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According to Businesswire, digital asset infrastructure Birch Hill Holdings announced the completion of a $2.5 million Pre-Seed funding round, led by ParaFi Capital and Castle Island Ventures, with participation from Nascent, FalconX Ventures, Coin Operated Group, The Operating Group, JST Digital, Flowdesk, and Ramin Kamfar, founder and CEO of Bluerock.The company focuses on on-chain lending and tokenized asset markets, and the new funding will support its development of institutional lending strategies centered around risk management.

According to Techfundingnews, Superset, a unified liquidity execution layer aimed at stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and on-chain foreign exchange, has completed a $4 million seed round of financing. This round of investment was led by 7RIDGE and Exponential Science Capital.Currently, Superset is collaborating with liquidity providers, market makers, stablecoin issuers, aggregators, and wallets to prepare for a larger-scale product launch. When discussing the core challenges that Superset aims to address, the team stated that the stablecoin market is vast and growing rapidly, but is structurally highly fragmented. This is precisely the problem that Superset seeks to solve.

Stablecoin infrastructure startup Levl announced the completion of a $7 million seed funding round, led by Galaxy Ventures, with participation from Protagonist, Deus X, Blockchain Builders Fund, and others.The company is dedicated to providing stablecoin payment infrastructure for digital wallets and fintech companies, having served over 20 clients with an annual transaction volume exceeding $1 billion. The founder stated that its platform can help clients achieve cross-border instant payments at a lower cost without the need to build complex systems. Levl plans to double its team size and focus on expanding into the Latin American and African markets.

Venture capital firm a16z announced it is leading the seed round financing for Shizuku AI, marking the fund's first investment in a Japanese AI startup. Shizuku AI was founded by Berkeley PhD Akio Kodaira and focuses on developing AI companions and characters, combining cutting-edge AI technology with uniquely Japanese character design.

According to market news, licensed company Axiology under the European DLT pilot regulatory framework announced the completion of a €5 million (approximately $6 million) seed round financing.This round of financing was led by Exponential Science, e2vc, and Coinvest Capital, with new investors TIBAS Ventures and Plug and Play participating. The company's total financing amount has reached €7 million. Axiology holds one of only four comprehensive "DLT trading and settlement system" licenses under the EU DLT pilot scheme. The company operates on a permissioned XRP Ledger, focusing on fixed income securities and the institutional market. Since the platform's launch in September last year, it has introduced services such as securities custody, shareholder registration management, and multilateral trading facilities. The platform currently supports settlement with regulated stablecoins and plans to participate in the European wholesale central bank digital currency initiative, while achieving settlement on the TARGET2 system through the European Central Bank's Project Pontes and Project Appia.

According to official news, the cross-chain liquidity unified layer Euclid Protocol has announced the completion of a $3.5 million seed round and seed round extension financing, with participation from KuCoin Ventures, Gate Ventures, 0G Labs, ATOM Accelerator, and Kahuna.It is reported that the protocol aims to build a unified global liquidity layer, allowing multiple applications and networks to share liquidity sources across ecosystems.

According to the official announcement, Binance will list Zama (ZAMA) and add a seed tag for it.

According to The Block, the on-chain token creation and issuance protocol Doppler announced the completion of a $9 million seed round financing, led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Variant, Figment Capital, and Coinbase Ventures.Doppler, developed by Whetstone Research, has become the default platform for launching new DEX pools on the Base blockchain since its launch nine months ago.

According to The Block, former Revolut executives Joao Alves and Guilherme Gomes have completed a $6 million seed round financing to expand their blockchain banking account project Bleap. This round of financing was led by Blossom Capital.Bleap is a self-custody on-chain financial application, and the company plans to use this new funding to develop yield vaults, expand on-chain trading capabilities, and drive business growth in the Latin American and European markets.

According to CoinDesk, asset tokenization startup Tenbin Labs has completed a $7 million seed round financing, led by Galaxy Ventures, with participation from Wintermute Ventures, GSR, FalconX, and others.Tenbin plans to launch its first tokenized gold product earlier this year, followed by high-yield forex tokens pegged to emerging market currencies such as the Brazilian real and the Mexican peso, targeting DeFi users seeking alternatives to dollar stablecoins.

The trading platform Everything announced the completion of a $6.9 million seed round financing, led by Humanity Protocol, with participation from Animoca Brands, Hex Trust, Three Point Capital, and others. The platform aims to create a "Universal Exchange" that integrates perpetual contracts, spot markets, prediction markets, and payment functions.

Web3 physical asset (RWA) digital infrastructure platform Golden FI announced the successful completion of a $2 million seed round financing.This round of financing was led by strategic partner Golden Chain Capital, with four other globally renowned investment institutions deeply engaged in the Web3 and fintech sectors participating. According to the official statement, the information of the other four participating institutions has not been disclosed for strategic layout considerations.Golden FI is committed to building a secure, transparent, and compliant RWA on-chain protocol, aiming to bridge the gap between traditional financial assets and decentralized finance (DeFi). The funds raised in this round will primarily be used to accelerate the research and development of the underlying technical architecture, strengthen the compliance system across multiple jurisdictions globally, and further expand its partnerships with high-quality physical asset suppliers worldwide.As a rising force in the RWA sector, Golden FI, with the strategic support of Golden Link and its innovative asset mapping technology, is rapidly becoming an important bridge connecting real-world value and the crypto ecosystem.

According to Bloomberg, the AI startup Inferact, founded by the team behind the open-source software vLLM, has completed a $150 million seed round financing at a valuation of $800 million, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Lightspeed, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Altimeter Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and ZhenFund.Inferact focuses on the inference stage of artificial intelligence, aiming to address the issues of high operational costs and insufficient stability of existing AI models. The project originated at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently overseen by the PyTorch Foundation.

Binance will list Sentient (SENT) on January 22, 2026, at 20:00 and open the trading pairs SENT/USDT, SENT/USDC, and SENT/TRY for spot trading. The SENT deposit channel will open one hour later, and withdrawals are expected to be available on January 23, 2026, at 20:00. Users should note that SENT will be delisted from Binance Alpha, and the trading volume after spot trading will not count towards Binance Alpha points.

According to market news, the human-centered AI company Humans&, co-founded by former members of Anthropic, xAI, and Google, has completed a $480 million seed round financing, with a valuation of $4.48 billion. This seed round was led by SV Angel and co-founder Georges Harik, with participation from NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos, GV (Google Ventures), Emerson Collective, Forerunner, S32, DCVC, Human Capital, Liquid 2, Felicis, CRV, and others.The company is dedicated to developing AI tools that enhance human collaboration, with team members from OpenAI, Meta, AI2, MIT, and others, focusing on multi-agent reinforcement learning, AI memory, and user understanding, aiming to reconstruct the training and interaction methods of AI models.

According to The Block, tokenization startup Cork announced the completion of a $5.5 million seed round financing, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), CSX, and Road Capital, with participation from 432 Ventures, BitGo Ventures, Cooley, DEPO Ventures, Funfair Ventures, G20 Group, Gate Labs, Hyperithm Gate, IDEO Ventures, PEER VC, Stake Capital, and WAGMI Ventures.Cork is dedicated to building a "programmable risk layer," aimed at making the implicit risks in real-world assets transparent and tradable through tokenization. Its infrastructure allows asset managers, issuers, and others to create customized swap markets to enhance the redemption liquidity, risk transparency, and market confidence of on-chain assets. This tool can also be used to assess the risks of crypto-native products such as stablecoins and staked tokens. The team plans to launch the first production-grade risk markets in the coming months and expand collaborations with treasury and asset issuers.

The Bitcoin-native Layer 1 protocol and infrastructure platform Bitway announced the completion of a $4.444 million seed round financing, led by TRON DAO, with participation from HTX Ventures and others.So far, Bitway has raised a total of over $5.8 million from institutional investors. After completing its first seed financing round, it has also completed a targeted strategic financing round, which values Bitway at $100 million.Bitway was founded by former Binance team members and was previously incubated through YZi Labs' EASY Residency program and launched through the Binance Incubator program. Bitway has two core products, including the on-chain wealth management platform Bitway Earn and the Layer 1 application chain Bitway Chain, specifically designed for payment and financing solutions.

According to FinanceWire, AI-native content creation engine and publishing platform AKEDO has announced the completion of a $5 million seed round financing. This round was led by Karatage, with participation from investors in the gaming, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency sectors, including Sfermion, Collab + Currency, MARBLEX, Seed Club, The Open Platform, TON Ventures, Gagra Ventures, Kenetic Capital, and Metalabs Ventures.AKEDO is dedicated to building an "atmosphere coding" platform powered by a multi-agent AI system, aimed at significantly enhancing the efficiency of game and content development through collaborative AI agents. The platform allows users to create game collections, generate AIGC content, and plans to support one-click publishing of collection tokens in the future, unlocking diverse revenue streams for creators and protocols. The company's CEO stated that the funds will be used to expand its multi-agent infrastructure.

AKEDO announced the completion of a $5 million seed round financing to accelerate the development of its AI-native content creation engine and Launchpad. This round of financing was led by Karatage, with participation from Sfermion, Collab+Currency, MARBLEX, Seed Club, The Open Platform, TON Ventures, Gagra Ventures, Kenetic Capital, Metalabs Ventures, and others.AKEDO stated that it is building an AI content creation platform based on multi-agent collaboration, supporting game and AIGC content generation, and plans to launch features such as one-click issuance of bundled tokens. The official disclosure revealed that the platform currently has over 2 million registered users, more than 1 million on-chain transactions, and approximately 30,000 daily active users on-chain.