βDecentralized social network Farcaster has been acquired by Network School.
ββBinanceUS Seeks $100 Million to Expand Its Crypto Business
βBusiness banking and stablecoin platform Meow raised $31.6M in a Series B funding round led by Stifel Financial Corp, with participation from Archetype.
βDecentralized storage and persistent memory platform for AI agents Lighthouse.storage raised $1.6M in a funding round from Walrus Protocol, Protocol Labs, Smape Capital, Kinetic Kollective (ex CSP DAO), Balaji Srinivasan, Big Brain Holdings, Fenbushi Capital, HASH CIB (Crypto Investment Bank), LongHash Ventures, Mask Network, NGC Ventures, 2Link Buidl, Formless Capital.
βAI agent platform for real-world asset tokenization Blocksight has been acquired by Open World.
βPayment orchestration platform AptPay has been acquired by KORT Payments.
βFinancial infrastructure platform Mural raised $15M in a Series A funding round led by Tether, with participation from North Island Ventures (NIV).
βBitcoin yield platform HoneyB raised $5M in a Seed funding round led by Portal Ventures, with participation from PEER Venture Partners, Anchorage Digital.
βAI computing hardware and software company Tenstorrent raised $1.5B in a Series E funding round led by Trace Capital, Innovation X Advisors, with participation from Agostinelli Group, ARK Invest, Brett Barna, Cadence Ventures, Eclipse Ventures, Fidelity Management and Research Company, Maverick Silicon, Morgan Stanley, Protagonist, Sandisk, T. Rowe Price, Tether, Troluce Capital, Virtu Financial, XTX Markets.
βLeveraged token and stablecoin protocol on Solana Hylo raised $1M in a Strategic funding round led by Solana Ventures, with participation from Colosseum, Mert Mumtaz, Kash Dhanda, Nicolas RΓ©mond, Cavey, Frank Finnegan, Maanav Sandhe.
βStablecoin payments app for Latin America Peso closed Pre-seed funding round led by Tether. Amount raised is not disclosed.
βInstitutional digital asset custodian Zodia Custody has been acquired by Standard Chartered Bank.
βNational bank for technology and digital asset companies Erebor received $30M in funding from Robinhood Ventures Fund I (RVI).