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Tin tức từ ChainCatcher, Animoca Brands đã công bố trên nền tảng X rằng công ty đã thực hiện một khoản đầu tư chiến lược vào nhà cung cấp cơ sở hạ tầng thanh toán stablecoin AllScale, số tiền cụ thể không được tiết lộ. Animoca Brands cho biết ngoài việc đầu tư, hai bên cũng sẽ khám phá cơ hội hợp tác để hỗ trợ dòng thanh toán toàn cầu và các trường hợp kinh doanh đại lý mới nổi trong hệ sinh thái của mình.

Tin tức từ ChainCatcher, AIPayWithCrypto thông báo đã chính thức hoàn thành vòng gọi vốn chiến lược đầu tiên trị giá 10.000.000 USD, do Animoca Brands dẫn đầu, cùng với sự tham gia của các tổ chức như Titans Ventures, Castrum Capital, Adaverse, M2M Capital.Được biết, ngoài việc đầu tư vốn, các bên cũng đã đạt được sự đồng thuận chiến lược sâu sắc, cùng nhau xây dựng tương lai tích hợp AI và thanh toán, cũng như hoàn thiện cơ sở hạ tầng, phục vụ người dùng toàn cầu và các chủ thể kinh tế AI. Nền tảng APC sẽ hướng tới thị trường với hệ thống AI + thanh toán hoàn toàn mới, củng cố năng lực cạnh tranh cốt lõi trong lĩnh vực thanh toán.

Tin tức từ ChainCatcher, giao thức AI Neura thông báo đã hoàn thành vòng gọi vốn chiến lược 4 triệu USD, với các nhà đầu tư bao gồm Animoca Brands, Basics Capital, TBV, Kinetic Kollective, ca sĩ đoạt giải Grammy Ne-Yo và Mario Nawfal, với định giá vòng này là 80 triệu USD. Neura được định vị là giao thức "kinh tế AI cảm xúc", cam kết xây dựng một lớp nền cho các thực thể AI có trí nhớ cảm xúc lâu dài và danh tính tự chủ của người dùng, giúp chúng duy trì tính liên tục trong tương tác cảm xúc với người dùng qua các cuộc hội thoại và thiết bị khác nhau.Thiết kế cốt lõi của Neura bao gồm sổ cái nhớ trên chuỗi, thông qua chứng minh mã hóa bảo vệ quyền riêng tư để neo cảm xúc trong ngữ cảnh, cho phép nó di chuyển giữa các mô hình, nền tảng và thiết bị, quyền sở hữu thuộc về người dùng chứ không phải bên ứng dụng. Vòng gọi vốn này sẽ được sử dụng cho lộ trình ba giai đoạn: ứng dụng người tiêu dùng Neura Social, SDK cho nhà phát triển và lớp giao thức phi tập trung. Sự tham gia của các nhà đầu tư như Animoca Brands cho thấy sự quan tâm của thị trường đối với hướng đi "AI cảm xúc thuộc về người dùng" đang gia tăng. Các sản phẩm liên quan vẫn chưa chính thức ra mắt, các chức năng cụ thể sẽ được xác định dựa trên việc giao hàng thực tế.

X announced the launch of the AI-driven brand and creator matching tool Creator Connect, which intelligently matches platform creators based on brand marketing goals, audience interests, and real-time trends. This feature is realized through xAI tools, and X will be responsible for the entire process of creator selection, contact, content creation, and distribution, while brands can review at each stage.Mitchell Smith, X's Head of Global Content Partnerships, stated that the platform is entering the "Creator Era" and is committed to building a healthy and sustainable creator economy. Monique Pintarelli, Head of Global Advertising at xAI, said that Creator Connect combines AI technology with X's real-time communication capabilities to help brands reach consumers more efficiently.This release is part of X's "Year of the Creator" initiative. Previously, the platform has launched features such as Creator Subscriptions 2.0 and Exclusive Threads, and has doubled creator revenue sharing.

The sports AI intelligent infrastructure platform Sportix announced the completion of a $3.2 million financing round. This round of financing was participated in by institutions such as Coinvestor Ventures, Animoca Brands, Becker Ventures, X21 Digital, and Alpha Capital.It is reported that Sportix is an intelligent platform built around sports events and athletes, aiming to integrate real-time data, AI predictive models, and market infrastructure into a unified ecosystem, providing users with structured and actionable sports intelligence.The funds from this financing round will be directly used to deepen the research and development of its AI aggregation engine, enhance the accuracy of MIE and PIS, and expand the scale of B2B APIs to empower a broader sports data ecosystem.

According to an official announcement from Animoca Brands, the company announced that it will invest up to $10 million in teams building projects using its AI agent platform, Minds.Minds is a continuously running AI agent platform that allows users to deploy and manage "sovereign" AI agents without the need to operate local servers or manage hardware and software.

ILITY successfully raised $2 million at a valuation of $21 million, co-led by Animoca Brands and Duck DAO, marking an important milestone in its mission to redefine cross-chain identity and data sovereignty in the Web3 space. The project is building a high-performance Layer-1 blockchain based on zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) to achieve secure cross-chain data verification while ensuring that sensitive information is not leaked.The newly acquired funds will accelerate protocol development, expand ecosystem partnerships, and strengthen ILITY's position as a core infrastructure layer for a decentralized future.

RealGo announced that it has completed over $3.5 million in financing, with support from institutions and strategic partners such as Animoca Brands, Cogitent Ventures, X21 Digital, Notch VC, and Becker Ventures in the early investment round and strategic round.RealGo stated that it will use this funding to advance the infrastructure related to Meme 3, promoting the evolution of memes from mere trending topics to asset forms that can be captured, collected, battled, socialized, monetized, and truly owned by users.

According to official news, the modular blockchain Origins Network has announced the completion of a $8 million strategic financing round, with participation from Animoca Brands, TBV, Candaq FinTech Group, Castrum Capital, Coinvestor Ventures, and others.The main business of the project is to build a modular blockchain for AI Agents, aiming to achieve transparent verification of the AI reasoning process through its PoC (Proof of Computation) mechanism. Origins Network adopts a hybrid architecture of off-chain computation and on-chain verification, and has currently partnered with cloud service providers such as AWS, Tencent Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud.This round of financing will be used to expand global decentralized computing nodes, improve the developer ecosystem toolchain, and accelerate global market operations.

According to The Block, Animoca Brands announced an investment in the Avalanche blockchain native token AVAX and reached a strategic cooperation with Avalanche developer Ava Labs to jointly promote the development of the Avalanche ecosystem.A spokesperson for Animoca Brands declined to disclose the scale of the investment and other terms. In terms of cooperation, both parties will focus on deploying capital to Avalanche ecosystem projects, exploring product integration, and providing advisory support, with key areas including real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, entertainment, and digital identity. In terms of regional layout, the initial focus will be on Asia and the Middle East, with Animoca Brands stating that it has established regional infrastructure and institutional relationships in these two areas for commercial deployment of Avalanche ecosystem projects.

MarsCat announced the completion of a $3 million financing round. This round was participated in by institutions such as Animoca Brands, Cogitent Ventures, Cryptogram Venture (CGV), TB Ventures, BD Ventures, and Becker Ventures.It is reported that MarsCat is a privacy-first P2P decentralized communication network aimed at achieving seamless interaction between Web3 applications without relying on centralized servers. The project is committed to providing scalable and secure infrastructure to ensure that users can fully retain control over their data.

Animoca Brands announced that it has obtained a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) license issued by the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority, authorizing Animoca Brands to operate in the Emirate of Dubai (excluding the Dubai International Financial Centre) and to provide virtual asset (VA) brokerage trading services, VA management, and investment services to global institutional and qualified investors.

Animoca Brands and Ethoswarm (under CryptoSlam) announced a strategic partnership to jointly launch a new service, Animoca Minds, aimed at promoting the development of the Agent Economy.According to the introduction, Animoca Minds is built on the Ethoswarm protocol, with the goal of eliminating the barriers to AI applications at the hardware and technical levels, reducing complexity, and enabling non-technical users to deploy and operate sovereign, sustainably functioning AI agents. Users can "awaken" personalized, cloud-based AI agents through Animoca Minds and interact with them using natural language, supporting communication methods such as email and Telegram.The platform offers a variety of preset agent role options, including market researchers for real-time industry trend analysis and crypto scouts for discovering emerging Web3 applications, helping users understand and explore the practical application scenarios of agent AI. Blockchain technology is used to support functions such as identity, economic incentives, and traceability, while related on-chain operations have been abstracted and simplified to enhance the overall user experience.

According to HyperInsight monitoring, traders shorted 57 BTC with 40x leverage, with an average entry price of $87,716.9, currently showing a slight profit.The address has completed 207 transactions, with only 5 recording a total loss of $5,195.36, while the remaining 202 transactions were all closed after realizing profits, resulting in a total account profit of $447,800.

According to Arkham data, at 17:13, 53.4783 million EDU (worth approximately 8.57 million USD) was transferred from Animoca Brands to an anonymous address (starting with 0x2797...).

According to Arkham data, at 17:37, 31.3865 million EDU (worth approximately 4.71 million USD) was transferred from an anonymous address (starting with 0xc9Ee...) to Animoca Brands.

According to the annual report "Digital Assets Outlook 2026" recently released by Animoca Brands Research, multiple core industry trend analyses from Gate have been deeply included in the report. Gate has also become the only cryptocurrency trading platform featured with a double-page spread presenting industry insights, highlighting its influence in the evolution of crypto infrastructure and innovation in derivatives.In the Industry Voice section, Gate believes that CEX is evolving into a one-stop crypto entry point for the general public, integrating wallets, fiat channels, payments, TradFi products, and native Web3 access capabilities, becoming an important gateway for promoting crypto adoption. At the same time, with the maturation of AI-native architecture, Web3 is moving towards a new growth cycle driven by intelligent agents. In the direction of derivatives and on-chain trading architecture, Gate Perp DEX has also gained an independent section due to its product strength. Based on the Gate Layer second-layer network, the platform separates execution and settlement through a hybrid architecture, achieving sub-second matching performance while anchoring clearing and asset updates to securely audited smart contracts, balancing CEX-level trading experience with on-chain self-custody transparency.As traditional financial institutions accelerate their entry into the on-chain market, Gate and its Perp DEX are gradually building core trading infrastructure aimed at the next generation of global financial systems. By achieving high-frequency trading, AI intelligent execution, and institutional-level risk management on a scalable and verifiable basis, Gate is constructing strategically significant infrastructure for the future of next-generation digital finance.

According to the official blog, Animoca Brands has completed the acquisition of the digital collectibles and gaming company SOMO.SOMO owns products such as "SOMO Codex," "SOMO Duel," and its flagship game "SOMO Battleground," with an ecosystem dedicated to transforming digital collectibles into playable, livestreamable, and tradable assets across games.Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, stated that SOMO is building a cultural operating system for collectibles, which complements the company's existing portfolio. By integrating SOMO into its ecosystem, Animoca Brands plans to leverage its global network of games, communities, and partners to drive cross-platform promotion and community growth for the SOMO brand.

According to the official blog, Animoca Brands announced that it has signed a letter of intent with the investment and asset management platform GROW Investment Group (referred to as GROW). Under this letter of intent, Animoca Brands will establish a strategic partnership with GROW and make an equity investment in GROW Asset Management (HK) Limited. GROW Asset Management (HK) Limited will subsequently be renamed GROW Digital Wealth (referred to as GDW), becoming GROW's flagship platform.According to the proposed cooperation agreement, Animoca Brands and GROW will develop GDW into one of the first platforms in Asia to offer both cryptocurrency and traditional financial investment products to family offices and ultra-high-net-worth individuals. GDW holds licenses for Type 1 (dealing in securities), Type 4 (advising on securities), and Type 9 (asset management) issued by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission.Animoca Brands plans to introduce crypto assets (including real-world assets) to the GDW platform, while GROW will bring its selected investment products to GDW. Independent Financial Advisors (IFAs) will be able to provide their clients with cryptocurrency and traditional financial products through GDW, which meets institutional standards and compliance. As part of the proposed transaction, Animoca Brands plans to acquire up to 15% of GDW's equity, subject to the final agreement and any necessary approvals.