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According to official news, the P2P AI inference network Antseed has officially been released, while also disclosing that the nonprofit foundation Antseed Foundation has completed a $2.4 million token round of financing. Spark Capital led the investment, with participation from Collider, DCG, North Island Ventures, Reciprocal Ventures, Relay Capital, and Venice.ai.Antseed aims to apply BitTorrent's peer-to-peer model to the AI inference field, allowing different providers to sell models and Agent services directly. After running Antseed's local router on their computers, users can connect tools like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, etc., to the same address. Each call is selected by the router based on price, speed, reputation, and privacy conditions, with fees settled directly in USDC on Base. Providers can run their own local models, fine-tune models, or offer other AI services and set their own prices.The biggest difference between Antseed and OpenRouter is that there is no unified platform responsible for forwarding in between. Buyers connect directly to providers, while Antseed is responsible for discovery, routing, reputation, and payment protocols. Ordinary providers can still see the requests they handle; users can also choose providers verified through TEE, allowing requests to run in a trusted execution environment.Antseed is also continuing to improve verification mechanisms such as model fingerprints, signature responses, and audits to prevent providers from misrepresenting cheaper models as more expensive ones. The code has been open-sourced, and the network is operational, although GitHub is currently addressing compatibility issues with Codex, Claude Desktop, and others.

According to SolanaFloor, the Solana perpetual futures trading platform Imperial has completed a $1.5 million seed round financing, with a valuation of $15 million, led by Foundation Capital and supported by angel investors in the Solana ecosystem.The funds from this round will be used to expand Imperial's product portfolio, including a perpetual contract aggregator, a lending platform, and the flagship project Armada. Imperial's Armada is a perpetual contract AMM in the Solana ecosystem, sourcing liquidity from DeFi platforms like Hyperliquid, allowing traders to access a deeper order book without leaving Solana.

OKX founder and CEO Star posted that he welcomes Circle, Ripple, and SC Ventures as investors in OKX. OKX is not raising funds due to financial needs but is choosing to bring in strategic partners who share a long-term vision consensus with OKX in areas such as stablecoins, payments, institutional markets, and next-generation financial infrastructure.ChainCatcher previously reported that, according to Bloomberg, the cryptocurrency exchange platform OKX completed a new round of financing with a valuation of $25 billion, with existing partners and hedge fund Qube Research & Technologies participating in the investment.OKX stated that Circle Internet Group, Ripple, and SC Ventures, the investment arm of Standard Chartered Bank, all participated in this round of financing. OKX declined to disclose the specific amount of financing but indicated that this round is an extension of the financing from March of this year. At that time, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), invested approximately $200 million in OKX at the same $25 billion valuation.

According to Bloomberg, cryptocurrency exchange platform OKX has completed a new round of financing with a valuation of $25 billion, with existing partners and hedge fund Qube Research & Technologies participating in the investment.OKX stated that Circle Internet Group, Ripple, and SC Ventures, the investment arm of Standard Chartered Bank, all participated in this round of financing. OKX declined to disclose the specific amount of financing but indicated that this round is an extension of the financing from March of this year. At that time, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, invested approximately $200 million in OKX at the same valuation of $25 billion.

The AI merger analysis platform Comparables.ai announced the completion of a $6 million seed round financing, led by Pragmatech and Araya Ventures, with participation from Purple Ventures, Gorilla Capital, hi5 Ventures, Somersault Ventures, and other institutions.

According to The Block, the tokenized currency fund issuer Spiko announced the completion of a $90 million Series B financing round, led by the venture capital firm NEA. After this round of financing, Spiko's total financing amount has reached $120 million.Currently, Spiko's assets under management (AUM) have reached $2.7 billion, with operations covering over 25 jurisdictions. The company plans to use the funds raised in this round of financing to launch new fund products, expand into more markets, and grow its team size.

According to Businesswire, AI security company Hadrian announced the completion of a $40 million financing round, led jointly by Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin, with participation from existing investors such as HV Capital, Motive Partners, Picus Capital, and Oetker Ventures.The company simulates an attacker's perspective for enterprises by combining Continuous Exposure Management and AI-driven penetration testing, helping to identify external attack surfaces, validate real risks, and optimize remediation priorities. After this financing round, Hadrian's total funding amount reaches $65 million, and the funds will be used to expand into the European and American markets, grow the engineering and research teams, and further develop its AI-driven cybersecurity platform.

According to Bloomberg, the AI company DeepSeek is nearing the completion of a new round of financing, expected to reach at least 80 billion yuan (approximately 12 billion USD), significantly exceeding the company's previous financing target of about 50 billion yuan. Insiders revealed that Tencent Holdings and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL) have committed to investing a substantial amount in this round of financing, with the related financing deal expected to be finalized soon.Due to the significant increase in market demand and investment interest following the release of DeepSeek's latest AI model, the scale of this financing has exceeded expectations, and the final amount may even approach 100 billion yuan. Previously, DeepSeek sought financing of about 50 billion yuan, while investor interest in its AI technology advancements has driven the financing scale further upward. DeepSeek has previously attracted attention from institutions such as Tencent and CATL, and is expanding its computing power infrastructure, AI model research and development, and team building through this financing.Bloomberg Línea reported that DeepSeek plans to conduct an initial public offering (IPO) in early 2027, and this large-scale financing will provide funding support for its development before going public. DeepSeek has gained global attention with its low-cost, high-performance AI models and is currently increasing its investment in next-generation AI technology and computing resources.

According to informed sources, Dark Side of the Moon has completed its final round of private financing, with a valuation of approximately 50 billion USD, and is advancing towards an initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong in the first quarter of next year.Sources say that the company has also begun preparations to understand investor intentions, with preliminary talks with investors potentially starting as early as this month. Informed sources indicate that discussions are still ongoing, and the timing of the IPO may also change.

According to TechInAsia, Singapore fintech company IPID announced the completion of a $16 million Series A funding round, led by Foundation Capital, with participation from Citigroup, HSBC, and existing investors QED Investors, Monk's Hill Ventures, and Quona Capital.The new funds will be used to optimize its global payment intelligence network and expand the construction of payment rails in the United States, stablecoins, and the digital asset market.

According to Bloomberg, OpenAI is in discussions with several investment funds from the UAE, seeking them to participate as core investors in a financing round of at least $30 billion. This includes MGX, headquartered in Abu Dhabi, and several UAE funds plan to form an investment consortium, with a total contribution potentially reaching $10 billion.BlackRock is also discussing participating in this financing round alongside the consortium. OpenAI has also been in talks with existing investors such as the University of California Endowment Fund, Thrive Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz regarding participation. The financing is still in progress, and the final investors and specific terms may change.OpenAI aims to raise funds with a pre-money valuation of approximately $1.4 trillion and has offered this valuation as a fixed price to investors without a determined lead investor. In March of this year, OpenAI completed a $122 billion financing with a post-money valuation of $852 billion. The company has postponed its IPO plans until at least next year, citing a current focus on AI safety work.

According to The Defiant, the Bitcoin wallet Xverse has completed a round of strategic financing, led by Draper Associates under Tim Draper, with participation from Trust Machines and Draper Dragon.The specific terms of this financing round have not been disclosed, and Xverse has not announced its financing amount or valuation.

According to Techinasia, Singapore fintech company IPID announced the completion of a $16 million Series A funding round, led by Foundation Capital, with participation from Citigroup, HSBC, and existing investors QED Investors, Monk's Hill Ventures, and Quona Capital.The new funds will be used to enhance its global payment intelligence network and expand the construction of payment rails in the United States, stablecoins, and the digital asset market.

According to official news, the broker HyperLink, based on Hyperliquid, announced the completion of a $2.5 million financing round, with participation from Alliance, North Island Ventures, Reverie, Node Capital, Breed, and smartestmoney.hl.HyperLink stated that the routing transaction volume on the protocol reached $254 million last month, accounting for 0.1% of Hyperliquid's trading volume, with the next phase goal being to capture 10% of the trading volume.

The co-founder of the real-world asset perpetual contract protocol Ostium, Kaledora, published a statement explaining the financial and revenue model of the protocol. She stated that approximately $44.7 million in total revenue over two years on Dune comes from four on-chain fees: $20.39 million in opening fees, $16.5 million in spreads, $4.75 million in rollover fees, and $3.35 million in liquidation fees.Of the aforementioned revenue, $22.14 million (49.6%) flows to the OLP treasury, $19.55 million (43.8%) is for liquidity costs, including $16.05 million for hedging and $3.49 million in hedging interest, leaving a gross profit of $2.96 million (6.6%). She noted that the total on-chain revenue does not include off-chain hedging costs, and prior to the liquidity upgrade in April, the protocol did not have the capability to monetize traffic; a security incident occurred just months after the system was upgraded.In terms of financing, Ostium raised $300,000 in 2022, $3.6 million in 2023, $4.1 million in 2024, and $19.4 million in 2025. The team is expected to expand from about 12 people in 2025 to 35 people by the second quarter of 2026, investing in costs related to data authorization, marketing, cloud infrastructure, auditing, and AI. She mentioned that the company has not reserved a balance sheet sufficient to cope with such incidents and that the silence has been too long. The next step will allow the remaining 345 OLP holders to share in business growth, with plans to announce the second phase recovery plan in the coming week.

The GPU infrastructure financing platform Silicon Exchange has announced its launch, positioning itself as a financing method for artificial intelligence infrastructure. Users can hold real shares of GPU infrastructure, while the platform is responsible for deployment and hosting, and computing power clients use the related hardware.Silicon Exchange stated that users can visit its official website to view the first GPU vault. The official announcement has not disclosed the scale of the vault, hardware models, financing structure, or specific profit arrangements in this post.

Volantis, a photonic interconnect chip company, announced on X that it has completed a $88 million Series A financing round. The company stated that it is addressing AI memory bottlenecks with optical solutions, configuring large amounts of high-speed memory for chips, and increasing single-chip memory bandwidth and capacity by several orders of magnitude to support high-speed inference for models with over 10 trillion parameters, with single-user speeds reaching up to 10,000 tokens per second.Volantis claims that this solution will initially be used to accelerate agents, reducing programming tasks from hours to minutes or seconds. The company also stated that the optical solution can enhance memory systems by several orders of magnitude generationally, rather than the typical doubling every year. Its team has been involved in the first CoWoS product, early HBM, the first silicon photonic CPO system, the first mass-produced tunable VCSELs, and the first processors with optical direct communication; it has now achieved transmission distances in chip packaging that exceed 10 times that of equivalent tiny conductive wires, with next-generation products already taped out, aiming to set records for bandwidth density at relevant distances.

Global payment infrastructure company Walapay announced the completion of a $4.6 million seed round financing, led by Gen Venture Capital, with participation from Commerce Ventures, Polygon, AAF Management, Verda Ventures, NGC Ventures, FGV Capital, JSquare, Reflexive, Big Brain VC, and others. Walapay stated that the funds will be used to acquire more licenses, expand banking partnerships, and grow the team.According to Walapay, the company is building a global payment infrastructure from the ground up, allowing users to open accounts, receive payments, exchange currencies, and make payments globally with a single integration. The underlying infrastructure includes licenses, banking partnerships, and local payment channels. The company claims that this capability is primarily aimed at cross-border capital flows in emerging markets, covering Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, with default support for global payments and extending to the local last mile.

According to Finbold, the AI perpetual trading platform PERPTools developed by DEXTools has raised a total of 8 million dollars through two rounds of token financing, including 3 million dollars in the pre-seed round and 5 million dollars in the seed round. Investors include BigBrain Holdings, NEAR, Animoca Brands, Sfermion, and Shima Capital.The platform plans to conduct its Token Generation Event (TGE) in the fourth quarter of 2026.

According to Bloomberg, global alternative asset management company Apollo Global Management will provide financing support for a $15 billion AI infrastructure project in Japan, further expanding its investment layout in the field of artificial intelligence.Apollo will act as a strategic investment and financing partner, participating in the project jointly promoted by UK developer RHAELM Holdings, Japan's largest power company Jera, and Dell Technologies. The project is located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, and aims to build infrastructure to support AI computing needs.