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The live prediction market and meme coin issuance platform Pumpcade announced the completion of a $5 million seed round financing, with participation from Jump Crypto and Foundation Capital.According to reports, Pumpcade is built on Solana and supports one-click creation of prediction markets in live streaming scenarios, integrated into the Pump.fun chat system. Previously, Pump.fun participated in its $1 million pre-seed financing.

On-chain lending platform Votre announced the completion of a $3.75 million seed round financing, led by a16z's crypto startup accelerator a16z CSX, with participation from MaC Venture Capital and a group of angel investors.The company currently operates a non-custodial cryptocurrency lending platform based on the Base Layer 2 network, helping cryptocurrency holders obtain liquidity without having to sell their assets. The new funds will be used to expand Votre's technological infrastructure and enhance the functionality of its lending platform.

According to Decrypt, the institutional-level quantitative AI trading platform AlphaNet announced the completion of a $10 million seed round financing, led by private equity firm Joffre Capital, with participation from Huashan Capital and an Asian quantitative trading consortium. This round of financing will support its transition from an invitation-only whitelist model to a public platform release.It is reported that AlphaNet was incubated by the Asian proprietary trading firm Tensor Investment and is positioned as an institutional-level "systematic alpha" trading platform, aiming to provide retail users with trading capabilities that were previously only available to institutions.

According to official news, the Web3 smart layer project Claw Intelligence has announced the completion of a $3 million seed round financing, with participants including Castrum Istanbul, Titans Ventures, Super Labs, and Genesis Capital.It is reported that Claw Intelligence is building a unified smart layer that lowers the interaction threshold for users with the Web3 ecosystem and computing resources through crypto-native MCP services and transforming fragmented data endpoints into conversational workflows.

The crypto financial services company Nava, which prevents inappropriate behavior of AI agents, announced the completion of an $8.3 million seed round financing, co-led by Polychain and Archetype.It is reported that the company's method to prevent inappropriate behavior of AI agents is to create a custodial service that holds funds until the agent proposes a transaction. Once the agent proposes a transaction, Nava will use a validation framework to determine whether the transaction outcome aligns with the user's intent. If the transaction passes validation, it will be executed; otherwise, the funds will remain in the custodial account, and the reasons for accepting or rejecting any transaction will be recorded on the blockchain, thereby creating a public decision ledger that can be referenced.

The decentralized physical infrastructure network SHARE has completed its seed round financing, led by Greenfield Capital, with participation from Kosmos Ventures, Generative Ventures, Zee Prime Capital, and other strategic funds and angel investors. The specific amount of financing has not been disclosed.

Totalis announced the completion of a $500,000 seed round financing on platform X, with participation from Y Combinator.Totalis is the first company to receive investment from Y Combinator entirely in the form of USDC, with the funds settled through the Solana network and hosted by Ramp. Totalis positions itself as the core derivatives layer of the prediction market, allowing users to build multi-colored combinations across categories, markets, and venues, covering geopolitical, cryptocurrency, and sports assets, aimed at enhancing capital efficiency in trading and market-making.According to Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan, YC will make investment payments in stablecoins in the future, and this new financial track of revolution will not be conducted through ACH or wire transfers.

Varys Capital's head of venture capital, Tom Dunleavy, posted on X that the financing environment in the cryptocurrency market has changed dramatically over the past six months. Previously, VCs had to constantly network, write content, appear on podcasts, participate in Spaces, promote their investment logic, and make countless calls every week to invest in good projects... But now, as long as there is money to spend, that's enough. Current projects are being "pushed in front of VCs," without VCs having to actively dig for them; as long as others know you have funds, projects will come knocking.Most VC firms are now in one of the following three states: they are out of money, they are shifting to later stages (Series A and beyond), or they are fundraising (but not smoothly). Fundraising that used to take 2-3 weeks now often drags on for 2-3 months. Projects with questionable business models or those that simply replicate the latest hot narratives can no longer secure new funding or follow-on investments (which is a good thing).Currently, there may be fewer than 20 firms that are still making pre-seed/seed investments. VCs can basically choose the projects they want to invest in at their leisure and have more time to conduct due diligence. The investment cycle in 2025 and 2026 is likely to become a historically significant "golden opportunity," but the premise is that VCs can hold on.

SimpleChain announced the completion of a $15 million seed round financing, focusing on building RWA Layer1 infrastructure and continuously promoting the implementation and development of the ecological protocol DataIPO. It is reported that the core members of the team come from former executives of Shuqin Technology, NetEase, and Ant Group.According to public information, Xinhua News Agency previously reported that Shuqin Technology has made forward-looking layouts in China around trusted data, financial technology, and compliance links. The launch of SimpleChain is also seen as a further extension of the team's historical experience in the direction of RWA infrastructure.

DeFi solution provider Enhanced Labs announced the completion of a $1 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by Maximum Frequency Ventures, with participation from GSR, Selini, Flowdesk, and a group of angel investors. The new funds are expected to support product development and operations, while also promoting the expansion of options-based yield strategies to a broader range of on-chain assets, including tokenized real-world assets.

According to TechCrunch, the short video + meme trading platform Giggles completed a $1.2 million Pre-Seed funding round in 2025, with investors including 1kx Capital, Virtuals Protocol, Social Graph Ventures, Noar Ventures, Night Capital, and angel investors from organizations such as OpenAI and Bain Capital.Reportedly, Giggles was created by 19-year-old Canadian founder Justin Jin and is a TikTok-style short video social application, with the core mechanism being "all content is tradable." Users can discover prices and trade trending videos and memes. The project combines social video browsing with prediction markets, allowing users to profit if early investments in content go viral. It is currently in an invitation-only testing phase and has attracted a large waiting list of users, reflecting the integration of content economy and crypto trends.

Web3 magical international chess platform Pixie Chess has completed a $5.2 million seed round of financing, led by Paradigm, with participation from SEED CLUB and some angel investors.

The AI model evaluation platform Yupp.ai's CEO Pankaj Gupta posted on the X platform stating that the platform will soon cease operations, and access will be maintained for the next 15 days, during which users can download their data. Existing users will not be able to create new conversations starting today, and new users will also be unable to register.Yupp.ai launched in June 2025 and raised $33 million in seed funding last June, led by a16z. The platform allows users to compare various AI models for free; users can input prompts and view responses generated by multiple AIs in parallel. After selecting the best result, a "preference data package" is formed, which is used for the post-training and evaluation of AI models. The platform combines blockchain technology to achieve transparency in the evaluation process, allowing users to provide feedback in exchange for corresponding rewards, while AI developers obtain verifiable training data.

The live prediction market platform Pumpcade announced the completion of a $1 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by Pump.fun, with participation from Foundation Capital and angel investor RadioSolace. The company plans to use this funding to expand its engineering team and execute marketing strategies in preparation for the end of internal testing.

The live prediction market platform Pumpcade has completed a $1 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by Pump.fun, with participation from Foundation Capital and angel investor RadioSolace. The company plans to use this funding to expand its engineering team and execute marketing strategies in preparation for ending internal testing.Pumpcade allows users to create prediction markets embedded in live streams with one click, supporting markets that can be resolved in minutes or seconds.

According to The Block, stablecoin payment card infrastructure service provider Kulipa announced the completion of a $6.2 million seed round financing, led by Flourish Ventures and 1kx, with participation from White Star Capital and Fabric Ventures. The company helps fintech companies issue white-label stablecoin payment cards without having to manage card operations themselves.According to Kulipa founder and CEO Axel Cateland, this round of financing was actually completed last December, using a Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE) financing model, but he declined to disclose details such as when the financing process began, the structure of the financing tranches, the company's valuation, and the allocation of board seats.

According to Fortune, former a16z crypto investor Sam Broner announced the co-founding of The Better Money Company with his college friend Adam Zuckerman, completing a $10 million seed round financing, led by a16z crypto, with participation from BoxGroup and Sunflower Capital, along with angel investors such as Circle co-founder Sean Neville and former Microsoft executive Charlie Songhurst.The company aims to establish a stablecoin clearinghouse, providing customers with low-cost services to exchange different dollar-pegged tokens. Broner previously worked at a16z crypto for over two years, focusing on investments in the stablecoin sector. Zuckerman worked at Latham & Watkins law firm before serving as General Counsel at Eigen Labs.The two founded the company last November and have already secured commitments from several issuers, including Paxos, Bridge under Stripe, and MoonPay, planning to support all tokens that comply with the signed and effective Genius Act, excluding USDT, while its U.S. version USAT is unaffected. The product has not yet been publicly launched and is expected to be open to customers in the coming weeks.

DeSci project NanoVita announced that it has successfully completed its seed round financing. This round was participated in by Cryptogram Venture (CGV), UNIVERSE-DIMENSIONAL SPACE PTE. LTD. (Singapore), Candaq Fintech Group, and Susie Ventures (BVI).NanoVita is a decentralized science (DeSci) protocol that integrates nanotechnology, AI biological intelligence, and real-world health data, aiming to build an open and transparent health research infrastructure.The completion of this round of financing marks the acceleration of NanoVita's layout in the fields of nanotechnology, AI biological intelligence, and blockchain health. The project will further promote the construction of a decentralized health research ecosystem, achieving the value reconstruction and open sharing of health data through blockchain technology.

According to The Block, the leveraged prediction trading platform OmenX has announced the completion of a multi-million dollar seed round financing, with participation from institutions such as Paramita VC, Penrose Ventures, M77 Ventures, and several founders of centralized exchanges.It is reported that OmenX focuses on transforming real-world events into tradable markets and introducing a leveraged mechanism similar to perpetual contracts into the prediction market space, aiming to enhance capital efficiency and institutional-level risk hedging capabilities. OmenX founder James stated, "OmenX is not just a prediction market, but an infrastructure that can treat global events as liquid tradable asset classes with institutional-level leverage."Currently, the OmenX Public Testnet has officially opened to the global community, allowing users to participate in the OmenX points system, which is an incentive framework designed to encourage the community to stress test the platform's leverage mechanism and liquidity depth. OmenX is preparing for the subsequent full mainnet launch and plans to deploy on the Base network.

According to Fortune, Valinor, a blockchain private credit startup co-founded by former Blackstone employees, announced the completion of a $25 million seed round financing. This round was led by Castle Island Ventures, with participation from the crypto division of Susquehanna, Maven11, and the founder of TeraWulf, a Bitcoin mining company transitioning to artificial intelligence.Valinor's core business is to put the private credit process on-chain. Traditional private credit institutions rely on manual verification and spreadsheet collaboration when handling revolving credit lines and other businesses. Valinor plans to replace these processes with smart contracts to achieve automated routing of funds and condition-triggered execution.Both co-founders have traditional finance backgrounds, having worked in banks and the private credit division of Blackstone before transitioning to the crypto industry in 2022. Initially, Valinor focuses on providing loans to crypto companies, and later plans to introduce blockchain technology into the loan process to enhance efficiency. Currently, the company has completed lending for several fintech and crypto companies through blockchain technology.The funds raised in this round will be used to expand the loan scale, broaden the customer base, and increase team personnel, with the current number of employees at 6.