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Crypto Briefing · United States · YC's Spring 2026 Demo Day fields 196 startups and debuts on-chain USDC seed funding
Reports YC's structural shift: all S26 startups can elect to receive their $500K seed cheque in USDC stablecoins; YC completed its first fully on-chain seed investment by sending USDC to Totalis, a prediction-market infrastructure startup building on Solana. Frames it as the clearest signal yet that Silicon Valley's financial rails are beginning to move on-chain.
“YC disbursed its first fully on-chain seed investment in USDC and opened stablecoin funding to all 196 startups in the S26 batch.”