, ETH, and SOL perps now on Velvet:

https://dapp.velvet.capital/Perps

The Bottom Line

Blue chips drive crypto.
Perps unlock both sides of the market.
Velvet turns your trading activity into rewards.

25 million Gems are on the line.

Now it’s your move.

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Today, we had a featured article go live on Cointelegraph by Nihatcan Yanik on how Velvet is transforming Perps trading with AI.

Read the full post on Cointelegraph here

Trading and portfolio platform Velvet has launched perpetuals trading via Hyperliquid inside its AI-powered terminal. The move aims to bring research and execution into a single onchain interface.

Onchain derivatives are becoming a more established part of the DeFi landscape. Perpetual contracts are drawing growing attention from traders who want faster execution, deeper liquidity access and a more crypto-native trading environment. However, the user experience is still catching up.

One of the biggest obstacles is fragmentation. For many traders, the process of trading perps still means working across multiple tabs at once: one for charts, one for token research, another for sentiment monitoring and a separate venue for execution.

When traders need to constantly switch between analysis tools and trading interfaces, the distance between spotting an opportunity and acting on it becomes wider. In volatile conditions, even a short delay can mean a missed entry, a weaker exit or a trade thesis that is no longer relevant.

Fragmentation helps explain the rising interest in DeFAI — the convergence of decentralized finance (DeFi) and artificial intelligence. As onchain trading becomes more complex, there is a growing case for systems that can reduce operational friction and connect data-heavy market analysis directly to execution.

Streamlining derivatives through agentic frameworks

Trading platform Velvet is building around that thesis with an AI-powered onchain trading and portfolio terminal designed to unify trading activity across chains through a vertically integrated DeFAI stack.

The latest step in that direction is its perps launch via Hyperliquid, which allows users to execute perpetual trades from within the Velvet environment rather than relying on separate tools for research and execution.

Velvet’s Multi-Agent AI Framework is at the center of the platform. The system is designed to function as a 24/7 trading analyst that can help users spot market opportunities, analyze tokens and identify possible entry and exit levels. Instead of treating research as a separate workflow, Velvet places AI-assisted analysis inside the same system where trades are managed.

The platform’s multi-interface approach also reflects how trading habits are changing. Users can access perps through Velvet’s native app. A Telegram Bot is also on the way, and it will give traders another route into the same toolset through a more conversational interface.

Velvet is also preparing what it describes as automated agentic strategies. In practice, that means users would be able to describe a trading strategy in natural language, and the system would run it continuously so it can identify opportunities and act on them even when the user is offline.

A unified future for onchain asset management

After the Hyperliquid launch, Velvet plans near-term ecosystem initiatives, including “Gems for Hyperliquid” and trading competitions intended to increase engagement around the rollout.

The longer-term objective is broader than a single perps product. Velvet’s stated vision is to make onchain trading easier to use. Under that vision, the company will bring spot, perps and yield products together in one app, with AI helping users optimize how they manage their portfolios.

As DeFi infrastructure matures, access to markets and the ability to move through them efficiently may define the competitive edge together. Integrated systems that combine analysis, execution and automation could help make professional-grade onchain tools more accessible through a single interface.

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DeFi trading has been fragmented for too long.

Spot positions on DEXs.
Yield strategies across lending protocols.
Perpetuals on separate platforms.

Different interfaces. Different risk views. No unified system.

That changes now.

Velvet is integrating Hyperliquid, the leading decentralized perpetual futures exchange, bringing high-performance perps trading directly into the Velvet terminal.

For the first time, you can manage spot, yield, and perpetuals positions across chains all in one place.

Why Hyperliquid?

Hyperliquid has emerged as the dominant force in onchain perpetual futures trading.

Built on its own custom Layer 1 blockchain, it delivers a trading experience that rivals centralized exchanges while remaining fully onchain.

• $195B+ monthly volume

• $1.5T+ all-time volume

• 300+ trading pairs

• Sub-second finality

• Up to 50x leverage

With a fully onchain order book and zero gas fees, Hyperliquid offers speed, liquidity, and execution quality unmatched in DeFi.

Velvet × Hyperliquid

The Perps Engine Meets the Portfolio Brain

Hyperliquid is one of the most advanced perps engines in crypto.

Velvet is building the portfolio intelligence layer around it.

Through this integration, Hyperliquid becomes the execution layer for perpetuals, while Velvet provides:

• Portfolio aggregation

• Cross-chain visibility

• Risk management

• AI-powered workflows

Perps trading is no longer isolated, it becomes part of your entire portfolio.

Trade More Than Crypto

Hyperliquid is expanding what’s possible in DeFi trading.

Through its permissionless market listings, users can now access perpetuals on:

• Commodities (Crude Oil)

• Precious Metals (Gold, Silver)

• Stocks (COIN, TSLA, and more)

• Equity indices (S&P 500)

All onchain, 24/7, non-custodial.

Velvet brings these markets directly into your portfolio alongside your crypto positions.

What’s Coming Next: AI-Powered Perps Trading

This is just the beginning.

The integration of Hyperliquid unlocks a much bigger vision… bringing AI-native trading workflows to perpetuals.

Velvet’s AI layer - Velvet Unicorn - is being built to deeply understand the mechanics of perps trading, including:

• Funding rates

• Liquidation levels

• Market volatility

• Portfolio-wide risk

And soon, it won’t just analyze, it will act.

Natural Language Trading

You’ll be able to execute trades with simple commands like, just like you can on spot with Velvet:

“Short 2 ETH on Hyperliquid.”

Velvet will interpret the intent, construct the trade, and execute it seamlessly.

Automated Strategies

Instead of manually monitoring markets, you’ll define strategies like:

• If ETH funding exceeds 0.05%, open a short

• Maximize my APY by running funding rate arbitrage on the top 5 crypto assets with automatic rebalancing

• Run a BTC Perp Trading Strategy based on these indicators

• And more!

Velvet AI will continuously monitor conditions and execute these strategies on your behalf.

The Future of Trading Is Unified

DeFi has been powerful, but fragmented.

Velvet is building the opposite:

A single system where everything connects.

Spot.
Yield.
Perps.
AI.

All working together.

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Epoch 10 Is Live (April 10 to May 10)

Epoch 10 of the Velvet Gems Campaign is now underway.

From April 10 through May 10, users will compete for 933,310 $VELVET, distributed at the end of the epoch.

With the major updates to the Gems system already introduced in previous epochs, Epoch 10 continues with the same mechanics, allowing users to compete under a stable and familiar rewards structure while climbing the rankings.

If you have been actively mining Gems, this is your opportunity to continue building your position and earning a larger share of the monthly rewards pool.

Ranked Gems Rewards Continue

Rewards continue to follow the rank based Gems distribution system.

Instead of spreading rewards evenly across all participants, $VELVET is distributed based on your Gems rank relative to other users.

• Rank 1 receives 5% of the total Gems allocation

• Top 10 receive the largest fixed allocations

• Ranks beyond the top tier follow a sliding scale distribution

• Remaining active users still receive a portion of the rewards pool

The higher your rank, the larger your share of the monthly $VELVET rewards.

This system ensures rewards remain aligned with real contribution to the Velvet ecosystem.

Gems Continue to Be Based on Fees Paid

Gems generation continues to be based on fees paid through trading activity, rather than TVL.

This keeps rewards tied directly to real economic activity on the platform, ensuring that users contributing to Velvet’s growth earn the largest share of rewards.

By aligning Gems with fees:

• Trading activity directly translates into rewards

• The system remains difficult to manipulate

• Incentives stay aligned with protocol growth

Core Ways to Compete

Your Gems rank continues to be shaped by the same core actions:

• Trade on Velvet and generate trading fees

• Stake $VELVET into veVELVET to strengthen alignment with the ecosystem

• Invite active users and earn from their activity

• Maintain your Gem streak by claiming every day

Remember:

Gems must be claimed daily.
Unclaimed Gems expire and do not count toward rankings.

Perpetuals Trading Is Coming to Velvet

Epoch 10 also marks an important milestone for the Velvet platform.

During this epoch, perpetual futures trading will be launching on Velvet, expanding the trading capabilities of the platform beyond spot markets and DeFi positions.

Perpetuals will introduce a new layer of trading activity and open the door for even more advanced strategies across the ecosystem.

Gems incentives for perps trading will be announced after the release, once the new markets are live.

This will further expand the ways users can participate and earn rewards through Velvet.

Key Dates

• Activity window: April 10 to May 10, 2026

• Distribution: May 10, 2026

• Total rewards: 933,310 $VELVET

Keep Climbing

As Velvet continues to expand its trading infrastructure, the Gems campaign remains the core incentive system rewarding the users who power the ecosystem.

Stay active, keep mining Gems, and climb the ranks.

[Stake] [Trade] [Invite] [Claim Daily]

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Velvet is thrilled to announce that Velvet Unicorn AI is now fully integrated into x402, Coinbase’s groundbreaking open payment protocol for AI agents.

Use the Velvet Unicorn with x402: https://www.x402scan.com/server/3eebe253-2799-4b2f-95f0-96bc7be4db87

What is x402 and Why It Matters

x402 is an internet-native payment standard built on the long-dormant HTTP 402 status code. Developed by the Coinbase team and now governed by the x402 Foundation alongside Cloudflare, it allows any API or service to request instant, automatic stablecoin payments directly over HTTP. No accounts, no API keys, no credit cards, and no manual approvals needed.

This changes everything for the agent economy. AI agents can now autonomously discover a service, pay for it on the spot with stablecoins, and instantly access premium intelligence or execution, all machine-to-machine with zero friction. It turns the entire internet into a seamless, pay-per-use marketplace where agents become true economic actors.

For DeFi, x402 is rocket fuel. It makes advanced onchain tools instantly composable and monetizable, letting agents research, analyze, and trade without human intervention.

The Future of Trading Just Got Supercharged

Velvet Unicorn AI is no longer just an advanced tool. It’s now a native superpower for the entire agent economy. Any x402-enabled agent (or person) can instantly unlock production-grade DeFi capabilities with a simple prompt or command.

What You (and Your Agents) Can Do Right Now With Velvet Unicorn:

1. Ask an agent anything: Get sharp, real-time market insights, narrative deep-dives, or battle-tested trading strategies from Velvet Unicorn’s intelligent multi-agent system.

2. Token analysis: Dive deep into fundamentals, technicals, onchain signals, and cross-chain intel in seconds.

3. Wallet analysis: Uncover hidden risks, performance breakdowns, and instant optimization opportunities.

4. Trending tokens: Catch explosive narratives, volume surges, and alpha signals before the crowd even notices.

5. Token swap: Execute smart, intent-based swaps with Velvet’s elite routing, MEV protection, and aggregated liquidity… all triggered by a simple message.

Built on our ongoing agentic foundation (including the powerful OpenClaw collaboration), this x402 integration makes Velvet Unicorn the plug-and-play DeFi brain and execution engine for every agent in the ecosystem.

Velvet Unicorn was engineered as a self-improving, multi-agent AI operating system purpose-built for DeFi. Now, thanks to x402, it’s fully composable, instantly monetizable, and accessible to every builder and user pushing the boundaries of onchain intelligence.

The agentic era isn’t approaching. It’s exploding right now.

And every agent serious about researching, trading, or managing portfolios onchain just received a game-changing upgrade.

Ready to experience the thrill?

Head over to dapp.velvet.capital to try it yourself, or integrate Velvet Unicorn into your x402-powered agent using the official docs.

This is the next-level chapter of DeFAI. Buckle up. The agents are taking over, and they’re powered by Velvet.

Use the Velvet Unicorn with x402: https://www.x402scan.com/server/3eebe253-2799-4b2f-95f0-96bc7be4db87

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Easter is hitting Velvet.

From April 3 to April 6, every trade you make across Base, BNB Chain, and Solana earns you Easter Eggs and every Egg gives you a shot at cracking open a share of 15,000,000 Gems.

For 4 days only, every swap puts you deeper in the hunt.

More trades means more Eggs.
More Eggs means more entries.
More entries means better odds of winning big.

This is not your average trading competition.

This is an Easter Egg hunt for onchain traders.

Hunt Eggs. Stack Entries. Win Gems.

The mechanic is simple.

For every $250 traded on Velvet during the campaign, you earn 1 Easter Egg.

How it works

• 1 Easter Egg for every $250 traded

• All pairs on Base, BNB Chain, and Solana are eligible

• Each Easter Egg = 1 entry into the final draw

That means every trade gets you closer to more rewards.

Trade once, get in the hunt.
Trade bigger, stack more Eggs.
Trade harder, boost your odds.

15,000,000 Gems Are Up for Grabs

We’re dropping 15 million Gems across 96 winners.

Diamond Eggs

• 6 winners

• 750,000 Gems each

Golden Eggs

• 30 winners

• 250,000 Gems each

Bunny Eggs

• 60 winners

• 50,000 Gems each

Big traders get more chances and everyone gets a shot.

That’s the beauty of the hunt.

How Winners Are Chosen

At the end of the competition, rewards will be distributed through a random draw.

Each Easter Egg you earn gives you one chance to win.

So the more volume you trade, the more Eggs you collect.
And the more Eggs you collect, the better your chances of landing one of the prize rewards.

Simple. Transparent. Addictive.

Why Trade This on Velvet?

Because Velvet is built for exactly this.

You get fast, seamless onchain trading across the ecosystems that matter most — with access to all pairs on Base, BNB Chain, and Solana in one place.

That means:

• More opportunities to trade

• Better access to onchain momentum

• Smooth execution through Velvet’s routing infrastructure

• And now, extra upside through Easter Egg rewards

So while you’re already trading the market, you’re also stacking entries for a shot at millions of Gems.

The Hunt Starts April 3

This one only runs for 4 days.

From April 3 to April 6, every eligible trade on Velvet helps you collect more Easter Eggs and increase your chances of winning.

No quests.
No forms.
No extra steps.

Just trade and hunt.

Start trading now: https://dapp.velvet.capital

This Easter, don’t just watch the market.

Hunt 15M Gems on Velvet.

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