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According to the New York Daily, the decentralized data infrastructure project Permacast based on Permaweb announced the completion of its Series A funding round on January 15, 2025, raising over $5 million. Combined with the previously completed seed round and Pre-A round, the total funding raised by the project has reached $8.9 million.This round of financing received support from several leading Web3 funds, technology investment institutions, and strategic angel investors. Seed round investors include OKX Ventures, Big Brain Holdings, ChainVision, Foresight Research, and Digital Humanism (DRF); Pre-A round investors include ClearingPoint, 7 O'Clock Capital, Cipholio Ventures, SilverFox Foundation, and a number of private investors; Series A round investors include CoinSummer, angel investor Tomasz Boryniec, Waterwood Investment (Tsinghua), Scorpio VC, and a number of private investors.Permacast stated that as AI models reshape the way information is created and utilized, the demand for trustworthy, permanent, and verifiable data infrastructure is growing. The new funds will be used to accelerate protocol development, expand decentralized network infrastructure, strengthen ecological cooperation, and expand the engineering and product teams. The team stated that a permanent, verifiable, and open data network will become the foundational infrastructure for future intelligent applications.

According to DealRoom, the Web3 integrated consumption platform Beezie announced the completion of a $4 million financing round, with Psalion participating through its early-stage fund Psalion VC Fund III.The platform generates on-chain digital twins of physical goods, enabling programmability, tradability, and cross-scenario combinations. Through gamification mechanisms, it transforms physical asset transactions into interactive consumption experiences. The new funds will be used for global market expansion.

According to data from RootData's stock perpetual contract exchange rankings, nearly 30 exchanges that have launched stock perpetual contracts still significantly adhere to the trading rhythm of traditional stock markets: trading volume drops sharply on weekends, and the morning session on Monday warms up as the traditional market approaches recovery, but has not yet returned to the intensity of a full trading day.Comparing trading days with non-trading days, the 24h trading volume of stock perpetual contracts dropped from approximately $39.078 billion to $4.896 billion, a decrease of about 87.5%. However, during the same period, the open interest slightly increased from $10.139 billion to $10.262 billion, indicating that positions have not been withdrawn on a large scale; what has truly decreased is active trading and turnover. A snapshot taken on the morning of Monday, July 27, shows that the 24h trading volume rebounded to $10.617 billion, an increase of about 116.8% compared to Sunday, indicating that market activity is recovering.In terms of liquidity, the weighted market depth (±2%) decreased from approximately $58.92 million to about $47.83 million, a decline of about 18.8%; it rebounded to around $55.68 million on Monday morning, nearing trading day levels. This indicates that the speed of order book recovery is faster than that of actual trading recovery, and market depth has not plummeted as sharply as trading volume.From the performance of exchanges, leading platforms such as Binance, OKX, and Bitget maintained relatively narrow spreads and strong depth on Monday morning; Hyperliquid performed well in rankings, but its trading volume was still below trading day levels; some long-tail platforms still face issues with excessively wide spreads, making it temporarily impossible to assess true liquidity.RootData Research believes that the most prominent value of these stock perpetual contract exchanges is to allow stock risks to be traded, priced, and hedged even on non-trading days of the traditional stock market. The traditional stock market is closed on weekends, with official prices remaining at the previous trading day's closing price, while stock perpetual contract exchanges still have trading, open interest, order books, and spreads on Sundays, indicating that crypto exchanges have broken through the "trading time" limitations of stocks.However, from the current data, they are participating in expected pricing rather than official pricing, making them more suitable for expressing events, emotions, macroeconomic changes, and risk preference shifts on non-trading days. Due to decreased trading volume over the weekend, widened spreads, and some platforms having abnormal data metrics, they currently resemble a "stock pre-opening price discovery layer," having participated in stock pricing but not yet obtaining the primary pricing power of the traditional stock market, nor have they surpassed the liquidity of the traditional stock market.

According to Globenewswire, the stablecoin issuer Mandela Digital announced the completion of a $5 million financing round, with participation from Datavault AI. The new funds will be used for the construction of stablecoin infrastructure, compliance, exchange integration, liquidity and marketing, as well as to accelerate the launch of the 1:1 dollar-pegged stablecoin Mandela Dollar (MUSD).It is reported that Datavault AI will also provide technical support for MUSD, including an AI platform, blockchain tokenization, SanQtum quantum-resistant encryption, and a framework for real-world assets (RWA).

According to The Block, the on-chain infrastructure layer SwarmBase, aimed at autonomous AI agents, has announced the completion of a $7 million financing round. This round was co-invested by Castrum Capital, M2M Capital, Notch Ventures, and Becker Ventures. Among them, Castrum Capital contributed an additional $4 million investment.It is reported that SwarmBase is a full-stack on-chain infrastructure protocol for autonomous AI agents. The platform provides core foundational modules such as identity, reputation, coordination, and transactions, enabling AI agents to operate independently through audited smart contracts.The funds raised in this round will primarily be used for the development of the SwarmBase protocol and ecological expansion, as well as preparations for the upcoming Token TGE. Castrum Capital stated that SwarmBase is well-positioned to lead the next wave of AI agents.

Ant International announced the completion of its Series A financing. Ant Group and several existing shareholders, including Alibaba, as well as multiple internationally renowned investment institutions participated in this round of financing. It is reported that the financing amount is approximately $1.2 billion, which will be used to expand global operations, accelerate investment in cutting-edge technologies such as AI, broaden inclusive fintech services like cross-border payments and global accounts, and help global merchants achieve growth.On March 19, 2024, Jing Xiandong announced that Ant International, OceanBase, and Ant Digital, all under Ant Group, have established their respective boards of directors and are independently facing the market. Currently, the chairman of Ant International is Jing Xiandong. Ant International's business covers major markets in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America, connecting over 150 million global merchants and more than 2 billion consumer accounts, with innovation, settlement, and operation centers located in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia. Currently, Ant International has four major business segments: Alipay+, Antom, WorldFirst, and Bettr, which focus on enhancing global payment connectivity, developing technology-driven merchant payment, treasury management, and fintech solutions, and building a broad cooperation network with domestic and foreign financial institutions, technology companies, and merchants.

AI inference infrastructure startup Infinity announced the completion of a $15 million financing round, with the company's valuation reaching $100 million. Investors in this round include Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers from organizations such as OpenAI and Anthropic.The company is developing a general reasoning library that enables different AI chips to automatically reproduce cutting-edge AI research results and enhance hardware performance through software optimization.

According to official news, the L1 blockchain ILITY has received a $1 million investment from Archer Capital and TBV to accelerate the layout of the Agent ecosystem. It is reported that ILITY's AI Agent economic ecosystem is about to launch, and this round of funding will mainly be used to deepen this emerging sector.ILITY Network is the infrastructure for the AI Agent economy, providing verifiable on-chain identities for autonomous AI agents, real-time machine-to-machine (M2M) payment settlements between agents, and a reputation system that can carry across services based on real on-chain performance records; its native token $ILY serves as the Gas and settlement currency for this ecosystem.Previously, the project's last round of financing was supported by institutions such as Animoca Brands and DuckDAO.

According to Fortune, the AI dining platform Wonder announced the completion of a $650 million financing round, with participation from Accel, Google Ventures (GV), and NEA, as well as new investors including ARK Invest, AllianceBernstein, and Kayne Anderson. Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, and JPMorgan acted as the arrangers for the financing.The company is developing an AI platform called "MEL," which automatically plans and orders meals that meet individual needs by analyzing users' biometric indicators and physical conditions.It is reported that Wonder's post-financing valuation has reached $9 billion, and it plans to launch an initial public offering (IPO) early next year.

ORANGE JUICE announced the completion of a $40 million financing round, with Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas participating as an anchor investor.The project was founded by Ego Death Capital partners Jeff Booth, Lyn Alden, and others, primarily focusing on acquiring profitable U.S. businesses with annual cash flows between $1 million and $10 million, holding them long-term and improving operations, while also building Bitcoin reserves and planning to establish an internal AI operations team to enhance the productivity of the invested companies.

According to Bloomberg, Brinc, an AI drone company supported by OpenAI founder Sam Altman, announced the completion of a $125 million financing round, led by existing investor Motorola Solutions, with participation from Index Ventures and previous investors such as Dylan Field.It is reported that the company focuses on applying AI-based drone technology in the field of public safety, including replacing some high-risk manual response tasks.

According to official news, the AI healthcare project Savior of Health announced the completion of a $4 million strategic financing round, with participation from Amber Group, Basics Capital, Animoca Brands, Candaq, TBV, Everwood Capital, Olaris Capital, MangoLabs, and Credit Scend.The funds from this round will be used to advance AI-driven healthcare and health management, build next-generation medical infrastructure, support AI scientific research through health questionnaires and surveys, and expand its global healthcare ecosystem.

According to TechCrunch, Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium has completed a $100 million seed round of financing, with new investors including Nvidia. Gradium was spun off from the Kyutai AI Lab and co-founded by researcher Neil Zeghidour, who has worked at Google Brain, DeepMind, and Facebook, focusing on ultra-low latency voice AI models.The company emerged from stealth mode last December with $70 million in funding, with investors including FirstMark Capital, Eurazeo, DST Global Partners, Eric Schmidt, and French telecom magnate Xavier Niel. The company plans to use the new funds to open an office in the Bay Area to compete for AI talent and has signed clients including French automaker Renault.

B.AI officially launched the "B.AI x WebX 2026 Treasure Hunt" welfare event and confirmed its participation in the WebX 2026 conference held in Tokyo, Japan, accelerating the advancement of its AGI global footprint. To celebrate this debut in Japan, the official interactive lottery event will be live from July 9 to July 15. Participants can follow the official account (@BAI_AGI), retweet the post, and write down one thing they most want to achieve with B.AI, adding the #BAIWebXJapan tag and @ three friends to share a base prize pool of 100 USDT; if the number of participants exceeds 500, the total prize pool will upgrade to 300 USDT. Additionally, during the WebX conference, B.AI will also present more exciting content around AI Credits and offline interactions, locking in exclusive benefits for global ecosystem builders ahead of the conference kickoff.

According to The Block, the entertainment sector on-chain clearinghouse KOR Protocol announced the completion of a $7.5 million Series A financing round, with a valuation of $100 million. Investors include 1kx, Blockchain Capital, as well as previous investors Republic Crypto, Sfermion, Alumni Ventures, and SevenX.KOR Protocol is building an on-chain creative asset clearing platform for the registration, verification, and settlement of creative works such as music and film, and will provide programmable revenue sharing to creators and rights holders through stablecoins like USDC.KOR stated that this round of funding will be used for platform development, ecosystem growth, and partner integration, and plans to launch a token.

According to official news, the prediction market index provider Adjacent announced the completion of a $2.5 million Pre-Seed round of financing, with investors including Night Capital, VanEck, UFO Holdings, Maven11, and DCG.Adjacent is an independent third-party event contract and prediction market index provider, and this week it launched the U.S. election index series RED and BLUE. Adjacent stated that it is rapidly expanding its index products to cover global elections, finance, economics, and other fields.

According to official news, AI-assisted development of the Web3 infrastructure layer Canopy has completed a $8.5 million seed round financing, with participation from Arrington Capital, Fenbushi Capital, Borderless Capital, and SNZ Capital.The raised funds will be used to support its mainnet launch, expansion of the engineering team, and the development of native AI development tools.

According to PR Newswire, AI infrastructure company Neurometric AI announced the completion of a $4 million financing round, with participation from Betaworks, ex-Ante, Everywhere.vc, and others.The company disclosed that it has officially launched an automated Token engineering platform to optimize the cost and performance management of AI Agent workloads, and the new funds will be used to expand the engineering and AI research teams.

The predictive market analysis platform Polysights announced the completion of a $1.5 million financing round, with investors including YZi Labs S3, Maven 11 Capital, Varys Capital, Contribution Capital, and Edge Ventures.Polysights is building an automated and intelligent infrastructure for predictive markets. According to reports, Polysights is based on artificial intelligence technology and is aimed at individual traders and various institutions, enabling wallet-associated cluster screening, market anomaly detection, and the ability to analyze various trading strategies in predictive markets.