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Robin Markets announced on Twitter that it has completed a $475,000 seed funding round led by Fabric VC, with co-leads including Animoca Brands, ATKA Incubator, John Lilic, and Stefan D. George. Additional participants include Hilbert Capital, Layer Zero, Gnosis, and other institutional and angel investors. Robin Markets has also launched its V1 staking product to the public. Robin Markets is a DeFi platform focused on yield generation from Polymarket positions, with its core product enabling users to earn yield on their Polymarket holdings.
According to GlobeNewswire, Fere AI, an AI-powered digital asset trading agent platform, has announced the completion of a $1.3 million funding round led by Ethereal Ventures, with participation from Galaxy Vision Hill and Kosmos Ventures. The platform supports cross-chain networks including Ethereum, Solana, and Base, enabling users to describe their trading objectives in natural language—AI agents then execute the trades. The new funds will be used to accelerate platform feature development and optimize trading execution strategies.
On April 17, South Africa’s National Treasury released the Draft Capital Flow Management Regulations (2026) for public consultation. The draft proposes incorporating crypto assets into the foreign exchange control framework to address associated risks and strengthen oversight of emerging financial instruments. It also aims to align the foreign exchange control framework with recommendations from the OECD and the FATF on combating money laundering, terrorist financing, and illicit financial flows, further clarifying exemptions, licensing requirements, and conditions of application, while imposing administrative penalties for violations.
according to official sources, the overall fundraise scale for Gate's first Pre-IPO project, SpaceX (SPCX), has reached nearly $395 million. Simultaneously, users who stake in the GUSD pool can also enjoy an annualized return of approximately 2.90%, further enhancing capital utilization efficiency.In terms of pricing, the SPCX IPO subscription price was $590, while the current pre-market quote has risen to $600.99.
Decentralized computing platform VORAN has announced the successful completion of a $3 million seed funding round. Participating investors include IBC Group, CGV, All In Club, Harbor Digital Ventures, and several seasoned Web3 industry veterans. VORAN aims to deliver scalable decentralized computing services globally. According to official statements, the funds raised will be primarily used to accelerate the development and iteration of platform applications, as well as further expand its underlying infrastructure.
According to an official announcement, Web3 AI infrastructure provider AIW3 has completed a $2 million seed funding round. The round was led by Buffalo Capital, with participation from GalaXin Capital and Three-stones Ventures. AIW3 aims to transition toward an onchain execution paradigm for Agent-as-a-Service (AaaS), delivering callable strategy services, autonomous agent orchestration, and native Vault-integrated capital flows—establishing a system-level next-generation onchain execution layer. The official statement notes that its core protocol infrastructure has officially entered full real-time operation with verifiability, laying the groundwork for the long-term growth of scalable, decentralized agent networks and ecosystems.
RWA leveraged solution 3F has completed a $4 million seed funding round, led by Maven 11, with participation from F-Prime, Metalayer Ventures, GSR, Susquehanna Crypto, Gate Ventures, and others.
Odaily reports: 3F, a vault protocol built on the decentralized lending protocol Morpho, has completed a total of $4 million in funding. The round was led by Maven 11, with participation from F-Prime, GSR, Gate Ventures, and other institutions. The company did not disclose its specific valuation.Built on top of Morpho, 3F aims to provide users with leveraged exposure to RWAs through a "one-click" operation. Users simply select their target asset and desired leverage multiple, and the protocol automatically executes the entire position-building process: purchasing the underlying asset via short-term bridge financing, depositing it as collateral on Morpho, and borrowing stablecoins to repay the financing.Essentially, this mechanism simplifies the traditional "looping" process in DeFi, which involves repeatedly buying assets, depositing them as collateral, borrowing, and reinvesting. While this process can be executed efficiently via flash loans in purely crypto-native assets, it is typically more complex and less efficient in the RWA context due to issues like settlement delays.3F is expected to officially launch in the second quarter of this year.
Odaily, Odaily reported that ILITY has announced the completion of a $2 million seed round at a valuation of $21 million, led by Animoca Brands, with participation from DAO Duck and others.The funds from this round will primarily be used to accelerate protocol development and expand ecosystem partnerships.The project aims to build a layer-1 blockchain protocol focused on private cross-chain verification, enabling trustless verification of holdings and behaviors through zero-knowledge proofs while maintaining wallet address privacy.
Lido has released an update regarding the Kelp security incident, stating that its Earn-series vaults are working with the management team to address the issue, focusing on two key risk areas: rsETH exposure and tightening liquidity in lending markets. Lido emphasizes that its core staking protocol remains unaffected, and both stETH and wstETH remain secure and stable. Currently, only the EarnETH vault holds approximately 9% of its TVL in rsETH exposure; related deposits and withdrawals have been suspended by the management team pending resolution. Of the ~$70 million in ETH stolen in the earlier attack, roughly $70 million has already been recovered; asset recovery and loss allocation efforts are ongoing. To mitigate liquidity pressure, the management team has reduced leverage and optimized position structures, significantly decreasing wETH debt exposure. Should losses ultimately materialize, EarnETH will activate its $3 million “first-loss protection mechanism,” funded by the DAO. Other vaults remain unaffected: DVV and EarnUSD are operating normally. The GGV sub-vault is currently experiencing negative yields due to a combination of recursive staking strategies and rising borrowing rates, but active adjustments are underway. Users’ previously submitted withdrawal requests will be processed at pre-incident valuations.
Odaily reports, Reppo, a decentralized prediction market network, announced that its Reppo Foundation has secured a $20 million strategic investment commitment from Bolts Capital. The funds will be used to support the next phase of development and ecosystem expansion of the Reppo protocol, as well as to leverage prediction markets to address training data bottlenecks.Reppo stated that its core concept is to use a prediction market mechanism to transform human judgment into a verifiable, incentive-constrained data source, thereby solving the current challenge of acquiring high-quality data for AI training. By building decentralized data networks (Datanets), the project supports the processing of multimodal data, including text, images, audio, and video, providing support for model training, evaluation, and fine-tuning. (Chainwire)
According to CoinDesk, data disclosed by market-making firm Caladan shows that approximately 93% of GameFi projects are now effectively dead, with token values down 95% from their 2022 peaks. Funding for game studios has also plunged 93% by 2025. Investment in Web3 gaming has nearly dried up entirely, as capital flows have shifted toward AI, real-world assets (RWA), and Layer-2 infrastructure—triggering a collapse across the gaming industry. Even Animoca Brands, one of Web3’s most active investors, has scaled back its gaming investments to roughly 25% of its portfolio and begun pivoting toward areas such as stablecoins. Moreover, in 2022, 63% of Web3 venture capital funding flowed into gaming; by 2025, that share has fallen to single digits. Over 300 games have announced shutdowns, turning Web3 gaming into a cautionary tale about chasing speculation while neglecting product-market fit.
Odaily Odaily Planet Daily reports that investors including Pantera Capital Management are pushing UK Bitcoin reserve company Satsuma to sell its $50 million Bitcoin reserve. In August 2025, Satsuma shifted to an "AI-driven" Bitcoin reserve strategy, successfully raising £164 million (approximately $221 million) through convertible loan notes. The round was led by ParaFi Capital, with participation from Pantera, Digital Currency Group (DCG), Kraken, Arrington Capital, and others.It is reported that Satsuma confirmed that some shareholders have "demanded a return of capital," but did not disclose the specific identities of those shareholders. In an email statement, Satsuma's Executive Chairman Ranald McGregor-Smith said the company is exploring options to facilitate these requests while protecting the interests of all shareholders. (The Block)
According to The Block, Cluster Protocol—an AI-native infrastructure company building for Web3—has raised $5 million in funding, led by DAO5, with participation from Paper Ventures, JPEG Trading, and Mapleblock Capital. This brings the company’s total funding to $7.75 million. The new capital will accelerate the development of CodeXero, its browser-native IDE built for the EVM ecosystem, expand its product and engineering teams, and enhance its AI systems, developer workflows, deployment infrastructure, and ecosystem growth. Cluster Protocol stated that CodeXero has already connected over 300,000 wallets, processed more than 3 billion AI tokens, and supported the deployment of over 25,000 dApps.
According to Techstartups, Microsoft had explored acquiring AI programming tools company Cursor but ultimately did not proceed with the deal. Subsequently, SpaceX swiftly secured an option to acquire Cursor at a $60 billion valuation. Cursor has now become one of the key players in the AI programming space, benefiting from strong developer demand for automated programming and productivity tools—where OpenAI and Anthropic are fiercely competing. Meanwhile, Microsoft faces another set of pressures, with its stock down 10% this year, underperforming its peers in the hyperscale data center sector.
RealGo announced that it has completed over $3.5 million in funding, with its early-stage and strategic funding rounds supported by institutions and strategic partners including Animoca Brands, Cogitent Ventures, X21 Digital, Notch VC, and Becker Ventures. RealGo stated that it will use these funds to advance infrastructure development for Meme 3.0, driving the evolution of memes from mere topical buzz into assets that are captureable, collectible, battleable, social, monetizable, and truly owned by users.
Sooth Labs, an AI prediction laboratory founded by former Meta executives and a CMU professor team, is completing a $50 million funding round at a $335 million valuation, led by Felicis Ventures. Yann LeCun and Jeff Dean are participating as individual investors, and Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth serves as an advisor. The company specializes in multimodal AI event probability prediction, serving institutions in finance, defense, insurance, and other sectors, and has already provided probability predictions for events such as the WHO pandemic and Anthropic's IPO.
According to Bloomberg, Sooth Labs, an AI lab founded by former Meta employees, is raising approximately $50 million in funding, led by Felicis Ventures, with a post-money valuation of about $335 million. The company plans to develop AI models that predict the probability of specific geopolitical and market events, offering these capabilities to enterprises. Sooth Labs has also received support from Yann LeCun and Google’s Chief Scientist Jeff Dean, and Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth serves as an advisor.
According to an official announcement, Robinhood has received in-principle approval (IPA) from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to launch brokerage services in Singapore, covering securities trading, exchange-traded derivatives, custody, product financing, and collective investment schemes. Robinhood stated that Singapore will serve as its Asia-Pacific headquarters to support its international expansion. Its subsidiary, Bitstamp Asia Pte. Ltd., already holds a Major Payment Institution (MPI) license issued by the MAS. Note that in-principle approval is not equivalent to a formal license; Robinhood Singapore Pte. Ltd. must still meet relevant conditions before receiving final approval to commence operations.
Odaily News: Daniel Edrisian, a former engineer from the OpenAI Codex team, has announced his departure to found AI hardware company Blackstar Computers. The company has completed a $12 million seed funding round led by Abstract, with participation from SV Angel, Naval Ravikant, Chapter One, and Timeless.Blackstar positions itself as a new type of computing device, aiming to redefine the computing experience from the hardware, software, and interaction levels. Edrisian stated that while current software development is mature, further enhancement of human-AI interaction requires innovation at the operating system level. The company currently has a team of about 8 people, distributed between San Francisco and Shenzhen, and has not yet launched a public product.