ChainCatcher news, according to PR Newswire, digital asset insurance provider Soter Insure, incubated by Further Ventures and WebN Group, has completed a Series A funding round led by Galaxy, with participation from Brevan Howard Digital, Karatage, Token Bay, Pharsalus, and others. The specific investment amount has not been disclosed.Soter Insure primarily provides digital asset insurance products in the Web3 market for financial institutions, covering areas such as smart contract failures. The new funds will be used to expand the product range.

ChainCatcher news, the Multi-VM full-chain infrastructure network Mango Network announced the completion of a $13.5 million financing round, with investors including Ainfra Ventures, Kucoin Ventures, Tido Capital, Connectico Capital, Becker Ventures, Tfund, Mobile Capital, CatcherVC, and a Family Office from Hong Kong participating in this round of financing.Mango Network's CTO David stated that the mainnet will be launched in the first quarter of 2025. The development and test networks are already online, with over 700,000 users testing the performance of its infrastructure through multiple Dapps, including Mango Swap, Mango Bridge, Plugin Wallet, and BeingDex App client. Since its launch 45 days ago, ecosystem interactions have exceeded 120 million transactions.

ChainCatcher news, GamerBoom announced the completion of a new round of financing, with participation from institutions such as SKY Ventures, MBK Capital, INK Capital, CLF Capital, Metaverse Group, Bing Ventures, New Heights, and Tuna, and support from NVIDIA and Solana. After this round of financing, GamerBoom's total financing amount has exceeded $11 million. Previously, the project received seed round financing from well-known institutions and investors such as Mask Network and DFG.As an AI data labeling-based game data analysis and incentive protocol, GamerBoom aims to promote the in-depth mining and value release of Web3 game data, providing the industry with a more intelligent game analysis solution. In addition, the project has been selected for Binance MVB Phase 8 and has become a finalist in the SolanaAI hackathon, further consolidating its leading position in the AI + Web3 game data field.

ChainCatcher news, according to TechBullion, the stablecoin payment service protocol Peanut has completed a $1.5 million Pre-Seed funding round. The raised funds will be used to accelerate Peanut's provision of faster, borderless alternatives to traditional banking services. Currently, the protocol supports over 20 networks and plans to expand to more platforms.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the AI-driven music creation platform SoloAI announced the successful completion of a $2 million seed round financing. This round was led by Sequoia China, with participation from several early angel investors, Crypto KOLs, and well-known musicians.SoloAI empowers users to easily generate high-quality music without professional skills through AI-enabled music creation tools, and provides a decentralized IP distribution and trading mechanism to realize the assetization of musical works and fair incentives.

ChainCatcher news, according to TheBlock, the DeFi project Defi.App announced the completion of a $4 million funding round, with venture capital firms contributing $2 million, led by Mechanism Capital, with participation from DCF Capital Partners, Balaji Srinivasan, and Pentoshi.It is reported that later this month, Defi.App plans to conduct a public token sale for non-U.S. KYC users.

ChainCatcher news, FrodoBots Lab announced the completion of a $6 million seed round financing, bringing the total funding to $8 million in preparation for the upcoming Embodied AI research network BitRobot.This round of financing was led by Protocol VC, with participation from Big Brain Holdings, Fabric Ventures, Zee Prime Capital, Tioga Capital, Sfermion, Solana Ventures, Virtuals Protocol, and angel investors including Solana Labs co-founders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal. Additionally, eight founders of DePIN projects such as Aethir and Gensyn also participated in the investment.

ChainCatcher news, according to Fortune, stablecoin company Plasma has completed a $24 million financing round led by Framework Ventures, with participation from cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, renowned venture capitalist Peter Thiel, and Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino.Plasma plans to launch its own blockchain in the coming months. Plasma co-founder Paul Faecks stated that the project is developed based on the Bitcoin blockchain, utilizing a unique consensus mechanism focused on optimizing stablecoin transaction efficiency, and will support DeFi protocols such as Curve, Ethena, and Aave.According to RootData, Plasma is a scalable payment and financial infrastructure on Bitcoin. Plasma is built on a native UTXO foundation, allowing gas fees to be paid with BTC and seamlessly collaborating with existing Bitcoin infrastructure. By leveraging a hybrid UTXO/account architecture, users can unlock new features for holding, staking, and deploying their Bitcoin.

ChainCatcher news, the DePIN protocol Teneo Protocol has completed a $3 million seed round financing, led by RockawayX and Borderless, with participation from Generative Ventures and others.Teneo is built on the first layer of the machine economy, peaq, unlocking social media data for Web3 and Web2 builders through the power of the community. The Teneo community node is a Web3 browser extension that allows anyone to contribute to the growing data network by collecting public posts from platforms like X and Reddit.According to RootData, Teneo Protocol is a DePIN data protocol. By targeting data pools that are behind paywalls or currently inaccessible (such as real-time social media insights and machine-generated data from industries like mobile and energy), Teneo has created a standardized access point. This allows AI companies, exchanges, market makers, builders, ecosystems, and more to utilize it.

ChainCatcher news, RootData announced on X that Brian Quintenz has been nominated as the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). He has been nominated as a CFTC commissioner by both Obama and Trump and has been a strong supporter of cryptocurrency and DeFi. This could be a positive signal for A16z-backed projects.RootData has compiled the top 20 tokenless projects invested by A16z (sorted by total funding), and Story Protocol is the only Web3 project where A16z has continuously led three rounds of financing, with its TGE (Token Generation Event) officially launching today.

ChainCatcher news, Japanese listed company Metaplanet announced that it has completed a 4 billion yen (approximately 26 million USD) 0% unsecured ordinary bond financing to purchase more Bitcoin.Previous news, Metaplanet adjusted the use of the 4 billion yen funds, with part of it used to repay debts.

ChainCatcher news, the Telegram ecosystem trading application Blum has completed $5 million in Pre-Seed and Seed round financing, led by gumi Cryptos Capital, with participation from YZi Labs, The Spartan Group, No Limit Holdings, OKX Ventures, The Open Platform, Bitscale Capital, and Wintermute Ventures.

ChainCatcher news, AIGC music platform Fireverse has completed a $2.5 million Series A financing, led by Nobody, with support from OKX Ventures, and participation from T-Fund, BingX, GateLabs, Chain Capital, Central Research, and Stratified Capital.

ChainCatcher news, Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining company Bitdeer released its unaudited mining and operational update report for January 2025, disclosing that it mined 126 Bitcoins in January, a decrease from 145 Bitcoins in the previous month. As of January 31, Bitdeer's Bitcoin holdings reached 724 Bitcoins.In addition, Bitdeer also disclosed that it has signed a $17 million supply chain financing agreement with a financial institution in Singapore and completed the financing drawdown in January 2025.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, Whetstone announced the completion of a $1.3 million Pre-Seed funding round, with investors including Variant, Nascent, Credibly Neutral, Uniswap Ventures, Ambush, Figment, and several angel investors.Whetstone launched the Doppler protocol, aimed at optimizing on-chain asset issuance and liquidity guidance, reducing bot sniping, improving price discovery efficiency, introducing programmable and auditable vesting periods, and enhancing long-term incentive alignment between project teams and the community. Doppler has been deployed on Unichain and is the first to provide front-end support through Pure Markets.

ChainCatcher news, according to Forbes, the B2B product management platform Index announced the completion of a AUD 3.5 million seed round financing, led by Blackbird and Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from BOND, Y Combinator, and others. Since its official launch two months ago, the platform has attracted well-known companies such as Ramp, Uniswap, Clerk, and Semgrep to join the waitlist.

ChainCatcher news, the L1 building protocol Cabal based on Initia has completed a $3 million funding round, with participation from Delphi Digital, Nascent, and Hack VC.Cabal is built on Initia's Layer 1 and is inspired by Curve Wars. It allows users to deposit INIT and LP tokens to obtain a liquid, governable Wrapper, aggregating VIP rewards and governance power.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jin10 reports, the latest report from data analysis company Dealroom shows that the total funding for global AI startups in 2024 reached $110 billion, a year-on-year increase of 62%, while the overall funding for tech startups during the same period was $227 billion, a year-on-year decline of 12%.Despite the overall decline in investment in the tech industry, the investment boom in the AI sector has risen against the trend, becoming the focus of capital pursuit.

ChainCatcher news, Web3 development studio Mirai Labs has completed a $4 million seed round financing, led by Mechanism Capital, with participation from Oak Grove Ventures, Sophon Capital, Selini Capital, Bitscale Capital, Manifold, Rubik Capital, Protagonist, and Lhava.The company plans to use the new funding to strengthen its engineering team specializing in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the programming language Rust. Additionally, it will soon publicly launch Partnr Vaults.Mirai Labs is developing a crypto-focused AI agent product called Partnr. Partnr allows AI agents to perform consumer-facing crypto tasks, such as managing wallets and understanding user needs over time. Partnr can connect trainable AI agents with consumers through Partnr Chat and enable vaults for consumers via Partnr Vaults, as well as enable on-chain execution capabilities for AI agents.