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South Korean AI chip design company DeepX has completed the first transaction of its Series D financing, raising 4.2 billion won from existing investors BNW Investment Co. and DS Asset Management Co. The latest valuation is approximately 3.14 trillion won (about 2.2 billion USD), which is an increase of about 4 times compared to the previous round's valuation.

Fortune Protocol announced the completion of its Pre-A round of financing, which received strategic support from several well-known institutions including MH Ventures, Mapleblock Capital, NewTribe Capital, Basics Capital, and Everwood Capital. The funds will primarily be used to accelerate the technological upgrade of Fortune Agent, expand liquidity in the prediction market, and build ecological infrastructure, further promoting the deep integration of AI and prediction markets.The completion of this Pre-A financing marks a new phase of ecological expansion for Fortune. In the future, Fortune will continue to advance AI Agent capability development, integrate more prediction markets, and foster global community ecosystem development in preparation for the upcoming TGE.It is reported that Fortune Protocol is an AI-driven prediction derivatives protocol that aggregates liquidity from prediction markets to provide users with a unified trading entry for prediction assets, and combines AI Agents to achieve market analysis, discovery of trading opportunities, and execution of intelligent strategies.

According to financing data statistics from RootData, in July 2026, the crypto primary market disclosed a total of 46 financing events, with a total financing amount of approximately $2.235 billion, representing a month-on-month increase of about 148.9% compared to approximately $898 million in June, and a year-on-year increase of about 90.0% compared to approximately $1.176 billion in July 2025. The number of financing events increased by 4.5% compared to 44 events in June, but decreased by 41.0% compared to 78 events in the same period last year. Additionally, there were 18 merger and acquisition events not included in the above statistics.From the perspective of sector distribution, CeFi was the highest amount sector this month, completing 9 financings with a disclosed amount of approximately $1.230 billion; the infrastructure sector completed 12 financings with a disclosed amount of approximately $413 million, ranking first in the number of events; DeFi completed 11 financings, but the disclosed amount was approximately $34.25 million, overall showing a characteristic of "active quantity, smaller amounts."The top three projects by financing amount were: Crypto.com ($400 million), Ionic Digital ($400 million), and Securitize ($400 million). In addition, projects such as Augustus ($180 million), Alpaca ($135 million), Prime Intellect ($130 million), and Gauntlet ($125 million) also received significant financing. The top five financing projects this month totaled approximately $1.515 billion, accounting for about 67.8% of the overall disclosed financing scale.Overall, the crypto financing market in July showed a significant rebound in terms of amount, with Coinbase Ventures, Dragonfly, Hack VC, and others remaining active, and capital mainly flowing into trading platforms, asset tokenization, institutional-level financial infrastructure, and AI/computing power-related infrastructure projects.

According to a report by LatePost, Ant Group's embodied intelligence company Lingbo Technology has launched its first round of financing, aiming to raise 1.5 billion yuan, and is striving to complete a second round of financing by the end of this year. The report points out that Lingbo has currently formed a relatively complete layout in the brain chain related to robot perception, understanding, and action, covering areas such as vision, depth, mapping, video, world models, VA, and VLA, thus attracting the attention of several investment institutions before the financing launch.The report states that funds in the embodied intelligence sector are currently accelerating towards the "embodied brain" direction. Ant Lingbo is seen as Ant Group's core vehicle in the fields of embodied and physical AI, and Ant will continue to provide support in areas such as AI infrastructure, data assets, and application scenarios. One of the core goals of this round of financing is to accelerate the development of Lingbo's embodied brain. The report also mentions that Lingbo's future valuation will depend on model generalization capabilities, real deployment and data flywheel, as well as whether it can grow into a global physical AI foundational model platform.

Recently, there are rumors in the market that TradeXYZ is conducting equity financing, aiming to raise $200 million at a valuation of $1.5 billion.Cobie stated that the probability of TradeXYZ securing financing is 0; another community member questioned why, if TradeXYZ needs financing, it does not raise funds from the Hyperliquid team led by Jeff.

The Singapore-based unified AI model API platform CloudSome has completed a $3.6 million seed round financing, with the investors undisclosed.The funds will be used to strengthen the platform, expand access to leading AI models, and provide more reliable infrastructure for developers and enterprises worldwide.

According to BTCtreasuries, Zhibao Technology announced that it has reached a private placement financing of $154.7 million in Bitcoin with non-U.S. investors, with a financing scale of 2,380 BTC. The company is a publicly listed company in China.

Investor Mark Cuban and "Big Short" Michael Burry recently issued warnings about the valuation risks of Nvidia (NVDA) and AI stocks. Cuban stated on the X platform that the current AI capital cycle bears similarities to the internet bubble of the 1990s, believing that Nvidia is playing the role of the IPO market back then, driving continuous capital inflow by supporting customers in purchasing AI chips.Burry, on the other hand, is concerned about the rising prices of Nvidia's credit default swaps (CDS) and claims that the scale of "circular financing" driven by Nvidia is expanding. He believes that some AI demand relies on financing support, and future revenues may be built on complex funding cycles. Previously, Nvidia's stock price fell about 5% in a single day, with a market value shrinkage of approximately $250 billion. The IMF and the Bank for International Settlements have also warned about the systemic risks that AI circular financing may bring. However, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang responded that the related criticisms are "absurd."

According to Cryptopolitan, the decentralized AI data network Perceptron has completed a $6.5 million strategic financing round, with participation from Sigma Capital, Selini Capital, and others. The funds will be used to build AI infrastructure and acquire AI training data from the Web3 community.Perceptron plans to launch a data task platform that allows AI companies to directly commission customized high-quality datasets from the community, aiming to expand the decentralized network to 5 million nodes. The CEO stated that through this platform, AI companies can obtain complete, verified datasets within days. The project is currently in the pre-airdrop phase, and users can earn points by contributing data.

Quantum Dynamics, a Physical AI platform company, recently completed a seed round financing of over 100 million yuan, jointly invested by Yunqi Capital and SenseTime. The company's founder was the CTO of Cainiao Group and also the technical leader of Alibaba's international digital business sector.The funds will primarily be used for the research and development of core Physical AI technologies, talent team building, and global market expansion, accelerating the full-link construction of intelligent systems aimed at the physical world from underlying models to scenario-based implementation. Quantum Dynamics was established in the first half of 2026, focusing on the deep integration of AI and the real physical world, developing its own underlying platform for Physical AI applicable across all industries.

According to TechCrunch, AI startup Simile completed a $200 million Series B funding round at a valuation of $2 billion just five months after finishing a $100 million Series A funding round, led by Greenoaks, with participation from Index Ventures, Hanabi, Bain Capital Ventures, A*, Factory, Definition, and CVS Health Ventures, with CVS also being a major client of Simile.Simile was founded by Stanford PhD Joon Sung Park, whose doctoral project "Smallville" allows AI agents to simulate human life. The company claims its goal is to "accurately and honestly simulate all 8 billion people on Earth," by simulating users for marketing and product research.

AI Agent Security Tool V12 announces the completion of a $10 million seed round financing, led by Electric Capital, with participation from ZachXBT, samczsun, Walden Yan, and others.Previously, V12 independently discovered a major vulnerability in a primary blockchain, which involved a risk of over $100 million in funds. The team thus received a $2.5 million bug bounty, the largest single bounty obtained by an AI agent. The team stated that their goal is to build a "cyber nuclear weapon"—an AI system capable of finding all vulnerabilities in a system, focusing on white-box code audits rather than black-box penetration testing, believing that the bug bounty system will disappear in the AI era, and the only solution is to eliminate vulnerabilities before the code goes live.V12 stated that the cryptocurrency industry is one of its key application scenarios. The team previously established the blockchain security company Zellic, completing over 1,500 security reviews and participating in multiple vulnerability research projects.

Aave founder Stani stated that the recent gradual contraction of low adoption assets and networks on Aave should not be interpreted as a judgment on any L1 or L2. This move is primarily aimed at reducing Aave's risk exposure in operational, technical, and economic aspects, thereby concentrating resources on more impactful key directions, including expanding existing high-value markets and developing securities financing business.He also emphasized that L2 remains an important component of the Ethereum user experience. For example, the stablecoin vault in the Aave application uses L2 as its accounting layer, with the goal of driving mainstream users into decentralized finance. Meanwhile, networks like Avalanche are also promoting the on-chain of real-world assets through institutional business expansion, which has been a relatively weak area for Ethereum in the past.

AI supply chain management startup Freehand announced the completion of a $75 million financing round, co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners, with participation from Nexus Venture Partners and the fund PSP Growth under former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker.Freehand's AI agents can autonomously handle tasks such as contract interpretation, vendor rate negotiations, overbilling identification, payment processing, and ERP system reconciliation. Clients include leading companies such as Meta, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Dunkin', and Cardinal Health.

According to TNW, enterprise AI infrastructure company Modus announced the completion of a $10 million seed round of financing, led by Insight Partners, with participation from Soma Capital, Bullet Ventures, and several tech founders.Modus simultaneously launched the "Context Warehouse" product, positioned as the contextual foundation layer for enterprise AI, which provides precise context for AI Agents by learning the actual usage patterns of business data (rather than merely storing data), potentially reducing unnecessary retrieval and token consumption by up to 10 times.

According to the New York Daily, the decentralized data infrastructure project Permacast based on Permaweb announced the completion of its Series A funding round on January 15, 2025, raising over $5 million. Combined with the previously completed seed round and Pre-A round, the total funding raised by the project has reached $8.9 million.This round of financing received support from several leading Web3 funds, technology investment institutions, and strategic angel investors. Seed round investors include OKX Ventures, Big Brain Holdings, ChainVision, Foresight Research, and Digital Humanism (DRF); Pre-A round investors include ClearingPoint, 7 O'Clock Capital, Cipholio Ventures, SilverFox Foundation, and a number of private investors; Series A round investors include CoinSummer, angel investor Tomasz Boryniec, Waterwood Investment (Tsinghua), Scorpio VC, and a number of private investors.Permacast stated that as AI models reshape the way information is created and utilized, the demand for trustworthy, permanent, and verifiable data infrastructure is growing. The new funds will be used to accelerate protocol development, expand decentralized network infrastructure, strengthen ecological cooperation, and expand the engineering and product teams. The team stated that a permanent, verifiable, and open data network will become the foundational infrastructure for future intelligent applications.

The AI revenue intelligence agent Sigvi in the car rental industry of Vilnius, Lithuania has completed a €1.2 million seed pre-financing to accelerate product development and international expansion. This round of financing was led by Superhero Capital.

According to Jinshi News, Moonshot AI has raised an unexpected $3.5 billion in a recently completed round of financing, with a valuation reaching $35 billion.

According to TechCrunch, bot detection startup Spur Intelligence has completed a $200 million financing round led by Insight Partners. Founded in 2017, the company's technology helps businesses distinguish between real users and hidden bot traffic, identifying fake users and threats.Cloudflare reported last month that by mid-2026, internet bot activity has surpassed human activity for the first time. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince stated that the growth of proxy traffic has exceeded expectations. Spur pointed out that with the surge of anonymizing infrastructures such as criminal VPNs and residential proxy networks, businesses face a blind spot where they can see activity but not the underlying infrastructure.

According to DealRoom, the Web3 integrated consumption platform Beezie announced the completion of a $4 million financing round, with Psalion participating through its early-stage fund Psalion VC Fund III.The platform generates on-chain digital twins of physical goods, enabling programmability, tradability, and cross-scenario combinations. Through gamification mechanisms, it transforms physical asset transactions into interactive consumption experiences. The new funds will be used for global market expansion.