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According to Bloomberg, AI research institution DeepSeek plans to lead the seed round financing for robotics AI startup Winverse AI, with an investment amount reaching tens of millions of dollars. Winverse AI was founded by a former top AI scientist from Tencent and is currently still in a low-profile operational stage.In addition to DeepSeek, investors such as Long-Z Investments, an investment institution under Meituan, also participated in this round of financing, bringing the company's valuation to approximately 400 million dollars. DeepSeek will utilize its over 12 billion dollars in financing funds to support this investment, betting on the rapidly growing field of artificial intelligence and robotics technology. This investment indicates that DeepSeek is further expanding from large model research and development into the field of embodied intelligence and robotics AI.

Bitcoin Treasuries posted on platform X that billionaire Grant Cardone revealed to Peter Schiff that his company purchases more Bitcoin every month using cash flow from real estate and will buy an additional 500 Bitcoins through refinancing.The company is acquiring more Bitcoin using asset classes outside of real estate assets.

SWI Group has raised 800 million euros (approximately 895 million dollars) from institutional investors to expand its artificial intelligence data center and computing power infrastructure layout in the United States and Europe.The company also plans to transform eligible old Bitcoin mining sites into artificial intelligence infrastructure and is actively seeking to reach cooperation agreements with hyperscale cloud service providers.

The Smarter Web Company announced that it has raised $13.25 million through the UK's first Bitcoin-backed preferred stock IPO, MORE. MORE will begin trading on the main market of the London Stock Exchange this Wednesday, with the first weekly dividend scheduled to be paid on November 9.

Tsinghua-based AI infrastructure company Wuwen Xinqiong has completed a C round financing of 2.3 billion yuan, bringing the total financing to 4.3 billion yuan. The company was established in 2023, does not develop chips, nor does it build its own data centers. It integrates the computing power of different chips such as Huawei Ascend, NVIDIA, and AMD through software, providing large model training and inference services to customers.Developers can directly call the models via API without needing to deploy them themselves. Bloomberg reported on October 1, citing informed sources, that Wuwen Xinqiong has secretly submitted a listing application to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, with the earliest possible listing in the first half of 2027, and the pre-listing valuation is reportedly around 14.3 billion yuan.

In 2025, there were approximately 20 financing rounds in the domestic tactile sensor sector, with a total disclosed amount nearing 1.8 billion yuan. According to data from the Financial Association, in the first seven months of 2026, there were 15 financing rounds completed in the humanoid robot sensor field, totaling 3.1 billion yuan, with July alone accounting for 1.56 billion yuan. Related estimates indicate that the global tactile sensor market size will be around 6 billion yuan in 2026 and approximately 29 billion yuan in 2030.The tactile sensor company, PaxiNi, was founded by Xu Jincheng and Nie Xiangru in June 2021 in Shenzhen, with the Hall array sensor PX-6AX GEN3 starting at a price of 199 yuan. The company completed over 1 billion yuan in Series B financing in March, with a valuation exceeding 10 billion yuan, followed by 1 billion yuan in strategic financing in August and several hundred million yuan in B++ financing in September, accumulating over 4 billion yuan in total financing, with BYD as the largest external shareholder. On September 20, PaxiNi completed its counseling filing with the Beijing Securities Regulatory Bureau, with Guotai Junan as the counseling institution.The tactile perception chip company, Tashan Technology, was founded by Ma Yang, Sun Tengchen, and Yang Wuqiang in December 2017, with revenue exceeding 100 million yuan in 2024, and was listed by NVIDIA as the world's first tactile simulation partner for Isaac Sim. Qianjue Robotics was founded by Ma Daolin in May 2024, with Hillhouse Capital having led the angel round, and in September of this year, it completed two rounds of strategic financing totaling several hundred million yuan. Companies such as Daimeng, Weitai, Xiangmuguo, Yimu Technology, and Lingxin Qiaoshou also secured new financing or advanced higher valuation financing in 2026.

According to a report by Reuters, sources revealed that Nuvacore, a chip startup supported by Sequoia Capital, is seeking hundreds of millions in financing, with the company valued at approximately $2.5 billion.Founded just 6 months ago, Nuvacore has completed a seed round of financing led by Sequoia Capital and has not yet launched a product. The company plans to develop a new type of central processing unit (CPU) aimed at data centers. As the demand for computing power from AI applications continues to grow, the data center CPU market has attracted investor attention, with CPUs being used to coordinate AI chip tasks and run autonomous AI software agents to optimize common computing tasks for data centers and AI infrastructure.

Robinhood ecosystem AI project Orbio announced the completion of a $1.2 million seed round financing, with participating institutions not yet disclosed. The official statement indicated that this portion of funds will be used to build a track for self-configured computing, hardware, and top-notch private infrastructure.As of the time of publication, according to GMGN market data, the market capitalization of ORBIO tokens is reported at $53.42 million, with a 24-hour increase of 26%. ORBIO was issued on the Pons platform, based on Nvidia stock tokens. Public information shows that the project aims to create a low-cost AI points trading market, offering discounts on points for over 400 AI models, including Claude Fable and GPT Astra. The trading volume of related tokens is small, and price fluctuations are significant, so users should invest cautiously.

Artificial intelligence company TypeSafe AI announced the completion of its Series A financing, amounting to $870 million, with a valuation of $7.5 billion. This round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Sequoia Capital, existing investor DCVC, and a group of angel investors. Andreessen Horowitz partner Martin Casado has joined the board.The company stated that it will convert the funds into benefits for users, continue to refine the developer product Jev, provide more machine-native models, and build the infrastructure needed to create intelligent software. The company claims that one-third of the Fortune 500 companies are using Jev, which has saved customers millions of dollars in production environments, and will further enhance enterprise features requested by users.

Robot company Ultra announced the completion of a $62 million financing round, which includes a $50 million Series A led by Framework.Ultra stated that the robotics industry is facing issues of implementation and distribution, with deployment being the current bottleneck. The company believes that demonstrating the effectiveness of robots in controlled environments is relatively easy; the more challenging aspect is to have robots continuously operate and perform effectively in open environments, gain the trust of their human counterparts, and be able to repeat this process. Ultra claims that this is precisely the direction they are currently focusing on.

Polychain Capital founder and CEO Olaf Carlson-Wee announced at the Network State conference that Polychain is leading a new round of financing for Network School, with a valuation of $2 billion. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Coinbase, and Balaji himself, among other institutions and individuals, participated in the investment, with the specific financing amount not disclosed.Olaf stated that Polychain's investment strategy does not solely focus on incremental improvements but seeks projects that utilize new business models or technologies to solve problems in different ways. He expressed anticipation for participating in the financing of Network School and mentioned that he has known and collaborated with Balaji for over ten years.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Opinions on Developing New Quality Productive Forces," supporting high-quality technology enterprises to go public for financing, optimizing systems for mergers and acquisitions, equity incentives, and more for technology enterprises. The opinions also mentioned increasing the supply of financial innovation products, encouraging the development of angel investment, venture capital, and private equity investment, and improving long-term capital support policies.

Hong Kong Cyberport personnel clearly stated to RootData that, after internal verification, Cyberport is not an investor in Metafyed and does not hold any equity in the company.According to RootData, Metafyed is a blockchain-based real-world asset (RWA) tokenization platform, involved in private credit and project financing. The project previously disclosed completing a $5.5 million financing round and stated in the financing press release that it received "incubation and support" from Hong Kong Cyberport, Draper, and the Stellar Development Foundation.RootData marked this financing as "questionable" in March of this year. RootData reminds users to pay attention to the risks associated with the project, to prudently assess the relevant financing information, and welcomes users to provide verifiable information and correction leads to jointly supervise the platform's data quality, enhancing the accuracy and reliability of the data.

On October 8, SonicStrategy (CSE: SONI, OTCQB: SONIF), a digital asset infrastructure company listed in Toronto, Canada, announced the completion of the first phase of a non-brokered private placement, issuing 11,250,000 common shares at a price of CAD 0.20 per share, totaling CAD 2.25 million, all settled in 7,922,535 SYN tokens, without receiving cash.SYN is priced at USD 0.20 per token, with an agreed exchange rate of 1 USD to 1.42 CAD, equivalent to CAD 0.284, with the price confirmed in writing by all parties and approved by the board of directors. The company stated that from September 28 to October 7, the volume-weighted average price of SYN/USDC on Binance was approximately USD 0.1849. No warrants were issued in this phase, and no intermediary fees were paid; the shares are subject to a holding period restriction under Canadian securities law until February 9, 2027. After the closing, the total issued common shares are 60,870,466, with no new shareholders holding 10% or more; the first phase of the closing is still pending final acceptance by the Canadian Securities Exchange.CEO Dustin Zinger stated that this acquisition strengthens the company's digital asset portfolio and allows the company to access ecosystems including the on-chain options platform Hypercall. The received SYN is held in custody controlled by the company and can be used for staking, validating nodes, and operating digital asset infrastructure, or sold and converted to fund operations.

According to BBX data, yesterday global digital asset institutions disclosed the latest developments in capital operations, top venture capital layouts, and privacy infrastructure expansion. The core information is as follows:First Digital has reached a merger agreement with a SPAC, valuing at $250 million, aiming for a Nasdaq listing: The issuer of the dollar stablecoin FDUSD, First Digital, officially announced the signing of a final business merger agreement with the special purpose acquisition company CSLM Digital Asset Acquisition Corp III. The pre-transaction equity valuation for this deal is $250 million. Upon completion of the merger, First Digital will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of a newly established Cayman holding company, with its existing shareholders fully exchanged for Class A common stock of the holding company. The newly merged entity is expected to officially list on Nasdaq in the first half of 2027.AI trading agent startup Catalyst completes $30 million seed round financing, led by Sequoia Capital: AI trading agent startup Catalyst announced the completion of a $30 million seed round financing. This round was led by the world’s top venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, with participation from Wall Street high-frequency quantitative firm Jump Trading, Peak XV, Lux Capital, AntiFund, cryptocurrency exchange giant Coinbase, and Premji Invest, among other well-known institutions. The funds will be used to advance the development of the next-generation on-chain smart trading agent protocol.Blockchain privacy infrastructure Soda Labs receives exclusive $3 million seed round investment from NextBlock: Blockchain privacy infrastructure developer Soda Labs announced the completion of a $3 million seed round financing, exclusively invested by NextBlock. This funding will be specifically used for global market expansion, expanding the verification node network and blockchain support coverage, core team building, and accelerating the integration of its underlying protocol with commercial banks, traditional payment companies, and real-world asset (RWA) platforms. Soda Labs disclosed that its core privacy layer Bubble currently supports Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Base, and COTI, and is fully expanding to high-performance networks like Solana.

According to informed sources, OpenAI expects its annual revenue to reach or exceed $70 billion by the end of this year, driven by growth in its enterprise business. As of the end of September, OpenAI's annual revenue was approximately $50 billion. OpenAI disclosed this data to investors during discussions about its latest round of financing.

AI company Hone announced the launch of Engines, referring to it as AI that is accountable for business outcomes. Hone stated that chatbots provide answers, agents perform tasks, while Engines deliver results and measure the value created in actual dollars, rather than in model token usage or subjective feelings.According to Hone, users only need to specify a business metric, and the Engine will autonomously complete the integration, build the required agents, skills, and memory, collaborate with relevant personnel, and continuously improve with experience. Its clients have used Engines to discover millions of dollars in procurement savings, optimize product conversion funnels, manage credit risk, increase qualified sales pipelines in new regions, and accelerate implementation while improving customer management.Hone also announced the completion of a $60 million seed round financing, led by Benchmark and Index, with participation from Elad Gil, Hanabi, Definition, Diffusion, Lux, SV Angel, and Align. Hone stated that the foundational capabilities of AI have clearly outpaced the value it creates in the real world, and Engines will be used to bridge this gap.

Meanwhile co-founder and CEO Zachary Townsend stated that the company has completed a $37.5 million funding round from existing investors, led by Bain Capital Crypto, with participation from Haun Ventures, Framework, Pantera Capital, Digital Currents, and Apollo Global. The company has raised over $180 million in total, and this round of funding will be used to meet the demand for BTC life insurance from families in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.Meanwhile will launch the BTC Life 1-Pay product for customers outside the United States in early 2026, allowing users to pay premiums in Bitcoin as a one-time payment, receiving a guaranteed death benefit valued in Bitcoin for life. After the first year, up to 90% of the policy value can be borrowed, with no repayment plan. The company has announced partnerships with 15 brokers serving affluent families, covering Singapore, Hong Kong, the UAE, and Switzerland, with premium income expected to more than double year-on-year this year.