Highlights of this Issue
This week's cryptocurrency industry financing mainly focuses on RWA, stablecoin payments, and institutional financial infrastructure. According to PANews' incomplete statistics, last week (11.2-11.8), there were 10 investment financing events in the global blockchain industry, with a total funding scale exceeding 47.5 million USD. Major financings include:
- Uranium Digital completed a 16.5 million USD Series A financing led by Blockchain Capital, planning to introduce physical uranium trading onto the blockchain;
- The Latin American stablecoin financial platform Takenos completed an additional 7 million USD in seed financing, led by North Island Ventures and Road Capital Management;
- Institutional broker LO:TECH completed a 12 million USD Series A financing, led by MMC;
- Stablecoin payment provider Yellow Card completed the acquisition of Brazilian virtual asset service provider GoMoney;
- Aave Labs acquired the team and technology of the on-chain lending protocol Avon.
This week, AI field financing continues to focus on model inference infrastructure, agent security, and Physical AI. OpenAI completed an 11 billion USD financing round, with the company's valuation reaching 1.25 trillion USD; the AI inference platform fal completed a 1.3 billion USD Series F financing, doubling its valuation to 16 billion USD. In terms of AI applications, data security company Sentra completed a 150 million USD Series C financing, and fintech company Pliant completed an 80 million USD Series C financing, with a focus on AI Agent payment infrastructure.
Cryptocurrency Financing
RWA
Uranium Digital Completes 16.5 Million USD Series A Financing, Plans to Introduce Uranium Trading onto Blockchain
According to Fortune magazine, New York startup Uranium Digital announced the completion of a 16.5 million USD Series A financing, led by Blockchain Capital, with existing investors Portal Ventures and Apeiron Investment Group participating. This round of financing was completed last month, and the funds will be used to expand its electronic trading platform.
Uranium Digital was founded in 2024 with the aim of tracking the ownership of physical uranium in storage facilities through blockchain and providing a uranium trading platform for institutions. The company hopes to shift uranium trading from traditional broker pricing, mail signing, and offline storage delivery modes to electronic trading. Previously, the company completed a 6.1 million USD seed round in 2025. With the growth in energy demand driven by AI data centers, the nuclear power and uranium fuel market has gained more attention.
Tokenized Security Financing Infrastructure Lombard Systems Completes 4 Million USD Seed Round Financing
Tokenized security financing infrastructure Lombard Systems (formerly SemiLiquid) completed a 4 million USD seed round financing, led by Ethereal Ventures, with ALPS Capital, First Commit, Veris Ventures, and ATKA participating. Lombard Systems provides financing infrastructure for tokenized securities and maintains the "Delivery versus Lock" (DvL) standard. This standard allows banks, brokers, and transfer agents to accept tokenized and digital assets as collateral without moving the assets out of the original securities account, with the assets still locked in the name of the owner, and lenders obtaining enforceable secured rights verified by cryptographic signature credit certificates.
On-Chain Stock Trading Platform StableStock Completes New Strategic Financing at 75 Million USD Valuation, With Participation from Amber
The on-chain stock trading platform StableStock recently completed a new round of strategic financing at a 75 million USD valuation, with participants including Amber, Nomad Capital, Flow Traders, and Gate. Last August, StableStock completed the Easy Residency incubation program by YZi Labs and finished its seed round financing, with investors including YZi Labs, Matrix Partners, and Vertex Ventures.
Infrastructure
On-Chain Trading Infrastructure Orbs Makes Strategic Investment in CRYMBO
According to Chainwire report, on-chain trading infrastructure provider Orbs announced a strategic investment in CRYMBO.
CRYMBO is a financial infrastructure platform for licensed institutions, helping banks, payment service providers, and brokers launch digital asset services under their own brand and regulatory framework. The announcement states that institutions entering the on-chain market must also address identity verification, compliance, custody, settlement, payments, and reconciliation, in addition to liquidity and blockchain technology.
CRYMBO connects over 75 service providers through one integration, covering custody, liquidity, banking channels, payments, identity verification, and trade monitoring, allowing institutions to coordinate these services in custom workflows while retaining provider choice. The platform does not hold customer funds or private keys, and institutions operate under their own brand and license.
Hardware Wallet Unruggable Completes 500,000 USD Financing, Led by Colosseum
Solana hardware wallet and accompanying application Unruggable has completed a 500,000 USD strategic round financing, led by Colosseum, with participation from some Solana ecosystem investors. Unruggable is a winning project from the Solana Cypherpunk hackathon.
Stablecoin Payments
Stablecoin Financial Platform Takenos Completes Additional 7 Million USD Seed Round Financing, Led by North Island Ventures
The Latin American stablecoin financial platform Takenos completed an additional 7 million USD in seed financing, led by North Island Ventures and Road Capital Management, with existing investors Variant, Lattice, and Reverie participating. This round of financing brought Takenos' total raised amount to 12 million USD. Founded in 2022, Takenos currently operates in six Latin American countries, processing over 5 billion USD in annual transaction volume, with clients including global enterprises like LATAM Airlines. The platform has developed a full technology stack covering local payment tracks, consumer applications, enterprise APIs, and institutional trading desks, with partners including Stripe, Mastercard, and Visa. The new funds will be used to expand services to more than 15 countries by 2027.
Stablecoin Cross-Border Payment Platform Bloquo Completes 3.7 Million USD Seed Round Financing
The stablecoin cross-border payment platform Bloquo completed a 3.7 million USD seed round financing, led by Crescera Capital and Triaxis Capital, with participation from Lattice Fund. According to reports, Bloquo is a Brazilian fintech company dedicated to building stablecoin-based financial infrastructure for banks and businesses. Its platform integrates functions such as cross-border payments, foreign exchange trading, and liquidity provision, supporting stablecoins such as USDC and USDT, and can be accessed via API or dashboard. The company is registered with the U.S. FinCEN as a money service business and has applied to the Central Bank of Brazil for virtual asset broker registration.
Prediction Markets
Monad Ecosystem Prediction Market CRSHMARKET Completes 3.5 Million USD Seed Round Financing
The Monad ecosystem prediction market CRSHMARKET completed a 3.5 million USD seed round financing, led by 6th Man Ventures (6MV), with participation from Reciprocal Ventures, Lattice Fund, and Starting Line. CRSHMARKET is a live prediction market built on Monad, where viewers can predict the subsequent development of live content (including games and IRL livestreams), with the market settling in 60 seconds, transforming live broadcasts into fast, socialized prediction markets.
Decentralized Finance
Crypto High-Frequency Trading Company LO:TECH Completes 12 Million USD Series A Financing, Plans to Expand into New York and Singapore Markets
London high-frequency trading and market-making firm LO:TECH completed a 12 million USD Series A financing, led by MMC, with participation from Faction, 13 Books Capital, and new investor Atka. The company plans to use the funds to expand into the New York and Singapore markets and further develop trading execution services in traditional finance, digital assets, and prediction markets.
LO:TECH was founded by Tim Meggs, Marcus Horsley, and Alex Williams, focusing on high-frequency trading and liquidity provision, executing tens of thousands of trades per second. The company's business covers proprietary trading, market data distribution, and trading technology services, and it has obtained a data distributor license from Kalshi.
Digital Asset Insurance Company Soter Insure's Series B Financing Secured Investment from SC Ventures, SBI Group
Insurance company Soter Insure, focused on the digital asset economy, announced that SC Ventures, the innovation and venture investment arm of Standard Chartered, and Japan's SBI Group participated as strategic investors in its Series B financing, with existing investor Token Bay Capital increasing its investment; Galaxy previously led this round of financing, with participants including Coinbase Ventures, Franklin Templeton, and Brevan Howard Digital.
Soter Insure will use the funds to expand its insurance underwriting capacity, deepen underwriting and technological capabilities, and accelerate expansion into Asia Pacific (relying on its Hong Kong business), Europe, and the U.S. markets. The company is headquartered in Abu Dhabi, with an operating center in Bermuda, focusing on providing digital asset-related insurance products for financial institutions.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Stablecoin Payment Provider Yellow Card Completes Acquisition of Brazilian Virtual Asset Service Provider GoMoney, Officially Enters Brazilian Market
According to Yellow Card's announcement, the company completed the acquisition of Brazilian virtual asset service provider GoMoney in October, with the transaction amount undisclosed. GoMoney, established in 2018 and headquartered in São Paulo, will continue to be operated by the founding team as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yellow Card following the acquisition. This acquisition allows Yellow Card to directly operate in Brazil for the first time, providing customers with local payment services in Brazilian real, including Pix, and settling in stablecoins. GoMoney has applied to the Central Bank of Brazil for a virtual asset service provider license and will continue operations under a transitional period system during the approval process.
Aave Labs Acquires Avon Team and Technology, Advancing Fixed Rate Lending
Aave Labs has acquired the team and technology of the on-chain lending protocol Avon to advance its fixed-rate lending business in its on-chain lending network, with the transaction amount undisclosed. This acquisition includes Avon's fixed and floating rate lending protocols, on-chain order book, domain name, and related assets; Avon founders Prince Sinha and Ayush Kaul will join Aave Labs' engineering team, and Omar el-Ashaal will join its business development team. Aave Labs CEO Stani Kulechov stated that the Avon team will help Aave serve global institutions, fintech companies, and ordinary users, initially focusing on fixed rate lending. It is reported that Aave currently has over 30 billion USD in deposits and over 12 billion USD in active loans.
Selected AI Financing
Models & Infrastructure
OpenAI Completes 11 Billion USD Financing, Company Valuation Reaches 1.25 Trillion USD
According to Bloomberg, citing insiders, OpenAI has completed the first delivery of 11 billion USD in a new round of financing, with the company's valuation at 1.25 trillion USD, and the funds were received last Friday. Investors in the first round of financing include Coatue Management and T. Rowe Price, with other investors including SoftBank Group, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, and Andreessen Horowitz. This round may expand to about 20 billion USD. The company originally planned to raise over 30 billion USD, with an estimated valuation of about 1.4 trillion USD, but later adjusted its target due to pressure on U.S. stocks related to AI. OpenAI's previous round of financing was approximately 122 billion USD, with an estimated valuation of about 852 billion USD.
AI Inference Startup Fal Completes New Round of Financing, Valuation Rises to 16 Billion USD
AI inference startup Fal, which provides hosting services for image, video, and audio models for creators and developers, completed a new round of financing of 1.3 billion USD, doubling its valuation from 8 billion USD in April this year to 16 billion USD. This round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Nvidia, Sound Ventures, HOF Capital, T. Rowe Price, and others. According to Fal's official blog, this round is Series F financing, following its Series E financing led by Sequoia Capital (350 million USD in April this year). Insiders disclosed that Fal's annualized revenue reached 800 million USD earlier this year.
AI Applications & Agents
AI Agent Data Security Company Sentra Completes 150 Million USD Series C Financing, Led by Capital One Ventures
AI agent data security company Sentra announced it has completed a 150 million USD Series C financing, led by Capital One Ventures, with existing shareholders Bessemer Venture Partners, Zeev Ventures, Standard Investments, Munich Re Ventures, and Key1 Capital participating in the follow-up investment, and Capital One will send a representative to join the board. Sentra stated that it has grown by over 300% year-on-year in the past year, and the new funds will be used to expand its AI agent data access control and static data protection capabilities, as well as to explore new markets. Sentra's cumulative financing has exceeded 250 million USD.
Berlin Fintech Company Pliant Completes 80 Million USD Series C Financing, Led by Seaya Nova and Speedinvest
According to Pliant's announcement, the company completed 80 million USD in Series C financing, led by Seaya Nova and Speedinvest, with Illuminate Financial, Motive Ventures, and Molten participating in the follow-up. The funds will be used for expansion in the United States and Canada, entry into more international markets, and acceleration of the AI payment roadmap; the company stated that it has doubled its business for three consecutive years, with annual recurring revenue exceeding 100 million USD and can open its B2B payment infrastructure to external AI agents such as Claude and ChatGPT through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Physical AI
Drone Delivery Company Zipline Completes 1.5 Billion USD Financing at a 21.5 Billion USD Valuation, Led by Paradigm
Drone delivery company Zipline completed a new round of financing of 1.5 billion USD, with a post-money valuation of 21.5 billion USD, about 2.8 times the valuation of 7.6 billion USD in January this year. This round was led by Paradigm, WCM Investment Management, and Layer Global, with participation from Valor Equity Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Uber, Tiger Global, JPMorgan, ARK Invest, and Salesforce Ventures. The funds will be used for domestic manufacturing and hiring in the U.S. In addition, Walmart has signed a nationwide multi-year agreement with Zipline to add 300 drone delivery sites.
RoboScience Machine Science Completes Hundreds of Millions in A2 Round Financing
RoboScience Machine Science announced the completion of hundreds of millions in A2 round financing, led by Amber Capital, Hongruida Investment, and Shanghai Semiconductor Production Investment, with follow-up investments from Shuang Capital, 360 War Investment, Guolian Tongbao, Jinding Capital, and several listed company platforms.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Shield AI Plans 5.3 Billion USD Acquisition of Echodyne, Valuation Will Reach 28.8 Billion USD
U.S. defense technology startup Shield AI plans to acquire radar sensor company Echodyne for 5.3 billion USD, the deal includes 4.8 billion USD in cash and stock, plus an additional 500 million USD contingent on the achievement of milestones by Echodyne. Shield AI is simultaneously raising 2.5 billion USD in new funding to support the acquisition, including 1 billion USD in structured equity financing provided by Blackstone and 500 million USD in debt financing provided by JPMorgan; along with the previously completed 1 billion USD Series H financing, the company's valuation will reach 28.8 billion USD, more than doubling from the 12.7 billion USD valuation in March. The financing will be in place upon completion of the acquisition. Shield AI was founded in 2015, primarily developing AI software systems called Hivemind for autonomous aircraft.
Meta Acquires AI Programming Startup Conductor, Strengthening Agent Programming Track
Meta has acquired AI programming startup Conductor. Conductor developed an AI programming tool that allows users to deploy AI agents across multiple parallel workspaces, simultaneously launching and advancing multiple software projects. Conductor's founder and CEO Charlie Holtz announced the news on Wednesday and stated that the company is planning for the next generation of interactive interfaces, with new progress expected early next year. Meta confirmed the acquisition to TechCrunch but did not disclose the details of the transaction.
Factory Acquires Coding Agent Platform HumanLayer, Product Will Be Open-Sourced
According to Factory's announcement, enterprise-grade AI software engineering company Factory has acquired the coding agent collaboration platform HumanLayer, with co-founders Dex Horthy and Kyle Mistele joining; the HumanLayer platform will be open-sourced, supporting users to export data during the transition period, migrate to Factory, or self-host the open-source version.
OpenAI to Acquire Development Tools Startup Pierre Computer
According to Axios, OpenAI is set to acquire development tools startup Pierre Computer. The technology of this startup has previously been integrated into OpenAI's code generation model Codex. As AI agents take on more programming work, OpenAI is joining the challenge against GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft.
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