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Recently, the socialized Meme trading platform Baola, strategically invested by Gate Ventures, has entered the product internal testing phase. Baola is positioned as a socialized trading platform aimed at the Meme market, exploring the combination of social content and Meme trading around aspects such as hot topic discovery, market information tracking, community interaction, and trading participation.According to the official introduction, Baola's brand proposition is "Your next Meme is on Baola," aggregating information such as popular calls, KOL dynamics, on-chain trading data, and community interactions. Users can view Caller, the number of token mentions, market capitalization at the time of the call, and subsequent peak performance, and discover active market participants through features like KOL rankings and Callout boards, gaining insights into market hotspots and participant performance from multiple dimensions.In terms of community interaction, Baola supports users in independently publishing calls and market opinions, and allows them to continuously follow interested Callers through Follow. The platform also combines KOL public calls with on-chain trading dynamics, providing information on historical calls, recent performance, and buying and selling behaviors, further linking opinion sharing, hot topic discovery, and trading participation. Currently, Baola has entered the product internal testing phase and is continuously improving the socialized trading experience in the Meme field. Users can visit the official website (https://bao.la/) for more details.

Cointelegraph cites a report from DWF Ventures stating that among the 20 largest crypto treasury companies, only 4 have trading prices higher than the value of their holdings.The report points out that this situation undermines the model these companies previously used for financing and continuing to buy crypto assets. Crypto treasury companies typically raise funds through methods such as issuing stocks, and then use the funds to increase their holdings of crypto assets like Bitcoin. The relationship between their stock prices and net asset value is a key indicator of whether this model can be sustained.

According to Fortune, the venture capital firm Solari Capital has officially announced its emergence from stealth mode. Founder AJ Scaramucci (son of Anthony Scaramucci) has deployed approximately $350 million since the company's inception, covering early-stage investments, late-stage growth rounds, and internal incubation businesses.Solari is focused on four major tracks centered around the core argument of "programmable reality": programmable intelligence (AI/large models, including xAI, Suno), programmable biology (gene therapy, longevity technology, including Tessera Therapeutics, Cambrian Bio), programmable materials (aerospace, energy, robotics, including Varda Space, Northwood Space), and programmable finance (blockchain infrastructure, DeFi, including Genius Terminal, Architect Financial). In addition, Scaramucci has included collectibles (comics, trading cards, dinosaur fossils) in the investment landscape, viewing them as "cultural value storage" assets alongside gold and Bitcoin, and claims that this market has a scale of $25 trillion, which has not yet been fully tapped by institutional capital.The investor lineup behind the company includes well-known Silicon Valley figures such as Ron Conway, Jim Breyer, and Eric Schmidt.

According to CoinDesk, asset management company ARK Invest announced a partnership with tokenization platform Securitize to tokenize its ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX), initially issuing it on Ethereum, with potential expansion to other blockchains in the future. The fund invests in private and public companies, with holdings including OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, and Databricks. ARK founder and CEO Cathie Wood stated that bringing the ARK Venture Fund on-chain is a natural extension of its mission to democratize investment in disruptive innovation.Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo stated that this move provides investors with diversified exposure to popular private tech companies, allowing them to hold both OpenAI and Anthropic simultaneously if they are uncertain about which will win the AI race. He also noted that tokenization does not put these companies or their shares on-chain; instead, investors receive an on-chain representation of the fund's equity, while the underlying assets remain private, but user investments are liquid. Securitize also plans to provide daily net asset values and support on-chain market trading of fund equity.This collaboration builds on the existing relationship between the two parties, as ARK made a strategic investment in Securitize last year. Currently, Wall Street asset management companies are accelerating the introduction of traditional financial products to the blockchain, with early attempts like BlackRock's BUIDL and Franklin Templeton's BENJI fund primarily focused on U.S. Treasury and money market products, now expanding into stocks and private markets.

SparkLabs Group, Mirae Asset Venture Investment, Qazaqstan Investment Corporation (QIC) from the National Fund of Kazakhstan, and IT Park Ventures from Uzbekistan have signed a term sheet to establish the SparkLabs Mirae Silk Road Fund I LP venture capital fund, managed by Mirae Asset Venture Investment and SparkLabs Group. The signing ceremony took place in Seoul during the state visit of the presidents of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to South Korea and the first Central Asia-Korea Summit.QIC and IT Park Ventures are both anchor investors. The new fund will invest in Series A and later-stage startups in the Central Asia region with validated business models that are ready to expand beyond the region, focusing on AI-native companies, although not limited to this industry. Portfolio companies will receive support from SparkLabs and Mirae Asset's global network, as well as assistance in expanding to South Korea, the United States, and the Middle East.

According to CoinDesk, as Bitcoin returns to the $80,000 mark, venture capitalist Jason Calacanis wrote a "eulogy" for Bitcoin, stating that "Bitcoin is like CDs in the Spotify era and DVDs in the Netflix era," and that "the dead cat is still bouncing."He further pointed out that Bitcoin is not outstanding in trading and smart contracts, the user experience is daunting, and it no longer sparks the public's imagination; "If Bitcoin were to achieve mass adoption and significant use cases, it would have done so long ago."Calacanis also joked that people expect Bitcoin to remain stable, and it is no longer a quick way to get rich, saying, "It's boring... advocates have transformed from pirates to suit-wearing individuals with orange ties, awkwardly sharing cringeworthy memes."In response, MicroStrategy co-founder Michael Saylor stated, "You have watched Bitcoin grow since 2011; it is now a $1.6 trillion success and the most valuable digital asset in the world." He expressed that "digital capital is a killer application, and preserving wealth across generations is a grander ambition than pleasing dinner guests," and emphasized that "the orange tie will not come off."

According to official news, Robinhood's Robinhood Ventures Fund I (RVI) participated in the $3.9 billion Series F financing of AI infrastructure company Crusoe, with an investment amount of $25 million.Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev stated that AI infrastructure is just as important as models, and RVI investors now indirectly hold equity in Crusoe through this fund.

Cosmos Ventures, a venture capital firm, has announced its establishment. Brendan McCord and Matt Mandel launched Fund I with a scale of $77.6 million, which will support philosopher-type builders who establish institutions for the AI era. McCord is the founder of Cosmos Institute and Cosmos Ventures, while Mandel comes from Union Square Ventures. The fund has invested in AIUC, Prime Intellect, Workshop Labs (which has been acquired by Thinking Machines), and an undisclosed education company. LPs include Reid Hoffman, Joe Liemandt, Stand Together, Fred Wilson, Micky Malka, and Astera Institute.Cosmos Ventures stated that AI represents the largest institutional building window since the founding of the United States. The world has previously developed around the assumption of intelligence being bound to humanity, and AI is breaking this binding, with many necessary institutions yet to be established. Institutional coding theorizes how to live together, and founders must answer normative questions that machines cannot answer and become philosopher-type builders. The institution proposes the slogan for the AI era, "Condere aude," which means dare to create.

Chris Ahn, a partner at Haun Ventures, stated that the insurance industry is massive, with global premiums accounting for about 7% of the world's GDP, which is approximately $7.8 trillion annually, exceeding Germany's GDP. Insurance covers nearly all households and businesses, but mature economies have seen almost no new giants emerge for decades, as larger balance sheets are better able to absorb losses.Ahn noted that three major transformations are opening up opportunities: AI agents can reduce underwriting and claims processing from days to hours, lowering expense ratios and enabling quicker quotes; stablecoins can fill the gap in life insurance and annuities in emerging markets, with a supply of about $300 billion, approximately two-thirds of which is held by individuals in emerging markets.

According to EU-Startups, Berlin-based AI service company Integral announced the completion of a €18 million Series A funding round, co-led by Mosaic Ventures and Reid Hoffman, with follow-on investments from Cherry Ventures, General Catalyst, and Puzzle Ventures. Since its establishment in 2024, the company has raised over €30 million in total funding.Integral focuses on providing AI-driven accounting, tax, and payroll services for small and medium-sized enterprises. It uses AI agents to handle tasks such as invoice reconciliation, bookkeeping, payroll calculation, and tax filing, with each document reviewed and signed by licensed professionals. Currently, over 50% of clients have achieved full automation of their accounting processes, reducing the monthly accounting cycle from several weeks to just a few hours.

According to CoinDesk, stablecoin payment startup Velocity announced that it has completed a total of $48 million in Series A funding, with a valuation of $200 million. This round includes an additional $10 million investment from Visa Ventures, Circle Ventures, Haun Ventures, Ripple, Translink Capital, and Mirana Ventures. Previously, the company completed $38 million in Series A funding in July.Velocity is headquartered in London, and its platform aims to help payment companies and banks use stablecoins for settlement, liquidity, and fund management without replacing existing systems. CEO Eric Queathem, who previously worked at Worldpay, which handled over $2 trillion in payment volume annually, believes that for the past 15 years, capital has been concentrated on improving the consumer front-end experience, while the back-end settlement layer has been neglected.Visa's involvement is particularly noteworthy, as Velocity does not believe that stablecoins will replace bank cards, but rather expects blockchain digital assets to take on more funding and settlement functions beneath the existing payment experience. Queathem anticipates that in the next five years, global enterprises will hold on-chain assets, and the partial on-chain funding of enterprises will create a greater infrastructure demand than merely stablecoin deposits and withdrawals.

Stablecoin company Fin.com announced the completion of a $20 million seed round financing, led by Expa and Uber co-founder Garrett Camp, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Tenet Fund, Figure founder, Mesh founder Bam Azizi, Second Sight Ventures, and Gulf and African sovereign and royal family offices.Fin.com was co-founded by Bangladeshi founder Nabeel Alamgir and Pakistani founder Mustafa Dar, dedicated to solving the "last mile" problem of stablecoin conversion to local bank accounts or digital wallets, providing white-label payment infrastructure to financial service companies, consumer platforms, and prediction markets. Its client platforms collectively serve over 800 million users. The company focuses on markets in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, with offices currently in New York, Las Vegas, Dubai, Dhaka, Bangalore, and Lahore.

According to Reuters, the artificial intelligence startup Temporal announced the completion of a $550 million late-stage financing, with its valuation more than doubling to $12.55 billion within seven months. This round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with Wellington Management, Goldman Sachs Alternatives' Growth Equity, and Tiger Global participating as co-leads. SV Angel and T. Rowe Price Associates' advisory accounts also participated, while existing investors Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Sequoia Capital, and GIC continued to invest.The funds will be used to expand global operations and deepen platform research and development. Founded in 2019, Temporal develops open-source software that helps applications, including AI agents, recover from failures, reducing the need for engineers to write custom recovery code. Its clients include OpenAI, Snap, Nvidia, Netflix, and JPMorgan Chase.The company has 570 employees and an annualized revenue run rate exceeding $250 million, more than doubling year-over-year. In February of this year, the company completed a $300 million financing led by a16z at a valuation of $5 billion.

According to Business Insider, the Seattle-based artificial intelligence company Nuance announced the completion of a $50 million Series A funding round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Accel, NVentures (a subsidiary of NVIDIA), South Park Commons, and Define Ventures.Nuance was founded last year by three former Apple researchers, aiming to develop multimodal AI models with stronger emotional understanding capabilities. The company completed a $10 million seed funding round led by Accel last July.

According to Business Insider, Discovery Loop, an AI startup founded by former Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean after his departure, is undergoing a new round of financing with a target valuation of approximately $50 billion. Just weeks ago, the company completed a financing round of $1 billion at a valuation of about $10 billion.Discovery Loop is dedicated to automating experiments through AI, accelerating major discoveries in the fields of science and engineering. The first round of financing was led by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures, with participation from Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, and others. Alphabet was also a founding investor. The company's co-founder team consists of Google technology veterans, including Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals, who each have deep expertise in distributed computing, deep learning, and reinforcement learning, respectively.

According to official news, the AGENT economic project Agentum has completed a $7 million financing round, with participation from MEXC Ventures, BingX Labs, Arca, Wave Digital Assets, BlockTower Capital, Echo3 Labs, Greenwood Global Capital, UZ Capital, and Vega Ventures.The funds from this round will mainly be used to accelerate the construction of the trust and settlement layer for the autonomous Agent economy, with Agentum deployed on the BNB Chain. The BSC testnet has registered 399 Agents, completed 218 transactions, and achieved a GMV of over 2.44 million MockUSDT.

According to a report by Sina Finance, AI 3D company VAST (Sanqi Wànwù) announced the completion of Series B and B+ financing, totaling approximately 3 billion yuan, led by Matrix Partners. Perfect World, BlueFocus Communication Group, Xindong Energy Investment, Yanqu Games, Zhongke Chuangda, 37 Interactive Entertainment, as well as Dinghui VGC, CICC Capital, CMC Capital and others participated in the investment, while existing shareholders Dachen Caizhi, Chunhua Capital, and Wengce Capital continued to invest.According to the official introduction, VAST has raised approximately 5 billion yuan in less than six months. It is reported that VAST also released the latest version of its flagship 3D base model Tripo P series, Tripo P2. The funds from this round of financing will be invested in the iteration of 3D native models and data capabilities, expansion of training and inference infrastructure, product development, and commercialization.

London-based AI precision machining software startup CloudNC announced the completion of a €17.2 million (approximately $20 million) funding round, led by the American venture capital firm Nimble Ventures, with participation from Calculus Venture Capital, Entrepreneur First, and Lockheed Martin's venture capital fund LM Ventures.

The AI intelligent terminal project Herdr announced the completion of a $6 million seed round financing, led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Y Combinator, e2vc, and Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke.The funds will be used to enhance Herdr's runtime performance, stability, and scalability, and to build a team focused on Rust, terminals, and AI intelligences.