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Bitcoin is having a quieter end to the week – but presale investors have not disappeared.
BTC is trading at $77,123.71, down 1.23% over 24 hours and 4.45% across the past week, a pullback that has taken some heat out of the wider market after a strong start to September, yet several early-stage projects are still drawing substantial capital before their tokens even reach exchanges.
The largest current presale is Bitcoin Hyper (HYPER), which has now raised $33 million, followed by meme coin Maxi Doge (MAXI), which has attracted $4.85 million, and multichain project LiquidChain (LIQUID), which is closing in on its first $1 million.
Why are these three raising millions of dollars, and what are their chances of leading the next bull run? Here are three of the best crypto presales currently on our radar.
Bitcoin Hyper (HYPER): $33M Raised Around a More Usable Bitcoin
Bitcoin Hyper (HYPER) is building a Layer 2 built for speed around Bitcoin, finally allowing BTC the chance to be used for payments, trading tools, and decentralized finance without changing the core principles of Bitcoin itself. That idea has now attracted $33 million in capital, with HYPER priced at $0.01368.
Bitcoin’s strengths are obvious: it is secure, scarce, and extraordinarily difficult to alter. But speed was never the priority, which becomes apparent as soon as someone tries to use BTC in a real-world setting.
Bitcoin Hyper solves that rare stumbling block for BTC with the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM), the high-performance environment used to bring speed – thousands of transactions per second – to Solana.
It means developers get fast, familiar infrastructure for building around Bitcoin, while users get BTC that can move quickly through the L2 fast enough for payments, trades, and DeFi without needing to wait on Bitcoin’s normal block rhythm.
HYPER itself gets used for activity across Bitcoin Hyper, such as gas fees, and also supports staking and governance. Staking offers 35% APY, while Coinsult and SpyWolf have audited the token contracts.
The $33 million raise is impressive, but the more interesting stage begins after the presale, when exchange listings introduce public price discovery. The next task for the network will be attracting developers, liquidity, and users to the Layer 2.
Bitcoin already has the value – HYPER is focused on making that value considerably easier to use.
LiquidChain (LIQUID): One Place for a Multichain Portfolio
LiquidChain (LIQUID) tackles a problem that gets larger every year – more blockchains means more fragmentation.
Because while Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana have all built large communities and deep liquidity, the irritating part comes when somebody wants to use assets spread across all three.
LiquidChain’s Layer 3 is designed to bring those environments together into a single shared liquidity pool so that, in practical terms, someone with BTC, ETH, and SOL can use that capital without treating each blockchain separately.
Behind it sits a cross-chain virtual machine and proof system that can coordinate information from different networks. LiquidChain also uses atomic execution, so that multichain transactions can complete together (rather than leaving someone stranded halfway through a process).
The Order rests. The architecture never sleeps. 👁️⟁https://t.co/vqvBcdSQYC pic.twitter.com/bNof4XHJ58
— LiquidChain (@getliquidchain) September 9, 2026
Developers get a similar advantage – rather than maintaining separate infrastructure for three networks, LiquidChain provides one route into users and liquidity across all of them.
The presale has now raised $965,000, putting its first $1 million within touching distance. LIQUID costs $0.0149, while staking currently offers 1,182% APY. SpyWolf and CertiK have reviewed the project.
Exchange trading is the important next step as it takes LIQUID beyond a small presale audience. The bigger test is whether LiquidChain can make its underlying technology fade into the background – people generally do not want to think about interoperability; they want their assets to be where they need them.
Maxi Doge (MAXI): Nearly $5M Before the Meme Hits Exchanges
Maxi Doge (MAXI) comes from the noisier end of crypto, a new meme coin that combines the Doge culture with gym discipline and assertive trader vibes.
MAXI has already raised $4.85 million before reaching an exchange, with tokens priced at just $0.00028. So whatever MAXI is cooking, meme coin holders seem to like.
The bodybuilding Doge is likely working because traders and gym regulars already speak a pretty similar language: it’s about gains, discipline, competition, and (after a successful session) showing everybody the results.
Maxi Doge plans to build around that crossover with trading competitions, social challenges, rewards for top performers, and planned futures-platform partnerships.
For a meme coin, participation is the key to longevity, and MAXI looks prepped for the marathon, with planned contests and community rivalry to give holders something to come back for. While we wait for launch, staking offers 64% APY.
MAXI’s exchange launch should be particularly interesting: meme coins live very publicly once trading begins, and charts become content, winning trades become memes, and the community can react to a live market rather than a presale counter.
Nearly $5 million raised before that point suggests Maxi Doge will not be arriving alone – and exchanges will likely greedily list a coin that has raised so much without them. Expect this to be a noisy debut.
Three Presales at Very Different Stages
Presales offer the chance to get in on a project at the ground floor, and these three are already past the uncertain early stages.
HYPER has already reached $33 million while building around a faster Bitcoin utility, LIQUID is approaching its first $1 million with a simpler vision for multichain crypto, and MAXI has built a nearly $5 million community before public trading even starts.
The next question is what happens when those presale counters disappear – and the wider market finally gets involved.
