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Breed VC has raised $15 million for its second cryptocurrency fund, with investors including FalconX, Hutt Capital, Arrington Capital, as well as Nic Carter from Castle Island Ventures, Rob Hadick from Dragonfly, and Jake Brukhman from CoinFund.The fund primarily invests in cryptocurrency startups at the Day Zero, Pre-Seed, and Seed stages, with individual investments ranging from $250,000 to $750,000, focusing on open financial infrastructure and decentralized AI, with plans to complete deployment in the next 3 to 4 years. Breed VC's first fund was launched in 2023 and has completed its investments, with a portfolio that includes Monad, Ethena, Agora, MyPrize, and Nous Research.

Global payment and financial infrastructure Infini announced the completion of a $6 million seed round financing, with participation from SNZ, Reforge, Enlight Capital, NDV (NextGen Digital Venture), FORTWEST, Vernal, and others.Infini stated that the funds will be used to further strengthen its global payment and financial infrastructure, making it easier and more efficient for individuals and businesses to manage and use funds globally.

On-chain gold and foreign exchange trading infrastructure XStable has recently completed a new round of financing, which was supported by several institutions including YZi Labs, Sui Foundation, Taisu Ventures, and CatcherVC.Previously, XStable had received investments and support from institutions such as Solana, Amber Group, KuCoin Ventures, and Singchain, accumulating millions of dollars in financing from more than ten institutional investors worldwide. Currently, XStable has focused on market development around gold, silver, and major foreign exchange trading pairs. According to data disclosed by the platform, XStable's average daily trading volume has exceeded 100 million dollars, with a cumulative trading volume of over several hundred billion dollars.

Deep Blue Aerospace recently announced the completion of its Series B6 and B7 financing rounds, with a total scale of nearly 2 billion yuan. This round of financing attracted industrial capital and professional institutions such as Wuxi High-tech Zone Investment Control Group, Yida Capital, Baotong Technology, and Hongrun Construction.The funds will be primarily directed towards the research and development and industrialization of the company's two major launch vehicle families. Deep Blue Aerospace will continue to advance the development of the medium-sized reusable liquid launch vehicle, Nebula One, and accelerate the in-depth research and development efforts for the large reusable liquid launch vehicle, Nebula Two.

Recently, the on-chain perpetual contract protocol Travix, which focuses on computing power asset trading, completed its seed round financing. The disclosed investor in this round is Amber Group, but the financing amount has not been disclosed. The funds will be used to accelerate the deep construction of perpetual contracts for computing power assets and exotic assets such as East Asian stocks, expand trading pairs for Compute-Led RWA like chips and storage, promote the development of the "Financial World Model," deepen the development and deployment of a trusted AI agent trading engine, and expand global markets and multilateral ecological construction as well as launch trading promotion incentive programs.It is reported that Travix is a new generation PerpDEX protocol built on a modular blockchain architecture, adopting a hybrid architecture of offline high-performance matching and on-chain settlement, achieving millisecond-level processing efficiency, and introducing a unified account management model. Its core directions include: perpetual contracts for computing power assets, supporting hardware asset trading such as H100 chips and storage; the Financial World Model, which transforms probabilistic events such as policy implementation and product launches into quantifiable event trading signals; and trusted AI agent trading, supporting users in deploying automated strategies through the Agent Engine.Travix claims that its goal is to achieve the integration of computing power assets, probabilistic trading, and trusted agents, creating a new generation of decentralized perpetual contract entry point where "trading is understanding the world."

According to Fortune magazine, the American enterprise AI startup Arcee AI has completed a $150 million Series B funding round, with a pre-money valuation of $1 billion. This round was led by Vista Equity Partners, Cambium Capital, and Emergence Capital, with participation from Microsoft's M12, AI10 Ventures, Hitachi, IAG, P7, and Wipro.Arcee did not disclose the specific amount, but insiders say it is at least $150 million. Founded in 2023, Arcee initially focused on fine-tuning and optimizing existing models, later shifting to building open-weight models from scratch. Its founder, Mark McQuade, was an early employee at Hugging Face. The funds will be used to develop new open-weight models and products, expand collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, and work with Vista's portfolio companies.

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.

The Bitget 2026 King Cup Global Invitation Tournament (KCGI) has been underway since September 9, with over 1,420 teams participating and a total of 50,902 participants. Users can sign up to participate at any time during the tournament, with the registration deadline set for September 22.This KCGI is centered around "UEX Panorama Competition," and for the first time, it integrates three major tracks: crypto contracts, TradFi contracts, and stock spot (rToken), achieving a unified competition arena, prize pool, and ranking, with a total prize pool of 3 million USDT.The UEX Arena offers a maximum reward of 2 million USDT, covering five major leaderboards including team earnings, trading volume across tracks, and individual earnings; the UEX Treasure Map provides a maximum chest reward of 600,000 USDT through a task key and track fragment synthesis mechanism; there is also a special incentive of 100,000 USDT for team captains participating in the competition.

According to a report by Reuters, enterprise-level AI company Clay announced the completion of a $115 million Series D financing round, led by Wellington, with participation from Sequoia Capital, StepStone, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Perennial, Meritech, DST, CapitalG, and others, raising its post-investment valuation to $7.1 billion.Clay stated that its AI agents can create real-time business and customer profiles based on external data such as CRM, and automatically build and execute workflows according to corporate goals. Currently, companies such as Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Stripe are using its products.

According to official data, the overall trading volume of Gate options in August increased by 36.64% month-on-month, while retail trading volume increased by 27.55% month-on-month; during the same period, the trading volume of premiums increased by 192.83%.In addition, Gate US stock options have officially launched, initially supporting 9 popular US stock underlying assets including Nvidia, Tesla, and Apple.

According to Fortune magazine, the stablecoin payment infrastructure company Latitude has completed a $35 million Series A funding round, led by Oak HC/FT, with participation from NEA, Coinbase, Lightspeed Faction, and OpenFX.The company was co-founded by former executives from Stripe, Uber, Coinbase, and Meta, aiming to help businesses send fiat currency to emerging market users through stablecoins using local payment methods (bank accounts and mobile wallets). Latitude is licensed in 45 U.S. markets and plans to expand its regulatory licenses in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa. The current team consists of 15 people, and the new funds will be used to expand compliance, engineering, and sales teams.

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.

FinChip and AgentOn today announced a merger agreement, and the two parties will integrate into a unified operating company, branded as Finch, while also announcing the completion of a pre-A round of financing.Finch is valued at 50 million USD in this round, with participation from Waterdrop Capital, Peer VC, and other institutions. Previously, the company had received investments from Longling Investment, ME Group, and X INFINITY. The funds from this round will primarily be used to expand the supply of agents and skills in four major markets, develop enterprise clients and task demand sides, and promote the implementation of skill standards in the industry.

According to Dealroom, the decentralized perpetual contract exchange in Singapore, Antarctic Exchange, has completed a $7 million financing round, with a valuation of $70 million. Investors include Valisa Capital Markets, Lucidity Capital, and Republic Crypto, as well as proprietary traders who are entering the crypto asset space for the first time.The platform targets retail derivatives traders and offers tools similar to centralized exchanges. The founding team consists of former executives from OKX, Binance, and MEXC.

According to official news, the permissionless on-chain yield protocol Polaris has completed a $1 million angel round of financing, with participation from institutions such as the Ethereum Foundation, Fusion (under IPOR), Altitude, Liquity, LI.FI, and more than 30 founders and contributors including Daily Gwei founder Anthony Sassano.Polaris's core product is the yield-bearing reserve asset pETH, and it also includes USDp and GOLDp, aiming to provide native yield for any on-chain asset.

According to Reuters, AI data center optical interconnect company iPronics announced the completion of a $125 million Series B financing round, co-led by Maverick Silicon and Light Street Capital, with participation from NVIDIA, Triatomic Capital, Bosch Ventures, Catalight Capital, and the European Innovation Council Fund. The company's total financing has now reached $177 million.iPronics primarily provides rack-mounted optical switching equipment for AI infrastructure, allowing AI clusters to dynamically adjust network connections in real-time for training and inference workloads through a programmable optical layer. The new funds will be used to expand operational scale and accelerate commercial deployment.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced that it has reached a staff-level agreement with the authorities of El Salvador on the second and third combined reviews under the Extended Fund Facility arrangement. If approved by the IMF Executive Board, El Salvador will receive approximately $140 million (101.96 million SDR).Regarding Bitcoin-related arrangements, the IMF confirmed several key facts: the Chivo electronic wallet has essentially withdrawn from public participation, with majority ownership and operational control transferred to private operators; the increase in Bitcoin holdings since the first review has been verified as coming from private donations, with no public resources utilized; El Salvador has committed that there will be no further increases in Bitcoin holdings beyond the recorded private donations. The two parties also reached an understanding on modernizing the legal, regulatory, and supervisory framework for digital assets, as well as strengthening governance and risk management arrangements for public sector cryptocurrency holdings.

According to Securityweek, artificial intelligence security company HiddenLayer has completed a $100 million Series B funding round, led by Delta-v Capital, with participation from Booz Allen Ventures, Microsoft's M12, Morgan Stanley, and Ten Eleven Ventures. To date, the company has raised a total of over $155 million.HiddenLayer focuses on protecting the entire lifecycle security of generative AI, predictive AI, and AI Agents. Its enterprise platform includes features such as AI asset discovery, AI supply chain security, attack simulation, and runtime protection. The new funding will primarily be used to expand the runtime security capabilities of AI Agents, particularly targeting AI programming Agents.