🔥 Where Web3, AI & Institutional Innovation Meet This Fall

Fresh events just landed in the InnMind Events Calendar — and we’re proud to support some of the most exciting gatherings across Web3, AI, regulation, and institutional blockchain adoption. 🌍

From crypto taxation and institutional digital assets to AI x Web3 convergence and women leading the AI revolution — these events bring together founders, investors, builders, and ecosystem leaders from around the world.

👉 Explore the full InnMind Events Calendar

Save the dates, grow your network, discover new opportunities, and connect with the people shaping the future of tech. 🔥

Crypto Tax Forum 2026

📅 September 9, 2026

The Crypto Tax Forum is the world’s first conference fully dedicated to crypto asset taxation and regulation in the metaverse. The event gathers experts from Interpol, OECD, EU institutions, tax authorities, Web3 companies, auditors, and legal professionals to discuss the future of crypto compliance, AML, and blockchain regulation. Attendees will also receive 10 CPE points, a Certificate of Attendance, and an NFT POAP. 🎓

🎟 Early bird tickets are available now
🎁 Use promo code to get 30% OFF: innmind30

European Blockchain Convention

📅 September 16–17, 2026

EBC12 returns to Barcelona as one of Europe’s leading institutional blockchain events, bringing together 6,000+ attendees from over 70 countries. Expect high-level discussions around digital asset infrastructure, tokenization, stablecoins, regulation, institutional capital allocation, and AI-driven financial systems. Major participants include BlackRock, Cardano, Bitwise, WisdomTree, Zodia Custody, Hilbert Capital, and many more. 🇪🇺

🎟 Tickets are now available
💡 Use code IM_15 to get 15% OFF your ticket

Web3 x AI Fusion Singapore

📅 October 6, 2026

Web3 x AI Fusion is a focused industry meetup exploring the practical convergence of artificial intelligence and decentralized technologies. The event is designed for founders, developers, AI engineers, investors, and builders working on next-generation infrastructure, decentralized AI systems, smart contract automation, and AI-powered dApps. Expect curated discussions, high-signal networking, and collaboration opportunities with innovators actively building at the intersection of AI and Web3. 🤖

EmpowHER in AI – Singapore

📅 October 6, 2026

EmpowHER in AI is a global initiative dedicated to empowering women leaders, founders, investors, and innovators shaping the future of artificial intelligence. The event combines networking, fireside chats, and panel discussions focused on inclusive innovation, leadership, AI adoption, and emerging technologies. It’s a great opportunity to connect with a high-quality community of entrepreneurs, VCs, AI professionals, and changemakers driving the next wave of innovation. 🌸

🌐 Don’t forget to check the InnMind Events Calendar regularly for more global Web3 and AI events, networking opportunities, pitch sessions, and ecosystem gatherings: InnMind Events Calendar

🔥 Your AI Stack Is Probably Slowing You Down

Most founders won’t admit this, but it’s happening everywhere:

You add one AI tool → then another → then five more

And suddenly your “productivity stack” becomes chaos.
Tabs everywhere. Subscriptions piling up.
And somehow… things don’t move faster.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth 👇

💡 AI is not your advantage anymore
⚡ How you choose and use it is

The best startup teams right now are not chasing every new tool.
They’re building lean, focused systems that actually work.

What that looks like in practice:
• one place where your team thinks and operates
• one system that captures and learns from conversations
• one layer that automates repetitive work
• one engine for consistent content and distribution
• one way to truly understand user behavior.

Simple. But powerful.
Most founders overcomplicate this.
And pay for it with time, focus, and execution speed
We broke this down in our latest guide.

No hype. Just what actually works in real startup workflows
👉 Best AI Tools for Startups in 2026: What Is Actually Worth Using

Cut the noise. Build a stack that works 🚀

Most X marketing reports are BS.

You've had this pitch from your marketing team or agency: "14M impressions, 5% engagement, +2,000 followers."

On paper, such KOL / crypto-Twitter deck looks great. Did it bring you one real user or investor?

NotPeople founders audited 9 X-distribution vendors. Result is depressive:
• The metrics every report leads with (impressions, engagement, followers) predict actual pipeline at r=0.14. Basically noise.
• The metrics nobody puts in the deck (age of the reply accounts, paced vs burst replies, on-topic %, whether Perplexity & Claude actually cite you) predict it at 0.71. ~5× the signal.

One question for your next marketing call:
👉 "What's our AI-citation share this month vs. baseline?"

Can't answer it = they're not measuring what compounds in 2026.

Read full breakdown + a 15-min checklist to audit any vendor report or contact NotPeople team here.

We share what keeps founders from burning money. More soon. 👇

🔥 Zendesk Perk Just Got a Serious Upgrade

InnMind founders, this one hits different 🚀

You can now access $25,000 for free in Zendesk tools and build world-class customer support without draining your runway.

What’s new?
You’re getting the full Resolution Suite with AI Copilot + AI Agents included 🤖

That means faster replies, automated resolutions, and way less manual support work from your team.

Zendesk grows with you from day one to scale stage. No complex setup. No extra hires just to handle support.

Here’s what you get in one package👇

▪️ Up to 50 seats on Suite Professional
▪️ AI-powered replies and automation
▪️ 5 help centers for different products or regions
▪️ Full API access for custom workflows
▪️ No-code App Builder to streamline operations

💡 Why founders love it

You stay focused on product and growth while support runs in the background, smarter and faster.
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📊 Paper ROI Can Be a Trap. Liquidity Tells the Real Story

Many Web3 founders and investors still evaluate presales using one number: Paper ROI.

Looks great on a spreadsheet. Looks much less impressive when only 10-20% of tokens unlock at TGE 👀

Here's the problem:
A $1,000 allocation bought at $0.05 and listed at $0.10 shows +100% Paper ROI.

Sounds like a win. But if only 20% unlocks at TGE:
✅ Paper value = $2,000
⚠️ Liquid value at TGE = $400

The allocation doubled on paper, yet only 40% of the original investment is actually accessible. This is why smart investors don't stop at ROI. They also check:
🔹 Liquid value at TGE
🔹 TGE-only break-even price
🔹 FDV at listing
🔹 Initial circulation
🔹 Vesting schedule and cliff periods

In today's market, where fundraising is harder and every dollar matters, founders can't afford to ignore tokenomics signals that investors analyze during due diligence.

A token sale isn't only about entry price. It's about understanding:
📌 How much capital is actually liquid
📌 How much valuation pressure exists after launch
📌 Whether the listing scenario is realistic

🔎 Quick diagnostic before joining a presale:
If most of the upside comes from tokens that stay locked for months, your actual risk may be very different from what the headline ROI suggests.

Understanding that difference takes 5 minutes and can save costly mistakes later.

🧮 AlphaMind's new article breaks down the difference between Paper ROI and Liquid ROI, with practical examples, break-even calculations, FDV analysis, and a free calculator to test your own scenarios.

👉 Read the full guide

💬 What metric do you check first before joining a token sale: ROI, FDV, unlocks, or vesting?

🇪🇺 Everyone's staring at the US-China AI war… Meanwhile Europe quietly took the money.

Look at Q1 2026 numbers:
▪️ AI = 51% of ALL equity investment in Europe (Sifted)
▪️ €23.5B into EU AI in 2025, up from €17.7B (FT)
▪️ €1.4B in seed rounds in Q1 alone (Tech.eu)

Now look at where it went with top 10 pre-seed deals map 👆

Zero consumer chatbots. Zero "AI for everything." It's manufacturing, defense, airline ops, biotech, compliance, quant trading. AI that replaces expensive experts, not AI that entertains users.

And no single megafund is writing these checks. Sector specialists are: EF, Project A, Frst, Seraphim - plus Merantix just launched a €103M early-stage AI fund for Europe.

Translation for founders:
US/China are fighting the model war. Europe is trying to win the application war - boring, regulated, B2B workflows that have to exist anyway. "Boring" here means durable.

If you're building AI in Europe, keep in mind:
→ Vertical > horizontal
→ Industrial > consumer
→ Agents + operational data > demos

🔉 We track who's funding what in Europe. And use the datasets to match pre-seed & seed startups with most active relevant investors in PitchPop. DM us if you’re testing it now.

P.S. Pre-seed founders in industrial AI, defense, compliance, or AI agents - make a startup profile on InnMind to get investors exposure.

Applying to 20 accelerators and hearing nothing back?

Most founders do this because they’re using bad lists.

This is different.

113 real, active Web3 accelerators for 2026. Manually researched and structured so you can filter by what actually matters (region, focus area, funding, ecosystem, etc) and apply with better targeting.

https://innmind.com/downloads/web3-startup-accelerators-database-2026/

Worth it if you’re serious about raising this year.

🚀 From 0 to 20K Followers on X: What Actually Works?

Founders and startup teams are constantly looking for ways to grow on X. They are looking for more followers, more reach, more inbound opportunities.

The problem❓ Most founders are still looking for a magic trick, while the accounts that grow are running a process.

In a new article, the team behind NotPeople, a startup from the InnMind network, shares the exact playbook they used across 20 founder and company accounts, growing them from near-zero to around 20K followers each.

Inside you'll discover:

📈 What to focus on below 3K followers

🔄 How the HADI framework helps you find your winning content format

🌊 Why "News + Trends = Hype" became a recurring growth formula

🎯 What changes between the 0–3K, 3K–20K, and 20K+ stages

⚡️ Why consistency beats talent more often than most founders expect

If you're building your startup in public, growing a founder brand, or trying to get more visibility without spending a fortune on ads, this one is worth your time.

👉 Read the full article

📌 NotPeople is building an AI-powered social media operating system for founders, operators, and startup teams.

The platform helps automate research, content creation, publishing, and content experimentation, making it easier to stay consistent on X while focusing on building your company. 🚀

🔗 Learn more about NotPeople on their website and their startup profile on InnMind.

🎪 $557M in a day, for shares that don't exist

While founders grind for months to close a $2M seed round, Binance Wallet just ran a subscription for SPCXx, a token that mirrors SpaceX's IPO price.

Read that carefully:
▪️ Not SpaceX equity. Zero shareholder rights.
▪️ Allocation not even guaranteed: you wire money first, then maybe get tokens. Full, partial… or none 🤡
▪️ Result: $557M from 27,689 wallets in ~28 hours

Who brought the money?
▪️ Wallets betting $20k–$100k: just 17% of participants, but 58% of all funds
▪️ 114 addresses dropped $500k+ each
▪️ The punchline: even the exchanges reportedly got fewer real SpaceX shares than they expected. The hype outran the asset itself.

Now zoom out.

A pre-existence product with zero rights attached pulled half a billion dollars in a day, while teams with working products & real revenue keep hearing "the market is dry" for two quarters straight.

The market has plenty of money. It just pays for 2 things: instant liquidity & lottery-grade upside. That token is what your pitch is really up against now.

Now guess: would your round close faster if investors had an exit date instead of a roadmap? 🤔👇

«…Let's keep in touch..»
«…Great progress, let's revisit next round…»
«…Not the right fit for us right now…»

Investors almost NEVER give you a flat no.

They give you one of these, & then you burn two weeks guessing whether it was a polite rejection or a real maybe.

So we built something to kill the guessing: the Investor Reply Decoder 🔍

Paste the exact reply you got back. It tells you:
✅ The verdict: soft no, hard no, or still alive
✅ The real objection hiding behind the politeness
✅ Your next move (the one reply that can reopen the door)
✅ A ready-to-send draft response

Real example: "Let's stay close and revisit next round" → decoded as a soft no, real objection = they do not believe your traction carries the round yet, next move = reply with the one metric that moved.

Try it for free. No signup, no registration. Just paste & see what your investor actually meant..

And yes, it’s all the part of PitchPop fundraising co-pilot.

PS: Still in beta, feedback highly appreciated!

📊 Market-Maker Insider #6: High Volume. Low Liquidity. Big Problem

💡 Back after the weekend with another edition of #MarketMakerInsider from our partner EasyMM.

This time we're tackling one of the most misunderstood metrics in crypto: trading volume.

Many founders focus on trading volume when evaluating their token's market performance. But volume alone rarely tells the full story.

In today's edition, we explore why liquidity depth matters just as much as volume, and what founders should look at before drawing conclusions.

👇 Read on, learn, and apply these insights to your own project.

Market Maker Insider #6

Volume gets attention, but depth keeps traders.

A lot of teams still judge their market by one number: daily volume.

And of course, volume matters. It is the first thing people see on CMC, CoinGecko, exchange pages, investor updates, and pitch decks.

But volume by itself does not tell the full story.

A token can show decent daily volume and still feel almost impossible to trade properly.

Why❓

Because if the orderbook is thin, even a normal buy or sell can move the price too much. The chart may look active, but the actual execution feels weak.

That is where traders start to hesitate.

They understand that entering the position is only half of the problem. The real question is whether they can exit later without getting punished by slippage.

❗️This is also where many artificial MM setups fall apart.

They can print trades. They can create movement on the chart. They can make the volume number look acceptable for a while.

But once real traders come in, the weakness becomes obvious.

The spread starts breaking. The price jumps too easily. The orderbook has no real support. One decent seller can damage the chart more than they should.

☝️ That is why good market making is not just about generating volume. It is about building a market where volume, liquidity depth, spread, and price action all make sense together.

Because traders do not stay in markets where they only see activity.

They stay in markets where they can actually trade.

This is what turns volume from a vanity metric into something useful.

So, before buying any token, do not stop at the volume number alone.

✔️ Check the orderbook.
✔️ Check the depth.
✔️ Check how much the price moves if you buy or sell a meaningful amount.

High volume may catch your attention. But low depth and heavy slippage usually reveal the market's true condition.

This is the 6th edition of #MarketMakerInsider (c) Contributed by @KadirovIbragim from EasyMM, a market-maker, trusted by many founders on InnMind.

🚀 680+ Free AI Voice Hours and Up to $100K in GPU Credits for Startups

Building a startup is hard enough. Paying for every tool from day one makes it even harder.

That's why we're constantly adding new perks to help founders save money, move faster, and scale smarter. Here are two fresh opportunities worth checking out👇

🎙 ElevenLabs Startup Grants
Get 680+ hours of free AI voice generation and 12 months of platform access.

You'll also receive:
🔹 Text-to-speech, voice cloning, dubbing & conversational AI APIs
🔹 Support to help you ship voice features faster

Perfect for startups building AI voice agents, audio products, localization and dubbing solutions, accessibility tools, or conversational AI applications.

⚡️ NVIDIA Inception
It is a free program that gives eligible startups access to:

💻 Up to $100,000 in GPU cloud credits
🎓 Free AI training and discounted workshops
🤝 Investor and ecosystem introductions
📢 Co-marketing opportunities
💸 Preferred pricing on NVIDIA hardware

For AI founders, GPU costs are often one of the biggest expenses during product development. This program can dramatically reduce that burden.

👉 Explore all available startup perks

Save more. Build faster. Keep shipping 🚀

🎯 113 Accelerator Programs in One Smart Sheet

Fundraising is not just about pitching. It is about knowing where to apply.

We created a resource to make that easier.

Introducing the Web3 Startup Accelerators Database 2026.

What you get:
🔹 113 curated Web3 accelerators, incubators and venture studios
🔹 Clear breakdown of support: funding, mentorship, GTM, grants, investor access
🔹 Filters by region, ecosystem and vertical
🔹 Programs across Solana, Ethereum, Base, Sui, TON, Avalanche, ICP and more
🔹 Direct application links for fast action

Instead of spending weeks figuring out where to apply, you can now focus on building and pitching.

💡 Designed for pre-seed and seed Web3 founders who want clarity and speed.

👉 Download here

📚 If you are building seriously, don’t forget to explore our Knowledge Base. It includes more curated lists, fundraising guides and growth tools for Web3 founders.

🚀 Stop Chasing Viral Posts. Build a Growth System Instead.

Every founder wants more visibility on X.

The mistake? Looking for a secret hack that will magically bring thousands of followers.

After helping grow 20 founder and company accounts from 0 to 20K followers, the team at NotPeople found something much more valuable: a repeatable playbook that actually works.

Here's a preview👇

✅ Why founders with under 3K followers should spend more time in replies than writing posts

✅ How to discover the ONE content format your audience consistently engages with

✅ Why the formula News + Trends = Hype can dramatically increase your reach

✅ The weekly HADI framework that removes guesswork from content creation

No hype. No fake shortcuts. Just a practical roadmap you can start applying today.

📖 Read the full article here

🔗 Learn more about NotPeople on their website and their startup profile on InnMind.

💰 Keep More Runway. Spend Less

Every dollar you don't spend on software is another dollar you can invest in building your startup. 🚀

Many founders focus on fundraising while overlooking something much easier to control: startup credits and perks that can save $100K+ in operating costs.

Inside this guide you'll learn:
✅ Which startup credits are actually available in 2026
✅ Where bootstrapped founders can qualify without VC backing
✅ Which perks are worth claiming first to reduce your biggest expenses
✅ How to avoid wasting time on offers you'll never use

Instead of searching dozens of provider websites, start with one practical guide and claim the perks that match your startup today.

📖 Read the guide here

💡 Small savings today can give your startup months of extra runway tomorrow.

🎯 If your 60-second pitch fails these VC tests, they’ve already tuned out

Every investor runs the same mental checklist in the first minute:
🔹 Can customers pay now?
🔹 Can you actually deliver?
🔹 Why can’t others copy you?

If you don’t answer this, nothing else matters.

1️⃣ Market means one thing only: are people paying right now? Not users, not TVL, not “community”. Real money, clear acquisition, and some understanding of churn.

2️⃣ Execution is simple. Have you built something, shipped it, tried to sell it. Investors look for proof you can actually deliver, not just talk.

3️⃣ Defensibility is where most founders fail. “We are early” or “we have a token” means nothing. What matters is whether your product gets stronger as it scales — data, liquidity, integrations, distribution.

In addition, there are the real numbers that help you understand investors' thinking.

▪️ 78% of investors never get past slide 6.
▪️ 63% of their time goes to slides 1–3.
▪️ Only 11% ever see your ask.

💡 Your pitch is not being read. It’s being filtered.

Final takeaway.
If your pitch sounds like “this might work" — it’s a gamble.

If it sounds like “this already works” — it’s an opportunity.

Investors don’t guess. They look for proof.

We broke down how investors actually scan decks and what gets you ignored vs. booked in our article:
👉 https://blog.innmind.com/fundraising-pitch-deck-web3-ai-2026/

Crypto VC headlines this week: «web3 funding down 59% QoQ». Founders paaanicking..

We pulled the raw Q2 2026 web3 funding data from PitchPop before the big quarterly reports drop.

The picture looks different up close:

▪️ Strip ONE outlier ($2B MGX x Binance in Q1) & the drop is ~29%, not 59%
▪️ Pre-seed deals: +55% QoQ (11 → 17). Median pre-seed check: $1.5M → $2.5M, +67%
▪️ Real seed median: $5.2M. Of 36 seed rounds, 34 sit between $2M & $15M. The $30M+ rounds shaping your anchor are 2 deals
▪️ Active crypto investors: ~651 in Q2, lowest since 2020. Fewer funds, & the ones left moved earlier stage

Pre-seed is eating seed. For anyone raising a first round, that's the friendliest shift this market made in a year.

We’ll publish the full Q2 breakdown here next week: the verified deal table, who actually leads rounds now, what paper they sign & the vertical heatmap.

Ensure your channel notifications are on, so u don’t miss it. And share 🔥 if you love to see more raw data & market numbers in this channel.

📊 The First Real Q2 2026 Web3 Funding Benchmarks Are Here

Most fundraising reports tell you how much money entered crypto.

We wanted to answer a different question: what does fundraising actually look like for an early-stage Web3 founder today? 🚀

That's why our research team analyzed raw data, verified every deal with primary sources, and calculated the first-ever Q2 2026 pre-seed and seed medians before any market-wide report was published.

Here are just a few insights you'll find inside:

💰 Median Seed round in Q2 2026: $5.2M

📈 Median Pre-Seed jumped 67% QoQ, reaching $2.5M

🤝 We verified 23 real early-stage funding rounds and mapped the investors actively writing checks today

📉 The active crypto VC pool has narrowed to around 650 investors, making targeted outreach more important than ever

If you're raising capital in 2026, these aren't opinions or recycled headlines. They're practical benchmarks built from verified data to help founders make smarter fundraising decisions.

👉 Read the full report and see what the numbers really say

📥 Bonus for Founders: Get the Full Q2 2026 Funding Dataset

The article gives you the key insights 👆. This free report gives you the raw benchmarks behind them. 👇
Inside the PDF you'll find:

📊 All 23 verified pre-seed and seed rounds from Q2 2026 with startup names, funding amounts, lead investors, verticals, funding instruments, and source links.

🎯 A curated list of 12 active crypto VC funds, including their investment thesis, lead vs follow behavior, and direct links to help you build a smarter outreach list.

💡 Practical fundraising benchmarks based on real market data:
• Median Seed: $5.2M
• Median Pre-Seed: $2.5M
• Pre-seed deals grew 55% QoQ
• Around 651 active crypto investors wrote checks in Q2

The report is based on a recomputed DeFiLlama Raises dataset, with every deal verified against primary sources by the InnMind research team.

🎁 Download the report for free with a quick registration and use real market data to benchmark your fundraising strategy.