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According to Konsulteer, blockchain rewards platform Bundle announced the completion of a $5.5 million Pre-Seed funding round, co-led by Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin's Ethereal Ventures and Further Ventures, with participation from institutions including Nascent, GSR, Scenius Capital, Anchorage Digital, and Nuwa Capital.
According to Reuters, sources familiar with the matter revealed that CXMT is considering building a second 12-inch DRAM fab in Beijing Yizhuang and is discussing financing support with the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area and several state-owned technology enterprises. Negotiations are currently still in the early stages, and the financing scale and structure have not yet been finalized. The proposed project may be located at the company's existing Beijing facility, but production capacity plans and total investment amount have not yet been disclosed.
POAP co-founder isabel (@izonline) posted on the X platform, announcing the official closure of the on-chain souvenir protocol POAP. POAP has operated since 2021, cumulatively minting millions of on-chain collectibles for hundreds of communities. It partnered with world-class institutions such as Coinbase, American Express (Amex), Warner Music Group (WMG), and Bayer, and completed the minting of over 8,000 collectibles during Devcon. The founder stated that the funding cycles and traffic distribution mechanisms in the crypto industry made it difficult for POAP to achieve commercial sustainability without compromising the project's original vision. Coupled with the dual pressure of rapid tech stack iteration and market hype cycles, this ultimately led to the project's shutdown. The founder also summarized three core lessons: customer communities are a company's most underestimated asset; "sense of connection" is the essential value of a product; and long-term brand trust is the only moat in the current market.
According to TechCrunch, AI startup June has officially announced its emergence from stealth mode, completing a $20 million pre-seed financing round led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures, with participation from tech industry notables including Michael Dell, Aaron Levie, and George Kurtz. June was co-founded by former Salesforce executive Efrat Rapoport and three co-founders; the team previously founded speech-to-text company Bonobo AI, which was acquired by Salesforce in 2019. June's core product automatically scans existing enterprise systems, identifies business process bottlenecks, and generates a complete roadmap for the step-by-step deployment of AI Agents, helping enterprises achieve AI implementation in complex legacy system environments such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Workday, without relying on high-cost Frontline Deployment Engineers (FDE).
Odaily News According to global experience, the rise of many leading tech companies has been supported by venture capital. In the first half of this year, investment in high-tech industries grew by 4.6% year-on-year. Behind this figure, the activity of venture capital has been steadily recovering. Industry insiders generally believe that the development of AI technology is the core driver of this recovery in the venture capital market, with funds rapidly flowing into areas such as AI, quantum technology, and computing power. Data shows that in the first half of 2026, total financing for Chinese AI startups exceeded 300 billion yuan, already surpassing the full-year figure for 2025. The influx of capital has led to a rapid rise in valuations, making "grabbing allocation" a key theme in the primary market. (CCTV Finance)
据 Fortune 报道，以色列网络安全初创公司 Zenity 宣布完成 1.25 亿美元 C 轮融资，由 Norwest 领投，软银愿景基金 2、日立创投（Hitachi Ventures）及 LG Technology Ventures 跟投，融资金额将用于拓展亚太及欧洲市场。 Zenity 专注于企业 AI 代理安全防护，与传统 AI 安全方案不同，其平台可对 AI 代理的行为进行实时监控，一旦代理偏离预设目标或对组织数据构成风险，即可即时拦截或干预。CEO Ben Kliger 表示，AI 代理已深度嵌入企业运营的各个环节，亚太市场的采用速度甚至快于以往任何一波 AI 浪潮，日本、韩国、新加坡及澳大利亚均呈现强劲需求。
According to Forbes, San Francisco-based cybersecurity company Horizon3 completed a $250 million Series E funding round co-led by NightDragon and NEA, valued at over $2 billion, representing more than a threefold increase from its valuation of approximately $650 million a year ago. The funding round was oversubscribed, with the company's annual recurring revenue growth reaching 120% and customer count exceeding 6,500, including the National Security Agency (NSA), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and four Fortune 10 companies.
According to Fortune, software-driven mining startup Mariana Minerals has completed a $310 million Series B funding round, led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Greenoaks, BHP Ventures, Mitsubishi Corporation, and other institutions. This brings the company's total funding to $400 million, with a valuation of $1.5 billion. Mariana was co-founded in 2024 by Turner Caldwell, a former member of Tesla's factory design and construction team. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company is dedicated to reshaping the traditional mining industry with software technology. The company currently operates two mines: Copper One in Utah (a copper mine targeting an annual production of 50,000 tons of refined copper) and Lithium One in Texas (a lithium mine expected to enter commercial production in 2027).
Odaily News - South Korean AI chip design firm DeepX Co. has recently completed a new round of financing, with its valuation surging approximately fourfold from the previous round, reflecting sustained high investor enthusiasm for companies in the AI supply chain. According to sources familiar with the matter, the startup, headquartered in Pangyo, Gyeonggi Province, is valued at approximately 3.14 trillion Korean won (equivalent to $2.2 billion) in its latest round of deals. DeepX has signed the first agreements of its Series D funding round, securing 42 billion Korean won from existing investors BNW Investment Co. and DS Asset Management Co. (Theedgemarkets)
According to PR Newswire, AI data center company Hyperscale Data (NYSE: GPUS) announced the successful implementation of a Bitcoin-backed DeFi financing strategy via the Morpho protocol. As of August 2, 2026, the company has completed approximately $30 million in Bitcoin-collateralized borrowing through the protocol, with a current variable interest rate of approximately 4.9%. The raised funds will be used to support the continued construction of its Michigan AI data center campus, as well as general corporate purposes such as daily working capital. The company stated that this move aims to transform its Bitcoin treasury from a passive reserve asset into a source of low-cost growth capital, while retaining exposure to Bitcoin's long-term appreciation and reducing reliance on dilutive equity financing.
According to Bloomberg, South Korean AI chip design company DeepX has completed the first tranche of its Series D funding round, raising 4.2 billion won from existing investors BNW Investment Co. and DS Asset Management Co. The latest valuation is approximately 3.14 trillion won (about $2.2 billion), representing an approximately 4-fold increase from the previous valuation.
According to QCP Group, the US Treasury, via the New York Fed, jointly purchased yen with the Japanese Ministry of Finance last Friday, marking the first US-Japan joint foreign exchange intervention action specifically to support the yen since 1998. Meanwhile, the US 30-year Treasury yield briefly rose to about 5.27%, hitting a new high since 2007, before falling back to 5.24%. QCP pointed out that the transmission path of this intervention to the crypto market mainly unfolds through yen carry trades—rapid yen appreciation may force investors holding yen funding positions to deleverage and buy back yen, subsequently affecting risk assets including BTC and ETH, reenacting the market volatility triggered by carry trade unwinding in August 2024. QCP reminded that current macro monitoring indicators should take the USD/JPY exchange rate, Japan funding costs, and US long-end Treasury yields into consideration; fiscal policy operations are increasingly becoming an important variable affecting the direction of global liquidity.
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据 Sifted 报道，欧洲知名风险投资机构 Index Ventures 于近日宣布完成 20 亿美元新一轮募资，旗下可投资资产总规模由此增至 35 亿美元。本轮募资由三部分构成：4 亿美元种子基金、9 亿美元早期风险基金，以及向现有成长期基金追加的 7 亿美元（该基金规模由 15 亿美元扩大至 22 亿美元）。 Index Ventures 表示，新资金将持续支持创始人"从首轮融资到上市乃至更远"，覆盖欧洲、以色列及美国市场。此次募资背景下，AI 是其核心押注方向，该机构已相继投资 Mistral、Cohere 及前 DeepMind 研究员 David Silver 创立的 Ineffable Intelligence。此前，Index 投资组合中的 Wiz 以320 亿美元被谷歌收购、Figma 完成 IPO、Revolut 完成二级市场股份出售（估值达 1150 亿美元），均为本轮募资提供了有力背书。
Ripple announced strategic investments in UK fund technology company ZILO and FCA-regulated tokenized trading platform Licuido, integrating regulated digital transfer agency, asset issuance, and collateral liquidity capabilities into the XRP Ledger. Ripple stated that the relevant infrastructure will support tokenized funds as collateral from the issuance stage and enable atomic settlement via XRPL, while RLUSD can serve as the regulated cash leg in delivery versus payment transactions. The investment amount was not disclosed.
Odaily News: Ripple announced strategic investments in ZILO and Licuido, stating that these deals will bring regulated transfer agency, securities issuance, and collateral liquidity features to its XRP Ledger-based infrastructure.
According to LatePost, Lingbo Technology, an embodied AI company under Ant Group, has launched its first round of financing, planning to raise 1.5 billion yuan and aiming to complete the second round by the end of this year. The report pointed out that Lingbo has currently formed a relatively complete layout on the brain chain related to robot perception, understanding, and action, covering areas such as vision, depth, mapping, video, world models, VA, VLA, etc., and has therefore already attracted attention from multiple investment institutions prior to the financing launch.
Odaily News: Recent market speculation suggests that TradeXYZ is conducting an equity funding round, aiming to raise $200 million at a valuation of $1.5 billion. Cobie has stated that the probability of TradeXYZ securing funding is zero; additionally, some community members have questioned why TradeXYZ would need external funding instead of raising from Jeff's Hyperliquid team if capital were truly required.
Odaily News Crypto analyst Murphy stated on X that on-chain data reveals a rare large-scale movement of coins by Bitcoin long-term holders (LTH) recently. Over the past two days, more than 65,000 BTC have moved on-chain each day (excluding internal transfers within the same entity), leading to a notable decline in LTH net positions.Data shows that LTH net positions had begun to deviate from their previous continuous growth trend since May this year, entering a plateau in July, with the recent large-scale transfers being relatively uncommon over the past year. Among these, approximately 14,000 BTC flowed into exchanges. Some of the funds include a transaction where a company under Trump's umbrella transferred 2,628 BTC to Crypto.com.Currently, aside from the portion flowing into exchanges, the destination and purpose of the remaining coins reduced by long-term holders remain unclear. Murphy stated that potential risks currently affecting the BTC market include: 1) Shifts in Fed monetary policy and rising rate hike expectations; 2) Inflationary pressure from Middle East tensions and oil price changes; 3) Valuation concentration in the AI sector and financing risks behind high capital expenditures; 4) Re-crowding of yen carry trade positions.
Odaily News – ChangXin Technology has drawn significant market attention since its listing, with analysts showing stark divergence in their assessments of its future value. According to data, the most optimistic analyst believes ChangXin Technology's market capitalization could reach $1.1 trillion over the next 12 months, while the most pessimistic forecast sits at approximately $160 billion. The disagreement primarily centers on whether ChangXin Technology can capture market share in the DRAM sector and whether it can achieve breakthroughs in HBM technology.Bullish analysts argue that China's push for semiconductor self-sufficiency and the domestic DRAM supply-demand gap will help ChangXin Technology expand rapidly. Bearish analysts, on the other hand, worry that new industry capacity could drive DRAM prices down between 2027 and 2028, weighing on profitability across the entire memory sector.ChangXin Technology's stock surged 523% in its first week of trading. The market continues to monitor its progress in HBM technology, as well as whether China's domestically developed DUV lithography tools can help narrow the gap with Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron. (Bloomberg)