ChainCatcher news, the MegaETH ecosystem decentralized perpetual contract exchange Valhalla has announced the completion of a $1.5 million Pre-Seed funding round. Robot Ventures led the round, with participation from GSR, Kronos, MitonC, Wincent, Hash3, BigBrain Holdings, Sumcap, and a number of angel investors.It is reported that Valhalla is committed to creating a financially open, composable, and community-driven world.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cryptonews, Bitcoin savings application developer BitDCA announced the completion of a $2 million Pre-Seed funding round, with investor information not yet disclosed. The new funds are intended to support the development of a Bitcoin savings application called "Littlebit."

ChainCatcher news, according to Cryptonews, the decentralized AI agent payment protocol Skynet has completed a $1.2 million Pre-Seed funding round. This round of funding was supported by donations from well-known angel investors affiliated with GitHub, Polygon, Veracode, and Monotype. The funds will be used to develop "The World's Resource Blockchain," a system aimed at connecting global resources, enabling AI agents to autonomously execute payments and perform tasks across multiple platforms.It is reported that the Skynet interface provides AI agents with access to resources, transaction capabilities, and integration with decentralized applications (dApps) across multiple virtual machines (VMs). Skynet's infrastructure is built on Arbitrum's Orbit chain, providing payment and tracking mechanisms. This enables AI agents to accomplish real-world tasks, including booking flights, managing accommodations, and handling financial portfolios.

ChainCatcher news, the crypto AI startup Fraction AI has completed a $6 million Pre-seed funding round, led by Spartan and Symbolic, with participation from Borderless Capital, Anagram, Foresight Ventures, and Karatage, as well as angel investors Sandeep Nailwal from Polygon and Illia Polosukhin from NEAR Protocol. The funding round is structured as a Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE), with attached token warrants.Fraction AI's public testnet is expected to launch next month, with the mainnet anticipated to be released by the end of Q1 or early Q2 of 2025.Founded in February, Fraction AI is a crypto AI startup aimed at decentralizing data labeling. Data labeling involves tagging raw data (such as images, text, or audio) with meaningful labels to train AI models to recognize patterns and make accurate predictions. Fraction AI employs a hybrid data labeling approach that combines human insights with AI agents. The platform will have three main participants: stakeholders, builders, and judges.

ChainCatcher news, according to Decrypt, the content tokenization platform Promeet has completed a $3.1 million Pre-seed funding round. This round of financing was raised through a Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE), and the funds will be used to expand the team, enhance platform features, and grow the user base.According to the Web3 asset data platform RootData, Promeet is a content monetization platform that enables creators, professionals, and influencers to control their revenue streams, offering various ways to engage audiences and profit from live and recorded video content.

ChainCatcher news, according to Coindesk, the stablecoin infrastructure protocol Perena has completed a Pre-Seed funding round of approximately $3 million, led by Borderless Capital. The protocol was founded by Anna Yuan, the former stablecoin head at the Solana Foundation.Anna Yuan stated that Perena is building an exchange pool that allows traders of seven different stablecoins to swap between assets. Stablecoin holders will be able to earn additional yield by lending their assets into the pool.In addition to the mining pool infrastructure, Perena also plans to establish a "synthetic currency," which Yuan claims will be more resilient than the fiat currency most people hold in traditional bank accounts. This will take the form of a "collateralized debt position" (CDP) stablecoin backed by other stablecoins. Perena has not finalized its design yet, but Anna Yuan hopes that building the CDP alongside stable exchanges will create more "synergies."Previous news, Binance Labs announced an investment in the stablecoin infrastructure protocol Perena.

ChainCatcher news, the blockchain Mandala Chain has completed a $1 million Pre-Seed funding round, led by Harbour Industrial Capital, with participation from O-DE Capital, NLS Ventures, and strategic partners from the Polkadot ecosystem. This funding will enable Mandala Chain to scale its operations, establish strategic partnerships, and expand its influence in emerging markets.Mandala Chain focuses on deploying real-world use cases, aiming to drive meaningful adoption of blockchain technology, starting from Indonesia.

ChainCatcher news, according to Fortune, OpenAI's former voice research director and head of ChatGPT voice features, Alexis Conneau, announced the founding of WaveForms, which has secured $40 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The company was co-founded with business strategy expert Coralie Lamaitre and focuses on the development of Emotional General Intelligence (EGI), aiming to create audio LLMs that can understand nuances in voice such as tone, pitch, and accent.The core goal of WaveForms is to push the boundaries of audio AI. Conneau stated that audio is the primary emotional social layer of AI. Unlike existing systems like Alexa and Siri, WaveForms will focus on developing audio LLMs that can capture emotional details and understand the context of conversations.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the decentralized AI agent project Scrypted has announced the completion of a $1.5 million Pre-Seed funding round, led by Palm Tree Crew Crypto, with participation from a16z crypto CSX. The new funds will be used to drive its potential in gaming, social platforms, and finance, and to build tools supporting decentralized vertical industries for autonomous AI agents.At the core of Scrypted is the Inori network, which aims to make AI agents fully autonomous virtual beings (AVB). Thanks to funding from the AWS Activate program, Inori has begun developing a centralized service and resource coordination layer for AI agents, built on Amazon Web Services.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the platform Gaib, which creates financial infrastructure for AI computing, announced the completion of a $5 million seed round financing. This financing was co-led by Hack VC, Faction, and Hashed, with strategic follow-on investments from well-known institutions including Spartan, CMCC, L2IV, Animoca Brands, IVC, MH Ventures, Presto, J17, IDG Capital, 280 Capital, Aethir, and Near Foundation, as well as support from several angel investors.GAIB aims to provide more liquidity and accessibility for AI computing by tokenizing GPU assets. GAIB has completed prototype development and will launch a pilot project this month, with plans to release the Alpha product and platform token within the next two months. The platform will support multiple blockchains, including Ethereum, Base, and BNB Chain. Headquartered in Singapore, GAIB currently has 19 employees and plans to further expand the team to drive research and development as well as marketing.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, Margarita Finance has announced the completion of a $1 million Pre-Seed funding round, with participation from Tomahawk.VC, Outrun Ventures, G-20 Group, and N&V Capital. In addition, Margarita Finance has also received funding from the Solana Foundation.It is reported that Margarita Finance is an investment platform built on the Solana blockchain, bringing Wall Street-style structured products into the cryptocurrency world, providing returns through customizable "yield boosters." Users can choose their own crypto assets, lock-up periods, and target yields, while the platform employs options strategies to generate returns.

ChainCatcher news reports that the decentralized AI-as-a-service cloud project Heurist has completed a $2 million Pre-Seed funding round, with participation from institutions such as Amber Group, Contango Digital Assets, Manifold, Selini Capital, Sharding Capital, X Ventures, Zephyrus Capital, Mozaik Capital, Steroids Capital, and several angel investors.According to RootData, Heurist is a Layer2 network based on ZK Stack for hosting and inference of artificial intelligence models. It provides serverless access to open-source AI models hosted by a decentralized computing resource network. Its vision is to leverage blockchain to democratize artificial intelligence, ensuring accessibility and equitable innovation.

ChainCatcher news, according to Tech Funding News, London-based AI creative workflow platform Workflow has completed a $3 million pre-seed funding round. This round was led by Venrex, an early investor in Revolut, with participation from 8VC, investors in Asana, as well as scout funds from Sequoia, Octopus, and Index Ventures.Workflow was founded in 2023 by former Meta AI engineer Allis Yao, former Yelp product manager Paul Sanglé-Ferrière, and Rota co-founder Will Taylor.The platform integrates mainstream design software such as Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud, helping creative teams manage assets through an AI-driven review system, saving creatives hundreds of hours of work time each month.

ChainCatcher news, ZK full-chain data proof platform Brevis Network announced the completion of a $7.5 million seed round financing, led by Polychain Capital and Binance Labs, with participation from IOSG Ventures, Nomad Capital, Bankless Ventures, HashKey Capital, and others.According to reports, Brevis is a ZK co-processor or computing network designed to enhance blockchain scalability through ZK proofs. By performing complex tasks such as data processing off-chain and only sending verified proofs back to the blockchain, Brevis aims to alleviate the workload of the blockchain, increase speed, and reduce costs.

ChainCatcher news, Web3 AI content recommendation system ❜mbd has completed a $3 million Pre-seed funding round, led by Mask Network and Polymorphic Capital, with participation from a16z CSX, Forward Research, Social Graph Ventures, and WAGMI Ventures.❜mbd has established a machine learning recommendation system that pre-trains on on-chain data, aiming to provide dynamic and relevant content and actions for each user. ❜mbd's flagship product is a set of machine learning APIs for Web3 developers, designed to provide users with relevant and timely social content, minting, and trading by integrating on-chain and off-chain data.

ChainCatcher news, according to TheBlock, the verifiable autonomous agent network Axal has announced the completion of a $2.5 million Pre-Seed funding round, led by CMT Digital, with participation from a16z Crypto Startup School, Escape Velocity, IDG Vietnam, Artichoke Capital, Trident Digital, Blockchain Builders Fund, Blockhunters Group, Echo, and Mentat Group, as well as angel investors such as Rushi Manche, Darius Rugys, and Comfy Capital.As part of the Movement Labs Move Collective accelerator program, Axal plans to deploy on Movement's main chain at launch, supporting Movement DeFi applications such as Meridian and Echelon through verifiable agents.

ChainCatcher news, according to Chainwire, the Web3 open software library KRNL Labs has completed a $1.7 million Pre-Seed funding round, with participation from TRGC, Superscrypt, Ryze Labs, Builder Capital, Blockchain Founders Fund, WAGMi Ventures, STIX, YAP Capital, and several strategic angel investors.KRNL Labs is innovating at the RPC node level to achieve cross-chain communication, creating a new type of software management for Web3. KRNL Labs unlocks the ability to share libraries across blockchain networks, changing the way tasks are executed.It is reported that KRNL Labs was founded by Tahir Mahmood and Asim Ahmad in 2022, aiming to address the fragmentation issues in Web3 and the inefficiencies of integrating existing solutions.

ChainCatcher news, KRNL Labs has completed a $1.7 million Pre-seed funding round, with participation from TRGC, Superscrypt, Ryze Labs, Builder Capital, Blockchain Founders Fund, WAGMi Ventures, STIX, YAP Capital, and several strategic angel investors.KRNL Labs is innovating at the RPC node level to achieve cross-chain communication, creating a new type of software management for Web3. KRNL Labs unlocks the ability to share libraries across blockchain networks, changing the way tasks are executed.It is reported that KRNL Labs was founded by Tahir Mahmood and Asim Ahmad in 2022, aiming to address the fragmentation issues in Web3 and the inefficiencies of integrating existing solutions.

ChainCatcher news, Bitcoin protocol layer Surge announces the completion of a $1.8 million Pre-Seed funding round, with participation from Autonomy, Gerstenbrot Capital, Double Peak Group, Sats Ventures, Vamient Capital, Samara AG, and angel investors including Rushi Manche from Movement Labs, CoinGecko co-founder Bobby Ong, and TM Lee.The new funding will drive the development of its MetaLayer to fully realize Bitcoin's potential as a global currency base layer.Surge stated that it plans to launch its testnet soon.

ChainCatcher news, Bitcoin protocol layer Surge announces the completion of a $1.8 million Pre-Seed round of financing, with participation from Autonomy, Gerstenbrot Capital, Double Peak Group, Sats Ventures, Vamient Capital, Samara AG, and angel investors including Rushi Manche from Movement Labs, CoinGecko co-founders Bobby Ong and TM Lee.The new funding will drive the development of its MetaLayer to fully leverage Bitcoin's potential as a global monetary base layer.It is reported that Surge plans to launch its testnet soon.According to RootData, Surge is a modular Rollup as a Service (RaaS) platform aimed at the Bitcoin ecosystem. Surge provides a platform for launching high-performance, customizable, general-purpose, or application-specific Rollups on Bitcoin, significantly reducing their time to market.