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According to Bloomberg, Moment is a fintech company founded by former Citadel Securities quantitative traders and researchers. After signing partners such as Edward Jones, LPL Financial, and Hightower Advisors over the past year, the company completed a $78 million funding round, led by Index Ventures, with existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Avra also participating. Moment primarily helps financial institutions automate fixed income and equity trading technology. The company's previous funding round was in July last year, when it raised $36 million.

Stablecoin infrastructure startup Checker announced the completion of an $8 million pre-seed and seed funding round, with participation from Galaxy Ventures, Al Mada Ventures, Framework Ventures, Bitso, Airtm, DFS Lab, Onigiri Capital, SNZ Capital, and Velocity. The project's main business is to help financial institutions launch and scale stablecoins and related products by providing a single API.It is reported that Checker has processed over $3 billion in transaction volume in the past 12 months and plans to use the new funds to expand its network of financial institutions to Brazil, Kenya, Hong Kong, and the United States, while also planning to launch AI agents for customer onboarding, compliance assessments, and treasury operations.

The stablecoin infrastructure startup Checker announced the completion of an $8 million pre-seed and seed funding round, with participation from Galaxy Ventures, Al Mada Ventures, Framework Ventures, Bitso, Airtm, DFS Lab, Onigiri Capital, SNZ Capital, and Velocity.The project's main business is to help financial institutions launch and scale stablecoins and related products by providing a single API. It is reported that Checker has processed over $3 billion in transaction volume in the past 12 months and plans to use the new funds to expand its network of financial institutions to Brazil, Kenya, Hong Kong, and the United States, while also planning to launch AI agents for customer onboarding, compliance assessments, and treasury operations.

According to the official announcement, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed amendments to the rules and forms related to registered offerings, aiming to enhance the efficiency, flexibility, and reduce costs of public fundraising for listed companies, while simplifying the information disclosure framework for listed companies.According to the proposal, more listed companies will be able to conduct shelf offerings, and more companies will be eligible for registration and communication conveniences that were previously only available to "well-known seasoned issuers." Broker-dealers will be able to provide research coverage for more listed companies, and the state securities law registration and qualification requirements for multi-state registered offerings will be excluded at the federal level.Additionally, the proposal suggests raising the threshold for large accelerated filers from $700 million to $2 billion, with the stipulation that companies will not be included in this category based on market capitalization for at least 60 months post-IPO. The public comment period will last for 60 days after publication in the Federal Register.

According to Fortune magazine, Eisen announced the completion of a $10 million Series A financing round, led by MissionOG, bringing its total funding to $18.5 million. Previously, the company completed an $8.5 million seed round, led by Index Ventures, which had not been publicly disclosed. Institutions such as First Round Capital, Cowboy Ventures, Homebrew, and Restive Ventures also participated.Eisen provides a service to financial service platforms for handling the "unclaimed property transfer" process, while also helping to locate clients and prevent funds from being transferred to state governments in the U.S. after becoming unclaimed. The company's co-founder Osgood (formerly a product manager at Coinbase) is particularly focused on the field of crypto assets. An increasing number of states are beginning to view crypto assets as transferable unclaimed property. Although the amounts may be small individually, the overall scale is quite substantial: U.S. states collectively hold about $70 billion in funds through the escheatment mechanism, which are assets legally turned over to state governments after accounts have been inactive for a long time.

According to Forbes, the cryptocurrency trading platform Ouinex announced the completion of a $3.5 million financing round, bringing the total funding to $9 million. It is reported that all investors in this round of financing are retail and professional traders from the platform, with no venture capital firms involved. The new funds will be used to build a "Non-Centralized Order Book (No-CLOB)" model, aiming to avoid and protect retail traders from directly competing with large market makers. It is reported that the platform uses a pricing mechanism similar to that of forex and CFD brokers, with market makers providing buy and sell quotes, but they cannot view user orders or trade directly with users.

Web3 user-generated content (UGC) platform Tomoland announced the completion of a $2 million financing round, led by Sky9 Capital, with participation from WAGMI Ventures, Aureus Dealers, and angel investors from Meta, Depinx Capital, Netease, and Virtuals. The new funds are intended to support its efforts to build a system that combines user-generated content with Web3 ownership and to promote the integration of the gaming ecosystem with the Web3 economy.

According to Techfundingnews, London-based AI audit automation startup Calibre has announced the completion of a $3.3 million Pre-Seed funding round, led by Vicus Ventures and CIV.Calibre was founded by former Palantir executives with the goal of using AI Agents to enhance efficiency in the certification and auditing industry. The company believes that current auditors spend a significant amount of time on document review and process organization rather than applying professional judgment. Calibre plans to deploy AI Agents to automatically handle repetitive tasks such as document review, information extraction, and compliance verification, aiming to reduce labor costs and improve efficiency in the certification industry.Investors believe that the certification and auditing industry has long faced issues of cumbersome processes and high reliance on manual labor, and that AI Agents are expected to become an important infrastructure in this field.

According to The Block, the AI settlement layer AEON has completed an $8 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by YZi Labs, with participation from IDG Capital, HashKey Capital, Stanford Blockchain Builders Fund, and Oak Grove Ventures. The structure of this financing round and the post-investment valuation have not been disclosed. AEON plans to use the funds from this round to develop a settlement layer aimed at supporting interactions between AI agents.AEON launched its first AI payment product in May, enabling AI agents to connect with over 50 million physical merchants worldwide. In addition, AEON has partnered with BNB Chain to launch a product called x402 Facilitator, which is natively built on BNB Chain infrastructure, providing verifiable transactions, on-chain settlements, and tamper-proof receipts for service providers within the BNB ecosystem.

According to NADA NEWS, ReYuu Japan, a company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Standard Market, announced that, after mutual consultation, it has terminated the basic agreement reached with the Canadian investment company Universal Digital Inc. regarding a financing framework of up to $100 million (approximately 15 billion yen).The agreement was originally intended to promote external financing arrangements related to its cryptocurrency asset reserve (DAT) strategy, but it was not a formal loan contract, and the establishment of the financing framework or actual borrowing had not been completed. ReYuu Japan stated that the capital market environment for listed companies implementing cryptocurrency asset reserve strategies has changed, and investor attitudes have become more cautious; this termination does not mean that its cryptocurrency asset reserve strategy is halted, and it will continue to assess based on market conditions, financial stability, and shareholder value.

The tokenized financial market infrastructure Digital Asset Clearing Center (DACC) announced the completion of a $10 million strategic financing, with participation from Conflux, Global InfoTech, Fosun International, Blockstone, Avior Capital, Fintech World, Satoshi Ventures, and BridgeTower. DACC currently provides end-to-end "Clearing-as-a-Service" for financial institutions, and the new funds will support its construction of compliant financial settlement and clearing infrastructure.

According to Aastocks, the tokenized financial market infrastructure Digital Asset Clearing Center (DACC) announced the completion of a $10 million strategic financing, with participation from Conflux, Global InfoTech, Fosun International, Blockstone, Avior Capital, Fintech World, Satoshi Ventures, and BridgeTower.DACC currently provides end-to-end "Clearing-as-a-Service" for financial institutions, and the new funds will support its construction of compliant financial settlement and clearing infrastructure.

According to a report by the Wall Street Journal cited by Jinshi, Anthropic is seeking to raise $30 billion in refinancing, with the artificial intelligence lab absorbing most of the venture capital funds.

The BNB ecosystem decentralized finance platform Eleutheria announced the completion of a $5 million strategic round of financing, with participation from Alpha Capital, and valuation information has not yet been disclosed.The new funds will support its development of on-chain financial services through trustless code-driven DeFi and immutable smart contracts.

According to CoinDesk, Nasdaq-listed company SUI Group and London hedge fund Karatage jointly led a $15 million financing round for Nof1, an AI research lab focused on financial markets. The two previously also partnered with TwinPath Ventures to invest in Recursive Superintelligence, a self-evolving AI startup valued at over $4 billion.Both investments are based on the same core judgment: autonomous AI agents will become the core infrastructure of the investment field in the future, and companies that establish training environments today may dominate the future financial landscape.

Strategy's preferred stock STRC recorded a record trading volume on Thursday, with a transaction amount reaching $1.53 billion, more than quadrupling the average over the past 30 days. Reports indicate that this peak in trading mainly occurred on the eve of the ex-dividend date, with a large number of trades priced at or above the $100 par value level. STRC currently offers an annualized cash dividend of approximately 11.5%, paid monthly.The high trading volume propelled Strategy to complete a new round of Bitcoin accumulation through its ATM (at-the-market) financing mechanism, purchasing approximately 11,707 BTC, allowing the company to continue expanding its position as the largest publicly traded Bitcoin holder in the world. Market data shows that STRC slightly retreated by about 1% in pre-market trading after entering ex-dividend trading, approaching the trading range just below $100, consistent with the usual price adjustment pattern for dividend-paying assets after the ex-dividend date. During the same period, the price of Bitcoin slightly weakened to around $80,500, and Strategy's common stock also fell by about 2%, reflecting the continued significant correlation between cryptocurrency assets and the company's stock price.

According to the Financial Times, several large technology companies, including Alphabet and Amazon, are accelerating their entry into the global bond market, raising funds through large-scale overseas bond issuance to support the expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure and computing power.The report states that this round of financing activities has reached a new high in recent years, reflecting the increasing demand for long-term capital expenditures among tech giants in the AI race, particularly focused on data centers, computing clusters, and cloud infrastructure construction.Analysts believe that against the backdrop of high interest rates, companies are choosing to optimize their financing structure globally, diversifying funding costs and term risks through multi-currency debt markets, further strengthening their capacity for investment in AI infrastructure.