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According to Thrive Holdings, the AI investment platform Thrive Holdings announced the completion of a $2 billion financing round, with the company's valuation reaching $12 billion, with participation from SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital.Thrive Holdings was founded in 2025 by Thrive Capital founder Joshua Kushner. Unlike traditional investment firms, it does not directly invest in AI large model research and development companies, but primarily acquires traditional service companies and integrates AI technology into business processes to achieve efficiency improvements. Its goal is to build platforms and products that bring cutting-edge artificial intelligence into key industries that millions of businesses and individuals rely on daily. The company had previously secured approximately $1 billion in initial funding.

The largest bank by asset size in Latin America, Itaú, is collaborating with OpenAssets to participate in a tokenized fixed income and investment fund test led by the industry. Brazil has become a testing ground for placing bonds, credit, and other financial assets on the blockchain under a regulatory framework.

According to The Information, AI infrastructure startup Trajectory announced the completion of a $40 million financing round, with a post-money valuation of $300 million, co-invested by Sequoia Capital. The specific financing round and other investors have not been disclosed.Trajectory was founded by researchers from tech companies such as Google and Apple, and primarily helps businesses customize open-source AI models for specific business needs, as well as optimize the software toolchain that supports AI Agent operations (referred to as "Agent Harness"). As the costs of using closed-source large models continue to rise, more and more companies are looking for alternatives: on one hand, they are reducing costs by fine-tuning and customizing open-source models, and on the other hand, they are improving the Agent execution framework to enable AI models to more effectively call tools and execute tasks.This trend is driving a new wave of entrepreneurial enthusiasm around model adaptation and Agent infrastructure. Trajectory aims to address key issues faced by enterprises in deploying AI Agents, including model performance optimization, task execution reliability, and adaptation to enterprise scenarios. The company hopes to help businesses build more efficient and cost-effective AI applications by providing model customization and Agent operation infrastructure.Investors believe that as AI evolves from simple chatbots to Agents capable of autonomously executing complex tasks, a new layer of infrastructure around model optimization and Agent engineering will become an important market. In recent years, Sequoia has also continued to increase its investment in the AI infrastructure sector, including investments in AI Agents and enterprise AI applications.

According to a report by Fortune, the cybersecurity startup Corma, established in 2025, announced the completion of a $60 million seed round financing, with investors including Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Coatue.Corma is headquartered in Tel Aviv and San Francisco, and six weeks ago, it deployed its first AI model to several Fortune 100 and 500 companies across various industries (covering healthcare, financial services, energy, critical infrastructure, and retail).Unlike current cybersecurity models primarily trained by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc., for "offensive" purposes, Corma's trained model focuses on "defensive" strategies, concentrating on log and audit data analysis, identifying threats among massive events, and maintaining consistent strategies across thousands of operations. According to the company, its model has helped clients reduce threat response times by 94%.

According to Jiemian News, the embodied base model company LatentVerse announced the completion of hundreds of millions in seed round financing. Investors include Hillhouse Venture Capital, Qingliu Capital, Inno Fund, Zhiyuan, and Star Motion Era.It is understood that LatentVerse was established in May 2026 by an embodied intelligence research team from the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences at Tsinghua University.

RWA e-commerce financing platform Dow Protocol announced the completion of a $10.5 million seed round financing, with participation from MH Ventures, Mapleblock, Animoca Brands, Arcane Group, HSKChain, Essentia Partners, and Quartet Group.According to reports, Dow Protocol builds a PayFi RWA structure for e-commerce operating capital, specifically addressing the working capital needs of e-commerce merchants. Dow Protocol allows merchants to receive funds within seconds by providing loans in advance based on the merchants' accounts receivable and credit risk data through asset service providers. The repayment and risk system is natively integrated into the e-commerce platform, with funds automatically deducted from the merchant's platform balance.

AI infrastructure company Firmus announced on August 7 that it has completed a $2 billion equity financing, with a post-money valuation exceeding $10.5 billion, nearly doubling the $5.5 billion valuation from the previous round in April. This round of financing saw additional investments from NVIDIA and Coatue Management, with funds from Blackstone and Jane Street also participating.Firmus is building its infrastructure based on the NVIDIA DSX AI Factory reference architecture, with an agreement reached at the end of June for Firmus to purchase NVIDIA equipment and sell its supported cloud services. The funds from this round will be used to accelerate the Project Southgate initiative in Australia and expand in the Asia-Pacific region, including the recently announced project in Indonesia. Firmus co-CEO Oliver Curtis stated that the new funds will support the company's simultaneous advancement in the Australian and Asia-Pacific markets.

Vangrid announced the completion of a $9 million seed round financing, with participation from HashKey, Borderless, Crypto.com Capital, Animoca Brands, Gate Labs, and Mapleblock Capital.The main business of the project is to collect spatial data, where users collect geographic location data through smartphones and receive rewards. The data is sold to Physical AI developers, including robotics, autonomous agents, and digital model developers, after being 3D modeled and verified on-chain. Vangrid stated that its network is built on Base and uses Ethereum proof services to verify data batches, with public browsers showing that it has completed nearly 100,000 verification collections and over 1,300 batches of proof.

According to Dealstreetasia, Singapore-based AI infrastructure startup Acrab announced the completion of a $130 million Series B funding round, with participation from Vertex Growth and others. To date, the total funding raised has exceeded $480 million.The company has built a full-stack AI computing platform that includes self-developed chips, edge AI models, and software orchestration to support the real-time operation and task execution of AI Agents. The new funds will be used to expand product capacity, enhance the technology ecosystem, and accelerate the development of the next-generation AI computing platform.

HappyRobot, an enterprise-level AI intelligence company, announced the completion of a $150 million Series C financing round, led jointly by Prysm Capital and Eurazeo, with continued participation from a16z, Base10, and Y Combinator. Other strategic investors include Koch Disruptive Technologies, Orange, and T.Capital, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom.HappyRobot focuses on using AI intelligence to automatically handle complex, multi-step business coordination tasks, reducing the costs of manual coordination. After this round of financing, its total funding amount is approximately $200 million, and the company's valuation has reached $1.2 billion, officially entering the "unicorn" ranks.

According to official news, the stablecoin infrastructure provider Yellow Card has completed a strategic financing of $40 million, with participants including SC Ventures under Standard Chartered Bank, Sony Innovation Fund, Polychain Capital, and Blockchain Capital.This round of financing will be used to expand Yellow Card's end-to-end dollar account service for enterprises, "Global Dollar Account," and to expand stablecoin channels connecting global markets.

According to Bloomberg, AI cloud infrastructure company Volta Infra Holdings announced the completion of $300 million in venture financing, with a valuation of $2.4 billion, led jointly by Andreessen Horowitz and Altimeter Capital, with participation from Nvidia and Dell Technologies founder Michael Dell.In addition, Volta has also secured a $5 billion customer financing pool to help small and medium-sized AI companies lower the threshold for purchasing Nvidia's high-end chips.The company simultaneously disclosed that it has signed a $10 billion, six-year cloud computing services contract with an unnamed leading AI developer, which will collaborate with Bitdeer to deliver services based on its 133-megawatt data center located in Norway.Volta was co-founded earlier this year by former Brookfield Asset Management infrastructure executive Ricard Boada and Sofia Gumuzio, and has currently secured 1 gigawatt of data center power resources, with plans to develop new sites in Texas and Wyoming, aiming to deploy multi-gigawatt computing capacity before 2030.

The blockchain rewards platform Bundle announced the completion of a $5.5 million Pre-Seed round of financing, co-led by Ethereal Ventures and Further Ventures, both founded by Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin, with participation from institutions such as Nascent, GSR, Scenius Capital, Anchorage Digital, and Nuwa Capital.

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.

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.

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.

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.

According to data from RootData's stock perpetual contract exchange rankings, nearly 30 exchanges that have launched stock perpetual contracts still significantly adhere to the trading rhythm of traditional stock markets: trading volume drops sharply on weekends, and the morning session on Monday warms up as the traditional market approaches recovery, but has not yet returned to the intensity of a full trading day.Comparing trading days with non-trading days, the 24h trading volume of stock perpetual contracts dropped from approximately $39.078 billion to $4.896 billion, a decrease of about 87.5%. However, during the same period, the open interest slightly increased from $10.139 billion to $10.262 billion, indicating that positions have not been withdrawn on a large scale; what has truly decreased is active trading and turnover. A snapshot taken on the morning of Monday, July 27, shows that the 24h trading volume rebounded to $10.617 billion, an increase of about 116.8% compared to Sunday, indicating that market activity is recovering.In terms of liquidity, the weighted market depth (±2%) decreased from approximately $58.92 million to about $47.83 million, a decline of about 18.8%; it rebounded to around $55.68 million on Monday morning, nearing trading day levels. This indicates that the speed of order book recovery is faster than that of actual trading recovery, and market depth has not plummeted as sharply as trading volume.From the performance of exchanges, leading platforms such as Binance, OKX, and Bitget maintained relatively narrow spreads and strong depth on Monday morning; Hyperliquid performed well in rankings, but its trading volume was still below trading day levels; some long-tail platforms still face issues with excessively wide spreads, making it temporarily impossible to assess true liquidity.RootData Research believes that the most prominent value of these stock perpetual contract exchanges is to allow stock risks to be traded, priced, and hedged even on non-trading days of the traditional stock market. The traditional stock market is closed on weekends, with official prices remaining at the previous trading day's closing price, while stock perpetual contract exchanges still have trading, open interest, order books, and spreads on Sundays, indicating that crypto exchanges have broken through the "trading time" limitations of stocks.However, from the current data, they are participating in expected pricing rather than official pricing, making them more suitable for expressing events, emotions, macroeconomic changes, and risk preference shifts on non-trading days. Due to decreased trading volume over the weekend, widened spreads, and some platforms having abnormal data metrics, they currently resemble a "stock pre-opening price discovery layer," having participated in stock pricing but not yet obtaining the primary pricing power of the traditional stock market, nor have they surpassed the liquidity of the traditional stock market.

According to Globenewswire, the stablecoin issuer Mandela Digital announced the completion of a $5 million financing round, with participation from Datavault AI. The new funds will be used for the construction of stablecoin infrastructure, compliance, exchange integration, liquidity and marketing, as well as to accelerate the launch of the 1:1 dollar-pegged stablecoin Mandela Dollar (MUSD).It is reported that Datavault AI will also provide technical support for MUSD, including an AI platform, blockchain tokenization, SanQtum quantum-resistant encryption, and a framework for real-world assets (RWA).

According to The Block, the on-chain infrastructure layer SwarmBase, aimed at autonomous AI agents, has announced the completion of a $7 million financing round. This round was co-invested by Castrum Capital, M2M Capital, Notch Ventures, and Becker Ventures. Among them, Castrum Capital contributed an additional $4 million investment.It is reported that SwarmBase is a full-stack on-chain infrastructure protocol for autonomous AI agents. The platform provides core foundational modules such as identity, reputation, coordination, and transactions, enabling AI agents to operate independently through audited smart contracts.The funds raised in this round will primarily be used for the development of the SwarmBase protocol and ecological expansion, as well as preparations for the upcoming Token TGE. Castrum Capital stated that SwarmBase is well-positioned to lead the next wave of AI agents.