ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the machine learning platform onaji for smart contract blockchains has completed a $2.5 million pre-seed funding round, led by Stratos, with participation from Maven11, Uniswap Labs Ventures, IOSG Ventures, and others.It is reported that onaji has established a platform for training and deploying AI models that can autonomously participate in DeFi on Ethereum and Layer 2.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the liquidity re-staking protocol Renzo in the Eigenlayer ecosystem announced the completion of a $3 million seed round financing, led by Maven11, with participation from OKX Ventures, IOSG Ventures, Figment Capital, SevenX Ventures, and others.According to RootData, Renzo is a re-staking protocol based on EigenLayer. Renzo abstracts the complex process of re-staking for end users, allowing stakers not to worry about the active selection and management of operators and reward strategies. ezETH is Renzo's liquidity re-staking token, which automatically accrues rewards and ensures liquidity. ezETH allows users to participate in DeFi while retaining re-staking rewards.

ChainCatcher news, reported by The Block, that intent-focused crypto infrastructure company Essential has completed a $5.15 million seed round financing, led by Maven11, with participation from Robot Ventures, Karatage, Batuhan Dasgin, Skip, James Prestwich, Brandon Curtis, and Eclipse founder Neel Somani.It is reported that Essential aims to reshape the cryptocurrency trading supply chain to reduce the value extraction of what it describes as "rent-seeking intermediaries," thereby benefiting users.

ChainCatcher news, the cross-chain liquidity protocol Catalyst for modular blockchains has completed a $4.2 million seed round financing, led by Spartan Group, with participation from Foresight Ventures, Robot Ventures, Maven11, Alchemy Ventures, HashKey Capital, Circle Ventures, Superscrypt, and angel investors Calvin Liu, Aditi Sriram, and David Phelps.It is reported that in the coming months, Catalyst will focus on the release of its white paper and testnet, and plans to expand into the Ethereum ecosystem. (source link)