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Bitcoin payments startup Breez announced the completion of a $5 million funding round, with participation from Entrée Capital, ego death capital, Plan Fund and Timechain.
Blockchain governance startup Agora is about to acquire its rival Boardroom. The company sees the acquisition as a strategic move to strengthen governance within the broader Ethereum ecosystem, citing US President Donald Trump's promise of regulatory clarity for the blockchain industry and the expectation that decentralized governance will grow again. Boardroom was established earlier than Agora and has similar goals to Agora, but adopts a more horizontal blockchain governance approach. Boardroo...
Blockchain analytics platform bitsCrunch has launched a $5 million ecosystem grant program to support Web3 developers with funding, API credits, and token-based assistance.
Former Coinbase CTO Balaji said in a post that many startups may try to raise funds in the future by issuing tokens as explicit crypto equity. He pointed out that from a technical perspective, there are obvious advantages to representing equity on the blockchain, allowing investors to check pricing through wallet holdings, APIs, and track it on a blockchain browser. At the same time, founders can more easily execute operations such as dividend distribution, repurchase and vesting plan management...
According to official news, grey release has launched recruitment again, this time offering positions as a digital asset derivatives trader, portfolio advisor, crypto product analyst, and Private Offering Fund sales analyst. Earlier this month, grey release also disclosed recruitment information, including analysts, tax specialists, digital asset traders, portfolio managers, senior assistants for ETF products, product managers, engineering supervisors, etc.
Ethereum developers plan to launch the Pectra upgrade of the network in March 2025 and set specific milestones ahead of the mainnet fork. After coordination with the client side software team, a new client side for the upgrade and hard fork for Ethereum test networks Sepolia and Holesky is expected to be released in February, according to a core developer conference call held on Thursday. If the fork on the testnet goes as planned, the mainnet will be launched next month.
According to Holoworld AI, its flagship AI agent launch platform, Agent Market, is now available on Solana. The platform offers V1 codeless agent creation tools, including one-click personality templates, drag-and-drop knowledge bases (RAGs), voice selection, storybook systems, 3D avatars and wearables creators, deployment management dashboards, and private AI chat capabilities. The platform is aimed at non-developers and is suitable for content creators, NFT communities, game projects, and bran...
According to official news, Holoworld AI has launched the AI agent launch platform Agent Market in Solana. It will launch the V1 no-code agent creator, which includes: one-click personality template, drag-and-drop knowledge base (RAG), voice selection, storybook system, agent profile, 3D avatar and wearable device generator, Twitter deployment and management dashboard, private AI chat and token-gated group chat. It will also implement multi-modal expansion, multi-chain and wallet integration and...
Chainalysis paid more than $100 million for AI agency security startup Alterya at an undisclosed valuation. Two people familiar with the deal put the total value at about $150 million. Alterya is a graduate of Y Combinator, a prominent Silicon Valley incubator that develops artificial intelligence technology that uses proxies to detect and prevent scams targeting Financial Institution Group, fintech and crypto service providers.
Starpower, a DePIN startup, announced the completion of a $2.50 million financing round led by Framework Ventures, with participation from Solana Ventures and Bitscale Capital.
Zero Gravity Labs (0G Labs or 0GL), a crypto-artificial intelligence startup, announced that it has raised around $30 million through a node sale. The new funds are intended to support global node deployment, build a decentralized AI operating system, and create a new AI agent standard. Last November, 0G Labs completed a $40 million seed round and received a $250 million token purchase commitment.
Amazon-backed OpenAI rival, artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, is in advanced talks about a $2 billion deal that would value it at $60 billion. The round was led by venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal would make Anthropic the fifth most valuable U.S. startup after SpaceX, OpenAI, Stripe and Databricks, according to data provider CB Insights. Last year, at Menlo Venture Capital (Me...
On January 3rd, Holoworld AI posted on the X platform that its AIAgent startup platform Agent Market will be launched on Solana soon. Including one-click creation of codeless agents, multimodality, agent plug-ins, multi-platform, multi-chain and other features.
According to the DeFi report, blockchain start-up companies received $13.60 billion in venture capital investment in 2024, accounting for 4.9% of the total investment of $279 billion for the year. This figure is up from $10.10 billion in 2023, but still well below the record of $32.40 billion set in 2021. Going forward, benefiting from falling interest rates and regulatory clarity, analysts expect the crypto industry to attract more than $18 billion in venture capital in 2025.
Blockchain data startup Accountable recently completed a $2.30 million seed round. The funding was led by MitonC and Zee Prime Capital, with participation from angel investors such as Darius Rugys of Maven 11 and DCBuilder of the Worldcoin Foundation. The company is developing a privacy-focused data platform that verifies borrowers' assets, liabilities and trading risk exposure in real time. Users can connect accounts such as custodians and exchanges to the dashboard to generate credit risk repo...
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