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Sponsor roster (web)
1. NEW prize track: 1inch ($5k) is on the Tokyo 2026 prizes page; Sui is not. Live roster vs your 2026-07-14 baseline (ENS / Uniswap Foundation / World / Sui, $55k): World $15k, ENS $10k, Uniswap Foundation $10k, 1inch $5k ($40k published). All four say “Prize details coming soon.” 1inch is a new track (Swap API / Pathfinder / Fusion+ intent + cross-chain). Sui is absent from prizes today—treat prior Sui partner status as unverified until they reappear. ethglobal.com/events/tokyo2026/prizes
Sponsor ecosystem (X · 8h)
2. Uniswap shipped Permissioned Pools (v4 hooks + virtual accounting) for compliance-gated RWAs. Protocol-level allowlists so tokenized/regulated assets can AMM-trade; collab with Superstate, Securitize, Dowgo; full builder docs live. Direct UF prize-track wedge for AA + payment-rail builders. x.com/Uniswap/status/2080298965602271554 · developers.uniswap.org/docs/protocols/v4/permissioned-pools/
3. 1inch (new Tokyo sponsor) shipping product + “$1.6B underutilized LP” narrative; no Tokyo bounty copy yet. Today: limit orders in 1inch Wallet (self-custody). Adjacent: capital-efficiency push with Dune. For Tokyo, lean Fusion / Fusion+ intents + Swap API, not quest farming. x.com/1inch/status/2080256680999244186 · x.com/1inch/status/2079959565014126898
4. Sui still pushing real-economy rails (RWA + physical payments), but not on Tokyo prizes page. In-window: KAIO × Mubadala Capital ~$75M TVL private-markets strategy on Sui/Base/Solana; Gorae putting 50k+ EV chargers onchain with Walrus session settlement. Useful only if Sui re-lists as a prize partner. x.com/SuiNetwork/status/2080337295685861580 · x.com/SuiNetwork/status/2080276581239685293
5. ENS + World: quiet window for official dev signal. No @ensdomains / World-network posts in-window with SDK, prize, or builder asks that beat noise. World remains largest published purse ($15k); prize criteria still TBD. ethglobal.com/events/tokyo2026/prizes
Broader crypto-dev (build leverage)
6. Coinbase CEO: new @coinbasedev x402 SDK + Coinbase Biz agentic payments + agent trading UI. Agentic stablecoin rails are the live “shipping now” narrative; maps cleanly onto your exchange-agent + payment-rail track (and can compose with 1inch intents / Uniswap hooks). x.com/brian_armstrong/status/2080337055242940736
7. Security week for builders: Verus–Ethereum bridge re-exploited ~$7.5M via same bug class as May; multi-protocol drain cluster. CMC + research accounts flag Verus + AFX/Ostium/etc. in a brutal bridges/keys/logic week—good framing for security-tooling demos (reentrancy/allowlist/guardian patterns), not a Tokyo sponsor track by itself. x.com/CoinMarketCap/status/2080341488307785797 · x.com/officer_secret/status/2080296007393280355
Build seeds
- Permissioned-pool swap UX — EIP-7702/embedded wallet that only routes through Uniswap v4 Permissioned Pools after a World-style personhood gate (UF + World if criteria open).
- Agent limit-order desk — trading agent pays via x402 and executes 1inch Fusion+/limit flows without gas UX (1inch + your agent stack).
- Compliant RWA checkout — stablecoin pay + CCTP-style settle into a permissioned Uniswap pool for KYC’d buyers (UF + payment rails).