Valhalla is a blockchain-based MMORPG inspired by Norse mythology. Players discover, tame, and battle with creatures called Veras, competing in a player-driven economy on a hexagonal battlefield.
According to The Block, Shuyao Kong, a core team member of Ethereum scaling project MegaETH, announced on July 16 the official closure of the flagship accelerator program Mega Mafia, which operated for two years across two cohorts. The project incubated approximately 20 teams in total, cumulatively helping them raise about $80 million in financing (covering Pre-Seed to Series A), but Kong admitted "the project was built on assumptions that no longer hold true," and most successfully incubated applications are no longer building on MegaETH. Among them, flagship project GTE chose to build its own public chain, Noise shifted to Base, HelloTrade shifted to Monad, and some projects such as Avon and Valhalla have closed. Notably, MegaETH did not hold equity or governance rights in any project during the incubation process. Kong stated that MegaETH will shift resources to "first-party application" development in the future, directly establishing relationships with end users, focusing on "OMEGA"-level consumer applications that can only be realized on MegaETH.
: Fintech platform MoonPay has acquired crypto infrastructure startup Glide and will integrate its deposit and routing technology. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Glide was founded in 2023 by Tushar Soni and Qinyu Tong, both of whom were part of the Robinhood Wallet team. Glide supports over 100 tokens across 30 blockchain networks, helping applications receive deposits from various tokens, wallets, exchanges, and payment sources. Upon completion of the acquisition, Glide's technology will be integrated into MoonPay Deposits, a product already used by applications such as Wallet in Telegram, Moonshot, and Paysafe. MoonPay stated that this transaction is part of its efforts to expand its digital asset infrastructure capabilities. This is the sixth acquisition announced by MoonPay in 2026, following previous acquisitions of Sodot, Decent, DFlow, Entendre, and Dawn Labs. Its investors include Thrive Capital, Paradigm, Valhalla Ventures, Tiger Global Management, and Coatue.
Machi Big Brother, Huang Licheng, posted on X platform calling out Michael Saylor, founder and Executive Chairman of Bitcoin treasury company Strategy. He said: "Deposit all your Bitcoin into Ethereum, borrow stablecoins to repay all your debts, and let's all go to Valhalla together."Machi Big Brother also used the common crypto community phrase "Apes together strong," continuing his usual high-energy, Meme-style expression, or expressing an aggressive vision of crypto asset synergy and leverage strategies.(Note: Valhalla comes from Norse mythology, said to be the hall where slain warriors are taken by the Valkyries, ruled by the chief god Odin. "Going to Valhalla" is often used as an exaggerated expression, meaning something like "heading towards ultimate victory/extreme wealth.")