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.

ChainCatcher news, the Avalanche ecosystem social protocol The Arena announced the completion of a $2 million Pre-Seed funding round. Investors include: Blizzard (Avalanche ecosystem fund), Ava Labs and members of the Avalanche leadership team, Balaji Srinivasan, Abstract Ventures, D1 Ventures, Saron Funds, Alpha Crypto Capital, as well as other angel investors from Galaxy Digital, Fenbushi, Republic, Espresso Systems, Efficient Frontier, and Dao5.

ChainCatcher news, the on-chain venture capital platform Fission Labs announced the completion of a $1.6 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by SALT Fund and Kraynos Capital, with participation from Anthony Scaramucci (Skybridge). The new funds are intended to drive Fission Labs to bring venture capital into on-chain DeFi applications. Its platform has launched a testnet on Ethereum to support both cryptocurrency-native users and traditional financial participants to invest in and trade tokenized private equity.

ChainCatcher news, blockchain and AI climate tech company Coral has completed a $3 million Pre-Seed funding round. According to a statement it disclosed, information about the investors and valuation will not be made public at this time. The new funds will enable Coral to open a new office in Abu Dhabi, hire more experts, and improve its AI platform, while also expanding its business and enhancing its blockchain-based carbon emissions management platform, which can achieve "full lifecycle traceability" of carbon credits using a blockchain backend.

ChainCatcher news, the encrypted front-end hosting solution EarthFast announced the completion of a $1.4 million Pre-Seed funding round, led by TheGP and Nascent, with participation from Bodhi Ventures, Infinex founder Kain Warwick, and Audius co-founder Roneil Rumburg.According to reports, EarthFast was initially launched in 2022 as a community project called Armada Network. EarthFast's first product is a front-end hosting solution that allows projects to transfer the responsibility of updating and deploying websites to a DAO, governance contract, or any other on-chain entity.

ChainCatcher news, according to Blockworks, Solana-based gaming company MagicBlock has completed a $3 million pre-seed funding round, with venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) participating. The company plans to use the new funds to expand its team and develop technology, including bringing its game engine to the Solana mainnet and collaborating with online games.It is reported that MagicBlock was founded in September 2023 and is currently developing a game engine that allows video games to run entirely on-chain.

ChainCatcher news, the gas fee optimization tool GasHawk has completed a $1.6 million Pre-Seed funding round, with participation from 3SE Holdings, AVID3, Artemis Capital, App Works, RedBread Ventures, Alchemy, and several angel investors. The funds raised will be used to continue expanding its trading layer IP while building new services around the Atomic Unit in crypto.The GasHawk model can predict and execute the lowest base fee over any time interval. Retail and institutional investors can set time sensitivity for their TX and seek the best execution method within that time frame.

ChainCatcher news, Solana yield optimization protocol Carrot has completed a $600,000 Pre-seed round of financing, with participation from BOOGLE, DKS Ventures, and angel investors Retired Chad Dev, DRiP founder vibhu, Nom, Kash Dhanda, ChartFu, Iced, and others.According to RootData, Carrot is the simplest way to passively earn from Solana DeFi using a single token, which offers the highest average yield. By continuously monitoring each lending protocol, it rebalances funds when better rates are available. Carrot ensures that stablecoins achieve higher APRs more quickly, thereby efficiently and effectively optimizing returns.

ChainCatcher news, Ethereum scaling solution t1 protocol has completed a $2.5 million Pre-seed round of financing, led by a16z CSX, with participation from Espresso, Frax, Cow Swap, ETH Global, ENSO, INJECTIVE, TITAN, as well as Guy Wuollet, Ali Yahya, Eric Chen, and others.In addition, t1 protocol has become a member of a16z Crypto Startup School (CSX).According to RootData, the t1 protocol is a fast finality scaling solution for Ethereum. It supports real-time proof generation to unify Ethereum.

ChainCatcher news, privacy-focused fintech company Biptap announced the completion of a $2 million Pre-Seed funding round. The names of the investors have not been disclosed, but it is reported that they include several Web3 decentralized investment funds, a travel service provider with a network of 2.5 million hotels, a crypto technology company that once owned a MotoG racing team, and a former founder of a crypto investment fund. Currently, its business mainly operates in the Web3 space, and the new funds will be used to expand its business into markets beyond Web3, ensuring that users can control their financial transactions with privacy at the core.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the Bitcoin native stablecoin project Ducat on Runes has completed a $1.25 million Pre-Seed funding round, led by UTXO Management, with participation from THE CMS, Bitcoin Frontier Fund, Revelo Intel, MARIN DIGITAL VENTURES, Samara Asset Group, Bitcoin Startup Lab, Bitflow, X+, and others.Ducat addresses the centralization issues in the stablecoin market by providing a Bitcoin-native, self-custodial, and permissionless smart contract system, catering to Bitcoin holders' preferences for security and autonomy. The governance token DUCAT offers a stablecoin solution that combines Bitcoin's censorship resistance with decentralized native collateral.