ChainCatcher message, according to Ember monitoring, the a16z address transferred 100,000 COMP (approximately $4.58 million) to Coinbase Prime again 8 hours ago.In the last 21 hours, the a16z address has transferred a total of 400,000 COMP (approximately $18.33 million), accounting for 4% of the total COMP supply, and its on-chain address currently still holds 400,000 COMP.

ChainCatcher news, according to Ember monitoring, crypto venture capital a16z has transferred 300,000 COMP (approximately $13.75 million) to Coinbase Prime in the past 40 minutes. a16z is the leading investor in Compound, having invested in March 2020 to acquire 1 million COMP (10% of the total COMP supply).After this transfer of 300,000 COMP, a16z still holds 500,000 COMP (approximately $22.9 million).

ChainCatcher news, according to Business Wire, Spekter Games Inc. announced the completion of a $5 million pre-seed funding round and the launch of its first Web3 game, Spekter Agency. This funding round attracted participation from numerous well-known investment firms, including a16z speedrun, London Venture Partners, BRV Capital, Chamaeleon, Accelerator Ventures, Impact46, Versus Ventures, and Alumni Ventures.The funds raised will enable Spekter Games to expand Spekter Agency to more platforms, including other chat-based super apps and traditional mobile stores like the App Store and Google Play. Additionally, this funding will support the ongoing development of the publisher's second game, which is already in progress.

ChainCatcher news, AI model marketplace OpenRouter announced the completion of a $40 million seed and Series A funding round, with the company valued at approximately $500 million.This round of financing was led by Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures, with participation from Sequoia and several well-known industry investors. The funds will be used for product development, introducing new model types, and expanding enterprise support.OpenRouter was founded in 2023 by OpenSea co-founder and CTO Alex Atallah and Louis Vichy, providing a unified interface to connect over 400 large language models (LLMs), helping developers and enterprises simplify multi-model integration. Since its launch, the company has attracted over 1 million developers to use its API, with annual inference spending growing from $10 million in October 2024 to over $100 million by May 2025. Customers range from startups to multinational corporations, supporting routing for mission-critical traffic.

ChainCatcher news, according to Techinasia, a startup called Cluely, which develops tools for job interviews, exams, and sales calls, recently raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). This funding comes just two months after a $5.3 million seed round led by Abstract Ventures and Susa Ventures.Cluely was co-founded this year by Roy Lee and Neel Shanmugam, who were previously suspended by Columbia University for developing "Interview Coder." Lee claimed on social media that Cluely has already become profitable.

ChainCatcher message, a16z stated on social media, "Earlier today, our X account was briefly compromised. During this time, the account posted a certain token and other false content, none of which came from a16z. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused by the attackers who temporarily controlled our account."

ChainCatcher news, a16z general partner Ali Yahya posted on X: "I am pleased to announce that we have invested an additional $70 million in the EigenLayer token EIGEN, with a lock-up period. Over the past few years, the EigenLayer team has pioneered a new paradigm for building verifiable and trust-neutral applications."

ChainCatcher news, according to Forbes, Eigen Labs announced the launch of the Ethereum restaking protocol EigenCloud, with a16z crypto investing $70 million through a direct purchase of EIGEN tokens, marking a follow-up investment after a16z's $100 million investment in EigenLayer in February 2024.This is a platform aimed at extending blockchain-level trust assurance to any Web2 or Web3 applications, and the use of EigenCloud will create new fee streams to support staking rewards.It is reported that the Alpha version release of EigenCloud will coincide with the performance upgrade of EigenDA, achieving a throughput of 50 MB per second on the Ethereum testnet. Additionally, EigenCloud has released a gated preview of EigenVerify, designed to adjudicate disputes in off-chain systems such as AI agents or prediction markets.

ChainCatcher news, the robot intelligence platform PrismaX has completed a $11 million seed round financing led by a16z crypto CSX, with participation from Volt Capital, Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, Symbolic Capital, and Virtuals Protocol.PrismaX focuses on building decentralized data incentive mechanisms to promote the standardization of robotic vision data and the development of remote control infrastructure, aiming to achieve efficient training and scalable deployment of physical AI models.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, the AI blockchain platform Yupp has completed a $33 million seed round financing, led by a16z founder Chris Dixon and a16z investment partner Elizabeth Harkavy. The Yupp platform allows users to compare various AI models for free; users can input prompts and view responses generated by multiple AIs side by side, and after selecting the best result, a "preference data packet" is formed. This data is used for the post-training and evaluation of AI models.The platform combines blockchain technology to achieve transparency in the evaluation process. Users can provide feedback and receive corresponding rewards, while AI developers obtain verifiable training data. The platform design turns human judgment into a cyclical resource: an increase in users brings more evaluation data, which improves model quality, and high-quality models attract more user participation.

ChainCatcher news, a16z Crypto published an article titled "Stablecoins: A 1+ billion-user onboarding opportunity," which points out that in the past 12 months, the trading volume of stablecoins has reached $33 trillion, continuously setting historical highs, nearly 20 times that of PayPal's trading volume and almost 3 times that of Visa's trading volume. Stablecoins have already integrated into these massive global payment networks that have existed for decades.The booming development of stablecoins has resulted in $128 billion of U.S. Treasury bonds being held by stablecoins. This places them among the top 20 holders of U.S. Treasury bonds, even surpassing countries like Saudi Arabia, South Korea, the UAE, and Germany. Citibank recently predicted that by 2030, the holdings of stablecoins in U.S. Treasury bonds will reach $3.7 trillion, making them the largest holder on this list. Stablecoins have long been criticized for being used solely for settling speculative cryptocurrency trades, but data suggests otherwise.

ChainCatcher news, according to techinasia, the AI voice startup Toma has completed a $17 million Series A funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).Toma was founded by Monik Pamecha and Anthony Krivonos in early 2024, after participating in the Y Combinator accelerator program. The company's AI voice agents are currently used in over 100 car dealerships in the United States, handling service bookings, parts orders, and customer calls, alleviating staffing issues. Toma plans to use the new funds for expansion while continuing its subscription model.

ChainCatcher news, according to official news from Launcher Capital, AI gaming startup Launcher has completed a $4 million seed round financing, led by a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator (CSX).

ChainCatcher news, a16z partner Marc Andrusko responded to the community this morning, stating that neither he nor a16z has any connection to the tokens a16ze or b16z.In addition, Believe founder Ben Pasternak clarified that he has no association with a16z. As a result of the above news, the market value of the token A16ZE, released through the Believe platform, surged above 12 million dollars last night before quickly dropping. As of the time of writing, the token's market value is only 332,000 dollars.